Author: Blazingcatfur

Ukraine defence minister: We are a de facto member of Nato alliance

Ukraine has become a de facto member of the Nato alliance, the Ukrainian defence minister says, as Western countries, once concerned that military assistance could be seen as an escalation by Russia, change their “thinking approach”.

In an interview with the BBC, Oleksii Reznikov said he was sure Ukraine would receive long-sought weapons, including tanks and fighter jets, as both Ukraine and Russia seemed to be preparing for new offensives in the spring.

“This concern about the next level of escalation, for me, is some kind of protocol,” Mr Reznikov said.

“Ukraine as a country, and the armed forces of Ukraine, became [a] member of Nato. De facto, not de jure (by law). Because we have weaponry, and the understanding of how to use it.”

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

Canadians love nuclear power

Although nuclear power continues to be resolutely opposed by much of the mainstream Canadian green movement, a series of illuminating new polls by the Angus Reid Institute show that Canadians are increasingly comfortable with an atomic future.

Warning issued to electric car owners over towing caravans and trailers

Road specialists at Carwow have warned towing caravans could have an “impact” on some electric vehicles braking systems. In certain situations, this could “overwhelm the electrical system” of the vehicle.

h/t DM

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Shocka! Canadians get screwed on Cellphone costs

Why are Canadians’ cellphone bills higher than other countries?

Despite government promises to lower the cost of mobile wireless plans and efforts to promote more competition in the market, many Canadians feel they’re paying too much with few options for getting better rates.

But the industry will tell a different story: that of a market with fierce or at least adequate competition, and companies providing Canadians with rates comparable to the rest of the world despite extraordinary challenges.

A Marketplace investigation into the cost of telecom services in Canada has found that many of the oft-quoted industry explanations for high wireless prices — costly operating margins and a sparse Canadian population, for example — are insufficient to explain lower prices found in other countries and even between some provinces.

This is an evergreen Canadian story.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Woman Denied Organ Transplant Because of Vaccine Status Asks Supreme Court to Hear Her Case

A terminally ill woman is seeking a Supreme Court of Canada decision on the constitutionality of the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for receiving an organ transplant, says the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF).

Sheila Annette Lewis, who is not vaccinated for COVID-19, filed a leave to appeal application this week against Alberta Health Services (AHS) and six doctors who reportedly removed her from an organ transplant list on which she had high-priority status.

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

The German Greens are playing into Russia’s hands

1.5 degrees means Lützerath stays

The push for clean energy may, perversely, lead to more demand for Russian gas

Throughout German history, reality has been a nuisance to be dealt with, not a fact to be faced. As the philosopher Hegel once quipped, “if facts contradict to my theory, the worse for the facts”.

It’s exactly what the idiot Trudeau is doing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Green-Scam

Canadian Military to Screen Applicants for Symbols Linked to ‘Problematic Attitudes’

To further its cultural transformation, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) seeks to screen individuals before or after recruitment for “problematic attitudes” by using new tools, including a database of symbols built with outside expertise.

“A symbology dataset was created and will be continually updated, in consultation with, or outsourced to, external experts, to increase CAF recruiters’ awareness of extremist, racist, discriminatory, or hateful conduct, or other unacceptable attitudes that are displayed through applicant tattoos and body adornments,” the organization wrote in its December response to Louise Arbour’s report.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

Migrants staying at $500-a-night Times Square hotel on the NYC taxpayers’ dime are ‘trashing rooms, drinking all day, smoking marijuana and having sex in the stairwell’

A luxury hotel in the heart of New York City is being ‘trashed’ by migrants – who have been accused of drinking all day, smoking marijuana, having sex in stairwells and causing fights, an employee claims.

The migrants – many of whom were bussed into the Big Apple from border states – are being housed temporarily in this luxury 1,300-room Manhattan hotel – The Row NYC, a $500-a-night hotel in the tourist hotspot of Times Square.

Hotel employee Filipe Rodriguez has called the situation a ‘disgrace’ and shared videos and photos of the chaos, which included ‘good food’ sitting out to rot in trash bags because ‘the migrants don’t want to eat it.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money"

Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger appears in court with cuts and bruises on face, neck

Accused killer Bryan Kohberger looked roughed up and had mysterious cuts on his face during a courtroom appearance Thursday in Moscow, Idaho, where a judge set his next court date.

The 28-year-old criminology PhD student had two gashes near his chin and apparent bruises on his neck as he was escorted by a sheriff’s deputy into the courtroom for the five-minute hearing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Freeland to attend World Economic Forum’s Davos meeting

Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will attend the globalist World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting this month, but Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) leader Pierre Poilievre has said a hard no to any of his MPs attending.

The WEF’s annual meeting will be held January 16-23 in Davos, Switzerland.

Are they tone deaf or just arrogant?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"The Great Reset", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, World Economic Forum, WTF?

FBI Counterintelligence Raided Chinese Police Station in New York: Report

The FBI raided a Chinese police station in Manhattan last year, seizing documents from the facility in a criminal investigation into China’s overseas presence in the U.S., the New York Times reported today.

The paper revealed that the search took place last year, at a Chinatown facility scrutinized for its alleged role as a branch of the security bureau of the city of Fuzhou, citing people knowledgeable of the probe. The FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn — which the Times reported was involved in the raid — declined to comment for the Times story.

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

High school gun raffle drives leftists insane

The North Stokes High School baseball team in Danbury, N.C. is once again raffling off seven very nice guns in a fundraising effort, sold through Betty’s Outdoors.  The drawing will be held on March 10, 2023.  Keep in mind that the prizes can be picked up or traded for actual cash value for other items from Betty’s Outdoors, Inc.  And since they are an FFL, all applicable laws will be strictly followed.

You would be correct in saying, “So what?,” or “Where can I buy a ticket?”

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

Whetting the Appetite for Battle

The West is in the midst of a culture war which is often dull, sometimes hilarious, and always exhausting. Fighting Back: Defending Britain and the West in the Culture War, produced by The New Culture Forum, dispels such fatigue and whets the appetite for battle. With nine short essays, it aims to rejuvenate ordinary people with thoughtful reflections and practical advice on how to navigate a relentless culture war which otherwise saps them of strength.

Who is the enemy? It is nowhere near as brutal as the Nazi or Soviet totalitarian experiments, though its lack of solidity or a defined outline can make it more challenging to confront directly. The ‘wokesters,’ as they have come to be called, prefer Kafkaesque probes into alleged thought crime to the torture rack, they opt for digital cancellation before reaching for the iron rod, and they skilfully weaponize liberal values, such as freedom and equality, rather than dragging them through the mud like unsubtle tyrants.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCultural Insanity, Cultural Marxism, Culture Wars