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Trudeau pledges billions in permanent funding for public transit

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced plans today for the federal government to spend an additional $14.9 billion over the next eight years on public transportation projects across the country.

The funding includes $5.9 billion in short-term funding that will be disbursed on a project-by-project basis, starting this year.

The rest is to go toward the creation of a permanent transit fund of $3 billion per year starting in 2026. Money from that fund will be earmarked following consultations with provinces, territories, municipalities and Indigenous communities.

by Blazingcatfur•February 10, 2021February 10, 2021•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Utah Eliminates Gun Permits

There’s a big change coming for residents of Utah on May 5th. The Governor is preparing to sign a new bill into law allowing most residents to carry firearms concealed on their persons without having to obtain a permit from the state.

by Blazingcatfur•February 10, 2021February 10, 2021•0•Gun Control, Gun Rights

Clubhouse: The controversial chats that angered China’s censors

When the invite-only app Clubhouse was launched last April, it was envisaged as the online equivalent of Soho House: an exclusive space where the well-connected could gather.

But for a few days, it became something else: a tiny gap in Beijing’s “great firewall”, allowing millions in China a glimpse of an unfiltered, uncensored internet. A place where people could openly discuss issues like the treatment of the Uighur minority, the crackdown in Hong Kong, and relations with Taiwan, which Beijing considers a breakaway province.

by Blazingcatfur•February 10, 2021February 10, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Erdoğan unveils 10-year Turkish space programme

The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has unveiled an ambitious 10-year space programme, a first for the country that highlights Ankara’s plans to compete with other countries both on the world stage and beyond.

Speaking on Tuesday evening during a live televised event laced with special effects, the president said the first goal of the comprehensive programme was to make contact with the moon in 2023, the centennial of the founding of the Turkish republic.

Other missions include sending Turkish astronauts into space, building a Turkish spaceport, and developing sophisticated satellite and meteorology technology.

by Blazingcatfur•February 10, 2021February 10, 2021•0•Erdogan, WTF?

Patrick Moore: De-bunking climate and other varieties of alarmism

The Great Barrier Reef is alive and well: Go and see it for yourself.

The first part of that is true. The second part is tongue-in-cheek, as very few of us will be diving on the Great Barrier Reef anytime soon. Besides, it is beneath the surface and considerably larger than Texas so you would need to be in the water every day for a very long time to verify its alleged demise. As it turns out, virtually all the doomsday narratives promoted by today’s alarmists fit this pattern.

by Blazingcatfur•February 10, 2021February 10, 2021•0•Green-Scam

W.H.O. Adviser: ‘Actual Investigation‘ in W.H.O. Wuhan COVID Probe ‘Done by Chinese Authorities‘

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” World Health Organization adviser Jamie Metzl criticized the organization’s investigation into the origins of the coronavirus for not taking a serious enough look at the possibility of an accidental lab leak and saying that “the actual investigation was done by Chinese authorities. And so, the W.H.O. investigators were basically receiving reports from the Chinese officials.”

by Blazingcatfur•February 10, 2021February 10, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"

China Is Creating a New Master Race

Bing Su, a Chinese geneticist at the state-run Kunming Institute of Zoology, recently inserted the human MCPH1 gene, which develops the brain, into a monkey. The insertion could make that animal’s intelligence more human than that of lower primates. Su’s next experiment is inserting into monkeys the SRGAP2C gene, related to human intelligence, and the FOXP2 gene, connected to language skills.

Has nobody in China seen Planet of the Apes?

Or maybe they have. “Biotechnology development in China is heading in a truly macabre direction,” writes Brandon Weichert of The Weichert Report in an article posted on the American Greatness website.

by Blazingcatfur•February 10, 2021February 10, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Self-Righteous Scold Bruce Springsteen arrested for DWI in New Jersey

Bruce Springsteen was arrested for DWI and reckless driving in his home state, it was revealed Wednesday — days after he appeared in a much-hyped Super Bowl commercial for Jeep.

The “Born to Run” icon, 71, was busted Nov. 14 at Gateway National Recreation Area in Sandy Hook, New Jersey, a spokesperson for the National Park Service said.

by Blazingcatfur•February 10, 2021February 10, 2021•0•Celebrity Idiots

A lone infection may have changed the course of the pandemic

In each warm body it infects, the virus behind Covid-19 has the potential to change. It can become more deadly, more transmissible or more resistant to the vaccines on which we are all pinning so much hope. Mercifully, the biology of Sars-CoV-2 means that such changes happen slowly and almost always fail to catch on.

But mutations, like pandemics, are a numbers game. Every new person infected provides another opportunity for the virus to adopt a new form. So far, Sars-CoV-2 has infected at least 106 million people worldwide and taken on many thousands of mutations. Most of those changes are slow and inconsequential – evolutionary dead ends that nobody will ever realise existed. But, in some people, the virus hits the jackpot.

by Blazingcatfur•February 10, 2021February 10, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

‘Aunt Jemima’ Renamed to…What?

Back in June, Quaker Oats announced that it would retire the Aunt Jemima brand for its pancake mix. In so doing, they’re erasing a bit of American history that wasn’t offending anyone and had some key supporters.

I trusted Aunt Jemima.

by Blazingcatfur•February 10, 2021February 10, 2021•0•WTF?

More death, more deficit: The dire consequences of Canada’s botched vaccine procurement

It is now clear that Canada is dramatically behind the rest of the developed world in immunizing its citizens against COVID-19.

One quarter of Israel is now fully vaccinated, and the U.K. has administered 13 million doses. But in Canada, procurement issues and late deliveries have effectively stalled our vaccination program after only one million doses; roughly the amount of shots that the United States administers every 16 hours. It’s now estimated that Canada will not achieve widespread vaccine coverage until mid-2022, nearly six months after the same goal will have been met by the United States, the U.K. and the E.U.

by Blazingcatfur•February 10, 2021February 10, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Twitter reports $1.14 billion net loss for 2020

American social-networking company Twitter announced on Wednesday its financial results for the fiscal year 2020, saying it recorded a net loss of $1.136 billion against net income a year earlier.

According to the company, “2020 net loss was $1.14 billion, representing a net margin of -31 percent and diluted EPS [earnings per share – Ed.] of -$1.44. This compares to 2019 net income of $1.47 billion, representing a net margin of 42 percent and diluted EPS of $1.87.” Both periods were affected by non-cash, tax related adjustments, it said.

by Blazingcatfur•February 10, 2021February 10, 2021•0•Twitter, Twitter is Evil

Trump-hating celebrities led by George Takei, Barbra Streisand and Alyssa Milano line up to crow about his impeachment and call for the Senate to convict him

Celebrity detractors of Donald Trump are taking to Twitter to cheer the start of the former president’s Senate impeachment trial on a charge of inciting insurrection, with many calling for a swift conviction.

Actress Alyssa Milano was among those who ridiculed Trump’s lead defense attorney Bruce Castor, who argued on Tuesday that it was unconstitutional to hold a trial after Trump left office.

by Blazingcatfur•February 10, 2021February 10, 2021•0•Celebrity Idiots, Trump Derangement Syndrome

Ontario reports 1,072 new Covid cases … and Canadians agree – government response was too slow

Ontario is reporting 1,072 cases of #COVID19 and over 52,500 tests completed. Locally, there are 393 new cases in Toronto, 196 in Peel and 125 in York Region.

As of 8:00 p.m. yesterday, 412,119 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered.

— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) February 10, 2021

Majority of Canadians say governments should have acted faster amid COVID-19: Ipsos poll

A majority of Canadians believe that governments should have acted sooner to reduce the number of coronavirus cases in the country, according to new polling from Ipsos.

Roughly 63 per cent of Canadians, or just shy of two-thirds, said that governments should have put the hammer down sooner with stricter measures including travel bans, curfews and lockdowns, in a bid to slow the spread of the virus.

by Blazingcatfur•February 10, 2021February 10, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

State actors have done ‘significant harm’ to Canadian companies, says head of spy agency – Trudeau’s Liberal government not named leading many to question report’s integrity

The head of Canada’s spy agency said today Canadian companies in almost all sectors of the economy have been targeted by hostile foreign actors — and named Russia and China as two of his main sources of concern.

“The threat from hostile activity by state actors in all its forms represents a significant danger to Canada’s prosperity and sovereignty,” said David Vigneault, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, in his first public speech in three years.

“Our investigations reveal that this threat has unfortunately caused significant harm to Canadian companies.”

Russia and China are certainties but how could he forget to include Trudeau’s Liberals?

by Blazingcatfur•February 10, 2021February 10, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Espionage, Russia, WTF?