At the same time Paul Homewood has often posted about how the authorities have let slip maintenance of levies and drainage systems, so yes the floods probably result from human action, or more accurately, inaction.

Construction, either commercial or residential, over extensive tracts of land stops rain absorption and contributes to run-off. As well as contributing to the heat island urban sprawl may also be contributing to flooding.

Vivek Ramaswamy
@VivekGRamaswamy

TRUTH #1: The real cause of Jan 6 was systematic & pervasive censorship and wrongdoing in the lead-up to the 2020 Presidential election — Covid, lockdowns, Antifa riots, Hunter Biden laptop, and irregularities in election conduct.

There was a pretty decent conversation last evening, but then two of the site’s bush-pigs tried to turn it into a stoush about a side issue incidental to the discussion. The third, a grossly overweight bush-pig, now decides to join in this morning trying to create more strife.

Pogria, download an exercise class and see if you can do two minutes without panting.

Seriously, it’s like the site is sometimes overrun by feral pigs at times.

Indolent
Jan 7, 2024 9:16 AM
Vivek Ramaswamy
@VivekGRamaswamy

TRUTH #1: The real cause of Jan 6 was systematic & pervasive censorship and wrongdoing in the lead-up to the 2020 Presidential election — Covid, lockdowns, Antifa riots, Hunter Biden laptop, and irregularities in election conduct.

Vivek is really good value with a wonderful message for young people. He related in one interview that his parents wished him luck but added that luck was spelled w-o-r-k.

He also knows who is perverting Republican side and had no problem in naming them, he often rubbishes Nikki Haley and in one talk he added Mike Pence to the list. I don’t think he I’d that hostile to Ron DeSantis. Trump could do worse than picking Vivek as his VP.

Roger
Jan 7, 2024 9:31 AM
New World Order with Chinese Characteristics:
Wang Hui’s The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought is a monumental contribution to the debate in China about how to respond to the civilizational challenge of the West.
If you don’t read the book, read the review for an outline of China’s utopian vision of a future under their hegemony.

Xi’s China’s philosophy can be summed up in a few words: control the population and lie to the gweilo.

Alternative für Deutschland leading polls in Saxony, Thüringen and Brandenburg, each of which will hold state elections this year.

China had a one child policy and forcibly aborted women after one kid. It runs slave labor camps. Perhaps there’s something they could learn from the West.

Don’t count on them doing that.

They see this as a civilisational conflict and, while they are unlikely to succeed in the long term, in the short to medium term they’ll do whatever is in their power to undermine the West.

My view is, Cassie, that the bulk of people today – even the well educated – are too obsessed with “the good life” to read widely and critically, as once they did.

Vicki, before internet most people considered themselves, and they were, well informed if they read at least one broadsheet daily newspaper. That is no longer the case as the proliferation of information on the internet has at first competed with daily newspapers and television and now even surpassed all of these in the information stakes.

The mainstream news consumers still consider themselves well informed when now they are just getting one-sided and curated information while the rest of the world knows more. Even teenagers know more than these people as there is lots of information shared on gaming and social media sites. The SMH and The Age readers along with ABC viewers are the least informed.

Tayler Hansen
@TaylerUSA

Since January 6th is used as a modern day Reichstag Fire for the Establishment I’d like to use my platform to dispel rumors surrounding what actually happened.

This is the beginning of a thread, with the first point being –

Ashli Babbitt was not “violent towards police and elected officials” or “committing vandalism” like MSM and the current Administration claims. In fact, she tried helping police de-escalate conflict on multiple occasions and in my opinion was ultimately killed for it.

hzhousewife
Jan 7, 2024 9:50 AM
My great greats came from families of eight to thirteen children, now families have one two or maybe three offspring. Might this not happen in Muslim families who emigrate west? Some of the women in Islam are becoming quite westernised and may balk at “pregnant barefoot and in the kitchen”.

Things are changing there as well, I have noted in church that younger couples are having three, four and even five children. This may not be confined just to churchgoing families as even in shopping centres I see young mothers with at least three kids in tow.

AMAZING! Biden’s J6 Speech Was ‘Another Babylon Bee Prophecy Fulfilled’

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Jan 6, 2024 11:13 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXZTO03wxiE

Why does Gert Wilders have the guts to do, what our politicians won’t?

Wilders is a good man but the left which now effectively controls most Western nations operates on victimology. The left declare certain groups and things victims: 3rd nations, the climate, islam, which are oppressed by the West; then the left declare only they can help the victims and must be voted for. The left buy this, the victims buy this and enough useful idiots on the conservative side buy this so the left are elected.

We have seen the catastrophes of this process in respect of alarmism and renewables and the huge con game to do with 3rd nations. But the islam victimology will be the most dangerous. About this you can make predictions about what will happen here. You can do this because muslim violence is dependent on their population in the host nation. Peter Hammond and Clive Kessler have noted this. So what will happen in Australia is already happening in nations which have bigger populations of muslims. This is inevitable.

The solutions are probably what Wilders advocates. But ultimately islam will have to be eradicated from the human race. Good luck with that.

Most ME states have signed up to BRI.

Yes, indeed. But the projection of the Chinese dream of a multi-ethnic Empire under Chinese control, I think, would be step too far for Islamic crazies who see, rather, a world dominated by the devotees of Muhammad.

Part of a very long, and very hardhitting article, from The Oz.

Stephen J. Morris
Islamists and leftists combine their extremism against Israel
Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi.

12:00AM January 6, 2024
327 Comments

On October 7 last year, after two years of ceasefire between the democratic state of Israel and the Hamas Islamist dictatorship in Gaza, Hamas, without provocation or warning, began firing rockets at the cities, towns and kibbutzes of Israel. Then at 6.30am that day more than 1500 terrorists from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad breached the border fence in southern Israel and attacked the unarmed and unprotected civilian population there.

Almost immediately there was a response from people in the West and in the Middle East. Most people in Western countries were repulsed by the reports of massacre, torture, beheadings, burning people including babies alive, and other sadistic atrocities against hundreds of Jewish civilians, and more than a few non-Jews, by the terrorists. Yet on the streets of many Arab nations, there were expressions of joy and sympathy for the terrorists.

Even more shocking was the expression of support for the terrorists in Western universities and among some in the Western entertainment industry.

On the day of the October 7 ­attack (October 8 AEST), University of Sydney politics professor John Keane raised the Hamas flag on his X account. Despite the quickly accumulating evidence of appalling barbarism by the terrorists, he never took it down. Nor did he denounce the terrorists for their inhumane war crimes.

Instead, as soon as the Israeli armed forces began their counter-attack in self-defence against the terrorists, who had fled back to Gaza with 240 mostly civilian hostages – another war crime – Keane began a tirade of posts denouncing Israel as engaged in genocide against the Palestinian people.

Sadly, Keane was not the only academic in the world engaged in such hypocritical and vicious smears.

Moreover, outside the academic communities, street demonstrations began in many Western capitals in support of the Hamas policy of liquidation of Israel. Well before there was any significant Israeli military response, the protesters around the world began vilification of the Israeli people and Jews in general. From New York to London to Sydney, the events took almost identical form with protesters saying nothing about the barbaric massacre of Israeli civilians while waving placards with the slogan “Free Palestine” and chants calling for the destruction of Israel. There is no doubt that these worldwide street demonstrations were co-ordinated.

Australia gained a special place in the annals of infamy when, on October 9, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Sydney Opera House not to condemn the terrorists but to chant “Gas the Jews” and “F..k the Jews” – an event, seen around the world, that has not been forgotten and that has brought Australia into disrepute in the eyes of informed, civilised people in the West.

Today we live in the most intense period of Jew hatred around the Western world since the 1930s. Anti-Semitism has been rising at an alarming rate in recent years, thanks largely to an unregulated internet that has normalised many expressions of ethnic hatred.

Many expressions of hostility towards Israel and towards Jews make reference to Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. However, the event precipitating the greatest explosion of Jew hatred, bizarrely, has not been anything that Israel has done to Palestinians but instead what has been done by Palestinian terrorists to unarmed Jewish civilians living in Israel.

The invaders not only murdered so many. They also displayed a sadistic cruelty in several hours of torture, rape and butchery. In many instances, the killers mutilated their victims alive so they would suffer horribly before they were executed. Women had their breasts cut off, some pregnant women had their babies cut out of their womb, some men had their eyes gouged out (a common sadistic practice conducted for years in Syria on the political prisoners of the Hamas-sponsoring tyrant Bashar al-Assad).

Some Israeli children had their little hands and feet cut off, some children were executed in front of their parents, and other parents were executed in front of their children. GoPro body camera footage shows the Hamas butchers often cheering and laughing as they carried out their horrific atrocities.

Hamas terrorists and their allies have been indoctrinated for years to believe that Jews are not human beings but evil beings descended directly from “pigs and monkeys”, as Hamas leaders often proclaim.

We must keep as one public document of Hamas evil the recording of one young Palestinian man calling his parents in Gaza with the mobile phone of one of his victims. With almost hysterical excitement he boasted of how he had murdered 10 Jews with his own hands. He screamed at his parents to go on WhatsApp so he could show them the bodies of the Jews he had killed. His father told him how proud he was of the son’s crimes.

We also must not forget the threat of one leader of Hamas, Ghazi Hamad, who appeared on Lebanese television on October 24, stating that Hamas was ready to do the same again. It will continue October 7-style attacks and murder Israeli civilians as long as it takes until the state of Israel is destroyed and all Israeli Jews are killed or driven out of the Middle East. What Hamad stated was a warrant for genocide. Yet it is all in the Hamas charter.

It is the reason no Israeli government can let Hamas remain in power in Gaza and possess the military forces that enable it to repeat its sadistic massacres.

Another particularly repugnant practice by pro-Hamas activists in the West has followed the attempt of supporters of Israel to advertise the plight of the kidnapped, especially children, by putting up on lampposts and walls posters of the hostages, calling for their freedom. There has been a systematic campaign by Hamas sympathisers to tear down the posters, as if to pretend the hostage-taking never happened and so to deny the innocent victims of Hamas any sympathy.

And on university campuses around the world, Jewish students were subject to verbal and even physical abuse from roaming gangs of Hamas supporters.

One such event took place at Harvard, when a Jewish student on his way to class was surrounded by a mob of Hamas supporters who refused to let him leave while chanting “shame”. Similar harassment and abuse of Jews took place at other universities, to such an extent that Jewish students were fearful of wearing any signs of their Jewish religion in public such as the Star of David necklace.

In this activity the pro-Hamas activists received endorsement from a politically extremist segment of the university teaching faculty. At Cornell, one faculty member expressed joy at the October 7 massacre. He was suspended, and apologised as a condition of not being sacked. Yet at Columbia, long-time anti-Israel professor Joseph Massad stated the Hamas attack was “awesome” but he was not disciplined.

Many university administrators refused to discipline culprits, probably fearing the wrath of violent mobs. Early last month, three university presidents – from Harvard, MIT and University of Pennsylvania – appeared before a congressional hearing, where they equivocated on a question about whether students or faculty who called for genocide against Jews should be disciplined. Their poor performance led for calls for their dismissal. The University of Pennsylvania president, Liz Magill, resigned over this. Harvard’s Claudine Gay resigned this week over the fallout and allegations of plagiarism.

Not only Jewish students on campus were abused. There have been physical attacks at political meetings and rallies.

In November, one Jewish man in California died after being struck by an anti-Israel protester, a blow that caused him to fall to the ground and suffer fatal head trauma.

In Detroit, a pro-Palestinian mob gatecrashed a Christmas party on December 16 hosted by the Democrat member for the 13th Congressional District, Shri Thanedar, who is pro-Israel, and proceeded to chant and instigate violence. They beat badly one non-Jewish black Democrat activist, Bobbie Avington-Johnson, giving her two black eyes and sending her to hospital. The organisations that carried out the attack were the Palestinian Youth Movement and Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Jew hatred, so long associated with the extreme right wing of politics, in recent decades in the West has become a more prominent and organised manifestation of the politics of an alliance of the far left and the radical Islamist right. Traditional Western right-wing anti-Semitism still exists, sometimes in an organised form. But the greatest damage from the non-Muslim far right now comes from deranged “lone wolf” individuals and a few powerful others, now including the world’s richest man, Elon Musk.

Yet left-wing anti-Semitism is today even more corrosive of liberal society because of its strength in major cultural institutions such as the universities and entertainment industries.

Jew hatred organised and supported by an alliance of the radical neo-Marxist left and the reactionary Islamist extreme right is partly derived from their warped and intransigent view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, both seemingly incompatible ideologies share a more general hatred of Western liberal democratic civilisation. For these extremists the solution to the conflict is not creating a state for Palestinians living in peace alongside Israel but the complete destruction of the state of Israel.

The latter “solution” is the policy of Hamas, which is why the current demonstrations should be identified honestly not as pro-Palestinian but instead pro-Hamas.

In support of that judgment, we need to note that before the terrorist attack on Israel, and the Israeli military response, most Palestinians were opposed to Hamas. The electoral vote in 2006 in Gaza was not an expression of overwhelming support for Hamas. Only 44 per cent supported Hamas and many of these votes were in protest against the corruption of its rival, Fatah, which dominated the Palestinian Authority. Hamas seized total power in a coup in 2007 and has refused to allow elections since then.

A more recent survey conducted by Princeton University’s Arab Barometer public opinion survey organisation, co-led by a devout Muslim female academic, Amaney Jamal, showed that before October 7, two-thirds of Gazans distrusted and had no confidence in Hamas. Thus, it is wrong to equate Hamas with the Palestinian people, as the street demonstrators, the far-left academics and many in the media so sloppily or wilfully do.

There are several components of radical left-radical Islamist ideology on Israel that are the basis for Jew hatred in Western countries.

First the claim that the seven million, 75 per cent Jewish majority of Israeli citizens are colonisers from Europe and thus have no right to live in an independent majority Jewish state of Israel. This is a lie. In fact, Jews have been living in what is now Israel and the Palestinian territories for more than 3000 years. This is more than 2000 years before the advent of Islam and even longer than the advent of the word Palestinian. Some of the ignorant protesters may have heard of a Jew named Jesus Christ who was born in Bethlehem, now in the West Bank, 2023 years ago.

Across the centuries the areas where Jews and Palestinian Arabs now live have been ruled by a variety of empires. The Zionist movement for a Jewish national homeland had emerged in Europe during the 19th century. The British mandate of Palestine in the 20th century promised a Jewish homeland could be created there, and that promise was given greater urgency after the attempted extermination of all the world’s Jews during the Holocaust, which ended only with the Nazi military defeat in 1945. The UN attempted to resolve the dispute between the Arab and Jewish people by a partition of the former British mandate’s territory between Jews and Arabs. The Jews accepted it while the Arabs rejected it. The state of Israel was founded in 1948 and recognised by most of the world thereafter (though not by any Arab nations until 1979).

The Jews who migrated to the British mandate of Palestine before and after World War II could not have been colonisers. There was no imperial nation that sent them there and that protected them. They were Jewish immigrants joining their long-established communities in that region. After 1948 the immigrants were moving to an internationally legally recognised independent state. The concept of Jews as colonisers with regard to the original state of Israel is just ideological mystification created and perpetuated by people who don’t like Jews.

The second component of the current pro-Hamas ideology is the myth of Israel as an apartheid state. This phrase is uttered incessantly by all those who hate Israel and the Jews. However, those who have been to Israel will know that Israel is a democracy in which the 20 per cent minority Arab population has the same political and civil rights as Jews.

Unlike under South African apartheid, Israeli Arabs and black Israeli citizens (most of whom are Jews) do not eat in separate restaurants from “white” Jews, do not travel in special public transport separate from “white” Jews, do not attend separate schools, and do not get treated in separate hospitals with separate doctors and nurses. Israeli Jews come in many different skin colours. The Israeli reality is the opposite of what South African apartheid looked like.

Arabs hold seats in the Israeli parliament (Knesset). In the previous government, before the return of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s current one, there was an Arab Islamist party as part of the ruling coalition.

Most of the current anti-Israel protesters know none of this because they have never been to Israel, don’t read serious books or articles about Israel, and get their news (in fact misinformation) from internet sites, including from the Chinese-controlled TikTok. However, the pro-Hamas propagandists and protest organisers probably do know all this but they lie to mobilise the ignorant young in support of their anti-Jewish, anti-Western cause.

To get a feel for Perth weather December rainfall figures – rainfall 1mm evaporation 283mm. Temperatures haven’t been too bad but jeez it’s dry. Without the 2 desal (and another on the way) this place would have hit capacity a while ago. Colin’s canal back on the drawing board?

Angelina Jolie wore padding to take her from 36C to 36D to play Lara Croft.

Y’all needed to know that.

On the day of the October 7 ­attack (October 8 AEST), University of Sydney politics professor John Keane raised the Hamas flag on his X account. Despite the quickly accumulating evidence of appalling barbarism by the terrorists, he never took it down. Nor did he denounce the terrorists for their inhumane war crimes.

Instead, as soon as the Israeli armed forces began their counter-attack in self-defence against the terrorists, who had fled back to Gaza with 240 mostly civilian hostages – another war crime – Keane began a tirade of posts denouncing Israel as engaged in genocide against the Palestinian people.

John Keane.

FMD

Exploding Chinese EVs and Others Catching Fire –

https://youtu.be/DwhnArkZTu8

The Islamic women are not in charge of their fertility, HZHousewife.

‘By the One in Whose Hand is my soul, there is no man who calls his wife to his bed and she refuses, but the One Who is above the heavens [i.e. Allah] will be angry with her, until he (her husband) is pleased with her.’

– Hadith (saying of Mohammed) of the world’s most feminist religion.

Re the issue of the lack of adequate information in respect to the ME conflicts:

In the 11am ABC TV update the newsreader cited Hezbollah attack on Israel as if it was an isolated event – rather than, in reality, part of a regular barrage of missile attacks from Lebanon.

Or is it that the MSM, with its limited capacity for handling more than one subject at a time, is not currently reporting on eg, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan and other places?

“Pretty” in my sentence means relatively.

The civil war in Syria has largely concluded in Assad’s favour.

The other Arab countries are focused on development.

We have had no more than three PMs with genuine “potential greatness” in the last 40 years, all of whom disappointed to some degree. Until we get one with actual greatness, the slide will continue.

The mechanics of the party system militates against any really principled & able candidate rising to the top. The cream doesn’t rise to the top in this case, but gets swept around in the homogenisation.

So which female in the Liars parliamentary party will be given the hospital handpass and made leader in the next 18 months when Newspoll finds Elbow is unreelectable? (Hint: it won’t be the Slovenian Hag)

I considered this last week, Tom.

Excluding Plibersek, I don’t think there is a suitable girl.

Therefore, the Liars will spurn the habits of a lifetime and give the hospital handpass to a bloke, Richard Marles

Yes, I plumped on Marles too.

see = sea.

The ossified socialists will not let any upstarts to succeed in fighting back.

That’s defeatist talk, Crossie!

2024 is going to be a big year for fighting back in Europe.

The Islamic women are not in charge of their fertility, HZHousewife.
Their husbands are, and the chattels will do as they are told.
Whether it is because the fathers like children, or like the social welfare benefits that come with children is the point.
Take the sugar off the table and the ants stop coming.
Put in a reverse Jizya tax on Muslims and they will start leaving.

WS, it very glaring how feminists don’t have any problem with it at all yet they are absolutely up in arms about Knickerless and her claims of an event she can’t remember.

The guiltiest are the parents who claim to want their children to make up their own minds about religion. If they really believed that they would have taught their children about the major religions and then the children would have a choice. How can they choose something of which they know nothing? The outcome is that they don’t.

Stranded on ice floes, fer cryin’ out loud!

C.L.
Jan 7, 2024 11:00 AM
I will be interested in the details of the man arrested for multiple “random” stabbings in Melbourne overnight.

I think we can safely assume that he is not white or Christian.

I think we can safely assume that he is not white or Christian.

Well apart from him being an aspiring rapper…

One thing I think I think Melbournians need to guard against is any signs of Islamophobia.

Cook Government have not ruled out change for WA parents to choose ‘gender free’ option for babies
Joe SpagnoloThe West Australian
Sun, 7 January 2024 2:00AM
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It may soon be legal for WA parents to not designate whether their baby is a boy or a girl on their child’s birth certificates.

The Cook Government has not ruled out the controversial change under proposed amendments to the Equal Opportunity Act.

And high-level sources within the Government have confirmed to The Sunday Times that Attorney-General John Quigley is considering that WA adopt a Tasmanian model whereby gender on birth certificates is optional.

In 2019, the Tasmanian Parliament passed legislation which made it optional to include gender on birth certificates.

The then-House of Assembly Speaker Sue Hickey said: “(It) was indeed a historic occasion. This is not a win for any particular political party, but rather the dignity of the transgender community.”

Currently in WA, birth certificates show a newborn as being either male or female. But if WA adopted the Tasmanian model, infants could have no gender marked on their birth certificates.

Mr Quigley refused to rule out following Tasmania, after The Sunday Times put questions to his office about the controversial model.

“The Government’s reforms are under development, and we cannot disclose any further details at this stage,” he said in an email to The Sunday Times on Saturday.

In August 2022, Mr Quigley announced an overhaul to the Equal Opportunity Act, after tabling the Law Reform Commission’s Review of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 in Parliament.

In December of that year Mr Quigley issued a statement saying the government was committed to “LGBTIQA+ law reform and to improving the process of sex and gender recognition”.

Under proposed changes, individuals can apply to have their gender changed as long as they can provide a certificate from their medical practitioner or psychologist confirming they have received clinical treatment in relation to their sex or gender identity.

Words fail me, they honestly do.

Top Ender

Jan 7, 2024 1:17 PM

Well-travelled Cat people…

Looking at a (working as a lecturer) cruise around South America in 2026. There are four to choose from. One version starts in Buenos Aries in Argentina and ends in Valparaíso in Chile, and the other is the reverse.

Any suggestions as to which way is preferable?

Avoid the River Plate estuary.
But you probably knew that.

I’m not that pessimistic as the numbers don’t favor the muzz . They’re about 5% of the total population, which obviously means 95% aren’t.

Of course the numbers favour the muzzies. They’re 5% unified and ready for action with a plan.

The 95% consists of:

1 50% lefties, greenies and assorted dingbats
2 5% trannies, recipients of breast implants, decocking and general genital refibulation.
3 30% little johnnie type conservatives who still think a uniform is for their protection, law and order have meaning and the political system is pro-Australian.
4 10% odds and sods walking around in a mist reminiscing, venting on the web and wondering WTF happened.