Author: Blazingcatfur

Inflation hit 5.7% in February. Economists say it hasn’t peaked

Statistics Canada says the annual inflation rate climbed to 5.7 per cent in February, with economists pointing to the war in Ukraine as one of the significant factors pushing the price index to its highest point since August 1991.

Helping to drive the increase in February were higher gasoline prices that were up 32.3 per cent compared with February 2021 and 6.9 per cent from a month earlier.

Statistics Canada says that excluding gasoline prices, the headline inflation rate would have been 4.7 per cent in February.

In other words Trudeau’s Carbon tax thievery will make it worse.

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

Ontario reports maybe but not really 1,718 new Covid cases … and Stealth Omicron is comin on strong

Ontario reports maybe but not really 1,718 new Covid cases … and Stealth Omicron is comin on strong

Ontario reports 16 net new COVID-19 deaths; ICU occupancy falls to 204

Ontario reported 16 net new deaths due to COVID-19 on Wednesday, as ICU occupancy in Ontario hospitals hit the lowest point since the end of 2021.

The Ministry of Health says that 15 of Wednesday’s deaths occurred in the past 30 days and one other occurred prior to that period.

COVID-19 BA.2 subvariant may soon account for 50 per cent of all infections in Ontario: health minister

Ontario’s health minister believes the COVID-19 subvariant BA.2, which has been described as “stealth Omicron,” may make up at least half of all infections reported in the province in the near future.

“But the evidence suggests that, in Ontario at least, it is a subvariant of the original Omicron variant and it’s not causing many more hospitalizations or more intensive treatments,” Christine Elliott said at a news conference Tuesday.

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

Ukraine war: Zelensky invokes 9/11 in plea to US Congress

Ukraine’s president invoked the horror of the 2001 terror attacks on the US as he pleaded for more military aid in a historic address to the US Congress.

Volodymyr Zelensky said via video link that Ukraine was enduring a 9/11 every day as it battled Russian forces.

He again urged the US and Nato allies to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine, saying: “I need to protect the sky.”

President Biden is later set to sign off an extra $800m (£612m) in military aid to Ukraine.

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

Biden Is So Weak, Another Big Threat Is Organizing in the U.S.

The Islamic State (ISIS) is back. Five years after Donald Trump entered the Oval Office and quickly brought about the destruction of its caliphate in Iraq and Syria, ISIS is resurgent and wealthy. Could this have anything to do with Old Joe Biden’s misrule? Of course.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "President Dementia AKA Joe Biden", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

‘It’s the right thing to do’: the 300,000 volunteer hackers coming together to fight Russia

Ukraine appealed for a global army of IT experts to help in the battle against Putin – and many answered the call.

Kali learned how to use technology by playing with his grandfather’s phone. Now, the Swiss teenager is trying to paralyse the digital presence of the Russian government and the Belarussian railway.

Kali – and many others who contributed to this article – declined to share his real name because some of the action he is taking is illegal and because he fears Russian retaliation. He is one of about 300,000 people who have signed up to a group on the chat app Telegram called “IT Army of Ukraine”, through which participants are assigned tasks designed to take the fight to Vladimir Putin. In so doing, they are trying to level the playing field between one of the world’s superpowers and Ukraine as it faces bombardment and invasion.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Cyber War

The lockdowns mark the start of a ride we can’t get off.

Two years ago this week, the United States shut down. Churches, schools and businesses went dark. Weddings, funerals, and birthdays went silent. City streets stood empty, with an eeriness closer resembling occupied Paris than the bustling hubs they’d been just days before.

Two years later, as the last of the mask mandates for school children falter and crack, it’s tempting to believe our nightmare is finally over. Just as the disease is going to haunt us a long while, however, so too will the effects of how we tried to fight it.

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

Will Putin Up the Ante?

The answer may lie in his tactics in previous conflicts.

Geographically, Ukraine is the largest country in Europe (about the size of Texas and some 1800km across from west to east); it has a population of more than 40,000,000. The Russian invasion is being conducted along four axes: 1) from the north, out of Belarus; 2) from the northeast, along the Chernihiv-Sumy-Kharkiv axis; 3) out of the Donbas region of southeastern Ukraine (with the help of the two Russian separatist republics of Luhansk and Donetsk); and, 4) out of Crimea in the south. In general, while the Russian assault has been significantly less effective than anticipated, Russian forces are still managing, deliberately and inexorably, to encircle and bombard key Russian cities and towns, e.g., the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Kharkiv (Ukraine’s second largest city), Mariupol. In the process, they have created the most tragic humanitarian disaster in Europe since the end of World War II, with more than 2,000,000 refugees now fleeing Ukraine.

What the Ukrainian Invasion has Revealed about Russian Military Power

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

Who is Joe Rogan’s audience?

Fox News is the most watched cable news channel in America. According to figures for the fourth quarter of 2021, the network’s top show, The Five, pulled in 3.3 million viewers. The runners-up, Tucker Carlson Tonight and Hannity, were close behind. Altogether, Fox is comfortably ahead of the liberal news channels MSNBC and CNN. 

However, the channel would lose its top spot if the Joe Rogan Experience was included on the chart.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

In praise of Russia’s brave dissidents

Some Russians are risking everything to speak out against Putin’s invasion.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is facing fierce resistance – not just from the Ukrainian fighters defending their homeland, but on the homefront, too.

Since the invasion, the Putin regime has implemented strict controls on the media and has cracked down heavily on protests. A liberal TV channel and radio station have been forced to shut down. Any journalist caught contradicting the Kremlin line – that Russia has not invaded Ukraine, but rather is conducting a ‘special military operation’ – can face up to 15 years in prison, for the crime of spreading ‘fake’ information or disrespecting the military. But none of this has stopped Russians from speaking out. Far from it.

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

How Future Historians Will View Ukraine

“This is a war about all the world.” -Volodymyr Zelensky

I can’t get the horror of the Russian atrocities in Ukraine out of my head. I keep hearing that cute little toddler crying out hysterically, “Daddy, Mommy is dead!” Her mother was killed in her apartment by a Russian bomb. The videos of teenage Russian conscripts burning to death in their tanks from Javelin missiles don’t make me feel much better.

Is there any point to all of this needless human suffering? “History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” Perhaps it is time to start reflecting on what Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will mean to future historians.

That’s not nice!

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

Flood of anti-tank missiles from Canada, other nations altering Putin’s war on Ukraine, experts say

A flood of anti-tank missiles sent to Ukraine has potentially changed the course of the war, putting pressure on Russia to find enough capable troops for the grueling urban combat that is now more likely.

For some military analysts, the number of latest generation anti-tank missiles shipped to Ukraine in recent weeks is breathtaking, giving Ukraine’s soldiers an arsenal of these weapons that may be unprecedented in a major modern war.

Russians are not entirely without success…

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

Brown, Poilievre trade shots over niqab ban as Conservative leadership race heats up

Conservative leadership candidate Patrick Brown launched an attack Monday on his opponent Pierre Poilievre, accusing the Conservative MP of supporting “discriminatory policies” that target immigrants.

Poilievre, the MP for the Ottawa-area riding of Carleton considered the front-runner in the race, pitched new policies Monday that he said will make it easier for skilled immigrants to practice their professions in Canada. He vowed to take on what he called “money-grabbing gatekeepers” who determine whether an immigrant is qualified to work in Canada.

I wonder if the CPC will see a sizable increase in Muslim members thanks to Patrick. Maybe it’s a good thing he wins. The CPC will never recover.

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Rex Murphy: The new dogmas infecting our education system

It might be thought that with the decline in the centrality of religion and the huge embrace of secularism in western society that there would be an equal decline in doctrine. We may see doctrine as being the great catalogue of dogmas: those “truths” you must believe, those you must never challenge and those that are to be passed inflexibly on to young people with all the force and efficiency of indoctrination.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism