Author: Blazingcatfur

Electric cars: What will happen to all the dead batteries?

“The rate at which we’re growing the industry is absolutely scary,” says Paul Anderson from Birmingham University.

He’s talking about the market for electric cars in Europe.

By 2030, the EU hopes that there will be 30 million electric cars on European roads.

“It’s something that’s never really been done before at that rate of growth for a completely new product,” says Dr Anderson, who is also the co-director of the Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements and Critical Materials.

While electric vehicles (EVs) may be carbon neutral during their working lifetime, he’s concerned about what happens when they run out of road – in particular what happens to the batteries.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Diane Francis: Pandemic failure is Trudeau’s biggest scandal yet

Diane Francis: Pandemic failure is Trudeau’s biggest scandal yet

The Trudeau government’s incompetence is causing death and economic dysfunction

Canada’s provincial health-care systems are in crisis, the economy is locked down and the Liberal government’s dose-delay edict is putting lives at risk. And yet, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talks about progress, about his big “portfolio of vaccines” and about how many millions of doses are on their way.

“I’m upset every time the media repeats the government’s claims about the number of vaccines that are planned or expected to arrive at the start of any given week, rather than reporting at the end of a given week on how many vaccines had actually been received,” said one health-care professional who asked to remain anonymous.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

US Census: Five key takeaways on population trends

US Census officials have completed their once-a-decade count of the American population, showing the second slowest growth in recorded history.

Texas and Florida, two Republican titans of the Sunbelt, will gain congressional seats, while two Democratic giants, California and New York, are losing political influence.

The census shows the US population currently stands at 331,449,281 – an increase of 7.4% over 2010’s count.

The number is the slowest since the 1930s during the Great Depression.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemography, USA

Will Communist China Dominate the Middle East?

After Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s almost week-long recent tour of the Middle East, there can be little doubt that China is actively seeking to expand its influence in the region, not only economically but also militarily, diplomatically and politically, actively challenging the long-standing role of the United States as a dominant power in the region.

China’s influence in the Middle East has been growing for years, especially through the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a gigantic global infrastructure and economic development project that Chinese President Xi Jinping launched in 2013. Its aim is, it appears, to build an economic and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe, Africa and beyond. This mega development and investment initiative seeks dramatically to enhance China’s global influence from East Asia to Europe by making countries worldwide increasingly dependent on China.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Middle East

Global alliance for phasing out coal lead by Canada and UK not fit for purpose, says NGO

An attempt by the UK government to encourage countries and businesses around the world to quit coal for power generation is failing to make an impact, and in danger of being used as “greenwash”, an assessment has found.

The Powering Past Coal Alliance, led by the UK and Canada, with 111 members including 24 governments, local governments and businesses, is a key plank of Boris Johnson’s strategy for vital UN climate talks to be hosted in Glasgow in November.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Texas Sheriff Puts Cop Critics On Blast: ‘It’s Not the Job of the Officer To Raise Your Kid’

One Texas sheriff has had it with loud-mouthed activists blaming police officers for the inevitable result of bad parenting – and now, he’s saying it.

According to local reports, the Thorckmorton County Sheriff’s Office is putting on blast parents who want to hold public authority figures accountable for their own failures in raising their kids to be law-abiding members of society, telling them quite blunty that “it is not the job of the officer to raise your kid.”

“IT IS NOT THE JOB OF THE OFFICER TO RAISE YOUR KID,” Throckmorton County Sheriff Doc Wigington wrote on Facebook. “Parents need to take responsibility for the actions of their FAILURE to raise their child to be respectful, responsible and listen to authority figures.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Depolicing"

Generals call for military rule to halt France ‘disintegrating with Islamists’

Generals call for military rule to halt France ‘disintegrating with Islamists’

Twenty retired generals have created a political storm in France with a call for a military takeover if President Macron fails to halt the “disintegration” of the country at the hands of Islamists.

The open letter, published in Valeurs Actuelles, a right-wing news magazine, has gained resonance after a Tunisian Islamist stabbed to death a 49-year-old woman who worked at a police station in Rambouillet, in the western Paris commuter belt, on Friday.

Macron’s government condemned the appeal, whose first signature was Christian Piquemal, a former head of the Foreign Legion, comparing it to the failed coup by generals against President de Gaulle 60 years ago this month.

Mark my words. France will cede territory to the Islamists in our lifetime.

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

Our China Class At Work: Trudeau minister dodges questions on whether Canada has curbed potential forced-labour imports from China

Our China Class At Work: Trudeau minister dodges questions on whether Canada has curbed potential forced-labour imports from China

OTTAWA — Canada’s international trade minister on Monday would not provide details about whether the federal government has barred the flow of imported goods from China suspected of using forced labour, months after Ottawa introduced measures purportedly to stop the practice.

In a committee testimony, Minister Mary Ng declined to answer questions from a Conservative MP about how much, if any, imports from the Chinese region of Xinjiang Canadian authorities have intercepted since the Liberal government said it would be cracking down on the issue in January.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Andrew Brown autopsy shows he was shot five times, attorneys say

Details regarding the shooting from police authorities continue to remain scarce, though Brown had a 180-page rap sheet that dates back to May 1988

Attorneys for the family of Andrew Brown, a black man whom police shot and killed during a drug warrant arrest on Wednesday, said an autopsy concluded he was hit five times before he succumbed to his wounds.

The legal team hired an independent pathologist to conduct an autopsy, which found that Brown was shot five times, including twice on the arm and once in the back of the head, the team said at a Tuesday press briefing. The round that struck Brown’s skull was purportedly the one that killed him, and the other two shots were not mapped out by the lawyers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in#BlackLivesMatter

2 politicians, others at church service in Aylmer, Ont., charged for defying pandemic rules

Two politicians are among several people charged for attending a large service in Aylmer, Ont., at the Church of God Restoration in defiance of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions.

MP Derek Sloan and MPP Randy Hillier, who both represent Kingston-area ridings as Independents, are scheduled to appear in Elgin County provincial offences court in June, CBC News has learned.
The two, who have been vocal about their opposition to COVID-19 public health measures, attended the large Sunday service in the southwestern Ontario town.

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