And here’s the “independent” press incentivising these attacks.

@KeithOlbermann

I’m sorry that @SenSchumer and @cnn and @msnbc didn’t know this before today: there is no compromising with Trump. He is insane and his only human emotion is revenge and you cannot mitigate against it. There is only one path through: destroy his presidency.

@RadioEuropes

This Swedish woman’s name is Angelica. One evening, Angelica’s doorbell rang. When she opened the door, she saw 2 Syrian immigrants.

The immigrants forced their way into the house and raped Angelica. There were bruises on Angelica’s body.

The 2 immigrants confessed to breaking into the house, but the prosecutor dropped the case due to lack of evidence.

After this, Angelica could not stand it and committed suicide. RIP Angelica…

Peta Credlin:

Donald Trump 1 Chris Bowen 0. By trying to save American jobs, Donald Trump has effectively blown-up Labor’s assault against jobs and industries here in Australia.

Yes, Trump’s imposition of a 25 per cent tariff on our billion-dollar-a-year steel and aluminium exports will hurt Australia and, as an ally, we are right to be disappointed (even angry), but his move to stop the loss of US sovereign manufacturing capacity is the wake-up we need to stop the same thing happening here.

And talk about hypocrisy and hyperbole from the Albanese government, given it has already slapped a carbon tax on these “emissions intensive” industries, via a requirement to buy carbon credits, so we can hardly complain when it’s another country’s decision that makes our product artificially more expensive.

In fact, what the US president is doing, in his inimitable, often brutal and chaotic style, is making America’s allies grow up; in effect, he’s kicking the kids out of home, where they’d been freeloading on a parent for far too long.

The new president has been too tough on Ukraine, which has been fighting heroically for its freedom (and the freedom of all small countries not to be bullied by a much larger neighbour) but – even here – Trump’s main point is the eminently reasonable one that the safety of Europe should first and foremost be the responsibility of European democracies and not largely delegated to the US (and its war-weary taxpayers).

For Australia, what currently looks like the new world disorder is actually a timely wake-up call: not just to take the security of Australia and our region much more seriously; but to stop the economic and cultural self-harm which is jeopardising our future as a prosperous, free and independent sovereign nation.

The current government might prefer to keep its head in the sand but Labor’s senior statesman, Kim Beazley, last week recognised the new reality when he called for our military spending to be raised swiftly to at least three per cent of GDP, a 50 per cent increase on current levels. Peter Dutton too, can read the signs of the times, as shown by his commitment to buy an extra squadron of fighter jets in response to the Chinese navy’s sail-by shooting in the Tasman Sea.

There’s little doubt that Trump’s domestic policies are what America needed after four years of politically correct incompetence. “Drill, baby, drill” will provide the cheap and secure energy required for a revival of American industry. Restoring the merit principle in hiring will revitalise American business. Border control will help ease the explosion in crime and welfare costs. And his insistence that there are only two genders should end the destruction of women’s hard-won rights, to single-sex sport and spaces, that’s currently a growing scourge here at home too.

Trump’s tariff wars are partly “shock and awe” designed to make indolent neighbours take their border responsibilities more seriously; and partly a deliberate move to onshore the heavy industry that’s been migrating to Asia for a generation and that’s turned China into the factory of the world. Trump has been the first American leader to push back against the technology theft, secret subsidies and market manipulation that’s given the commissars in Beijing such dominance over the industries that shortsighted Western governments – including ours – want us to become even more dependent upon.

At least between like-minded democracies with comparable standards of living, free trade will always be better at creating wealth than some kind of national closed shop. But why pretend that trade will ever be “free” with a China where the government can dictate terms to every business? Trump’s tariffs are essentially about ensuring American self-sufficiency in everything that really counts because, as we found during the pandemic, in a crisis, every country puts itself first.

Last week’s 9 per cent hike in the annual benchmark electricity price again exposes the fraudulence of the Albanese government claim that unreliable renewable energy is cheap in an economy that needs power 24/7. Trump’s demand we grow up and start to rebuild our military (and essential to that our manufacturing industries) makes Net Zero an unaffordable folly that’s got to end.

Likewise, the pretence that all cultures are equal. Migrants don’t generally come to Australia because they think that their culture is superior to ours. They come because they expect a better life under the broadly Anglo-Celtic traditions and Judaeo-Christian ethic that’s shaped modern Australia. Government at every level needs to stop pandering to the multicultural industry if we are to recover the self-belief needed to thrive in a world where America has given up on being the world’s policeman.

The upcoming budget will be the final act of Labor before the PM sends us to the polls, and the last thing Australia needs is the big-spending and handouts we’re almost sure to get from a desperate government. In these troubled times, Australia deserves a government focused on our future, not just its political survival.

Um Peta.
America hasn’t given up being the big boy on the block. You have contradicted yourself by saying we and other countries grow up without their assistance then say that.
Otherwise a good article.

A chilling item in the Daily Telegraph:

Three key police investigators who helped track down backpacker killer Ivan Milat say there could be as many as 80 additional victims buried in bushland whose bodies may never be found.

Milat’s first known victims were hitchhikers James Gibson and Deborah Everist, both 19, who were stabbed and beaten to death and buried in shallow graves in Belanglo State Forest in 1990. Their bodies were among seven located in the same area between 1992 and ’93.

The killer managed to evade police for years, but one of his victims, Paul Onions, managed to escape and was eventually called to help police identify Milat.

Despite the overwhelming evidence against him, Milat maintained his innocence until he died from cancer in 2019.

While he was only ever convicted of seven murders, leading figures in the Milat investigation have now told this masthead, and host Meni Caroutas the new podcast, Ivan Milat Untold, that there may have been many more victims dating back to the 1970s.

Two former NSW detectives, Neville Scullion and Paul Gordon, and a former undercover cop who only wanted to be identified as Roy, all came to the same conclusions in separate interviews. Another retired detective, Hugh Hughes, spent years investigating the unsolved murder of his wife’s cousin, Keren Rowland. She was 20 years old and five months pregnant, and he believes she was one of Milat’s first victims.

Detective Scullion led the Milat investigation in the early ’90s and opened up about his role in the case for the first time. He said there are about 900 long-term missing people in NSW alone, some of whom were last seen in locations where Milat had been.

He also said there about 700 unsolved murders, some of which “you could look at and think, yeah, Milat’s been involved here”.

“There’s anything up to 80 people that he killed,” Detective Scullion said.

“The first body is found in 1992, he’s arrested in 1994, but he didn’t just start killing in ’92 … he was rampant over a 20-year period.”

Detective Gordon was credited with bringing Mr Onions into the investigation. Mr Onions had escaped Milat’s clutches in 1990 and gave a statement to police in Bowral, but the file sat in a drawer at the station for years before it was properly investigated.

In the last-ever interview before his death, Detective Gordon echoed the same sentiment – that it’s very likely Milat committed a host of murders that he’ll never be held accountable for.

“Do the math, two or three a year for 20 years,” he said, estimating there could be an additional 60 victims.

Roy, the undercover cop, was charged with the task of planting police listening devices in a caravan at Milat’s property prior to the arrest.

He walked into the van with a colleague while Milat was out, and found a stockpile of guns, knives, bow and arrows, crossbows – “like a miniature armoury,” he said.

When Milat came home early, the pair had no choice but to hide underneath the van for about an hour until it was safe to escape.

Roy said Milat was a strong contender as the reason a number of people went missing between the 1970s and when he was caught in 1994.

“He had a camping truck and he used to go camping in different parts of Australia. I’d definitely put him up high,” he said.

In the days before his death in prison in 2019, police officers tried to convince Milat to confess to his crimes and tell them whether there were other victims.

The killer refused to answer questions. At one stage, he pretended to be asleep, taking his secrets to the grave.

Jimmy Dore – What Killed the American Left