Volkswagen Considers Germany Plant Closure For First Time in Its History

German car-manufacturing giant Volkswagen is considering closing some of its plants and laying off some of its workforce.

Rising costs were cutting into profits, leaving Volkswagen facing “particularly significant challenges,” the group said in an internal memo seen by AFP. “In the current situation, even plant closures at vehicle production and component sites can no longer be ruled out,” Volkswagen said in the note sent to employees.

Founded in 1937, the company has never had to close plants in Germany.

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

Concern over immigration quadruples over last 48 months

September 4, 2024 – While the number of Canadians galvanized over the cost of living and inflation is beginning to decrease, their attention is fixating on an issue that was once only glancingly thought of: immigration.

New data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds Canadians’ concern over immigration has risen four-fold over the last two years, prompting the federal government to announce plans to shrink the Temporary Foreign Workers program. One-in-five (21%) say “Immigration/refugees” is one of the top issues facing the country, putting it in a tie with climate change (21%), though still far off from the high cost of living (57%), health care (45%) and housing affordability (32%).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Mass Immigration is Class War", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Brian Stelter and ‘Reliable Sources’ Returning to CNN

You read that correctly. The liberal media’s janitor, Brian Stelter will be returning to CNN two years after being canned amid network-wide shake ups under the leadership of since-ousted boss Chris Licht. That’s according to a Tuesday scoop by Stelter’s former CNN media beat buddy Dylan Byers, and later confirmed by Stelter on X and in a post from the resurrected Reliable Sources Newsletter.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Georgia high school shooting: 4 dead, one suspect in custody, authorities say

At least four people are dead Wednesday after a shooting at a high school in north central Georgia put the building on lockdown, authorities said.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirmed that four people died at Apalachee High School in Barrow County, Georgia — approximately 40 miles northeast of Atlanta – and nine others were taken to various hospitals with injuries. The suspect is alive and in custody.

Was out running errands saw a headline before I left and it did not seem urgent.

h/t XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting"

Internal docs show Ontario was aware it had an ‘over-reliance’ on international students

As Ontario’s post-secondary institutions come to grips with a far-reaching federal cap on international student approvals, internal provincial documents reveal that the Ford government was aware that colleges and universities had an “over-reliance” on overseas students as a way to make up for budget deficits.

The documents, obtained by Global News, also gave the Minister of Colleges and Universities a dire snapshot of the life of international students in Ontario, highlighting the lack of existing services for students who are dealing with “intensive feelings of isolation.”

Follow the money always.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Mass Immigration is Class War", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Nolte: Summer Box Office Down 11% — Non-Woke Movies Avert Catastrophe

The summer box office season ended up being down 11 percent over 2023’s summer, and let’s not forget that 2023’s summer box office wasn’t all that hot.

The 2024 summer season (defined as May’s first weekend through Labor Day) saw a domestic box office gross of $3.6 billion. That is down 11 percent from 2023 and only a smidge higher (six percent) than 2022’s $3.39 billion summer box office gross.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

RCMP did not entrap Muslim terrorist imprisoned in U.S. for ISIS plot, review finds

The government’s national security review agency has dismissed a complaint alleging the RCMP entrapped a Canadian imprisoned in the United States for plotting ISIS attacks.

The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency found the RCMP had conducted a “good faith investigation” into Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, a Toronto-area resident.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

NDP announcing it will tear up governance agreement with Liberals

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is terminating the supply-and-confidence agreement his party made with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government.

The party is making the announcement in a video being posted on social media Wednesday afternoon. The deal was scheduled to run until June 2025.

“Justin Trudeau has proven again and again he will always cave to corporate greed. The Liberals have let people down. They don’t deserve another chance from Canadians,” Singh said in the video, a transcript of which was obtained by CBC News

h/t Andycanuck

NB – Jagmeet’s NDP will still have to vote Justin out, that doesn’t have to happen just because they ended the formal agreement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, NDP, WTF?

US charges Hamas leaders some of whom are dead already, over 7 October attack on Israel

The US has charged Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and several other prominent figures in the Palestinian group in connection with its deadly attack in Israel on 7 October last year.

The justice department said it was indicting six Hamas members with seven charges, including the murder of dozens of US citizens, conspiracy to finance terrorism and use of weapons of mass destruction.

The criminal complaint covers decades of alleged attacks by Hamas, as well as last October’s unprecedented assault.

It is the first step by US law enforcement to hold accountable the ringleaders of that attack, but has been seen by analysts as partly symbolic, not least because some of those named in the indictment are already dead.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", WTF?

Nine Weeks To Go and All the Democrats Have on Trump Is the Claptrap About How He’s an Aspiring Dictator

With nine weeks to go before the antique calendrical phenomenon of Election Day, the campaign is now being conducted between an elusive incumbent in constant motion and a durable opponent that appears to be immovable with a slight lead.

The one soft interview to which Vice President Harris submitted ignores a number of the issues uppermost in the mind of the voters and opened up a sizable credibility gap on the question of the vice president’s views on fracking, and in a range of other areas designed to cover off the colossal failures of the Biden-Harris administration over inflation, reduced disposable income, and the invasion of over 10 million illegal immigrants.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPresident Trump

“In Canada, The Charitable Status Of The Jewish National Fund Has Been Revoked. This Is An Important Victory”

Canada-based activist and former PFLP official Khaled Barakat said in an August 19, 2024 broadcast on Al-Manar TV (Hizbullah-Lebanon) that revoking the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund is an “important victory,” but is “not enough,” it should be criminalized.

“Canada based” – The faceless unaccountable bureaucrats and our Canada hating pols should be in shackles for inviting mohammedan settlers.

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