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— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 6, 2024
h/t XC
The electric vehicles farce has reached a shambolic new low
When the electric vans startup Arrival announced that it was seeking to focus its business on the US market, it seemed like a good move. Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act was offering massive subsidies for the green industries of tomorrow; the market would surely surge, and Arrival’s fortunes with it.
They did not. The “British Tesla” as it was once known, which was valued at over £10 billion on the Nasdaq at one point, has seen its UK arm enter administration. It follows that other darling of green industrial policy, Britishvolt, which collapsed last year (it was later bought by Recharge Industries).
Crypto mining company loses bid to force BC Hydro to provide power
A cryptocurrency mining company has lost a bid to force BC Hydro to provide the vast amounts of power needed for its operations, upholding the provincial government’s right to pause power connections for new crypto miners.
Conifex Timber Inc., a forestry company that branched out into cryptocurrency mining, had gone to the B.C. Supreme Court to have the policy declared invalid.
So this could apply to EV owners.
Biden Opened the Floodgates of Hell
President Joe Biden’s foreign policy has collapsed. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan effectively admitted that to CNN’s Dana Bash on February 4.
“You have said now a couple times on this show and you have said this many times before that the administration is trying to prevent this from spreading into a regional conflict,” Bash told Sullivan on “State of the Union,” referring to the war in Gaza.
CRESCIA: Canada is more broken than ever
The Trudeau Liberals recently gathered for a cabinet retreat to hit the reset button after a disastrous 2023 that saw the country become more broken than ever before. No big announcements emerged but the Liberals spent time ruminating about the consequences of a Trump presidency: “Mr. Trump represents a certain amount of unpredictability, but we will make sure we’re pulling together and preparing for whatever eventualities,” said Trudeau.
New Docs Expose Amazon Caving In to Biden Admin Pressure to Censor Books
Explosive new evidence adds another terrifying chapter to the incestuous collusion story between President Joe Biden’s administration and Big Tech to censor free speech.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan unleashed a trove of subpoenaed documents on X (formerly Twitter) exposing the Biden admin pressuring leftist tech giant Amazon to censor books that went against government narratives. Amazon — already notorious for how it nuked free speech platform Parler in 2021 from Amazon Web Services for allowing wrongthink to remain uncensored — seemed disturbed by the White House pressure. “Is the [Biden] Admin asking us to remove books?” asked one chilling email from an Amazon official. The documents actually showed Amazon capitulating to Biden’s pressure. Apparently, the Biden administration wasn’t content with limiting its dystopian speech control efforts to just Facebook and Twitter. Enter, The Amazon Files.
NHL criticized for hiring anti-Israel anthem singer Kiana Ledé for all-star game in Toronto
The National Hockey League is facing public backlash after it invited R&B singer Kiana Ledé to perform the American national anthem at the all-star game in Toronto this weekend after she previously warned her fans, “if you’re a Zionist … feel free to stay your ass at home.”
I am having a hard time believing this was an accident.
Germany: AfD youth group can be classified as ‘extremist’
A German administrative court on Monday ruled that the youth wing of the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD) may be classified by Germany’s domestic intelligence service as a “certified right-wing extremist endeavor.”
In the decision announced on Tuesday, an administrative court in the western city of Cologne rejected an injunction by the AfD and its “Junge Alternative”(JA), or Young Alternative, which sought to remove the classification.
The ruling this week is also open to appeal at a higher court.
Appeals Court: Trump is Not Immune from Prosecution in 2020 Election Interference Case
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals panel ruled Tuesday that Donald Trump can face trial on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election, rejecting the former president’s claims that he is immune from prosecution.
Anti-Judaism becomes a protected characteristic
Appallingly, a British employment tribunal has ruled that anti-Zionism — the contemporary iteration of antisemitism — is a “protected characteristic” that must therefore be given special protection in law.
Sociology professor Dr David Miller was fired by Bristol university in 2021 after a series of virulent ant-Zionist and antisemitic statements which had made Jewish students on campus feel “uncomfortable and intimidated”.
In a ruling handed down yesterday by Judge Rohan Pirani (also discussed here), the Bristol employment tribunal ruled that Miller’s anti-Zionist beliefs qualified as a “philosophical belief” and thus a “protected characteristic” under the Equality Act 2010. It found that because of these beliefs, Miller was subject to direct discrimination when the university fired him and he was unjustly dismissed.
Pierre Poilievre defends Alberta Premier Smith on transgender policies
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre defended Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and her approach to transgender issues Tuesday, saying the Liberal government and the media have demonized her for policies that would give parents more say over their kids.
Speaking to reporters at a press conference on car theft in Montreal, Poilievre said the Liberal government is “spreading disinformation” about what Smith has proposed.
“If you keep it vague and you actually refrain from describing the policies Premier Smith is putting in place, you think you can misrepresent them and misrepresent conservatives,” he said.
AGAR: Taxpayers getting fleeced and have little to show for it
Trigger warning: This column could cause feelings of anger in intelligent taxpayers.
If you have been going through life thinking politicians and bureaucrats are responsible and caring with the hard-earned (by you) money they manage, read no further in order to hold that thought.
Biden’s AI plan to censor you revealed: Researchers say Americans can’t ‘tell fact from fiction’
Twitter’s censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 could soon be possible on an industrial scale — thanks to AI tools being built with funding from his father’s administration, a report from Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee claimed Tuesday.
The report reveals how the Biden administration is spending millions on artificial intelligence research designed to make anti “misinformation” tools which could then be passed to social media giants.
Army of angry farmers forces EU to abandon emissions goals
Farmers have forced Brussels to abandon its most demanding emissions targets, with the European Union retreating in the face of a revolt over climate goals and red tape.
In the past few weeks demonstrations have taken place across Europe, in France, Germany, Poland and on Monday in Italy where convoys of tractors were preparing for an “invasion” of Rome.
“Fake Chinese income” mortgages fuel Toronto Real Estate Bubble: HSBC Bank Leaks
The whistleblower, a Canadian business school graduate, was staggered by the suspicious home loans he discovered in 2022 when he joined a mortgage approval team in a small HSBC branch on the outskirts of Toronto.
He knew of suspicions surrounding Chinese capital in British Columbia real estate, but had never witnessed shady lending while working at an HSBC branch in Campbell River, a bucolic town on the coast of Vancouver Island.