More international commentary about the NHL’s Welcome to Country.

Australia has lost its mind with all the woke land acknowledgement absurdity. Yesterday the NFL audience saw what happens when a country lets woke insanity take over the country. During Covid as @BuckSexton says Australia was East Berlin with koalas.

Has any country ever fallen off harder than Australia? When I was a kid, Australians were seen as tough and rugged. Steve Irwin types. Now the word “Australia” is synonymous with gay bullshit like this. Gay bullshit appears to be the country’s main export. Like Canada but with bigger spiders. What a shame.

How the mighty have fallen….

On 9/11, I was returning from New York to San Francisco on a United 767. The plane had left JFK around 6am and had been flying for a couple of hours. I was sitting on the left-side of the plane, about two-thirds the way back in economy, and noticed that the sun, which had been coming in through my window on the left side of the plane, was now coming through the aircraft's right-side windows. For a westbound aircraft, we were evidently heading in the wrong direction. Although we were quietly descending and making lots of slow turns, there had been no announcement to a largely empty plane. It seemed that no other passenger had noticed. They were all heads down, reading and sleeping, and the plane was all very calm and quiet. I got anxious that there was something wrong with the plane. At that moment, the captain's voice came over the plane's PA system and announced that "there had been a security scare in New York" and we were diverting to Kansas City. That was all that was said. A normal landing at Kansas City but we were stuck on the ramp for a very long time. After only 18 months living in the U.S., everything was still very new, and Kansas City airport seemed a very busy airport! It was of course filled with all the grounded trans-continental flights. After finally disembarking after several hours, and stuck in the terminal waiting for transport to a hotel, we were still no more the wiser what had happened. All the TVs in the terminal had been turned off. We knew that something bad had happened in New York, but the scale was not clear. We finally got to the "Apple Hotel" via a yellow school bus. Only then, when in the hotel room (late into the afternoon), did the full magnitude become clear. I burst into uncontrollable tears and sobbing seeing replay upon replay of the collapse of the Twin Towers. Only a couple of hours earlier had I marveled at their magnificence, lit from ground to sky, whilst waiting before sunrise on 8th Avenue in Hells Kitchen for the taxi. Absolutely massive buildings dwarfing the entire city. Awe-inspiring. We didn't get back into the air until the Friday, and finally arrived into San Francisco late at night. United staff lined the airbridge from plane to concourse, both sides, and applauded the passengers as we disembarked. United was absolutely incredible and supportive throughout this ordeal. The entire experience numbing, confusing, and mourning. I'm so sorry for the pain the U.S. has gone through because of these Islamic scoundrels. It is such a magnificent country full of wonderful, generous people, without whom I don't know where the world would be. I hope one day that we stop being apologists to our despotic and psychopathic enemies. I wish for a recovered, happy and prosperous America.

Imagine the chaos if the free market were to be replaced by a A.I. planned economy with this man at the keyboard.

Australia was going reasonable well before Albanese got in. It's been down hill since.

WHY I LEFT AUSTRALIA (VIEWS FROM BEYOND THE IRON COASTLINE) It's been 4 months since I moved overseas. I uprooted my entire life, moved out of a newly renovated house, away from friends and family, away from the country I grew up in. But it was necessary. Because there's no other way to put it - they've fucked Australia. Like, really fucked it. I'm a hard worker. I worked long days, weekends. In a stressful, high pressure job. I took it seriously (which is rare, most people only half do things). In my spare time, I would spend hours (many hours) writing books and creating content online to make some extra money. But at the end of each month I was left with basically nothing. The government took most of it. Either straight away through income tax, or more insidiously through hidden taxes, inflation, and crazy regulatory requirements. And that money they stole from me wasn't taken to improve the country (I could probably live with that). The deranged communists in charge viewed themselves as gods. And they were redistributing my wealth in accordance with some structure of 'morality' that I didn't adhere to. The taxes imposed on me were considered just, because (under their morality) I did not deserve as much as I had, there were others more deserving. But I didn't agree with my money being stolen to build houses in the middle of nowhere, just for aboriginal welfare recipients who would ultimately tear them apart. I didn't agree with my money being stolen so that African migrants could fraudulently receive it via the NDIS. I didn't agree with my money being stolen so that Indian 'students' could move their families here through the student visa backdoor. And I didn't agree with my money being stolen to fund Chinese corporations building wind farms on all the farm land between Melbourne and Adelaide. I can't describe the feeling of hopelessness that comes with watching your labour fund the future of others. I went to a dark place when I realised that the work and stress I put myself through didn't help me or my family. It all felt... so futile. I was a tax slave being bled dry. And so I left. I moved somewhere where I keep my money. All of it. I've made 2 years of financial progress in the 4 months I've been out of the country (thanks to 0% tax, as well as the healthy salary increase that came with moving to a country with a real economy). And now looking back at Australia from the outside, I know I made the right move. It's a literal circus. The media is all propaganda. The government is communist. The people are trapped, prisoners. I knew this when I lived there. At least I was pretty sure I did. But seeing it from the outside solidified every hunch I had while living behind the Iron Coastline. The future of Australia is bleak. Citizens won't build wealth. No companies will invest there. And the Nanny State will need to keep increasing taxes on the small portion of the population that actually creates value to fuel their spending frenzy. And that can only go on for so long before it collapses. Good luck to everyone back home. I'm thinking of you. But all I can say is that there a countries out there that don't view wealth building as immoral, that understand how businesses work, and want the country to actually BECOME something. You should go there, probably.

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Pauline Is RIGHT 🔥🇦🇺

Close the eSafety department. Replace it with a pot plant.

Absolutely. There’s no need for it to be compulsory except for surveillance purposes. Any pollster will tell you that a large enough randomised sample size (even 1%) will yield accurate enough results. It’s disgusting that we allow them to fine people for not participating. But that’s Australia!

READ. EVERY. SINGLE. WORD. OF. THIS. Then share it far and wide. @damiencostas nails the main problem with Australia today.

There can be no hierarchies of importance in democracy. I am no more important than any other citizen. But if we find each other's outlooks completely wrong and criminally dangerous, we lock ourselves into a hierarchical view which is itself a threat to democracy.

Attempt of a military coup inside of Russia LIVE youtube.com/live/QRl8DCV5zr8… via @YouTube

Quite amazing what’s happening in China atm with the mass protests. youtu.be/mDTdQdZ88q4 via @YouTube

A quiet dinner in Moscow