(0551) Morning all … another straight through till morning sleep here. (0629)

 

5. “Baby”

4. Steve at 1083

• Anti-ICE Activists in Colorado Help Criminal Alien and Child Rapist Escape Arrest
• Government of Pakistan Formally Recommends Trump for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize
• New Poll Shows Reform UK on Track To Win Majority in Next British Elections
• US Officials Confirm Bunker Buster-Capable B-2 Stealth Bombers En Route to Guam as President Trump Weighs Iran Strike Decision
• American Christian Leaders Back Israel: “Christians are Imprisoned, Tortured, and Executed in Iran”
• Border Czar Tom Homan Responds to Democrats Making ICE’s Job “Much More Dangerous”
• Russian Geran Drones Strike Ukrainian Targets In Donetsk, Luhansk & Sumy
• Massive American Military Deployment Spotted At Key Saudi Air Base
• Alberta ends free COVID-19 vaccines, angering province’s liberal politicians
• AstraZeneca’s deadly deception: Heart drug Brilinta exposed as ineffective
• Much more.

3. Back in Blighty

2. DAD at 1083

I am sorry for the long comments, but these are translations needed to explain the news from [the] France.

a) A ludicrous affair at Disneyland Paris. A British man was arrested this Saturday after renting the theme park, located in Seine-et-Marne, for a wedding. The bride-to-be turned out to be…

b) The French won’t be the only ones rocking the streets for the Fête de la Musique this year…

c) According to Le Figaro, a report by the Immigration and Demography Observatory, written by Nicolas Pouvreau-Monti, directly contradicts the recent conclusions of the progressive think tank Terra Nova…

d) Following an investigation by the Mornant gendarmerie brigade (Rhône, population 6,300), 59 weapons, including 13 undeclared weapons, were seized…

1. Australia and the US

This might seem an unusual opener for Sunday but there it was on X, first item, and I’d crashed last night with tabs open (good thing we’re all online and grown up about such matters).

So there’s this gal, Alexandra Marshall, downunder, ex-Spectator on TV, was Mark Steyned by the supposed conservative organ for views too hot to handle … in short, our kinda gal, given the majority of “our” views at unherdables. No lightweight, politically, quite perspicacious … this is her latest:

The anti-American movement in Australia must be very, very careful. America is Australia’s defence pact. They are the unspoken wall that keeps our country safe.

America’s involvement in Iran is not just about Iran and Israel – which many people seem to think. It’s not about ‘protecting Jews’ as I see a lot of conservatives claim.

It’s not even about ‘regime change’ for Iran. Iran is a major arms dealer for Russia. Iran is a major supplier of oil for China’s southern operations. Disempowering Iran weakens Russia’s ability to maintain conflict in Europe.

And it suffocates supply lines for China, making it less likely that they move on Taiwan or even other Pacific nations.

War is strategy. But so is maintaining global peace. Disempowering the largest geopolitical entities which seek to flip the world order from a capitalist democracy to a marriage between Communism and Islamic Theocracy is about keeping all of us away from a global war.

I am sure that’s why America pre-emptively bought Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar with trillions of dollars. Containing China and Russia to their established borders, while dismantling the Iranian-funded terror network in the Middle East is something that had to be done – and everyone knew it had to be done.

Not to mention Putin and Xi Jinping now knowing that America negotiates from a position of genuine red lines – something that was not at all obvious before. Let’s just hope it was done early enough.

The Oz perspective was of sufficient interest to LBJ back in the PM Harold Holt days (before he disappeared one morning), for America to maintain bases, just as the British had used it as a nuclear testing zone. There was an infamous White House lawn speech given by Holt in which he acted like a whore: “All the way with LBJ.”

Did not go down well in Oz, on either side of the aisle. From our perspective here in Blighty and from our American readers’ perspectives, that take by Alexandra above might be quite clise to the truth … she’s seeing it from the persoective of a nation which followed LBJ into Vietnam, following Korea earlier of course, Singapore before that.