Sydney Morning Treason = has always worked (when in doubt abt what to call it)
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I was in hospital a few months ago, and one of my nurses was muslim. At one point she recited…
I agree yet another term of rainbow commos will kill me. I choose life.
They use it as a manual.
Racist!
Wow! First.
Tell you what Dover, you’re mining a fantastic vein of evocative art these days.
three’s a crowd?
We three kings of Orient are,
One in a taxi, one in a car,
One on a scooter,
Blowing his hooter,
Following yonder star.
To paraphrase the great entrepreneur, Arthur Daley from Minder,
“Droll Doc…very droll…” 🙂
I’m getting old DrBG, I used to know the other verses as done by the late, great John Clark. I can’t remember any more.
actually the finsh of that piece is supposed to be:
“…One on a scooter
Blowing his hooter,
Smoking a big cigar.”
I thought you would know that as a cigar fancier.
You’re right. Shameful that I forgot.
India on the Move: Delhi
India is on the move, and so are we, tearing through it at a great rate of knots. Hairy, talking from a fifty-year perspective with his first trip the 1975 hippie trail and his most recent the 90’s and to 2000 in Delhi IT conferences and high-tech Bangalore, identifies the changes as more middle class people, no visible starvation (a great change compared to 1975), many more motor-powered vehicles, mostly western dress (sometimes with identifying headgear) and everyone, absolutely everyone, on smartphones. I’ve never been before except calling in by sea as a child on the way to England in 1952 to what was still Bombay and recalling terrible scenes of poverty. There is still a noticeable homeless population, but the abject hunger and rags is mostly gone from view in this great city. Nourishment is obviously much better for all now. I am sure from this that I now would find the Sri Lanka that I lived in for a year in 1973 with my first baby under the dead hand of a ruinous socialism would be full of similar changes.
We are on a ‘Gold Luxury’ tour, and today saw us Raj Ghat memorial to Gandhi, the day after he was shot by a Brahmin Hindu nationalist. A grand pyre cremated him here and his remains were floated in the nearby tributary of the Ganges. It is now a place of National pilgrimage and very large, well set out, and beautifully kept with many flowerbeds surrounding it. We then moved on driving around the huge Islamic Red Fort, developed by Akbar late 1500’s and finished by Shah Jahan in in the 1600’s. Our tour took us to the Jama, a massive sandstone and marble Mosque, where ladies were forced to wear a figure-hiding garment which, as I am short, tripped me up on steps if I wasn’t careful. Women in our group of ten did a laughing couture display for a group photograph. No need to cover one’s hair though. Customs re this differ, but here, don’t dare show you have a waist – no need, as many of us didn’t and mine, which had returned when I started this trip, is now less boastworthy on three full meals a day.
Next was a real treat, if you like that sort of thing. A bicycle-rickshaw ride through Old Delhi’s narrow passageways full of shops and people, which was a bit of old India. In one narrow twisting laneway lasting for about half a kilometre and only 2 or 3 metres wide (depending what was parked or being loaded) our rider weaved (only term for it) in and out and around stuff lying everywhere on broken and uneven surfaces, dodging oncoming motor bikes and scooters (or being overtaken by them) and avoiding people crossing and re-crossing and gathering together everywhere. Keep your elbows inside, he indicated to us as the start, and this was why. We’d placed our lives in his riding skill and knowledge of how to progress in this melee. Like the constant traffic in the actual streets, it works as Hairy was once told it does – like us when traversing a room full of people. We don’t actually bump into people but the near-misses are legion. Same in this laneway. These little step-in hole-in-the-wall shops seemed like fairylands, full of glitter far more blingish than even London’s Burlington Arcade, for wedding dresses and sparkling confections of great magnificence and styles were twinkling away from interiors everywhere, inbetween loads of spices and pulses in hundredweight bags being spun on the heads of skinny workers as they shifted them between storage and shops, paddling through puddles of ancient muck and mud.
After that a visit to a World Heritage Site, the Kutuv Mina, which was the world’s largest stone minaret dating back to the first Muslim settlement around 1100. This was less a settlement by the sword than a Sufi-led gentler Islam that attracted the lower castes as a means of escape from Hindu domination. The sword of course was also a mighty persuader. In constructing the groundwork for this early and truly impressive minaret, added to in height by later Moghul rulers, early Islamic settlers used ancient Hindu stone columns to build a greater, bigger Mosque, knocking the faces and features off anything that was an ‘icon’ and hence haram. Islam developed at a time when the Christian church had already suffered a deal of anguish over the use of painted figures and icons, and Mo seems to have taken that to heart in his new religion. The influence of Roman building techniques in later work increasing the height of the great minaret to become the largest stone tower ever built (over 70 ft) was clearly influenced by Roman techniques, probably inherited from Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. Acres of truly amazing heritage are found here.
Lunch intervened. And tired but weary by then, we did as good sheeple do and girded loins for the final visit, to the Golden Sikh Temple, where the rules here dictated that everyone, no gender exceptions, had to bind a purchased cheap orange scarf over their head and remove shoes and socks (only shoes in the earlier mosque) and paddle through water to enter the Golden Temple while Sikhs prayed all over the place in it as well as before a Great Book. Sikh men wear their long hair turbaned up and grow long beards. This is a religion teaching a commonality of humanity, which they practice by feeding the poor of any religion in very large numbers. We walked by a hall full of poor people eating a simple provided meal and walked through the kitchens where food was made in great vats by volunteers, often middle-class women, not always Sikhs themselves. Made me feel much better about pushing off the children who were begging earlier. Destitution was not the entire story, and the Sikhs are doing commendable work.
I’m sitting now in a very luxurious suite in a very luxurious palace hotel. Glamour bathroom. Everything is impressive and intending to impress; no understate elegance here. Gold leaf and marble on the furniture everywhere and in the public rooms some very grand floral arrangements and bronzes augmenting the height of the voids that produce the palatial aspect. And guess what? It is very cold here. Nine degrees overnight and fourteen at breakfast, not rising to 22 till afternoon. I’m bringing out the warmer clothes from the bottom of the suitcase and allowing my summer dresses and tops to get crushed; I doubt if I’ll need them.
Lunch was in a part of Delhi built and frequented by the British Raj, with arched walkways rather reminiscent of the design of Canberra’s Civic, a common design for civic buildings back in the day, inflection Greek and Roman colonades. The restaurant was famous, called The Kwality, and sub-headed The Polo Restaurant, it was full of pictures of show horses and photographs of the British at play. Two polo poles were crossed above the table where we sat. The food was some of the best Indian I’d ever had, so worth waiting for and undoing another notch in the belt.
Our companions are in the majority Australians, with four Americans.
It is all very convivial, but the single woman from Texas was so glad to find us, Trump supporters, which the other Americans were not.
Lizzie, your posts read like you are having a “Girls Own Adventure”.
Great.
Good description Lizzie – very like ours in New Delhi.
I do hear the south of India is well worth a visit – I know a southerner who was very disparaging about the northern Indian people, who, he said: “throw their rubbish on the ground.”
Yep. Plenty of rubbish still thrown away evergwhere. We crossed that tributary of the Ganges where Gandhi’s ashes were strewn and it was awful, stagnant and with slimey rubbish strewn banks. Then we passed by the works for a brand new whiz-bang latest in airports using German designs and technology. A land of contrasts, in transition to a future world power. One bullion people, ardent independent shopkeepers all wanting an entrepreneurial future for their kids. Though too manypubkic servants – the Brutish disease, but perhaps a small price to pay for democracy and the rule of law.
Billion not bullion.
I am writing this on the bus taking the highway through agricultural lands on the way from Dekhi to Agra.
John Spooner.
Brett Lethbridge.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Tina Norton.
Thanks Tom.
A lovely couple in Britain the old.
Late fifties the caption says.
Pity our traveling forumites are not interested in these antiquities, I loved to hear some first hand observations.
I am not likely to see it myself.
I disagree with the statement that humans were just starting to scratch the surface of civilization, humans were around a lot longer than we know or realise.
Happy to be proven wrong.
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Get ready to be blown away by the Dolmen de Soto in Trigueros, Huelva, Spain, a megalithic marvel that’s been captivating attention since its discovery in 1922.
This isn’t just any old pile of rocks; we’re talking about a monumental structure hailing from between 3000-2500 BC, birthed in an era where humans were just starting to scratch the surface of civilization.
It’s shrouded by a massive 60m earth mound and cloaked in a formidable 65m stone circle, standing as a testament to the ingenuity of our ancestors.
Step inside, and you’ll find a stunning 21m corridor leading to a chamber made from colossal slabs of granite and other stones that scream of mystery. What ancient secrets, rituals, and untold stories lie hidden within these walls?
Interesting – had not heard of it before. Will put on our list for when next in Spain.
Who is not interested? I love these old pics and shots of magnificent sites. Keep them coming.
Musk speaks.
SA history.
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William Creek: A Tiny Gem in South Australia
William Creek, the smallest town in South Australia with fewer than 20 residents, is located within Anna Creek Station, the world’s largest working cattle property.
Spanning 24,000 square kilometres, Anna Creek Station is nearly half the size of Tasmania and supports thousands of cattle on its arid but nutrient-rich land.
Despite its size, William Creek offers essential services like a historic hotel that provides accommodation, meals, and a social hub, as well as a small general store for basic supplies.
The town’s unique location and heritage attract visitors interested in scenic flights over Lake Eyre, tours of Anna Creek Station, and exploring the Old Ghan Railway ruins.
Images: William Creek Hotel Australian Traveller, Anna Creek Station
More Woodstock, and yes I missed it all.
Any and all recollections from personal experiences welcome.
If you watch the performance by Jimi Hendrix, (Star spangled banner etc), almost everyone had left.
What a waste of a performance for a great musician.
I don’t think any of these are from Woodstock.
As I said, never been near Woodstock, wouldn’t know. My feed stated it was, I am in no position to argue. Maybe fact checking is in order?
Andrew Bolt:
Eye watering figures that effectively take Australia back to colonisation. For absolutely no benefit whatsoever.
The problem is, that the LNP are all in for this garbage as well.
It would be a simple matter to end this climate farce.
Simply ask Bowen, in Parliament, what “scientific”* studies he is using as a basis for pissing hundreds of billions of our tax payer dollars against a wall.
There are NO scientific studies anywhere, that conclude mankind is affecting the climate. None, zilch, zero, nought, nicheva!
The only interpretations that conclude this, are models, which are as malleable as brie on a hot day. Garbage in – Dogma out.
“Even the rain that falls will not be enough to fill the dams”
Australian of the year 2007 – Prof Tim Flannery
How is that wearing?
Maldives flooded?
Children will not know snow?
That is science. Anything else maybe “sy-yunns” or belief or whatever, but it is not Science.
As the great physicist Richard Feynman said:
“No matter how beautiful your theory, or how smart you think you are, if your theory is not supported by the observable data, ……., you are WRONG!”
And any data they present is highly suspect. Lying for the cause.
I hate them with a passion
Nvidia CEO calls Ed Husic a moron.*
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/08/quantum-stocks-like-rigetti-plunge-after-nvidias-huang-says-the-computers-are-15-to-30-years-away.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.Mail
Effectively*
Husic a moron?
Tell us something we don’t know.
And he is a shining intellect when compared to AnAl.
Another billion down the gurgler
Continuing on from BB’s Bolta post from/in today’s Tele:
TRUMP’S FREE SPEECH WAVE CRASHING DOWN ON CENSORS
Andrew Bolt
9 Jan 2024
What a difference Donald Trump is making already to our free speech.
And what a problem for the Albanese government.
Trump’s election as US president has forced Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg to declare an end to political censorship on his social media platforms Facebook and Instagram.
He’s now admitting what Meta long denied – that Facebook was censoring conservatives and the Right, sometimes under pressure from the Biden administration.
Now that Trump’s elected, Zuckerberg has just announced he’s firing the nearly 100 organisations he’d contracted to “fact-check” posts, admitting they “have just been too politically biased” and there’s been “too much censorship”.
They will be replaced by readers contributing to “community notes” on controversial posts, much like Elon Musk has ordered at X, formerly Twitter.
Zuckerberg says he’s also removing restrictions in Meta’s filters used to “shut out people with different ideas” on gender and immigration, and get more in “touch with mainstream discourse”.
This already spells trouble for Labor. Meta’s fact-checkers were of the Left, like Melbourne’s RMIT Fact Lab, so biased that in one seven-week period in 2023 it targeted 17 opinions against Labor’s racist Voice, but didn’t check one fake claim of the Yes side.
It even persuaded Facebook to flag as “incorrect” posts correctly noting the Uluru Statement was 26 pages long, not the one page the Prime Minister claimed.
In the US, censorship was even worse. Facebook restricted people sharing a report exposing the damning emails of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. It banned Trump for two years.
It banned an ad for saying transgender women had natural advantages over women as athletes.
It banned posts claiming the Covid virus was man-made in China.
But Labor’s problem with Zuckerberg following Musk in allowing more free speech goes deeper.
Zuckerberg says he’ll also “work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more”.
Those governments include – shamefully – our Albanese government. It’s demanded social media platforms ban footage of a Muslim youth allegedly stabbing a Sydney bishop. It’s pushed for new laws to ban what government-appointed bureaucrats decide is dangerous “misinformation”.
Try that stuff again and this government won’t just have Musk attacking them, but now Zuckerberg as well – with Trump as backup.
Zuckerberg says Trump’s win felt like “a cultural tipping point towards, once again, prioritising speech”. Australia will now get that point, too.
I still wouldn’t trust Zuckerberg as far as I could dropkick him.
He had the chance to say ‘NO!’ to the censorshit crap right at the start.
“He had the chance to say ‘NO!’ to the censors right at the start.”
And get on the wrong side of the deep state? He had a business to run, don’t want no trouble.
Imagine if the Republicans did not engage 200,000 lawyers to ensure a fairish election in 2024, and the Democrats got back in. What do you imagine would be Musk’s future?
Albosleazy (like Starmer) is going against the world tide on this, as on everything else.
Hopefully he’ll be consigned to the rubbish bin of world history very soon.
Misinformation purveyor ProPublica puts out a note on the evil Boring Company and their misdeeds in Vegas.
After reading it, I want the Boring company to come to Sydney & do their thing here.
https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-boring-company-las-vegas-loop-oversight
I suppose rationality is in the eye of the beholder.
First two paragraphs from Taibbi’s sub stack this morning.
Mark Zuckerberg released a video yesterday, promising less censorship and more free speech. Let’s posit that it was insincere, that he doesn’t actually care about the First Amendment, is in it for the money, hopes to kiss Donald Trump’s ring, and plans on turning Facebook into a boobs-and-cagefighting Broscape of the type many perceive Twitter/X to have become under Elon Musk’s leadership.
These would all be potentially valid complaints, should any turn out to be true. However, Zuckerberg today said just two things of substance, insofar as Meta/Facebook users are concerned. One, he would “get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes.” Two, he promised to “dramatically reduce the amount of censorship on our platforms.” That’s really it. Visible Community Notes instead of invisible checking regimes, and less censorship, in particular government censorship.
Maybe, just maybe the entire world is waking up — it’s like Donald Trump has given the kiss of life to dying Hope in the West, a hope that was fast fading in the powerless people of western countries.
What is happening in Diminished Britain (it’s no longer Great) is simply appalling – what an utter utter disgraceful betrayal by every institution in the formerly Great Britain, from the Prime Minister to the lowest constable who closed their eyes to the plight of vulnerable little British white working-class girls who were subjected to the most depraved, unspeakable violations of their bodies, souls and minds at the hands of gangs of immigrant men
These little girls were betrayed utterly by the powerful and sacrificed on the altar of ‘multiculturalism’ all to support a vile ideology promoted by and adhered to by politicians, academics, lawyers, policemen and child protection service officers NONE of whom has suffered any consequences whatsoever, the consequences have all been borne by little British white girls. Where is the King? I know he is supposed to be politically neutral but he’s ignorantly held forth on many political issues but has the cat got his tongue on this one?
Nice painting Dover, I’m sure Gaspar, Balthasar and Melchior would approve.
What is happening in Diminished Britain (it’s no longer Great)
They actually have become Little Britain.
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.
I have noticed his new hairstyle, very boyish. Is he trying to give an impression of naivety, suggesting he was taken advantage of by those awful politicians?
He works out over two hours every day.
Does BJJ six days a week as part of that.
He’s jacked.
Coldfusion TVs take on his rebrand
https://youtu.be/n8JQBxPO9Ts?feature=shared
But is he still President Xi’s number one fan?
Voted down 364 to 111
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14263825/Labour-votes-Tory-demand-new-national-inquiry-grooming-gangs.html
words fail
Every single Labour politician is rotten to the core and they don’t care who knows it. They have the numbers and everyone else can go jump.
This includes those Labour members who voted for a new inquiry knowing full well that their other comrades will vote it down. If these Labour politicians were sincere they would resign from parliament or their party, staying there makes them all the same.
Wretchard T. Cat posted:In Starmer’s defense, these mass rapes occurred for years under both Labour and the Conservatives. Nobody wanted to rock the boat. Nobody wanted to make waves. Elon came along and the problem was how to make it go away. Starmer’s thinking “you SOBs: I won’t take the fall.”
What puzzled me from the start was the paltriness of the demand: “we want an independent inquiry into 250,000 rapes”. A what? Then it occurred to me that maybe, just perhaps, nobody really wanted anything to happen. Just a big hoo-ha then back to business as usual.
That doesn’t mean of course that everyone is insincere. Many doubtless are totally committed to destroying this evil. But there’s probably a massive amount of inertia in the system: corrupt police, welfare bureaucracies, featherbedded councils and the class system.
There’s a lot of money riding on just letting the syndicates continue and a lot of grief and jail time in turning over the carpet. Think of it as time honored tradition, but not in a good way.
From a certain POV, it’s all Elon’s fault. He’s got half a trill, the big brain, the power. He can afford to be outraged. But me, I go to work in a bus and live in a grimy northern town that I’ll die in. All I’ve got is a pension that I’ll probably lose. Thanks for nothing Elon.
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That’s tough but the grift can’t go on forever. The jig is up and the time-honored tradition of bureaucratic subsistence like the professions of cobbling and cordwaining have reached the end of the road. Things must change and the sooner the better.
What a dirty, grubby little place England has become.
Starmer has dug Labours political grave.
On Kevin M’s Woodstock photo…
No one looks happy. Possibly because after torrential rain the place turned into a quagmire and there was zero sanitation and little food.
The Flower Children left behind tonnes of rubbish and ruined fields. And other…ahem…evidence of their presence.
Nothing changes.
BBC was active on three fronts last night.
Since you can’t stop climate change why not try to mitigate its effects? That seems to be Bjorn Lomborg’s approach yet the people responsible for it do nothing. If I didn’t know better I would assume that these people enjoy those kinds of disasters and wouldn’t dream of stopping them.
You don’t know better. They just lurrrve being the centre of attention.
Urging you on via their celebrity epidemiologists.
The BBC is even worse than the ABC.
It is that bad.
The decline and fall of the Roman Empire is definitely an instruction manual for all empires.
Had they voted for an enquiry, Labour could have been seen to be “doing something”, while quietly doing nothing (see Brexit as an example). They would have control over terms of reference and time to massage away some of the more unfortunate facts surrounding the institutional response, including Starmer’s own part in it.
By full-throatedly boo-hissing lifting the lid on the affair, they have given their enemies endless ammunition. If the Tories won’t use it, there are plenty of others who will.
Dumb as.
I don’t think Labour could manage an inquiry into the biggest scandal in living memory to their benefit.
This is dynamite that would blow the progressive establishment to kingdom come.
That’s why they’re so afraid of it.
Agree – it makes them all individually and the institution itself seem complicit in the cover-up. Which they are, of course, it’s just now we all can see.
NOT “DUMB”!
ARROGANT as Hell!!
The words of Oliver Cromwell spring to mind:
” Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices?
Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.
Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God’s help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do.
I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place.
Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.
In the name of God, go!”
On reflection, our federal government got there first. By limiting the terms of reference on institutional child abuse to non-state entities only.
And we still haven’t had an enquiry into state abuse, and probably never will. It’s the way of carefully orchestrated moral panic. Achieve your limited goal (get Pell) and move on.
Tinta’s observation of a world “waking up” had me thinking…perhaps the zeitgeist is different this time, and British Labour is in more trouble than they realise.
We can only hope. Also, that Elon won’t stop pushing.
UK establishment is now in a perfect storm, all their problems have materialised at the same time. Not only is there the horror of rape gangs, now they also have uncontrolled immigration while the economy is heading downhill due to their idiotic climate change policies topped off with censorship and criminalisation of public opinion about forced societal changes.
It was more subtle than that Gillard and Roxon did not officially limit the terms of reference to non-state institutions. But the gaggle of Socialist Left lickspittles, hacks, whores and tools they appointed treated the TORs that way. All very wink-wink-nudge-nudge, of course, and nothing in writing.
@JohnLeFevre
@catturd2
And, of course, they’re bashing Trump for criticising their lack of preparedness. There is literally no water in the hydrants.
The same thing is happening in NSW and Victoria with respect to the anti-Semitic crimes. Only one person has been arrested and reprimanded and that is the one from Sydney’s north shore which suggests he is not a Muslim.
There was that tradie who was prosecuted for making a death threat to Jewish boys on the north shore.
But yes, Labor is compromised by its reliance on the votes of Muslims. For that support they now risk the votes of Hindus and Sikhs, not to mention ethnic Christians.
I don’t like this sectarianism but it has become a fact of life in our two largest cities.
Ironic that just yesterday we here were reflecting on the courage of the “Zulu” fighters, and today we see not just the depravity of Pakistani Muslims but also the utter cowardice of police, social workers, and politicians in the UK.
I’m wonder if Kipling’s “The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon” will eventuate?
Lee mentioned this on the OOT at 9:27 last night:-
(From Fox News)
It has become fashionable to call for the assassination of those in the health care system who enrich themselves and drive up healthcare costs.
Presumably Dr Hostin has now moved to the top of the hit list?
It’s different when they do it.
In world events news, that for some reason no one is interested in covering, Indonesia, (our second nearest neighbour and significant trading partner), yesterday became a “fully fledged” member of BRICS.
About 50% of the world’s population is now a member of this trading bloc.
Interestingly, BRICS members hold upwards of 70% of the world’s oil and gas reserves.
Nothing of interest there obviously, she’ll be right mate!
Australia will no doubt, continue to tie itself to the sinking ship that is the USA, while our neighbour will surge ahead economically.
What was that phrase Keating used to describe our future, ……..?
As if it needed pointing out to any sentient being, we are governed by idiots.
50% of population, what percentage of the worlds GDP? Under Trump’s Drill Bay Drill, combined with a Pollivere run Canada the future of North America looks bright. We are indeed run by mental midgets in Australia, currently. Dutton is not perfect but he will be far and away better for Australia and as long as he can continue to belt the wets out of positions of authority in a new Coalition Government, we are looking at least 12 years of sensible if not brilliant policy.
Australia, specifically QLD need a Gas reservation policy and the federal government needs to tax international corporations on turnover not profit. Off shoring of their funds is theft, if I need to pay all of my company tax so should they. Turning a bit bolshy in my old age.
Trump on Newscum
Tintarella di Luna
January 9, 2025 6:28 am
A superb comment, Tinta.
@MrsJensen_13
You really can’t make this up.
@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.
The concept of “criminal complicity” seems to have been selectively kicked under the legalists carpet, a LOT, lately
In the formerly united Kingdom, Independent Public Inquiries are only held for matters that really matter.
Five years and apparently 20 million quid later, the Labour Party (Scotchlandian branch) still haven’t got the George Floyd they’ve been looking for.
@alx
FLASHBACK: Four Years Ago, Today: Tucker Carlson reads a statement from Donald Trump’s official POTUS account after his personal one was permanently suspended and watched Twitter 1.0 remove the post in real time.
I can’t say I’m much of a basketball fan, but this is pretty amazing.
@HumansNoContext
This kid had to make 4 shots in 25 seconds to win $10k
Anything but the actual job.
@bennyjohnson
The priorities of Los Angeles’ Fire Chief
Bad phrasing in a BBC News article about the UK cold snap …
“Isolated yellow snow and ice warnings spanning Wednesday and Thursday are in place across the UK …“
From Roger’s linked article…
Quite so.
Perhaps a few “oiks” with tool engravers can pop the name of every member of Parliament who voted against the bill on lampposts around Westminster.
After the massive amount of “progressive” vandalism done to the city, it will be a small thing by comparison.
But an excellent reminder of what might happen if you ignore and abuse the suffering masses for too long. And maybe a certain name on one outside an old Whitehall building … a gentle nudge to someone at the very top of the governing tree as to who consents to them being there.
It’s been a very long time since the Peel Principles were taught at the Police Academy’s.
A Century of Fire Suppression Is Why California Is in Flames
And yet they still think CO2 is a problem.
Whilst we have people in charge who are trapped in this paradigm, we cannot advance.
Another Major American Brand Slowly Backs Away From DEI
@_johnnymaga
Just 4 months ago in LA County, Trump spoke about the need for California to send more water downstate:
“You have so much water…you could revert water up into the Hills, where you have all the dead forests…the land would be damp—and you’d stop many of these horrible fires.”
Embalmers Keep Finding Fibrous CV19 Vax Clots – Tom Haviland
A couple of comments have been posted regarding Sunny Hostin’s Doctor husband being investigated for RICO violations.
The hilarious thing about this is, the moron Hostin, was implicit in her husband’s downfall. Unbelievably STOOPID!
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/01/07/sunny-hostin-accidently-exposed-her-husbands-alleged-insurance-scam-now-hes-a-defendent-in-a-rico-case-n2184072
I suspect the next move by Fuhrer Sturmer will be to block X. It will be interesting to see what happens then.
Peter Hitchens, who’s usually right about most things, was correct when he said that Fuhrer Sturmer is way more dangerous than the bumbling Jew hater from Islington, Jeremy Corbyn.
Speaking of Jew haters, where’s our very own Nazi? I miss him though I’m sure he’s lurking here. It’s odd though that he hasn’t popped his head above the parapet to opine on the UK rape gang scandal, you know that little story about how over 250,000 white working class young girls have been groomed, raped and trafficked by Muslim Pakistani males, whilst the UK Plod, the UK MSM and the UK Labour party all looked the other way. Geez, that’s what I call weird, unable to opine a word of condemnation on the mass rape of little girls. Or perhaps he thinks, like Fuhrer Sturmer, that being outraged about this is just a far-right conspiracy? But you know what, I reckon if the ideological tables were reversed, if the victims were 250,000 Muslim girls groomed, raped and trafficked by Jewish, Hindu or Christians males, our Nazi would have a lot to say. And remember, who can forget his furious outrage over the years on Pell, the Catholic Church, Matt Gaetz, any Liberal/Coalition/right of centre politician or commentator caught in any serious sexual allegations. But don’t worry folks, our Nazi’s silence confirms everything we’ve ever thought about him.
One thing is for sure, Sturmer’s creepy and very sinister involvement in the Southport cover up, in the Muslim Paki rape gangs cover up, and in the Saville affair cover up makes Blob Johnson’s little parties during Covid pale in comparison, in fact I reckon Blob’s misdemeanours are trivial.
Oh and who could forget our Nazi’s furious exhortations about he wants to ‘punch a Nazi‘, well apparently our Nazi’s comrades on the Islamist left in Melbourne are selling t-shirts that say…..
‘bash a Zionist’
That means ‘bashing me’, coz I am a proud Jew and a proud Zionist. Ya see, and it is something I’ve long known about our Nazi, which is that over the years his pious and sanctimonious calls to ‘punch a Nazi’ are just calls to punch/bash people whose opinions he doesn’t like or approve of, and those people, folks, are you, me and others here.
The Gimp will have to bash me also. I am not a Jew, but I am a Zionist.
The retard would most likely use a feather, it would be all he could lift. A chicken feather would be appropriate. Although, my remaining chook would give a good account of herself against the Gimp.
The Gimp would have to bash me, also. Like you, I’m not a Jew, but I support their cause. It’s been a good forty years since I was last in a decent brawl, but I reckon I can still look after myself.
Zulu,
as crippled as I am, I am quite chuffed that I took out a junkie that attacked me just over a year ago.
Junkies are surprisingly strong.
I grew up with sisters and went to a state school, brawling was a way of life. 😀
Certainly against mUntard.
Following on from Lizzie and Kevin… prepare to be underwhelmed!
ABC elevates small circle of dirt to Gizan Pyramid levels of engineering and mystique.
Seriously… where’s the oral history knowledge from the Oldest Continuous Culture Evah gone, all of a sudden?
Seriously – you are dissing the signs of the five rings from the earliest known Olympics 65,000 years ago!
On The LA Fires. I have been watching the news services, playing a rousing game of spot the eucalypt. Lucky it’s not a drinking game or i would be ratted. The mental midgets around the world who planted Gum trees are on par with the twits who introduced Cane Toads to QLD. Leftist ideas of nature and conservation are producing the same catastrophic results the world over.
When I was in Cape Town last Christmas visiting the Wife’s family they had a massive fire that spanned the entirety of southern parts of the Peninsular. (The local thought was it was the local Muzzies starting them all. A mostly integrated Muslim population, Hundreds of years old has becoming more radicalized in recent decades.) We were staying in a little village called Scarborough that is surrounded by National Park. The entirety of the surrounds was burnt out but nothing in the town was damaged. The locals had constructed a huge firebreak all the way around and were maintaining it themselves. They have a large number of Eucalypt planted there, they call them aliens, and the local firefighting method is to let the native plants burn and protect the stands of Gums. I have no idea why they just don’t bulldoze the bastards and be done with it.
The idea is that if the fire gets into the aliens, it will cause a wildfire that will be uncontrollable. The local stuff is a low growing gorse or heath and doesn’t present much of an issue when burning. They do use ground-based fire appliances for local control and protection of buildings but as its mostly mountain most of the firefighting is done by helicopter water bombers. They fill the buckets from the ocean and get straight to the fire.
Visiting the Transvaal, we were told “Oh, Australians hey? We have two things to thank you for – “Breaker” Morant and eucalyptus trees.”
You know, isn’t it amazing, how only four years ago Donald Trump was persona non grata after January 6, his Twitter account suspended, his Facebook account blocked, and other mainstream social media outlets getting ready to purge him. Donald Trump was both cancelled and silenced in real time. He was sentenced to a gulag.
And now Donald Trump is about to be inaugurated as POTUS for a second time, Musk owns X and Facebook are dispensing with ‘fact checkers’ almost all of whom were leftist and far-leftist shills.
It’s divine. Back in July 2024, watching the assassination attempt on Trump live with my late mother, as the footage came through showing that bullet narrowly miss Donald Trump, Mum rightly said there were angels on the podium that day protecting Trump.
If atheists want or need proof of God, it happened in July 2024 on that green Pennsylvania field.
Beautifully put, Cassie.
That being said, Badenoch is a relative newbie to Westminster.
She needs to lift her game tactically, but she has done the right thing.
These were discovered in 2018.
I was in Huelva in February 2023 and can assure you they are not open to the public.
As for cat travellers not visiting other megalithic sites, can’t speak for anyone else, but I visited 2 in Malta, as well as the museum that housed many pieces removed from them, in February 2024 and mentioned them, no doubt at length here.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/18/megalithic-complex-standing-stones-discovered-spain
It’s one of my “must do’s” on vacation. Visited sites in France, Spain, Wales and Scotland. Also Iceland. Wherever I can find them.
Ancient rings, forts, tombs, alignments. Not everything is Stonehenge sized!
We’ve made special efforts to visit many of these sites in Europe, Scandinavia, Ireland, Malta and the Med, including Spain and France.
At the very beginning of the neolithic, in Mesopotamia, anthropomorphic stone pillars have been found that seem religious in nature and which served a hunter-gatherer-horticulture/herding type of system. Early days, but stone was still king, as it had been from the time of the trading across Europe of Langdale adzes, valued for their provenance of coming from British Lakeland’s highest and most inaccessible peaks. Close to the gods of those days.
Stone. There was no shortage of stone in most places. It was hard and useful and worth consecrating, especially as archaeologist Pearson suggests re Stonehenge, to mark the transition from wood (living, impermanent) to stone (dying, dead forever).
Perfect.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jameshowardkunstler/p/january-2025-eyesore?r=1easrn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
From Clusterfick Nation –
Take two.
He must have got wind of my lamppost engraving plan!
Avoiding voting against an inquiry that would find he acted improperly. Admitting guilt, albeit by omission.
Take two.
From Churchill, a man who fought fascists, to the fascist Fuhrer Sturmer.
Britain has not just fallen, it’s collapsed.
Cassie of Sydney
January 9, 2025 9:21 am
How?
Apart from stopping people and searching their phones for X.
The free speech cat is now well and truly out of the bag.
And it’s a Bengal tiger.
they would just prevent the carriers from accepting X traffic.
of course, everyone will just set up a VPN which will give the impression they live in Botswana and the like to get around that.
in Australia after the kiddie proof of age social media legislation I expect a VPN will part of the coming of age process for all 12YOs as soon as they get their own phone
Some wag opined that it was 1776 all over again.
The Poms can’t tax X into submission. They can only punish their own who use it. Now that will be interesting to watch.
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.
The Danish leadership are Leftists.
They’ll buckle like a favourite old belt.
If the 50 odd thousand Greenlanders say they wanted to become a territory of the USA, what could the Danes do about it?
Go Viking? Do they even have a navy ship bigger than a fishing boat?
Will ultimately turn on what the locals want – right of self determination and all that.
I’m having a lot of fun quenching the Fan Club’s early morning tumescence. Many…many reflexive downdroops.
It will soon be so useless it will go gangrenous and require amputation.
I’ll lend it my long handled lopper. No way I would get too close. Happy to lop it though. 😀
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…
Renaming it Dirk Hartog Park would be just fine.
I hope they still collect the garbage!
The what?
The British parliament raised taxes on the north American colonies principally to pay for the French and Indian War (1754-1763), which was ignited at the battle of Jumonville Glen by none other than George Washington.
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.
Is a pre-emptive pardon even legal? Would the Supreme Court uphold one?
And wouldn’t accepting one be an admission of guilt?
Notice that Starmer abstained after tell everyone else to vote against it?
Very likely because they know the livestock and underage girl fanciers have a good grasp of the interesting proclivities of UK pubic serpents,, pollie-muppets and the judiciary. Like: “I’ll see your underage rape video and raise you one o group bestiality and Satanic capering””. That sort of thing.
BTW, Oz is rumoured to be NOT immune to similar groups having similar “proclivities”:
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.
Musk is yesterday’s anti-Christ.
Today’s devil incarnate is … Mark Suckerberg.
I heard you the first time Cohenite.
Yeah, I was so excited I posted twice. It’s like I became young again.
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 old corpse will carry the can for all manner of ills.
And rightly so.
That doesn’t explain why he was censoring the laptop story for the 2020 election, Biden was not in power then.
Prevailed upon to do so.
“Nice business you got here. Would be a shame if something were to happen to it when Joe becomes POTUS. Be a good fellow…”
Original iteration of Facebook was a nerd’s college girl rating system wasn’t it?
Speaking of “political science”:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/los-angeles-fire-chief-is-dei-lesbian-who/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/las-democrat-mayor-karen-bass-slashed-fire-department/
Slashed the Fire Department?
Los Angeles has been a hotspot for fires for decades. Is that well named Karen completely stupid?
Well that didn’t last long: Brad Battin already giving interviews to the age promising not to be a conservative.
Captured…caged…neutered!
What to expect from the SFL!
Battin yesterday on radio news homed in on Labor’s disastrous energy polices saying that wind and solar could never cut the chase. That Victoria needed baseload etc. It seems to me he is off to a good start.
James Wood (actor) is being interviewed by Laura Ingraham – he is scathing about LA management. I don’t think he knows if his house exists any more yet.
He tweeted all the smoke detectors started sending alarms to his iphone, at that point he thought it was gone.
Truly a Road to Damascus moment for luvvies.
Another dimension to this….there is already speculation that the Palisades fire began in a homeless encampment, which is reportedly a regular occurrence.
The numbers work in his favour. By my count only 15 people read the age.
From todays Oz.
Sadly this creature probably believes what he sprayed out.
Check the picture from the article at the end. The kid at lower right understands the importance of it all. Poor bugger will cop it at his 21st.
Anthony Albanese says he is better placed than Peter Dutton to forge a productive relationship with Donald Trump, arguing his close ties with Indo-Paci?c leaders would be valuable to the US president-elect in an era of competition between major powers.
The Prime Minister signalled he would not change his approach with China if Mr Trump launched a trade war, lauding the reopening of trade with Beijing as an economic win for Australia.
“We are a sovereign nation and we will act in terms of our economic interest,” Mr Albanese told The Australian. “We believe in free trade, not protectionism.”
Mr Albanese on Wednesday visited a massive cattle station in the Northern Territory seat of Lingiari, boasting that his government’s success in lifting beef restrictions would lead to exports to China surpassing $2bn this year, higher than when restrictions were implemented in 2020.
They (beef exports to China) have not only hit back, they have hit back stronger with the lifting,” he said.
The 1.2 million hectare Lake Nash cattle station, owned by prominent graziers Peter and Jane Hughes, is home to up to 60,000 cattle and China is a key market for the beef produced there.
Mr Albanese said the restart of the lobster trade had been “incredible”, with more than 500,000kg of the shell?sh being exported to China since Christmas Day
The Coalition has argued that there is a risk to the US relationship if it is left to the Albanese government to deal with Mr Trump, as Mr Albanese and several cabinet ministers have previously voiced strong criticisms of the president-elect.
Mr Albanese said it was he who was better placed to forge close ties with the incoming administration, arguing the relationships he had forged with regional leaders would carry weight with Mr Trump.
Despite Mr Trump vowing to pull the US out of the Paris climate accord and accelerate fossil-fuel development, Mr Albanese said Mr Dutton’s lack of ambition on climate change would diminish Australia’s standing in the region and reduce Canberra’s geostrategic relevance. He said Paci?c leaders had not forgotten Mr Dutton’s joke in 2015 – caught on a boom mic – making light of rising sea levels in the region.
“We have improved our relationship with the Paci?c,” the Prime Minister said. “It has been repaired. It was in disarray when we came into of?ce.
“A precondition of credibility is action on climate change and Peter Dutton’s position on the Paci?c and climate change is one where they all remember him joking about the impact of climate change on their countries.”
One of the things that puts Australia at good stead with our allies is the role that we play in our region.
I have an excellent relationship with Japan and India, as well as the United States.
The relationship that we have built with Indonesia, we have seen the products of our diplomacy and the work we have put in place.”
Mr Albanese said his positive ?rst phone call with Mr Trump had left him optimistic on the relationship and the future of the AUKUS security pact.
The Prime Minister will attempt to replicate the actions of the former Coalition government during the ?rst Trump administration and win carve outs from tariffs for Australian products exported to the US.
In the wake of comments by Mr Trump pushing for Greenland and Canada to become provinces of the US, Mr Albanese said he would not respond to comments from the incoming leader unless they impacted Australia.
When asked if Mr Trump’s comments showed he had ambitions to expand US territory, Mr Albanese said: “I will leave that to commentators about what the – incoming president has to say”.
With Mr Trump likely to unwind US support for low-emissions technologies and withdraw from the Paris agreement, Mr Albanese said he did not think this would lead to a slowing of momentum on global climate change action. Mr Albanese said strong action on climate change would continue to be the overwhelming policy of nations in APEC and the G20.
Countries aren’t about to change whether they believe climate change action is necessary,” the Prime Minister said. “They will do that because the science, overwhelmingly, is agreed and they will respond accordingly. But secondly as well, the economic opportunity that is there from acting on climate change and the shift to net zero is evident to all as well.”
The interview with The Australian came as Mr Albanese this week hit the ground campaigning for the ?rst time in 2025, pledging infrastructure and housing – announcements in Queensland and Western Australia.
On Thursday, Mr Albanese will unveil a $200m housing and infrastructure package for WA and allow international shipping to enter three more ports in the state’s north.First-point-of-entry status will be given to the northern facilities of Wyndham, Ashburton and Dampier, with Mr Albanese to spruik the announcement in the town of Kununurra before campaigning in Perth later in the day. He will be joined by West Australian Premier Roger Cook, who is facing an election in March.
And I will play centre for Collingwood and its because of me we will win all eh games and I will be the greatest Fig Jam at Collingwood but AFL History
Caveat emptor
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.
Gee Arky, you keep your finger on the button for just a tad too long !
Fixed.
When Arky begins his campaign for Benign Dictator of Australia with these 7 pillars as his platform, we can say we read it here first.
I’ll be voting for him.
Vectors have magnitude and direction..
Scalar “quantities” only have ONE of these essential attributes.
The world is awash with grossly overpaid scalar quantities.Just for giggles, “vectors” is a medical / veterinary term.
As in: “The principal VECTORS of the currently fashionable Bubonic Plague, , are fleas and black rats”.
A Vet mate of mine briefly had a cat that he named “Vector”. It demised after starting to bring home native lizards; freshly dead ones. Never had a cat on his property since. His Rottweiler pup saw to that.
Your mileage may very.
Just had a look at Google Earth.
Why would Pacific Palisades have a fire problem?
/sarc off.
Ditto the Dandenongs. Wouldn’t live there if you paid me.
Let’s cut to the chase: the legacy news media is utterly useless as a source of information about stuff important to the public – like China’s interest in taking over Greenland because of its geostrategic importance.
The last time the BBC took an interest was seven years ago — How Greenland could become China’s Arctic base.
You’d think the media would be consumed with the subject now that the incoming US president has expressed an interest in Greenland, but when it comes to Trump, the media asks only one question: how can we stop him?
When it behaves like a political party trying to destroy its ideological enemies, it is no longer any type of news media. Ninety per cent of the US, UK and Australian news media are useless.
Only ninety percent?
Worse than useless.
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/01/the-horror-at-kibbutz-beeri-stay-on-the-line-and-hear-them-die
And people are either naive enough, or stupid enough to think we can negotiate with Islam?
Just Hamburg/Tokyo the place as a reminder that we have limits to our patience, or continue to wail about why we are losing this existential battle.
And the prisoners Israel has taken, and the proven rapists – why are they still alive? Rape in wartime is a capital crime. Or is Israel waiting for the next batch of hostages to be taken so the Hamas prisoners can be given back?
Because at the moment, Israel is losing this fight.
Numbers used to negotiate with muzzies. .223, 5.56, 7.62, .50. Anything they don’t understand.
Arky, did you have to say it five times? It was pretty darn good once. 😛
I was on a flight the other day. The flight attendant didn’t do the land acknowledgement when we landed.
Lucky you. Did you buy a lottery ticket? 😀
Which airline?
Things what make you go “Hmmmm.”
Facebook introduced “fact-checking” in December 2016, just before Orange Hitler the First ascended to the throne.
So it is hard to lay that one at Biden’s feet.
Sure, it may have increased and become more emboldened under Biden, but it is hard to accept that this wasn’t Suckerberg’s natural leaning.
The most invidious aspect of “fact checking” was that old standby, “there is no credible source for this claim”. Once you exclude the Mudrock press, climate sceptics and anyone labelled Far Right on Wikipedia from the Credible Sources Club, it all becomes very easy.
It would be interesting to do a little retrospective on some of the culling done by “fact checkers”:-
“Floyd George had enough Fentanyl in him to kill a circus donkey”; [Bzzzt]
“Kung Flu escaped from a Chinese lab”; [X]
“Joe Biden has a few kangaroos loose in the top paddock”; [Top of his game].
Sure. I remain unconvinced.
I cite the actions of
Chris Pavlovski, Rumble CEO.
From Winston Smith @ 12:17pm……
And people are either naive enough, or stupid enough to think we can negotiate with Islam?
To negotiate with Islam means capitulate.
Why Is “Or There Will be All Hell to Pay” Not the Entire Negotiation?https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21296/trump-hostages-hell-to-pay
Negotiate?
There is always the “Fifth Element” negotiation style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TyxxLHfBwE
“The most invidious aspect of “fact checking” was that old standby, “there is no credible source for this claim”.”
Shirley not. Shirley it is “without evidence”.
They conflate “evidence” and “proof”.
“No proof” is often times true.
“No evidence” is an out and out lie most times.
**Shocking Revelation: DHS Fails to Protect Vulnerable Children from Trafficking**
In a chilling admission, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas declared that addressing the trafficking of alien children falls “outside the responsibility” of his department.
This statement comes amid troubling evidence indicating that more than half a million illegal immigrant children have entered the United States in recent years, with reports suggesting that a staggering number of them—about 120,000 annually—are unaccounted for.
According to a recent investigation published by The New York Times, a significant portion of these children—approximately one-third—vanish within thirty days of their arrival, raising serious concerns about their safety and well-being.
While Secretary Mayorkas acknowledged awareness of these reports, he downplayed the implications, suggesting that many missing children simply refuse to comply with the conditions of their release.
In reality, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) inability to account for these vulnerable children is both alarming and unacceptable. Internal audits have revealed that DHS has failed to monitor the whereabouts of around 300,000 children, leaving them at risk of exploitation or worse.
Critics argue that this negligence effectively incentivizes family separations, as children embark on perilous journeys to the border, often in the hands of coyotes. The loophole allowing for “unaccompanied alien children” to be treated with leniency remains a cornerstone of the current administration’s immigration policy—a platform that Democrats are committed to preserving
Elon – why not draw attention to the home turf? Wouldn’t hurt you or President Trump.
It just occurred to me the “progressive” left’s contrasting reactions to the completely made up scandal in Kamloops, Canada compared with the very real (and ongoing) Muesli rape scandal in the UK.
In the Kamloops case leftists worked themselves up into frothing self-righteous outrage and even burned down or destroyed many churches, despite a complete lack of evidence of wrongdoing.
Contrast that with the left’s almost complete indifference to widespread rape, torture, and even murder of young girls in Britain.
Indeed. Oddly, the leftards show neither enthusiasm for bringing the culprits to justice, nor for burning down a few mosques.
Same with our sham royal commission, of course.
The genius of Labor policy.
Another WA abattoir closes. Minerva Foods closed its doors yesterday citing a lack of sheep as WA farmers get out of sheep because of low price backed off of the live sheep ban.
Albo promised a bright future and cash for “transition” away from the live trade but it seems market realities once again expose the lie.
The swing can be seen in the fact that WA produced 3 million more tonne of grain than forecast. That’s basically sheep country put to crop.
Labor’s industry kill rate puts any abattoir in the shade.
I’m still trying to work out why the ABC ran the interview.
It hardly fits their censorship agenda.
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?
Biden just emptied Gitmo.
Perhaps he shouldn’t have.
Great place to put lefties in.
There used to be / maybe still is an openly “gay” US shooting association called “The Pink Pistols”; oddly enough, very pro 2A.
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…
Reports in the business press that Minerva is considering pulling out of Australia completely.
That’s the second facility they’ve closed in as many years.
Effing brilliant.
Meanwhile I’m begging to give away my last 2000 lambs which were bang in the middle of the grid, week before christmas.
BTW, not at all whelmed by The Lamb Ad 2025. Showcased the cleverness of the writers, absolutely failed to showcase the qualities of the product.
Used to be very funny. Now woke pretending not to be woke!
All the references/in jokes will be enjoyed by the people who will never eat lamb.
FFS need new windscreen. Fricken goat track of the Hume Fwy Wallan onramp to Beveridge. Road surface debris from truck and we were a fair way back.
Rang round in Melbourne hoping to get it done while here. Nope, nowhere today anywhere. About to nurse it back up GV hoping we don’t get pulled over as it is in a rubbish spot drivers side and try Shepparton early next week.
Obviously windsceens don’t get done in the same day anymore…
No O’Brien’s anymore?
It says something about Victoria that you did not lose a windscreen on the bush roads that you habitually drive, but, on a Victorian freeway!
Just give Dan Andrews a call.
He’ll give you the drill for driving with a broken windscreen.
Obviously windscreens don’t get done in the same day anymore…
Not only that but modern cars have cameras etc attached and may need calibration after replacement. Not a simple job anymore.
Hint for Mazda owners – make sure your insurance covers genuine part replacement for the windscreen as the Pilkington ones are crap. Your HUD will be out of focus and your wipers not work properly.
Yes the windscreen insurance extra definitely worth it, even for city people.
$2k for a Santa Fe windscreen.
From the it’s not suss at all dept
In a move justified by the company as a strategy to avoid “financial failure,” State Farm canceled over 72,000 homeowners’ policies statewide, with Pacific Palisades—a now-charred affluent neighborhood—bearing a significant brunt.
James Woods, a renowned actor and Pacific Palisades resident, summed up the community’s frustration on social media.
“Actually, one of the major insurance companies canceled all the policies in our neighborhood about four months ago,” he wrote.
State Farm Canceled Hundreds of Pacific Palisades Homeowners’ Policies Before Devastating Wildfire Strikes | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim H?ft
They probably just looked at the area on Google Maps and went hell no. Massive fire waiting to happen.
Insurance companies assess and price risk – it is the core of their business.
I suspect their assessment of Southern California turned up the things now reaching the media – no brush control/backburning, many, many eucalypts, compromised water supply, ineffective Fire Dept. management, ineffective local government, State government opposed to fire management initiatives, plus many high value properties at risk.
The risk matrix would require huge premiums – and as the State Government will not allow this, the only responsible decision for an insurer is to leave the market.
California regulates insurance premium rises because marxism. So insurance companies have bugged out.
California’s insurance crisis resulting in canceled policies, increased rates. Here’s what to know (16 Mar)
Ditto house insurance. That’s the same old socialism problem: if you fix the price of bread you rapidly reach the situation where there’s no bread in the shops.
The people who had their policies cancelled then have a right to sue the state government for not taking proper measures to prevent the fires. A class action even.
The msm stop Trump?
They might as well tell a lion not to roar.
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
1,200 acres? What a piddling show.
With the UK Parliament declining to investigate their “rape gangs”, are Trump and Musk setting the scene for a US investigation that will set a precedent?
I mentioned the closer to home implications a couple of days ago. The pumps are getting primed.
Until you’ve been a ten year old with ‘carers’ who didn’t give a damn, and you’ve been handed over to two paedophiles for the school holidays, you have little idea of what the term ‘helpless’ means.
I certainly hope Trump and Musk ARE setting that scene.
And the DemonRats will be even more terrified than Der Sturmer and company just what might be uncovered.
There might be a lot of leftard jail cell “suicides” ahead.
“Things what make you go “Hmmmm.””
See also: “Things you see when you don’t have a gun”
Doing my bit for the industry. Lady koel brought her boyfriend to the Cafe a couple months ago. Today managed to hand feed him mince twice within a minute. He’s hooked. The way to a man, or male birdie, is through his stomach. Now, with fine nosh and a beautiful lady koel, he’s stopped singing at 3am, so that’s a fringe benefit.
And the currawongs are starting to come back. Three pairs this morning, after months of no currawongs. Even though I went to the shops earlier today I think I’ll have to go again on Saturday.
Have been evicting the cockies though: they’ve been behaving badly (by attacking other birdies, especially the kookas). So they got hosed this morning. Much consternation! How can you do this terrible thing to us!
Kill all Cockies.
Totally useless, evil birds.
Cockies I can live with. Koels? bastard of a bird.
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.
I agree with all you say here, but don’t think it will change voting habits. This will be a distant memory in two years time.
vr, obviously it’s just speculation, but I can’t for the life of me believe this level of incompetence will not cause an attitude change. I also think the Trump win has basically begun to change the country at the margin. They Demon fence sitters may not be as spooked any longer. We’ll see.
Fire hydrants ran dry! The governor, the mayor and the fire chief should be on death row by now. This level of incompetence is now criminal,
I read the dropped funding to the fire department this year. I wonder if was channeled toward the illegals?
This is the same thing we see in leftist strongholds — recall Victoria. I do not understand their thought process. It seems that any course of action that helps their people (i.e. locals) must not be pursued.
I remember Trump ranting about them not managing fuel loads properly sometime in 2016-2020.
Leftoids can’t change their minds because they don’t have minds to change.
The homeowners should sue the state and local governments.
Y6f34
Just get a load of how highly paid incompetence is in California.
Jeez don’t tell our Vic firemen I can’t afford the rates charge now
Excellent post that is bang on the money:
California always seems to get smashed by wildfires in winter.
Re. the fires in CA, looters and arsonists will be out. It will be interesting to see how they are handled. The soros da was voted out I think — If JC is right, we should see the new person coming down hard on this behaviour.
Also, will be interesting to see if Orange county will be behave differently to LA.
Well, if you come from the perspective that free speech is unequivocally a good thing, you will be mystified.
However, if you view free speech as “potentially dangerous in the hands of rednecks” and requiring “a nuanced analysis by experts” you might see their take on Suckerberg as a damning criticism.
(I didn’t hear the interview, but happy to fact-check it).
It’s all CO2’s fault.
There were many of them seen running from the fires.
The Facebook fact-checker thing is ripe for a Downfall parody starring Blackout Bowen.
After bailing on X-Twitter because of “Community Notes”, the generals have to tell him that Facebook have introduced … Community Notes.
Luigi will be spitting chips.
With Twitter and Facebook outside the tent he is pissing into the wind with his Misinformation Bill and his hopes of Soshul Meeja putting a crimp in Dutton’s nookular campaign are goneski.
“It’s all CO2’s fault.”
Prezactly.
Experts – experts I say! – have been telling us for more than 30 years that we only have 10 years to change our evil ways or it will be too late.
Did you listen?
You did not.
Fry Californians – it’s your own stupid fault!
</sarc>
Excellent analysis from Juan Brown.
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Blancolirio:
SoCal Fires Update! 8 Jan 2025
It is indeed a mystery to me.
Are people allowed to use CO2 fire extinguishers in Kallifornee?
and the same morons continue to vote for the scum.
It’s happening here, also.
I fear it’s not just California.
Come on down, AUKUS!
Californians voted for proposition 103.
Many insurance companies exited the state.
That’s mad, living in an area which is always high risk for wild fires without insurance.
I’d have moved no matter how wonderful the views were.
“In the last three years, seven of California’s 12 biggest homeowners insurance companies – and many of the smaller ones – have paused or limited business in the state. They cite the rising risk of wildfires, the high cost of rebuilding homes and state regulations hurting their business.”
Published in 2023.
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california-solving-homeowners-insurance-crisis/103-93220208-5403-44c6-9135-1276ecd74fb7
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stood stone-faced and refused to answer a reporter’s question for two full minutes after being out of the country while killer wildfires raged through her city.
Furious Los Angelinos have blasted their mayor for traveling to Ghana while the city burns, despite having ample warning about ‘critical’ weather conditions in the days before.
Bass flew out to attend the West African country’s presidential inauguration on Tuesday, after meteorologists warned that a ‘recipe for fire’ was on track to strike LA.
The mayor was there to attend the inauguration of the new president and meet with the country’s first-ever female vice president.
She was cornered by journalist David Blevins from Sky News at the airport upon her return with an assistant, who both refused to answer his questions.
Bass immediately indicated that she’s not going to answer his questions and turned away.
Blevins then asked her a series of questions that she did not respond to.
‘Fire chiefs say that they’re really stretched to the limit and running out of water, what have you got to say to that? Have you no response to that?’
‘Do you owe your citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning?’
‘Do you regret cutting the fire department by millions of dollars, Madam Mayor? Have you nothing to say today?’
Bass tried to cut the LA Fire Department’s budget by some $23million in 2024 but settled for $17.6 million in cuts.
‘Elon Musk says that you’re utterly incompetent, are you considering your position? Have you absolutely nothing to say to citizens who are dealing with this disaster? No apologies for them?’
‘Do you think you should’ve been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding back home?’
Blevins then follows Bass out of a corridor at the airport before demanding she give a statement to the citizens of her city. Again, she ignores him.
Bass then walks out a door and onto the tarmac.
Could be related to Christine Nixon? Pix at the Daily Mail.
Makes Tony Abbott’s 38 second pause after “shit happens” look good.
PS, perhaps she “doesn’t hold a hose”?
aka The SloMo Defence
The article I linked yesterday by a Sikh woman was very informative.
The pakistani muslims clearly had the inside running on how to get control of young girls.
If the parents were strict, the girls were manipulated to get themselves moved into state care.
If the parents weren’t home because they worked they were neglectful and the girls were moved into state care.
If the parents were struggling with poverty and addiction the girls were moved into care.
If the girls who did remain in the family home didn’t cooperate their families were threatened.
Girls in care who had intellectual disabilities were also targeted.
The muslims were allowed to hang around schools to pick up girls, like it was a paedophile parade.
Picking up schoolgirls outside the school gate for a hurricane **** was a pastime of the ABC’s Richard Neville in his London years too.
It begs the question, to be the head of any department in any form of government requires the applicant to be incompetent.
Like the old Army “Personal Report” phrase:
“The member set himself a low standard and consistently failed to achieve it”.
Probably needs to be introduced to common parlance.
Many did. i met them in Arizona.
Progressive to their bootstraps.
Stuffing up Arizona, because they bring their toxic politics with them.
Does the
maremayor play the fiddle while LA burns?Hey, she doesn’t hold the hose, mate!
Snap, Calli.
You’ll notice there’s no C for competence in DEI.
But plenty of Dumb Entitled Incompetence.
And it compounds itself ….see my newer comment, calli.
Haha Calli,
your amoeba is back. 😀
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/01/muslims-open-fire-on-two-cars-and-a-bus-murdering-to-septuagenarian-israeli-women-and-a-police-officer
It’s not going to stop, you know.
No matter how many ‘negotiations’ you attend, they will continue to murder people that are not like them.
And won’t kowtow to them.
murdering two septuagenarian Israeli women
Oh, ye mighty warriors of Allah! Oh, you fearless fighters for Islam!
They are so smart that they will get themselves ejected from the West Bank en masse. They can always move back to Jordan. Lebanon has been cleansed of Christians so another place that is more suitable for them.
That then leads to a competency deficit via a brain drain caused by the experienced and proven employees being passed over for promotion subsequently leaving the organisation.
Prediction.
Elon will start up an insurace company next. I reckon people would flock to it knowing they would not be getting ripped off!
Obvioulsy, he would have to balance the scales. If fair premiums for low risk areas are taken up in vast numbers, it would help offset costs from high risk areas.
Caveats would be needed of course.*
*That reminds of a story from Victoria when a bloke cleared his property from shrubs and prunned / cut down trees around his house and it survived from a wildfire.
All those houses around him did not.
30k fine from memory?
250.000.00 dollar fine Steve.
He did sue the Council to get his money back.
I don’t know if he did.
Roger, those “passed over” employees, depending on the type of industry, could start up in competition with the woke dumbclucks.
I can’t imagine how hard it must be to try to run a successful business and also satisfy DEI guidelines. Well, you could run it, but not profitably.
Pogria
January 9, 2025 4:53 pm
Reply to Steve trickler
250.000.00 dollar fine Steve.
He did sue the Council to get his money back.
I don’t know if he did.
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Cheers for the correction.
Bloody ridiculous punishment.
It certainly was ridiculous. He clear felled and bulldozed a wide perimeter around his house. He did what people who live in fire prone areas had been told to do for decades.
The local councils were full of moron greenies who demanded home owners planted natives only around their houses. They were also NOT allowed to clear deadfall from the verges on the sides of country roads.
When that deadfall caught fire, many, many locals could not get out. Many died.
Every green councilor should have been personally sued via a massive class action.
Reminds me of the guy living on Mt Dandenong some years ago.
For years he tried to get council permission to cut down a big gum tree on his property.
The council, with the threat of huge fines, refused every time.
Sure enough, on one particularly windy day the tree came down on his house, killing him.
Similar thing happened near Nowra many years ago.
The widow sued the council, and won.
Good on her and the court.
What might the insurance companies not be saying about California, eg curated hellscape of unemoyment, drug use, assault and theft, with shanty towns all over the cities and suburbs, ripe for Venezuelan gangs and just hopin’ and waitin’ for another George Flloyd?
Many did. i met them in Arizona.
Progressive to their bootstraps.
But you dont understand, it was the eeeevil companies not the enlightened (jiffy) policies of the state diktat that made them stop offering insurance.
Think about it for a minute, you have made the state too risky for people who deal with/quantify risk as their core business want to stay there.
Mongzimandius lives..
One of the real strengths of the USA is jurisdiction arbitrage. Don’t like something – vote with your feet. A domestic market of 400m people allows you to do that. In Australia we largely get oligopolies and lowest common denominator legislation.
Are any negotiations occurring in the West Bank?
This isn’t about the ‘West Bank” – this is about a cult that has shown for 1400 years it cannot coexist with anyone else.
Too much ‘nuance’, there DB. Not enough history.
We cannot live with a mad dog in the neighbourhood. And as terrible as it is, one day we are going to have to put that mad dog down.
There are Palestinian Christians in the West Bank. Thinking about this simply in terms of Islam sidelines them as well as ignoring that Palestinian political opposition was largely secular until the 80s. It also ignores that the Israelis have managed to carve out a reasonable modus vivendi with the Gulf Arab states, Turkey, Azeris and the like despite their Islamic background.
Lastly, given the above, it does seem to resolve itself back to Gaza and the West Bank, and the security situation related to them, because they won’t be chasing ‘mad dogs’ like HTS, in fact they preferred HTS to a secular Arab regime.
It’ll be the end of civilisation.
And I’m only exaggerating a little bit!
James Woods lives in Pallisades, just finished renovating his house.
Not clear if it’s gone but he said all his alarms were going off via his mobile phone (obviously evacuated).
It’s the Santa Ana winds that causes the conditions, now up to 100 mph.
One woman, might have been Peachy, evacuated after her lounge window exploded.
It’s also the steep terrain that act like chimneys. The views come at a cost.
Bespoke. January 9, 2025 2:11 pm
That quote from Erasmus perfectly sums up The Grub from Grayndler and those who applaud him
Fires are north not south.
Doesn’t Orange County abut Los Angeles? Is it possible that the winds will sweep the wildfires south?
Just negated Droopy Dick.
They would have to also destroy urban south central LA to do that.
Dover, having seen the enormous number of eucs in Cali, and knowing how embers travel here and ignite crowns at an unbelievable distance, I wondered if the forecast windstorm might do it.
The sad thing is that, when it all finishes and rain falls and the green returns, it will be the eucs growing from the lignotubers. They have evolved to do so.
And then it will be rinse and repeat.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/l-officials-complain-there-arent-enough-firefighters-after/
Loopy stuff. Is someone in T-man’s inner circle going to tell him to tone it down a bit?
This is just his way of getting the word out there. Outrageous thy name is Trump…
“One thing I’ve learned about the press is that they’re always hungry for a good story, and the more sensational the better…The point is that if you are a little different, a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you.”
11 Winning Negotiation Tactics From Donald Trump’s ‘The Art of the Deal’
Go long Lego.
Three words summarise so-called “progressivism”: Self Inflicted Wounds.
See California, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, and many more.
A tax on Lego? The very thought! 😀
Isn’t Lego made using petro chemicals? See they are deniers!!
They tried making “Green”, Lego.
hahahahahaha It fell to bits and rats ate it. 😀
The flaw in that plan was that your company was never getting any government or large corporate contracts.
That will all change on 21st January.
The ratings system has unofficially been up and running for a while.
I had a quick glance at Denmark’s biggest exports. Nothing that the US can’t do without, given local production or sourcing other markets.
The Lego quip brought the little fishie to the bait though. Hook line and stinker.
Song of the times; almost an “anthem”.
“Missing Link”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yyzTLu4moc
@EndWokeness
LAFD recently created its 1st DEI Bureau. Assistant Chief Kristine Larson rakes in $399,000+ by leading this bureau.
Her job? Root out bigoted firefighters.
@EndWokeness
Gov. Newsom on LA not having water in its fire hydrants: Not my job
He doesn’t hold a hose either?
Heh, good politics.
Peter Dutton matches government’s $7.2 billion pledge to fix Queensland’s Bruce Highway with extra condition (Sky News, 9 Jan)
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of overpaid standover men. The Bruce Hwy might actually be repaired this way, rather than all the money disappearing into their corrupt pocketses.
@GuntherEagleman
James Woods responded briefly to the “It’s karma calling” comment from the former professor, Karen Piper:
“When I read that I look for a curb so that I can find someplace to scrape her off my shoe.”
“I’m more concerned about my neighbors and their homes that they lost.”
“I don’t really care what she has to say. Yeah. She means nothing to me. She is, to me, a fleck of spit on the arc of infinity.”
Where is Kristine Larson today? Is she out with a hose in LA?
New windscreen in Shepparton start next week. Has it on hand and full up till Monday though.
Not any of the major brands either. Independent mob.
My 2c worth the amount of damage from unvehicleworthy roads is that bad, we need a class action to wake these clowns up FFS, 50c from each litre of fuel is supposed to go to maintenance.
However everywhere I’m not seeing the work done. Figures on the fuel excise aren’t hard to find till 2022 but total maintenance seems sketchy.
RAA seems to think we are being short changed, I agree:
https://www.aaa.asn.au/advocacy/explainers/fuel-excise-explained/
Doc. Remember they have to have at least four safety trucks and their drivers and crew for every person actually doing some real work. I know safety is important but next time you travel down a major highway check the ratio of safety bods to real workers. That’s where at least some of the molar is going. They are usually with the cfmeu.
Saw it today outbound from Melbourne around Kalkallo. Big truck with screen and flashing lights telling us there was an excavator well behind the crash barriers working. The clowns on the stop/go bats are getting $120K so I wonder what that guy would have been getting.
Yup and no-one slowed down, traffic zoomed past at 110km/h.
Gavin Newsom appears on the verge of tears as he is confronted over Trump’s claims he caused LA fires
Poor petal. Responsibility is such a burden.
None of that Harry Truman “the buck stops here” stuff for the governor.
LA Mayor Karen Bass refuses to answer questions on catastrophic wildfires
@EndWokeness
LA officials say they do not have enough firefighters… they literally TERMINATED firefighters for not taking a COVID vax
Actions speak louder than words.
They Really Do Want To Reduce The Population – 47 Shocking Population Control Quotes From The Global Elite That Will Make You Want To Lose Your Lunch
‘Illegitimate Body’: House Set To Pass Sanctions on Anti-Israel ICC This Week
Oh this does give one a naughty little tingle.
Smug euros and their muzzie pets facing big guy reality.
The squeals and impotent threats are going to be such fun.
Sooooowee!
With Bass abroad, even Democrats are slamming LA mayor over wildfires
EXPOSED: What They’re NOT Telling You About the RAPE GANGS… | Neil Oliver
Karen Piper…ahhhh…the compassionate Left.
Just think about this. A fire department having a DEI bureau.
Net Zero madness: Electric CRUISE SHIPS are the DUMBEST idea yet | MGUY Australia
I’m calling bullsh*t on this Hadi Nazari hiker story. 2 weeks without food and just drinking water after all that walking?
Nup.
Get the invoice ready to pay everyone back to those looking for him.
This story does not pass the sniff test. I’ve watched so many survival clips and I reckon this is a stunt.
We’ll wait and see.
Survival training in the A.D.F. taught that food has a low priority – you can go for forty days without eating, but water is a high priority.
A supposedly “experienced” hiker, no food, 1 water bottle. Something does not compute
A supposedly “experienced ” hiker, who doesn’t know the first rule if you are lost?
Only in lefty goat cheese snorting circles is this a rmarkable statement…
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/09/northern-territory-prison-population-watch-houses
New laws were enacted on Monday to ensure young people and adults who breach bail conditions, commit serious offences or repeatedly offend are not granted bail.
Oh, the huge manatiee
Believe it when I see it.
Chrisafulli is already proving quite ineffective in Qld but with Freckless as AG what do we expect from this incompetent useless bint.
My 2c worth unless judicial discretion in these cases in severely curtailed judges will do what they want.
They’re bored, TFM.
Where’s my cattle prod?
I’ll give ’em some old fashioned stimulation.
Boredom is a corollary of low IQ.
An intelligent person can always find something mentally engaging, useful or challenging to do.
Don’t know if its been mentioned here yet but Jean-Marie Le Pen died yesterday.
I did post the article.
Yes. So did Peter from Peter Paul & Mary.
Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom should face manslaughter charges.
The diversity cult kills.
Regarding Indolent’s post about the scrag Karen Piper, who called the destruction of James Woods house, “Karma”, a poster on X, “That one Guy who’s Always Right”, posted a lovely rejoinder to the ugly Karen.
https://x.com/RLLazzarini/status/1876905238986138075
The Donald’s Greenland. 😀
The left love blaming conservatives for bushfires, cyclones, flooding, hurricanes etc. We all all remember how Morrison was blamed for the 2019/2020 bushfires and 2022 floods.
However the left don’t much like it when the shoe is thrown back and they are blamed for their gross mismanagement and progressive idiocy. We hear them utter weasel words such as ‘now is the not the time‘. Au contraire, now is the perfect time.
Leftist hypocrisy is staggering.
Calli, as with Dinosaurs and Gingerbread Houses, I give you Cauliflower and Rockets! 😀
I think President Donald Trump should call the forked tongue grub from Grayndler….
Humbug Boy
Much more accurate than ‘handsome boy‘.
Get a load of the cost to travel through the Panama Canal.
Karen Piper is a scholar of postcolonial studies, globalization, environmental discourse, and climate change fiction. She has published books on water scarcity, race, and identity, and has done research in various countries.
Dons really are nasty and stupid. Evil really.
‘Scholar’- what a sick joke
Dover, I commented on the wildfire spread and risk of ember attack on the nested comments.
Should I move the discussion to the thread?
@ThisIsIRONCLAD
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NT News.
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High commissioner to snub Australia Day for a second timeRhiannon Down
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Australia’s high commissioner to Britain, Stephen Smith, has signalled to organisers that he will not attend an annual Australia Day gala dinner, a year after he cited sensitivities around celebrating the day.
Mr Smith, hand-picked by Anthony Albanese, has indicated he may not be in London for an annual gala dinner to celebrate Australia Day, sparking criticism from organisers and attendees that he was abandoning the national day.
The then-newly appointed high commissioner ignited uproar last year when he informed organisers he would not be opening the doors to the Exhibition Hall of the Australian high commission in London for the fundraising event.
The black-tie gala, run by the Australia Day Foundation, has been a fixture of the London social calendar for two decades, and has been attended by some of the nation’s most prominent business and industry leaders living in Britain.
The event has also attracted some of Australia’s greatest exports, including Kylie Minogue, Delta Goodrem, Natalie Imbruglia, Tim Minchin and band Human Nature, and showcased food cooked by celebrity chefs including Maggie Beer and Neil Perry.
The annual celebration of the Australian-Britain relationship will be held at the Peninsula Hotel in London on January 25 and will be attended by 400 ticketholders, with Mr Smith indicating to organisers last week he would not be among them.
Phil Aiken, who chaired the Australia Day Foundation for 13 years, said it was disappointing to hear Mr Smith would not attend the landmark social event.
“It’s great that the Australia Day dinner will happen again this year, albeit not at Australia House,” he said. “And it’s disappointing that I understand the high commissioner is unable to attend.”
https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/c6a0519f99b687bd3730107b10baf225
Kylie Minogue at the Qantas Australia Day Gala Dinner at Australia House in 2015. Picture: David M. Benett/Getty Images.
Proceeds from the fundraising event go to supporting Australians studying in Britain.
This is the second year the event has been affected by controversy, after Mr Smith told organisers it would not be appropriate to hold the gala around January 26, which marks the First Fleet’s landing in Sydney in 1788.
The event is traditionally hosted on the closest Saturday to Australia Day, which has been dubbed Invasion Day by some Indigenous campaigners and become the subject of protests
The first act of an incoming Dutton Government should be to sack this douche nozzle..
But only after running a fine-toothed comb through his expenses during his tenure.
An effete twot if ever there was one. Where the buggery did the ALP find him?
I recall reading somewhere that Smith and Swanny were known as the ‘glimmer twins’ in ALP circles – never understood why, but assumed it was a sledge.
I saw it , Calli. The distance is about 70km.
Thank you. I saw a witness saying how astonished they were that fires started so far apart.
If you eliminate arson, the only other way is by wind and embers.
I think a few are being lit by arsonists in the urban areas.
The BOM is a global boiling activist cesspool and it’s forecasting record is shit:
Will BOM Bomb its Forecasts and Could AI Do Better? – The Post & Email
Question for those who might be in the know.
We know that the BOM “homogenises” temperatures to cover gaps in weather stations.
But are rainfall records also homogenised? If they are all measured, why are automatic weather stations not also measuring temperatures?
Yes, yes, I know that they homogenises to allow gradual fudging of the temperatures up, but why not for rainfall?
A bit late to the pool today…
Only one 3/4 revealed 9/10 buttock on display.
In the kids pool.
A MILF was it? Nice.
Hear Hear!!!His record as Minister for Defence is abysmal so of course he’s been appointed High Commissioner to the UK – such a great representative of our nation.
Awfully complicated to be SS. Ashamed of the date his own country was established by a colonising power, yet quite happy to live in grand style in the very heart of said colonising power, at considerable expense to the descendants of those first colonists. No shame at that point. It’s a conundrum!
He has magnificent hair.
Has anyone ever heard of Christianphobia? Sikhphobia? Hinduphobia?
Mussies carry a list of these phobias everywhere they go.
Daily Tele.
Peter Dutton slams Stephen Smith over UK Australia Day snubAustralia’s High Commissioner to the UK has found himself in hot water, with Peter Dutton saying “if Stephen Smith is ashamed of Australia Day, he should be on the next flight home”.
Put it on record then that if elected SS is gonesky.
Worst defence minister since federation, mate reckons rank & file thought he was an a grade d-head.
He was my local member when I lived in Perth, and he never impressed me.
Was he the country member? Yes he was, we remember.
The first act of an incoming Dutton Government should be to sack this douche nozzle..
Indeed, but will Dutton do a Tone Abbott? Remember how Tone Abbott, on winning the election in a landslide in 2013, refused to sack Bill Shorten’s mother-in-law, Quentin Bryce, who was GG at the time, despite Ms Bryce offering her resignation?
I remember Tone’s words…….
“I have thanked her for her magnanimity but declined to accept her resignation”.
This is what Tone Abbott should have said……
“I have thanked her for her magnanimity and I accept her resignation,”
Oh that’s right, Tone Abbott now blames the bureaucrats for his failings at PM.
Sure Tone.
“Thank you for your magnanimity. Shut the door on your way out.”
Poor Mr Dutton is just a figurehead, a sop to the Right. The Photios/Kean/Turnbull faction utterly controls the Liberal Party.
Dutton will do what he can, and I love him for that, but he’s just one man perched precariously on the sticky surface of a very deep swamp.
Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” shares a DM clip of Jordan Peterson explaining to Piers Morgan how false accusations of Islamophobia have been used to cover up dangerous cultural differences between Western societies and Islamic ones.
Piers Morgan Looks Visibly Shocked When Jordan Peterson Explains This
That was a “no brainer”, as my American cousins would say.
I have been experimenting with Cointreau.
Half a glass Cointreau.
Fill with ice.
Dash of soda water.
Scoop of vanilla ice cream sitting atop glass.
Heh. My local bottleshop owner had to offload some raspberry wine. Insanely intense flavour. Similar style to botrytis semillon, in the small 375 mL bottles.
So I took a couple of bottles from him to help him out and gave them to my mum.
Epiphany! What she did was to mix it with cream and fresh strawberries as a dessert.
Unbelievably scrumptious (and alcoholic).
I went back to him, told him about it and bought the rest of what he had left…
That sounds like it’s just waiting for some cola.
I suspect Cointreau with cream, ice cream and fresh orange bits would be a seriously awesome dessert too.
BoN:
Cointreau – a healthy splash over vanilla icecream.
Yum.
2 parts Gin
1 part Cointreau
1 part lemon Juice.
repeat as necessary
Swapping out the Orange Whups for an Orange Liqueur now? You go Girl!
I don’t blame the insurance companies, after all they are in the business of making a decent return for their investors. When the risk of paying out is too great you should not offer coverage.
It is governments at all levels that are in the wrong by not doing their jobs of protecting citizens and residents from known and foreseen dangers. They tax the people in the name of providing those very services and then don’t deliver.
I wonder as sodom began to burn whether the city fathers back then gave clown speeches complete with sign language mockery?
I’ve heard they were pretty salty about it, so probably not.
If they did, some of the sign language must have been striking.
And there you were the other day claiming a no kink garden hose was your most extravagant investment.
This gives cause to doubt your integrity, sir.
[ 😀 ]
You’re right. I splashed out.
Beware; you’re on the road to perdition, son.
McDonald’s Australia commits to woke DEI policy, despite U.S. shift
Australia – the refuge for the failed brain farts of the world.
What’s sign language for “As this temporary fire and brimstone crisis passes, please stay in your home and as always… Watch out for your arse, this is still Sodom after all”.
Melbourne
WATCH: Jews BANNED from city EVERY Sunday ‘for their own protection’
easily
bushfires in the 90’s Dandenong ranges
dunno exactly when
smoldering embers falling on Gunnamatta beach
easy 70 km away
FMD.
The idiot was quoted in the Oz as saying he had one-up on Dutton because of Luigi’s great relationships with leaders in the region.
Like Orange Hitler is going to call Luigi for a heads-up before getting in touch with, well, anyone.
Pro tip Luigi.
If you want to really have a chance to curry favour with Orange Hitler the Second, get rid of that dickwad we have as Ambassador in DC.
When foreigners think of Australia/Australians, humanoids such as KRudd do not present in their expectations etc.
I’d rather have Jacky Lambie in the posting.
Cats, I concur with Prez Fatty Trump’s imperialist designs on Greenland, Canuckistan and the Panama Canal.
It would be nice if he could cast his greedy eyes over here as well, especially as dover’s subsequent wailing would be audible in space.