Author: Blazingcatfur

The coming energy crisis

It’s been obvious for months that a global energy crisis was coming. Then last Monday, just when we thought things couldn’t get any worse, the chief executive of Shell predicted that Europe is headed for a multi-winter energy crisis, with consequences that cascade around the world.

The situation is drawing attention to humanity’s intensive reliance on energy. In the Financial Times, economics writer Philip Cogan said that, despite an extensive programme of renewable energy production called energiewende, the share of fossil fuels in Germany’s primary energy supply has only declined from about 84 per cent in 2020 to 78 per cent today. It’s the same story everywhere.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Amazon Halts User Reviews to Blunt ‘Rings of Power‘ Backlash

Elrond is apparently a real flamer.

Amazon has temporarily shut off user reviews for The Rings of Power on Prime Video, claiming to take this action so it can filter out “trolls” leaving negative comments about the new series.

The tech giant is making it clear: don’t ask questions, don’t voice complaints, just consume their content, and be excited about it.

From what I hear there was much intermarriage between Middle Earth and Wakanda, not to mention the Elves are all Gay.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Affirmative Action", Hollywood

Turkey: What Is the Real Terrorist Threat?

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ideological family tree is inherently anti-Western– hence, anti-US and anti-NATO. This author’s most recent article, “NATO Family Picture in Madrid: This Will Not Be Erdoğan’s Last Blackmail,” was posted on July 7. Only 11 days later, on July 18, Erdoğan said that Turkey would freeze Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership bids if the Nordic countries do not come into line with Turkey’s “fight against terrorist organizations.”

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

Gas prices soar 26% after Russia keeps key pipeline closed

Gas prices have soared on concerns over energy supplies after Russia announced it would not reopen its main gas pipeline to Europe.

The Dutch month ahead wholesale gas price, a benchmark for Europe, was up as much as 30% in early trading on Monday.

The Nord Stream 1 pipeline had been due to reopen on Saturday after being shut for three days.

But Russia’s state-owned energy firm Gazprom said it had found a leak.

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

Voters in Chile resoundingly reject socialist constitution

“… Chileans resoundingly rejected a new constitution to replace a charter imposed by the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet 41 years ago, dealing a stinging setback to President Gabriel Boric who argued the document would have ushered in a new progressive era.”

Looks like Canada got all the Socialists according to an unsurprisingly empathetic CBC … 70% of Chileans in Canada support draft constitution, as majority in Chile vote to reject it

While voters in Chile made it clear Sunday they do not support the constitution that was proposed to replace the dictatorship-era document the country currently has, Chileans in Canada overwhelmingly voted in support of the draft.

“I’m sad but the results were overwhelming,” Sebastian Ried, a Chilean man who lives in Hamilton and voted in the referendum from Canada, said Sunday evening.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChile

Trump tears into FBI agents who ‘rifled’ through son Barron’s ‘living quarters’, claims ‘high crimes and treason’ were found on Hunter’s laptop and suggests Biden’s home should have been raided

Donald Trump fumed on Monday about FBI agents going through his teenage son Barron’s ‘living quarters’ during their search for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.

In a pair of Labor Day posts on his app Truth Social, the former president unleashed against the bureau for its ‘raid’ on his Florida mansion and called for feds to bust into President Joe Biden’s home.

Trump also claimed ‘high crimes and treason’ were found on a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden, which has re-entered the news cycle in recent days after it was revealed the FBI’s warning about 2020 election misinformation led to Facebook censoring stories about it on its platform at the time.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Israeli army: ‘High possibility’ soldier killed reporter

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli army said Monday there was a “high possibility” that a soldier killed a well-known Al Jazeera journalist in May, as it announced the results of its investigation into the killing. But it said the shooting was accidental and no one would be punished.

Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in May while covering Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinians blamed Israel for the killing. Israel initially said she may have been killed by militant fire, but later said a soldier may have hit her by mistake during an exchange of fire.

Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist, had covered the West Bank for the satellite channel for two decades and was known across the Arab world.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsraeli - Islam Conflict

Green Party Politician Faked ‘Far-Right‘ Hate Crimes Against Himself

A member of Germany’s ruling Green Party is now said to have faked a number of so-called “right-wing” hate crimes perpetrated against him.

A local politician for Germany’s climate crazy Green Party is now said to have faked a number of so-called “right-wing” hate crimes perpetrated against him, according to authorities in the country.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHate crime hoax

Who is Pierre Poilievre? A look at the Tory leadership hopeful’s past and present

Pierre Poilievre‘s first words in the House of Commons were a sure sign of things to come.

It was October 2004, and though at 25 years old he was one of the youngest faces in the room, he had been preparing for this moment.

As a teen, he had read economist Milton Friedman’s 1962 book “Capitalism and Freedom.” At 15, he had joined the board for his member of Parliament in Calgary, Preston Manning. By 20, he had penned an essay about being prime minister.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Two Iranian Women Sentenced To Death For LGBT Activism

Two Iranian women have been sentenced to death for their activism in support of the country’s LGBT community.

The state IRNA news agency reported the sentences of Zahra Hamadani and Elham Chubdar on September 5, a day after the Hengaw human rights network said it had received reports that the two were informed of the punishment a few days earlier.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) had accused the two of “promoting homosexuality, gambling, fraud, and promoting illicit sexual relations and publishing them on the Internet.”

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

It’s (Almost) Always the Feds: How the FBI Fabricates Schemes To Entrap Would-Be Radicals

The FBI’s long history of using informants and manufactured plots to prosecute extremists

Here’s a tip: If you have some radical political views and an acquaintance reaches out, encourages you to act on your convictions, and maybe offers to introduce you to a guy who can sell you some bomb parts, don’t take him up on it. That guy’s almost definitely working for the feds.

For the past two decades, the FBI and federal prosecutors have brought case after case against would-be radicals who were ratted out by informants. They have been enormously successful in obtaining convictions in these cases, despite persistent criticisms that the FBI uses unscrupulous informants, conjures up the very plots it disrupts, and entraps defendants who have little to no ability to actually carry out a terror attack.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFBI

Embalmers Have Been Finding Numerous Long, Fibrous Clots That Lack Post-Mortem Characteristics

Several embalmers across the country have been observing many large, and sometimes very long, “fibrous” and rubbery clots inside the corpses they treat, and are speaking out about their findings.

Numerous embalmers from different states confirmed to The Epoch Times that they have been seeing these strange clots, starting from either 2020 or 2021.

h/t Mauser

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

Judge grants Trump bid for special master in document search

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a legal victory for former President Donald Trump, a federal judge on Monday granted his request for a special master to review documents seized by the FBI from his Florida home and also temporarily halted the Justice Department’s own use of the records for investigative purposes.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon authorizes an outside expert to review the records taken during the Aug. 8 search and to weed out from the rest of the investigation any that might be protected by claims of attorney-client privilege or executive privilege. Some of those records may ultimately be returned to him, but the judge put off a ruling on that question.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

How the West is racing to stop Ukraine’s guns falling silent

In the weeks after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a parody image began doing the rounds on the internet featuring ‘Saint Javelin’.

Depicted in the style of an orthodox Christian saint, a stern-faced female figure clad in the blue and gold of the Ukraine flag cradles an FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile launcher, nestling it against her cheek.

The image, it turned out, was devised by a Canadian marketer. But it nonetheless captures the essence of Ukraine’s dependence on the West for the influx of weapons, military vehicles and ammunition that has kept its military able to confront the Russian invaders.

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