Author: Blazingcatfur

Party’s over at Spotify as celebrity podcast deals fall flat

Coldplay, Kasabian, Kylie Minogue, Slash, Meghan Trainor, Tom Odell. It sounds like a Glastonbury line-up, but it’s actually a list of some of the acts who graced the kitchen of Spotify’s old London office. As the Swedish company grew to become the undisputed king of streaming, it would wheel in some of the biggest names in music to perform for its staff at lunchtime on Argyll Street.

So stunning was one Kasabian gig that some of the 200 or so people watching in the canteen were left in tears, an employee remembers. Another time, Coldplay turned up having just played to 100,000 fans in Sydney two days earlier. Odell enjoyed his canteen set so much, he carried on busking in front of the office.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

The climate scaremongers: Greta’s fake ‘arrest’

YOU may have read about Greta Thunberg’s arrest last week at a demonstration in Germany against a new lignite mine which will obliterate a village and a wind farm.

Irritated that by suggestions that the scene involving their golden girl was stage-managed, the BBC rushed out a report by ‘climate disinformation reporter’ Merlyn Thomas: ‘German police have denied being “extras for Greta Thunberg” after false claims that her detainment at a protest in western Germany was staged. “We would never give ourselves to make such recordings,” a spokesperson for local police told the BBC, denying allegations that Ms Thunberg’s detainment was fake.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

How an Oligarch May Have Recruited the F.B.I. Agent Who Investigated Him

The Federal Bureau of Investigation tried to recruit Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian billionaire, as an informant around 2014, hoping he might shed light on organized crime and, later, possible interference in the presidential election.

A decade later, Mr. Deripaska may have turned the tables on the F.B.I.: Prosecutors say the oligarch recruited one of the bureau’s top spy catchers, just as he entered retirement, to carry out work that they say violated U.S. sanctions.

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

Shhh! Nobody Talk About World War III

As West’s ruling class leads us closer to the brink of nuclear conflict with Russia, dissent can barely be heard

… Yesterday I wrote about how Hungarian PM Viktor Orban said the West’s sending tanks to Ukraine is another sign that we are in a real war with Russia. To be clear, Orban thinks this is an extremely bad idea! His point is that led by the United States, NATO countries are bumbling into an honest-to-God war with nuclear-armed Russia, over Ukraine.

I can’t get this out of my mind … because it’s true. 

h/t XC

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

Prince Harry and the trouble with therapy

He is living proof that oversharing and introspection can make your problems a whole lot worse.

Following the publication of Prince Harry’s colourful memoir, Spare, we might wonder whether he is the first person in history to kiss-and-tell on himself. The Duke’s well-publicised desire for privacy does not sit easily with his book’s many intimate confessions, some of them tragic, many of them tawdry. Like flies on a sun-kissed wall at one of his Montecito therapy sessions, millions of readers worldwide have now basked in Harry’s detailed revelations. He has long advocated talking positively about mental health. But now his revelations are raising many questions about the success, or otherwise, of psychotherapy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"

As B.C.’s decriminalization pilot project takes hold, political hopes collide with public fears

Police forces across British Columbia are finalizing training on new drug laws that will limit or entirely cease their interactions with people who use drugs as the province becomes the first in Canada to decriminalize simple possession.

The legal change, which takes effect Tuesday, marks a monumental shift in policing drug-related offences. While many police departments have in recent years moved away from arresting and recommending charges for possession alone, officers will now also stop confiscating illegal drugs – a standard practice they have known their whole careers.

Vancouver Homeless Downtown Eastside

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDrug Legalization, Drugs

Justin Trudeau’s MPs are more nervous than ever about the Liberal party

MONTREAL—On Monday, Justin Trudeau’s government will enter a make-or-break parliamentary season. Given the average life of past minority governments, this could well be the last full year of the prime minister’s third term. More than a few Liberals fear it could also be the closing chapter of their party’s tenure in power.

Back in 2015, Trudeau rode to power on a cyclical wave of change. In the next election, the Liberals will be running against the tide. In recent Canadian history, no federal incumbent has ever managed to win a fourth consecutive term. This prime minister has never lost a political battle, but there is a first time for everything.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Vietnam and Ukraine

Fifty years after America signed the Paris Peace Accords with Vietnam, the pact is a reminder that Congress is capable of abandoning an ally in the middle of a war.

The thing to remember — on the anniversary of the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, a catastrophic compromise forced by America on the government of Free Vietnam — is that it could yet happen in respect of Ukraine. This time the pressure for a negotiated settlement is coming, at least in part, from the right. Senator Rand Paul, the libertarian-type Republican, just offered another warning against the war in Ukraine becoming “endless.”

So left or right, it is a possibility — slim at the moment, but history teaches to beware — that Congress will get tired of this war and end the support. Even if no GIs ever go to Ukraine. This is one of the great lessons of Vietnam. It wasn’t about saving our GIs there. American combat soldiers were long since withdrawn from Vietnam when Congress cut off military support for the Free Vietnamese forces.

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

UK: Police applicants ‘functionally illiterate in English accepted in bid to improve diversity’

Applicants to the police who can barely write in English are being accepted by the Met in an attempt to improve diversity, one of His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary has warned.

HMI Matt Parr said that while it was entirely “noble and right” that Scotland Yard was aiming to be more representative of the community it policed, it should not be at the expense of standards.

In 2021, Dame Cressida Dick, the then Met Commissioner, declared it was the force’s aspiration to recruit 40 per cent of its officers from the black and ethnic minority communities by 2023.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion", WTF?

Trailblazer: Canada’s Trudeau Appoints ‘Special Representative for Fighting Islamophobia’

Justin “Fidelito” Trudeau has once again shown himself to be among the cutting-edge Leftist leaders of the world and set an example for Canada’s neighboring colossus to the south by appointing the Canadian government’s first-ever “special representative for fighting Islamophobia.” What a relief, eh, that a government is finally tackling this phenomenon with the full power of the state! The only problem is that the record of such programs, at least in the United States, generally shows that when the government vows to stamp out something, it creates more of it instead. Remember the War on Poverty? The War on Drugs? Canada’s new war on “Islamophobia” is unlikely to be different.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, WTF?

Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre attacked each other in duelling speeches. We break down their war of words

OTTAWA—Duelling speeches from the leaders of the governing and official opposition parties made it crystal clear Friday how each intend to attack the other when federal lawmakers head back to Parliament next week.

Here’s a comparative look at how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre threw down their gauntlets in speeches to their caucuses in Ottawa.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

The strange reaction to the death of a child rapist drag queen

Darren Moore – child rapist – drag queen

On Sunday 22 January 2023, Darren Moore was found dead. Moore was a long-standing and well-known drag artist in Cardiff where he lived.

He was also a convicted child rapist.

But this chilling fact has been almost entirely ignored by the mainstream media as they report his death. Instead, the commentary and news coverage has been hugely positive about Moore’s life. At times, the coverage has bordered on gushing, with article after article going into great detail about the warm tributes to Moore pouring in from the local community.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"They really do want your children", Big Tranny