Author: Blazingcatfur

Flooding, drought and wildfires caused by climate change could do as much damage to our planet as a giant asteroid or massive volcanic eruption, experts warn

Earth’s most famous mass extinction event was the giant asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

But although it was severe, obliterating some 76 per cent of the world’s species, there have been two other more devastating near apocalypses throughout our planet’s 4.5 billion-year history and five in total.

MailOnline looks into these different catastrophic events, from the ‘Great Dying’ to the Kellwasser cataclysm, and asks scientists what is most likely to cause a sixth, where it would leave us and if such a scenario is already under way.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Douglas Todd: How disastrous has the COVID-19 pandemic been for Canadian housing?

Ottawa’s war against the pandemic has had an outsized impact on millions of Canadians frozen out of home ownership. But politicians have proved oblivious

Just how much of a disaster has COVID-19 been for housing affordability in Canada? Let us count the ways, if there is a stomach for it.

Since the pandemic began in March 2020 house prices across Canada have jumped 34 per cent.

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

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau’s 2022 climate plan — more carbon taxes

 

The forecast for climate change in Canada for 2022 is higher carbon taxes for Canadians and little progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which is what carbon taxes are supposed to do.

Grocery prices to keep soaring in 2022

Canadian grocery bills have been growing steadily throughout the past year, and experts say that won’t change in 2022. In fact, a typical family could be stuck spending nearly $1,000 more just to put food on the table.

“The average family of four, we’re expecting the food bill to go up by as much as $966,” said Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, Sr. Director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University.

“It’s going to be tight for a lot of families, unfortunately.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Why Not COVID Antibodies or Previous Infection?

Why are liberals immune to medical and scientific evidence that’s staring them in the face?

As the Supreme Court considers the unconstitutional overreach of the Biden OSHA mandate forcibly vaccinating Americans, it might also consider the common-sense alternatives. These are obvious options pursued by countries and organizations that follow science and haven’t lost their minds in a mass bout of vax psychosis, as we have here in America, especially our liberals.

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

Germany’s New Government: Business as Usual with China

Germany’s new chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has had his first telephone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Scholz, who succeeded Angela Merkel as chancellor on December 8, pledged to strengthen economic ties with China, but he failed to mention human rights or the destruction of democracy in Hong Kong.

The telephone call will disappoint those who had hoped that Germany’s new government — a three-way coalition consisting of the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), the environmentalist Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) — would break with the past and take distance from Merkel’s policy of appeasing dictators and sacrificing human rights on the altar of financial gain.

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

Unvaccinated workers who lose jobs ineligible for EI benefits, Liberal party says

Jobless Canadians who refuse to get vaccinated for COVID-19 could be shut out of unemployment benefits, warns Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough.

Speaking to Canadian Press, Qualtrough said as long as there’s a public health emergency, unvaccinated workers who lose hours or their job may not be eligible for employment insurance benefits.

Trudeau calls the unvaccinated racist and misogynistic extremists

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a Quebec television station people who do not get vaccinated against COVID-19 are often racist and misogynistic extremists.

But he said the people of Quebec are not the problem and questioned whether the rest of Canada needs to “tolerate” the unvaccinated.

Progressives are monsters.

h/t RE

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Prison guards cleared over Epstein suicide falsification

Charges against two New York prison guards have been dropped by prosecutors. The pair had admitted to falsifying records about their movements on the night financier Jeffrey Epstein hung himself in his cell.

On Thursday, federal prosecutors signed a ‘nolle prosequi’ dropping charges against two former New York prison warders, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, who were on duty the night Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide in August 2019.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

After two years of COVID, Canadians reluctant to participate in ‘normal’ activities: poll

As Canadians enter year three of COVID-19, a significant proportion appear apprehensive about returning to mass public transit and other pre-pandemic “normal” activities.

A new Leger poll for Postmedia, conducted just as Omicron was beginning its ascent and before cases began skyrocketing, sought to assess people’s comfort levels for increased contact with other humans.

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Biden’s call with Putin produced predictably underwhelming results

As was reported yesterday, President Joe Biden took a call from Russian President Vladimir Putin where the two leaders discussed the situation on Russia’s border with Ukraine, among other matters. Despite the best efforts of the State Department to put some positive spin on the discussion, it doesn’t sound as if things went very well. Both sides wound up sticking to their previous positions and Putin sounded increasingly frustrated and belligerent over what he perceives as NATO’s stubborn refusal to comply with his demands.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inRussia, Ukraine, USA

Ocasio-Cortez Staffer Calls Israel ‘Racist European Ethnostate’

On Christmas Eve, a staffer for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called Israel “a racist European ethnostate built on stolen land from its indigenous population.”

Hussain Altamimi, who began his tenure as a legislative assistant to Ocasio-Cortez last month, posted an Instagram story in which he wrote, “Israel is a racist European ethnostate built on stolen land from its indigenous population!” Fox News Digital took a screenshot of the post.

Related – BBC accused of ‘deep-seated’ biases against Jews

They’re out in the open about it now, good luck closing that door. Maybe more interfaith dialogue is needed!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAnti-Semitism and the Left