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Report on the City of Ottawa's unhinged from reality Climate Change Master Plan

Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland
You are excused if you are feeling a little schophrenic over our Western leaders' utterings of late. It is a sign of a good mental health in the bizarro world that we currently inhabit.


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The City of Ottawa's Climate Change Master Plan: Infeasible and Damaging to Ottawans, the Environment and Human Rights

ICSC-Canada has examined the City of Ottawa's Climate Change Master Plan and has found it to be infeasible and dangerous to the well-being of Ottawa's residents and the environment.

Click the link below to read ICSC-Canada's report on the City's plan.

Report

Read a summary of the report in the World Commerce Review here.

Comment:
Piet de Wit wind farm
Via: epaw.org
From IWB:
Ottawa's $60 Billion Climate Change Master Plan

September 3, 2022 9:00 pm by IWB

You just can't make this up....

the construction of 710 wind turbines within the city limits
banning the use of gas powered cars

and much more...




Bad Guys

Democracy? Kiev threatens Ukrainians who vote pro-Russia with jail terms

flag of the Donetsk People's Republic
© Getty Images / SOPA Images / ContributorSoldiers flying the flag of the Donetsk People's Republic
Ukraine's deputy prime minister warns that voting in referendums in Moscow-controlled territories is a criminal offence

Ukrainian citizens risk criminal prosecution and a jail time of up to 12 years if they participate in referendums on joining Russia, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk warned on Saturday.

"There are not and will not be any referendums on our Ukrainian land," Vereshchuk stated during a national broadcast.

Pro-Russian authorities in the Zaporozhye, Kharkov and Kherson Regions, as well the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, previously spoke of potentially holding referendums on uniting with Russia, but so far no dates have been set.

Comment: The threats are currently aimed at the Kherson Oblast which has made it clear it intends to vote on, and the join the Russian Federation.


Quenelle

Russia to suspend oil supplies to states that impose restrictions on price of its oil

Druzhba oil pipeline
© ReutersThe receiver station of the Druzhba oil pipeline between Hungary and Russia is seen at the Hungarian MOL Group's Danube Refinery in Szazhalombatta, Hungary, on May 18, 2022.
The Russian government has warned that it will suspend oil exports to states that impose a price cap on Russian energy resources, after Western powers announced that they are intending to take such a measure.

"We will simply not supply oil and petroleum products to such companies or states that impose restrictions, as we will not work non-competitively," Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told reporters Thursday.

Novak called the restrictions "completely absurd" measures and warned that price ceilings will significantly destabilize the oil markets.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also told reporters in a conference call that only the European people are paying the price for such measures.

Eye 1

Birds of a feather: Biden, remaking climate team, picks John Podesta to guide spending

john podesta
© Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesJohn Podesta was a top adviser to President Barack Obama, chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and campaign chairman for Hillary Clinton.
Mr. Podesta, a Democratic stalwart, will oversee $370 billion in clean energy investments. Gina McCarthy, the president's domestic climate adviser, is stepping down.

President Biden on Friday appointed John Podesta, a veteran Washington insider who spearheaded the Obama administration's climate strategy, to oversee the federal investment of $370 billion in clean energy under a landmark new climate law.

As a senior adviser to Mr. Biden on clean energy innovation, Mr. Podesta will shape how the government disburses billions of dollars in tax credits and incentives to industries that are developing wind and solar energy, as well as to consumers who want to install solar panels, heat and cool their homes with electric heat pumps or buy electric vehicles.

Comment: So they put Podesta in charge $370 billion that he can distribute to all his friends with 'green energy' companies. The climate is as good as saved.

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Russian Flag

Kremlin reveals details of latest Ukrainian assault near Zaporozhye nuclear plant

russia soldiers guardZaporozhye nuclear power plant Ukraine
© Konstantin MihalchevskiyRussian servicemen on the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
The assault was attempted despite the presence of IAEA inspectors at the facility, Russian defense ministry says

Russia's defense ministry has confirmed that Ukraine has made yet another attempt to take over the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant late on Friday, revealing some details of Kiev's operation, which failed.

Over 40 motor boats, divided into two groups and carrying over 250 Ukrainian special operations troops and foreign mercenaries, tried to land on the coast of the Kakhovka reservoir not far from Energodar, host city of the nuclear power plant, a ministry statement said on Saturday.

Comment: The second attempt only confirms the insanity of those 'guiding' Ukraine's military actions:
Kiev attempts new raid near Zaporozhye nuclear plant - local official Russian forces allegedly repelled several groups of Ukrainian commandos in speed boats

Ukrainian forces launched another attempted raid on the Russian-held town of Energodar shortly after midnight on Saturday, after shelling the area in the vicinity of Zaporozhye nuclear plant, according to a top local official.

Several sabotage groups used at least 15 speedboats in an attempt to cross the Kakhovka Reservoir, local military-civilian administration member Vladimir Rogov claimed.

The groups were allegedly seeking to land in three different locations - the nuclear city of Energodar itself, and the nearby towns of Vasilyevka and Dneproprudnoye.

The first unverified reports of multiple speedboats moving out from the Ukraine-controlled shore of the reservoir emerged around midnight, coinciding with allegations of renewed shelling of the city of Energodar. After receiving and confirming information about the swarm of boats, Russian forces allegedly deployed Ka-52 attack helicopters and successfully repelled the attempted assault, Rogov said in a follow-up Telegram post around 2:45am.

The Russian Defense Ministry is expected to share more details about the engagement soon, he added.



Black Magic

Biden shocks viewers with 'hellish red background' for polarizing speech

biden speech red background vendetta
Biden gives an unsettling speech on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022
Biden sent critics rushing to Twitter with thoughts on the ominous red lighting

President Biden's polarizing speech on Thursday night sent social media ablaze with a glowing "blood red" background that stunned viewers.

Biden aimed to frame the state of U.S. politics as a battle between "equality and democracy" and a GOP allegedly assaulting those principles in a campaign-style speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, with a widely criticized background that included ominous red lighting.

"The fact that this isn't photoshopped is surreal," Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy tweeted.
"Every time I think Biden and crew can't be dumber they outdo themselves. Seriously who gives a speech warning people about how dangerous Republicans are to Democracy while having a background that looks like the Soviet Union and Hitler had a baby?"

Comment: Some panicked theater major at CNN must have realized the lighting for Biden's speech was Not A Good Look:
CNN accused of editing Biden's BLOOD RED background for dark speech targeting conservatives

Amidst President Joe Biden's speech on Thursday night regarding the "Soul of the Nation," in which he sent a majority of the speech declaring MAGA Republicans an enemy of the state, CNN was exposed changing the color of lights in the background from a harsher blood red color to a softer hot pink.

In a feed from the White House, Biden was seen standing in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the historic building bathed in red light.

In CNN's feed, the video can be seen shifting colors just before the 20 minute mark of Biden's speech, with Biden saying, "Democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election. Either they win, or they were cheated, and that's where the MAGA Republicans are today."


The remainder of CNN's feed of the speech continued with the building being bathed in pink light, with Biden's skin tone changing to a pinker hue as well.

CNN was called out for the action on social media, with Twitter users saying the move to shift the colors came as a way to make Biden's speech come across as less harsh, even as he told the nation that MAGA Republicans represent the most extreme threat to the nation's democracy.





During his primetime speech, Biden told the nation that "as I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault."

"Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic," he declared.

Biden said that he believes the country is at an "inflection point," and that Americans "must choose to move forward, or to move backwards to build a future obsessed about the past, to be a nation of hope and unity and optimism or a nation of fear and division and of darkness.

"MAGA Republicans have made their choice. They embrace anger. They thrive on chairs. They live not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies," he said.
Trump weighed in on the event:
Donald Trump launched a seething attack on President Joe Biden where he branded him 'insane' and asked if he was 'suffering from late stage dementia' after the president claimed he was a 'threat to democracy'.

The furious former president took to his Truth Social account to slam the 'awkward and angry' speech outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia - and called on someone to explain to his successor what MAGA means, 'slowly but passionately'.

The late night rant also saw him accuse the 79-year-old of 'threatening America, including with the possible use of military force' as he fought back at the brutal address to the nation.
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© Donald Trump/Truth Social
trump biden vendetta speech
© Donald Trump/Truth Social
Surrounded by an almost dystopian backdrop of two Marines standing at attention outside the auditorium - in a break from White House traditions - Biden, 79, relentlessly bashed his predecessor before being interrupted by a male heckler.

'F**k Joe Biden!' the jeerer can be heard shouting in a clip of the outdoor procession, during which the politician compared his 2020 election against Trump as a battle for the 'soul of the nation.' The profane chant - which was accompanied by shouts of the now-notorious anti-Biden rallying cry 'Let's Go Brandon' as well as sounds of a megaphone siren - interrupted the speech twice, both times garnering a response from the president. 'They're entitled to be outrageous, Biden said of the unrest, which seemed to spread like wildfire amid the politician's apparent frustration with the poor reception. This is a democracy,' he added, before laying into his detractors. 'Good manners is nothing they've ever suffered from.'


Ron DeSantis, an ardent supporter of Trump also spoke out:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis explained why President Biden's Thursday speech was "one of the most disgusting speeches an American president has ever given" Friday on The Ingraham Angle.


GOV. RON DESANTIS: [Biden's speech] was one of the most disgusting speeches an American president has ever given. He ran as being a unifier, and he's basically saying to the vast majority of the country that disapproves of him that they're effectively a threat to the republic. He dodders, he lashes out. But at the end of the day, his policies are why there's so much opposition to him.

He came in and he opened the border, and we've seen what a disaster that's been. He kneecapped American energy. We've seen how that's hurt millions and millions of people across our country. They've inflated the currency. We have one of the worst inflations we've had in over 40 years. So of course, people are going to be upset at all the wreckage that he's left in his wake. He is the American Nero. He's a failed leader.



Arrow Down

The Biden regime collapses the 'public'-'private' distinction - Opinion

Biden
© Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesU.S. President Joe Biden
On Thursday, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who is also the Show Me State's candidate for U.S. Senate this November, unveiled some very interesting documents that his office, along with the office of Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, have received since the two states jointly filed a potentially pathbreaking lawsuit in May. Their lawsuit alleges that various high-ranking Biden administration officials have been colluding, in censorious fashion, with the purportedly "private" oligarchs of Big Tech. The straightforward aim of this collusion is the suppression of the dissident "wrongthink" — viz., conservative speech — that threatens the Biden Regime's tenuous grasp on power.

The documents Schmitt and Landry have received, pursuant to their serving of discovery requests and issuing of third-party subpoenas, shine a spotlight on the depths to which the Biden Regime has fallen to collapse any putative distinction between the "public" sector and the "private" sector. Their findings thus far in this still-pending litigation reveal to all, as if we needed more evidence but a week after Mark Zuckerberg's podcast confession heard 'round the world with popular host Joe Rogan, the extent to which Big Tech platforms such as Facebook and Twitter no longer qualify as meaningfully "private" and have instead simply become appendages of the state.

Nuke

Ukraine admits shelling area around nuclear plant

2nd reactor
© Sputnik2nd reactor at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
The Ukrainian military publicly admitted striking the area around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in an official General Staff briefing on Friday. Previously, Kiev had claimed that Russian forces used the plant as a military base; now it says all troops have relocated due to the visit by IAEA inspectors.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the daily briefing said:
"In the areas of the settlements of Kherson and Energodar, accurate strikes by our troops destroyed three enemy artillery systems, as well as an ammunition depot and up to a company of personnel."
The military also claimed that, due to the arrival of the IAEA inspection team:
"The Russian occupiers removed all military equipment from the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. About 100 units moved to the plant 'Atom Energomash' and the rest were dispersed in the nearest settlements."

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Sherlock

Russia postpones Nord Stream I reopening after discovering 'oil leaks' in the turbine leaving the West without a critical source of gas

Nord Stream 1
© REUTERS/Hannibal HanschkePipes at the landfall facilities of the 'Nord Stream 1' gas pipline in Lubmin

Pipes at the landfall facilities of the 'Nord Stream 1' gas pipeline are pictured in Lubmin, Germany, March 8, 2022.
Russian gas giant Gazprom will completely shut down the Nord Stream pipeline, until a turbine is repaired - even though services were due to resume on Saturday after a maintenance operation.

In a statement, Gazprom said it had discovered "oil leaks" in the turbine during the maintenance tasks, and that "until the repair (...) the transport of gas via Nord Stream is completely suspended."

Gazprom said it had discovered the new problems during a technical inspection with representatives of the German group Siemens, which manufactured the turbine.

Comment: To intentionally make the situation worse is not really Russia's way of doing business, although it would be understandable if they did decide to give Europe an early taste of what being left without NS1 could be like; one could even say that doing so, prior to the much riskier winter period, could actually be an act of mercy. That said, it's also possible that Western incompetence and corruption, or even sabotage, is partly to blame for the delay in reopening.


Sheriff

UN thanks Russia for keeping nuclear team safe during Ukrainian attack on Zaporozhye nuclear power plant

zaporozhye nuclear plant
© Sputnik / Konstantin MihalchevskiyThis aerial view shows the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant located in the steppe zone on the shore of the Kakhovsky reservoir in the city of Energodar, Zaporozhye region, Ukraine.
The UN appreciates Russia's efforts to safeguard the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team that came to inspect the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, on Thursday.

That's according to the secretary-general's chief spokesman, who was speaking after the Russian Defense Ministry said it was "bewildered" at the lack of reaction to an alleged Ukrainian attempt to seize the facility by force.

Comment: For more on the urgency behind Russia's invite to the IAEA, see: Inspectors set to visit Russian-controlled nuclear plant amidst increased shelling by Ukraine