A terrifying fire struck Maui in 2018. Officials were warned of a repeat.

Maui officials promised to improve fire safety following the near-deadly blaze, but didn’t broadly act, according to an investigation by The Post

KAUA’ULA VALLEY, Hawaii — Burning homes have a specific kind of plastic smell, one Samantha and David Dizon know too well. So when it wafted through their windows on Aug. 8, they froze. Running outside, they saw the plumes of smoke coming from Lahaina and heard propane tanks exploding in the distance. They knew what was unfolding, because nearly five years ago, the same thing had happened to them.

Around 11 p.m. on Aug. 24, 2018, something ignited in the dry, grassy hills behind their home in the Kaua’ula Valley, a West Maui community uphill from Lahaina. Howling winds from a passing hurricane helped feed that spark, sending what the Dizons called a “wall of fire” toward their unincorporated village, where about 50 Native Hawaiian people live on ancestral (known as Kuleana) land that has been in their families for centuries.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mother Nature Hates You"

Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried complains to court that vegan prison diet of ‘bread, water and peanut butter’ is ‘outrageous’

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried cannot prepare for his trial in jail without access to computers, medications and a ‘better diet’, his lawyers told the court Tuesday.

The disgraced vegan billionaire, 31, is being fed a ‘flesh diet’ and forced to subsist on bread, water and peanut butter – which his lawyers slammed as ‘outrageous’.

His legal team also complained that the crypto whizz kid, who appeared in Manhattan Federal court on Tuesday with his legs shackled, was unable to prepare without his correct medication.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Digital Currency", Crime

In Spain, the “Habana Effect” Is Already a Reality

New technology, environmental policy, and bigger size are pricing Spaniards out of the market on new cars.

When the EU tolled the death knell for the combustion engine late last year, prohibiting sales of new combustion engine cars starting in 2035, the opposition warned of creating a “Habana effect.”

Cuba is famous for the old, classic cars on its streets. Behind the charming postcard aesthetic is the harsh reality that the vast majority of Cubans simply can’t afford to buy new cars and so manage the only option available—keep the old ones running.

Spain is already a bit Havana-esque when it comes to cars. The top-selling car in Spain has the following profile: it’s fifteen years old and runs on diesel.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Ukraine’s Forces and Firepower Are Misallocated, U.S. Officials Say

Ukraine’s grinding counteroffensive is struggling to break through entrenched Russian defenses in large part because it has too many troops, including some of its best combat units, in the wrong places, American and other Western officials say.

The main goal of the counteroffensive is to cut off Russian supply lines in southern Ukraine by severing the so-called land bridge between Russia and the occupied Crimean Peninsula. But instead of focusing on that, Ukrainian commanders have divided troops and firepower roughly equally between the east and the south, the U.S. officials said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Biden’s Twisted Idea of Empathy

The president’s responses to tragedies almost always involve butchering the truth to make them about him, rather than their victims.

For the living, the news of a death brings with it a peculiar mixture of the transcendent and the mundane. There is shock to absorb, anguish to process, and passion to assuage, and then, in the midst of all that, there is the bureaucracy. Within hours, one must turn one’s attention to the dull but necessary questions that all mourners face in such times. Questions such as: “Where can we get hold of the coroner?” “What should we do with the body?” And, “How swiftly can we get Joe Biden here to make this event about himself?”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Biden Family Sleaze"

The US biowarfare project which caused the Covid-19 debacle – Part 1

WHEN Dominic Cummings testified before Parliament in June 2021 and he was asked about the UK Covid Vaccine taskforce, he said: ‘What Bill Gates and people like that said to me and others at No 10 was, “You need to think of this much more like some of the classic programmes of the past – the Manhattan Project in World War Two or the Apollo programme – and build it all in parallel. In normal Government accounting terms, that is completely crazy, because if nothing works out you have spent literally billions building all these things up, and the end result is nothing – you get zero for it, it’s all waste.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", USA

Climate Change Didn’t Cause the Maui Fires, Environmentalists Did

A new steel roof and minor plant growth thinning saved this wooden house.

Instead of preparing for wildfires, Hawaii was busy going “green.”

Politicians, the media and environmentalists spent the past week blaming the Maui fires on global warming.

“That level of destruction, and a fire hurricane, something new to us in this age of global warming, was the ultimate reason that so many people perished,” Hawaii Gov. Joshua Green claimed, while ignoring his state’s mismanagement of the disaster and its botched response at every level from the power grid that wasn’t secured to the sirens that didn’t go off.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mother Nature Hates You"

How abduction panic became big business

Stranger danger has metastasised into something darker

Why did Phoebe Copas shoot her Uber driver? The 48-year-old got into a car driven by Daniel Piedra Garcia on June 16 thinking she was heading to El Paso in Texas. But when she saw a sign reading “Juárez, Mexico” — which lies on the other side of the border — she pulled a handgun from her bag and shot Piedra in the head. He died several days later. Copas later told the police she panicked when she thought she was being abducted.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oh Oh!"

No, Lucy Letby was not enabled by ‘whiteness’

Call me naive, but I really thought the identitarians would sit the Lucy Letby case out. Surely, all those commentators who make a good living by making absolutely everything about race would realise that plying their grift, using former nurse Letby’s murder of seven babies and attempted murder of six more as little more than a dramatic backdrop, would strike even their own audience as low. Sick even.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Welcome to Ireland, the ‘Woke’ Capital of Europe

‘Wokeness’ was created in the United States, then swiftly exported to the rest of the Western world. In Ireland, a country with close ancestral ties to the U.S., ‘wokeness’ now reigns supreme. In fact, it’s safe to say that Ireland is the official ‘woke’ capital of Europe.

If you doubt this, let me point you in the direction of the country’s new draft curriculum for 15- to 18-year-olds. As first reported by Gript, the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA), the Irish education ministry’s advisory council, has recommended the introduction of classes that center around white privilege, male privilege, gender identity, and sexual diversity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke"

Another racial hoax is slowly being exposed, this time in Canada

Justin Trudeau started and anti-Christian pogrom based on false claims of Aboriginal mass graves at Residential schools. Nearly 100 churches have been burned down. No graves have been found.

It was a terrible scandal: Ground penetrating radar proved that hundreds, maybe thousands, of Canadian indigenous children died…or, really, were cruelly killed…at Christian and government residential schools, and then had their bodies tossed into unmarked graves. Churches (of course) burned. Now, though, it’s becoming clear that those “graves” are not yielding up bodies.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Liberal Party Anti-Christian Pogrom"