I’ve held off commenting on this publicly as it played thru the courts, but I feel compelled as the [TikTok] ban may now go thru to say it is likely to have an absolutely devastating impact on the ability of US diplomats to defend US social media companies operating in foreign countries.
Here are the receipts on Meta bending to Biden government censorship demands because Meta had “bigger fish to fry” for its business interests than free speech issues and Meta needed the Biden government’s backing “on multiple policy fronts”
From memory, there were riots and looting in Los Angeles, in either 1968 or 1970, and the Army was called in to keep the peace.
An “urban sniper” was being interviewed – yes, he shot at the police, the fire brigade and the National Guard, but “Shooting at the 82nd Airborne? Are you crazy, those dudes shoot back!”
In the early seventeenth Shah Jahan so much loved his wife who died giving birth to their fourteenth child (note that he had other wives too) that he built a mausoleum in her memory and to honour her. This was the century that saw the English Civil War – a dynamic time. The heartbroken Shah spent twenty years and much treasure creating for this wife, as an eternal byre, a building of such poignant beauty that it still breaks hearts today, as it surely did mine. You cannot but be touched by its sense of romance and fancy, by the glowing white marble of which it is composed, by its minarets, domes and towers, and when closer, by the spiraling floral-inlay decoration of glue-set and polished semi-precious stones. Here in undying flowers are found shining mother-of-pearl, turquoise, blue lapis lazuli, jade, cornelian (a red stone that glows in the dark), green anthracite and black onyx. From tiny chips 20000 artists housed in a local village toiled for twenty years to create the intricate decorations for the splendid interior as well as thousands of others employing in carving out and erecting its marble walls and features.
What is more, I’ve always thought of it as an average tomb-sized building, because I’ve never seen it against people as a comparator; yet on first viewing it is overwhelmingly huge, especially when you see visitors against it. At the base and on the external walkway into the shrine, people seem like ants. It has the same visual emotional impact as the huge Christ the Redeemer that dominates over Rio.
Leading up to this shrine are long fountain pools surrounded by perfumed gardens and one well-placed seat that is now famous for those photographs of a disconsolate Princess Diana seated alone brooding over her failing marriage the Charles, Prince of Wales. Needless to say, in the crowds there that day, largely tourists from within India, there was a queue for your photograph to be taken alone on that seat with the Taj behind in all of its glory. For my turn, I tried to look pouting with unhappiness but couldn’t manage it. Too happy, I say to Hairy.
The next morning we are taken to a workshop where skilled artisans work now on making table tops and souvenirs utilising these same traditional techniques. In the village behind the Taj, over the river, there still live families maintaining this traditional skill; only 2000 people now know it, and their numbers are dwindling. Not surprising, because it is tremendously finnicky and difficult work, but reasonably paid and with some OHS applied now. We purchased a marble table top and marble latticed base to be shipped home, as our memento of this romantic place, as did three other couples in our small tour group. Future antiques, we tell each other, falling for it all, we of the spending generation. Hairy and I didn’t take the tour of the village starting early the next morning. Our American Trump supporting friend stayed away too. I hate to see poverty turned into a zoo, she said, rather as we thought too. There’s enough on the roadsides and in the old towns without having to make a display and tourist feature of it. Some of our purchase price does go to the workers, so we thought that a good contribution.
Forgot to mention that this Shah had a son who killed all brothers who might succeed him, took the Peacock Throne, and imprisoned his father in the great palatial ‘Red Fort’ and palace we visited before the Taj Mahal. There Shah Jahan could view his beloved’s mausoleum from a beautiful set of rooms and gardens. The view over the river to the Taj in the early morning mist was quite magical, such that Jahan opted to be buried there next to his true love, in the Taj. It is said that this usurping son was so hopeless a ruler that he began the steep decline of the Mogul Empire that followed.
Today’s busy tourist ruined Taj interior for Hairy, who recalls almost no-one else there in his visit in 1975 with his first wife For us now, endlessly shouting Indians jostling each other were a distraction, as were the police whistles which the military in full camo gear used to keep the crowd moving. Re crowd control at these intensely protected sites, entry to them in India is often streamed into ‘tourists’, ‘Indian Ladies’ and ‘Indian Gentlemen’. I think this is because in long packed queues the sexual harassment of Indian women by Indian men was severe.
This is also the fort where later a British general killed in the 1857 mutiny was buried, his impressive grave site is still as it was under the British, prominently displayed in the parade ground.
Thank you Lizzie.
This is the kind of travelogue I like, never had the desire to go to India but it is a fascinating place, to learn about it vicariously is great.
BREAKING: Former Labour MP Ivor Caplin, who criticized Elon Musk on British TV last week for his remarks about Keir Starmer, has been arrested following a sting operation by citizen pedophile hunters.
Caplin allegedly attempted to arrange a meeting with a 15-year-old boy.
I certainly hope the KGB/GRU/FSS didn’t know of his supposed interest in young-boys-under-the-age-of-consent leanings.
That would be quite a feather in their cap – The Minister for Defence on their payroll.
When a major fire breaks out in an urban or city environment it is quite common for a pumper or two to tap in a block or so away from the scene in order to “boost” the mains and therefor provide more than enough water to the units actually fighting the fire. In other words a single fire fighting effort can severely degrade local water pressure/flow rate.
I’ve been wondering about this “LA hydrants running dry” thing for a few days thinking something else could be at play.
As if the draw on the system wouldn’t be huge enough with the dozens of pumper units they use it appears another very significant factor was having an effect.
A crew chief I saw interviewed on a news report last night was lamenting that nearly all the houses are equipped with their own indoor sprinkler system, which is useless against fire from the outside but when house after house etc go up and all these sprinkler systems activate at full flow it bled critical flow out of the mains. The system was overwhelmed.
It also explains all the water you see running down driveways from most destroyed houses.
Ive yet to see an Aussie style external sprinkler system powered by a diesel pump and fed from the ubiquitous swimming pools. I also wonder why the LAFD trucks didnt draft from said swimming pools, do they not have the capability to do that? All aussie bush trucks do.
My mate did duk. His was fed from a dam. Misting system over the whole house. When it was operating you could hardly see the house. His house had previously burnt down.
We lost our retirement property to a fire some years ago. When we rebuilt, yes, there was a rooftop sprinkler system, fed by a dedicated tank with a backup generator. Like your mate, when it’s operating, you can barely see the house.
You might not be allowed a diesel generator under California emissions law. My mate in the UK imported a marine diesel with low hours for a 60 foot ex lifeboat that had been made illegal in the US around the mid 90s. Importing whole boats was economic for a while around the peak of the GFC I believe but not for long.
Bungonia Bee
January 12, 2025 7:11 am
Looks like Fluffy needs to check in with RFK Jr. for advice about the American Diet.
lotocoti
January 12, 2025 7:51 am
Over in Airstrip One, the dying media have been working hard to pretend nothing never happened. In 2024 the BBC aired ‘Liar: The Fake Grooming Scandal’ and only last week Channel 4 launched a three parter on the same case. Meanwhile, at the blog where no on reads the comments, they’ve been having a bit of a look.
Among the resulting coverage, and by no coincidence, the case of Cumbrian girl Ellie Williams is once again profiling in mainstream media. Ellie found herself in the dock in 2023 following allegations she made to the police across a period of three years that culminated in viral Facebook posts and photographs that an injured Ellie posted in 2020. These resulted in a ‘Justice For Ellie’ campaign, demonstrations and social unrest in her native Barrow-in-Furness. They also resulted in Ellie being accused of self-inflicting her injuries.
Convicted of perverting the course of justice and sentenced to a lengthy prison sentence, a documentary entitled ‘Liar: The Fake Grooming Scandal’ was broadcast in July 2024 and now sits on the BBC iPlayer. A new Channel 4 series called ‘Accused, The Fake Grooming Scandal’ debuted this 7th January.
The scab is barely lifted on this scandal, and it has all the appearance of going all the way to the bone.
As I sit here in Oklahoma watching the snow fall outside my windows, I can’t help but think about the horrible treatment my husband and other January 6 defendants have received from the Bureau of Prisons, the D.C. Jail, and various facilities across the country.
My husband has not seen sunlight in months; he has had only about ten hours of sunlight in the past eight months. He is in a prison where the temperatures in the cells in the morning are around 45 to 50 degrees. In other facilities, the heat is unbearable and makes the detainees feel sick. Sparse communication is the norm. Constant lockdowns are as well.
My husband suffers from severe PTSD from his combat service, severe depressive disorder, and several other ailments. He is a 100% permanently disabled combat veteran, fully service-connected. He honorably fought for this country, earning many awards for his valor in combat. Now, he is rotting in a prison cell without proper mental health treatment or care for his physical ailments sustained from combat. He cannot receive the therapy, counseling, or medication he needs to help improve his mental or physical state. No reasonable accommodations are made for him.
Do you know what a lack of sunlight does to someone with PTSD and severe depressive disorder? It’s devastating! To make matters worse, he has no quiet; he is bunked with another inmate, and at times the noise and chaos is completely unbearable.
What the January 6 defendants have endured at the hands of the Biden administration, the weaponized FBI, the DOJ, and the January 6 Unselect Committee is horrific and should never have happened!
January 6, 2021, was not the insurrection—November 3, 2020, was. The Democrats stole an election and caused a riot on January 6 at the instruction of Pelosi and Milley, among others, to cover it up so they could certify a largely contested election.
Joe Biden is an illegitimate president, and everything he has done while in office deserves to be closely examined and likely overturned.
All charges against the January 6 defendants should be dropped; they all deserve pardons and compensation for the hell they have endured since January 6, 2021.
Nothing can completely fix the fallout from January 6 for the families affected—no amount of time can return what has been lost: relationships, celebrations, funerals, and goodbyes that never happened.
Finances have been destroyed. SSDI Benefits lost. Retirements lost. Careers and businesses have been lost and may never be able to be regained. People have lost their homes. The defamation and the smear campaigns that have damaged their images forever will haunt them.
However, one thing that can begin the healing process is releasing the January 6 detainees on day one. Let my people go; let them start to rebuild their lives.
Some have families and homes to return to; others, sadly, do not. Some have children they have never met or who they haven’t seen in months—years for many. Every case is unique, but all are devastating in their own way.
@realDonaldTrump, as a wife of a January 6 hostage, I urge you to release ALL January 6 detainees on day one.
Issue pardons of innocence, just as you did for @GenFlynn, to all January 6 defendants. Please don’t leave any behind. All are victims of a weaponized government.
Free the January 6 hostages so our country can begin to heal. Our families can only start to mend with your help. We cannot do it without you.
Have you all noticed the news coverage of North Carolina was almost non-existent in comparison to Los Angeles? The government hardly cared. Los Angeles all over the news and Biden personally goes out there immediately?
Night and day the response from the press and Biden.
Indolent
January 12, 2025 8:21 am
Fauci is on record in 2008 saying that hydroxychloroquine (then chloroquine) was effective against corona viruses.
PFIZER JUST RELEASED ITS LIST OF SIDE EFFECTS OF ITS “C-Shot” Blood thrombosis, Acute kidney injury, Acute flaccid myelitis, Positive antisperm antibodies, Brainstem embolism, Brainstem thrombosis, Cardiac arrest (hundreds of cases), Heart failure, Cardiac ventricular thrombosis, Cardiogenic shock, Central nervous system vasculitis, Neonatal death, Deep vein thrombosis, Brainstem encephalitis, Hemorrhagic encephalitis, Frontal lobe epilepsy, Foaming at the mouth, Epileptic psychosis, Facial paralysis, Fetal distress syndrome, Gastrointestinal amyloidosis, Generalized tonic-clonic seizure, Hashimoto’s encephalopathy, Hepatic vascular thrombosis, Herpes zoster reactivation, Hepatitis Immune-mediated, Interstitial lung disease, Jugular vein embolism, Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, Liver damage, Low birth weight, Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, Myocarditis, Neonatal seizure, Pancreatitis, Pneumonia, Stillbirth, Tachycardia, Temporal lobe epilepsy, Testicular autoimmunity, Thrombotic stroke, Type 1 diabetes mellitus, Neonatal venous thrombosis, Vertebral artery thrombosis, Pericarditis, Sudden death…
Note … Fauci got the emergency distribution order because “he” told Trump there was NO OTHER medical treatment available to handle the virus.
Ivermectin was one of the cures (and Fauci knew this) … that’s why he told the media to say ivermectin was only a horse medicine.
I’m hoping that knowledge is a loophole families can use to sue him and his team.
lotocoti
January 12, 2025 8:21 am
Perhaps I’m doing it wrong, but searching judiciary.uk for more on UK Labour’s favoured cultural enrichers isn’t working out too well.
However I have occasionally stumbled upon species which should never be imported.
You, Iftikhar Ahmed, came to the United Kingdom when you were 10 years of age and you are fully familiar with western culture. Indeed, you married a Danish woman and had a son by her and lived, for some time, in Denmark. Then, in 1985, you returned to Pakistan and, while you were there, you married Farzana Ahmed, your first cousin. She lived in your home village in rural Pakistan. She had no experience of western culture but in 1986 you both came to England and settled here…
His oldest daughter didn’t want to carry on the family tradition.
You can guess the rest.
LMAO … Facebook literally permanently suspended our podcast account for saying the exact same thing.
And Zuckerberg proudly did it to millions of accounts and spent over 400 million to interfere in the 2020 election.
He’s a snake – he should be arrested and thrown into prison, not celebrated.
Miltonf
January 12, 2025 8:32 am
Puke making how you can have a ‘degree’ in journalism to pontificate about automobiles but don’t need to be a mechanic or an engineer. That’s the FMIC for you.
Media continue to refer to conservatives as “far right” or worse.
I listened to Alice Weidel talk to Elon Musk yesterday, and her policies were all standard conservative common sense. This doesn’t matter to either the legacy media or the rent-a-crowd with nose rings that have gathered to protest in Germany.
Further to the attack on Newtown Synagogue in the early hours of Saturday morning, the NSWaffen Plod have now released the following…
On Saturday evening NSW Police released four images of two individuals they believe may be able to assist with the investigation.
“Police have released CCTV images after offensive graffiti was sprayed on a synagogue in Sydney’s Inner West this morning, during which police believe an arson attempt was also made,” the force said in a statement.
“Initial inquiries have led police to believe two people attended the synagogue around 4.25am today.”
Yesterday morning, in the hours after the Newtown Synagogue attack and the Queens Park vandalism, Pretty Boy Minns said the acts were “monstrous and appalling”. Gosh, you don’t say, Pretty Boy Minns!
The clock is ticking, and it is only a matter of time until some Jews are physically harmed.
All that pretty talk by Pretty Boy Minns isn’t deterring any of the attacks, is it?
The Oz is reporting…….
Peter Dutton says the election of a Coalition government this year will be the ‘last chance’ to reverse the economic and social decline of Australia, as he begins his campaigning in 2025 in the Melbourne seat of Chisholm.
Dutton is correct. The reelection of the slug of Grayndler and his merry Jew hating sidekicks will simply embolden the Muslim and leftist Nazis.
Dutton needs to lft his game about 500 percent.Cant even get Qld Libs on board with nu c lear
Black Ball
January 12, 2025 9:15 am
Piers Akerman:
Anthony Albanese has called the latest attack on a synagogue hateful but has done nothing to curb the hate speech spewed regularly in mosques across Australia.
Indeed, the Australian National Imams Council (ANIC), whose members host and support some of the most egregious Islamist preachers, received $515,324 from the government in 2024.
This amount is more than half (56.89 per cent) of its total $905,894 annual budget and is nearly 12 and a half times greater than the $41,303 that the Albanese government provided in 2023.
What could possibly justify this splurge on what is little more than an Islamist apology group?
After the recent Islamist terror attack on crowds in New Orleans’ tourist hotspot Bourbon Street, ANIC issued a warning to Australian media about its coverage of the event and claiming the “framing of the incident disproportionately emphasised the attacker’s identity and religion, with terms like ‘Islamic terrorism’ and ‘Muslim terrorists’ dominating coverage”.
“This selective focus raises serious concerns about biased reporting and reinforces harmful stereotypes,” the imams said in their statement.
“It perpetuates the false narrative that terrorism is inherently linked to Islam or any religion and implies that acts of terror are labelled as such only when committed by individuals of a particular faith or background.”
“This is categorically false and must be rejected.”
The imams need to get a grip. The majority of terrorist acts globally are committed by Islamists who claim they are acting in accordance with their understanding of the Koran.
The imams even pointed out that Muslim student Kareem Badawi was one of the 14 victims of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who had pledged allegiance to ISIS, as a reminder that terrorism doesn’t discriminate.
However, it is a fact that the overwhelming majority of terrorist acts occur in largely Muslim states, albeit they are committed by a small minority of Muslims in those places.
What the imams can’t escape from, however, is that in Australia, some of their members have glorified acts of barbarity and have urged their followers to celebrate the death of innocents.
There has been little, if anything, said about the torching of a synagogue, the bomb attack on the office of a Jewish federal MP, and the ongoing campaign of graffiti in suburbs in Melbourne and Sydney where there are large numbers of Jews.
What exactly is the Albanese government getting for the taxpayers’ money it spends on the nation’s imams?
It seems as senseless and wasteful a gesture as sending federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus to Israel as an emissary to make amends for the Labor government’s appalling treatment of our historic friend and ally.
Under Foreign Minister Penny Wong, DFAT has been more obliging to groups supporting terrorism than they have to Israelis who’ve been fighting for survival
Its noteworthy that the Palestinians’ de facto ambassador for the past 18 years, Izzat Abdulhadi, is ending his term with an attempt to justify his terrorist bosses’ murderous acts.
In a friendly interview with Nine Media, he said “even if Hamas does use human shields, this does not justify Israel killing the shields”.
International law, which neither Hamas nor Fatah observe as they regularly murder Israeli civilians, prohibits the use of human shields.
There have been no elections in either the West Bank, under the control of Fatah, or Gaza, under Hamas, since Abdulhadi effectively became the Palestinians’ de facto diplomatic representative in Canberra.
The latest slap in the face of our Israeli allies was the decision to send Dreyfus to Jerusalem on the basis that he is a Jew.
This tokenistic play of the identity card will not have escaped his hosts.
Before the Albanese government was elected, Dreyfus falsely assured the Jewish community there would be no significant change in Australia’s policy toward Israel.
Since then, Australia has voted for every anti-Israel motion at the United Nations.
He has failed to apply existing laws against hate speech to clerics such as Abu Ousayd, who gave a New Year’s Eve sermon in which he said “Jews were descendants of pigs and monkeys”.
He also opposed an independent judicial inquiry into anti-Semitism on university campuses and he has said nothing about the ICC’s baseless call to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Sadly, Australian Jews living close to the Lebanese border in areas which have come under rocket fire from Hezbollah forces believe they are now safer there than in suburban Melbourne, where Dreyfus lives.
With no intent to offend porcine-sensitive observant Jews or Muslims, sending Dreyfus to Israel to mend fences is nothing more than putting lipstick on a pig.
A Palestinian envoy? Who seems to enjoy the murder of Israeli citizens saying that the human shields guarding the scum of humanity in Hamas shouldn’t be touched? Wong Chap should be putting him out of Australia.
As for the imams, deport them immediately.
Has anyone noticed that in the aftermath rubble of the California fires there is not a brick in sight? It seems all their construction is made up of wood and other flammable materials. Perhaps if they used bricks and terracotta or concrete roof tiles their buildings might withstand fire a lot better.
When visiting Canada some years ago I saw a new subdivision in the process of construction. All the outside walls were three layers of wooden boards, the outer skin, the middle skin and the inner skin. I expect that was to provide insulation for the cold winter temperatures.
Has anyone noticed that in the aftermath rubble of the California fires there is not a brick in sight? It seems all their construction is made up of wood and other flammable materials. Perhaps if they used bricks and terracotta or concrete roof tiles their buildings might withstand fire a lot better.
But wood, having a bit of flexibility, is better suited to earthquake zones.
Anthony Albanese has called the latest attack on a synagogue hateful but has done nothing to curb the hate speech spewed regularly in mosques across Australia.
I watched Albo also say that these acts of anti-semitism shouldnot be tolerated. I caught the qualification straight away, he did not say it will not be tolerated. Right there he announced that his government will do nothing about it. Not a single journalist in that gaggle around him was smart enough to pick up the distinction.
Perhaps he’s hoping for some vigilante pay back seeing as the Waffen and judges plus Labor don’t give a cr#p. The longer this rubbish goes on without government intervention to stamp it out leaves a very very dangerous and possibly explosive situation.
Winston Smith
January 12, 2025 9:45 am
Black Ball:
As for the imams, deport them immediately.
If they are an Imam, and have taken out Australian citizenship, they have either denounced their Sharia vows, or the oath to the Queen/King. Therefore their Australian citizenship can be cancelled. It’s time this happened if the videos of their exhortations to destroy our system of government are true. Then deport them.
Billions more taxpayer dollars are being lost through NDIS rorts and overcharging than previously thought, with the disability scheme crying out to police for help in stopping the fraud.
Weird how this happens. I wonder how many of the preps will turn out to be special people with no describable cultural practices?
I notice or more correctly do not notice when it comes to the rorted billions in the past, there is a distinct lack of recovering of money. Childcare scam in Sydney West, comes to mind, families involved, prosecutions apparently, then nothing. Are these people having their homes confiscated as proceeds of crime or as they are members of that select group of random lone wolves who aren’t very lonely at all and have extensive backing from rest of the spontaneous splodey bits cult.
Eyrie
January 12, 2025 9:53 am
Has anyone noticed that in the aftermath rubble of the California fires there is not a brick in sight? It seems all their construction is made up of wood and other flammable materials.
Earthquakes, but I noticed that many even fancy US houses not in earthquake zones had all the structural rigidity and weight of temporary movie sets. German and Swiss houses are built like bunkers.
Winston Smith
January 12, 2025 9:54 am
Makka: https://x.com/kashmiricanibal/status/1877790047036146157
This thread is supposed to be 20+ years old.
But it still says “The problem is not with Pakistani men, it is a small group of men who just happen to be Pakistani.”
The unspoken message is “Most Pakistani men are innocent – just a few bad apples.”
I call bullshit. Entire families know of this – they are all implicit.
Taquiya: In Islam, Taqiyya (Arabic: ????, romanized: taqiyyah, lit. ‘prudence’) is the practice of dissimulation and secrecy of religious belief and practice, primarily in Shia Islam.
It’s designed to suck in the gullible and stupid – something that is NOT in short supply in the West, and especially among the rich and powerful who are rarely exposed to the duplicity of Islam.
No, the thread details events going back over 20 years.
There are admissions in there that cover all levels of Govt and both Tory and Labour Govts.
I agree, parts are an arse covering exercise. To me that’s irrelevant. The significant info IMO ( various criminal high level Police officers, the corrupt CPS, media censorship of the crimes, companies owned/operated by moslem groomers and with Govt funding etc) and how long it’s been going on for are the real issues.
There’s no harm looking into alternative POV, to FAFO. We may learn something.
This is a cop out. A furfy. Islam has been growing in the UK since the 60’s. Nothing new here. What we are witnessing is the UK establishment (with FULL knowledge of the evils of Islam) perpetrating an organised capitulation over recent decades and in real time for the sake of votes, careers, power and sheer greed. The utter betrayal of the British race. The establishment was fomenting the same kind of capitulation in the 30’s to Hitler. This time they have largely succeeded.
No you didn’t. You inferred the rich establishment has been ignorant and gullible.
and especially among the rich and powerful who are rarely exposed to the duplicity of Islam.
I’m saying that’s BS. The establishment (rich and powerful) know exactly what they are doing and why. The Establishment is NOT being duped by taqqiya. They are perpetrating this betrayal with full knowledge of islam.
They thought they had control of Govts and media.They have been using demographics and social engineering over decades (via Labour and Tory)to fortify their place at the apex of the Brit class system – The Establishment.
It’s all came undone with Reform, X -Elon Musk (Trump) and Robinson. We are seeing now a maelstrom of media and information chaos as exposure rolls on. No idea how this pans out. But I suspect once President, Trump will have much more to say about Starmer’s attempt at interference in US elections.
Fox News on Saturday dropped an infuriating story regarding FEMA’s evil treatment of Hurricane Helene survivors in Western North Carolina. The agency will end temporary housing for roughly 2,000 Tar Heel residents on Saturday, creating mass confusion amongst the local population regarding what they are supposed to do next.
The unforgiving conditions across the Appalachian Mountain region make these victims’ situation even more dire. Not only is a major snowstorm coming, but temperatures will drop below 20 degrees.
And yet the coffers are being opened for the millionaires of Los Angeles!
There could have been a hundred people and they would have reported only two.
Roger
January 12, 2025 10:15 am
…the Australian National Imams Council (ANIC), whose members host and support some of the most egregious Islamist preachers, received $515,324 from the government in 2024. This amount is more than half (56.89 per cent) of its total $905,894 annual budget
Is the RC Bishop’s Conference likewise subsidised by the taxpayer?
The Anglican bishops?
The Australian Christan Churches (Pentecostals)?
If the rationale for this singularly generous funding is to get the imams on-side with the government’s calls for social cohesion it’s not working. They’ve not spoken out once about antisemitism. They have, however, called the Israeli actions in Gaza a holocaust. That might conceivably lead some hotheads to feel justified in daubing synagogues with swastikas.
If you’re anti Australian, anti-western, anti-Judeo-Christian, canbra will give you OPM. It’s the canbra way.
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Roger
January 12, 2025 10:33 am
If you’re anti Australian, anti-western, anti-Judeo-Christian, canbra will give you OPM. It’s the canbra way.
That may be so, but note I’m being specific here.
I’m drawing a connecting line between the inflammatory public statements of the imam’s council on Gaza, which are no doubt a reflection of what is taught in their mosques, and the vandalism of synagogues.
And to add insult to injury, we are subsidising them.
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Miltonf
January 12, 2025 10:36 am
Come to think of it, if you’re anti-mining, anti-industry, anti-agriculture, canbra will also give you OPM. Consider the EDO. A despicable, hateful parasite on the face of this fair land.
It could have happened in Australia too but a judge really punished the bastard muzzies:
Under the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW), Judge Finnane QC sentenced Mohammed to 32 years in prison for his involvement in the crimes. Bilal Skaf was sentenced to 55 years with a non-parole period of 40 years. At the time, this was the longest non-life sentence ever handed down in Australia.
Witness the stabbing of the Bishop. The congregation protected their own. How many have been charged? Almost all the men.
Yet, to date, not a single raghead has been done for the rioting and vandalism of the past fifteen months.
Miltonf
January 12, 2025 10:37 am
And to add insult to injury, we are subsidising them.
Which is why I regard taxation as theft and demanding money with menaces.
Sancho Panzer
January 12, 2025 10:43 am
On building practices, people build to save cost and, over time, develop styles which suit their climate.
We spent a bit of time in that area a few years ago and, whilst I wasn’t closely looking at building methods and materials, I have a vague memory of houses with slatted eaves, rather than solid infill (no doubt to help air flow in a warm climate).
Uh-oh.
In that same recent period the USD has been appreciating against the other currencies – but not against gold. But as I said because the USD is climbing against AUD, and gold is flat vs USD, that means our local AUD gold price is still climbing. Which should be good for our gold miners if Plibersek ever decides to let them like actually mine any of it.
I suspect the reason is Trump. The appreciation of the USD commenced about a week or so before the election, when it was starting to become clear that he might win. And that would be good for the dollar.
Likewise gold: it is a fear commodity. With Trump in the WH there would be much less fear sentiment, so traders would be swapping out from gold to the dollar and equities (in advance of expected tax cuts).
Not sure where this puts Warren Buffett, who has liquidated a lot of BH stock holdings and is currently sitting on a cash pile the size of Mt Everest.
(I look at the WSJ Markets page every morning since it isn’t paywalled and has a lot of good overview information in one convenient place. Worth bookmarking.)
No the US$ is going up, period.
The Aussie is flat compared to other currencies.
Eg the Euro (scroll down a bit for the chart).
Some currencies like CAN are rising vs AUD, but that has local political reasons like Trudy being booted.
It could have happened in Australia too but a judge really punished the bastard muzzies:
Under the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW), Judge Finnane QC sentenced Mohammed to 32 years in prison for his involvement in the crimes. Bilal Skaf was sentenced to 55 years with a non-parole period of 40 years.
It could definitely happen here.
Let’s not forget that they went after the prosecutor, Margaret Cuneen, for daring to point out the organised, culturally based racism which under-pinned these crimes.
I don’t know how someone like Bernard Gaynor keeps going when he doesn’t even have the resources of the Catholic church (not that Pell seemed to have them either) to back him.
His cause is just.
He gets a lot of support from people who donate to him.
…and while his religious beliefs give him a lot of support, his wife and family are treasures beyond compare.
For the record, Pell didn’t have church resources for his criminal defence and appeals. There were private donations from supporters (whom the loathsome Milligan vilified as p3do protectors), and I understand the process used up much of his family’s savings as well as his own.
“To those who would seek to take advantage of evacuated communities, let me be clear: looting will not be tolerated,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement on Thursday as he announced the 400-strong National Guard deployment, which takes the number of official personnel on the ground responding to the disaster to 8,000.
Sky managed to say that LA Mayor Karen Bass has been criticised, but for some strange reason they never call people like her “extreme left”.
That language is reserved for conservatives, who are always called “extreme right”.
If I have to choose between a tall, muscular, and fit white heterosexual man or a short, fat, lesbian of color to rescue me from a burning building, I would always prefer the latter because it is best to die knowing that you are an empathetic person who is an ally to fat lesbians of color. – All Suicidally Empathetic Degenerates
Two men are said to have been caught on camera dumping gasoline and setting it alight immediately before the devastating Palisades fire broke out, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively. A resident of the ritzy celeb-packed area reported the video to a senior firefighter once the flames had started consuming the area.
I haven’t seen anything about who those guys are yet. But yes another guy was caught lighting fires with an actual blow torch and was citizen arrested. The cops then let him go again.
In Wales, the Welsh Refugee Council is using 12-year-old girls in ads meant to entice migrant men to come to Wales. Most members of this council are from the Middle East, India and Pakistan.
This is child trafficking. The Welsh Refugee Council needs to be investigated for this video. They are literally willing to sacrifice children on the altar of Mass Immigration.
And some think I’m over the top for trying to alert others to the problem.
It’s OK, Makka. I realised what you meant when I scrolled down to your comment.
These nested posts are chronologically confusing.
I’d like to go back to the rolling comments.
Australia Post also “moves in mysterious ways” at times. Here I am in Sydney waiting for a delivery, and it has gone in the opposite direction – after arriving in Sydney! It’s now in the Central West somewhere.
Funny thing is a bought a tie from St Paul, Minnesota. (Blue madder silk – you can’t get that here) and I got it within 9 days.
At Mascot Airport in about four days, processed in the western suburbs of Sydney then to me.
Winston Smith
January 12, 2025 11:56 am
Special counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice Department after failing to successfully bring his cases against President-elect Donald Trump to trial.
Smith’s resignation comes as his office has engaged in last-minute legal wranglings to release its work against Trump before President Joe Biden leaves office. The resignation Saturday comes just nine days before Trump’s inauguration, after which Smith would likely be fired.
Kel
January 12, 2025 11:58 am
Prof Martin Marshall, the then chair of the Royal College of GPs, spoke in favour of rolling out the children’s Covid vaccine, saying there was “strong consensus” among doctors for this.
Prof Marshall failed to declare that the Royal College had previously received payments from Pfizer, the only pharmaceutical company at the time with a Covid vaccine authorised for use in children.
They all resign so they have ‘no access to that data’ and/or ‘I can’t recall’.
John Skerritt retired from the TGA soon after his woefully embarrassing first appearance at Senate Estimates. Self important ponce.
132andBush
January 12, 2025 12:01 pm
I’m drawing a connecting line between the inflammatory public statements of the imam’s council on Gaza, which are no doubt a reflection of what is taught in their mosques, and the vandalism of synagogues.
And to add insult to injury, we are subsidising them.
The words not quite said out loud when Albo meets the Imams;
“Give us more money or there’s no telling how bad our soldiers may be allowed to act”
Watch this amount increase.
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feelthebern
January 12, 2025 12:02 pm
I listened to Alice Weidel talk to Elon Musk yesterday, and her policies were all standard conservative common sense.
I didn’t listen to it.
I am sceptical re this bird.
Time will tell.
feelthebern
January 12, 2025 12:07 pm
Weidel not using the term Nazi and using National Socialist is smart politically.
And it needs to be repeated non-stop.
As I’ve said here before, alongside the atrocities of that regime, their economic policies also need to be studied.
They really were a pack of economic retards.
Flash, the magpie delinquent youth has taken these last two day to attacking my big toes.
He has on three seperate occasions delivered sudden, unprovoked and devastating pecks. Acting surprised and miffed and “What’s all the fuss about, man”, at my pain filled howl.
His other trick on his fellow gangsters is to pick an intriguing piece of foliage or litter, pick it up, fall over and pretend to be dead, sometimes with legs splayed dramatically skyward, and then when the other fellow approaches out of natural bird curiosity, wait until the victim is close enough and then bite him on the leg.
He tried this trick on the table with the bird bath on it, but he rolled too near the edge and fell off the table, landing on his back like an avian dork.
We all laughed at him and made fun of his stupidity. Stupid seagull.
It doesn’t report to a minister and is therefore independent. The US EPA pay for NGOs to sue them so that they can “settle” and have a judge make a new regulation which El Presidente or Congress can’t overturn.
“He who PAYS the piper “. Do you see the potential for corruption anywhere in this lot below? I hope this helps John.
Let’s see what chat Gpt says to the question of Govt funding for NGO’s;
Yes, NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) often receive government funding, though this depends on the country, the specific NGO, and its area of focus. Here are some details:
Types of Government Funding for NGOs:
Grants: Governments provide grants to NGOs to support initiatives aligned with their policies or to address specific social, economic, or environmental issues.
Contracts: NGOs might be contracted by governments to deliver services, such as healthcare, education, disaster relief, or social welfare programs.
Subsidies: Some NGOs receive subsidies to maintain their operations or fund specific projects.
Tax Incentives: Governments may offer tax benefits, such as exemptions or deductions, that indirectly support NGOs by encouraging private donations.
Conditions for Government Funding:
Alignment with Policies: NGOs typically need to align their objectives and projects with government priorities.
Transparency and Accountability: Governments usually require NGOs to maintain financial transparency and demonstrate the effective use of funds.
Regulatory Compliance: NGOs must comply with laws governing their registration, operations, and use of funds.
Concerns and Challenges:
Dependency Risk:Over-reliance on government funding might compromise an NGO’s independence
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Political Influence: There can be concerns about governments using funding as a tool to influence NGO activities.
Bureaucracy: Applying for and managing government funding often involves significant paperwork and compliance requirements.(Jobs for maaates?)
In summary, while many NGOs receive government funding, the availability and extent depend on factors like the NGO’s mission, the country’s policies, and the specific project or initiative in question.
Very few if any “NGOS” not in receipt of some government funding.
Sancho Panzer
January 12, 2025 12:42 pm
If an organisation is “government funded”, how can it be an NGO?
The acronym is meant to convey an impression of independence from Gummint. Truth is, most of their funding comes from Gummints, with the accompanying “understanding” of what needs to be done to secure the next round of funding.
Some of our largest trading partners are locked in with the US dollar, so we’ve fallen against some (not all) of these currencies. Against some others we’re at multi-year lows. The RMB is one example.
I’ve often wondered if the US actually has a trade deficit problem, or a “problem” with a capital account surplus. In other words the trade deficit is being driven people and entities dumping their capital in the US.
Buy dollars, wear diamonds was the old saying in trader land. 🙂
Ceres
January 12, 2025 12:55 pm
See NDIS ‘carers’ and their ‘clients’ every day in supermarket. Easy to pick. Most of the clients can walk better than me.
One on one is unaffordable Rolls Royce with $billions being lost in rorting.
FBI Director Chris Wray gave a farewell speech today. It was bland and delusional, of course, but this line is a worry: “I’ve had the privilege of personally handing badges and credentials to over 5,700 new agents—more than 40% of those on the job today”
Permanent (high security) water rights.
The state should have a strategic buy-back plan in place.
And they should look to develop a policy that reduces the value of those water rights (more dams, better collection & storage).
It’s not hard.
It’s totally wrong. Like our gas. Enough water/gas should be sequestered to meet all CA/Oz needs at a reasonable cost, before the sale of the commodity in private transaction.
Gas? How about NSW and Vic develop their own gas fields before demanding that Qld companies break their export contracts made after years and years of development, approvals and lawfare, just to give Qld gas to them.
I’m all for developing state gas. But the sequestering should still apply to ALL gas exporters of any state so that the whole country has MUCH cheaper energy. All Australians benefit from lower energy.
Why TF should Victorians pay for the Bruce Highway? Or Qld cyclone reparations? Same deal.
Who aid anything about give? Don’t you understand this? “at a reasonable cost”.
Qld taxpayers contributed to the Hume on both sides of the border, and the 20-30 billion spent on Pacific Highway upgrades . I also think we contributed something in bushfire relief as well.
I’m surprised the NEM has lasted this long. I guess it’s an overlay of a largely private sector oligopoly anyway. Only really Qld and Snowy Hydro as govt players left.
permanent nut tree plantations are the core of her holdings. The same thing is happening here with the companies in the almond industry. Huge money to buy secure water rights.
Dunno where Newsom could get money to build Olympic stuff anyway, since he’s so skint they were caught raiding the fire budget. Trump isn’t going to give him a cent.
Where will they hold the swimming events?
No money for water for the pool…
Rosie
January 12, 2025 1:17 pm
The delightful Skaf brothers.
Definitely deserving of having his sentence reduced; after all what sort of girl would get in a car with a stranger?
Apparently neither Skaf is the slightest bit repentant. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilal_Skaf
I thought it was hilarious when these douche nozzles thought they would be heroes in the jug – instead they copped the odd beating for bringing shame on the Lebanese community.
A very gutsy young lady named Tegan Wagner was the victim of one of these gangs. She wrote a book about her ordeal – she said the most enlightening aspect of the whole ordeal was the attitude of the sisters of these scumbags – “They must have been very loose. They came to our house unchaperoned, they were not covered, and they drank alcohol.”
I’m surprised he’s lived this long in gaol. Smug little shits like him have a rough time, I hear.
Rosie
January 12, 2025 1:21 pm
Watched an interesting short video on twitter, African American guy who said the odds of 3 lesbians being appointed to those positions was 64,000 to 1, in other words for all three to be there was double down DEI and that prioritising DEI takes millions away (just look at the salary for starters!) from fire fighting efficacy.
And so it came to pass.
It’s also plain old corruption, as is common in any socialist state.
JC
January 12, 2025 1:22 pm
Tickler Thanks for asking. It’s my son’s child. She’s been doing really well since June, with no signs of problems. The EEG shows a minor abnormality, but the neurologist said many people have abnormalities they’d never know about without testing. Still, the risk remains until she’s three, so there are two more years to go.
Tickler
Thanks for asking. It’s my son’s child. She’s been doing really well since June, with no signs of problems. The EEG shows a minor abnormality, but the neurologist said many people have abnormalities they’d never know about without testing. Still, the risk remains until she’s three, so there are two more years to go.
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Oops with that. Anyway, all the best.
A 5km walk ensues.
Black Ball
January 12, 2025 1:41 pm
In All Over It news, Daily Telegraph:
Authorities have labelled the spate of vandalism across two Sydney synagogues over the weekend as a “serious escalation” of anti-Semitic crime, after fire accelerant was used during an attack on Saturday.
Premier Chris Minns urged members of the community with information of the incidents to come forward after police received no response to CCTV footage identifying two people they would like to speak with after a dozen swastikas were painted on a synagogue in Allawah on Thursday.
“No one has come forward with information as to who that person is,” he said.
“That image is very clear, it did identify that individual and there is someone out there in the community today who knows who this person is and they have an obligation to report it to Crimestoppers or the NSW Police.
“This escalation is very concerning …. There is never any justification for this kind of racist, anti-Semitic targeted attacks on members of our community.”
The NSW Police counterterrorism unit is now leading the investigation under Strikeforce Pearl, alongside state crime command and local detectives.
Police Commissioner Karen Webb said police were currently investigating possible links between an attack on Newtown Synagogue on Friday night in which swastikas were painted on the building and a similar incident at Allawah the day before. Police are concerned the use of fire accelerant at the Newtown Synagogue marked a violent escalation of the spate of vandalism.
The information that we have in relation to the attack on the Newtown synagogue is that it is two people on push bikes. The information in relation to Allawah is that it is a male and a female,” Commissioner Webb said.
“We haven’t ruled out that they are connected.”
She said the fire burnt itself out after three minutes and did not badly damage the building.
Ms Webb said police were also investigating possible links between Friday’s attack on the Newtown Synagogue and a series of arson attacks on Jewish-affiliated businesses.
“We’re looking at some matters from late last year … in relation to some other arson attacks and we don’t know whether they’re linked,” she said.
“Certainly in arson attacks, generally there is an accelerant.”
NSW Police are also investigating the anti-Semitic vandalism of a home on Henry St in Queens Park, which also was painted with swastikas. Police are investigating whether this is related to the other attacks.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Saturday the culprits should “face the full force of the law”.
“The vile graffiti we’ve seen overnight, including at the Newtown synagogue, is abhorrent and needs to stop immediately. Australia is a better place than this,” he said.
The inaction by Minns, Gin Webb and of course the Prime Phuckwit has led to the escalation.
They can condemn all they like, but unless their comments come to real fruition, like jail or deportation like Meloni has undertaken, it rings hollow.
And FMD
“This escalation is very concerning …. There is never any justification for this kind of racist, anti-Semitic targeted attacks on members of our community.”
Bla bla bla…
Cue some call to ban paint.
Miltonf
January 12, 2025 1:46 pm
The only language these phukwits understand is a knuckle sandwich, the slammer or be pissed off out of Australia and never allowed to return. They just laugh at ‘pleading’ and ‘condemnation’.
Or should that be lack of water chief?
@LucasFoxNews
L.A.’s water chief makes $750k a year.
The president of the United States: $400k
@MikeBenzCyber
I’ve held off commenting on this publicly as it played thru the courts, but I feel compelled as the [TikTok] ban may now go thru to say it is likely to have an absolutely devastating impact on the ability of US diplomats to defend US social media companies operating in foreign countries.
@MikeBenzCyber
Here are the receipts on Meta bending to Biden government censorship demands because Meta had “bigger fish to fry” for its business interests than free speech issues and Meta needed the Biden government’s backing “on multiple policy fronts”
on a per litre basis, that’s awesome !
LA Descends Into Chaos as Looters Exploit Wildfires
From memory, there were riots and looting in Los Angeles, in either 1968 or 1970, and the Army was called in to keep the peace.
An “urban sniper” was being interviewed – yes, he shot at the police, the fire brigade and the National Guard, but “Shooting at the 82nd Airborne? Are you crazy, those dudes shoot back!”
My father used to tell me how during WWII looters were shot on sight.
Bring it back!
Jeju Air ‘black box’ data missing from last 4 minutes before crash that killed 179 people, South Korea ministry says
People will disagree. Mark Dice is the KING of media commentary.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Latest Move is Causing Liberal TOTAL MELTDOWN!
Taj Mahal, Agra, India
In the early seventeenth Shah Jahan so much loved his wife who died giving birth to their fourteenth child (note that he had other wives too) that he built a mausoleum in her memory and to honour her. This was the century that saw the English Civil War – a dynamic time. The heartbroken Shah spent twenty years and much treasure creating for this wife, as an eternal byre, a building of such poignant beauty that it still breaks hearts today, as it surely did mine. You cannot but be touched by its sense of romance and fancy, by the glowing white marble of which it is composed, by its minarets, domes and towers, and when closer, by the spiraling floral-inlay decoration of glue-set and polished semi-precious stones. Here in undying flowers are found shining mother-of-pearl, turquoise, blue lapis lazuli, jade, cornelian (a red stone that glows in the dark), green anthracite and black onyx. From tiny chips 20000 artists housed in a local village toiled for twenty years to create the intricate decorations for the splendid interior as well as thousands of others employing in carving out and erecting its marble walls and features.
What is more, I’ve always thought of it as an average tomb-sized building, because I’ve never seen it against people as a comparator; yet on first viewing it is overwhelmingly huge, especially when you see visitors against it. At the base and on the external walkway into the shrine, people seem like ants. It has the same visual emotional impact as the huge Christ the Redeemer that dominates over Rio.
Leading up to this shrine are long fountain pools surrounded by perfumed gardens and one well-placed seat that is now famous for those photographs of a disconsolate Princess Diana seated alone brooding over her failing marriage the Charles, Prince of Wales. Needless to say, in the crowds there that day, largely tourists from within India, there was a queue for your photograph to be taken alone on that seat with the Taj behind in all of its glory. For my turn, I tried to look pouting with unhappiness but couldn’t manage it. Too happy, I say to Hairy.
The next morning we are taken to a workshop where skilled artisans work now on making table tops and souvenirs utilising these same traditional techniques. In the village behind the Taj, over the river, there still live families maintaining this traditional skill; only 2000 people now know it, and their numbers are dwindling. Not surprising, because it is tremendously finnicky and difficult work, but reasonably paid and with some OHS applied now. We purchased a marble table top and marble latticed base to be shipped home, as our memento of this romantic place, as did three other couples in our small tour group. Future antiques, we tell each other, falling for it all, we of the spending generation. Hairy and I didn’t take the tour of the village starting early the next morning. Our American Trump supporting friend stayed away too. I hate to see poverty turned into a zoo, she said, rather as we thought too. There’s enough on the roadsides and in the old towns without having to make a display and tourist feature of it. Some of our purchase price does go to the workers, so we thought that a good contribution.
Forgot to mention that this Shah had a son who killed all brothers who might succeed him, took the Peacock Throne, and imprisoned his father in the great palatial ‘Red Fort’ and palace we visited before the Taj Mahal. There Shah Jahan could view his beloved’s mausoleum from a beautiful set of rooms and gardens. The view over the river to the Taj in the early morning mist was quite magical, such that Jahan opted to be buried there next to his true love, in the Taj. It is said that this usurping son was so hopeless a ruler that he began the steep decline of the Mogul Empire that followed.
Today’s busy tourist ruined Taj interior for Hairy, who recalls almost no-one else there in his visit in 1975 with his first wife For us now, endlessly shouting Indians jostling each other were a distraction, as were the police whistles which the military in full camo gear used to keep the crowd moving. Re crowd control at these intensely protected sites, entry to them in India is often streamed into ‘tourists’, ‘Indian Ladies’ and ‘Indian Gentlemen’. I think this is because in long packed queues the sexual harassment of Indian women by Indian men was severe.
This is also the fort where later a British general killed in the 1857 mutiny was buried, his impressive grave site is still as it was under the British, prominently displayed in the parade ground.
That son was Aurangazeb. He was a zealot. His reign was the beginning of the end of the Mughals.
Thank you Lizzie.
This is the kind of travelogue I like, never had the desire to go to India but it is a fascinating place, to learn about it vicariously is great.
PS, that goes for the reports from Gilas as well, sorry if I miss anyone else.
Week In Pictures.
From the fight fire with fire dept…
BREAKING: Former Labour MP Ivor Caplin, who criticized Elon Musk on British TV last week for his remarks about Keir Starmer, has been arrested following a sting operation by citizen pedophile hunters.
Caplin allegedly attempted to arrange a meeting with a 15-year-old boy.
Former Hove MP arrested – Brighton and Hove News
Citizen pedophile hunters. Try putting that on your tax return.
You cannot make this stuff up.
No surprise that it’s in Brighton.
Better link to the Ivor Caplin arrest story showing the ‘who me’ face
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/32746797/former-labour-mp-arrested/
From the article:
In June 2024 Caplin was suspended from the Labour Party over undisclosed serious allegations, which he denies.
Well well well, what say these allegations?
I certainly hope the KGB/GRU/FSS didn’t know of his supposed interest in young-boys-under-the-age-of-consent leanings.
That would be quite a feather in their cap – The Minister for Defence on their payroll.
Very Mandy Rice Davies.
Greg Gutfeld on the left’s hoax matrix going down!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MpihOuk1ps
When a major fire breaks out in an urban or city environment it is quite common for a pumper or two to tap in a block or so away from the scene in order to “boost” the mains and therefor provide more than enough water to the units actually fighting the fire. In other words a single fire fighting effort can severely degrade local water pressure/flow rate.
I’ve been wondering about this “LA hydrants running dry” thing for a few days thinking something else could be at play.
As if the draw on the system wouldn’t be huge enough with the dozens of pumper units they use it appears another very significant factor was having an effect.
A crew chief I saw interviewed on a news report last night was lamenting that nearly all the houses are equipped with their own indoor sprinkler system, which is useless against fire from the outside but when house after house etc go up and all these sprinkler systems activate at full flow it bled critical flow out of the mains. The system was overwhelmed.
It also explains all the water you see running down driveways from most destroyed houses.
Ive yet to see an Aussie style external sprinkler system powered by a diesel pump and fed from the ubiquitous swimming pools. I also wonder why the LAFD trucks didnt draft from said swimming pools, do they not have the capability to do that? All aussie bush trucks do.
My mate did duk. His was fed from a dam. Misting system over the whole house. When it was operating you could hardly see the house. His house had previously burnt down.
We lost our retirement property to a fire some years ago. When we rebuilt, yes, there was a rooftop sprinkler system, fed by a dedicated tank with a backup generator. Like your mate, when it’s operating, you can barely see the house.
I’ve thought that as well.
A few key things between here and there that would make a lot of difference.
That’s such an obvious flaw in the system, you’d have to wonder how it got through the licencing process.
Unless of course the DEI hire was involved.
You might not be allowed a diesel generator under California emissions law. My mate in the UK imported a marine diesel with low hours for a 60 foot ex lifeboat that had been made illegal in the US around the mid 90s. Importing whole boats was economic for a while around the peak of the GFC I believe but not for long.
Looks like Fluffy needs to check in with RFK Jr. for advice about the American Diet.
Over in Airstrip One, the dying media have been working hard to pretend nothing never happened. In 2024 the BBC aired ‘Liar: The Fake Grooming Scandal’ and only last week Channel 4 launched a three parter on the same case.
Meanwhile, at the blog where no on reads the comments, they’ve been having a bit of a look.
From the link:
The scab is barely lifted on this scandal, and it has all the appearance of going all the way to the bone.
Did these news outlets highlight other fake accusations in the past?
If not why not?
They are complicit.
Fake allegations against Christian clergy, for example?
Exactly, BJ.
@MrWinMarshall
You can’t make this shit up
A week ago Former Labour Minister Ivor Caplin was on TV lambasting @elonmusk about mean tweets
Today he has been arrested after he allegedly attempted to meet a 15 year old boy during a sting operation by a Facebook paedophile hunters group
See my comment upstairs:
What is it with Labour/Labor and p3dophilia???
Is it a prerequisite for membership?
Maybe it is how they control any dissent??
How is this short of torture?
@OKPrayinPatriot
As I sit here in Oklahoma watching the snow fall outside my windows, I can’t help but think about the horrible treatment my husband and other January 6 defendants have received from the Bureau of Prisons, the D.C. Jail, and various facilities across the country.
My husband has not seen sunlight in months; he has had only about ten hours of sunlight in the past eight months. He is in a prison where the temperatures in the cells in the morning are around 45 to 50 degrees. In other facilities, the heat is unbearable and makes the detainees feel sick. Sparse communication is the norm. Constant lockdowns are as well.
My husband suffers from severe PTSD from his combat service, severe depressive disorder, and several other ailments. He is a 100% permanently disabled combat veteran, fully service-connected. He honorably fought for this country, earning many awards for his valor in combat. Now, he is rotting in a prison cell without proper mental health treatment or care for his physical ailments sustained from combat. He cannot receive the therapy, counseling, or medication he needs to help improve his mental or physical state. No reasonable accommodations are made for him.
Do you know what a lack of sunlight does to someone with PTSD and severe depressive disorder? It’s devastating! To make matters worse, he has no quiet; he is bunked with another inmate, and at times the noise and chaos is completely unbearable.
What the January 6 defendants have endured at the hands of the Biden administration, the weaponized FBI, the DOJ, and the January 6 Unselect Committee is horrific and should never have happened!
January 6, 2021, was not the insurrection—November 3, 2020, was. The Democrats stole an election and caused a riot on January 6 at the instruction of Pelosi and Milley, among others, to cover it up so they could certify a largely contested election.
Joe Biden is an illegitimate president, and everything he has done while in office deserves to be closely examined and likely overturned.
All charges against the January 6 defendants should be dropped; they all deserve pardons and compensation for the hell they have endured since January 6, 2021.
Nothing can completely fix the fallout from January 6 for the families affected—no amount of time can return what has been lost: relationships, celebrations, funerals, and goodbyes that never happened.
Finances have been destroyed. SSDI Benefits lost. Retirements lost. Careers and businesses have been lost and may never be able to be regained. People have lost their homes. The defamation and the smear campaigns that have damaged their images forever will haunt them.
However, one thing that can begin the healing process is releasing the January 6 detainees on day one. Let my people go; let them start to rebuild their lives.
Some have families and homes to return to; others, sadly, do not. Some have children they have never met or who they haven’t seen in months—years for many. Every case is unique, but all are devastating in their own way.
@realDonaldTrump, as a wife of a January 6 hostage, I urge you to release ALL January 6 detainees on day one.
Issue pardons of innocence, just as you did for @GenFlynn, to all January 6 defendants. Please don’t leave any behind. All are victims of a weaponized government.
Free the January 6 hostages so our country can begin to heal. Our families can only start to mend with your help. We cannot do it without you.
We are counting on you, sir.
Allow the J6 prisoners to sue the committee members and Democrats personally, as well as them being charged and imprisoned.
Justice to be served.
@Texasbrn
Palisades fire is approaching Brentwood California.
@DC_Draino
Map Time: These fires aren’t caused by “climate change”
Anyone with a functioning brain can see these LA fires are being started by arsonists in separate locations
@KarluskaP
Greenland Prime Minister says he’s ready to speak with Trump
Not to mention that they’re promising to fully compensate losses while they not only ignored North Carolina but actively worked to block local help.
@AdrianneCurry
Have you all noticed the news coverage of North Carolina was almost non-existent in comparison to Los Angeles? The government hardly cared. Los Angeles all over the news and Biden personally goes out there immediately?
Night and day the response from the press and Biden.
Fauci is on record in 2008 saying that hydroxychloroquine (then chloroquine) was effective against corona viruses.
@CreasonJana
PFIZER JUST RELEASED ITS LIST OF SIDE EFFECTS OF ITS “C-Shot”
Blood thrombosis,
Acute kidney injury,
Acute flaccid myelitis,
Positive antisperm antibodies,
Brainstem embolism,
Brainstem thrombosis,
Cardiac arrest (hundreds of cases),
Heart failure,
Cardiac ventricular thrombosis,
Cardiogenic shock,
Central nervous system vasculitis,
Neonatal death,
Deep vein thrombosis,
Brainstem encephalitis,
Hemorrhagic encephalitis,
Frontal lobe epilepsy,
Foaming at the mouth,
Epileptic psychosis,
Facial paralysis,
Fetal distress syndrome,
Gastrointestinal amyloidosis,
Generalized tonic-clonic seizure,
Hashimoto’s encephalopathy,
Hepatic vascular thrombosis,
Herpes zoster reactivation,
Hepatitis Immune-mediated,
Interstitial lung disease,
Jugular vein embolism,
Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy,
Liver damage,
Low birth weight,
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children,
Myocarditis,
Neonatal seizure,
Pancreatitis,
Pneumonia,
Stillbirth,
Tachycardia,
Temporal lobe epilepsy,
Testicular autoimmunity,
Thrombotic stroke,
Type 1 diabetes mellitus,
Neonatal venous thrombosis,
Vertebral artery thrombosis,
Pericarditis,
Sudden death…
Note … Fauci got the emergency distribution order because “he” told Trump there was NO OTHER medical treatment available to handle the virus.
Ivermectin was one of the cures (and Fauci knew this) … that’s why he told the media to say ivermectin was only a horse medicine.
I’m hoping that knowledge is a loophole families can use to sue him and his team.
Perhaps I’m doing it wrong, but searching judiciary.uk for more on UK Labour’s favoured cultural enrichers isn’t working out too well.
However I have occasionally stumbled upon species which should never be imported.
His oldest daughter didn’t want to carry on the family tradition.
You can guess the rest.
@catturd2
LMAO … Facebook literally permanently suspended our podcast account for saying the exact same thing.
And Zuckerberg proudly did it to millions of accounts and spent over 400 million to interfere in the 2020 election.
He’s a snake – he should be arrested and thrown into prison, not celebrated.
Puke making how you can have a ‘degree’ in journalism to pontificate about automobiles but don’t need to be a mechanic or an engineer. That’s the FMIC for you.
Another parting Biden blow to American families: A war on water heaters
While California Burns, Dems Hold Special Session Protecting Illegal Alien Criminals
Media continue to refer to conservatives as “far right” or worse.
I listened to Alice Weidel talk to Elon Musk yesterday, and her policies were all standard conservative common sense. This doesn’t matter to either the legacy media or the rent-a-crowd with nose rings that have gathered to protest in Germany.
The Cost of Facebook’s Now-Repudiated Censorship
United States Is Crippling Itself With Climate Change Regulations, China Is Not
Oh dear.
How sad.
Anyway
Further to the attack on Newtown Synagogue in the early hours of Saturday morning, the NSWaffen Plod have now released the following…
On Saturday evening NSW Police released four images of two individuals they believe may be able to assist with the investigation.
“Police have released CCTV images after offensive graffiti was sprayed on a synagogue in Sydney’s Inner West this morning, during which police believe an arson attempt was also made,” the force said in a statement.
“Initial inquiries have led police to believe two people attended the synagogue around 4.25am today.”
Yesterday morning, in the hours after the Newtown Synagogue attack and the Queens Park vandalism, Pretty Boy Minns said the acts were “monstrous and appalling”. Gosh, you don’t say, Pretty Boy Minns!
The clock is ticking, and it is only a matter of time until some Jews are physically harmed.
All that pretty talk by Pretty Boy Minns isn’t deterring any of the attacks, is it?
The Oz is reporting…….
Peter Dutton says the election of a Coalition government this year will be the ‘last chance’ to reverse the economic and social decline of Australia, as he begins his campaigning in 2025 in the Melbourne seat of Chisholm.
Dutton is correct. The reelection of the slug of Grayndler and his merry Jew hating sidekicks will simply embolden the Muslim and leftist Nazis.
When it comes to free speech Dutton is a windsock.
?
Yes he is. I don’t trust Dutton with free speech. He was fully behind Scummo and Andrews during covid. He’s just another fkg cop.
Not seeing many arrests in these cases.
Too busy chasing Assryian Christians in western Sydney.
Dutton needs to lft his game about 500 percent.Cant even get Qld Libs on board with nu c lear
Piers Akerman:
A Palestinian envoy? Who seems to enjoy the murder of Israeli citizens saying that the human shields guarding the scum of humanity in Hamas shouldn’t be touched? Wong Chap should be putting him out of Australia.
As for the imams, deport them immediately.
Pinochet Airlines has cheap seats available.
Has anyone noticed that in the aftermath rubble of the California fires there is not a brick in sight? It seems all their construction is made up of wood and other flammable materials. Perhaps if they used bricks and terracotta or concrete roof tiles their buildings might withstand fire a lot better.
When visiting Canada some years ago I saw a new subdivision in the process of construction. All the outside walls were three layers of wooden boards, the outer skin, the middle skin and the inner skin. I expect that was to provide insulation for the cold winter temperatures.
Earthquake risk
In Canada it’s a good material to cope with the freeze/thaw cycle of the soil. Hard to find brick or stone houses in Siberia.
There’s no linkage here with UAE or Turkey ,dover. Perhaps this passes your rigorous regime test of validity.
From a Brit Pakistani. A thread. It’s been going on for over 20 years.
https://x.com/kashmiricanibal/status/1877789152592249223
Please don’t wind up Dover. That’s JC’s job.
But wood, having a bit of flexibility, is better suited to earthquake zones.
Which is why most houses in NZ are made of wood.
Also why they prefer trucks over trains…
Piers Akerman:
I watched Albo also say that these acts of anti-semitism should not be tolerated. I caught the qualification straight away, he did not say it will not be tolerated. Right there he announced that his government will do nothing about it. Not a single journalist in that gaggle around him was smart enough to pick up the distinction.
They picked it up alright and agreed with him. Lying by omission.
Perhaps he’s hoping for some vigilante pay back seeing as the Waffen and judges plus Labor don’t give a cr#p. The longer this rubbish goes on without government intervention to stamp it out leaves a very very dangerous and possibly explosive situation.
Black Ball:
If they are an Imam, and have taken out Australian citizenship, they have either denounced their Sharia vows, or the oath to the Queen/King.
Therefore their Australian citizenship can be cancelled.
It’s time this happened if the videos of their exhortations to destroy our system of government are true.
Then deport them.
Honeypot attracts bees and bears…
Cops called in as NDIS loses billions more to frauds, overcharging (Tele, paywalled)
Weird how this happens. I wonder how many of the preps will turn out to be special people with no describable cultural practices?
I notice or more correctly do not notice when it comes to the rorted billions in the past, there is a distinct lack of recovering of money. Childcare scam in Sydney West, comes to mind, families involved, prosecutions apparently, then nothing. Are these people having their homes confiscated as proceeds of crime or as they are members of that select group of random lone wolves who aren’t very lonely at all and have extensive backing from rest of the spontaneous splodey bits cult.
Has anyone noticed that in the aftermath rubble of the California fires there is not a brick in sight? It seems all their construction is made up of wood and other flammable materials.
Earthquakes, but I noticed that many even fancy US houses not in earthquake zones had all the structural rigidity and weight of temporary movie sets.
German and Swiss houses are built like bunkers.
Makka:
https://x.com/kashmiricanibal/status/1877790047036146157
This thread is supposed to be 20+ years old.
But it still says “The problem is not with Pakistani men, it is a small group of men who just happen to be Pakistani.”
The unspoken message is “Most Pakistani men are innocent – just a few bad apples.”
I call bullshit. Entire families know of this – they are all implicit.
It’s designed to suck in the gullible and stupid – something that is NOT in short supply in the West, and especially among the rich and powerful who are rarely exposed to the duplicity of Islam.
No, the thread details events going back over 20 years.
There are admissions in there that cover all levels of Govt and both Tory and Labour Govts.
I agree, parts are an arse covering exercise. To me that’s irrelevant. The significant info IMO ( various criminal high level Police officers, the corrupt CPS, media censorship of the crimes, companies owned/operated by moslem groomers and with Govt funding etc) and how long it’s been going on for are the real issues.
There’s no harm looking into alternative POV, to FAFO. We may learn something.
Fair enough – I misread your post.
Doesn’t make much much difference in the long run.
That thread contains a lot of information, historical and recent.
Here is another example of Govt funding via NGO used to attract shithole p3dos;
https://x.com/UltraDane/status/1878104693056078193/video/1
This is a cop out. A furfy. Islam has been growing in the UK since the 60’s. Nothing new here. What we are witnessing is the UK establishment (with FULL knowledge of the evils of Islam) perpetrating an organised capitulation over recent decades and in real time for the sake of votes, careers, power and sheer greed. The utter betrayal of the British race. The establishment was fomenting the same kind of capitulation in the 30’s to Hitler. This time they have largely succeeded.
Yes. That’s what I said.
The duplicity is there for a reason – so those who benefit from the lies get a cover for their own duplicity.
No you didn’t. You inferred the rich establishment has been ignorant and gullible.
I’m saying that’s BS. The establishment (rich and powerful) know exactly what they are doing and why. The Establishment is NOT being duped by taqqiya. They are perpetrating this betrayal with full knowledge of islam.
They thought they had control of Govts and media.They have been using demographics and social engineering over decades (via Labour and Tory)to fortify their place at the apex of the Brit class system – The Establishment.
It’s all came undone with Reform, X -Elon Musk (Trump) and Robinson. We are seeing now a maelstrom of media and information chaos as exposure rolls on. No idea how this pans out. But I suspect once President, Trump will have much more to say about Starmer’s attempt at interference in US elections.
Experts say when you factor in ‘hidden costs’ of intermittent wind power, Trump is right about costs
U.K. ‘Grooming Gangs’ Scandal Could Happen In The U.S. Thanks To Leftist Justice System
Trump starts governing early from his Palm Beach shadow White House, creating significant impact
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/3d-chess-heres-obvious-reason-why-president-trump/
Would that work?
Depopulation: A Space Odyssey
Faults along LA’s power grid surged in the same location where California wildfires ignited: report
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/pure-evil-joe-bidens-fema-forces-2000-hurricane/
And yet the coffers are being opened for the millionaires of Los Angeles!
The LA millionaires provide money to, and reliably vote, DemonRat.
So the peelers can count eh? That’s positive step forward.
And tell time, the big hand is just going past Noddy’s foot.
No.
It is as high as they can count.
There could have been a hundred people and they would have reported only two.
Is the RC Bishop’s Conference likewise subsidised by the taxpayer?
The Anglican bishops?
The Australian Christan Churches (Pentecostals)?
If the rationale for this singularly generous funding is to get the imams on-side with the government’s calls for social cohesion it’s not working. They’ve not spoken out once about antisemitism. They have, however, called the Israeli actions in Gaza a holocaust. That might conceivably lead some hotheads to feel justified in daubing synagogues with swastikas.
Australia may be ostensibly ‘Christian’, but it is officially a secular society. Funding of religions (any religions) should not be allowed.
That’s not the point.
If you’re anti Australian, anti-western, anti-Judeo-Christian, canbra will give you OPM. It’s the canbra way.
That may be so, but note I’m being specific here.
I’m drawing a connecting line between the inflammatory public statements of the imam’s council on Gaza, which are no doubt a reflection of what is taught in their mosques, and the vandalism of synagogues.
And to add insult to injury, we are subsidising them.
Come to think of it, if you’re anti-mining, anti-industry, anti-agriculture, canbra will also give you OPM. Consider the EDO. A despicable, hateful parasite on the face of this fair land.
Indolent
January 12, 2025 10:01 am
U.K. ‘Grooming Gangs’ Scandal Could Happen In The U.S. Thanks To Leftist Justice System
It could have happened in Australia too but a judge really punished the bastard muzzies:
Under the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW), Judge Finnane QC sentenced Mohammed to 32 years in prison for his involvement in the crimes. Bilal Skaf was sentenced to 55 years with a non-parole period of 40 years. At the time, this was the longest non-life sentence ever handed down in Australia.
skafcasespdf
However, under rub and tug and the liars’ dependence on the muzzie vote another outbreak of culturally based rape may get a more lenient treatment.
Wasn’t Mohammed Skaf released on parole a couple of years ago?
It’s in the link. The skaf gang really hated Australian and non-muslim women.
I suspect the Skaf case and the so-called Cronulla riots (actually a reaction to Mooslime provocations) caused a few to back off around that time.
Unfortunately, the actions of AnAl and Co are now encouraging the kinds of events occurring in the UK and elsewhere.
Witness the stabbing of the Bishop. The congregation protected their own. How many have been charged? Almost all the men.
Yet, to date, not a single raghead has been done for the rioting and vandalism of the past fifteen months.
And to add insult to injury, we are subsidising them.
Which is why I regard taxation as theft and demanding money with menaces.
On building practices, people build to save cost and, over time, develop styles which suit their climate.
We spent a bit of time in that area a few years ago and, whilst I wasn’t closely looking at building methods and materials, I have a vague memory of houses with slatted eaves, rather than solid infill (no doubt to help air flow in a warm climate).
Uh-oh.
Missing it
bwahahahahaha
That doesn’t look healthy:
FX RATE 0.6121
Gold $4,404.11
USD is rising against everyone else.
U.S. Dollar Index (DXY)
Pick the 3m option on the graph, you’ll see what I mean. So it isn’t our dollar falling it is the USD going up.
Except Gold and BTC. For the moment.
Gold is priced in USD, so the AUD gold price goes up in tandem with the USD.
Gold has gone up substantially in USD. Which I made clear.
Gold can be priced in any currency.
It did but now it’s plateaued in the last few months (click on the 1Y tab).
In that same recent period the USD has been appreciating against the other currencies – but not against gold. But as I said because the USD is climbing against AUD, and gold is flat vs USD, that means our local AUD gold price is still climbing. Which should be good for our gold miners if Plibersek ever decides to let them like actually mine any of it.
Geez Bruce, NOTHING goes up in a straight line, except Govt debt perhaps. IMO we will see US$3000+.
I suspect the reason is Trump. The appreciation of the USD commenced about a week or so before the election, when it was starting to become clear that he might win. And that would be good for the dollar.
Likewise gold: it is a fear commodity. With Trump in the WH there would be much less fear sentiment, so traders would be swapping out from gold to the dollar and equities (in advance of expected tax cuts).
Not sure where this puts Warren Buffett, who has liquidated a lot of BH stock holdings and is currently sitting on a cash pile the size of Mt Everest.
(I look at the WSJ Markets page every morning since it isn’t paywalled and has a lot of good overview information in one convenient place. Worth bookmarking.)
Yes.
I quoted the gold price in A$. Obviously.
If it were US$4404, we’d be in more strife than Hanrahan – in fact we’d be roooned.
Yes.
The US$ is going up.
The A$ is going down.
The gold price is going up in response to the differential in prices.
No the US$ is going up, period.
The Aussie is flat compared to other currencies.
Eg the Euro (scroll down a bit for the chart).
Some currencies like CAN are rising vs AUD, but that has local political reasons like Trudy being booted.
It could definitely happen here.
Let’s not forget that they went after the prosecutor, Margaret Cuneen, for daring to point out the organised, culturally based racism which under-pinned these crimes.
Cunneen, like Pell, was fortunate to have the legal firepower to fight back. Many others are not so fortunate.
I don’t know how someone like Bernard Gaynor keeps going when he doesn’t even have the resources of the Catholic church (not that Pell seemed to have them either) to back him.
His cause is just.
He gets a lot of support from people who donate to him.
…and while his religious beliefs give him a lot of support, his wife and family are treasures beyond compare.
For the record, Pell didn’t have church resources for his criminal defence and appeals. There were private donations from supporters (whom the loathsome Milligan vilified as p3do protectors), and I understand the process used up much of his family’s savings as well as his own.
Last work I saw of 7-Nilligan was a “shock expose” of posh school in Sydney, Cranbrook.
Lame as, and ended up making me like the rich smart-arse boys that attend. Sam Konstas is a recent alumnus
Just wondering if you can loot to the value of $950?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/know-california-retail-theft-property-153000449.html
“To those who would seek to take advantage of evacuated communities, let me be clear: looting will not be tolerated,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement on Thursday as he announced the 400-strong National Guard deployment, which takes the number of official personnel on the ground responding to the disaster to 8,000.
Looting in LA brings National Guard onto streets amid wildfires | The Independent
Sh*t for brains
Sky managed to say that LA Mayor Karen Bass has been criticised, but for some strange reason they never call people like her “extreme left”.
That language is reserved for conservatives, who are always called “extreme right”.
She’s an actual revolutionary Marxist who has visited Cuba dozens of times.
Mayor Karen Bass, Revolutionary Communist (9 Jan)
Given that Cuba is an absolute basket case it’s no surprise she is so incompetent as mayor of Los Angeles.
Gaad sums it up nicely;
@GadSaad
When the extreme left becomes the centre, the right can only be extreme.
It’s probably out there somewhere.
However, I have yet to see a claim (or claims) that the LA fires were caused by Direct! Energy! Weapons! Obviously!
Also waiting for the now-standard 1000 missing children.
Direct Energy = flame thrower.
Actually gasoline and a match.
Firefighter reveals two men were caught on camera lighting fire just before Palisades blaze erupted in LA (11 Jan)
I haven’t seen anything about who those guys are yet. But yes another guy was caught lighting fires with an actual blow torch and was citizen arrested. The cops then let him go again.
They made the mistake of calling the cops instead of throwing him on a fire.
It pays to be humble, as we have seen over recent years;
Conspiracy Theorists: 9,382 (approx)
vs
Nothing to see here MSM : Zero.
It is indeed. Stew Peters discussed on a podcast
Why would they protect their posts?
Oh.
The long form of Lotocoti’s Post:
https://x.com/CilComLFC/status/1878137821443072396
And some think I’m over the top for trying to alert others to the problem.
It looks like those girls are using mobile phones to film and without permission from the school.
I fear for them.
It’s a Govt funded NGO. I posted the link to this upthread at 11.06 Permission has been granted.
The NGO (Govt funded) is using images of pre-pubescent girls to attract p3dos from shitholes to immigrate to the UK.
Why are you trying to deflect from the responsibility of the Welsh Refugee Council ?
They put the advertisement up, not the girls.
I’m not. Read what I wrote. The NGO IS the Welsh Refugee Council.
I also clearly stated the NGO is Govt funded.
Stop twisting my words and fkg read what I have written before insinuating more of your bullshit.
Winston, I withdraw this comment. Yours was directed to Bespoke, not me. Apologies.
It’s OK, Makka. I realised what you meant when I scrolled down to your comment.
These nested posts are chronologically confusing.
I’d like to go back to the rolling comments.
Makka, my remark was directed to Bespoke. Not you.
I’m not.
FMD
That is some sick sh*t!
The sickest!
Australia Post also “moves in mysterious ways” at times. Here I am in Sydney waiting for a delivery, and it has gone in the opposite direction – after arriving in Sydney! It’s now in the Central West somewhere.
It’s got to the point when online shopping if it says shipping by Australia Post I buy elsewhere.
Business as usual
I ordered a bottle of Sake from a place in Sydney near Glebe.
it still went via Broadmeadows in Vicco.
had I known I would have just driven over the bridge.
instead it took a week.
Funny thing is a bought a tie from St Paul, Minnesota. (Blue madder silk – you can’t get that here) and I got it within 9 days.
At Mascot Airport in about four days, processed in the western suburbs of Sydney then to me.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/11/final-humiliation-jack-smith-resigns-justice-department-empty-handed/
Prof Martin Marshall, the then chair of the Royal College of GPs, spoke in favour of rolling out the children’s Covid vaccine, saying there was “strong consensus” among doctors for this.
Prof Marshall failed to declare that the Royal College had previously received payments from Pfizer, the only pharmaceutical company at the time with a Covid vaccine authorised for use in children.
https://x.com/camillahmturner/status/1878125296982872454
The good professor needs to show us who these doctors are because I detect a whole big heap of bullshit from compromised practitioners.
Buckley’s and none.
They all resign so they have ‘no access to that data’ and/or ‘I can’t recall’.
John Skerritt retired from the TGA soon after his woefully embarrassing first appearance at Senate Estimates. Self important ponce.
The words not quite said out loud when Albo meets the Imams;
“Give us more money or there’s no telling how bad our soldiers may be allowed to act”
Watch this amount increase.
I listened to Alice Weidel talk to Elon Musk yesterday, and her policies were all standard conservative common sense.
I didn’t listen to it.
I am sceptical re this bird.
Time will tell.
Weidel not using the term Nazi and using National Socialist is smart politically.
And it needs to be repeated non-stop.
As I’ve said here before, alongside the atrocities of that regime, their economic policies also need to be studied.
They really were a pack of economic retards.
Flash, the magpie delinquent youth has taken these last two day to attacking my big toes.
He has on three seperate occasions delivered sudden, unprovoked and devastating pecks. Acting surprised and miffed and “What’s all the fuss about, man”, at my pain filled howl.
His other trick on his fellow gangsters is to pick an intriguing piece of foliage or litter, pick it up, fall over and pretend to be dead, sometimes with legs splayed dramatically skyward, and then when the other fellow approaches out of natural bird curiosity, wait until the victim is close enough and then bite him on the leg.
He tried this trick on the table with the bird bath on it, but he rolled too near the edge and fell off the table, landing on his back like an avian dork.
We all laughed at him and made fun of his stupidity. Stupid seagull.
Wait ’til the family visits. Magpies are so much fun.
The family.
Don’t get me started on that soap opera.
Lol!
One of the young magpies at the Cafe has decided she likes plucking the hair from my legs. I should sell her to a beauty salon.
Anyone see the problem with this?
Precip 20% ???
Do I get the cigar?
I give up!
No, even if it’s staring me in the face, I can’t.
No probs BB, thats an accurate weather forecast by BoM. Not accurate with reality but with BoM.
If an organisation is “government funded”, how can it be an NGO?
He who pays the piper, in this case may be calling the tune.
It doesn’t report to a minister and is therefore independent. The US EPA pay for NGOs to sue them so that they can “settle” and have a judge make a new regulation which El Presidente or Congress can’t overturn.
“He who PAYS the piper “. Do you see the potential for corruption anywhere in this lot below? I hope this helps John.
Let’s see what chat Gpt says to the question of Govt funding for NGO’s;
So corrupt organisations and governments scratching each others backs?
Yes, but how do you get rid of them?
Very few if any “NGOS” not in receipt of some government funding.
The acronym is meant to convey an impression of independence from Gummint.
Truth is, most of their funding comes from Gummints, with the accompanying “understanding” of what needs to be done to secure the next round of funding.
Yes, totally deceptive. NGO’s a very fertile territory to place maaaates on exorbitant salaries.
This. A dumping ground, particularly at State level.
They become QUANGOs without the legislation.
Some of our largest trading partners are locked in with the US dollar, so we’ve fallen against some (not all) of these currencies. Against some others we’re at multi-year lows. The RMB is one example.
Largest trading partners.
I’ve often wondered if the US actually has a trade deficit problem, or a “problem” with a capital account surplus. In other words the trade deficit is being driven people and entities dumping their capital in the US.
Buy dollars, wear diamonds was the old saying in trader land. 🙂
See NDIS ‘carers’ and their ‘clients’ every day in supermarket. Easy to pick. Most of the clients can walk better than me.
One on one is unaffordable Rolls Royce with $billions being lost in rorting.
It’s not uncommon to see a family member or two with them as well.
So why can’t the family member take them shopping?
As was the case for all history until Gillard’s backers had an idea…..
I certainly regret selling my US shares (due to unemployment and need to relocate)- at least I’ve held onto some.
I think TLS learnt about the Cloward-Piven strategy somewhere along the way.
Probably kindergarten.
De Santis truth bombs the US H-1B Visa program;
https://x.com/RealSaavedra/status/1877110352292233417
The fires will shave a few decimal points off US GDP, I would imagine.
JC, how is your daughters little one going?
Is the rough patch over?
All the best.
Unless there’s a recall, it’s a long way away but I’d like to have a few dollars on Nicole Shanahan being the next governor of California.
Trump caused the tech money to split.
Shanahan would get every tech dollar.
@mirandadevine
FBI Director Chris Wray gave a farewell speech today. It was bland and delusional, of course, but this line is a worry: “I’ve had the privilege of personally handing badges and credentials to over 5,700 new agents—more than 40% of those on the job today”
Fed Scientist Rejects ‘Climate Change’ as Fueling L.A. Fires, as Arson Reports Surface
LA Times owner’s stark message to voters as he attacks Democrat incompetence over deadly fires: Live updates
How is this allowed or even possible?
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1878257984167612435
Permanent (high security) water rights.
The state should have a strategic buy-back plan in place.
And they should look to develop a policy that reduces the value of those water rights (more dams, better collection & storage).
It’s not hard.
It’s totally wrong. Like our gas. Enough water/gas should be sequestered to meet all CA/Oz needs at a reasonable cost, before the sale of the commodity in private transaction.
Yes, and it dates back to the late 40’s.
So now California has to unwind it.
Any energy permits granted by Australia or its states should include 10-20% for domestic usage.
As long as it isn’t NSW and Vic demanding Qld gas. Qld doesn’t actually need domestic reservation.
Gas? How about NSW and Vic develop their own gas fields before demanding that Qld companies break their export contracts made after years and years of development, approvals and lawfare, just to give Qld gas to them.
I’m all for developing state gas. But the sequestering should still apply to ALL gas exporters of any state so that the whole country has MUCH cheaper energy. All Australians benefit from lower energy.
Why TF should Victorians pay for the Bruce Highway? Or Qld cyclone reparations? Same deal.
Who aid anything about give? Don’t you understand this? “at a reasonable cost”.
Qld taxpayers contributed to the Hume on both sides of the border, and the 20-30 billion spent on Pacific Highway upgrades . I also think we contributed something in bushfire relief as well.
I’m surprised the NEM has lasted this long. I guess it’s an overlay of a largely private sector oligopoly anyway. Only really Qld and Snowy Hydro as govt players left.
Totally agree. I love in NSW, and we have massive gas reserves.
“live”
They made a movie about this: Chinatown.
permanent nut tree plantations are the core of her holdings. The same thing is happening here with the companies in the almond industry. Huge money to buy secure water rights.
LA fires clear the way for SmartLA 2028 and 2028 LA Olympics
Maybe.
And then maybe not…
LA wildfires threaten 2028 Olympics as flames inch closer to key venues (12 Jan)
Dunno where Newsom could get money to build Olympic stuff anyway, since he’s so skint they were caught raiding the fire budget. Trump isn’t going to give him a cent.
Where will they hold the swimming events?
No money for water for the pool…
The delightful Skaf brothers.
Definitely deserving of having his sentence reduced; after all what sort of girl would get in a car with a stranger?
Apparently neither Skaf is the slightest bit repentant.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilal_Skaf
I thought it was hilarious when these douche nozzles thought they would be heroes in the jug – instead they copped the odd beating for bringing shame on the Lebanese community.
A very gutsy young lady named Tegan Wagner was the victim of one of these gangs. She wrote a book about her ordeal – she said the most enlightening aspect of the whole ordeal was the attitude of the sisters of these scumbags – “They must have been very loose. They came to our house unchaperoned, they were not covered, and they drank alcohol.”
I’m surprised he’s lived this long in gaol. Smug little shits like him have a rough time, I hear.
Watched an interesting short video on twitter, African American guy who said the odds of 3 lesbians being appointed to those positions was 64,000 to 1, in other words for all three to be there was double down DEI and that prioritising DEI takes millions away (just look at the salary for starters!) from fire fighting efficacy.
And so it came to pass.
Boeing.
Actually four lesbians. Three Kristinas (with minor variant spelling) and a Jamie.
Just garden variety nepotism. The first one or two would be DEI, after that it is just Mates’ rates.
It’s also plain old corruption, as is common in any socialist state.
Tickler
Thanks for asking. It’s my son’s child. She’s been doing really well since June, with no signs of problems. The EEG shows a minor abnormality, but the neurologist said many people have abnormalities they’d never know about without testing. Still, the risk remains until she’s three, so there are two more years to go.
Good to hear.
JC
January 12, 2025 1:22 pm
Tickler
Thanks for asking. It’s my son’s child. She’s been doing really well since June, with no signs of problems. The EEG shows a minor abnormality, but the neurologist said many people have abnormalities they’d never know about without testing. Still, the risk remains until she’s three, so there are two more years to go.
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Oops with that. Anyway, all the best.
A 5km walk ensues.
In All Over It news, Daily Telegraph:
The inaction by Minns, Gin Webb and of course the Prime Phuckwit has led to the escalation.
They can condemn all they like, but unless their comments come to real fruition, like jail or deportation like Meloni has undertaken, it rings hollow.
And FMD
Bla bla bla…
Cue some call to ban paint.
The only language these phukwits understand is a knuckle sandwich, the slammer or be pissed off out of Australia and never allowed to return. They just laugh at ‘pleading’ and ‘condemnation’.
Here’s old mate