Andrew Bolt:

This federal election looks like becoming the day Australians finally make Labor pay for lying for nearly two decades about the cost of its global warming fantasies.

Labor’s lies go back way beyond Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s dishonest press conference on Tuesday, or his broken promise last election that his green schemes would cut your electricity bills by $275.

Back in 2007, Kevin Rudd, then Labor’s leader, started the rot by promising Labor’s global warming plans would cost “something like $1 per person per year”.

A dollar a year! Yes, Rudd really did claim in 2007 that Labor’s “renewable energy target of 20 per cent by 2020” would “between now and about 2045” have “a total impact on the economy of somewhere between $600m and $800m … or something like $1 per person per year”.

How badly Australians have been fooled. How angry many are now to pay the price, and not just in high power bills.

Professor Paul Simshauser, CEO of the Queensland government’s Powerlink transmission business, is the latest to expose the con.

Forget a dollar a year. Simshauser’s new study warns that just building the extra solar, wind, batteries, hydro and gas assets we’ll need to get close to Labor’s latest target of net zero emissions will cost about $300bn – or $11,000 per person in total.

That’s not all. Not included are the costs of the countless other schemes to cut emissions.

Just this month, the Albanese government’s new emissions standards kicked in, hiking the price of petrol-driven cars.

Also not included is the cost of the blackouts Simshauser predicts as Labor kills off our remaining coal-fired generators, or the jobs we’re already losing to countries with cheaper and more reliable electricity.

Even so, Simshauser’s figures seem light on. A study by Net Zero Australia two years ago said we’d need to spend up to $1.5 trillion by 2030 to reach Labor’s target, and $9 trillion by 2060 – or $333,000 for every Australian man, woman and child.

Does that make sense to you – $330,000 from every person in your family to get green electricity? Has Australia gone insane?

How you’ve been hoaxed! Like I said, Labor has raised its target to net zero by 2050 since Rudd’s airy talk of just “$1 per person per year”, but that was always its predictable end game – and never has Labor come clean on the final cost.

In fact, it’s refused to tell you either the cost or the benefit – what good its schemes would actually do. It’s like selling us a car without telling us the price or even if it works.

No Labor leader has said how much their plans would actually lower the temperature.

None would say how many fewer fires, flood and cyclones we’d get, or even if there’d be any change at all.

None has considered whether the small warming we’ve seen is actually good for us. After all, we’ve had more rain, bigger crops and fewer cyclones in the past few decades.

I suspect Albanese understands none of this, and, worse, doesn’t care to. This is religion, to him. It’s tribal. It’s politics.

What it’s not to Albanese is science and economics. How else to explain his press conference on Tuesday, as he kickstarts his election campaign?

Talk about deluded. Or deceitful.

He told us there was “a transformation to net zero that is happening globally”. False: despite spending nearly $3 trillion a year on this “transition”, the world is using more coal and gas than ever.

He warned that “climate change” had to be fought to save the many jobs which “which rely upon the Great Barrier Reef”. In fact, most of the reef has lately had the most coral cover ever recorded.

Albanese also babbled about “moving towards green hydrogen in the future” so that “aluminium refineries can continue to operate”.

Green hydrogen? Another fantasy. Woodside, Origin and even hydrogen spruiker Andrew Forrest all dropped planned investments last year, admitting it just costs too much.

Albanese also dismissed the Opposition’s plan for nuclear power as a “fantasy”, even though nuclear supplies 10 per cent of the world’s electricity because, unlike green hydrogen, it’s a proven technology.

But here’s Albanese still like some carnival huckster, selling us snake oil for his fake scare, hoping voters forget Labor’s long history of dud global warming promises.

My tip? Polls suggest they haven’t – and Labor will pay. It must.

Eye watering figures that effectively take Australia back to colonisation. For absolutely no benefit whatsoever.

Mark Zuckerberg released a video yesterday, promising less censorship and more free speech.

I’d be more inclined to believe this bloke has had a genuine epiphany rather than than just being a toadying suckhole if he released all communications between FB and the Democrat machine from around 2015 onward.

He should still be considered a snake in the grass no matter what he does.

The progressives’ contempt for the white working class

Dr Campbell Campbell-Jack, The Conservative Woman, 8th January, 2025

THERE is a time to be angry. There is a time when it is a sin not to be angry. This is such a time.

I have served in the armed forces. I have been a prison chaplain. I have been a minister in one of the roughest parts of Glasgow. I am not naive. Yet I was unable to finish reading the details of the atrocities committed by a mainly Pakistani Muslim rape gang on white girls. some of them pre-teen. These vile acts were committed prior to 2013 yet have came to light last week. Why were they hidden? I think we know the answer.

The great Dutch theologian, church leader and prime minister Abraham Kuyper never lost sight of the kleine mensen, the little people. He knew that the supposedly insignificant working-class people were ignored by the main parties and needed protecting. Our secular progressive elites have no interest in or concern for the ordinary working-class people of Britain. When a nation abandons the Bible, the most vulnerable pay the heaviest price.

These were not grooming gangs: dogs are groomed. These were paedophile rape and torture gangs. Neither was this confined to Rochdale; paedophile rape gangs have been operating in towns and cities throughout the UK. Poor white girls from broken homes were viewed as legitimate targets for rape and exploitation by men from a faith known for its disdain of women.

This happened with the complicity of those charged with protecting children. In a case from Bradford a 15-year-old girl was placed as a foster child in the family of her rapist and made to marry her abuser in an Islamic ceremony with her social worker present. During this period she was forced to convert to Islam and treated as a domestic slave.

Mainly Pakistani Muslims preyed upon poor, vulnerable white girls. They were pimped out to others across Britain. Police and social services were so scared of being called racist or Islamophobic they did nothing to protect the girls or arrest the perpetrators. Sometimes they were ordered to do nothing. One girl claims to have been raped by 150 men; this began when she was 13. Some girls were murdered.

The depth of the contempt the white progressive managerial class has for the white working class is all too evident; their oikophobia is rampant. The primary responsibility for these horrific acts belongs to the mostly Pakistani Muslim perpetrators. Yet it was the weakness and systemic failures of those with responsibility for protecting their own girls which should make us angriest. For them progressive ideology, especially immigration and multiculturalism, was so important that it was worthwhile sacrificing tens of thousands of working-class white girls.

Ultimate responsibility lies with our politicians. These politicians are keen on punishing hate crimes. If there was ever a hate crime it was when groups of mainly Pakistani Muslims targeted vulnerable white girls on racial and religious grounds for industrial-scale rape and torture. These hate crimes were ignored.

These horrific crimes would not have been allowed to continue unabated if our politicians had not prioritised multiculturalism and vote gathering, a combination of progressive ideology and moral corruption. The white girls were simply the wrong victims, their suffering got in the way of the progressive narrative. If it had been Asian girls the story might have been different.

This scandal touched the whole of Britain, yet the current Labour government refuses to hold a national inquiry, as Laura Perrins wrote in TCW yesterday. It is to be left to local authorities with limited resources to investigate these crimes. One doesn’t need to be cynical to ask who is being protected and which voting bloc appeased.

It does the Conservative Party little good to try to assume the high moral ground and call for a national inquiry. They have just emerged from 14 years in power when they did nothing. The police would not have ignored these crimes without strong political backing and instruction.

A law enforcement officer came to the conclusion that a 12-year-old who told police she had sex with five adults had done so in a ‘100 per cent consensual [way] in every incident’. Thankfully, he was overruled.

There was the time when a 13-year-old was found half-naked and drunk in a house with a group of seven adult Pakistani men. It was the girl who was arrested, charged and eventually convicted of being drunk and disorderly. The men were not even questioned, never mind arrested. By way of contrast, fathers who attempted to rescue their underage daughters from the houses in which they were being held and raped were arrested.

From the copper on the beat to the highest-ranking officer, not one police officer has been disciplined or lost their job and pension. The same police who turned a blind eye to these crimes are still policing us.

There has been a mass dereliction of duty amongst the media who pride themselves on ‘speaking truth to power’. With a few brave exceptions, such as Andrew Norfolk of the Times and Charlie Peters of GB News, they have chosen to ignore the elephant in the room.

Our progressive elite are so out of touch with the people of Britain they can only see through woke spectacles. Dr Ella Cockbain of University College London wrote in 2013 that she was concerned that the existence of child abusing networks run by South Asian men was ‘fuelling racist rhetoric’. She was so blind to reality that she opined: ‘It can seem that the greatest effrontery about grooming is not the abuse of children but the interracial sex itself.’

The progressives simply cannot grasp how deeply they hold their fellow countrymen and women in contempt. They cannot possibly admit that they look down on the white working class. After all, being liberal-progressives they are the good guys. They are the enlightened. They are the moral arbiters. They are the ones who understand the whole picture. There is a certain parable about specks of sawdust and planks of wood which springs to mind (Matthew 7:3-5).

Professor Alexis Jay, who conducted an inquiry into the mass rapes in Rochdale, wrote: ‘The authorities involved have a great deal to answer for.’ To date no police officer has been disciplined, no social work director sacked, no politician held to account. While unwilling to protect the most vulnerable in society, the progressive managerial class are more than willing to protect their own.

This societal calamity was papered over. That is no longer the case. The mass rape of white British girls is the most egregious example of the high-handed disdain the progressive powers that be have for the indigenous working class.

@GBNEWS

‘I was put in a police car and taken away.’

The father of a Rotherham grooming gang victim tells GB News how he was arrested twice when trying to rescue his daughter from an abuse den.

Cassie of Sydney
 January 9, 2025 9:21 am

I suspect the next move by Fuhrer Sturmer will be to block X. 

How?
Apart from stopping people and searching their phones for X.

I got to thinking about the end-game with Trump talking about Greenland.
I think this is part of a ploy to wedge the EU.
I heard one of the usual suspects this morning on radio referring to it as “an EU territory”.
Err, no it isn’t.
The EU owns nothing.
It is Danish territory.
I reckon Trump will offer Denmark yuuuge incentives to let the US in.
The EU will oppose it, and Denmark will then face a dilemma.
Buckle under to the EU, or take the cash.

Joondalup council vote in favour of 30-day advertising over renaming of Blackboy Park in MullalooErick LopezPerthNow – Joondalup
Thu, 9 January 2025 2:00AM

The City of Joondalup has approved a motion to bring the renaming of Blackboy Park in Mullaloo a step closer.
Joondalup councillors voted 11-1 at its December meeting in favour of the name change to Koorlangka Park, which will now be advertised to the public for 30 days for feedback.
The move comes after five years of proposals, first put by Cr Russ Fishwick in 2019, that deemed the term blackboy no longer appropriate.
The city engaged Aboriginal consultancy Nyungar Birdiya in early 2024 to provide a recommendation for the renaming.
Koorlangka Kallip, loosely meaning ‘children’s park’ in Noongar, was the original name proposed by the group but city officers instead recommended keeping the term ‘Park’ to avoid community confusion after feedback by Landgate.
“I am now pleased, over five-and-a-half years (later), we are now proposing to go out to the public advising of the name Koorlangka Park for 30 days and I’m just happy that the wheels are about to stop grinding and we may have a change of name from Blackboy Park to something else,” Cr Fishwick said.
Cr Lewis Hutton said he supported the name change in this instance but warned against too many name changes in future.

Local Government, tackling the vital issues…

Good toons especially Branco showing the old pervert giving the medal of freedom to Satan. Speaking of which the disgusting pervert is considering pre-emptive pardons:

Joe Biden considers shielding Liz Cheney, Anthony Fauci and other Trump foes with preemptive pardons – Washington Times

Another potential assassination threat:

Machete-wielding man arrested at Capitol ahead of Trump visit

And finally that pig, starmer prevents an enquiry into his failure to prosecute the muzzie goat rooters rape gangs; look at the muzzies; what an adornment they are to pommie society (coming here now);

British Lawmakers Reject Proposal for Muslim Rape Gangs Inquiry.

Today’s devil incarnate is … Mark Suckerberg.

Interestingly, the ABC (of all people) featured an interview with a former colleague of Zuckerberg yesterday who said that Zuckerberg favours free speech/community notes and only acceded to the fact checkers because of the political environment under Biden.

Make of it what you will.

The biggest scams in history:
One. War. Specifically the idea of war as a great adventure that will make a man of you.

Two. Climate change. Mankind has little or no influence over climate, and the systems that govern weather are impossibly complex and chaotic. Any idiot can get them to model anything they want over longer time periods.

Three: Electric cars. We gave up on these stupid things 120 years ago for good reasons. They only exist now because of government interference in markets. I should not have to tell you what happens to those participating in a market with heavy government interference. When it unwinds the losses will be horrendous.

Four. Redistribution of wealth through social programs. See above comment on what happens in markets when government interference inevitably unwinds.

Five. Self driving cars. No car guy wants to be driven. Even less by some disembodied force. And for car users who do want to be driven, such a thing already exists, it’s called the bus.

Six. Universities. Throughout history the idea of the guild returns time after time, and with it the concept of the indispensable expert without whom chaos would ensue as all sorts of unqualified persons would start flying planes and doing brain surgery. From the ancient druids to the modern DEI HR professional, 90% of credentialism proves itself to be the product of a self serving clique of arseholes. Qualifications are what you are given in a system that has ossified past the stages of discovery and exploration and entered a time when it’s value is routinely looted.

Seven. Career politicians. Societies contain a large variety of interests. Think of those interests as vectors. Some vectors nearly overlap, some are in entirely opposite directions. Some dangle at random angles. The average size and direction of every vector added together will be the direction and speed at which a society moves. The politicians are at best a medium for communicating those vectors, or mostly… extraneous. At worst they feed parasitically upon an arbitrage between various interests.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/lgbt-liberals-discover-second-amendment-over-fears-being-thrown-camps-trump

I thought they needed F-15s to go up against the government?

Wally Dalí
January 9, 2025 1:10 pm

Is Newsom to Blame for California’s Wildfires? | Power Line
Short answer- yes, plus the long-active anti-human environmental industry.
Eucalyptus pyrocumulus spp. not mentioned…

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Spot on.

Check this out.

Raw footage and no narration ( middle finger to on site legacy media reporters … I don’t need to hear from your dribbling bums telling me what i can see for myself. ) from OnsceneTV.

The opening of the clip you will see fireman having to fill buckets, water bags etc from the fire appliances to help douse fires.

Effin ridiculous.

22:22

Structures Burn as Palisades Fire Explodes to 1,200+ Acres

These LA fires are an absolute disaster. People without insurance were unable to obtain coverage because insurance firms haven’t been offering policies in LA or have been charging exorbitant prices. This also means these lost homes are mortgage-free, as mortgage companies won’t lend without an insurance policy attached. In other words, the loss of homes will be personal and non-recoverable—a dreadful situation.

Newsom is getting the blame, and rightly so. The DEI fire chief and the LA mayor (also DEI), along with Newsom, are totally incompetent. If anything could shake Californians into voting GOP in the next round, this should be it.

Just get a load of how highly paid incompetence is in California.

@KeenanPeachy

LA DWP just sent out alerts to everyone in Los Angeles telling them to boil water since their water pressure is so low. There is no water for fires, or for drinking, city wide. LA DWP chief makes $75OK a year

https://x.com/KeenanPeachy/status/1877193928547397975/photo/1

It begs the question, to be the head of any department in any form of government requires the applicant to be incompetent.

You’ll notice there’s no C for competence in DEI.