The fall of Seattle

After George Floyd died, the city turned on the police

This February, Bruce Harrell, newly installed as mayor of Seattle, made it official that his city has gone into decline. “The truth is the status quo is unacceptable,” he said in his first state of the city address. “It seems like every day I hear stories of longtime small businesses closing their doors for good or leaving our city.” But it’s not just small businesses. In mid-March, Amazon announced that it was abandoning a 312,000-square-foot office space in downtown, citing concerns over crime.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Depolicing"

In Going Mainstream, ’60s Counterculture Has Lost Its Edge

There’s nothing left to rebel against and no one left to shock.

It’s been a strange time to be a freethinking rock fan. Counterculture legends Joni Mitchell and Neil Young — the very man who once taught us to “keep on rockin’ in the free world” — led the charge to deplatform comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan from Spotify for the capital crime of dissent. The two rockers made a decidedly unhip ultimatum: it’s either Rogan or us. Then — without a hint of irony — Young directed his fans to the streaming service of Amazon. Yes, that Amazon. The multinational company owned by the richest man on the planet that forces its drivers to urinate into plastic bottles.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCulture, Culture Wars

Biden Declares Putin ‘Cannot Remain In Power,’ White House Quickly Walks It Back

President Joe Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power” in remarks made Saturday.

The president spoke in Warsaw, Poland to wrap up his multi-day trip to Europe. His comments mark one of the strongest statements made by the president and his administration so far regarding Putin being in power, though the White House sought to quickly clarify his comments afterwards.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden", "Ukraine - Russia", WTF?

Alberta’s Kenney defends calling party opponents ‘lunatics,’ comparing them to bugs

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he won’t apologize for comments he is heard making in recordings in which he compares political opponents in his party to insects and calls them lunatics.

Kenney says the United Conservative Party is under siege from extremist elements, including homophobes and religious bigots, seeking a hostile takeover by toppling him in an upcoming leadership review.

“I am determined to ensure that such hateful, extreme and divisive voices do not find a home in this mainstream broad conservative party,” Kenney told reporters in Calgary on Friday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

The Loch Ness Monster Is RACIST!

To many, it’s a fun fairytale to lure tourists; to others, it’s a genuine mystery – or just a silly hoax.

But to woke education chiefs, the Loch Ness Monster is a potent symbol of England’s domination of Scotland – a theory which will now be taught in schools.

Pupils north of the border are to be told how the mythical beast reinforces negative stereotypes and ingrains bias about the Scots.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

The Democratic People’s Republic of Kaneda

The Truckers Convoy that parked for three exuberant weeks in Ottawa protesting the draconian mandate policies of the government has been cleared away and nothing much had changed at the federal level. Most of the provinces have relaxed their COVID-19 restrictions, but the federal authorities have not budged an inch. The mandatory regime remains in place, and travel is still restricted for the unvaccinated, in flagrant violation of Section 6 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

Hunter Biden laptop document dump

About 80,000 images/videos/screenshots, and about 200,000 texts, emails, documents, were deleted or hidden on the drive. Those deleted or hidden files were recently recovered.

These documents were released hours ago. [Edit, to be clear, this is a limited number of documents that due not include any images or child pornography. These are documents related to Ukraine and the Biden Crime Family].

It’s a 30 second or less download. Hunter’s child porn is not included in this but is easily available; I suggest you stay away from it. It involves his 14 year old niece and a Thai child prostitute who looks to be 9-12 years old. Pretty sure viewers are being monitored. Don’t go there.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inBiden Family Corruption

California May Very Likely Soon Legalize Infanticide

When Spencer covered news earlier this month that the Maryland legislature was considering the Pregnant Person’s Freedom Act of 2022, it was tempting to think it was too evil to be true. It’s not just another abortion expansion bill, but rather it allows for infanticide in that those responsible are off the hook when a child born alive from abortion is left to die or is actively killed, even weeks later due to neglect. Fortunately Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) is too pro-life to approve of this atrocity, with the “perinatal” language having been removed from the Senate bill. California, however, is another story.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAbortion debate, California

Beware the risks of tyrannical tech

Your bank account, car and WiFi could be shut off at a moment’s notice

“Just think about it. Our whole world is sitting there on a computer. It’s in the computer, everything: your, your DMV records, your, your social security, your credit cards, your medical records. It’s all right there. Everyone is stored in there. It’s like this little electronic shadow on each and every one of us, just, just begging for someone to screw with, and you know what? They’ve done it to me, and you know what? They’re gonna do it to you.”

— Sandra Bullock as Angela Bennett, The Net, 1995

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society"

Mutinous Russian troops ran over their own commander, say western officials

Western officials have said they believe a Russian commander was run over by mutinous forces during the fighting in Ukraine, in a sign of what they described as the “morale challenges” faced by the invading forces.

They highlighted – and repeated – reports from earlier this week from a Ukrainian journalist that a colonel of the 37th separate guards motor rifle brigade was run over by a tank. Some reports said he had died of his injuries.

One official said they believed that the brigade commander was “killed by his own troops” as “a consequence of the scale of losses that had been taken by his brigade” in the bitter fighting.

Is there a lesson here for Canada’s armed forces? Asking for a friend.

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