Germany’s finance minister pushes to save combustion engines from EU green plans

BERLIN — Germany’s Porsche-driving finance minister is mounting a last-minute push to save the combustion engine, claiming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledged to make changes to incoming emissions legislation.

Christian Lindner told POLITICO that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had reached a backroom deal with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in June to ensure that the use of synthetic fuels, or e-fuels, would be permitted under fresh EU fuel efficiency standards that will introduce a zero emissions mandate for new car and vans sales by 2035.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany, Green-Scam

Ottawa police officer charged for allegedly donating $50 to Freedom Convoy

An Ottawa police officer has been charged with misconduct for allegedly donating money to the Freedom Convoy occupation last February.

Const. Kristina Neilson made her first disciplinary appearance on Thursday morning to face a single count of discreditable conduct under the Police Services Act.

Professional standards investigators — detectives who investigate officer misconduct internally — allege Neilson discredited the service’s reputation “by donating money to the ‘Freedom Convoy Fund’ on a website called GiveSendGo.”

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada, WTF?

How the Canadian Anti-Hate Network is Policing Thought Crime with Your Tax Dollars

Canada has a growing problem not only with free speech but free thought, and the Canadian Anti-Hate Network is leading the charge to silence unpopular opinion.

The Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) is a federally funded organization that claims to monitor far-right hate groups in Canada, including neo-Nazis. Among its other targets are anyone critical of gender identity ideology, including feminists, women’s rights organizations, and those advocating to stop the medical harm caused by childhood gender transition.

The same people preaching men can have a baby are calling you the ‘extremist.’

h/t MG

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society", Hate crime hoax, hate crimes

Martha’s Vineyard ships 50 illegal migrants to Cape Cod military base by ferry, as National Guard are called in over ‘humanitarian emergency’

Illegal immigrants who were flown in unannounced to Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday are now being moved to a military base in Cape Cod.

The 50 migrants have been put on buses by Gov. Charlie Baker to travel the 32 miles to Joint Base in Cape Cod (JBCC) just 48 hours after they landed in the billionaire’s enclave.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flew in the immigrants from Venezuela on Wednesday, sparking a widespread cry of outrage from the liberal leaders of the small island in Massachusetts.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Progressive Racists

Europe’s energy crisis has Canada weighing future of oil and gas industry

At 76 years old, Gwyn Morgan is not one to sit still.

The former oil executive, recipient of the Order of Canada and self-described “outdoors guy” remains a long-distance runner and led Global News on a jog through side streets and forest paths of Vancouver Island during an interview about his career — itself something of a marathon.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", Canada

CBC Has Nervous Breakdown! Convoy donors gave more than $460K to CPC leadership race — and many were first-time federal donors

Canadians who donated to the Ottawa convoy protest contributed more than $460,000 to Conservative leadership candidates — and many of them were donating to a federal political party for the first time — an analysis by CBC News shows.

A comparison of donations to Conservative leadership contenders up to Aug. 1 with the GiveSendGo crowdfunding campaign for the convoy protest found over 3,100 people who contributed to both campaigns, based on identical combinations of names and postal codes.

The lion’s share of convoy donors’ leadership campaign donations went to Pierre Poilievre’s campaign.

OMG! Convoy supporters donated! And many were 1st time donors! That must be against the law!

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's Government Owned News Media, CBC, Conservative Party, WTF?

The Fascist Attack on Mike Lindell

The FBI becomes the Stasi.

Unbelievable — and unbelievably dangerous.

This week we learned that the FBI swooped down on a Hardee’s in Minnesota, blocking the car of a notable customer: MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell. And demanding he turn his phone over to them.

Just as they did with another prominent supporter of former President Donald Trump — Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

Polanski to stand trial in France for defaming sexual abuse accuser

Veteran Franco-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski has been ordered to stand trial in France over his alleged defamation of a British actress who accused him of sexual abuse, a source close to the case said Wednesday.

The Paris court order did not specify a trial date for Polanski, 89, who was charged in October last year. He has faced a series of sex assault claims during his career, though never previously has he stood trial in France over them.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

Concealing Radicalism

Michigan’s Department of Education encourages teachers to facilitate child sexual transitions without parental consent.

The Michigan Department of Education has adopted a radical gender theory program that promotes gender “fluidity” beginning in elementary school and encourages teachers to facilitate the sexual transition of minors without parental consent.

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism

Ukraine’s military recruits need training. Only one of Europe’s giants is pulling its weight

LONDON — They come to the U.K. in their thousands — Ukrainians from every walk of life, in urgent need of military training to protect their homeland.

From lawyers to bricklayers, they are flown in from across Ukraine. The aim is to turn the new recruits into soldiers in just five weeks, providing basic military skills — infantry tactics; weapons handling; patroling; first aid; evacuation — before they return to fight on the frontline.

Since June, the U.K. has trained nearly 5,000 Ukrainian early recruits under Operation Interflex, a program that aims to support 10,000 new soldiers within a year across a network of British training camps. Interflex is the successor to a longer-running British program, Operation Orbital, which trained up more than 22,000 Ukrainians between 2015 — shortly after Russia’s initial occupation of Crimea — and May of this year.

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

Taliban posts ISIS-style execution videos

Taliban posts ISIS-style execution videos showing prisoners being shot dead by cheering fanatics as they copy terror group’s tactics to instil fear among Afghan resistance fighters

The Taliban have summarily executed members of a resistance group fighting against their harsh rule in Afghanistan.

A video filmed and shared on the Taliban’s group chats shows a group of five blindfolded fighters who have their hands tied behind them before they are executed by cheering members of the Taliban.

In a move that echoes ISIS’s social media strategy, Taliban shared their battlefield atrocities to spread fear among their enemies.

Meta Oversight Board objects to removing positive newspaper report on Taliban

Share
by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan

Majority of Muslim refugees in Sweden, Germany, Switzerland are fake

A recent survey reveals, over 79 percent of asylum-seekers and refugees in Sweden, majority of whom are Muslims have vacationed in their home country since fleeing to Europe by making false claims of their lives been at risk in their home countries.

A survey conducted by polling firm Novus on behalf of the Swedish online newspaper Bulletin revealed that 79 percent of refugees who claim to be fleeing war or persecution have voluntarily returned to their home country since making the trip to Sweden.

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