Watching Britain’s decline is like rubbernecking a car accident

My parents were Anglophiles. Therefore, I was an Anglophile, gobbling up Masterpiece Theater, majoring in British history at college, and spending an utterly delightful junior year abroad in England a long, long time ago. Of late, though, I’ve come to revisit my fondness for England. That’s because England doesn’t really seem to exist anymore. Instead, it’s an increasingly Third World country, complete with blasphemy laws, and a likely collapse of its power grid.

The trigger for this, my latest in a series of essays I think of as illustrating that “there won’t always be an England,” is a article in the Daily Mail that looks at the city of Leicester.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

For Alberta, the ‘existential threat, it’s from Ottawa,’ Danielle Smith says

“Albertans feel an existential threat from Ottawa,” says Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. “I think the rest of the country may feel an existential threat from Donald Trump. Alberta feels the same thing — but the existential threat, it’s from Ottawa.”

Nanos Research polls published one week after the federal election indicate nearly 30 per cent of Alberta residents support separation from Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Mom & Dad You Suck!

Parents swap plastic toys for compost kits in eco-conscious party bags

Parents are swapping plastic toys for compost kits and bird feeders in eco-conscious party bags.

Climate concerns mean they are ditching traditional goodie bags that have been the staple of children’s parties for years, turning to plastic-free alternatives such as books, bird feeders, seed kits and candles.

Those kids should runaway.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", WTF?

On these streets, we fear grooming gangs never went away

In three of the areas affected by the sex abuse scandal, victims’ families and campaigners say children are still targeted, and a culture of fear endures

It’s just past 3pm in Rotherham town centre when groups of teenagers make the short walk from Rotherham sixth-form college to the bus station interchange. Some huddle inside, laughing together at videos on their phones. Others linger outside, waiting to meet friends and boyfriends. It’s a standard scene in any town on a midweek afternoon. But for some people in the town, teenagers congregating there is causing concern.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Muslim Rape Gangs

Weaselly ChiCom Senator silent after promoting Gaza fundraiser tied to anti-Israel group

Yuen Pau Woo – Mole Man

Sen. Yuen Pau Woo (B.C.) declined to comment after publicly endorsing a Gaza fundraiser organized by Labour For Palestine, a group known for anti-Israel protests and confrontations with federal lawmakers.

“In these desperate times for Palestinians please consider supporting this,” Woo wrote on social media, promoting a $60-a-plate event in Vancouver scheduled for May 11.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Foreign Interference", WTF?

Cause for celebration at the Star …

Why women are choosing to be celibate or ‘boy sober,’ for a life without sex

Meaghan Wray has been celibate for over 18 months, but she didn’t just wake up one morning and decide to stop having sex.

“It was more of a slow burn decision, one that started with being completely turned off by men and wanting nothing to do with them, to deleting most of my dating apps,” said Wray, a 34-year-old writer from Toronto.

The catalyst was a “bad experience” with a man she’d met on the dating app Feeld; he’d seemed great, but when they met and hooked up, he removed the condom without telling her, then unmatched and unfollowed her. “I just realized I felt a lot happier removing dating and sex from the equation.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Meet the Maga moms inspired to have children for Trump

Los Angeles-born and Ivy League-educated, Peachy Keenan isn’t the typical picture of a pro-natalist.

Yet the married, mother of five is part of a growing movement of mostly Catholic, well-educated women in deep blue California inspired by Donald Trump’s calls to have more children.

“To save the country, we need to get out and push the babies out, and to do it in mass scale,” she said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemography, President Trump

The slow crumbling of Canadian democracy

Our parliamentary system is in a state of disrepair so advanced that it has lost much of its relevance

Whatever their opinion of the result, Canadians might take some satisfaction from the recent election, if only for what did not happen. The paper balloting process once again worked without a hitch. No one challenged the legitimacy of the result. The victors did not vow revenge upon their enemies. Democracy may be in decline or in retreat elsewhere, notably in the United States, but in Canada it remains, as we perceive it, in relatively good health, a model for others to follow.

We are accustomed to thinking of ourselves as one of the world‘s great democracies. Didn’t the Economist Intelligence Unit, in its latest annual Democracy Index, rank us 14th among the world‘s democracies, one of only 25 “full democracies” around the world? Didn’t Freedom House rank us fifth in its annual Freedom in the World report, with a score of 39 out of 40 for “political rights”?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

The Long History of U.S.-Canada War Plans

For the past century, the United States and Canada have been the best of friends, and war between them was unimaginable. Before that, however, it was a possibility that was always at the back of mind for military strategists on both sides of the borders—in no small part because the two had gone to war before.

Today, however, anxieties have flared. President Donald Trump has spoken openly about extending the borders of the United States all the way to the high Arctic, insisting that Greenland would be safer as a U.S. territory, while Canada could join the union as the 51st state. This will happen, Trump insists, through peaceful means.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Net zero drive casts shadow over barbaric Congo conflict

Staying late in the shop that night cost Jean-Claude Amani his leg – but it may have saved his life. Then again, had he closed up a little sooner, maybe none of it would have happened at all.

It was about an hour after dusk, the end of the first working week of last month. The rain that had fallen earlier was clearing, although lightning still occasionally illuminated the outline of Mount Nyiragongo, the smouldering volcano that has long imperilled the millions living near its foothills in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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