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Learn the science before you follow it: Fact-checking Justin Trudeau on climate change

Announcing his new plan for getting to net-zero on carbon emissions, Justin Trudeau told Canadians: “If we trust scientists with our health, as we do, then we must also trust their research and their expertise when it comes to other existential threats. And that includes climate change. There is no vaccine against a polluted planet. It’s up to us to act. Because there is a real cost to pollution. We’re paying the price already with record storms, wildfires, floods, and heat waves, which all carry real economic costs and real risks to our health. We chose to get straight to work on cutting pollution.”

We should indeed trust scientific research and expertise, and above all data. But so far, data shows no such existential threats due to climate change.

by Blazingcatfur•December 16, 2020December 16, 2020•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Green-Scam

WTF?

Cranes – they don’t make em like they used to

No one explains how he got up there to begin with

by Blazingcatfur•December 16, 2020December 16, 2020•0•WTF?

Viral Panic

Situated between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara counties on the California coast, Ventura County boasts a population of about 850,000, living amidst pristine beaches, occasionally snowcapped mountains, and plentiful farmland. Since April, Ventura County’s 7-day rolling average for deaths attributed to Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) has only barely exceeded 2 a handful of times, and for the past 14 days our County has had one death due to the Coronavirus. Only 0.02% of the population has succumbed to Covid-19 and to the best of my ability to determine, all of these poor souls were elderly and/or had comorbidities.

by Blazingcatfur•December 16, 2020December 16, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Flight of the Icons – Anti-business policies are driving flagship firms out of California.

It’s hard to say the word “innovation” and not think of California. Technology has paced the state’s growth in everything from agriculture and oil to housing, entertainment, and aerospace. California has always been the harbinger of the American future, the promise of ever-greater economic and social progress.

Yet increasingly, many of today’s innovators are fleeing the state.

by Blazingcatfur•December 16, 2020December 16, 2020•0•California

6 Experts Predict The Worst-Case Scenario With China Under A Feeble Biden Foreign Policy

When Donald Trump ran for president in 2016, he ran on overhauling the economic relationship with China, which he blamed for raiding American factories and offshoring American jobs. Throughout his administration, Trump railed against the communist country for unlawfully claiming territory in the Pacific Ocean, stripping Hong Kong’s autonomy, and covering up the Wuhan virus outbreak.

by Blazingcatfur•December 16, 2020December 16, 2020•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "Joe Sleazebag Biden", USA

A Post-Trump Media Landscape

Over the past five or so years, the media has shifted its business model to focus on making virtually every story about Donald Trump. From local news stories to every conceivable national scenario, Trump has been the feature.

“How did he influence this?”

“What do Republicans think about this tweet?”

“This is surely the end of the Trump administration!”

Years of this constant barrage. Nonstop.

by Blazingcatfur•December 16, 2020December 16, 2020•0•The Media Lies, Trump Derangement Syndrome

Facebook closes fake accounts linked to French military and Russia

Facebook said Tuesday that it had removed two networks based in Russia and one linked to the French military, accusing them of carrying out interference campaigns in Africa.

Two networks running multiple Facebook accounts were assigned to people associated with the Russian Internet Research Agency, and the third had “links to individuals associated with French military,” the social media platform said.

All three were removed from the site for breaking its policy against foreign or government interference, Facebook said, adding that the networks targeted countries mainly in north Africa and some in the Middle East.

by Blazingcatfur•December 16, 2020December 16, 2020•0•facebook, France, Russia

Charlie Hebdo trial: French court convicts 14 over 2015 terror attacks

A court in France has convicted 14 people in relation to the January 2015 terror attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper and a Jewish supermarket in Paris.

A total of 17 people were murdered across three days in a series of attacks that horrified the nation. All three assailants were killed in shootouts with the police, leaving only accomplices to face trial.

The defendants were found guilty on different charges, ranging from membership of a criminal network to complicity in the attacks. Terrorism-related charges were dropped for several of the defendants who were found guilty of lesser crimes.

by Blazingcatfur•December 16, 2020December 16, 2020•0•"Islamophobia", Charlie Hebdo, Charlie Hebdo Massacre, France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

ISIS bride Shamima Begum WILL be arrested and must be treated as a security threat if she wins her legal battle to return to the UK

ISIS bride Shamima Begum will be arrested and must be treated as a security threat if she wins her legal battle to return home, the UK’s counter-terror chief has said.

Neil Basu said people who had gone to Syria and made it back should expect to be investigated and face prosecution.

by Blazingcatfur•December 16, 2020December 16, 2020•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

Same-sex couples banned from adopting children in Hungary

Same-sex couples have effectively been banned from adopting children in Hungary after a new law was passed.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced yesterday that only married couples can adopt, with some exceptions for single relatives of the child.

Same-sex marriage is illegal in Hungary, but adoption was previously possible if one single partner applied on their own.

by Blazingcatfur•December 16, 2020December 16, 2020•0•Big Gay

Snoop Dogg’s Uncle’s Rib Place Gets Torched After He Complains About Portland Antifa Violence. Coincidence?

Was it your garden-variety arsonist or an antifa terrorist exacting political retribution that caused the fire at a Portland rib restaurant owned by rapper Snoop Dogg’s uncle?

Investigators with @PDXFire say the fire at Reo's Ribs last month was intentionally set and they have a suspect they would like to question.

This is surveillance footage from that night.

Full story: https://t.co/NZ6AwixEV6 pic.twitter.com/wUGqkYCsRz

— KOIN News (@KOINNews) December 15, 2020

by Blazingcatfur•December 16, 2020December 16, 2020•0•Antifa, WTF?

Trudeau’s China Syndrome

PM invites China’s army for “cold weather training” in Canada – while China holds Canadians captive.

December 10 marked two years since China’s Communist regime seized Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. “These two Canadians are an absolute priority for our government,” Canadian foreign minister Francois-Philippe Champagne told reporters, “and we will continue to work tirelessly to secure their immediate release and to stand up for them as a government and as Canadians.” According to another story that broke last week, the government’s true priority is to ignore the captives and stand up for China.

by Blazingcatfur•December 16, 2020December 16, 2020•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Wearing a used mask could be worse than no mask amid COVID-19: study

Wearing a used mask could be more dangerous than not wearing one at all when it comes to warding off COVID-19, a new study has found.

A new three-layer surgical mask is 65 percent efficient in filtering particles in the air — but when used, that number drops to 25 percent, according to the study published Tuesday in the Physics of Fluids.

by Blazingcatfur•December 16, 2020December 16, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Is America’s Fourth Estate (Free Press) in Foreclosure?

The “fourth estate” refers to freedom of the press. The term may have first been used by the philosopher-statesman Edmund Burke, who in 1787 highlighted the press as free and apart from the other three British “estates” — clergy, royalty and commoners.

The modern meaning, however, refers to the press as a fourth and free power — as even a “watchdog” — over the executive, legislative and judicial branches of our government. Today, however, it is the watchdog that needs watching.

by Blazingcatfur•December 16, 2020December 16, 2020•0•Freedom of the press

With A Bleak Awards Season Looming, Hollywood Enters 2021 Changed Forever

The pandemic continues to act as a great cultural accelerant, bulldozing institutions that were lurching slowly towards irrelevance. The impending awards show season may be COVID’s last big cultural casualty before the dawn of the new normal.

The question is whether that damage is irreversible. For the entertainment industry, this question looms large over awards shows and, more importantly, movie theaters. As summer faded to fall, some in Hollywood optimistically believed the months-long national theater closure had created a pent-up demand that would boost new releases like “Unhinged” and “Tenet.”

by Blazingcatfur•December 16, 2020December 16, 2020•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Hollywood