Author: Blazingcatfur
Germany’s Family Businesses Survived Everything — Until Net Zero
German economic history can be traced through its traditional family businesses. Many of them survived wars, crises, and technological revolutions. But many of them now have little left with which to resist the destructive force of environmentalism and degrowth ideology.
Anyone searching through German economic history will eventually come across the name Coatinc Company.
The company from Siegen is, as far as the surviving documents show, the oldest German family business still in existence. Originating in 1502 from an iron-processing operation, it developed over more than five centuries into an internationally established specialist in surface finishing and hot-dip galvanizing.
Can Carney close?
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plan to bring the world’s most powerful investors to Toronto next week was always a gambit to ease the economic pressure from the Trump administration’s trade crusade by pitching Canada as an alternative, more reliable place to put money to work.
What event planners could not have predicted is the way a feud over tariffs would boil over into a full-blown trade war just days before those money managers are set to touch down, and the intense spotlight it is shining on Canada – for better and for worse.
It is Mr. Carney’s reputation and relationships, backed by a co-ordinated push from some of Canada’s most influential chief executives, that have convinced the masters of the world’s deepest pools of capital to gather for two days at the Canada Investment Summit, at a scale never seen before on Canadian soil.
An avalanche of MOU’s signifying nothing.
Victor Davis Hanson: Canada’s Anti-American Gamble Is About to Get Expensive
Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.
I’d like to offer an update on the Canadian-American trade spat.
Your Zelensky Taxes At Work
Ukraine Prime Minister
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Convoy in Missisauga, Ontario
Dixie and Derry! pic.twitter.com/gdWV6UNphL— Great Canadian Moose (@Great_Cdn_Moose) September 13, 2026
h/t Mauser
The Human Rights Industry Has a Favorite Kind of Victim
The human rights industry’s favorite kind of victim is the politically useful one: the victim whose suffering can be attached to an adversary — a designated “villain” — preferably one that Western activists already know how to hate, pressure and organize against.
That is why Palestinian victims, when Israel can be cast as an alleged perpetrator of wrongs, generate an extraordinary machinery of outrage, while Sudanese victims of genocide, Afghan women under the Taliban, Iranian protesters murdered by their own regime, or persecuted Christians in Nigeria largely do not.
Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Upset: Democrat’s Claim of Assault Isn’t Holding Up
Was there a threat of political violence against Ohio Democrat gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton over the Labor Day weekend? Or was it much ado about nothing? Acton was speaking to Democrats in a tent in Mahoning County when a man moving toward Acton caused several senior citizens to fall down.
Acton’s campaign put out a statement “praying for the recovery of those injured” and argued “This kind of violence has no place in Ohio.”
Sankofa Square’s smouldering TTC trash heap really burns candidate up
What a flaming pile of garbage!
Daniel Tate, a candidate for Toronto City Council in Ward 13, said on Friday that he was “infuriated” to see a pile of TTC trash bags ablaze at Sankofa Square in a social media video, shot by the TMU station entrance Thursday night.
Carnegie Mellon Probes Professor’s ‘Die first, white man’ Post Amid Backlash
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh is reviewing recent social media posts by Nigerian-born academic Dr. Uju Anya, calling the remarks “hostile and threatening” following intense backlash. The controversy escalated Friday after an X user shared screenshots of an exchange involving Ms. Anya. The user quoted an old post from Ms. Anya on February 17, 2021, about the late conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh. “Rush Limbaugh finally did something positive in life by dropping dead. Good Riddance to bad rubbish,” she wrote then. On Friday, the X user replied, “Weird how you only celebrate the deaths of white people. Why is that?” Ms. Anya responded, “Die first, white man, then ask yourself why I’m dancing.”
Michael Taube: Carney’s EU mistake is nearly complete
Prime Minister Mark Carney described Canada as the “most European of non-European countries” at a joint summit in Brussels last summer. This eye-raising remark led some political pundits and columnists (including me ) to speculate that his personal mission wasn’t to improve relations with the U.S., but to jump into the “waiting arms” of the European Union.
If that was his ultimate goal, it seemed rather unrealistic from the very beginning.
The Lindsay Clancy case horror: When empathy becomes child sacrifice
The ancient pagan world was full of human sacrifice. The most horrifying instance was child sacrifice. We got an inkling of this in this summer’s smash-hit The Odyssey, with the brief depiction of Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter for favorable winds.
One of the most important changes that occurred from the pagan to the monotheistic, Judeo-Christian world was the outlawing of child sacrifice. The Judeo-Christian teaching that every individual is created in the image of God meant that one’s children are not one’s property — they are not items to do with as one pleases. The teaching that all individuals are created in the image of God meant that children are equally infinitely valuable as their parents, and therefore parents have no right to sacrifice them to appease the gods, or God, no matter how spiritually or psychologically pressed the parent may feel.
As Poilievre tours U.S., Conservative MP bemoans lack of ‘alternative to the Liberals’
Conservative MP Jamil Jivani posted a video on social media bemoaning a lack of “an alternative to the Liberals” on Thursday, the same day that his party’s leader, Pierre Poilievre, launched a U.S. tour to argue for tariff-free trade.
“You have people who should be offering an alternative to the Liberals, instead going out there to appease people in positions of power,” Jivani said in a video posted on X.
The MP went on to say it’s his job and the job of the Conservative Party to offer an alternative in Ottawa.
Americans Were Hungry. FDR’s Government Was Killing Pigs to Raise Prices.
In 1933, about one-quarter of America’s workforce was unemployed. Hunger and malnutrition were widespread, families had lost homes and savings, and millions were trying to survive an economic catastrophe.
Franklin Roosevelt’s government responded to part of that crisis by paying farmers to destroy things Americans could use.
Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
Naomi Klein’s new book starts on a mountaintop with two “faithful men gathering an audience to share their vision”. It’s a vision of a paradise city, gated at every entrance, no need for weapons there, everyone in it rich. One of the men has tears in his eyes as he describes its beauty. The opening scene of End Times Fascism, co-written with Astra Taylor, is not a metaphor, however. The men are Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. The year is 2026, the mountain is Davos. The paradise city will be called New Gaza.
The World Economic Forum get-together in Davos, Switzerland, has always had a twin purpose – to provide a platform for the super-rich to describe all the good they are doing on poverty and climate, and to give us a glimpse into their enviable lives. This year what we witnessed was, quite brazenly, the world’s richest men gathering to discuss the real estate possibilities of a mass grave.