China is buying up the critical green-revolution minerals sector in Canada and elsewhere. Enough already

A week ago, the shareholders of Canada’s Neo Lithium approved the sale of the TSX Venture Exchange-listed company to China’s Zijin Mining for about $960-million. The announcement received little coverage and appears to have bothered almost no one in the federal government. It should have.

While Neo Lithium is hardly a household name, and the company is relatively small, its purchase should have raised a stink not just in Ottawa but in Washington and among North America’s electric-car makers. That’s because lithium is an essential component of the batteries that power electric vehicles (EVs), a suddenly burgeoning market, and vast amounts of the global supply of the light, silvery-white metal are going to Chinese companies.

Go Incognito

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

Biden Administration Silent Against Iran’s Mullahs’ Terror Threat

In the wake of the largest seizure of arms and fuel from Iranian terror groups to date, the Biden administration has remained silent.

The US Department of Justice announced on December 7, 2021 the successful forfeiture of two large caches of Iranian weapons. The weapons reportedly included advanced arms such as “171 guided anti-tank missiles, eight surface-to-air missiles, land attack cruise missile components, anti-ship cruise missile components, thermal weapon optics and other components for missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles [drones]”. The U.S. Navy also seized Iranian petroleum products from “four foreign-flagged tankers in or around the Arabian Sea while en route to Venezuela. These actions represent the government’s largest-ever forfeitures of fuel and weapons shipments from Iran.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

Germany: COVID demonstrations planned across country

Opponents of vaccinations and the German government’s coronavirus policies were planning to hold demonstrations in several German cities on Saturday.

The largest protest was expected to be held in the northern port city of Hamburg, with around 8,000 registered attendees. Under the slogan “Hands off our children,” they planned to march through the city center, police said.

Vaccinations for children are beginning in Germany, following recommendations made by the country’s top vaccine body. However, parents are divided on the issue.

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Men more likely to die of COVID than women, data shows

Men more likely to die of COVID than women, data shows

Men make up a disproportionately large share of U.S. COVID-19 deaths, accounting for 54.4 percent of fatal virus cases, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.

The sex split is even starker in New York City, where men make of 57.5 percent of COVID-19 deaths, according the city Department of Health.

This despite men comprising only 49.3 percent of the U.S. population and just 47.7 percent of national COVID-19 cases, according to the CDC.

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Oh No! Scientists watch giant ‘doomsday’ glacier in Antarctica with concern

Twenty years ago, an area of ice thought to weigh almost 500bn tonnes dramatically broke off the Antarctic continent and shattered into thousands of icebergs into the Weddell Sea.

The 1,255-sq-mile (3,250-sq-km) Larsen B ice shelf was known to be melting fast but no one had predicted that it would take just one month for the 200-metre-thick behemoth to completely disintegrate.

Glaciologists were shocked as much by the speed as by the scale of the collapse. “This is staggering. It’s just broken apart. It fell over like a wall and has broken as if into hundreds of thousands of bricks”, said one.

Maybe it has Covid?

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Border Patrol Agent Submits Scathing Resignation, Remarking Agency Has Become “Handmaids” for Illegal Immigrants

A Customs and Border Patrol agent is slamming the left-wing politicization of the agency in a resignation letter to his supervisor, accusing Biden’s federal government of transforming CBP into the “handmaids” of illegal immigrants.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Camp Of The Saints

You’d have to be high to trust those stats.

Legal cannabis sales surpass illicit market for the first time in Ontario: OCS

The latest quarterly report from the Ontario Cannabis Stores (OCS) marks a turning point in Canada’s most populous province.

Nearly 55 per cent of all cannabis sales in the last quarter, running from July to Sept., took place in legal channels.

The calculation for legal market share is estimated from quarterly updates from Statistics Canada, which collects self-reported data from cannabis consumers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMarijuana

Afghan Taliban leaders ̷a̷p̷p̷e̷a̷l̷ ̷f̷o̷r̷ ̷h̷e̷l̷p̷ ̷a̷s̷ threaten migrant crisis ̷l̷o̷o̷m̷s̷

KABUL, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Senior Taliban officials appealed on Saturday for international help to combat a deepening economic crisis that has fuelled fears of another refugee exodus from Afghanistan.

The comments, at a special meeting to mark the U.N.’s international migrants day, underlined the new Islamist Taliban government’s push to engage with the world community, four months after they seized power in Kabul.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan

Kamala Harris Explodes in Angry Interview After Aide Unsuccessfully Tries to Shut It Down

The setup here is Harris doing an interview yesterday with a host named Charlamagne Tha God, and toward the end, things really went off the rails for everyone involved. What started the sequence of cringe was Charlamagne asking Harris who the “real president” is in relation to Joe Manchin blocking the “Build Back Better” bill.

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Amazon partnered with China propaganda arm

LONDON, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc was marketing a collection of President Xi Jinping’s speeches and writings on its Chinese website about two years ago, when Beijing delivered an edict, according to two people familiar with the incident. The American e-commerce giant must stop allowing any customer ratings and reviews in China.

A negative review of Xi’s book prompted the demand, one of the people said. “I think the issue was anything under five stars,” the highest rating in Amazon’s five-point system, said the other person.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "The China Class", Amazon is Evil

Venezuelan Socialists Hate American Culture So Much They Can’t Stop Ripping It Off

CARACAS — For years, the socialist regime of Venezuela has attempted to wage an ideological war against the United States and its “imperialist and capitalist anti-values” that, according to them, are the root of all of Venezuela’s cultural and societal problems.

For the past two decades, superheroes such as Superman, Batman, or Captain America have not been exempt from the Revolution’s criticism — yet, like the U.S. dollar that’s holding the country together, the socialist regime sure loves to embrace these icons of American media … by plagiarizing them.

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Nicholas Sandmann, NBC News Reach Settlement In Defamation Suit

Nicholas Sandmann, a former Covington Catholic student smeared after a 2019 incident with a Native American activist, has reached a third settlement in a series of lawsuits against media companies.

Sandmann announced over Twitter Friday that he had reached a settlement with NBC News. Sandmann’s legal team has already reached settlements with CNN and The Washington Post.

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Prince Andrew fails in bid to have newspaper cuttings describing his accuser Virginia Giuffre as a ‘money-hungry sex kitten’ taken into account by New York judge considering her sex claim against him

Prince Andrew has failed in his bid to have newspaper cuttings describing his accuser Virginia Giuffre as a ‘money-hungry sex kitten’ taken into account by the New York judge who is considering her claim against him.

District Judge Lewis Kaplan dismissed the request as a PR stunt and refused to consider the press reports or a 139-page manuscript written by Virginia Roberts Giuffre about billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Judge Kaplan said there was ‘no proper basis’ to look at the articles or Ms Giuffre’s manuscript The Billionaire’s Playboy Club – published in 2011 – which he added ‘appear to have been submitted for whatever public relations purposes the defendants advisers may have had in mind’.

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The great COVID-19 infodemic: How disinformation networks are radicalizing Canadians

A common refrain of those opposed to vaccines is that immunizations are harmful to people’s health and an infringement on human rights. Any kind of science proving the efficacy of any vaccine is often denied.

In 2021, those health concerns have mutated into a widespread belief among the most staunchly anti-vaccine that if you receive a COVID-19 vaccine dose, you will almost certainly die.

The latter is a baseless conspiracy theory. But tens of thousands of Canadians believe it’s true and have created social media channels to promote it.

I got vaxxed, it’s not my business whether you did or not. Besides it appears Omicron is gonna get us all.

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