Author: Blazingcatfur

Why looting has returned to London

In a city plagued by disunity, raw power reigns

Lockdown reportedly returned to Bexleyheath on Saturday. As rumours about an impending wave of “TikTok-fuelled looting” circulated on social media, shopkeepers debated whether it was safe to unlock their doors. Eventually they did, but only after a dispersal order was issued, handing the police additional powers to snuff out antisocial behaviour. No doubt the Met’s officers hoped to avoid a repeat of the carnage that had unfolded earlier in the week, when gangs of children ran amok on Oxford Street, allegedly in the hope of ransacking a JD Sports.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it’s nothing, and he was right. — Pam Gems

… The gay rights movement succeeded in realizing its goal of removing the stigma of being a gay man. For this, I am ever grateful. I am mindful of the past–not to dwell on and wallow in emotion–but to remember it is crucial to be vigilant in the present.

This marks the return of Pongo, the Gay Gun Toting Hunting & Fishing Librarian and one of this blog’s earliest readers who offers us his take on the state of play in the LGB world.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOur World

A warning about Julius Malema, South Africa’s rising star

Malema could become deputy president in next year’s elections

“Shoot to kill! Kill the Boer, the farmer! Kill the Boer, the farmer! Brrrr! Pah! Pah!” These were the words chanted in fine voice by Julius Malema to a rapturous crowd of 100,000 at South Africa’s biggest stadium in Johannesburg on Saturday July 29. Malema was celebrating the tenth birthday of the EFF, the political party he founded and leads.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSouth Africa

The return of animal sacrifice

Net Zero is a neo-pagan religion that is seriously harming people’s liberties and livelihoods.

We look back with bewilderment at the ritual sacrifice of animals by our ancestors. Whether it was the Celtic people’s sacrifice of livestock to appease pissed-off deities or the Ancient Romans’ slaughter of oxen so that Jupiter might be more sparing with his stormy weather, it was all a bit mad. We would never be so superstitious, we tell ourselves. I’m not sure that’s true. Consider the proposed slaughter of hundreds of thousands of cattle in Europe in the holy name of Net Zero. This is the return of pagan lunacy, surely.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Transgender Movement’s Last Defenders: Parents Who ‘Transitioned’ Their Children

Imagine realizing that you failed to protect your child from medical quacks who amputated healthy body parts and left her mutilated for life.

Across Europe, the so-called ‘affirmative model’ approach to gender dysphoria, with its brutal regimens of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex change surgeries, is being abandoned. Study after study reveal that medical authorities have, at the behest of the transgender movement, been perpetrating one of the ugliest medical scandals since eugenics. Young people—children, some of them—are being castrated, mutilated by the amputation of healthy breasts, and deformed by dangerous drugs prescribed to them by medical ideologues.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

Maui Conspiracy Theories Getting Crazier and Crazier

Historian Richard Hofstadter called it “The Paranoid Style in American Politics.” The famous essay was written in 1964 and became all the rage on the left because Hofstadter only studied “interest politics” and the “authoritarian personality” on the right. At the time, the John Birch Society, with its outrageous accusations about Communists among us, were easy pickings for a public intellectual like Hofstadter.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

GOLDSTEIN: Even Harper and Freeland warned us about the WEF

The World Economic Forum is again in the news because of a Canadian Press wire story that appeared in many media outlets accusing Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives of “embracing the language of mainstream conspiracy theories.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, World Economic Forum, WTF?

Toronto school board should vet claims of staff who self-identify as Indigenous, say former student, parent

A former student and parent of Kâpapâmahchakwêw – Wandering Spirit School in Toronto are calling on Canada’s largest school board to create a policy that vets applicants who claim to be Indigenous when they’re applying for positions at Indigenous-focused schools or programs.

Michael Peters recently graduated from Wandering Spirit and says in his later years at the school, some students began to take issue with a teacher he says was “claiming to be Indigenous.”

“It really impacted the learning of the students and it really impacted the teaching of Indigenous peoples, because if these people aren’t Indigenous, how can they really teach through an Indigenous lens?”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cultural Appropriation"

Two years after Kabul’s fall, Ottawa considering expansion of Afghan carpenter immigration program

Afghan Coffin Makers

Following months of pressure from refugee advocacy groups and opposition parties, the federal government says it is thinking about increasing the number of Afghans it can bring to Canada.

“It’s safe to say publicly that we will show some flexibility,” said Immigration Minister Marc Miller, referring to the goal the Liberal Party set during the last federal election campaign of bringing 40,000 Afghan refugees to Canada.

“There is some uncertainty in the number of people obviously that assisted Canada and clearly what their family members, who their family members are, and the level of risk that those people face in that country. And it’s not like Canada will hit a number and walk away from the table.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Afghanistan, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Irving gets $463 million more from taxpayers for troubled warship program

Last week taxpayers gave almost half a billion dollars to a shipyard owned by one of Canada’s richest families.

The federal government’s news release on this new funding was barely reported on, having come in the middle of summer, when few are paying attention.

The payment of an extra $463 million to Irving Shipbuilding is to allow the firm to modernize its Halifax-area facilities so the company can build the Canadian Surface Combatants (CSC).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Punk’s fake history – The invention of a subculture

Punk was as middle-class as a Labrador in a Volvo. It was invariably the posher kids who abandoned Pink Floyd, Genesis and Yes

If you were born after 1970 and don’t remember punk, you’ve almost certainly been misled by people who do. You’ve probably been told – through countless paean-to-punk retrospectives, documentaries and newspaper culture pages ­– that it was a glorious, anarchic revolution that swept all before it. I can tell you first-hand that it wasn’t.

An unpopular opinion? Not here.

When Punk crossed over to North America I found myself confused by its appeal.

I grew up in a working class home, we we’re poor.

Punk seemed a ‘Let’s play dress-up’ celebration of poverty and futilty and not by any poor people I knew.

On weekends the girls from Oakville were to be found in downtown TO dressed fashionably “Punk” for a night out.

I get the honestly passionate adherents with much invested in fond memory.

It just wasn’t a flag I could rally round.

Today it all makes me think of an ersatz culture piece by CBC.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCulture Wars

It’s democracy in the dark without Nashville shooter manifesto’s release

“Democracy Dies in Darkness” is the (sometimes ironic) slogan of The Washington Post.

But it’s also a fair description of what’s happening in Tennessee, as the state Legislature is being called to a special session even as local and federal officials withhold information that might be critical to its decision-making.

Gov. Bill Lee ordered the special session to begin Aug. 21 in response to a March 27 mass shooting in which three adults and three children at the Covenant School, a Christian school in Nashville’s Green Hills neighborhood, were killed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Shooting", USA

San Francisco: An iconic retailer pens a scathing letter to the city and state government on public safety.

San Francisco’s “Tyranny of the Minority”

San Francisco has its share of untouchable landmarks. Cable cars, the Golden Gate Bridge—and Gump’s. This iconic retailer has been through multiple transformations since its inception in 1861. It’s currently located in a smallish space on Post Street in Union Square, but its presence in the city looms much larger in terms of civic pride. The store epitomizes a uniquely San Franciscan version of elegance and style.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Progressive Paradise", "Urban Dystopia"