UK electric car inquiries soar during fuel supply crisis

As petrol stations in parts of the UK started running out of fuel on Friday, business at Martin Miller’s electric car dealership in Guildford, Surrey, started soaring.

After what ended up being his company EV Experts busiest day ever, interest does not appear to be dying down. This week the diary is booked up with test drives and the business is low on stock.

“People buy electric cars for environmental reasons, for cost-saving reasons and because the technology’s great,” he said. “But Friday was one of those moments where people said, ‘Do you know what, this is a sign that we need to go electric’.”

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Belgium: Two police officers surrounded by 30 “youths” in vibrantly diverse neighborhood told it is they not the police who control the hood.

Two neighborhood officers who were in charge of checking a domicile in the Marolles district, rue de la Querelle, in Brussels, on Friday evening, shortly after 7 p.m., were attacked by about thirty young people . “Why are you here?” You don’t have to do anything there! Here, it is at home, it is us who manage the city! “, In substance dared to tell them, contextualizes a well-informed source.


Losing control of the streets just like the French.

Méry-sur-Oise: a wedding procession blocks traffic before stoning the gendarmes, 4 wounded

The gendarmes spotted the convoy and found that it was again blocking traffic near the town hall of Méry-sur-Oise, on avenue Marcel-Perrin. This time, the military intervened to put an end to this situation. They were the target of numerous projectiles and used tear gas.

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White House says ‘no link’ between Huawei case and freed Canadians

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki insisted Monday that there’s “no link” between the U.S. settling criminal charges against a Huawei Technologies Co. executive last week and China’s release, hours later, of two Canadians accused of spying.

Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, received a hero’s welcome from the Chinese government upon her return to Shenzhen on Saturday after reaching a deferred prosecution agreement with U.S. prosecutors.

…She said the U.S. would not refer to the episode as a prisoner swap and dismissed questions about whether China would be encouraged to seize foreign hostages in any future legal disputes.

h/t HallsOfMacadamia

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In rural Afghanistan, a family welcomes Taliban rule

Goljuma’s first son to die, 11 years ago, was Zia Ul Huq. He was a fighter for the Taliban. “My son joined the Taliban because he understood that the Americans wanted to destroy Islam and Afghanistan,” she said.

“… I miss my brothers,” Shamsullah said. “My eldest brother’s wife married my next brother when he died. When he was killed, my next brother married her. When he was killed my fourth brother married her. I married her when he was killed.”

Clearly the Magic Malala had little influence. Good riddance.

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Toronto activist accused of delivering anti-Semitic rant during address to teachers

It’s always the JOO’s!

Desmond Cole was hired by the Toronto District School Board to give talk on anti-Black racism

An address to educators by a prominent Toronto activist landed with a thud, and has city Jewish groups demanding answers from the school board.

“If people interpret ‘Free Palestine’ as being violent, it is because they are benefitting from Palestinians being unfree,” Cole said in a clip of the address posted online.

“In the same way if you answer “Black Lives Matter’ with ‘All Lives Matter,’ you must have some investment in Black lives being undervalued.”


Of course the Muslims support him.

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Repulsive: John Kerry Accepts China’s Genocide to Get Climate Deal

“Well, life is always full of tough choices in the relationship between nations,” said John Kerry, responding to Bloomberg’s David Weston on September 22. Weston had asked him, “What is the process by which one trades off climate against human rights?”

What is wrong with Kerry’s response? For one thing, such a trade-off violates the Genocide Convention of 1948, which requires signatories, such as the United States, to undertake “to prevent and to punish” acts of genocide. China is committing “genocide,” as defined in Article II of the Convention, against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Turkic minorities.

Imagine Kerry dealing with the Nazi regime.

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Two docs call for banning all unvaccinated Albertans from employment

Two Alberta doctors — Dr. Noel Gibney and Dr. James Talbot — have written a letter to the provincial government saying non-vaccinated people shouldn’t be allowed to be employed in Alberta.

The letter from Talbot and Gibney to Health Minister Jason Copping demanded the implementation of seven measures to help stem the COVID-19 crisis in the province.

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School bans pro-police flag, but allows BLM and LGBT messages

A local school district forced a middle school teacher to remove a pro-police flag from her classroom wall. But the district allows Black Lives Matter and LGBT messages to be displayed.

The teacher at Marysville Middle School posted a Thin Blue Line flag in her classroom. It was meant to support the police. But according to documents obtained by the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH, the district’s human resources said the flag is a “political symbol” that could elicit a “disruption” in the classroom. She was ordered to take it down.

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Military leaders saw pandemic as unique opportunity to test propaganda techniques on Canadians, Forces report says

A plan devised by the Canadian Joint Operations Command relied on propaganda techniques similar to those employed during the Afghanistan war.

Canadian military leaders saw the pandemic as a unique opportunity to test out propaganda techniques on an unsuspecting public, a newly released Canadian Forces report concludes.

The federal government never asked for the so-called information operations campaign, nor did cabinet authorize the initiative developed during the COVID-19 pandemic by the Canadian Joint Operations Command, then headed by Lt.-Gen. Mike Rouleau.

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China says Canada should ‘draw lessons’ from Huawei exec case

BEIJING, Sept 27 (Reuters) – The release of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou shows China’s strength and Canada should “draw lessons,” China’s foreign ministry said on Monday, after state media called it an opportunity for a reboot of bilateral relations.

Meng landed in Huawei’s home city of Shenzhen aboard a government-chartered plane on Saturday to much fanfare, ending her near three-year U.S. extradition fight, the same day two Canadians detained by Beijing shortly after Meng’s 2018 detention returned home.

Meng’s return shows the ability of the Chinese government and ruling Communist Party to protect its citizens, companies, and interests, foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a regular daily briefing.

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Germany elections: Centre-left claim narrow win over Merkel’s party

Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) have claimed victory in the federal election, telling the party of outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel it should no longer be in power.

SPD leader Olaf Scholz said he had a clear mandate to form a government, while his conservative rival Armin Laschet remains determined to fight on.

The two parties have governed together for years.

But Mr Scholz says it is time for a new coalition with the Greens and liberals.

So Germany tilts further left with the Greens possible Kingmakers, not that anyone would notice.

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Ontario reports 613 new Covid cases … and hold my beer Soup Nazi

Ontario reports 613 new Covid cases … and hold my beer Soup Nazi

Ontario reports 613 new COVID-19 cases, no new deaths

Ontario is reporting just over 600 new COVID-19 cases and no new virus-related deaths today.

Officials logged 613 new infections on Monday, down from 653 cases on Sunday but up marginally from the 610 cases confirmed one week ago.


Toronto restaurant says it won’t accept medical exemptions

TORONTO — A midtown Toronto restaurant worries its staff won’t be able to tell the difference between real vaccine passport exemptions and potential fakers when it opens to indoor diners in just over a week — so, it’s only going to let fully vaccinated people in.

“Just for now I’m not going to be accepting doctor’s certificates as exemptions. I just want fully vaccinated people in here. For the past two years we’ve been incredibly safe, our staff are healthy, our customers are healthy, and I want to keep it that way,” Stern told CTV News.

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Tensions high between vaccinated and unvaccinated in Canada, poll suggests

A new poll suggests tensions over COVID-19 vaccines in Canada are high as frictions grow between those who are vaccinated against the virus and those who are not.

The Leger survey, conducted for the Association of Canadian Studies, found that more than three in four respondents hold negative views of those who are not immunized.

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When climate change causes flood and also causes droughts

Perhaps because of desperation, or just plain ignorance, climate alarmists are now blaming both droughts and floods on global warming/climate change.  Where it rains or doesn’t is largely determined by prevailing winds, not atmospheric heat-trapping.  And yet, the chair of the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors recently posted an op-ed in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat stating such nonsense — along with blaming her son’s pneumonia on climate change, rather than the opportunistic bacteria that infected him while his immune system was weakened by a cold.

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