Blazingcatfur – Page 75

Has Britain fallen out of love with itself?

In 2011, with the glass barely swept up after the London riots, the think-tank Demos measured Britain’s pride in itself and found it obstinately intact. A net 74 per cent of us were proud to be British. Last week, Demos ran the ruler over us again. The figure is 47 per cent. Pride in Britain’s role in the world stands at 13 per cent. The BBC, which 15 years ago enjoyed a net pride score of 48 per cent, now sits at minus-11, meaning more Britons are ashamed of the corporation than proud of it. That last number is, I suppose, at least evidence that the public can still see straight.

Sounds exactly like Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•August 20, 2026August 19, 2026•0•UK

The Satanic Temple of Iowa is Back

They’re baaack. The Iowa chapter of the Satanic Temple is back in the news this week, having allied with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in a lawsuit over requests regarding a “family-friendly” holiday event in the state’s Capitol rotunda. They are accusing the state’s Department of Administrative Services (DAS) Director Mark Campbell and forum Director Adam Steen of violating the Temple’s rights to free speech, religious exercise, and nondiscrimination.

by Blazingcatfur•August 20, 2026August 19, 2026•0•WTF?

The only difference between a serial killer and a Canadian MAiD practitioner is a licence

There are two people in Canada who have caused the deaths of hundreds through poison.

The first poisoner held no medical licence and operated outside of Canadian law. He sold and shipped toxic chemicals with tracking numbers after having advertised on suicide forums. He killed more than 50 people a year. In May 2026, he pleaded guilty to counselling or aiding suicide.

by Blazingcatfur•August 20, 2026August 19, 2026•0•MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Geoffrey Moyse: B.C. NDP behaving as if it can do anything it wants with land

In the 1990s, a B.C. NDP government cabinet minister famously pronounced, “Remember, government can do anything it wants.”

That basic undemocratic ethos is alive today in the present B.C. NDP government headed by Premier David Eby, most particularly on the Aboriginal “reconciliation” agenda.

by Blazingcatfur•August 19, 2026August 19, 2026•0•Canada, WTF?

Vienna Calls in Police Reinforcements as Migrant Youth Crime Escalates

Forty-eight police officers from Austria’s federal states are to be deployed to Vienna for up to three months from September, as authorities respond to growing concerns over migrant youth crime and violence in the capital.

The reinforcements will support Vienna’s police, particularly during night-time operations and in areas identified as crime hotspots. Six officers will come from Carinthia, while others will be drawn from Salzburg, Styria, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, and Burgenland.

by Blazingcatfur•August 19, 2026August 19, 2026•0•Austria, Camp Of The Saints

Canadian Armed Forces brass under fire as Catholic bishops slam prayer ban

OTTAWA — Canada’s Catholic bishops are declaring a holy war against directives to Canada’s military chaplains banning prayer at public events.

In a statement posted this week, Most Rev. Scott McCaig, bishop of the Military Ordinariate of Canada, added his objections to the contentious late-July directive by Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) brass prohibiting faith-based prayers at official military ceremonies, instructing them instead to replace prayers with secular “spiritual reflections.”

So was CAF’s Lesbian Cross Dresser Brigade behind this?

by Blazingcatfur•August 19, 2026August 19, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

From DSA to Fishback: Why Young Voters Feel Disenfranchised

As a young conservative, I constantly get one question about my generation when I go to local Republican meetings: “Why are young people so attracted to ______?”

You fill in the gap. Zohran Mamdani. Abdul El-Sayed. James Fishback.

There is a new political personality attracting young voters: a smooth talker with sweeping “I will fix your problems” promises.

by Blazingcatfur•August 19, 2026August 19, 2026•0•USA

A visitor from America …

POV: You are an American citizen visiting Canada. pic.twitter.com/0zpef0zqm9

— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) August 19, 2026

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•August 19, 2026August 19, 2026•0•Canada, USA

As Canadians obsess, Americans barely register the latest tariff news

On Tuesday, at the eleventh hour, Donald Trump announced that Canada and the U.S. have reached a tentative trade deal, and paused a scheduled 50 per cent tariff on Canadian goods for three more days.

On Wednesday morning, the development featured as the top story on most, if not all, major Canadian news websites, including Bloomberg Canada, CBC, Global News, CTV and here, at National Post. It was also the front page story in today’s Globe and Mail.

Interesting perspective

Trump paused the Canada tariffs.
The media sees a trade story.

We see the real one: transshipment smuggling, snow-washing, and a “geo-industrialization” strategy run by the Empire’s favorite central banker. Canada isn’t a partner. It’s an outpost. pic.twitter.com/Aez3GxRV5C

— Promethean Action (@PrometheanActn) August 19, 2026

h/t XC

by Blazingcatfur•August 19, 2026August 19, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

WTF?

Because I identify as a half-Asian, half-Black, half-Native American femboy, this girl’s support means the world to me.

She understands people like us in the trans-racial community. It’s what you feel, not who you are, that matters. pic.twitter.com/LydoMh6Y3U

— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) August 18, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•August 19, 2026August 19, 2026•0•WTF?

Anti-rich DSA leader Gustavo Gordillo lives it up in posh $1.5M NYC pad paid for by millionaire parents

The millionaire parents of a whiny top DSA leader have set up their socialist son in a $1.5 million Brooklyn home — where he lives while railing against the rich and property ownership, The Post has learned.

Gustavo Gordillo, the 38-year-old co-chair of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, is peddling his anti-capitalist lefty agenda while enjoying the life in the two-story, nearly 2,000-square-foot row home on a gentrifying tree-lined block in Bed-Stuy.

by Blazingcatfur•August 19, 2026August 19, 2026•0•Communism, Communists, Democratic Party

WTF?

A furious woman is confronted by Police in Ceuta because her dog is upsetting the Muslims

She says the only way she can feel protected is with her Dog because they are scared of it

People shouldn't have to live like this pic.twitter.com/Wes90PBgkp

— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) August 18, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•August 19, 2026August 19, 2026•0•WTF?

Why is Chris Alexander running for mayor of Toronto?

Chris Alexander is either running the strangest campaign for mayor that the City of Toronto has seen in some time, or is actually making a subtle bid for a very different job: to be Toronto’s poet laureate.

On Monday, Mr. Alexander posted on X: “A bed is for the worst night of your life. A home is for the rest of it. My job as mayor is both.” We can infer that the statement is some new form of

Haiku, because it makes no sense as political communications. (Is Mr. Alexander saying he will expand shelter spaces? He doesn’t elaborate. Will he rip up zoning regulations? Nothing on that either. Perhaps he will rephrase in iambic pentameter.)

by Blazingcatfur•August 19, 2026August 19, 2026•0•"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

This may be the first academic profession to see its work taken over by AI

In early August, top mathematicians gathered at the offices of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI in San Francisco for a summit on an existential question: What will be left for human math experts to do if artificial intelligence soon leaves them all behind?

“I think there’s a chance that we end up in a world where there’s no high-quality mathematics research, and human expertise in mathematics is totally lost,” said Daniel Litt, a professor at the University of Toronto. He gave a talk at the event titled “The End of Mathematics.”

by Blazingcatfur•August 19, 2026August 19, 2026•0•"AI - Artificial Intelligence"

PM Carney asks provinces to return U.S. booze to shelves, Nova Scotia premier says. Ford’s stash hardest hit!

U.S. President Donald Trump has delayed his new 50 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods after he said the two countries reached a tentative deal and that the Keystone XL pipeline “may be awoken from the grave.”

Trump’s 50 per cent tariffs have been delayed by three days.

Getting close but not much detail.

Did Carney promise to cover Quebec’s Dairy cartel losses with more of our money after opening the border to US product?

“The White House has publicly said Canada moved on three sectors, including dairy.

The U.S. had been pushing to change the rules on what dairy products can be sold into Canada tariff-free, and while talks continue, that change now looks likely.”

by Blazingcatfur•August 19, 2026August 19, 2026•0•"Canada - USA Tariff Wars"