freitasm:

 

 That also goes for their supporters.

 

On a related note ...

 

SaltyNZ: On a related note ...

 

A salty Australian extract:

 

I want every single one of you to feel the financial pain of backing this diaper wearing, babbling, incoherent, convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, Epstein associate, game show hosting, steak failing, casino bankrupting, dictionary dodging, makeup caked, heel lifted, combover sporting catastrophe of a human being ...

 

... and that's one of the more polite quotes.  😏

elpenguino:

 

Handsomedan:

 

Hmmm...

 

Middle East crisis live: Netanyahu orders expansion of invasion of southern Lebanon; Iranian forces wait for US ground troops
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/29/middle-east-crisis-live-explosions-tehran-yemen-houthis-iran-war-updates-trump-us-israel-strikes-lebanon

 

'Buffer zone' = land grab.

 

Israel has been trying to ethnically cleanse Gaza, they are just extending the approach

Handle9:

 

elpenguino:

 

Handsomedan:

 

Hmmm...

 

Middle East crisis live: Netanyahu orders expansion of invasion of southern Lebanon; Iranian forces wait for US ground troops
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/29/middle-east-crisis-live-explosions-tehran-yemen-houthis-iran-war-updates-trump-us-israel-strikes-lebanon

 

'Buffer zone' = land grab.

 

 

Israel has been trying to ethnically cleanse Gaza, they are just extending the approach

 

I liked this.

You told us he was playing 4D chess while the rest of us could see he was eating the pieces.

Steven Miller:
President Trump was aware of, and has calculated through, every permutation and every degree of strategy.

Yeah, right.

Donald Trump:
Nobody expected that. We were shocked!
Nobody, nobody, no, no, no. The greatest experts, nobody thought they were going to hit.

Nobody, except perhaps everyone. If you surround yourself with yes-men and TV personalities then perhaps you aren't actually going to hear the best advice.

Trump 2.0 is far more damaging that the his first administration. Back then he had some competent staff who told him that, for example, he couldn't just shoot protesters in the legs. But now only the incompetent and the insane remain.

Handle9:

 

Israel has been trying to ethnically cleanse Gaza, they are just extending the approach

 

Yip, and the West Bank is being nibbled away.

If a palestinian youth throws a stone they're locked up for years without a trial but when a settler burns down a palestinian house, the authorities do nothing.

elpenguino:

 

Handle9:

 

Israel has been trying to ethnically cleanse Gaza, they are just extending the approach

 

 

Yip, and the West Bank is being nibbled away.

 

If a palestinian youth throws a stone they're locked up for years without a trial but when a settler burns down a palestinian house, the authorities do nothing.

 

 

 

Yes, criticise this and you get the anti semetic card drawn. Despite the fact that so many people of Jewish decent inside and outside Israel realise how messed up this is. 

Note to voting public, don't elect leaders who would otherwise be heading for jail. 
We now have two examples of how badly this goes.
This still has years to go as well.

Financial Times interviews the Mad King.

""
At the same time, Donald Trump says he wants to "take the oil in Iran" - as the United States did when it removed Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro in January.

Trump told the Financial Times the US could do this by seizing Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, the hub on which 90 per cent of Iran's oil exports are loaded.
""

Seems interviewer did not suggest this sounds nonsensical as Karg Island is just the terminal?
Though Trump terms for an interview with failing (insert media name here) will be no follow up.

Karg is fed by pipelines from mainland, where bulk of oil wells are and IRGC can turn off the tap.

Some offshore wells, but we know these are very prone to drone damage.
They are precisely hitting supposedly well defended targets much further away. 

Of course you are now sitting one of the world's most flammable islands.
We know what low cost drones can do, even against American bases and defenses.

Meanwhile MAGA dream of 10c a gallon diesel. 

Netanyahu is pissing off the Catholic Church now.

"As a result, and for the first time in centuries, the Heads of the Church were prevented from celebrating the Palm Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre."

https://www.custodia.org/it/news/joint-press-release-the-latin-patriarchate-of-jerusalem-and-the-custody-of-the-holy-land/

An alternative to car-less days

Fuel tax halved and free public transport offered as war pushes up prices in Australia

roobarb:

 

An alternative to car-less days

 

Fuel tax halved and free public transport offered as war pushes up prices in Australia

 

 

 

The Luxon government can't do either of those things because they are both communism / that's how Labour f'ed the country and apparently even Christopher Luxon has a limit to how much hypocrisy he is comfortable with.

gzt: Last two posts are in the wrong topic. You want the security of supply topic:

https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=162&topicid=324177&page_no=49#3475852

and also the Luxon topic

 

It could go in the Luxon topic, but not in the "security of supply" topic as that is under "Transport" and the last two posts are clearly political in nature.