Author: Blazingcatfur

‘Something really stinks here’: Why you still don’t know when the Eglinton LRT will start running

Seven months after Metrolinx announced the Eglinton Crosstown LRT would once again fail to meet its target date, the public knows virtually nothing about how the project is going or when the line will finally open.

Asked by the Star this week when the light rail transit line, which has been under construction since 2011 and was once expected to be complete in 2020, might be done, Metrolinx said it did not have new details to offer, and put the blame on Crosslinx Transit Solutions (CTS), the construction consortium building the project.

A black hole.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Biden’s Second-Term Mistake

Age is only one of the reasons the President shouldn’t run again.

The White House is whispering that next week President Biden will announce his intention to run for a second term, though the polls say that even most Democrats hope he doesn’t. The public understands what Mr. Biden apparently won’t admit: that electing an octogenarian in obvious decline for another four years could be an historic mistake.

No doubt it’s hard to walk away from the Oval Office after working for five decades to get there. Flying Marine One home for the weekends beats Amtrak. The chance to pull the levers of power is intoxicating, and that’s also true for the advisers who have pushed him in such a sharply progressive direction in his first term. They know Mr. Biden will lead wherever they want him to go.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden"

GOLDSTEIN: Canada’s global citizen off to save the planet – again

Because what the world needs now is another global gabfest on saving the planet, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is heading off later this week to attend a “Global Citizen NOW” celebrity, fly-in conference in New York.

This in the wake of a scathing report by the federal environment commissioner condemning his government for failing to achieve its own targets for reducing industrial greenhouse gas emissions, planting trees, protecting species at risk and strengthening biodiversity, despite committing more than $200 billion of taxpayers’ money to that effort so far.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inJustin Trudeau - Pissant

Labs experimenting with deadly viruses risk 1.6m deaths every year, experts warn

Labs working to create or enhance dangerous viruses and bugs risk killing 1.6 million people each year, scientists have warned, as they called for a public review of experiments.

Virologists and biosafety experts from around the world gathered in Geneva this week to discuss how to prevent lab accidents sparking a pandemic that could lead to the deaths of millions.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", WTF?

Toronto is a city in decline, and the mayoral race isn’t helping

John Tory, who vacated Toronto’s mayor’s office in February after admitting an extramarital affair with a staffer, faced almost comically little resistance in twice winning re-election. His second-place opponents managed 24 per cent and 18 per cent in 2018 and 2022, respectively. But now, just six months later, everyone and his sister is running in for mayor in the June 26 by-election, including several familiar names. The more the merrier: this city could use all the fresh blood and ideas it can find. In practice, alas, it’s a tepid mess — both in form and in content.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Afghanistan has become a terrorism staging ground again, leak reveals

Less than two years after President Biden withdrew U.S. personnel from Afghanistan, the country has become a significant coordination site for the Islamic State as the terrorist group plans attacks across Europe and Asia, and conducts “aspirational plotting” against the United States, according to a classified Pentagon assessment that portrays the threat as a growing security concern.

The attack planning, detailed in U.S. intelligence findings leaked on the Discord messaging platform and obtained by The Washington Post, reveal specific efforts to target embassies, churches, business centers and the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament, which drew more than 2 million spectators last summer in Qatar. Pentagon officials were aware in December of nine such plots coordinated by ISIS leaders in Afghanistan, and the number rose to 15 by February, says the assessment, which has not been disclosed previously.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan

Trudeau has to settle the PSAC strike quickly if his government is to survive

It’s ironic that the fate of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government rests in the hands of organized labour.

Labour was rarely central to the government. The Liberals dealt with it when they had to do so. In the lead-up to the revision of NAFTA, for instance, the government found it convenient to make use of UNIFOR, the union that represents most autoworkers.

And it always treated union leaders with the greatest of respect.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Is Canada’s infrastructure prepared for the electric vehicle boom?

By 2035 all cars, SUVs and light trucks sold in Canada must be electric, a goal experts describe as an ambitious one by the federal government as part of its plan to decarbonize the transportation sector and reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

But will Canada’s infrastructure be able to handle all of these new electric vehicles?

There doesn’t seem to be a clear answer, as experts in the automotive and green energy industries say there are several factors to consider.

This article makes me think they solicited Beaker’s advice.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Explorers find WWII ship sunk with over 1,000 Allied POWs

SYDNEY (AP) — A team of explorers announced it found a sunken Japanese ship that was transporting Allied prisoners of war when it was torpedoed off the coast of the Philippines in 1942, resulting in Australia’s largest maritime wartime loss with a total of 1,080 lives.

The wreck of the Montevideo Maru was located after a 12-day search at a depth of over 4000 meter (13,120 feet) — deeper than the Titanic — off Luzon island in the South China Sea, using an autonomous underwater vehicle with in-built sonar.

God be with them.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWW II, WW II History

The invisible ‘fox hunt’ taking place in America

Chinese police stations in the USA are a hot topic in the news these days, with two arrests made in New York and six stations claimed in Texas. These, we’re told, were the “illegal” stations. Simultaneously, it’s being reported that there is a “growing number of Chinese migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border seeking asylum.”

But we Deplorables should be sensitive to the scent of weasel words. These stories are always about “illegal” Chinese police stations in the USA, which are characterized as “secret” or “unauthorized.” This language leaves the impression that there may be Chinese police stations in the USA that are legal.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", USA

By Commanding Waves of New Electric Vehicles, Is President Biden the New King Canute ?

A new EPA order is intended to force automakers to produce electric vehicles so that they’d account for two-thirds of sales in 2032 — roughly 10 times their share in 2022.

Are we watching a replay of King Canute commanding the waves to recede? That thought occurred to me while reading about the Biden administration’s latest step in advancing the president’s 2021 goal of having half of all new autos be electric by 2030.

The analogy isn’t exact — current thinking is that Canute knew his courtiers were wrong when they said he could stop the incoming tide. And the king was apparently in his 30s, with no sign of cognitive impairment, at that moment by the seashore. But consider it anyway.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam, USA

Macron has left Marseille at the mercy of violent drug gangs

Five months and counting until France hosts the Rugby World Cup. For England supporters, the tournament kicks off at the stylish Stade Vélodrome in Marseille against Argentina on 9 September, one of six fixtures hosted by the Mediterranean city. Scotland take on South Africa the day after the England game, and two of the tournament’s quarter-finals will also be in Marseille, as they were in 2007 when France last hosted the World Cup.

That year was a peaceful one by Marseille’s standards, with only seven murders attributed to gangland wars. There was a new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, who had campaigned on a ‘tough on crime’ ticket, and that, plus the hosting of rugby’s showpiece event, might have had an effect.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Black Nationalists Fight Arab Muslims Over Cleopatra

“We don’t often get to see or hear stories about black queens”

Cleopatra was Greek. Basic historic fact. But we live in an exciting era where actual history has been turned over to be rewritten by the wokes who think that Black Panther’s Wakanda and the 1619 Project are actual history.

So when Netflix decided to cast Gal Gadot, who’s Israeli and thus Mediterranean and at least has some relationship to the role, the BLM crowd protested and she was recast as black. Because everyone who has watched 70s blaxploitation movies knows that Cleopatra was black.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics"