Author: Blazingcatfur

Charest, Poilievre spar over convoy, Huawei in raucous Conservative leadership debate

The two frontrunners in the race for the Conservative Party’s top job traded blows over their records in the first leadership debate of the campaign Thursday.

Making it clear who he thinks his main opponent is, Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre used much of his speaking time to attack former Quebec premier Jean Charest, a man he branded as a tax-hiking Liberal interloper.

Poilievre accused Charest of being too critical of the anti-vaccine mandate protest convoy that occupied much of downtown Ottawa earlier this year, saying he was proud to stand with “law-abiding” and “peaceful” truckers who were protesting COVID-19 restrictions.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Immigration Cannot Significantly Reduce Inflation

Many immigration advocates have recently called for increasing the number of immigrants allowed into the country to fill lower-wage jobs in order to decrease wages by increasing the supply of workers, thereby lessening inflation. In this post, we attempt to roughly estimate the possible impact of immigration-induced reductions in wages on consumer prices. We focus our analysis on the lower-wage sectors of the economy that primarily employ workers without a bachelor’s degree (the less-educated) because many of those advocating for more immigration have specifically called for more workers in these sectors. Our analysis shows that reducing wages for the less-educated is not an effective means of controlling inflation because such workers earn relatively little and as a result account for only a modest share of economic output. There is also the equally important question of whether reducing the wages of workers who are the lowest-paid is sound public policy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Durham Scores Huge Victory Against Hillary Camp and Fusion GPS

The trial of former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann will take place soon, and on Wednesday, special counsel John Durham scored a huge pre-trial victory.

Sussmann’s lawyers fought Durham’s efforts to secure documents from the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign that they claimed were protected by attorney-client privilege. Durham argued that the Clinton campaign couldn’t shield materials based on attorney-client privilege when the materials they were trying to hide were widely distributed to third parties.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHillary Clinton - Grifter

‘I was not just a lump of cells’: Republican Senate candidate Kathy Barnette reveals she was the byproduct of RAPE

Republican Senate candidate Kathy Barnette called out Dr. Mehmet Oz during a tense exchange about abortion, revealing she was the byproduct of rape.

On Wednesday, candidates for Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary gathered for a debate as they attempt to sway voters before the May 17 primary election.

Candidates were asked about their stance on abortion days after Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, was leaked.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAbortion debate

Terror attack in Elad on Yom Ha’atzmaut: Three murdered, four seriously wounded

Security forces are searching for the attackers who killed three Israelis and injured at least four people, two critically, in the central Israeli city of Elad, not far from Petach Tikvah. The attack on Thursday night came as celebrations for Yom Ha’aztmaut, Israel Independence Day, were winding down.

“Unfortunately, three people who we performed CPR on have been pronounced dead,” said Moshe Sa’adon, a volunteer EMT with United Hatzalah and head of Elad Hatzalah, who was one of the first emergency-service personnel on the scene. “We also treated two people in serious condition, one person in moderate condition and a number of people lightly injured.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsraeli - Islam Conflict

Elon Musk secures $7bn in outside funding for Twitter takeover

Elon Musk has secured $7.14bn (£5.7bn) in funding for his $44bn takeover of Twitter from a group of investors that includes the Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, the crypto exchange Binance, and the asset management firms Fidelity, Brookfield and Sequoia Capital.

The Saudi Arabian investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who had initially opposed the buyout, also agreed to roll his $1.89bn stake into the deal rather than cashing out, the filing on Thursday showed.

The move comes as Musk’s margin loan was reduced to $6.25bn from $12.5bn announced earlier, according to the filing. Musk’s $21bn financing commitment was also revised to $27.25bn.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTwitter

COVID led to 15 million deaths globally, not the 5 million reported – WHO

May 5 (Reuters) – Almost three times as many people have died as a result of COVID-19 as official data show, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report, the most comprehensive look at the true global toll of the pandemic so far.

There were 14.9 million excess deaths associated with COVID-19 by the end of 2021, the U.N. body said on Thursday.

The official count of deaths directly attributable to COVID-19 and reported to WHO in that period, from January 2020 to the end of December 2021, is slightly more than 5.4 million.

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

Amber Heard v Johnny Depp Skankfest

Amber Heard has told a court that ex-husband Johnny Depp repeatedly struck her during drug and alcohol-fuelled rages that she said turned the actor into an “awful thing”.

Taking the witness stand on week four of the trial, Ms Heard alleged that a pattern of violence began in 2012.

Mr Depp is suing Ms Heard over a story she wrote in which she described herself as a domestic abuse victim.

In his testimony, Mr Depp denied any wrongdoing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Munro: NY Times Smears Tucker Carlson to Gag Americans‘ Immigration Debate

The New York Times is trying to deport Tucker Carlson from his cable-TV job for the political crime of noticing mass migration hurts average Americans.

But the newspaper’s campaign to shut down Carlson’s televised debate on migration will fail because the reporters and editors cannot — or dare not — talk about Americans’ worry about migration economics. The editors’ refusal to engage with the voters about immigration’s economic reality still persists six years after Donald Trump cited those realities to get himself elected to the White House.

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

Where the six Conservative leadership candidates stand on “Some” key policy issues

Six candidates are officially on the ballot to become the Conservative Party’s next leader. In holding rallies, appearing in media interviews, and preparing for the soon-approaching party debates, each contender has started to trickle out details of their platforms. Here’s a snapshot of where the candidates stand on the economy, housing, climate, defence and social issues.

Lots of talk, none of it concerning our ruinous mass immigration policy. I wonder why!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Trudeau Liberal party will ensure border officials know Americans can travel for industrial scale baby killing vacay: Mendicino

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says he will be speaking with the Canada Border Services Agency to make sure its staff know Americans seeking abortions can come to Canada for care.

Speaking with reporters on Wednesday, Mendicino said people in the U.S. may be feeling doubt about whether they will be able to access abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned, as a leaked draft ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court suggested earlier this week is imminent.

Sick murderers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAbortion debate, Canada, WTF?

MIT study finds COVID vaccines ‘significantly associated’ with jump in emergency heart problems

COVID-19 vaccination was “significantly associated” with a 25% jump in emergency medical services (EMS) for heart problems in 16-39 year-olds in Israel, whose vaccination rate is among the world’s highest, according to a peer-reviewed study by MIT researchers.

Published last week in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, the study found no association with COVID infections, however.

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