Y2Kyoto: Schadenfrozen

Schnell! Schnell! Zey must build more wind farms!

Amid the flickering of flares and torches, many of the 1,600 people losing their jobs stood stone-faced as the glowing metal of the plant’s last product — a steel pipe — was smoothed to a perfect cylinder on a rolling mill. The ceremony ended a 124-year run that began in the heyday of German industrialization and weathered two world wars, but couldn’t survive the aftermath of the energy crisis. […]

The underpinnings of Germany’s industrial machine have fallen like dominoes. The US is drifting away from Europe and is seeking to compete with its transatlantic allies for climate investment. China is becoming a bigger rival and is no longer an insatiable buyer of German goods. The final blow for some heavy manufacturers was the end of huge volumes of cheap Russian natural gas.

Enjoy the decline.

Tantrum Time

Faced with the news that his media water-carriers are in financial trouble, Maximum Leader publicly berates them for failing to conjure up non-existent customers. Not at all shocking for a man who sees no need for boundaries between the state and the economy.

A fired-up Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unleashed on Bell on Friday, calling its move to layoff thousands of employees — including hundreds of journalists — a “garbage decision.”

“I’m pretty pissed off about what’s just happened,” Trudeau said during a press conference in Toronto.

“This is the erosion not just of journalism, of quality local journalism at a time where people need it more than ever, given misinformation and disinformation…. It’s eroding our very democracy, our abilities to tell stories to each other.”

(From Kate) Drama Queen: the PM had at least 16 weeks statutory notice from Bell about layoffs of this magnitude so “garbage decision” & “pretty pissed off” were hardly “from the heart”.

Putin’s Propaganda Present

Well done Mr. Prime Minister. And of course lets not forget the small army of geniuses in the PMO who signed off on this as well. You’ve made all of us so very proud to be Canadians (again).

National Post- Vladimir Putin brings up Canada’s applause for ex-Nazi in Tucker Carlson interview

Ezra Levant- Trudeau is personally responsible for granting Putin his sharpest propaganda talking point.

Sun- Putin makes Canada’s embarrassing ‘Nazi in parliament’ story worldwide news

Globe and Mail- Canadians won’t be fooled by Putin propaganda on Ukraine, Trudeau says

Globe and Mail- Prime Minister invited Waffen-SS veteran Hunka to his official reception for Zelensky

Soylent Cow

The garden utopia is not blooming as we were promised;

Plant-based meat spiked in popularity in 2016 when the Impossible Burger and the Beyond Burger — both made to look and taste like beef — launched and gained mainstream media attention. Some ingredients that make up plant-based meat include soy, potato, pea protein, artificial flavors, coconut oil, beans, etc.

Now, start-up companies who produce plant-based meat products are experimenting with blending animal fat into plant-based ingredients as they are now prioritizing taste over sustainability, according to the Post. Companies also don’t mind straying away from its vegan and vegetarian customers as they are more interested in reaching a larger base of consumers.

According to a recent Gallup survey, in the United States, only 4% of Americans claim they are vegetarian and 1% vegan, revealing a slight decline to figures that were seen in previous years. In 2018, 5% of Americans in the survey claimed they were vegetarian, and 3% said they were vegan.

Master Plan for Humanity: I’ll eat the still-beating hearts of my enemies before I eat bugs.

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