EV charger company Flo to close Quebec plant, lay off workers

A producer of electric-vehicle chargers in Canada is pointing to trade tensions and shifting political dynamics in America as a major contributor to its decision to close a manufacturing facility in Shawinigan, Quebec. Flo, founded sixteen years ago in Quebec as AddENÉRGIE, is shuttering one of its three plants, throwing approximately 80 employees out of work. Flo has two other production sites, one in the Grand-Mère area of Quebec, plus another in Auburn Hills near Detroit.

Of course … Canada Infrastructure Bank marks its first EV charging investment with a $220 million commitment to FLO®

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny"

Europe will be conquered by its own tolerance

Imagine a German going to Afghanistan to hold a rally for “democracy,” “freedom,” and “rights”: at best, they would face public flogging—one of Kabul’s most popular activities.

Muslim extremists, on the other hand, are allowed to march in Berlin demanding the establishment of a caliphate in the name of “democracy,” “freedom,” and “rights.”

This was perfectly and ignorantly foretold by Monsignor Giuseppe Bernardini, bishop of Izmir, Turkey, when on October 13, 1999, he said that “during an official meeting on Islamic-Christian dialogue, a prominent Muslim figure said calmly and confidently to the Christian participants: ‘Thanks to your democratic laws we will invade you; thanks to our religious laws we will dominate you.’”

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

Foreign Bot Networks Are Trying to Take Down Trump

Fake MAGA influencers advance agendas aligned with hostile foreign states.

Hostile foreign actors are increasingly using social media to drive a wedge into Donald Trump’s political coalition. Using open-source intelligence and analyses of online activity, we explore this phenomenon, which we call “fake MAGA,” in a recent report for the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI).

Our report defines fake MAGA influencers as those who use “Make America Great Again” or “America First” branding to target these audiences but are in fact linked to large-scale bot farms—as evidenced by the creation of massive numbers of such accounts at opportune moments on X. That is, our analysis reveals coordinated account-creation spikes (for instance, during Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition), followed by synchronized amplification of identical narratives by those same accounts during a crisis.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump, WTF?

Democracy Watch Blows the Whistle on Carney’s Ethics Sham

So here’s something the media doesn’t want to talk about because it shatters the entire illusion they’ve built around the man they now call Prime Minister: Mark Carney. The technocratic savior, the former banker with all the right globalist credentials, the guy who jets between Davos and Ottawa with a PowerPoint and a carbon tax. And yet, today buried under polite headlines and careful euphemisms a watchdog group in Canada finally said what should’ve been obvious to anyone paying attention.

Mark Carney’s ethics screen and his so-called “blind trust” are scams. Period.

Carney and Trump may not be on the same team but they do seem to working toward the same goal. The end of Canada.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Why Palestinians Terrorists Want a Ceasefire in Gaza

In separate statements over the past week, senior officials of the Iran-backed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) said that their terror groups “will not surrender.” The statements came as the Trump administration continued its efforts to end the war in the Gaza Strip and secure the release of 50 Israeli hostages held by the terror groups. Twenty of the hostages are believed to be alive, while the remaining 30 are presumed dead. The hostages were kidnapped during the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led invasion of Israel. At least 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were murdered that day, and thousands wounded.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

America’s Biggest Rare-Earth Producer Makes a Play to End China’s Dominance

FORT WORTH—At an industrial site in this Texas city, men dressed in head-to-toe protective gear dip giant ladles into a well of molten metal heated to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit. They’re making something the U.S. has hardly, if ever, produced at commercial scale in recent decades: rare-earth metals.

The factory is the most visible mark of MP Materials’ high-stakes, billion-dollar bet that an American company can take on China’s dominance over the metals—and the magnets they power in everything from cars and smartphones to missile systems.

In recent months, China has used its chokehold over 90% of the world’s rare-earth magnets to cut off access to Western companies, rattling industrial giants such as Ford and Tesla and forcing the U.S. to the table for trade talks.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Canada deploys explosive drone boat in first proof of ‘new operational concept’ for navy

The Royal Canadian Navy is experimenting with explosive-packed drone boats, turning lessons learned from Ukraine’s war with Russia into a “new operational concept” for Canada’s maritime forces.

The first test of the concept came during a multinational naval exercise that concluded earlier this month off the west coast of Vancouver Island, where one explosive-laden vessel was driven into another uncrewed boat and detonated.

The drone boats, known officially as Hammerhead uncrewed surface vessels, are typically used by the navy as remote-controlled targets to mimic small speedboat attacks on larger ships.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"RCN", Canada, WTF?

Trump says Adam Schiff must be ‘brought to justice’ for mortgage fraud after DOJ criminal referral

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday called for California Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff to be “brought to justice” for alleged mortgage fraud — after a federal housing agency sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department regarding Schiff’s ownership of a Maryland home.

“I have always suspected Shifty Adam Schiff was a scam artist. And now I learn that Fannie Mae’s Financial Crimes Division have concluded that Adam Schiff has engaged in a sustained pattern of possible Mortgage Fraud,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

First Nations launch legal challenge against Ontario, federal bills 5 and C-5

Nine First Nations in Ontario are asking a court to declare a pair of federal and provincial laws meant to fast-track infrastructure projects unconstitutional and are seeking an injunction that would prevent the governments from using some of the most contentious aspects.

The Indigenous communities say in the legal challenge filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice that the federal law known as Bill C-5 and the Ontario law known as Bill 5 both represent a “clear and present danger” to the First Nations’ self-determination rights to ways of life on their territories.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Carney says a U.S. trade deal without some tariffs is unlikely

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday U.S. President Donald Trump seems wedded to tariffs and any trade deal with the Americans may include accepting some levies on exports.

Speaking to reporters ahead of a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill about the trade war, Carney said in French that all of Trump’s trade agreements to this point have included some tariffs.

He said “there’s not a lot of evidence right now” that the U.S. is willing to cut a deal without some tariffs included.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Bette Midler Unhinged: Trump ‘Mentally Unfit to Serve,‘ Ordering Troops ‘to Gas Citizens and Drag Them to Gulags‘

Disney’s Hocus Pocus star Bette Midler went on an unhinged rant on Monday, calling President Donald Trump “mentally unfit to serve,” and accusing him of ordering troops “to gas citizens and drag them to gulags.”

“Trump is investigating whether Joe Biden was incapacitated when he signed clemency orders with an auto pen, and pardoned many before he left office. Trump has a lot of gall, seeing as how HE is mentally unfit to serve,” the Freak Show actress began in her tirade posted to Instagram.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCelebrity Idiots