Data backs up younger voters’ excitement over Pierre Poilievre

Pierre Poilievre is upending every conventional assumption about Canadian politics.

There is growing evidence that the Carleton MP has successfully tapped into the anger and frustration of younger suburban voters who believe they have been denied the right to home ownership and job security by “gatekeepers,” as Mr. Poilievre calls them, who have been acting in their own, selfish, interests.

We have been seeing it in the packed rooms where hundreds, even thousands, have gathered to hear and be photographed with the Conservative leadership candidate. And now we have data to back it up.

I still won’t back him if he remains committed to mass immigration – a policy that even the LPC now admits has helped “create” the housing shortage.

Go Incognito.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Bank of Canada hikes benchmark interest rate to 1%

The Bank of Canada hiked its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point to one per cent on Wednesday in its latest move to rein in high inflation.

The bank’s rate impacts Canadian businesses and consumers by influencing the rates they pay and receive on things like mortgages, GICs and savings accounts.

The bank slashed its rate to barely above zero in March of 2020 when the pandemic began.

While the move helped the economy to weather the unprecedented uncertainty of COVID-19, in recent months, inflation has come roaring back to its highest level in decades, prompting the central bank to start unwinding all that cheap credit.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

The microchip implants that let you pay with your hand

A microchip was first implanted into a human back in 1998, but it is only during the past decade that the technology has been available commercially.

And when it comes to implantable payment chips, British-Polish firm, Walletmor, says that last year it became the first company to offer them for sale.

“The implant can be used to pay for a drink on the beach in Rio, a coffee in New York, a haircut in Paris – or at your local grocery store,” says founder and chief executive Wojtek Paprota. “It can be used wherever contactless payments are accepted.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", technology, Yikes!

NYPD person of interest Frank R. James’ YouTube tirades about race, guns and Eric Adams exposed

A troubled man who railed against Mayor Eric Adams and made bizarre, threatening rants on YouTube has been identified as a person of interest in the savage Brooklyn subway attack that injured at least 23 people Tuesday morning, officials said.

Frank James — who warned last month that he was “entering the danger zone” — rented a U-Haul van tied to the N train attack in Sunset Park and is being sought for questioning, police said at an evening briefing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTerrorism - Domestic, USA, WTF?

Spiraling housing prices are an ‘intergenerational injustice’, says Canada’s deputy PM

Canada’s finance minister has described the country’s out-of-control housing prices as an “intergenerational injustice”, as political leaders struggle to rein in a spiralling affordability crisis.

Chrystia Freeland, who also serves as Canada’s deputy prime minister, said the issue is her top domestic concern.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, Economy

Black Billionaire Oprah Winfrey Threatens That America Cannot Move Forward Until “Racial Injustice” And “Betrayal Of Blacks” Is Acknowledged

America cannot achieve “restoration” unless the nation acknowledges “racial injustice” and a “betrayal” of black Americans, said billionaire media mogul Oprah Winfrey in the most recent episode of her eponymous Apple TV series, The Oprah Winfrey Conversation, Breitbart reports.

The episode featured Winfrey’s interview Bryan Stevenson, a graduate of Harvard Law School and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, an organization with a focus on “racial justice.” Stevenson repeatedly described America as a nation plagued by an “ideology of white supremacy.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"racial justice", Anti-White Racism, Batshit Crazy Racists, Race Baiting Grievance Mongers, White Supremacy

Manufactured Discontent: Canada Named Second Best Country For Racial Equality

Within contemporary Canada, persecution makes for strange bedfellows. Certain community affinities stand as a testament. Time was when racism against “minorities” stood as a singular category of social oppression. That was all so “2014.” Within post-modern society, sexual bigotry has progressed toward a social standard.

Today, we have racism, bigotry, xenophobia, homophobia and transphobia. Such “diversity” is not without purpose. Expand the qualifying categories, and the so-called anti-hate movement grows in power and influence. In PM Justin Trudeau’s Canada, lack of racial and sexual equality has come to underline all social maladies.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Race Baiting Grievance Mongers, Racist!

NYC mayor calls for ‘national response’ to rising violence after subway shooting

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) called for a “national response” to rising violence following a subway shooting that wounded over a dozen people on Tuesday.

Adams told CNN’s Dana Bash in an interview that increased violence is an issue affecting the entire country and said that while officials have recovered more than 1,800 guns in the last three and a half months, the city needed some assistance.

Federal Constitutional Carry would work.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting", Gun Control, New York City

No Conspiracy Theory

In the wake of the controversy surrounding Florida’s Parental Rights in Education legislation, which prohibits public schools from teaching gender identity and sexual orientation in kindergarten through third grade, the national media has sought to paint conservative opposition as hysterical, anti-LGBTQ, and conspiracy-minded. The New York Times, for example, accused conservatives of having a “freakout” about imaginary “grooming” in public schools, and the Washington Post dismissed concerns about sexual abuse by teachers as a “QAnon conspiracy.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Teachers, Big Gay, Big Tranny, Child Abuse, Education, Grooming Gangs, Indoctrination, pedophilia, Perverts

Continental Breakfast

How To Make the Perfect Omelette

The Laziness Of Calling Everything ‘Populism’

We are hearing a lot about how Pierre Poilievre is supposedly a ‘populist,’ and those who discuss his campaign using that term usually mean it as a bad thing.

And yet, ‘populism’ has become such an overused term that is beginning to lack any coherent meaning.

Instead, it seems to be used whenever someone wants to criticize an opposition figure – especially on the centre-right – without actually going into an in-depth study of their real ideas.

Denley: Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford are just pretending to fix the housing shortage

Actions such as taxing or restricting foreign ownership and urging cities to speed up housing approvals don’t attack the basic problem.

‘Safety Concerns’ Prompt Canada Post To Suspend Service To Vancouver Neighbourhood

Mail delivery on two blocks of East Hastings Street in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside has been suspended over “health and safety” concerns raised by Canada Post employees, the corporation confirmed.

CTV News has learned letter carriers complained about seeing drug use, and being verbally assaulted.

Three Lies From Biden’s ‘Ghost Gun’ Event

Repeatedly referring to the ATF as “AFT” — a gaffe that apparently confused the federal agency with the teachers union — Biden also repeated several the left’s favorite anti-gun buzzwords and tropes as an excuse to justify his executive action, but — like much of what Biden says — they’re just not true.

Jim Jordan Notices a Shift in Hunter Biden Story: ‘Something is Up’

In an interview with Maria Bartiromo, Jordan suggested “something is up” with the probe because of a new — and sudden — interest in the story by many of the same legacy media outlets that initially dismissed early reports of corruption evidence stemming from materials and emails obtained from a laptop he reportedly abandoned at a computer repair store in Delaware in 2019.

The Feds Are So Desperate For Violent ‘White Supremacy,’ They’re Fabricating It

Last Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas declared white supremacists and “domestic violent extremism” to be the “most prominent threat” currently facing our country. The timing could not have been more perfect. Just hours later, a jury in Grand Rapids, Michigan exposed the Justice Department’s largest alleged “domestic terrorism” case of the last 18 months as a failed FBI entrapment scheme to smear conservatives as white supremacists ahead of the 2020 election.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inContinental Breakfast

How Iran Built Hezbollah Into a Top Cyber Power

Since the Stuxnet attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Tehran has focused on expanding its cyber operations and digital surveillance capabilities. Iran sees its ally, Hezbollah, as a key part of its enhanced cyber program. The Iranian government has provided cyber training and technology to Hezbollah operatives and recently helped the Lebanese-based Shia terrorist group build its own counterintelligence cyber unit. This is a new development: in 2018, a Carnegie Endowment for Peace report noted how “there has been little prior evidence of direct sharing of [cyber] tools” between Iran and Hezbollah. After the collapse of the Islamic State caliphate, Hezbollah has taken on the mantle of being the most sophisticated and influential Middle Eastern terrorist organization in cyberspace.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCyber Jihad, Hezbollah, Iran

China’s Lessons From Russia’s War in Ukraine

SAN FRANCISCO — China is learning from Russia’s troubled war in Ukraine to improve its battle strategies and prepare for economic sanctions if Beijing ever attacks self-ruled Taiwan, experts believe.

The country may also be looking harder at peaceful solutions for Taiwan, they say.

Russia is facing stronger-than-expected military resistance in Ukraine since its invasion on February 24, especially in the streets, along with stiff Western-led economic sanctions and stepped-up military aid from abroad.

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

The Ghost in the Machine Gun

The Problem Is Ordinary Killers, Not Exotic Guns

Finding a really nice classic Mustang is not always easy and is never cheap, and, for years, a handful of very committed car enthusiasts have been making an end-run around the classic-car market and the restoration industry both by more or less building entirely new cars from the parts catalogue. This is something that is a lot easier to do with very popular classics such as the Mustang than it would be with (alas!) the 1966 Volvo P1800 I very stupidly bought as a broke college student. In reality, building a new Mustang from the catalogue entails a lot more than ordering the parts and putting them together — there is a reason most cars are built in factories rather than in artisans’ workshops. But you can do it, if you really want to.

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