Daphne Bramham: Is paying the high price for mega-events worth it?

… Lead author Martin Mueller and his colleagues looked at the costs and revenues from 14 Summer Olympic Games, 15 Winter Olympics and 14 World Cups held between 1964 and 2018.

With combined costs of more than $120 billion US and combined revenue from broadcast rights, tickets and sponsorships of nearly $70 billion US, the average return on investments was a loss of 38 per cent.

“Are the Olympics and the football World Cup profitable for the IOC and FIFA (who own the rights to these events)? Yes, very much so,” they write.

“Are they profitable for the organizing committees that need to put them on? Sometimes, but not very often. For the host city and government? Hardly ever.”

I will join the charge should the day come when the Leafs or Blue Jays etc demand tax payers subsidize a new venue.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Bread and Circuses"

Guns Must Not Be Used For Self-Defense, Canada’s Trudeau Insists

Guns are for hunting and target practice, but never for self defense, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this week, continuing his crusade against firearms.

Trudeau, who is pushing a sweeping measure aimed at freezing the sale, purchase, or transfer of handguns in Canada, told the Pod Save America podcast his country takes a completely different view of firearms than its southern neighbor. No one in Canada has a right to defend themselves, their family or their property with a firearm, Trudeau declared.

Trudeau is why you buy guns.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Gun Control, Gun Rights, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

Military Official Predicted mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Might Be Paused Over Heart Inflammation

Human system cells molecular structure illustration and doctor hold vaccine

A U.S. military official predicted a pause in the administration of the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines could happen if more cases of post-vaccination heart inflammation were detected, according to newly obtained emails.

Harry Chang, a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, made the prediction on April 27, 2021—the same day the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the agency was not seeing a safety signal when it came to heart inflammation experienced after getting a COVID-19 vaccine.

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Transgenderism and the Therapeutic Attitude

Matt Walsh’s What Is a Woman? skewers the irrationalities of “gender ideology”—but a broader belief system that underpins it will be harder to defeat.

Once in a while, a book or movie comes along that jolts American society and sparks a demand for social reform. Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed, published in 1965, put the spotlight on the auto industry’s preference for comfort and speed over safety and led to the passage of auto-safety legislation and the creation of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In the early 1990s, an article in Seventeen about the sexual harassment of students, coming on the heels of Anita Hill’s highly contentious televised accusation of Clarence Thomas led to the expansion of Title IX regulations in schools. Will a new documentary, What is a Woman?, one day be remembered as the moment when the tide began to turn on transgenderism? Its distributors seem to think so, and their optimism may not be misplaced.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

Communist Chinese Threaten War Over Taiwan … again

China threatens Defense Secretary with WAR: Minister tells Lloyd Austin that Beijing will ‘smash to smithereens any Taiwan independence plot’ and will ‘definitely not hesitate to start a war no matter the cost’

China has said it is prepared to go to war in order to defend its right to keep Taiwan from becoming an independent state.

China will ‘smash to smithereens any Taiwan independence plot and resolutely uphold the unification of the motherland’ Chinese Defense Minister Fenghe told U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue conference in Singapore on Friday.

‘If anyone dares to split Taiwan from China, the Chinese army will definitely not hesitate to start a war no matter the cost’, Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Col. Wu Qian quoted the Fenghe as saying during the meeting, in what is a escalating of tension, not least of which in the type of language being used.

Deep Fried China comin up.

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

Iran’s Mullahs Score Nuclear Victory

The Biden Administration is sitting idly by while Iran’s ruling mullahs continue to advance their nuclear program.

For almost a year and half, the P5+1 (the US, UK, France, Russia and China, plus Germany) have held fruitless negotiations with Iran, all while the Islamic Republic’s theocratic establishment has clearly succeeded at speeding up its nuclear program by increasing its uranium enrichment from 20% to 60%, conducting uranium metal production, and adding additional advanced centrifuges. After agreeing to extend the monitoring mechanism of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by reinstalling surveillance cameras a year ago, Iran then announced that it would not allow the IAEA to see images from the devices.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, Iranian nuclear agreement, Iranian Nuclear Capability

Why Netherlands’ leading critic of Islam, Geert Wilders, is speaking out for Nupur Sharma

New Delhi: Suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma, at the centre of the ‘blasphemy controversy’ that has caused some unease in India’s diplomatic relationships across West Asia, is being publicly shunned by her party. However, she has found a spokesperson in one of Europe’s most polarising political figures.

Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician who has long advocated a ban on the Quran and action to limit Muslim immigration, has made multiple appearances on Indian media, in Sharma’s support.

“I support Nupur Sharma because I believe that nobody should be punished or apologise for speaking the truth. We might like it, we might dislike it, but she spoke the truth about Muhammad,” said Wilders in an interview to India Today Wednesday.

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

‘The return of banditry’: Russian car industry buckles under sanctions

Eldar Gadzhiev’s heart sank when he heard the sputtering from the engine of his Skoda one day in April. Gadzhiev, who owns a fleet of four cars that he leases as taxicabs in Moscow, knew it was a terrible and expensive time for a breakdown.

Prices for spare parts, if you even could find them, had spiralled out of control since Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine two months earlier. “I understood that I was in a bad situation,” he said. “I thought: the repairs are going to cost as much as the car.”

Dealerships were useless, he said. His car parts shop told him that the waiting list was months long, time he could not wait to repair his vehicle.

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

Joe Biden Says Inflation ‘Going Down‘ … if you don’t count gas & food

President Joe Biden misleadingly claimed Friday that inflation had gone down if you did not count food and gas, even though overall inflation went up.

“Inflation outside of energy and food, what the economists call core inflation, moderated the last two months,” Biden said. “Not enough, but it moderated, it’s come down and we need it to come down much more quickly.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden"

European Parliament votes to exempt the Ferraris and Lamborghinis of the world from 2035 gas & diesel engine ban

Ecology yes , but not for the rich? On Wednesday, June 8, the European Parliament voted a  historic text banning the sale of thermal vehicles in Europe in 2035.

… Via a discreet amendment , luxury manufacturers are exempted from going to “zero carbon emissions” as our colleague from Le Monde , Audrey Garric, points out on Twitter .

This so-called “Ferrari” amendment stipulates that models produced at less than 1,000 units per year are not affected by the ban. A point that could be talked about with regard to the inequalities already observed in terms of ecology. 

Note – Google translate.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Bizarre Drone Swarms That Harassed Navy Ships Demystified In New Docs

Hong Kong registered Bass Strait purported drone source

The War Zone has received a highly significant new set of documents from the U.S. Navy via the Freedom of Information Act about a series of enigmatic drone swarm events that occurred in the waters off Southern California in 2019. These incidents have come to be woven into an ongoing discussion about unidentified aerial phenomena, traditionally known as UFOs. In previous weeks, top defense officials told Congress that the 2019 swarm incidents were caused by drones. These new documents leave little doubt in that regard.

The documents include unprecedentedly detailed briefing materials and photographs from more than a half dozen incidents. Among these new incidents are previously unknown events that occurred in the early months of 2019 and were assessed by the Navy to involve intelligence collection operations. The new photographs also include images of drones apparently operating from an unresponsive civilian ship that was shadowing Navy vessels.

NB: This is not concerning the Tic Tac videos.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"UFO's"

GUNTER: ‘Misleading’ is a polite word to describe Mendicino’s remarks

There’s no doubt about it: Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino misled Parliament.

Oh, maybe the words Mendicino spoke in front of Parliamentary committees don’t meet the precise, legal definition of misleading the House and Senate. Maybe they don’t rise to the level required to expel him.

But at best “misleading” is the polite word for the minister’s justification of the Liberals’ use of the Emergencies Act back in February.

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

Right-wing black priest Calvin Robinson says anonymous letter has been sent to bishops claiming he is a PIMP

Right-wing black trainee vicar Calvin Robinson has said that an anonymous letter has been sent to bishops claiming he is a pimp and is ‘involved in sexual exploitation’.

The Anglican was blocked last month from becoming a Church of England priest after a white bishop voiced concerns about his belief that Britain was not institutionally racist.

Mr Robinson, who is also a TV presenter and political commentator, said in a tweet yesterday: ‘Last week a bishop implied I’m an angry black man. Now, there’s an anonymous letter going round bishops suggesting I’m a pimp, involved in sexual exploitation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Batshit Crazy Progressive Hypocrites, Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists, WTF?

Potent cannabis strain ‘causing psychosis time bomb’ in US

“It’s no different than any other industry that bases their profits on addiction,”

The mass legalisation of cannabis has led to a mental health “time bomb” in the United States and scientists are warning that stronger strains are driving psychosis among young people.

Rules were relaxed a decade ago in the states of Washington and Colorado while voters in California chose to legalise recreational marijuana use in 2016. In total 47 states and Washington DC have softened their laws on cannabis in some form.

Supporters of these policies point to the billions of dollars in tax revenue state’s can make each year from regulating the drug, and argue that criminalising cannabis disproportionately harms black communities.

Related … Clear majorities of Black Americans favor marijuana legalization, easing of criminal penalties

A growing number of states have legalized marijuana for medical or recreational use, and at the federal level, Congress is considering decriminalizing the drug and expunging past convictions for marijuana-related offenses.

The link to violence is being deliberately played down.

Fearless prediction: In 10 years professional victims will sue for reparations as marijuana legalization will be found to have disproportionately harmed blacks.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMarijuana