Author: Blazingcatfur

Hollywood Laments: Directors for Top-Grossing 2022 Films Were Too White and Male

When it comes to diversity, Hollywood is having trouble practicing what it preaches.

The entertainment industry is failing spectacularly in its efforts to diversify its behind-the-camera talent, with a new study showing that the number of female and minority movie directors employed by the studios actually dropped in 2022.

I’ll keep offering my advice until Hollywood wises up.

Whether you’re doing a historic period piece such as Ivanhoe or adapting a classic piece of theatre for the screen such as “Hedda Gabler” make sure to add LGBTQ racialized dwarves and elves into the mix, not just as main characters but also as directors. You can thank me later Hollywood.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHollywood

John Ivison: Trudeau’s pursuit of wedge politics has cost Canadians their national pride

OTTAWA — British etymologist Susie Dent offered the archaic best wishes of “respair” (fresh hope) and “respiscence” (a return to a better frame of mind) on social media as we entered the new year.

But for Canadian political watchers, the mood was likely closer to another of Dent’s obsolete nouns — “humdudgeon,” an imaginary illness caused by a sense of it all being over, pending a return to a gloomy reality.

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

Teacher wins free speech case after wearing Trump-themed hat to school’s staff cultural sensitivity and racial bias indoctrination session

A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a former teacher in Vancouver, Washington, concluding that his wearing a hat supporting Donald Trump to school was protected speech under the first amendment.

Documents from the ninth circuit court of appeals show that Eric Dodge, a science teacher, brought the Make America Great Again baseball cap to an Evergreen Public Schools building twice before the 2019-2020 school year.

According to the Columbian newspaper, the first occasion was a staff-only cultural sensitivity and racial bias training.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Justin’s CBC Warns – Stop being mean to Justin! … Canada is picking up the political radicalization bug from the U.S., says report

” … The media environment in Canada, and the social media environment in Canada is increasingly resembling the media and social media environment in the United States,” Bremmer said Tuesday.

“It is dysfunctional. It is rife with disinformation. It is deeply polarized. [The online discourse] is a bunch of people that do not reflect the average Canadian, do not reflect the average American in both countries.”

Policy issues, especially energy and climate change, are being weaponized in Canada for political gain at the expense of national unity, he added.

“The realities of the business models of media and social media in both countries move people and empower people that engage with the radical right and left,” Bremmer said.

I bet Katie Telford has this guy in her Rolodex.

A whiff of the WEF about this fellow. The Eurasia Group’s founder Ian Bremmer has a show on PBS.

Typically he blames everyone but Trudeau for weaponizing climate change despite Junior being responsible for pushing a radical economy wrecking extremist climate policy. As pointed out by commenters Butts and Solomon work for this outfit, in other words the CBC and LPC have colluded to present Liberal Party propaganda as “news.” The Ceeb needs to be sold off yesterday.

“Polarization” means you refuse to kowtow to the extremist left.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Disinformation", "extremists", Canada, USA, WTF?

If not Kevin McCarthy for US House Speaker, then who else?

Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has failed to be elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives – but if not him, who else could fill the role?

After three consecutive rounds of voting on Tuesday, the first day of a new Congress, Mr McCarthy fell short of the 218 votes he needed to clinch the job.

Until the House has its presiding officer in place, the body is not swearing in its new members or moving on with its legislative business.

The voting will continue on Wednesday and the California congressman insists he can eventually win over his detractors.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Pretendian Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond no longer employed by UBC … and then there was the Queer Native Cuban Jewess!

High-profile professor and former judge Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond is no longer employed at the University of British Columbia (UBC), according to an official with the institution.

The university says that as of Dec.16, Turpel-Lafond is no longer a professor in the Peter A. Allard School of Law.

When asked why, a spokesperson said, “I’m afraid I cannot provide those details due to privacy law.”

Even better… Wisconsin art leader accused of faking Native American heritage: report

The co-owner of a queer Indigenous artists’ collective in Wisconsin is facing accusations of being white after claiming to hold Native American heritage, according to a report.

Kay LeClaire, who identifies as non-binary, allegedly faked their indigenous heritage and used the front to make money, according to a local outlet.

LeClaire was accused in an online forum of actually being white after claiming since 2017 they were of Metis, Oneida, Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, Cuban and Jewish heritage, Madison 365 reported on Tuesday.

What’s with these crazy white women?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cultural Appropriation", WTF?

Doctor accused of intentionally driving Tesla off cliff in Calif. with wife, kids

The driver of a Tesla that plunged 250 feet off a notorious California cliff Monday has been arrested — after authorities say he intentionally drove over the edge with his wife and two children inside the car.

Dharmesh Patel, a 41-year-old physician from Pasadena, will be booked on attempted murder and child abuse charges once he is out of a hospital, the California Highway Patrol said in a statement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

China Blames Infections ‘Imported’ from America for Coronavirus Disaster

The Chinese Communist Party’s effort to blame its titanic coronavirus disaster on its own people, because they foolishly challenged the wisdom of dictator Xi Jinping’s endless lockdowns, apparently is not going well.

On Monday, the state-run Global Times took a stab at blaming “imported cases” for the tidal wave of Chinese coronavirus sickness and death sweeping across China.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"

What Canadians want in 2023: A chance to vote out Trudeau

Only 15 months after experiencing one of the most inconsequential elections in history, Canadians are apparently willing to try again.

Nearly half (49 per cent) of Canadians want a federal election in 2023, according to a poll conducted just before Christmas by Ipsos. What’s more, 54 per cent of respondents would want that election to not feature Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader.

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

Frank James pleads guilty to terrorism charges in Brooklyn subway shooting

The man who fired more than 30 shots on a New York City subway train last spring pleaded guilty to terrorism charges on Tuesday. Frank James was arrested on 13 April 2022 after opening fire on the subway, shooting 10 people.

James, 63 and from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty to 10 counts of committing a terrorist attack or other violence against a mass transportation vehicle – one count for each gunshot victim, the Department of Justice noted – and one count of discharging a firearm in furtherance of his attack.

About 30 people required medical treatment after the shooting, which happened on 12 April, including four schoolchildren aged 12 to 16. In addition to bullet wounds, victims suffered smoke inhalation and injuries from falls and panic.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTerrorism - Domestic

As 2023 dawns, Canada’s top soldier confronts a long list of worst-case scenarios

It might be a stretch to describe Gen. Wayne Eyre as a modern Cassandra.

Still, over the latter half of 2022, Canada’s top military commander delivered — in public and before House of Commons committees — increasingly stark warnings about the future geopolitical landscape, where the war between Russia and Ukraine could go and the intentions of other disruptive international actors, such as China.

Whether he’s been disbelieved or dismissed — like the Trojan priestess of Greek mythology — has depended largely on his audience.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

Legislation to Help Oil And Gas Workers Transition to Green Energy Jobs Coming This Year, Minister Says

The Liberal government is aiming to move forward early this year with its “just transition” legislation intended to help workers in Canada’s oil and gas sector to move into green energy jobs, according to Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson.

“I said it many times publicly that I do not believe that the challenge we are going to face is that there are workers who are displaced that will not find other good-paying jobs,” Wilkinson told CBC News. “I am actually quite worried that there are so many opportunities … we will not have enough workers to fill the jobs.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Denmark’s bank robbers count the cost of cashless society

Denmark has discovered an unexpected benefit of a cashless society after bank robberies in the Scandinavian country fell to zero.

Figures from Finans Danmark, an industry association, show the number of attacks has collapsed in recent years as the shift towards online transactions has led many Danish banks to abandon cash services in branches. While there were 221 bank robberies in 2000, the number of hold-ups in Denmark fell to 121 in 2004, before declining to one in 2021 and none last year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Russia fighting for ‘weeks over a single house’ in battle for Ukrainian ‘fortress’, Bakhmut

Russian forces are having to fight for weeks to capture “a single home” in Bakhmut, the head of the mercenary Wagner Group has said, as he appeared to cast the blame for slow progress on a lack of supplies from the Kremlin.

Bakhmut is one of the largest towns still held by Kyiv in the industrial Donetsk region and has been the focus of the Russian onslaught since August.

British intelligence has said that Russia’s forces are unlikely to make a breakthrough despite throwing thousands of men at the town in one of the bloodiest battles of the war.

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