The Peckham protests reveal the poison of identity politics

The cult of victimhood is inflaming tensions between ethnic-minority groups.

A scuffle in a south-east London shop wouldn’t normally be headline news. But in our age of racial identity politics, Peckham Hair and Cosmetics has been thrust on to the frontline; a clash between an angry customer and a cack-handed shopkeeper has been transformed into a damning indictment of ‘white supremacist’ Britain.

That neither of the two players in this sorry story is white didn’t dent the narrative. Protesters gathered outside the shop, on Rye Lane, on Wednesday afternoon, after a video went viral, showing a middle-aged Asian man – the shop’s owner – violently restraining a young black woman, as she tried to bash him over the head with her basket. At one point in the clip, he appears to place his hands around her neck.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics"

Report: Portland Police Response Times Skyrocket As City Struggles With Crime

Shattered glass lined the sidewalks. Downtown Portland was recovering from nightly riots five days after George Floyd’s police death. I was downtown with friends, helping businesses recover from the latest bout of violence. Officers with the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) were taking reports from damaged businesses.

More than three years later, Portland police are still struggling to respond to crime. The PPB is dealing with high response times, high crime rates, and low staffing levels, according to a Manhattan Institute report released Sept. 14.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Depolicing"

I survived one execution. Now Alabama wants to kill me with nitrogen

Paid $1,000 to kill a pastor’s wife 35 years ago, Kenneth Eugene Smith is now the first inmate to face suffocation by being forced to inhale the gas

Kenneth Eugene Smith should not be alive to tell his story. Ten months ago he was strapped to a gurney in the death chamber at Alabama’s Holman Correctional Facility. An intravenous line was inserted into his left arm to pump him full of deadly chemicals. Later, he claims, his face was covered and a man with a huge syringe stabbed him repeatedly in the chest in an unsuccessful search for a usable vein. Eventually, four hours after Smith entered the room, his executioners gave up trying to kill him.

But the state of Alabama has not admitted defeat. Smith, 58, is now facing a fresh attempt to end his life with a controversial method that has never been used before: forcing the prisoner to inhale pure nitrogen.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrimea

Recent Developments Concerning the Death Toll From the Maui Wildfires

Does anyone remember the Maui wildfires? It remains one of the worst wildfires in American history. It’s the one where Joe Biden did not comment about the rising death toll because he was too busy enjoying the beach. The man took two vacations before his little visit to the island two weeks after the blaze killed nearly 100 people and caused at least $6 billion in damages. The fires broke out on August 8, destroying entire communities; Joe arrived two weeks later.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mother Nature Hates You"

Inside South Africa’s hijacked buildings

Rising rates of extreme poverty have driven the homeless to occupy unsafe properties across Johannesburg

Walking past the old Presbyterian church in downtown Johannesburg is an assault on the senses.

Damp sewage spills out onto the pavement near the building’s wooden doors, which are permanently bolted. Many of its windows are broken, with clothes left to dry within the empty frames. There are no hymns to be sung here.

Several individuals are said to be living inside, both men and women, without any access to water or electricity. One resident, who claims to have been a professional boxer, says he has called the church home for 21 years.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSouth Africa

Empty shelves, desolate minds: Canada’s ‘equity book-weeding’

At least in previous centuries a trail of smoke loitered in the air after the censors were done burning books. The smell of information dying could not be escaped, nor could the haze be hidden.

In the digital era, information is deleted and edited by millions of invisible hands. Entire works of fiction are rewritten by publishing houses given custody of their survival, while historical records are misplaced if they invalidate the ‘current thing’. One wonders how much we have lost in the last 5 years…

These are dangerous times for knowledge.

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

Conrad Black: Pierre Poilievre’s convention speech a true plan to fix Canada

Pierre Poilievre‘s address to the federal Conservative party conference on Sept. 8 in Quebec City was one of the most effective and important political speeches in this country in many years. It was amusing, hard-hitting, well delivered, comprehensive, and except for Brian Mulroney and the Trudeaus, Poilievre is the most fluently bilingual leader any Canadian political party has had since Louis St. Laurent. The most important aspect of it was that it was an authentic conservative speech skillfully crafted to attract broad support. Except for Stephen Harper and Andrew Scheer, the federal Conservative and Progressive Conservative leaders since George drew (who retired in 1956), were only marginally to the right of the Liberals.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party

Carson Jerema: Here come the Trudeau food shortages

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cares so much about how the cost of food is affecting Canadians, he is threatening to bring in policies that will either raise grocery bills even more, or bring about shortages — or both. Remember spring 2020, with the empty shelves and lineups to get into the Superstore? Trudeau apparently does, and with fondness.

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

In Germany, a government minister goes after critics of radical Islam

Germany’s secret political police were weaponized against those considered “Islamophobes” by the Home Secretary.

Nancy Faeser – Muslim Brotherhood asset

Sigrid Herrmann (SPD) is an expert on political Islam and publishes the blog “Islamism and Society,” where she provides well-founded reports on the main actors and activities of radical Islam in Germany. Herrmann helped reveal the connections between the “charitable organization” Islamic Relief, the Muslim Brotherhood and its Gaza affiliate, Hamas.

Islamic Relief is banned in Israel and the UAE for its terror ties, but was funded by the German government, advertised by German public broadcasters and supported by major German political figures such as President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Bundestag Vice-President Aydan Özoguz, until Herrmann’s revelations in 2021, when they had to shelve the collaboration.

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

Why the Murder of Mahsa Amini Could Lead to Revolution

Last year, Mahsa Jina Amini, a 22-year-old woman from the town of Saqqez in northwestern Iran, came to visit family in Tehran—a stranger in a strange land.

On September 13, she was exiting a subway station with her brother when she was stopped by the morality police for wearing an “inappropriate hijab.” It’s unclear what she was actually wearing that day—her mother says it was a “long, loose robe”—but she was locked up and beaten for this so-called crime.

Three days later, on September 16, Mahsa Amini was dead.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

America’s Wokest Company

Penzeys Spices wants Republicans to know that they’re the “#1 threat to this country.”

I maintain an ever-growing list of woke companies on my website to help consumers make informed decisions. About half of the companies on the list are there based on reader suggestions. I get a lot of spicy feedback, but I never could have imagined that a reader tip could inspire me to proclaim Penzeys, a retail spice chain, America’s wokest company. That’s right, Penzeys—not Ben & Jerry’s, not Patagonia, not Disney, not Nike. Penzeys Spices. Here’s why.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke", Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives

City of Brotherly Love Weighs Ban on Drug Injection Sites as Its Kensington Neighborhood Reels From Opioid Crisis Sweeping Nation

Philadelphia’s City Council will vote today whether to ban facilities that make it safer for addicts to inject illegal drugs, as footage of open drug use and rampant crime at the city’s Kensington neighborhood draws international concern.

The bill, expected to pass by a majority vote, aims to amend Philadelphia’s zoning code to prohibit “injection sites for narcotics” in nine of the city’s ten districts. Philadelphia’s mayor, Jim Kenney, has not yet indicated whether he would sign the bill.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDrug Legalization, Drugs