Author: Blazingcatfur

Canada’s wild pigs risk ‘absolute destruction’ if left unchecked

The Canadian city of Edmonton may soon be hogtied with a problem that it won’t be able to barbecue its way out of.

Wild pigs have been spreading across central Alberta’s prairies and if left unchecked, could soon find themselves in the river valley of Edmonton. According to Ryan Brook, a University of Saskatchewan professor studying the pigs, the creatures are an “ecological trainwreck” and would cause “absolute destruction” if they make their way to the river valley, which is abundant in water and forest cover.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Sanctions will push Russia onto the dark web

A major state actor could now legalise internet piracy and hacking

Today gas prices in Europe rose to 800p per therm — an eighteen-fold increase in just one year. Meanwhile, fertiliser prices are set to rise and with them food prices, with wheat prices basically doubling since last year. Financial markets are now openly fretting about stagflation (the combination of soaring inflation and stagnation in the economy). We have not seen it since the 1970s and it is unclear how our now overly financialised economy will respond to it, but my bet is that economies today are far more prone to stagflationary chaos than they were in the 70s.

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

Real Refugees to Poland Set to Top Merkel‘s Migrant Influx of 2015

The number of Ukrainian refugees in Poland, mostly women and children, is on course to top the number of migrants taken by Germany during the 2015 migrant crisis.

Germany, with a population more than double Poland’s, said it had taken in 1.1 million asylum seekers in 2015, when then-Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the country’s borders to migrants to distant Syria — although only around 40 per cent of the influx actually claimed to be Syrians.

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

Desperation: Biden woos Venezuela, Saudis for oil … while clinging to climate-change restrictions at home

If the Joe Biden administration has any strategy at all on energy, it appears to be of the rotating-despot variety. It seems Biden would desperately like any country other than his own to step up its production. That desperation has led the White House to send envoys to Nicolas Maduro, hoping to convince the Venezuelan tyrant to turn on the Russian tyrant to get more of the dirtiest oil available…

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden", "Ukraine - Russia", USA

The committee reviewing Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act faces a daunting task

The task of reviewing the Liberal government’s historic use of the Emergencies Act in response to anti-vaccine mandate protests in Ottawa and at border crossings got off to an inauspicious start this week.

But it’s also too early to abandon all hope that parliamentarians will be able to meet the occasion with the seriousness and transparency that the moment demands.

“I think given what’s been endured across the country over the last two months, and what’s at stake in order for us to move forward, I can’t think of a more important moment through this entire pandemic to have all parties from the House and the Senate set aside hyper-partisanship and really allow for the seriousness of our work,” said NDP Matthew Green, who will co-chair the committee.

Unfortunately none of the criminals responsible for this heinous violation of fundamental freedoms will see the inside of a jail cell. So why bother with this whitewash at all?

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

Putin May Use Chechen War Playbook In Ukraine, Says Russian Human Rights Activist

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With Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine seemingly moving slower than expected, Russian President Vladimir Putin may turn to the indiscriminate tactics of the wars in Chechnya that turned Chechen cities to rubble in the 1990s and early 2000s, a noted Russian human rights activist says.

Memorial International Director Aleksandr Cherkasov told Current Time on March 4 that Russian forces in Ukraine increasingly turn to the use of artillery and missile strikes while targeting residential areas.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUncategorized

Former Squamish Five terrorist transforms from bombing to filmmaking – blames ex-boyfriend

Juliet Belmas contemplated the trajectory of her life — teenager-turned-terrorist, imprisonment, a career in the movie business, an opioid-crisis film-in-the-works, and now the invasion of Ukraine.

… Belmas once did many bad things, but that was another lifetime — although forever present.

Sentenced to 20 years for her role in the Squamish Five “urban guerrilla” group — she, Ann Hansen, Brent Taylor, Doug Stewart and Gerry Hannah waged a violent campaign in the early 1980s that included bombing an Ontario factory making U.S. missile parts.

“I met Brent Taylor when I was just turning 18,” she said, still incredulous at her naiveté.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Trudeau government makes sensible decision on Ukraine refugees … compliant media floats idea to make it a bad decision to further LPC mass immigration agenda

Non-citizens of Ukraine don’t qualify for temporary refuge from war in Canada

… The Canadian government is allowing Ukrainians who have fled Russian aggression to come to Canada temporarily for a period of two years “for those who need a safe haven while the war ravages their homeland,” Immigration Minister Sean Fraser announced last week.

It’s the kind of program Tajik said she hopes to see from Canada and other countries in response to the crisis in Ukraine.

“I just need legal status, I just need a pass so that I could get somewhere stable,” said the now 23-year-old data scientist in an interview.

But Canada’s program would not apply to her. The immigration minister’s office says for now, the program is only available to Ukraine citizens.

I am all for allowing refugees from the Ukraine to come to Canada. Everyone knows that the stated 2 year stay limit will not be enforced anyway.

But as always the real goal is to open the floodgates to all comers like our political and corporate class wants.

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

‘Our sons were sent to Ukraine as cannon fodder’: Furious Russian mothers face down Kremlin

Angry Russian mothers have accused Vladimir Putin of deploying their sons as “cannon fodder” in his invasion of Ukraine, according to video footage of a confrontation with a regional governor that emerged on a day when police in Russia detained 4,500 anti-war protesters.

In the video, Sergey Tsivilev, governor of the Kuzbass region in Siberia, stood forlornly on a stage in a school gym as angry soldiers’ mothers accused the Kremlin of lying.

“We were all deceived, all deceived. They were sent there as cannon fodder, “one woman shouted. “They are young. They were unprepared.”

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

And now comes the first faint cry for bailouts from our ever virtuous Titans of Commerce…

Analysis: Confusion, but not panic, reigns in global finance in Russia’s wake

March 7 (Reuters) – Western allies’ sanctions against Russia have started to blow back in the form of large potential losses for their own banks, companies and investors, often in unexpected ways. In the past, such fires have been precursors to financial crises.

But some market participants say they aren’t seeing panic in the market, at least not yet.

“We haven’t had any of those ‘holy shit’ phone calls,” said David Schamis, co-founder of financial services-focused private equity firm Atlas Merchant Capital, while heading out of town for his daughter’s hockey tournament over the weekend.

Oligarchs gonna Oligarch on your back.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", WTF?

Ontario reports 1,074 new Covid cases … maybe, probably not

Ontario reports 1,074 new Covid cases … maybe, probably not

Ontario reports lowest COVID-19 case count since testing restrictions began

Ontario reported its lowest COVID-19 case count on Monday since it significantly curtailed access to free testing, alongside four new deaths.

There were 1,074 COVID-19 infections confirmed through PCR testing across the province on Monday, the lowest number found in the province since access to testing was limited on Dec. 31, 2021.

Health officials have said eligibility limits mean the current system fails to find as many as 90 per cent of all infections.

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

Gas prices in the GTA will ‘surge’ past $2 a litre in coming weeks as oil approaches US $150 a barrel: Trudeau carbon tax theft will make it worse

Gas prices in the GTA have went up a staggering 25 cents per litre over the last week but one industry analyst is warning that this may be the “calm before the storm” amid ongoing geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe.

The average price of a litre of fuel in the GTA has already risen from $1.58.9 to $184.9 since last Monday.

But Dan McTeague, who is the president of Canadians for Affordable Energy, tells CP24 that residents can expect to face more pain at the pumps as the reverberations from Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine continue to push the price of Brent crude higher.

He says that a planned increase of the carbon tax from eight to 11 cents per litre as of April 1 could also further inflate costs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam