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‘San Francisco is dying’: Before and after video shows the mass exodus of huge brands

Before and after pictures have laid bare the mass exodus of huge brands from the city of San Francisco.

The video, made up of Google Maps screen grabs, shows large chain stores like Target and CVS before and after they moved out of the city.

Hordes of brand names including the likes of Whole Food and Nordstrom have recently moved out of the California city amid widespread crime and plummeting footfall.

San Francisco's retail stores… before and after. pic.twitter.com/B7pdyY69cs

— Ben Kew 🏌️‍♂️ (@ben_kew) August 13, 2023

Urban progressives blast the unsafe cities that THEY created

The capital of the most powerful and prosperous country to ever grace Earth is an unpleasant — even unlivable — place to call home.

Over the past decade, Washington, DC, has transformed from a beautiful, bustling and vibrant metropolis into a city that often feels like a rip-off of Batman’s Gotham.

Between 2013 and 2019, DC recorded between 104 and 166 homicides per year.

by Blazingcatfur•August 14, 2023August 13, 2023•0•"Progressive Paradise"

Why didn’t the West condemn Trudeau for debanking his citizens?

The outrage at the Coutts/NatWest debanking scandal in the United Kingdom does not align with the complete disinterest in Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s debanking of an entire political caste.

It was entirely appropriate for people to express their horror upon discovering banks were routinely passing moral judgment on the politics of their customers. It was correct for the British government to panic and swear to fix the problem (even though they low-key endorsed ESG practices for years). If restrictions are placed on banks in the future, especially relating to their licences, this will mark progress in the protection of citizen rights.

by Blazingcatfur•August 14, 2023August 13, 2023•0•"Cancel Culture", "Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Techno-Hell: Utah and Oregon Now Require GPS Trackers on EVs in Lieu of Registration Fee, Tax Drivers by the Mile

State governments have historically generated revenue to maintain roads, traffic lights, and the like by adding a tax at the pump. Owing to the federal government-prodded transition to electric vehicles (EVs) to combat something called “climate change,” states stand to lose out on this source of revenue as EVs obviously don’t require gasoline to operate.

by Blazingcatfur•August 14, 2023August 13, 2023•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Surveillance Society"

11 Parliamentarians Demand Investigation Into Why Hong Kong Police Were Granted Visas to Attend Winnipeg Games

Eleven parliamentarians from different parties have united in calling on cabinet ministers to investigate why visa waivers were issued to nearly 300 Hong Kong police to attend a sporting event in Winnipeg.

Members of the Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) attended the World Police and Fire Games (WPFG) in Winnipeg that ran from July 28 to Aug. 6, despite protests from local Hong Kong communities.

by Blazingcatfur•August 14, 2023August 13, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Have Bombed on TikTok

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are the most talked about royals on TikTok “but the conversation tends quite negative” while “the overall consensus is that they seem to favor Kate” over Meghan, research conducted on behalf of Newsweek shows.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have consistently targeted younger audiences, including via a recent project on AI and technology, so some might assume they are more popular in the places Gen Z spends its time.

by Blazingcatfur•August 14, 2023August 13, 2023•0•"Woke Royals"

Justin Trudeau is under fire for Ottawa’s lacklustre response to the housing crisis. Here is what’s going so wrong

Sure, it’s advertised at more than $82 billion in loans and cash. But the federal government’s national housing plan is little help to Pastor Alexander Wilson.

He and his dwindling congregation at St. Stephen’s Presbyterian Church in Scarborough want to raze their long-standing site of worship and build an apartment complex in its place. It wasn’t an easy decision, but Wilson said some in his flock have turned their minds to what they might leave behind “once they’re finished here on Earth.” Their latest plan is for 111 units, with about a third of them offering rents below market rates. They also hope future residents might join them in a new church space on the main floor.

by Blazingcatfur•August 14, 2023August 13, 2023•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Douglas Todd: Vancouver authors pour out books on China’s impact

Many local authors are currently producing hard-hitting books about China’s sway on Canada and the world.

As Ottawa finally debates launching an inquiry into China’s interference in Canadian elections, three Vancouver-based journalists have been at the forefront of getting Canadians and others up to speed on the global impact of China’s increasingly authoritarian leaders.

by Blazingcatfur•August 14, 2023August 13, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

World Sports Organizations Wake Up to the Absurdity of Trans-Athlete Policies

Fairness for women athletes doesn’t consist in simply suppressing testosterone levels in male athletes. Male advantages over females persist, to say nothing of the insulting suggestion that male mediocrity is equivalent to female excellence. This ought to be obvious, but it has taken several high-profile cases of male athletes’ disrupting female competitions for sports-governing bodies to confront the absurdity of their policies.

by Blazingcatfur•August 14, 2023August 13, 2023•0•Big Tranny

The left-wing Doomsday cult

IT’S difficult to believe, but at one time left-wing politics involved serious discussion by serious people about serious topics such as the nationalisation of industry, union rights and working conditions, or the creation of new towns and transport links. Earnest people got into the complexities of big issues. Today woke left-wing politics seems to embody catastrophic reactions to every cause.

by Blazingcatfur•August 14, 2023August 13, 2023•0•Batshit Crazy Progressives

Lefty long knives come out for Kamala

With Joe Biden’s physical and mental health an obvious issue, his and sex and race-driven choice of Kamala Harris as his veep is worrisome for the less delusional Democrats. They know that the prospect of her inheriting the presidency might scare away some voters from a ticket headed by a then-80 year old in 2024, or if, God forbid, Biden’s life were cut short after the nominating convention, they would be stuck with an obviously imbecilic candidate.

by Blazingcatfur•August 14, 2023August 13, 2023•0•USA

All-Cause Mortality Soars 45% in Children & Young Adults since Early 2021, CDC Data Shows

All-cause mortality rates in babies, children, teenagers, and young adults have soared by a staggering 45 percent since early 2021, new official data has revealed.

New data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows an alarming spike in deaths for the 0-24 age group.

The CDC data reveals a sharp uptick of 44.8% in excess mortality in the 0-24 age range beginning in early 2021.

by Blazingcatfur•August 14, 2023August 13, 2023•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Canada: New Democratic Party Seeks Probe on Election Interference by Iran

A report by Iran International, “Canadian Party Seeks Probe On Election Interference By Iran,” states that Canada’s Conservatives and Bloc Québécois MPs have voted in favor of a New Democratic Party (NDP) motion to probe election interference by Iran. Although other countries are also cited in the motion, the biggest scandal to date over 2019 and 2021 election interference in Canada is over possible meddling from China, and for good reason. Frank Gaffney interviewed me about the topic HERE, and an update can be read HERE. The focus of this article, however, is Iran, given its broader influence in Canada (and the implications of that influence) since the Trudeau government took power. This should not be ignored, particularly in light of the most recent revelation about possible election interference by the Islamic regime.

by Blazingcatfur•August 14, 2023August 13, 2023•0•Canada, WTF?

How the West plays up to Putin’s caricature

Drag Queens entice a sexually aroused Justin Trudeau as he abandons all decorum while prancing about at a Gay Pride event.

We are putting on a collective spectacle of self-destruction, degeneracy and spiritual vapidity

In an outstanding article in the New York Times, Roger Cohen recounted his experience of traveling across Russia for a full month, and hats off to the veteran journalist for risking a shared cell with the Wall Street Journal “spy” Evan Gershkovich.

Cohen explains that Vladimir Putin is successfully flogging his war in Ukraine to the Russian people as a battle against the whole spiritually depraved West, no longer the home of ruthless capitalism but of “sex changes, the rampages of drag queens, barbaric gender debates and an LGBTQ takeover.” In a tirade last November, Putin lambasted the US and “other unfriendly foreign states” for “selfishness, permissiveness, immorality, the denial of the ideals of patriotism” and “destruction of the traditional family through the promotion of nontraditional sexual relations.”

You must admit, he’s got a point.

by Blazingcatfur•August 14, 2023August 13, 2023•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Hollywood strike loses sparkle as it turns into a soap opera

Activists bemoan a lack of A-listers on the picket lines

Amonth after the actors’ union joined the Hollywood writers’ strike the first flush of defiance has faded and the sniping has set in.

“I’m not going to name names, but there have been so many times where the photographer turns up 15 minutes before someone famous arrives,” said a screenwriter who has been marching outside the Warner Bros studios in Burbank, northwest Los Angeles, since the beginning of May. “You know it’s not a coincidence. It’s obvious they have been tipped off.”

by Blazingcatfur•August 13, 2023August 13, 2023•0•Hollywood

The treachery of the atheists

Why so many rationalist bros have fallen for the hocus pocus of the trans cult.

We are living through a great showdown between hysteria and reason. On one side stand the adherents to the cult of transgenderism, hawking their hocus pocus about gendered souls and self-authentication through castration. On the other side stand those of us who know that biology is real, and that every cell in the human body is sexed, and that a man is as likely to become a woman as that chalice of wine is to become the blood of Christ during Mass (apologies, Catholics).

by Blazingcatfur•August 13, 2023August 13, 2023•0•Big Tranny