Glastonbury profits nearly double as Neil Young brands festival ‘corporate turn-off’

Glastonbury Festival saw its profits nearly double last year, newly filed accounts show, amid claims from Neil Young that the event has become a “corporate turn-off”.

Glastonbury, which is run by the Eavis family, posted a pre-tax profit of almost £6m in the year to March, up from £2.9m the previous year. Revenues rose from £57m to £68m, according to accounts filed at Companies House.

The new figures have come to light after Mr Young announced he would not be performing at this year’s festival in protest against what he claimed was “corporate control” of the event by the BBC.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Michael Taube: Who asked Kevin O’Leary to negotiate on our behalf?

Businessman and TV personality Kevin O’Leary has become a travelling salesman for the Great White North as of late. His one-man crusade to promote a stronger Canada-U.S. economic union would have been fine on its own. But alas, he couldn’t help himself (again) and made it all about himself (again) by attempting to get directly involved in a discussion he wasn’t asked to join.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Feds are watering down promise to fully scrutinize firearms before sale, gun control group says

A leading gun control group is accusing the Liberal government of watering down a promise to ensure firearms are properly scrutinized before entering the Canadian market.

The government recently published proposed regulations aimed at ensuring all gun makes and models for sale in Canada are known to the federal firearms registrar.

There is currently no obligation for businesses that import or manufacture firearms to share technical specifications with authorities, meaning guns could go on the market without being fully assessed

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGun Control, Gun Rights

H-1B: The Cautionary Tale of Canada

Recently, a fierce battle over the H-1B Visa Program erupted on X. In one corner, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, a big believer in the program, where tech companies pay less for non-American talent. Indians (dot, not feather) have been primary participants. In the other corner, the MAGA Base, who believe in America First, and to hell with immigration, legal or otherwise. For them, H-1B was just another cog in the Population Replacement wheel.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Years of inaction on ‘crisis’ at Secret Service set stage for Trump shooting in Butler

In the days before Donald Trump’s July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the Secret Service needed a member of his protective detail to develop a security plan to keep the former president safe as he addressed a crowd of thousands at an open-air fairground.

With agents stretched thin by the presidential campaign, the agency turned to a “junior” member of the detail, according to an independent review panel commissioned by the Department of Homeland Security.

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

Sheriff says Tesla Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas was probably a suicide

The man who was driving a Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on Wednesday morning shot himself in the head immediately before the vehicle was engulfed by fire, the authorities said on Thursday.

Earlier on Thursday, military officials identified the driver as an Army master sergeant who had been on leave from active duty.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

The ‘intifada’ comes to New Orleans

If the New Year’s Day massacre in the Big Easy doesn’t wake us up to the horrors of Islamism, nothing will.

‘Bring the intifada home!’, cried Ivy League radicals throughout 2024. Well, here it is. On the bloodstained, wreckage-strewn streets of New Orleans. In the shattered limbs of the injured, the extinguished promise of the dead. The very Islamist violence that the West’s woke influencers have been making excuses for, have been glorifying as ‘resistance’, have openly praised from the safety of their leafy campuses, has now struck at the heart of America’s own Big Easy. Is this what you wanted?

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

What Happens When a Whole Generation Never Grows Up?

Americans in their 30s have never looked less like grown-ups.

Amid steep declines in homeownership, marriage and birth rates, economists have long been warning that young people are struggling to meet the milestones of adulthood. Although some 30-somethings are consciously choosing a less traditional path, many say these goals are simply out of reach.

“It feels like the instructions for how to live a good life don’t apply anymore,” says 38-year-old Cody Harding, who is single and lives with three roommates in Brooklyn. “And nobody has updated them.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Yikes!

Europe’s fireworks frenzy turns New Year’s Eve into deadly mayhem

At least five people in Germany were killed by fireworks as New Year’s Eve celebrations were marred by skirmishes with police and the throwing of banned explosives.

In recent years areas of Berlin and other cities have become used to fierce pyrotechnic street battles where emergency services workers are pelted with projectiles, buildings are set on fire and passers-by are frequently caught in the crossfire.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia"

Ukrainian soldiers trained by French army go AWOL before shot fired

About 1,700 soldiers from a Ukrainian unit equipped by the West and trained in France went AWOL before a shot was even fired.

At least 50 members of the new 155th mechanised brigade, one of the few to operate the Leopard 2 battle tank, disappeared while elements of the unit were being drilled in France.

By the time it entered battle for the first time, at least 1,700 of its troops went absent without leave at numerous points.

They were trained by the French.

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

Conservatives call for investigation into whether Carney benefiting from role in Trudeau government

A coalition of Conservatives have called for an investigation into whether Mark Carney is benefitting financially from his position in the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau government.

Aside from his role as special advisor on the Liberal Party’s task force on economic growth, Carney serves as chair of Brookfield Asset Management, a multinational investment firm.

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

Idiot founder of Canadian anti-Israel group resigns citing lack of acceptance ‘as a non-Palestinian idiot’

The founder of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, a prominent anti-Israel group in Canada, resigned from his post in late December, citing ongoing opposition to his leadership “as a non-Palestinian” among activists.

In a lengthy goodbye email to supporters, founder and president Thomas Woodley says that since the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, the anti-Israel activist movement has come to see Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) as illegitimate because of its non-Palestinian leadership.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", WTF?

Leftist Magazine Tries to Claim Vance in Category of Those ‘Born to Immense Privilege’

Vice President-elect JD Vance has been known for his humble beginnings, even before he ran for public office. “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” was published 2016, and the movie adaptation came out in 2020. His background has helped him relate to voters, especially in the Midwest. However, in a post from Sunday, Current Affairs, a leftist magazine, tried to claim that Vance and President-elect Donald Trump are part of “right-wing populism,” and thus “born to immense privilege and went to elite schools.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Chrystia Freeland reaches out to Liberal MPs as speculation swirls about Justin Trudeau’s future

OTTAWA — Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland has been calling Liberal MPs in the wake of her bombshell resignation that preceded the latest and biggest wave of pressure so far on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step down.

Several MPs, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Star that Freeland has reached out and spoken to them in recent days.

While the MPs said Freeland did not bring up the Liberal leadership, one of them felt the calls were connected to a potential leadership run, while another said they were “impressed” by the outreach.

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