[NoticerNews] Lesbian ‘DEI hire’ captain charged over sinking of $100M Royal New Zealand Navy ship
The $100 million HMNZS Manawanui, which was under the command of UK-born homosexual Yvonne Gray, crashed on the south side of Upolu on October 5, 2024, due to human error including failure to turn off autopilot, an inquiry found last year.
Commander Gray, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Gajzago and a third officer will now face court-martial over the disaster, which was the navy’s first ship loss since World War 2, and resulted in New Zealand paying Samoa NZ$6 million in compensation for environmental destruction that resulted from the crash.
Cdr Gray, who served in the Royal Navy for almost 20 years, faces charges including that she was absent from the ship’s bridge while within a nautical mile (1.8km) of a reef, The Times reported.
She also faces a charge of failing to manage the risks of conducting hydrographic work in uncharted waters close to reefs. [She] faces a maximum of two years’ imprisonment if convicted.
The lesson being that hiring for DEI, or any reason other than competence and trainability, is always a very bad idea and often very expensive indeed. Being a lesbian wouldn’t have mattered if she were reasonably competent and had done her job conscientiously.
[Bee] FALLON, NV — Local Pentecostal Christian Glenn Fuller reportedly beat all his friends at Scrabble yet again thanks to his miraculous ability to spell out all words in tongues.
"Grnrnrnrnr-losraaaa," Fuller said of his most decisive victory. "Keleplor-reen."
"Can he do that?" said one family member. "Channeling the Holy Spirit to win at Scrabble seems like it might be an unfair advantage. I don't even speak in tongues."
The family member was then chided by Fuller for her lack of faith.
According to sources, Fuller secured his victory by spelling out "HOO BABA KANDA" over a triple word score square.
"It's a real word, and its angelic meaning is known only by the Lord," said Fuller. "Have faith, my dear children."
At publishing time, Fuller was banned from future games of Scrabble unless he played with the accompaniment of a prophetic interpreter.
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[HotAir] Keir Starmer has been in deep trouble for a while, but his milquetoast response to the Iranian threat may turn out to be his undoing.
If so, Donald Trump may achieve regime change in not one, but two Islamic countries. One seeking nuclear weapons, the other already armed with them.
Starmer's behavior during the run-up to and execution of Operation Epic Fury has been a wonder to behold. He has not just been weak, but actually obstructive, feckless, and has spent more time pandering to the Islamic community in his own country than focusing on the very real security concerns of his own country.
Starmer not only denied US access to UK military bases, which, arguably, is a violation of treaties we have with the country (lawyers can argue about that point), but the Prime Minister of the UK left his bases in the Mediterranean undefended with a war obviously on the horizon.
🚨 CYPRUS IS DEFENCELESS
GB News has broken a story that Keir Starmer TURNED DOWN an offer from the Royal Navy to place one of our destroyers in the area.
Now, we’re depending on French, Greeks, Israelis and the US to defend our sovereign territory.
Starmer is still insisting that Britain will not get involved in the war, despite mounting criticism within his country that Britain looks incredibly weak and has become a feckless ally.
What is Starmer doing instead? He is literally spending his time giving speeches to Islamic extremists reassuring them that Britain has nothing to do with the attack on Iran.
The optics are awful, first of all, and the signal he is giving to Britons and to the world is clear: his big priority is placating his Muslim constituency at all costs. Including that of British lives.
Everybody, both inside and outside of the UK, is not just noticing but keeping notes. Starmer is creating a situation where displeasure with his personality and policies will be transformed into something much more dangerous for him: he is in danger of becoming toxic.
Starmer actually says that Muslims are "the face of modern Britain," which likely won't go down well with the man on the street.
One of the best summaries of how feckless, nearly traitorous Starmer has been came from this rant, which I think captures what a large fraction of the British public thinks, even if they don't support the war against the Mullahs.
You just have to listen to this by @ThatAlexWoman - it’s a must listen, I mean it.
This was a frighteningly accurate account of what Starmer and other leaders of the UK have caused.
“You didn’t stop those ‘Pro-Palestine marches, you didn’t proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood, you… pic.twitter.com/HJzPXi9QW7
This was a frighteningly accurate account of what Starmer and other leaders of the UK have caused.
“You didn’t stop those ‘Pro-Palestine marches, you didn’t proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood, you didn’t proscribe the IRGC, you weakened support of Israel ..
What on earth do you think you’re doing?! You’re domestic terrorists! You’re sabotaging this Nation!”
Opposing the war is, likely, a popular position with the Labour Party base (which, despite Labour's huge majority in the Parliament, is relatively small among the public), but looking weak is likely not.
Starmer has become a punching bag both inside Great Britain and around the world. He looks very much like he is kowtowing to his Muslim constituency, at a time when hostility to Muslims is reaching an all-time high.
Starmer's political career is hanging by a thread, and if Operation Epic Fury turns out to be a major success, I suspect his weakness in opposing Iran and his deeper embrace of pro-Iran Muslims in his country will be the last straw.
UPDATE: Starmer just took another blow. After making clear he wants closer relations with China, his security services just arrested three Chinese spies.
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Until they get rid of the Muslims they are fucked anyway
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The 2 questions are:
Do the Anglo-Saxon Brit's finally acknowledge the EU / Liberal Party has become a tyrant in controlling their civil rights, and it has a 10+ year and growing Islamic problem?
Are the Middle-East Immigrants better armed, than the citizenry?
Because, until the Brit's do, they are only getting screwed more each day.
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the me immigrants are armed and have the willingness to commit violence on you and me. There is a big difference a between being armed and the willingness to commit violence. Especially when your own government is against you.
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In other words , if you're scared of going to jail or being killed you're in the wrong fight.
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If taking out the mullahs takes out Starmer as well that is a pretty good bank shot.
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Wait'll the newly arrived Shiite Iranian refugees start fighting the entrenched Sunni Paks on UK streets. That'll be fun.
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A quick AI search states that the UK CAN use the military, if necessary, to deal with criminals. It also says that generally for emergencies, but the UK seems to be getting to that point. Time to let the SAS, SBS and the Gurkha's loose to clean up the UK.
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We can all spot this stuff easy now:
1) It's for the children
2) you should feel ashamed
3) shut up, the science says you're wrong
4) you're not allowed to question the science even though that's how you do science.
5) censorship of anyone who talks back.
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“Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader—the barbarians enter Rome.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
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I hate ti break the news to you Jairong, but according tothe bible, there will be no "third temple" on the temple mount.
There will be a third temple, but it's going to be located a few miles (many says about five) north of the temple mount in what used to be a threshing field. This will happen in the millennium.
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I don’t know who the Third Temple would be for. We Jews evolved beyond physical Temple sacrifices during the Babylonian exile in the 6th century BC, though once the first draft of the Second Temple was built in 516 BC, led by Ezra and Nehemiah at the orders of Cyrus the Great, the regimen of sacrifices resumed until Herod the Great’s improved version was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. But even for that half millennium the vast majority of Jews never saw the Temple in their entire lives. Sure, there is a sentimental attachment to the idea of the thing, but daily prayer services, alone and in organized groups have sufficed us and, presumably, God, since then.
Certainly there has been no serious effort by the Jews of Israel or the rest of us in the Diaspora to do anything about it that I’m aware of, though one hears from time to time about a few private efforts to breed pure cows suitable for sacrificial offerings.
“Tucker has lost his way,” the commander-in-chief told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl on Thursday. “I knew that a long time ago, and he’s not MAGA. MAGA is saving our country. MAGA is making our country great again. MAGA is America first, and Tucker is none of those things. And Tucker is really not smart enough to understand that.”
The comments came after Carlson recently called the strikes on Iran “absolutely disgusting and evil.”
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a few private efforts to breed pure cows suitable for sacrificial offerings
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[REGNUM] The escalation in the Middle East has already forced the entire world to discuss the state of the energy market and compare the military potential of the opposing sides.
But there are those who are concerned about more than just the trajectories of ballistic missiles.
According to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, in the first days after the start of Operation Epic Fury, dozens, if not hundreds, of complaints were filed against the command staff by US Army soldiers.
Meh. As we concluded two days ago, this is clearly just shenanigans by an anti-religious fanatic trying to gin up a brouhaha, as the story has not been reported by anyone else except in reference to the MRFF complaint.
According to military personnel, he
Who? Another indication that this is a hoax is that no officer or unit was named as being involved in this thing...
tells his subordinates that supporting Israel in the war against Iran is "an Armageddon necessary for the speedy coming of the Son of God." And the war itself "irrefutably testifies to the approach of the End Times."
Entire lecture courses could be written on the intertwining of religious and military propaganda in a number of countries. And slogans about American exceptionalism in one form or another probably won't surprise anyone.
However, in this case, the wording is so straightforward that even seasoned specialists in the information-psychological field have to ask: has anyone in the 21st century really decided to seriously adopt the eschatology of the Crusades?
Aaaaand it looks like the answer remains no.
However, from the point of view of a significant part of the overseas conservative community, the answer is obvious: yes, they took it – and there is nothing wrong with that.
According to recent public opinion polls, about half of American evangelicals support the principles of Christian Zionism.
That is, many Americans, relying on the books of the prophets Daniel and Ezekiel, sincerely believe that the creation of the State of Israel fulfilled one of the biblical prophecies, and the next critically important milestone was the recognition of the indivisibility of Jerusalem during Donald Trump's first term.
Or they just believe that being allied to Israel is just common sense. Christians also are capable of drawing conclusions about this world separate from their faith in the world to come.
BUT WHAT SHOULD BE THE NEXT STEPS?
According to proponents of this particular theory, everything is quite simple. Israel builds the Third Temple on the site of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Antichrist appears in the world of man. In contrast, the Second Coming of Christ occurs.
And finally, there, in the Holy Land, the final battle between good and evil is raging – the very Armageddon that is now being used to motivate the soldiers of the US Armed Forces.
President Trump's personal attitude towards such motivation is unknown.
No it isn’t. He is a practical man, and his faith is likewise practical, oriented toward the present world and its needs, not creating conditions to force God’s hand — no mystic he.
It's no secret, however, that its ardent apologist is the current Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, author of the book with the telling title "American Crusade." He sports a tattoo of the Jerusalem Cross on his chest; the phrase "Deus vult" ("God wills it"), the motto of the very first Crusaders, is tattooed on his right bicep; and a verse from the Gospel of Matthew is quoted on his forearm: "I came not to bring peace, but a sword."
Lots of ways to interpret all that. But the book blurb is very definitely about cultural and political issues in America rather than anything to do with physically conquering any part of the world for Christ. See for yourself, dear Reader.
There has, of course, been and continues to be plenty of debate about the appropriateness of such tattoos on the body of a high-ranking official.
Some people have to stick their noses in everybody else’s business, grasping their pearls in delighted shock all the while.
But the main thing is that they reflect his worldview in a very concrete way, where the expectation of the end of the world moves from a symbolic plane to a purely practical one, akin to a direct guide to action.
That poor horse has been beaten to a pancake…
And Iran, in the eyes of its target audience, is becoming not so much an "enemy of democracy" and an "oppressor of freedom," as traditional propaganda proclaims, but rather the very embodiment of Gog and Magog—the forces of darkness that will rise to attack the Israelis but will be crushed by divine intervention. And, accordingly, will be unable to prevent the coming of the Messiah.
Really? Somehow I missed that memo.
In short, the concept is, in its own way, coherent. And if you look at it through the eyes of a religious fundamentalist (not to say fanatic), then any so-called "preemptive attack"—on Iran or anywhere else—is guaranteed to find justification.
However, here's the problem: in the United States itself, violent calls for "speeding up the Apocalypse" are harshly criticized by Lutherans, Methodists, and Presbyterians.
Not to mention the Catholic Church, led by the current American Pope Leo XIV, whose voice has not yet been completely drowned out by charismatic Protestant preachers who are accustomed to reducing complex geopolitical conflicts to scenery for mystical revelations.
Moreover, it would be interesting to hear the opinion on this matter of the US's Israeli allies, who adhere to their own eschatological views that significantly contradict those of the Gospels, or even allow the latter to be viewed as the basis for a kind of "spiritual invasion."
As is well known, among those who profess Judaism, debates still rage regarding the restoration of the aforementioned Third Temple.
I missed those, too, though our synagogue’s last rabbi but one was lecturer at Hebrew Union College, the rabbinic seminary of Reform Judaism.
Some scholars believe that the people must build it in anticipation of the Messiah-king (Mashiach). According to another version, characteristic of ultra-Orthodox Jews, the Messiah himself will undertake the construction after his appearance—and in this context, American "hyperactivity" may even seem like a blasphemous violation of sacred order.
Thus, behind the façade of a strong political and military alliance lies a rather deep theological rift.
Whoops! My eyes rolled so hard they fell out and rolled under the bed.
An Orthodox Jew who humbly prays for the coming of the Messiah is unlikely to find common ground with an American militarist who wants to “start the process” with radical measures, including nuclear strikes.
And the American himself probably simply won't understand why someone in Israel is not at all happy when the Washington establishment promises salvation at the cost of an unprecedented round of violence.
I was waiting for the Dumb American Cowboy stereotype to show up.
But the most piquant thing is the presence of a third party, which has also long since had everything ready for the Apocalypse.
This refers to the Iranian Twelver Shiites, who patiently await the coming of the Hidden Imam Mahdi. He is said to eradicate injustice and restore peace on earth, defeating the false messiah Dajjal in a time of great chaos, tyranny, and bloodshed.
Need I clarify how well a major, disastrous war in the Middle East fits into such a scenario? It only remains to be seen what the consequences might be—and whether humanity is prepared for them.
*shrug* The fact of the great Twelver defeat at the hands of the Yanks and the Jooooooos without the emergence of the Hidden Imam Mahdi is proof positive that his time is not yet come.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Bee] FALLON, NV — Local Pentecostal Christian Glenn Fuller reportedly beat all his friends at Scrabble yet again thanks to his miraculous ability to spell out all words in tongues.
