Author: Blazingcatfur

US Military’s Failing Deterrence Against China

‘They Are Putting Capability in the Field Faster Than We Are’

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin gave a stern warning about US competition with China earlier this month at the Reagan National Defense Forum:

“These next few years will set the terms of our competition with the People’s Republic of China. And they will determine whether our children and grandchildren inherit an open world of rules and rights — or whether they face emboldened autocrats who seek to dominate by force and fear…

“The PRC is the only country with both the will and, increasingly, the power to reshape its region and the international order to suit its authoritarian preferences.”

One of the Pentagon’s main concerns is China’s continued accelerating nuclear buildup. Every year, the Pentagon’s estimates of China’s nuclear buildup appear to grow exponentially.

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

Three killed by ‘Ukrainian drone strike’ on Russian airbase

Three military personnel have been killed during a drone attack on an air force base in Russia, Moscow has claimed.

Russian news agencies, citing the defence ministry, reported that those who died were hit by the falling wreckage of a Ukrainian drone shot down in the Saratov region this morning.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Another Disturbing Video of ‘Rachel’ Levine Is Going Viral

Earlier this month, an old video surfaced of Dr. Richard “Rachel” Levine, Joe Biden’s assistant secretary of health. The video, from the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C., went viral because Levine inadvertently admitted everything wrong and predatorial about the transgender movement. Levine was secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health at the time the video was made, but it was nevertheless a revealing video, exposing just how evil the movement is.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"They really do want your children", Big Tranny

‘South Park‘ Episodes Banned from HBO for Depicting Pagan Murder Cult’s So-Called Prophet Muhammad

Muhammad does fire tricks for Satan

Five episodes of South Park have been banned from HBO Max for depicting Islamic prophet Muhammad, reminding fans that virtually every other religion is considered fair game for making fun of — except for Islam.

South Park, which started in 1997, has five episodes that depict Muhammad: “Super Best Friends,” “Cartoon Wars Part I & II,” “200,” and “201,” all of which are missing from the HBO Max lineup, notes Screen Rant.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's Useful Idiot Apologists, WTF?

‘This is a joke, right?’: Some travellers’ baggage lost for days as Pearson struggles with broken luggage belt

Passengers travelling through Terminal 3 at Toronto Pearson International Airport are reporting serious baggage delays as the airport struggles to catch up from a broken luggage belt.

Images from the terminal show a sea of unclaimed bags sitting in the baggage area.

One viewer who sent CP24 video of the bags said workers described the situation as “beyond disaster.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Ankara summons French envoy over ‘anti-Turkey propaganda’ after attack on Paris Kurds

Turkey on Monday summoned France’s ambassador over “anti-Turkey propaganda” that it alleged French officials did little to stop following the killing of three Kurds in Paris.

Friday’s shooting was followed by days of protests by Kurdish groups and their supporters in the French capital.

Some of the protesters waved flags of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) – designated as a terrorist organisation by Turkey and its Western allies.

Others held banners with slogans accusing Turkey of being a killer state and connected to the shooting.

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

Electric vehicle sales are racing ahead, but is there a plan for the waste they create?

There’s a new venture taking place in a large, nondescript warehouse in Kingston, Ont.: Lithium-ion battery recycling. And it could be an important component of Canada’s net-zero future.

The facility, owned by Canadian startup Li-Cycle, houses stacks of depleted lithium-ion batteries that not long ago would have been destined for a landfill. The company is giving them new life — recycling the batteries that power most electric vehicles, phones and laptops.

… Starting in 2023, Li-Cycle will send the black mass to a new facility it is building in Rochester, N.Y., where it can separate the black mass into valuable battery-grade materials to be used to make new EV batteries. Li-Cycle says the plant will be the first source of recycled battery-grade lithium carbonate production in North America.

Kochar said his company can recover 95 per cent of those critical minerals needed to make new EV batteries, and the process can happen repeatedly.

Ontario plunging into energy storage as electricity supply crunch looms

Ontario is staring down an electricity supply crunch and amid a rush to secure more power, it is plunging into the world of energy storage — a relatively unknown solution for the grid that experts say could also change energy use at home.

Beyond the sprawling nuclear plants and waterfalls that generate most of the province’s electricity sit the batteries, the underground caverns storing compressed air to generate electricity, and the spinning flywheels waiting to store energy at times of low demand and inject it back into the system when needed.

Both these articles on the CBC site read like Green-Scam Tech Advetorials passing as journalism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate

The platform suppressed true information from doctors and public-health experts that was at odds with U.S. government policy.

I had always thought a primary job of the press was to be skeptical of power—especially the power of the government. But during the Covid-19 pandemic, I and so many others found that the legacy media had shown itself to largely operate as a messaging platform for our public health institutions. Those institutions operated in near total lockstep, in part by purging internal dissidents and discrediting outside experts.

Twitter became an essential alternative. It was a place where those with public health expertise and perspectives at odds with official policy could air their views—and where curious citizens could find such information. This often included other countries’ responses to Covid that differed dramatically from our own.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Big Tech Oligopoly", "China eats weird animals disease", "Criminalizing Dissent", "extremists", "Surveillance Society", Twitter

A Kitten for Hitler: the most offensive Christmas film ever made

Melvyn Bragg once challenged the wild director Ken Russell to make a film so offensive even Russell would have it banned. He obliged

If your Christmas cheer is ever crying out for a short, sharp course-correction, look no further than Ken Russell’s last completed film, merrily entitled A Kitten for Hitler. This eight-minute-long skit, which Russell made for about £10,000, premiered on the website Comedybox.tv in July 2007 – the same year in which the 80-year-old Russell had briefly shown up on Celebrity Big Brother, but walked out of the house after an altercation with Jade Goody.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

The U.S. Government Funded Chinese Military Research

This story isn’t over – and neither is the story of the COVID cover-up.

Last week, a bombshell intelligence report on the origins of COVID-19 was released by House Republicans with the explosive discovery that the United States government funded genetic manipulation of coronaviruses, not only at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but at a Chinese Military research facility.

While the U.S. routinely, and rightly, lectures China on being more transparent and cooperating more on the COVID investigation, we don’t expect much. Admitting mistakes or failure under a totalitarian regime often has terminal consequences.

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

Nearly half of Canadians want a 2023 election, says Ipsos poll. But should Trudeau run?

Nearly half of Canadians want there to be a federal election in 2023, according to a new poll from Ipsos.

While the deadline for the federal election is 2025, the NDP has agreed to keep the Liberal minority government in power until then as long as it abides by the terms of the governance deal struck between the two parties earlier this year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

One Foot off the Grid, Where We Don’t Have To Deal With the City Water Department

Living without government services isn’t necessarily cheaper or easier, but it sure beats putting up with municipal bureaucracies.

When our water was turned off one morning last January, we assumed it was due to the sinkhole slowly expanding across the width of our single-lane street in South Philadelphia. But we could only guess, as no one answered the phone at the Philadelphia Water Department, and the first city employee didn’t show up on our street until four hours after the taps died. When one of my elderly neighbors asked how long it would take to restore service, the city guy said his crews were swamped. It took 27 hours.

With spotlights shining into the house and construction equipment rattling our walls, my wife and I spent most of that night wondering where we could go for a reprieve with a 2-month-old in below-freezing weather. North Carolina was an obvious place.

A lot is broken now.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"The Great Reset"

‘Wholly unremarkable’: the suburban couple in Sweden accused of spying for Russia

For the leafy Stockholm suburb of Nacka, it was a rude, pre-dawn awakening: wailing sirens, two Black Hawk helicopters clattering overhead and special forces in combat gear fast-roping through the windows of an imposing white villa – all at 6.01am.

The raid late last month by Sweden’s security service, police elite units and army, lasting little over a minute, targeted a Russian couple suspected of carrying out “illegal intelligence activities” against Sweden and the US for more than a decade.

It took place just days before the trial began in Stockholm of two Swedish brothers arrested last autumn and accused of selling secrets to Russia’s intelligence services.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRussia, Sweden

Death toll from America’s big freeze rises over 50

The bomb cyclone that has brought freezing temperatures and up to six feet of snow to North America has caused at least 50 deaths across the US and Canada.

The US recorded 46 fatalities and four more people died on Christmas Eve after a bus rolled over on icy roads in British Columbia, Canada.

The deep freeze is linked to 18 deaths in the state of New York, particularly in Buffalo where the ‘lake-effect’ – when frigid air moves over warmer lake waters and creates a freezing spray – has been lethal.

Toronto and the GTA were spared the worst of it. I went for a visit to Hamilton on Christmas Eve day, the roads were clear and dry but the wind and cold were fierce.

From Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mother Nature Hates You"