Philip Cross: The moral argument for fossil fuels

The latest book from Alex Epstein, American libertarian author and founder of the Center for Industrial Progress, elaborates the unapologetic arguments for fossil fuel consumption that he first made in The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. In his latest offering, Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas — Not Less, he frames the debate about fossil fuels, prosperity, and climate change (which he pointedly doesn’t deny) from the point of view of a philosopher, not the scientists and economists who dominate the debate.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters"

Russian court rejects Brittney Griner’s appeal of 9-year sentence

A Russian court on Tuesday rejected Brittney Griner’s appeal after the jailed WNBA star begged for forgiveness for her “mistake” — upholding her nine-year sentence on drug charges.

Griner and her lawyers had asked for acquittal or at least a more lenient sentence, which they said was disproportionate to the offense and at odds with Russian judicial practice.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRussia, USA

The Real Reason Woman Who Killed Firefighter Went Uncharged

I have to wonder how George Zimmerman felt upon reading about the shooting death of Kansas City firefighter Anthony Santi, 41.

Ten years ago, after getting his head pounded into the concrete for a minute or more, Zimmerman famously shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Although Martin attacked the much smaller Zimmerman without provocation, and eyewitness evidence supported Zimmerman’s claims of self-defense, the media and the woke mobs frightened state prosecutors into charging Zimmerman with second-degree murder and ruining his life.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights

Uproar Continues in France Over Muslim Charged with Torture, Rape, Murder of 12-Year-old French Girl

In France there is a continuing uproar over the torture, rape, and murder of 12-year-old Lola Daviet by an Algerian woman. “The suspect had boasted about selling body parts,” one investigator told Le Parisien. “Evidence suggests that the girl was taken into the basement of the flat, where she was tortured, and raped, before being strangled and having her throat cut.” The woman had then stuffed her body in a suitcase and dragged it to the street.

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

The global parasites who do your thinking for you

… David Rockefeller was one of the founders of the Club of Rome. Maurice Strong was a key lieutenant. It was Strong who helped to establish and proselytise for the Climate Cult, and he was instrumental in the formation of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. As Howard Dewhirst wrote in TCW yesterday, in one of his many disturbing quotes he declared: ‘Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialised civilisations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring this about?’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"The Great Reset"

Rex Murphy: In Defence of the West: Smith Takes a Stand Against Ottawa’s Allegiance to a Globalist Agenda

In the years before green ideology became ascendant in the federal government, and when Alberta was in its most active energy phase, there were many benefits to the Confederation. Not least, and being from Newfoundland, I like to point out how many people from my province—when it was reeling from the fishery collapse—found jobs and relief in Fort McMurray and allied projects in Alberta. One province helping another. I can’t think of a better model for a country built on mutual interdependence, which is why it’s styled a Confederation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, World Economic Forum

Harasser of Holocaust survivor nearly car rams Iran protesters in Toronto

Firas Al Najim

Canadian protesters against oppression in Iran were nearly car-rammed in Toronto on Sunday by an activist who had recently achieved notoriety for dressing as an orthodox Jew and harassing a Holocaust survivor about her position on the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

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

The Far-Right Foreign Fighter Threat That Wasn’t

“Extreme Right Boogie Man”

Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in 2014, and especially since it launched a full-blown invasion in 2022, a new brand of alarmist commentary has started to seep into terrorism analysis concerning a non-existent danger: far-Right[1] foreign fighters.

For instance, University of Chicago Assistant Professor Kathleen Belew told ABC News: “Americans have gone to fight as mercenary soldiers in far-Right and paramilitary units in Ukraine. They do pose a threat to the homeland.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"far right"

Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez’s Credibility Problem, Part One: The Laith Marouf/CMAC Issue

Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez appeared before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage on Friday for one hour and walked away with a serious credibility problem. Rodriguez has already been repeatedly contradicted on Bill C-11, claiming that the bill doesn’t cover user content or algorithms. On both issues, the CRTC Chair (and virtually every expert) say otherwise. Friday’s hearing focused on two issues – the Laith Marouf/CMAC issue of government funding for an anti-semite and Bill C-18, the Online News Act. Given his responses to MP questions, Rodriguez now faces credibility questions on both. This post will focus on his responses to questions about Canadian Heritage funding for CMAC/Marouf and a second post tomorrow will examine his misleading statements on the bill.

The inclusion of questions on Canadian Heritage funding an anti-semite as part of its anti-hate program appeared to take Rodriguez by surprise. The questions began with Conservative MP Rachael Thomas, who noted Rodriguez’s silence this summer and pressed him on whether he would come to committee to answer questions.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Anti-Semitism, Anti-Semitism and the Left, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Israeli - Islam Conflict

Trudeau government’s $1B nuclear reactor investment shows the political bargains that have to be made

Ottawa is going nuclear in a big way, putting almost $1 billion into building a new reactor at Darlington, near Toronto.

It’s a move that has been years in the making and comes with plenty of controversy — as well as prospects to test a new low-emissions technology to generate electricity, and enough power for 300,000 homes.

It’s the latest sign that Canada’s climate change commitment to net-zero emissions by 2050 will have to be a voyage full of political compromise and big bucks that come not just from government but from the private sector.

The Canada Infrastructure Bank will announce on Tuesday that it is lending Ontario Power Generation a total of $970 million to prepare the ground for Canada’s first small modular reactor, with the goal of having it up and running by 2029.

The future is not Solar Powered Unicorn Fart Turbines. Anyone who suggests Nuclear has no place is an idiot, irradiate them.

SMR’s and lots of them must be part of the solution. Those electric cars are not gonna run long on Pride Parade Power. Hell we already know EV’s aren’t sustainable on a large scale, they’re just window dressing to fool a gullible public into going along with the program of deliberate impoverishment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Ryan Alford: Jagmeet Singh’s disgraceful promise to delay reckoning over Emergencies Act

Commissioner Paul Rouleau made it clear at the start of the inquiry that its focus will remain squarely on the decision of the Federal Government to proclaim a public order emergency. As weeks of sworn and cross-examined testimony bring the events of last February into sharper view, we have yet to see any evidence of the essential precondition for such a declaration: terrorism.

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

European civilization, about to disappear

Islam is conquering Europe by numbers. An abacus is enough. What does this mean from a historical perspective.

“The train of the world overwhelms me. In the long run all continents (yellow, black…) will pass to the old Europe. There are hundreds and hundreds of millions. They are hungry and not afraid of dying. We should preach, but Europe does not believe in anything”. This is a letter Albert Camus wrote to Jean Grenier in 1957.

And who knows what the author of “The Plague” would have said if observing the municipal bulletins that in France keep track of who is born, who gets married and who goes to the Creator. This has just left the municipality of Arcueil, a town of 20,000 inhabitants in the Marne. The only French names are the 90-year-olds who go to the other world. “The demographics of white Catholics plummet while the demography of Muslims grows”, Michel Onfray replied to those who asked him for an opinion on this “Great Replacement”.

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

Dutch Schools Offer Children Worms and Insects as ‘Sustainable’ Meat Replacement

Bug Ambassador and child

In an apparent effort to condition children for a future where they will own nothing, live in pods, eat bugs, and of course, be happy, hundreds of state-funded primary schools across the Netherlands—under the pretext of ‘saving the planet’—are offering young students an assortment of worms and insects.

A video, originally recorded by Dutch media outlet RTV Oost, which shows a smiling ‘insect ambassador’ and a politician handing out mealworms, lupine worms, and other insects to pre-teen students at a school in the city of Zwolle, has been circulating across various social media platforms. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"The Great Reset", WTF?