US bars ‘advanced tech’ firms that receive tax payer funding from building China factories for 10 years

US tech companies that receive federal funding will be barred from building “advanced technology” facilities in China for 10 years, the Biden administration has said.

The guidelines were unveiled as part of a $50bn (£43bn) plan aimed at building up the local semiconductor industry.

It comes as business groups have pushed for more government support in an effort to reduce reliance on China.

They are faced with a global microchip shortage which has slowed production.

So they were receiving tax payer funds but building in China? Sweet, sounds like a Hunter Biden deal.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "The China Class", USA

Trudeau government takes ‘plastics’ policy to extreme

Eat with your fingers, cretin!

I’m paraphrasing, but not by much, from the Trudeau government’s new Guidance for Selecting Alternatives to Single-Use Plastics. Yes, your government has offered detailed advice about alternatives to all kinds of single-use plastics it’s banned as part of its zero-plastic waste 2050 campaign.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Oops! There goes the narrative… Muhammad Ashan Naseer charged with attempted murder in Scarborough drive-by shooting that left 5 men injured in April

A man has been charged with attempted murder in a Scarborough drive-by shooting that left five Muslim men injured after they attended midnight prayers back in April.

At around 1 a.m. on April 16, a group of approximately 10 to 15 individuals were celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and gathered in a parking lot after they finished praying, in the area of Markham Road and Lawrence Avenue East.

… On Sept. 5, police said they located and arrested Toronto resident Muhammad Ashan Naseer, 20, in the area of Plantain Way and Flycatcher Avenue.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia"

US Marshals Services face questions after ‘Fat Leonard’ the central figure in the US navy’s biggest scandal flees house arrest after hiring moving vans

The US Marshals Service and other law enforcement agencies are facing questions over their competence after the central figure in the biggest scandal in US naval history was able not only to escape house arrest but also rented vans to load up his possessions.

When marshals arrived at Leonard Francis’s home in San Diego on Sunday, they found he had cut off his GPS ankle bracelet and fled, two weeks before his sentencing hearing. The whereabouts of the Malaysian contractor’s three sons, who had been living with him, was unclear.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

‘Hilarious And Sad’: Hollywood A-Lister Mocked For Saying Tucker Carlson Haunts Her Nightmares

I don’t believe her.

Critics roundly mocked superstar actress Jennifer Lawrence after she admitted to having nightmares about popular Fox News host Tucker Carlson on a regular basis.

Lawrence said that she had been “trying to heal” after feuding with her own family over politics, and said that recurring nightmares about Tucker Carlson had even been a topic of discussion between the actress and her therapist. Her comments appeared in her recent Vogue cover story — wherein she also divulged for the first time the name and sex of the baby she delivered last February: a baby boy named Cy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCelebrity Idiots, Hollywood

What does Liz Truss see in Canada? … Her political inspiration is a failed utopia

Faced with soaring costs of living, increased collateral damage from the war in Ukraine, and widening national inequality, Liz Truss seemed curiously optimistic in her first speech as Prime Minister. What could possibly be driving such bullishness? Absent any sign of a coherent plan of action, we might find her motivation in an Instagram post from 2018, where Truss cited the time she spent in Canada as a teenager as “the year that changed my outlook on life…..#pioneercounty #optimism #maplespirit”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, UK, WTF?

Six Gulf states warn Netflix over content violating ‘Islamic values’

A group of Persian Gulf states have threatened Netflix with legal action if it continues broadcasting content that “contradicts” Islam, while Saudi state media indicated that the offending material centred on shows depicting sexual minorities.

A statement issued jointly by the Saudi media regulator and the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), headquartered in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, did not specifically identify material, referring only to content that “contradicts Islamic and societal values”.

h/t DM

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

The risk of political violence in Canada has never been higher

Some time in the not too distant future, when the first Canadian politician has been assassinated since Pierre Laporte, we will all look back and wonder what we could have done to prevent it.

The probable answer is: Not much, in the sense of that particular attack. It is always easy to discover, after the fact, warning signs that were missed, gaps in security that should have been plugged. It is a much harder thing to identify these in advance.

This is really just an anti-Poilievre piece.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government

Ottawa’s emissions targets for fertilizer use unrealistic, industry report argues

A new industry-led report suggests Canada’s farmers can likely only achieve half of the federal government’s targeted 30 per cent reduction in fertilizer emissions by 2030.

The report, commissioned by Fertilizer Canada and the Canola Council of Canada, examines what effect a 30 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the use of nitrogen-based fertilizers on Canadian farms would have on crop yields and farm financial viability.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

FUREY: Just how broad is the Laith Marouf problem?

The rot starts at the top.

It’s a good thing the Liberal government has admitted a mistake in doling out grants to something called the Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC). But now the question becomes how broad of a problem are we dealing with here.

Anyone involved in approving implementation, managing, teaching or otherwise supporting the CRT/anti-racism scam in anyway within Canada’s public sector should be regarded as a vile racist like Marouf and immediately terminated.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class

What we know about the victims of the Sask. stabbing spree

A first responder, a veteran and a 77-year-old widower are among the victims identified in a stabbing rampage in Saskatchewan that claimed the lives of 10 people and injured 18 others.

A multi-day search for the suspects, 31-year-old Damien Sanderson and his younger brother Myles Sanderson, 30, began on Sunday following multiple reports of stabbings on the James Smith Cree Nation – about 200 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon – and nearby village of Weldon.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Western University gets court approval to rename scholarships honouring ‘racist’ professor

An Ontario court has granted Western University permission to remove the name of an emeritus history professor from six academic prizes funded by his estate following criticism that he espoused radical, racist views.

Kenneth Hilborn taught history and international relations at the London, Ont., university from 1961 to 1997. After his death in 2013 at age 79, Hilborn’s estate bequeathed $1 million to Western, including $750,000 to the history department for four undergraduate and two graduate awards that have been handed out since 2016.

In 2019, scholars began calling on the school to intervene, linking the scholarships with the legitimization of extreme right-wing beliefs by universities.

There is no point in denying History, use it as a teachable moment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Good Intentions Paving Company"

CSIS’s cover-up of Islamic State trafficking backfired, says author

The author of a new book alleging a contractor for Canada’s top spy agency once trafficked three British teens to Islamic State militants said the Canadian Security Intelligence Service delayed alerting U.K. authorities until it became clear the matter would be made public.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, CSIS, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

Frustration with charging risks slowing EV adoption, hooking Canada on fossil fuels for longer

Public charging infrastructure is only one piece of the electric-vehicle adoption puzzle. But nearly half of EV owners in Canada use public highway rest-stop chargers once a week or more, according to a 2022 report by consulting firm Ernst & Young Global Ltd. (EY). As sales increase, the auto industry risks a generation of disgruntled first-time EV buyers frustrated by poor-quality or broken chargers, which could slow adoption and keep the country hooked on fossil fuels for a longer period of time.

It’s one thing to be optimistic but another to be delusional.

California is on the edge of a nervous breakdown with orders issued not to charge EV’s.

What would be the point of a nation wide charging system infrastructure if we do not have the ability to generate the necessary power?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam