A Fringe to make you cringe

MUCH consternation has been displayed by the panjandrums who are responsible for organising the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Their annual gathering for aspiring artists has been disrupted by performances by the popular music combo, Oasis. The council organisers have complained that the Oasis fans were undesirable loutish types who would desecrate their sacred festival. A self-professed comedienne called Kate Smurthwaite, apparently a BBC regular, went on to Instagram to moan that no one wanted to watch her show because of the disruption caused by the Gallagher brothers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Loony

London is in trouble and there’s no point denying it

Whitechapel Market London

The media elites’ classist indifference to the fraying of social bonds is gross.

A new high-status opinion just dropped: London is fine. From their converted Edwardian houses in the leafy suburbs where you won’t get a burger for less than 15 quid, London’s preening opinion-shapers have taken to X to say all is well in the capital. Ignore the ‘Trumpist’ talking points about London going down the swanny, they cry between glugs of pinot noir – life’s never been better! One envisions the grimaces of people on the other side of town when they see such hot takes pop up on their mobile phones that they cling to for dear life lest some wanker on a stolen Lime bike should snatch them.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Immigration from incompatible cultures", "Luxury Values", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"

Labour-run council ordering removal of St George’s and Union Jack flags is too scared to take down Palestine flags without police protection, leaked email reveals

A Labour-run council has sparked outrage by ordering the removal of British flags from lampposts – while being ‘too scared’ to take down Palestine flags without police protection.

Bankrupt Birmingham City Council said hundreds of Union and St George’s flags recently hung around the city ‘could put lives at risk’ by endangering motorists and pedestrians.

The flags had been strung up by a small, organised group of residents to ‘show Birmingham and the rest of the country how proud we are of our history, freedoms and achievements’.

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

A First-Of-Its-Kind Lawsuit Seeks Wrongful Death Climate Damages From Oil Companies. Sealed Court Docs Show a Rockefeller-Funded Green Group Is Steering It.

A first-of-its-kind lawsuit seeks to compel oil companies to pay wrongful death damages by holding them responsible for climate change. Sealed court filings obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show a Rockefeller-funded green group is working on that suit behind the scenes.

Misti Leon filed the pioneering complaint in Washington state court on May 29, accusing seven oil companies of being responsible for the 2021 heat-wave death of her mother. Two days earlier, Leon quietly appointed climate activist and nonprofit leader Sarah Myhre to serve as the agent for her deceased mother’s estate, according to sealed court filings obtained by the Free Beacon. Myhre, who isn’t a lawyer, will be responsible for handling the estate’s papers as the case proceeds.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", "Luxury Values"

‘I thought it was a joke’: Canadian politicians reject state senator’s invitation to be ‘adopted’ by US

Politicians past and present from across Canada have responded to an invitation to be “adopted” by the United States with a resounding “no.”

Maine State Senator Joseph Martin suggested that British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba should become “full American states,” arguing that those who truly want “freedom” must look south of the 49th.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Michael A. Sachs: Some Jewish Canadians planning exit strategies to more welcoming U.S.

TULSA, OKLAHOMA — Over the past few weeks, my inbox has been flooded with frightened and heartbreaking messages from Canadian Jews. Many are scared and looking for ways out of Canada, telling deeply personal stories of fear, marginalization, and hopelessness.

I had shared in these pages my family’s reasons for choosing to leave Canada — Vancouver, specifically — to pursue opportunities in the U.S., and obviously hit a nerve with National Post readers

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada, USA

The Alaska summit doesn’t look good for Ukraine

And just like that, the highly-anticipated summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska has been and gone, seemingly without very much at all to show for it. The two presidents met in Anchorage yesterday for what Trump had touted as a ‘feel-out’ meeting to lay the groundwork for negotiations to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine. But despite Trump rating the tête-à-tête a ten out of ten – ‘in the sense that we got along great’ – on substance, the American president has come away with little to prove that Putin is any closer to stopping his invasion.

Can Trump dictate a “peace”?

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

Opinion: Canadians’ legal rights should not depend on lineage — Indigenous or otherwise

A judge of the British Columbia Supreme Court recently found that the Cowichan First Nation holds Aboriginal title over 800 acres of government land in Richmond, B.C. But that’s not all. Wherever Aboriginal title is found to exist, said the court, it is a “prior and senior right” to fee simple title, whether public or private. That means it trumps the property you have in your house, farm or factory.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Justice", Canada

The Peaceful Fault: Canada’s Politeness Masks a Yukon Quake Waiting to Happen

A Crack Beneath the Rug

Canada’s reputation for unfailing politeness is like that neighbor you trust completely, the one you’d invite over to watch the game and have a beer, and you’d feel confident they wouldn’t take off with your favorite beer stein.

That same neighbor might harbor a secret, even him, that he might have a crack beneath his basement. Unseen, that is, until it opens up. That crack doesn’t disrespect your hospitality; it simply IS.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mother Nature Hates You", Canada, USA

Police used ‘Orwellian’ powers to gag firefighter in free speech row

Police used “Orwellian” powers to gag a firefighter and prevent him revealing he had been arrested after posting online messages criticising his bosses.

Staffordshire Police told Robert Moss that his right to “freedom of expression” had to be “limited to maintain public safety and order” following his arrest on suspicion of malicious communications.

But a special bail hearing at Newcastle-Under-Lyme magistrates’ court overturned the “gagging clause” amid fears officers were behaving as if they lived in a “police state”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", WTF?

Can the ZEV mandate survive political pressure and industry objections?

With the federal carbon tax dead and gone, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has found a new target among the Liberal government’s climate policies — the electric vehicle availability standard, otherwise known as the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate.

“We will legalize, into the future, your right to drive a gas or diesel-powered truck or car by repealing the Liberal EV mandate,” Poilievre said last week, while restating his desire to see a number of Liberal policies repealed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government