NSW might not be quite as bad as Victoria, but by jingo its pretty close.

I have recommended elsewhere that the NSW Police motto should be changed from the now clearly outmoded ‘Culpam poena premit comes’ (Punishment swiftly follows crime) to one adapted from something the Emperor Tiberius supposedly said – ‘Let them hate me, so long as they fear me’.

We get:

Oderint nos dum metuant nos

When Robert Peel created the police in London he recognised that they could only really operate with the consent of the community. The public would heed, the public would help. They had to trust the police officers and believe that they meant to benefit the people of the community.

I think the various police forces have squandered that good will. We have seen them too often attack the public with seemingly no qualms whatsoever.

That is the image they have now.

I don’t like what I see as real crime or the people that commit them. But after seeing police manhandling people to pull masks on their heads or pepper-spraying old women already on the ground, I less identify police with justice.

The Farmers are Rising Up

What mystifies me the most about the arrest of Alan Jones are the reports that police had a search warrant. To search for what? If they had enough proof to arrest him what did they expect to find in his home? It just doesn’t make sense, Alan is not a bank robber.

The Democrats are Falling Apart Before Our Eyes

Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism

For all his flaws and dysfunctions, Trump has served as a catalyst — forcing the old establishment to confront its contradictions. His presidency underscores the emergence of a new paradigm where sovereignty, national interest, and the desire to be free from technocratic control increasingly take precedence. Crucially, this shift should not be viewed merely through the simplistic lens of left vs. right; rather, it is best understood as a more fundamental moment — a quasi-spiritual reckoning for the West, grappling with the kind of moral order that will define its future.

This conflict pits two competing visions against each other: on one side, an authoritarian framework — a top-down, imposed order championed by a transnational, anti-democratic administrative state; on the other, a resurgence of sovereignty, a defence of human agency, and a return to the values of freedom and self-determination. As articulated through these movements, sovereign internationalism attempts to redefine international engagement by affirming national interests and independence rather than subjugating to unelected global bureaucracies.

RTWT

No prizes for guessing which vision Albanese & Co. [& Starmer] are backing. Otoh, I don’t think the Gliberals grasp what’s at stake at all; they are the contemporary iteration of Donald Horne’s second raters.

Tim Blair:

Australian malcontents are always importing terrible ideas from the United States.

Global warming panic, identity politics, electric vehicles, theatrical anti-Trumpism, the notion that blokes can have babies – these all kicked off in the US before landing here.

This trend extends even to online abuse. When local leftists sneer at their social media opponents, they often use US-derived insults, referring for example to people who live in their “mum’s basement”.

By and large, of course, Australian houses don’t have basements. It is worrying that our leftist friends, who grew up in Australian houses, evidently never noticed this.

So they import another Americanism and force it into an Australian circumstance. Sort of like Aboriginal rap music – or that Raygun lady’s kangaroo-hopping, culturally-appropriating attempt at break dancing.

But Australia is taking its revenge. Instead of importing pointless embarrassment, we’re proudly and successfully exporting it.

Americans are now participating in Australian-style “welcome to country” ceremonies.

Their versions are called “land acknowledgments”, but they otherwise seem just as earnest and procedural as our original presentations – which have been a traditional Indigenous ritual since 1976, when a welcome to country was first performed by TV presenter Ernie Dingo and musician Richard Walley.

For those who doubt the historical depth of this compelling origin story, 1976 was the same year that Abba’s Fernando was Australia top-selling single. Ancient times. The Dreamtime’s dawning. Before most Aussie families even had colour TV

“Land acknowledgments have become increasingly common nationwide over the past few years,” the US National Public Radio network reported in 2023.

“Many mainstream public events — from soccer games and performing arts productions to city council meetings and corporate conferences — begin with these formal statements recognising Indigenous communities’ rights to territories seized.”

They’re performed at soccer games and arts events. From this we know exactly what types of people are pushing these “land acknowledgments”.

Interestingly, some senior US Indigenous figures aren’t impressed by imported Australian racial rites or the way they are presented.

“If it becomes routine, or worse yet, is strictly performative, then it has no meaning at all,” Kevin Gover, a citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, told that NPR program. “It goes in one ear and out the other.”

This is also true here. A mate who works for a state government department in the bush is exposed to at least four or five messages every day about “paying our respects to traditional owners” and so on.

Several tribes are mentioned. In one ear, out the other; nobody can remember any of them.

It could be that the US is getting in on land acknowledgments just as Australia is getting out of them. A turning point may have occurred in April 2023, when Aboriginal activist Marcia Langton vowed to abandon welcome to country ceremonies if the Yes vote didn’t deliver an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

“I imagine that most Australians who are non-Indigenous, if we lose the referendum, will not be able to look me in the eye,” Marcia Langton told The Weekend Australian.

“How are they going to ever ask an Indigenous person, a traditional owner, for a welcome to country? How are they ever going to be able to ask me to come and speak at their conference?

“If they have the temerity to do it … the answer is going to be no.”

At the time of Langton’s vow, the Yes vote was leading in opinion polls by about 60 per cent to 40 per cent. Within a few weeks polls were level at 50-all. The No vote eventually won by more than 20 percentage points.

Marcia didn’t miss.

Here’s another kiss of doom. US popster Taylor Swift, whose endorsement of Kamala Harris didn’t stop her losing to Donald Trump, last week decorated the stage at a Canadian show with a sign saluting “the Mississaugas … the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Chippewa, and Wendat … the First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples”.

Good for them. But here’s the fun part. When left-leaning white shame-spreaders profess their guilt and pity to Native Americans, they do so in the apparent absence of recent crucial information.

They’re showing profound reverence for … Trump voters.

“Nationally, a whopping 65 per cent of Native American voters went for Trump,” New York’s City Journal reported last week. Politico observed: “In the Great Plains, the Mountain states, across the Southwest and even in North Carolina, Trump delivered standout gains.”

It’s time for a new ceremony. Welcome to Trump country.

Outstanding as usual.

52% of women with cats voted for Harris.
Only 41% of men with dogs voted for Harris.
Yay men.
Yay dogs.

On Credlin tonight in relation to Alan Jones
Asst Commissioner Michael Fitzgerald stated amongst other things –
“l wish to commend the victims and their bravery on coming forward”.
At this stage they are either ‘alleged victims’ or ‘complainants’.
Referring to their “bravery” is also inappropriate.
The Commissioner should know better.

I just watched the first episode of “The Space Shuttle Which Fell to Earth”, which deals with the Columbia break up on re-entry, due to damage to a wing during launch.
I think it is a BBC production.
One interesting thing came through. The style of the production was, I think, intended to be framing of broad questions and letting the participants tell their story. The interviewer is rarely heard, and isn’t mic’ed up very well because, when she speaks, it is only faintly picked up by the subject’s microphone.
Why does this matter?
Well, the only times the interviewer interjects is when an interview subject is critical of Linda Ham, Chairperson of the Mission Management Team, and invariably she jumps to Linda’s defence.
No questioning of DEI, please!

@VigilantFox

This clip is absolutely mind-blowing.

NBC News was caught red-handed pushing a FAKE photo of a baby with measles—designed to stoke fear and sell vaccines for their sponsor, Merck.

The fake photo is undeniable: the same photo appeared on Dreamstime with the exact same baby but without the measles splotches. It was provably photoshopped.

Watch this clip in full, and you’ll see what I mean.

Lester Holt and NBC News have never apologized for this blatant fraud, and the story was quietly swept under the rug.

Moreover, the CDC is straight-up lying to the American public, claiming that 1 out of every 1,000 measles cases results in death.

What they’re not telling you is that their own data shows the death rate of measles before the vaccine was available was actually 1 in 8,000.

While the media and the government smear people like us as spreaders of “disinformation,” the real disinformation is coming from TV news and the government itself.

@catturd2

The Biden regime would rather start a nuclear war and end all of mankind, than to let Trump end the war peacefully in a few months.

We’re dealing with truly evil demons here.

I was at a Northern Beaches lighting shop today. The owner had a pet sulphur crested cockatoo which was missing a patch of front feathers just sitting on a perch near the checkout.

I assumed it was suffering from the feather loss disease that affects lorrikeets and parrots but no, the owner told me-

‘That’s where he had an operation’

‘Oh yeah, what was it for?’

‘A blocked artery’

‘Wow, I didnt know they did those sort of operations on birds, how much did that cost?’

‘The owner says………$7,000’

‘Wow, I didnt know they did those sort of operations on birds, how much did that cost?’

‘The owner says………$7,000’

The way that story should have gone:-

‘Wow, I didnt know they did those sort of operations on birds, how much did that cost?’

‘Pieces of eight …. arrrgh …. pieces of eight’

…its hitting targets like this with unequivocally US provided weapons using US ISR assets would very likely either escalate the situation to (i) Russia providing similar weapons to actors in other theatres and/ or (ii) bringing the two more directly into open conflict.

China and Iran are providing drones etc. The little rocketeer is providing troops, so your argument makes no sense.