The West’s humiliating electric car climbdown has begun

France’s President Macron had a plan to make millions of electric vehicles a year. Chancellor Scholz planned to put 15 million on Germany’s roads by 2030. President Biden trumped the lot with a $174bn (£138bn) plan to make the US the world leader. Even Boris Johnson – remember him – had a £1bn plan to beef up our charging network.

Rewind only a couple of years, and almost every president or prime minister was making electric vehicles the cornerstone of an industrial strategy. And yet, this week we have learned that Renault is abandoning plans to separately list its electric vehicle (EV) and software business, while Volvo is winding down its Polestar electric sports car subsidiary.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles"

US, Britain strike Yemen’s Houthis in a new wave, retaliating for attacks by Iran-backed militants

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Britain struck 36 Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday in a second wave of assaults meant to further disable Iran-backed groups that have relentlessly attacked American and international interests in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war.

The latest strikes against the Houthis were launched by warships and fighter jets. The strikes follow an air assault in Iraq and Syria on Friday that targeted other Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in retaliation for the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan last weekend.

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

Iranian Regime’s Proxies: Target the Head of the Snake

The last few months unfolded with a marked escalation in the activities of Iran’s proxies, militias and terror groups. Iran’s proxy Hamas launched its attacks on Israel, unleashing a barrage of violence across the region. Simultaneously, Iran-backed militia groups in Iraq escalated their assaults on US bases and personnel. Another proxy of Iran, the Houthi rebels in Yemen, also caused turmoil in the Red Sea, which is vital to maritime traffic. Their actions not only threaten regional stability but also sent shockwaves through global trade routes and raised concerns about the broader implications of their destabilizing activities.

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

John Robson: The Cascading Chain of Policy Disasters Hitting Universities

Universities increasingly furnish a worrying case study in the disintegration of the Canadian public sector. Including that instead of beacons of intelligent thought on this and other problems, they’ve become bastions of dogmatic ineptitude. And that we aren’t even vaguely surprised at the muddled incompetence.

Harsh words? Well, consider the facts, starting with this Toronto Sun story: “Cap on student visas could wreak financial havoc on Ontario universities, says rep.” The gist of which is that Canada’s collapsed immigration policy, which helped cause the collapse of our housing policy, is now causing a collapse of our post-secondary education policy and the proposed solution is more inept meddling.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit crazy Universities

India meddled in elections, is a ‘foreign threat’, alleges Canadian intel report

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the country’s highest foreign intelligence agency, has alleged that India had potentially interfered in the country’s election in a recent intelligence report. The report accessed by the media on Thursday named India as a ‘foreign interference threat’ and stated that the government “must do more to protect Canada’s robust democratic institutions and processes.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Foreign Interference", Canada, India

Hysteria on the Left as ‘Take Back Our Border’ Convoy Moves Through Texas

It’s as inevitable as the sun rising in the east. Any gathering of conservatives, be they right, center right, or religious right, the entire group is branded “far right” and a danger to the community.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", USA

Regular families will never again be able to buy a house in Toronto – but we can still fix the housing crisis. Here’s how

In late July, Lindsay Dworkin, a senior project manager at a medical tech company, received a text message from her downstairs neighbour. Their landlord, the neighbour said, was putting the home Dworkin lived in with her husband and two-year-old daughter up for sale. Her family would have to find a new place to live.

In a normal city, at a normal time, that wouldn’t have been a big deal. But in the Toronto of 2023 it was devastating. “I couldn’t function,” Dworkin said. “I had to get my parents to come over and take over child care duties.”

The Star’s solution is to turn Toronto into a giant slum! Well it’s already on its way there.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

The Things Allowed to Happen in Baltimore Schools Are Hard to Believe

It has been a few months since I wrote about Baltimore schools and I find that over the past week or so an amazing story has broken there. A teenager who is a convicted rapist has been allowed to return to high school and parents were not told about it. The student in this case is 15-years-old and just last month was convicted of having sex with a minor child last year, a member of his own family.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Progressive Paradise", USA, WTF?

Trudeau says Poilievre aide lobbied for Loblaw. Tories call that ‘pathetic’

As grocery prices and affordability remain a central focus for Canadians, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre are sparring over whether a prominent

Conservative advisor lobbied for Loblaw — a frequent target of scrutiny over food costs.

Trudeau says that Poilievre owes Canadians an explanation why one of his chief advisor’s firm is registered to lobby the Ontario government on behalf of Loblaw.

Poilievre’s camp, meanwhile, says that is “laughable.”

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Harvard to host Palestinian professor who said Hamas’ Oct 7 attack was ‘just a normal human struggle for freedom’ and blamed Israel for ‘making us take their children and elderly as hostages’

Harvard is set to host a controversial Palestinian professor who said Hamas’ October 7 attack was ‘just a normal human struggle’ and blamed Israel for ‘making us take their children and elderly as hostages’.

Dalal Saeb Iriqat, an Associate Professor at the Arab American University, is due to appear at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy school on March 7.

Her appearance is part of a series entitled Middle East Dialogues, billed as conversations to ‘understand what is happening and to expose them to the best thinking on how peace may be achieved’.

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

ANALYSIS: Leaked CSIS Doc That Spurred Interference Inquiry Has Now Been Disclosed (In Part)

A series of national security leaks in the press led to the current public inquiry on foreign interference, but the leak of one CSIS report indicating Beijing was targeting MPs—a report ignored by the government—had a major role in forcing Ottawa to hold an inquiry.

That Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) assessment has now been partially disclosed by the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Enoch was right …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"