Author: Blazingcatfur

Sounds like the most awful neighborhood in Toronto …

Agents of change

A small neighbourhood in Toronto has built a program to help residents reduce their household emissions. Could their grassroots approach become a template for the rest of the country?

On a snow-flecked Sunday afternoon in mid-December, Paul Dowsett gathered a group of neighbours in his backyard for a toast.

Although the event featured mulled wine and a crackling bonfire, this was no holiday party. Rather, it was an event to celebrate homeowners in the Pocket — an east Toronto neighbourhood — who have committed to an energy retrofit to reduce their carbon footprint.

A Pocket resident since 1997, Dowsett is an architect by trade and a local sage on matters of sustainability. Dressed in a striking green lumber jacket, the 61-year-old extolled his neighbours’ climate consciousness, and after a breezy explainer on the environmental harms of natural gas, related some breaking news.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Dystopia At Last", "Eat Government Bugs", "Environmentalists", "Experts", WTF?

‘Woke’ $10M MLK ‘penis’ statue insults black community: Coretta Scott King kin

Even some kin of Coretta Scott King hate the new $10 million sculpture just dedicated to her and her iconic civil rights leader husband in Boston — with a cousin claiming it “looks like a penis.”

The massive bronze piece, titled “The Embrace,” features two sets of arms holding each other, an artistic interpretation of the classic photo of Coretta and hubby Martin Luther King Jr. hugging after he won the Nobel Peace Price in 1964.

“The mainstream media … was reporting on it like it was all beautiful, ’cause they were told they had to say that,” Seneca Scott, Coretta’s cousin, told The Post by phone Sunday, referring to the new artwork on the Boston Common.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Should Canada follow U.S. lead and make anti-impaired technology mandatory in all new cars?

One of the worst aspects of seeing your family ripped apart by a drunk driver, said Brenda Simmons, is knowing that it could have been avoided with political will and the right application of technology.

“If somebody didn’t have the decency, or they didn’t have the decision-making capacity [and they] still decide to get behind the wheel, if that vehicle didn’t start because of some mandatory technology, my son would still be here,” she told CBC News.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Law and Order", "Surveillance Society"

Freeland demands $2B to buy shares in a company that doesn’t exist

A viral video of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland explaining why she needs to spend $2 billion quickly is giving Canadians an inside look at how the Trudeau government acts first and thinks later.

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

Sanctions Fail: UK Buying Up More ‘Indian‘ Oil Made from Russian Crude

Britain is increasing purchases of Indian oil amid the Western sanctions war with Russia – but much of it is likely refined from Russian product sold to India at a discount.

While there is a general perception that Russia has become a pariah state since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, with only the likes of Iran and North Korea allegedly offering covert support, many governments in Africa, Asia, and South America have largely stayed out of the West’s economic war with Moscow, including countries considered traditional allies such as Israel, India, and even NATO member Turkey.

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

Ireland’s excess deaths rate rivals worst of Covid pandemic

Ireland has seen a huge spike in excess mortality that rivals the peak of the pandemic — yet Covid-19 is no longer the primary cause of death, The Sunday Times can reveal.

Post-pandemic pressures on the HSE such as treatment backlogs and a wave of late diagnoses allied to the added pressures on the health system of a lingering “twindemic” of flu and Covid-19 all appear to be taking their toll.

The seven-day rolling average of deaths reported on January 9, 2023 was 152 — almost as high as the weekly average of 156 reported on January 29, 2021 — the peak of the disastrous third wave that triggered a six-month nationwide lockdown.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

How Disinformation Journalists Practice Disinformation

While many major media outlets such as CNN have recently announced large layoffs, one journalistic beat is still booming. Call it the Disinformation Desk. The Washington Post has created a new position exclusively reporting on “health disinformation,” which includes “the forces promoting scientific and medical disinformation on subjects such as vaccines, drugs, nutritional supplements and health-care treatments.” National Public Radio hosts an entire “Disinformation Team” whose mission is broad: “From the lies about the 2020 election to the growing influence of anti-vaccine activists, to the enduring influence of climate-change denialism, lies and conspiracy theories have seeped into nearly all aspects of modern-day life, both in the US and around the globe.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation"

Biden is losing the media, and thus the country

The switch, to aggressive reporting, happened in a blink, and it came crashing about a week ago

Calamity Joe faces a resentful media

No more are they asking which flavor ice cream he prefers, as they did there at the beginning.

“Mr. President…Mr. President…what do you like best, chocolate or vanilla?”

That’s as far as it got for investigative reporting from America’s docile media. Joe had them at hello.

Now is it goodbye?

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

Covid scientists and the best news money can buy

IN THE words of muckraker Upton Sinclair, ‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.’ Same may be said about the so-called ‘scientific community’ in their research enterprise on Covid-19. It is particularly so for anything relating to the novel mRNA vaccines, touted as safe and effective but transpiring to be neither.

We wrote recently in the Daily Sceptic about how the method which is central to the scientific publication process, far from being used to assure quality, is being used to maintain prevailing narrative. Peer review has prevented proper debate on Covid-19 by suppressing contrary evidence.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

Redding, California, Uses Public Health Red Tape to Ban Sharing Food with Homeless

Like many cities on the West Coast, Redding, California, is experiencing a homelessness crisis. And, like too many cities around the country—as I detail in my book and have highlighted in many columns over the years—officials appear to have determined the problem can be best dealt with by making it difficult or impossible to share food with people in need.

Homelessness in Redding is a challenge city residents have recognized and organized to address. Last summer, for example, a group of “regular guys” in Redding partnered with a local taco truck to offer free lunches to those in need. More recently, an obituary for a charitable local resident highlighted her compassionate history of sharing homemade coffee and sandwiches with hungry residents.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Climate Activism Isn’t About the Planet. It’s About the Boredom of the Bourgeoisie

The downfall of capitalism will not come from the uprising of an impoverished working class but from the sabotage of a bored upper class. This was the view of the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. Schumpeter believed that at some point in the future, an educated elite would have nothing left to struggle for and will instead start to struggle against the very system that they themselves live in.

Nothing makes me think Schumpeter was right like the contemporary climate movement and its acolytes. The Green movement is not a reflection of planetary crisis as so many in media and culture like to depict it, but rather, a crisis of meaning for the affluent.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists"

The problem with the BBC’s reporting on excess deaths

I recall the newsroom conversations during the dark days of the pandemic only too well. They were upsetting at the time. Now, as we see a disturbing rise in excess deaths across the country, the thought of them fills me with horror and outrage.

‘You do realise these lockdowns and restrictions will end up killing people too, don’t you?’ I would say to senior editorial colleagues with something approaching desperation in my voice. ‘Sure, the virus is a serious threat to a small proportion of the population but the longer-term consequences of shutting the economy down and closing off the NHS will be deadly for huge numbers who were never at serious risk from the virus, people with years of life ahead of them. Shouldn’t we be reflecting that in our coverage? Shouldn’t we be considering the possibility that the government is going down the wrong path on this?’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

Drag queens won’t win the next war

The model and actress Emily Ratajkowski, who is said to have 30 million followers on Instagram, kvetches that she seems to attract only “emasculated men” — by which she means guys who can’t handle a “strong woman” like her.

A product of the Sexual Revolution, Ms. Ratajkowski believes the essence of femininity is strength and confidence, while a man who isn’t attracted to tough babes is “emasculated.”

She wants a man who’s confident but also deferential.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny