Author: Blazingcatfur

GREAT RESET: German Govt to Remotely Control Heating, Charging of Electric Cars

A government agency in Germany announced plans to remotely limit home heating and charging of electric cars under a new scheme.

Germany’s Federal Network Agency, a watchdog that regulates electricity and gas in the country, said the plan would allow the power grid operators to remotely limit people’s use of heat pumps and electric car chargers next winter without the user’s consent.

The plans, set to be in place by January 2024, will give energy grid operators the power to artificially curb electricity demand if consumption outstrips supply.

The sort of plan designed to be implemented only in a state of emergency … permanent emergency.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Canada’s poor suffer … As universities ramp up foreign admissions, strain on housing supply rises

… Around 21,000 beds will be added to student residences in the 24 largest domestic markets by 2025, according to a report from real estate consultants Cushman & Wakefield, published earlier this year. At recent rates of admissions growth, that would cover just a portion of the incoming wave of students.

This pushes more students into the private rental market, where they compete with other residents for a limited number of housing units in supply-starved cities.

“It’s not just international students having trouble finding housing. That has an effect on the local market,” Mr. Usher said. “And it’s a tax that institutions are placing specifically on low-income families in those communities.”

Ms. Verma moved from Sydney to Halifax in the fall semester, as part of a required co-op term. Now she can’t find a room back in Sydney. She may commute – a one-way drive of five hours or so – to her final two classes.

“There is literally no space out there. I can’t even express how we are feeling. It’s really terrible,” she said.

Canada’s immigration policy is of no benefit to citizens, it is designed solely to provide the corporate class with the compliant bodies needed to depress wages and furnish a vote bloc for our corrupt politicians.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money"

Washington vandals take out three power substations on Christmas, leave 15K without electricity

Roughly 15,000 people in Washington state woke up without power Christmas morning after three substations were vandalized in the early hours.

The vandalism began as early as 2:30 a.m. Sunday when a substation controlled by Puget Sound Energy was damaged and lost power. About 7,700 customers lost power, but had it restored by 5 a.m., according to a company spokesperson.

The vandalism comes as federal officials warn that the power grid is vulnerable to domestic terrorism. A US Homeland Security report warned that extremists have been developing “credible, specific plans” to attack electricity infrastructure since at least 2020.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTerrorism - Domestic

Violent Crime Rising in Canada

On September 4, the James Smith Cree Reservation in Saskatchewan was gripped by terror. Myles Sanderson and his brother Damien went on a stabbing spree, murdering 10 people and injuring 18. Over the next three days, hundreds of police officers were on a manhunt across the province, finding Damien stabbed to death at one of the 13 crime scenes they visited. On Wednesday, September 7, police were finally able to stop Myles after a high-speed chase on Highway 11 near the town of Rosthern. Myles died while in custody after being in medical distress.

The mass murder shocked the country and made headlines around the world. In the aftermath of these tragedies, the question is often asked: How could something like this happen? Unfortunately, the answer is predictable as it is shocking.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Seattle ‘equity’ asshole banned workers from displaying Christmas or Hanukkah decorations in their homes while on Zoom calls, to avoid offending colleagues with different beliefs

Calls itself – Gloria Ngezaho

A Seattle official has been handed a sarcastic award for banning city workers from displaying Christmas or Hanukkah decorations in their own homes while on Zoom calls to avoid offending colleagues with different beliefs.

Gloria Ngezaho is the workforce equity manager for King County, which encompasses Seattle, and was handed the Ebenezer Award from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

Ngezaho’s draconian edict was first revealed in November, and he was handed the award last week over his ‘Guidelines for Holiday Decorations’ rules.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Most Canadians Have Positive View of Sacred Texts: Survey

Three in five (58 percent) Canadians have read or otherwise engaged with the Bible recently or at some point as an adult, finds a new online survey, adding that while most Canadians (60 percent) have a positive view of the major sacred texts, many are not engaged with those texts.

Cardus, a non-partisan Christian think tank, commissioned Angus Reid to poll over 4,000 Canadians on their faith. The respondents, from the Angus Reid Forum group, included 1,948 self-identified Christians, 211 Muslims, 202 Jews, 88 individuals from other faiths, and 1,567 persons with no religious identity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inReligion

Whoever persuaded Bono he could sing?

Even his parents dismissed the idea, but his yowling has sold so many records that he has mistaken himself for a great rock star

There are a few pop stars whose work I can’t help liking in spite of myself – their song-writing, that is. I’d be happy never to see the faces or hear the voices of Mick Hucknall or Chris Martin again, but the moment ‘Stars’ or ‘Trouble’ starts, I’m mesmerised – only to wonder crossly the minute the song ends: ‘Why couldn’t they have given it to someone with a decent voice?’ Think about it: dancers have choreographers and actors have scriptwriters, so why should we assume songwriters can sing? Bono’s another. I love some of his songs (‘One’, as performed by Johnny Cash, and ‘Where the Streets Have No Name’, by the Pet Shop Boys), but when faced with the awful actuality of his yowling, I remember what Prince once said about him: ‘You know what I’d do with a voice like that? Become a janitor.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCelebrity Idiots

Canada urges Taliban to reverse decision on banning women from NGO work

OTTAWA – Canada’s international development minister is calling on the Taliban to reverse its decision to bar women from working at non-governmental organizations in Afghanistan.

Harjit Sajjan’s comments come as several major international aid groups announce plans to suspend operations in the country taken over by the Taliban, a listed terrorist entity, in August 2021.

Millions have been thrown into poverty since then and and are now facing hunger, with the United Nations estimating as many as six million Afghans are currently at risk of famine. The International Committee of the Red Cross has also reported an increase in malnutrition and pneumonia among children, with concerns only mounting given the onset of winter.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan, Canada, WTF?

Suspect in Paris shooting ‘had pathological hatred of foreigners’

The French man detained over the killing of three Kurdish people in Paris last week has told investigators he had a “pathological” hatred of foreigners, the city’s prosecutor said on Sunday.

The 69-year-old man was arrested on Friday after shooting dead two men and a woman in a Kurdish cultural centre and nearby Kurdish cafe in the 10th district of Paris, which the French president, Emmanuel Macron, described as a “vile” attack on the Kurds of France.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence

Idiot Leftist Of The Year Nominees: The Honorable Mentions

“There are a lot of leftist idiots in our country, with each seemingly seeking to out-crazy the other on a regular basis. How can you just pick five to represent all of them without acknowledging the many, many others who, for whatever reason, just fell short of the expanded podium? The fact is, you can’t. So these are the honorable (or dishonorable) mentions for idiot leftist of the year.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Progressives

How political was Jesus? His historical life has never been transparent

Blaise Pascal is right to have jotted in one of his baroque notebooks that Jesus lived “in such obscurity… that historians writing of important matters of state hardly noticed him”. And Erich Auerbach is right to have stressed in a book he wrote in Istanbul, exiled from Hitler’s Reich, that Jesus’s death was “a provincial incident”. This is what makes it so remarkable that the life and death of an impoverished Galilean rabbi are described in a number of non-Christian texts from the first centuries of our era.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristianity

Germany’s Energy Crisis Is a Cue to Chop Wood and Stock Up

The high cost of natural gas and electricity is prompting many to prepare for outages and shortages. For some, it’s been a way of life for years.

Tightly stacked cords of wood line the side of a couple’s home in southern Germany, while another family farther north has lined their basement with shelves stacked with pasta, rice, cooking oil and cans of chickpeas, lentils and tomatoes.

In central Germany, a man long wary of relying on the government has ensured that he can make it through weeks without power or heat; he’s filled his attic with coolers to hold food, along with a camping stove, gas canisters and solar power equipment to keep the lights on and stay connected online. Others brave the chilly waters of a local lake for a daily dip, forgoing a hot shower at home.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", Germany

The cleansing of comedy must be resisted

In 2023, comedians have got to fight for their right to be offensive, rude and wrong.

2022 was not a golden year for comedy.

It was defined, as so much is these days, by the contours and entrenchments of the culture war. By the endless struggle between freedom – including the freedom to be offensive, rude and wrong – and censorship. By the divide between those who think comedy should be a Safe Space for the performer, and those who seem to have cultivated their sense of humour through assiduously attending a series of workshops run by human resources.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture"