Germany Selling Critical Infrastructure to China

Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz has apparently learned nothing from Germany’s fatal mistake of becoming dependent on Russian gas.

On October 26, Germany’s government decided to let the Chinese state-owned enterprise COSCO Shipping Ports, which has links to China’s People’s Liberation Army, buy a stake in the Port of Hamburg. COSCO is the world’s third-largest container carrier measured by capacity, and the fifth-largest port terminal operator in terms of the amount of cargo and vessels that it handles, according to German think-tank Merics. The Port of Hamburg is Germany’s largest port and the second-largest port in Europe, making it part of Europe’s most critical infrastructure.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Germany, Germany: Not Bombed Enough?

Google Buries Big Tech Critics’ Campaign Websites Ahead of Midterms

Google is burying the campaign websites of its fiercest critics on Capitol Hill.

Shortly after MRC Free Speech America released its study showing that Google suppressed Senate Republicans’ campaign websites in its search results, it now appears that Google is hitting members of both the House and Senate who have been critical of Google’s tactics. This is happening just as the country is gearing up to vote during the midterm elections on Nov. 8.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGoogle, Google is Evil

Freeland introduces mini-budget that promises support for low-income workers, students

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled her fall economic statement Thursday — a roadmap of what’s to come from the federal government as the economy stands on the brink of a recession.

While Freeland has promised fiscal prudence in this era of sky-high inflation, the budget proposes billions of dollars in new spending to help some of the people hit hardest by rising prices — including students and low-income workers — and to launch what she called “a real, robust industrial policy” to position Canada for economic growth.

The upshot: $30.6 billion in new spending over the next six years.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Hollywood celebrities don’t speak for Indigenous people

Over the past couple of years, Hollywood has been increasingly involved in Canada’s natural resource development. Whether through tweets or promoting a campaign, a number of Hollywood actors have been clear in their opposition to Indigenous resource development. Many activist actors have said they believe industry is “funding the violation of Indigenous rights.” But that’s simply not true. Spreading that fabrication is disinformation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues

Freedom Convoy raised $24 million but most funds were frozen

OTTAWA – The Freedom Convoy raised more than $24 million across crypto currencies and fundraising platforms, but almost all of that money ended up frozen, held in escrow as part of an ongoing lawsuit.

The Emergencies Act commission received an overview report of the convoy’s finances from Commission lawyer Dan Sheppard, who presented all the information they have collected on the convoy’s finances.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"

Military Says Projected Regular Force Personnel Loss Is 9.5 Percent This Year

The military is facing high attrition rates and that number is projected to be 9.5 percent for the Regular Force this fiscal year, according to the Department of National Defence (DND).

The combined rate with the Reserve Force was not available, said DND spokesperson Derek Abma.

The Epoch Times obtained information from a military source that the combined attrition rate of the Regular Force and Primary Reserve so far in 2022 is 13 percent, with a total of 12,067 Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members leaving the organization this year.

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

Elon Musk to Pull a Trump-Level ‘You’re Fired!’ on HALF of Twitter’s Workforce: Report

Even for a guy like Elon Musk, $44 billion is quite a chunk of money to spend on anything, even for the most valuable and influential social media platform in the world.

As often happens in the business world, cost-cutting measures are typically deployed upon acquiring a new business. According to a bombshell Bloomberg report Wednesday night, it appears the first money-saving cuts could come Friday in the way of firing roughly half of Twitter’s entire workforce.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTwitter, Twitter is Evil

Loblaw tops big Canadian grocers in profit reports amid inflation surge: analysis

Canada’s top three grocers all posted higher profits this year compared with their average performances over the last five years, new research from Dalhousie University has found.

Critics have accused grocers of so-called greedflation, suggesting they are profiteering at a time when food prices are rising at the fastest rate in more than 40 years, and researchers say a lack of transparency in their financial results isn’t helping.

Canada Is The King Of Crony Capitalism

How Irving’s Bermuda insurance company piled up millions in offshore tax-free profits

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

No word on whether the cow was saved …

Gunfight in Jenin: Terrorist goes to slaughter a cow – and is eliminated

… Farouk Salameh, the Islamic Jihad official reported as killed in the gunfight, arrived at a meat shop in order to slaughter a cow for his wedding, which was scheduled to be held Saturday.

He fired at the forces, refused arrest, and was eliminated by the Border Police unit. Israel’s defense echelon had decided to arrest Salameh after receiving intelligence information regarding a terror attack that he planned to carry out.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Israeli - Islam Conflict, WTF?

Pat King, Diagolon, and ‘legal nonsense’: Prominent ‘Freedom Convoy’ leaders downplay controversial elements of their protest movement at Emergencies Act inquiry

OTTAWA—Portraying themselves as honest brokers of a righteous cause, prominent “Freedom Convoy” figures distanced themselves from more controversial elements of their protest movement at the Emergencies Act inquiry Wednesday, before an outburst from an angry supporter interrupted the proceedings.

Over several hours of testimony, convoy leader Tom Marazzo dismissed concerns about a suspected extremist group that participated in last winter’s demonstrations, and joined Keith Wilson — a lawyer for some organizers who also testified Wednesday — in describing a notorious demand from an original group of protesters to unseat the elected federal government as “nonsense.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"

Rex Murphy: Energy crisis the inconvenient consequence of demonizing the oil and gas industry

Joe Biden, the Wise, as history must record him, has recently brought his fabled wit’s lacerating whip to “big oil.” Thank you, Joseph.

Naturally the sage of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is enraged beyond simple anger that the price of oil and gas has risen staggeringly, that half of Europe is in a dictator’s energy hammerlock, and that his so-called Middle East allies are rebuking his teary-eyed pleas to increase oil production. He is, as the paradoxical idiom has it, “beside himself.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists"

CBC shutting down its China news bureau

They made Justin cry.

CBC News is shutting down its Beijing news bureau after a more-than-40-year presence in China, saying it was forced to take the step after officials have ignored repeated requests for a journalist work visa.

“There is no point keeping an empty bureau when we could easily set up elsewhere in a different country that welcomes journalists and respects journalistic scrutiny,” said CBC News editor-in-chief Brodie Fenlon, announcing the move in a blog posted Wednesday.

Heartbreaking.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

GOLDSTEIN: Ford and Trudeau are eroding our democratic rights

Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s use of the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to override collective bargaining rights poses the same threat to democracy as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act to override the rights of people protesting vaccine mandates.

Trudeau is guilty as charged but someone has to reign in the teachers & public service unions. Their collective greed impoverishes everyone else.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class