Author: Blazingcatfur

‘Doom metal’ organist’s Paris show cancelled amid Catholic protests

Doomy Swede

After Catholic fundamentalists prevented Swedish musician Anna von Hausswolff from performing in a church in Nantes on Tuesday, the Paris church Saint-Eustache has cancelled her planned 9 December concert, citing concerns over security.

On Tuesday, a group described by Nantes’ deputy mayor, Bassem Asseh, as “intolerant radicals” blocked the entrance to the church Notre-Dame de Bon-Port ahead of von Hausswolff’s show, accusing her of making “satanist” music, despite the show being organised in accordance with the Nantes diocese.

The protesters sang: “Saint Mary, mother of God, pray for us poor sinners.”

It’s kinda crappy frankly.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

How Obama Sabotaged the American Military

Obama fundamentally transformed the military the way that he did the country.

By the time Barack Obama left office, every branch of the military was smaller than it had been on September 11. But the change in size concealed the true impact of America’s most left-wing president in undermining our national security and weakening us in the face of our enemies.

“I’ve got a pen, and I’ve got a phone,” Obama famously boasted. He used the pen to unleash a blizzard of executive orders and memorandums. Some led to outraged protests, but some of his most devastating penned assaults on our nation’s military flew under the radar.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Has Omicron wrong-footed the Covid elites?

The peak in Gauteng, South Africa, may come sooner than expected

Johannesburg is known locally as the City of Gold, but this may not prove to be the case for vaccine manufacturers carefully watching the rapid spread of Omicron through Gauteng province. While compelling evidence has emerged that Covid’s latest variant is highly transmissible, the picture from local hospitals and testing data is that this wave may well pass quickly, without a large number of deaths and with an extremely high percentage of asymptomatic cases.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

What Functional America wants – An end to disorder and CRT-loving hustlers who fan the flames of hate

The United States is still rich enough to meet higher-order needs and call them entitlements. The decades-long response to race, class and gender proves the point. Americans can fixate on respect, status, self-esteem, hurt feelings and positive recognition because the essentials just happen.

Potable water, traffic lights, microwave ovens and freedom from fear. They are there, like magic. Because all Americans are fed, reasonably policed and more civil than not — this point cannot be overstressed — authorities can sidestep policy basics and empirical findings.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

‘It’s a different beast’: US fentanyl deaths will rise, warns Narcan developer

Deaths from fentanyl will continue to rise and overdoses may be increasingly difficult to battle in the US, said Roger Crystal, who helped develop Narcan nasal spray, an easy-to-use medication that reverses overdoses.

The overdose crisis that killed more than 100,000 Americans in one year is “all about fentanyl”, Crystal said – and it’s only going to get worse.

Those who are overdosing from fentanyl have a shorter window of time to be saved and may need additional doses of the medication.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDrugs

Pope Francis says ‘sins of the flesh’ aren’t that ‘serious’

Lust is not the worst of the seven deadly sins, according to Pope Francis.

There are worse indiscretions than sex outside of marriage, the leader of the Catholic Church told reporters on the papal plane while en route from Greece to Italy on Monday, Reuters reported.

“Sins of the flesh are not the most serious,” the 84-year-old religious leader said regarding sex outside of marriage. Top transgressions instead include pride and hatred, according to Reuters.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPope Francis

The National Defense Authorization Act for 2022 will create a UFO reverse engineering program

I’ll bet you a box of donuts that you didn’t see that headline coming, did you? And yet this isn’t some piece of satire, but actual news from the United States Congress. For quite a while now, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has been stalled in the Senate as some of the members battled over various pet amendments they wanted to see included or rejected.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"UFO's"

Complaint launched against Mayor John Tory for tweets on bail ruling in officer’s alleged murder case

Toronto Mayor John Tory is defending a series of tweets in which he described a judge’s decision to grant bail to the man charged in the death of a plainclothes police constable earlier this year as “questionable,” amid a complaint filed against him at the Ontario Civilian Police Commission.

On Monday, the Law Union of Ontario’s policing committee announced it had filed a complaint with the quasi-judicial oversight agency over Tory’s comments on the decision by Superior Court Justice Jill Copeland to grant bail to Umar Zameer. The union is a voluntary organization of approximately 200 lawyers, legal workers and law students, whose policing committee monitors decisions about policing and oversight, as well as advocates for reforms.

This case keeps getting weirder.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Le Pen and Zemmour hate each other. Can they join forces?

The terrible twins of the French far right vilify each other in public. But they need one another.

PARIS — The proposal of far-right nuptials came unprompted, as Marine Le Pen was touring a fair in the town of Vesoul, near National Rally heartlands in eastern France.

“If you could marry Eric …” a supporter cheekily suggested.

Le Pen laughed, then grimaced at the idea of tying the knot with far-right TV pundit-turned-candidate Eric Zemmour.

The National Rally leader has little immediate appetite for such an arranged marriage, but it’s a political match that would trigger alarm among the other runners in April’s presidential election. Together, she and Zemmour would win a third of the electorate, according to POLITICO’s poll of polls.

If they don’t join forces, they could scupper each other’s hopes. In the French political system, the two candidates with the most votes in the first round of voting face off in a run-off. Both Zemmour and Le Pen run the risk of splitting the far-right vote and canceling each other out.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFrance

Protecting Prince Harry the mooch cost Canadians more than $334,000

Protecting Prince Harry and his family during visits to Canada cost Canadian taxpayers more than $334,000 over a period of less than four years, CBC News has learned.

Records obtained by CBC News from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police under the Access to Information Act show that security related to Harry’s visits between April 1, 2017 and March 31, 2018 cost taxpayers $182,430. That sum covered things like overtime and travel costs but not the salaries of police officers.

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

Germany’s Multicultural Suicide

“Western hegemony is over,” said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently. “It lasted centuries, but it is over”.

At the same time, the mosques of Cologne, the fourth-largest city in Germany, have obtained permission to broadcast the call to prayer every Friday over minaret loudspeakers.

“Many residents of Cologne are Muslims,” said Mayor Henriette Reker, “and in my opinion it is a sign of respect to allow the call of the muezzin.”

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

Spanish village that dropped ‘Kill Jews’ name hit by antisemitic graffiti attack

The mayor of a Spanish village whose former name was an ugly reminder of the country’s medieval persecution of its Jewish population has vowed to carry on with plans for a Sephardic memory centre despite an antisemitic graffiti attack this week.

Seven years ago, the 52 eligible residents of Castrillo Matajudíos – Camp Kill Jews in English, voted in a referendum to change the village’s name back to Castrillo Mota de Judíos, which means Jews’ Hill Camp.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAnti-Semitism, WTF?

Dozens of camels barred from Saudi beauty contest over Botox

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi authorities have conducted their biggest-ever crackdown on camel beauty contestants that received Botox injections and other artificial touch-ups, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported Wednesday, with over 40 camels disqualified from the annual pageant.

Saudi Arabia’s popular King Abdulaziz Camel Festival, which kicked off earlier this month, invites the breeders of the most beautiful camels to compete for some $66 million in prize money. Botox injections, face lifts and other cosmetic alterations to make the camels more attractive are strictly prohibited. Jurors decide the winner based on the shape of the camels’ heads, necks, humps, dress and postures.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?