Author: Blazingcatfur

White House says ‘it’s clear’ Saudi-led OPEC is ‘aligning’ with Putin after it ignored Biden’s pleas and cut oil production by TWO MILLION barrels a day

The White House said on Wednesday that ‘it’s clear’ the OPEC+ oil alliance ‘is aligning with Russia’ after it announced a massive production cut of two million barrels.

It stands to be a big boost for Moscow, despite the West’s efforts to choke off oil and gas revenues as a source of cashflow to fund Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.

Meanwhile American drivers could face another increase in gas prices in what could end up being a massive setback for the Biden administration.

Great: Gas prices in Canada could rise further as OPEC+ sharply cuts oil production.

Both the US and Canada could be energy self-sufficient. Why are our elites cheating us of our birthright?

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

Nanos projections show Poilievre’s Conservatives winning more seats than Trudeau’s Liberals

If an election were to be held today, the Conservative Party would win more seats than the Liberals, the latest seat projections from Nanos Research show.

In the last two federal elections, the Conservatives edged out the Liberals on the popular vote but failed to win the most seats, allowing Justin Trudeau to form consecutive minority governments.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

5 Years After Las Vegas Concert Shooting, an FBI Whistleblower Reveals Probable Motive

It has been five years since Stephen Paddock stashed an arsenal of weapons in his Las Vegas hotel room and began spraying outdoor concertgoers with more than a thousand rounds of rifle fire, killing 58 people and wounding 869. Since the Oct. 1, 2017, massacre, there’s been neither an official nor satisfactory explanation for why Paddock took his assorted rifles and shot those country music fans. But now, an FBI whistleblower believes he has the motive.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

Criminal Neglect

Newly released numbers from the National Crime Victimization Survey confirm that violent crime in urban areas is rising dramatically.

Confirming widespread perceptions, the nation’s largest crime survey finds that violent crime in urban areas rose dramatically from 2020 to 2021. The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the statistical arm of the Department of Justice, recently released findings from the 2021 National Crime Victimization Survey. According to the NCVS, which dates to the Nixon administration, the rate of violent crime rose only in urban areas. It did not change to a statistically significant degree in suburban or rural areas.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

‘There will be more failures’: frustration as Cuba’s infrastructure crumbles

Countrywide blackout after Hurricane Ian was the latest disaster straining Cuba’s already disintegrating infrastructure

Yamile Sánchez leaned from her colonial-era window into the street in central Havana, a large pile of avocados visible behind her. “The damage used to be sorted out much faster,” she said. “Even when the storms were worse.”

The avocados, dusty green in contrast to Sanchez’s worn blue shutters, each had a bruise on one side. They had fallen during the passage of Hurricane Ian last week, as had Cuba’s entire electricity grid.

She was selling the windfall, avocados being the only thing cheap and available on the Caribbean island right now.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCuba

US midterms: The Trump voters who see a coming storm

Karen and Steve don’t want to take up arms. But if Republicans lose in November this elderly Arizona couple say a civil war is coming and, yes, they will fight. They have discussed it between them, and feel that taking up arms is their best option. It was at this point that our conversation grew a little dark and my faith in the strength of American democracy grew a little shaky.

I met the Slatons at their Trump paraphernalia store in Show Low, Arizona. It was one of the first stops on a month-long road trip that I took around America this summer, a journey to understand why the upcoming elections feel so consequential, perhaps even a little ominous.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Turkey’s ‘Weaponization’ of Illegal Mass Migration

The Republic of Cyprus, 36% of which is illegally occupied by Turkey, is increasingly struggling with a massive wave of illegal migration from Turkey, the Middle East and Africa.

Cyprus now has the highest number of asylum applications per capita of any EU country. Nearly 5% of the island population, according to the country’s officials, is now made up of asylum seekers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Greece, Turkey

Google accused of systematically sending RNC fundraising emails to spam file

The Republican National Committee is accusing Google of suppressing critical fundraising and get-out-the-vote emails “like clockwork” at the end of each month, adding to GOP concerns that Big Tech is putting its thumb on the scale to benefit Democrats in the midterm elections.

The company has offered no explanation. Earlier this year, Google said it took steps to keep campaign emails out of junk mail files.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGoogle, Google is Evil

Twitter employees eye the exits after Musk takeover

Twitter employees are less than satisfied with Elon Musk’s decision to reverse course and follow through with his acquisition of the platform, likely leading to staff attrition.

Several employees posted critically about the decision by Musk to offer to go through with his purchase of Twitter. The decision arrived after months of employee attrition and concerns from staff about the billionaire’s vision to overhaul the platform with a focus on free speech, a vision that was only made more evident through the legal proceedings from Twitter’s lawsuit against him.

Good riddance.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTwitter, Twitter is Evil

Ghoulish NYT Suggests Florida Deserves Hurricanes for Not Supporting Climate Agenda

Proving that the paper isn’t worthy to line a birdcage, The New York Times ran a disgusting and hateful piece Tuesday night suggesting that because Florida Republicans Governor Ron DeSantis, and Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott won’t go along with the Democrat Party’s radical agenda to fight “climate change”, the state somehow deserved to be ravaged by Hurricane Ian and that the leaders were somehow personally responsible for the destruction and loss of life.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Arrests are ‘futile’ to curb crime, B.C.’s attorney general says

More arrests are “futile,” British Columbia’s attorney general says as he rebuffed criticism of government policies on repeat offenders and violent crime across the province.

Murray Rankin told the legislature on Tuesday that increasing arrests is not the answer to battle crime.

His statement comes despite a recent government-commissioned report citing police and probation officers saying repeat offenders “are emboldened to continue offending, deteriorating community confidence in the justice system.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime, WTF?

Ukraine war: Russia warns US of direct military clash risk

The US’s decision to send more military aid to Ukraine “increases the danger of a direct military clash” between Russia and the West, Moscow has warned.

Russia’s ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, said it was an “immediate threat” to Moscow, describing the US as “a participant of the conflict”.

Earlier, the US announced another $625m (£547m) in military aid to Ukraine.

Advanced US weaponry has been credited with helping Ukraine build momentum against occupying Russian forces.

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