Dutch Bank to End Lending to Customers Not Aligned with Net Zero

In an interview with the Financial Times published on 19 September, Steven van Rijswijk, the chief executive of ING, said that the Dutch bank had put its clients on notice that it would either restrict or stop providing finance to companies that fail to address their carbon footprint on a case-by-case basis. Additionally, from 2025, the bank will no longer offer extra funding for LNG export terminals, a decision in line with the International Energy Agency’s recommendations. Fresh funding for upstream oil and gas businesses exploring untapped geographical areas will also be halted.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Braid: Impact Assessment Act joins carbon tax on list of dying Liberal policies

Ottawa’s Impact Assessment Act, like the carbon tax, lies gravely wounded by incompetence and regional favouritism.

Ontario gets an exemption from the IAA. Alberta doesn’t. There’s nothing original about that.

The Liberals did the same thing by exempting home heating oil from carbon tax, after Atlantic MPs lobbied the prime minister personally.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Harris Vouches for Biden’s Mental Fitness as Lame-Duck President Faces Domestic, International Crises

Vice President Kamala Harris doubled down on vouching for President Joe Biden’s mental fitness Sunday, despite the president’s dropping out of the 2024 race after a disastrous debate performance. Biden most recently appeared alarmingly confused in the wake of Hurricane Helene, responding to an interviewer asking about relief efforts, “I was wondering what storm you’re talking about.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Are Dems Slow-Walking Hurricane Relief To Suppress An Election-Deciding Number Of GOP Voters?

Early voting in North Carolina starts in just days, and Appalachian voters in the western, deep-red stronghold of the state are still desperate for help with basic necessities after destruction wrought by Hurricane Helene. A slow-rolled disaster relief response from federal and state government agencies has many wondering if the Democrats in charge are trying to suppress the votes of the predominantly Trump-supporting region.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Kamala Harris"

Fake Solutions for a Real Problem

Although the war, or in fact wars, triggered against Israel by Hamas are far from over, global punditry is already regimented in a cacophonic chorus to tell the protagonists what to do and what not to do.

In fact, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s decision to try and save face by firing missiles at Israel could expand rather than shrink a battlefield that covers a large chunk of the Middle East down to Yemen.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

Who will guard the guardians?

Americans paying attention have been horrified to learn just how inept and malicious our federal law enforcement agencies have become under the Harris/Biden cabal. Institutions necessary for the preservation of our representative republic have not only failed us but have been turned against us. As Juvenal wrote: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guardians? The answer, increasingly, is certainly not the Harris/Biden Administration.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society"

The green deindustrialisation of Britain

At midnight on Monday, Britain’s last remaining coal-fired power station turned off its turbines. The closure of the Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant in Nottinghamshire brings to an end Britain’s 142-year reliance on the black stuff for generating electricity.

The end of coal is being celebrated by the political class as a sign of Britain’s ‘leadership’ on the climate. Apparently, this is a mark of our ‘progress’ towards a greener, cleaner future. Indeed, politicians were so eager to shut Ratcliffe down that the deadline for its closure was actually brought forward by a year by Boris Johnson’s Conservative government, ahead of the 2021 COP26 climate talks in Glasgow.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Aussie ‘hoons’ drive police mad with reckless gender reveal parties

When he’s not behind the wheel of his combine harvester, Andrew Lynch enjoys nothing more than shredding the tyres of his souped-up 1981 Toyota Corolla as the crowd roars its approval.
The 39-year-old wheat farmer from Western Victoria, better known to fans as Lynchy, is Australia’s reigning “burnout” champion, having won at the country’s biggest annual car festival, Summernats, in Canberra.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Tim Walz says ‘I don’t think people care’ when confronted with history of misstatements on Fox News

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sidestepped questions about his history of misstatements about his biography, claiming the American people did not care about it compared with the threat posed by former President Donald Trump.

Walz stumbled over his explanation of his rhetoric during the vice presidential debate describing himself as a ‘knucklehead’ to excuse his habit of exaggerating or misstating details about his life.

He is not all there.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, WTF?

Researchers Find Cannibalized Victim of 19th-Century Arctic Voyage

Into the frozen fray they went, the explorer Sir John Franklin and his crew of 128 men, sailing from England in 1845 in search of the Northwest Passage. And there, in the unforgiving expanse of the Canadian Arctic, they perished. No one knows exactly what happened.

Now, with the help of a sophisticated DNA-matching method, researchers have identified the remains of Captain James Fitzjames, the expedition’s third-highest-ranking officer, who died sometime in 1848 as he and other crew members tried to escape the ice.

Fitzjames is the second person to be identified from the expedition. And he is the first member of the crew definitively known to have been the victim of cannibalism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, history

Barbara Kay: October 7 erupted an antisemitism volcano that’s still spewing hate

One year on, Jews in the West have had time to process the primary shock of Hamas’s pogrom in southern Israel and the secondary shock of hateful blowback against Israel and Jews worldwide. We learned in a span of hours that where lethal antisemitism is concerned, “never again” was for us a mere objective, not a guarantee against those consumed by a mission of “again and again and again.”

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

Majority of Canadians oppose federal ban on new gas and diesel vehicles

A new poll released by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) shows that 59% of Canadians oppose the federal government’s plan to ban the sale of new gas and diesel vehicles by 2035.

“The results of the poll are clear: Canadians don’t want the government to ban new gas and diesel vehicles,” said Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director.

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

Shhhh, Trump Is Winning!

Everyone that watches election cycles long enough knows that the only moment that counts in a campaign is Election Day when the ballots have been counted.

Sadly in 2020 it took some states with far fewer ballots than Florida two to three times longer than Florida to count the ballots.

Ironically it took until the exact amount of lead by Trump was established, then a miraculous dump of ballots being delivered around 2-3am that would then be weighted 100 to 1 against Trump(or some similar proximity) and by sunrise, in a state were counting had been stopped, Trump’s lead would have evaporated and he somehow lost.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

School Trip To Ontario Place

So many photos. Not sure what grade this is all I know is it was a school trip Kathy’s class took to Ontario Place which was considered kind of a big deal back then.

Not sure what that look means.

My house is a wreck with stuff stacked everywhere.

But it’s the much needed Big Sort and I am assembling stacks of like stuff i.e. magazines etc. with her articles etc.

Most of this was packed up at Dundonald and hasn’t seen the light of day since.

That’s why there are so many surprises.

At times it is exactly like reading someone’s mail.

I found a stack of her fan letters and am getting pretty good at that smile.

I told her often that she had many fans who cared deeply for her.

She knows now.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inKathy Shaidle