It’s difficult to decide if this is more entertainment than sports. Some will watch it for one, some for both.
A French diver is going viral at the 2024 Olympics — not just for his aquatic skills, but for proving size might in fact matter … but, so does the cut of your swim trunks.
Excitable fans went wild online over Jules Bouyer at the Paris games, sharing pics of the soaked springboard diver after one of his recent events — mainly to highlight his bulge, which was making a big splash despite his teeny weeny swimsuit.
North Atlantic Terrorist Organisation strikes and then braces
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NATO escalated war with Russia by using its new member Finland to strike an air base in Russia — the Russian airfield Olenya in the Murmansk Oblast which is less than 200 kilometres from the Finnish border..
Finnish President Alexander Stubb has said that there are no direct threats to Finland from this strike but that the country has to “accept the fact that” the war will come to Finland.
So…they struck Russia and are telling their people not to expect Russia to strike them? Who would fall for that logic? [NATO lunatics clearly do —Eds]
Russia also suffered massive losses in Mali after al Qaeda-affiliated group hit Wagner forces. The Malian military also suffered casualties. The Wall Street Journal reports that at least two were dead and 10 wounded, “while some 20 attackers were killed.”
The attack happened on the border between Mali and Algeria and now there are reports that Ukrainian drone pilots assisted the terrorists.
Decisions over the structure of local democracy will once again rest with the people who pay the rates, not the handful of councillors who spend it.
Whenever given the chance to vote in a referendum, local voters have rejected being divided by race. Labour didn’t like that, so they scrapped the referendums. ACT believes in local democracy, so we campaigned to restore the referendums, got it into our coalition agreement, and today, we made it happen.
The passage of the Local Government (Electoral Legislation and Māori Wards and Māori Constituencies) Amendment Bill means councils that have established Māori wards can disestablish them. If they don’t do this, citizens will be able to vote on them next year in the local body elections.
But the fight is far from over.
Until we define in law that all citizens have the same rights, the erosion of our democracy will continue.
Infrastructure investment and new train fleet for Wairarapa and Kapiti lines
A commuter train in the siding just north of Waikanae station. (Shutterstock/Brave Behind the Lenz pic)
TRANSPORT minister Simeon Brown has announced an $NZ 800m ($US 469.45m) investment package for the Wairarapa and Kapiti commuter lines serving New Zealand’s capital Wellington on the North Island.
Infrastructure upgrades to support the introduction of a new train fleet will include work to remove temporary speed restrictions and raise the maximum speed from 90km/h to 110km/h, enabling the service frequency to be increased.
On the Wairarapa Line between Wellington and Masterton, national railway KiwiRail will build a second platform at Maymorn, and upgrade platforms at Upper Hutt. Platforms will also be upgraded at Waikanae, the northern terminus of the Kapiti Line from Wellington.
Three stabling facilities will be built for the new trains that will replace rolling stock that was introduced in the 1970s and is now nearing the end of its working life.
The previous Labour government announced in May 2023 that it would be funding the procurement of 18 four-car tri-mode commuter trains for the Kapiti and Wairarapa lines, as part of the Lower North Island Rail Integrated Mobility (LNIRIM) project.
The new fleet was planned to combine diesel-electric traction with batteries and the overhead 1.5kV dc supply.
With procurement now underway, Brown says that all traction types will be considered.
“The regional council’s preference is very clearly for hybrid trains,” he says, “and that is certainly part of the mix, but at the end of the day, value for money is critically important when it comes to every single dollar invested in transport infrastructure.”
According to Brown, procurement will take “a no-frills approach that delivers real benefits for commuters.”
“The three companies that we have shortlisted for a closed tender process are all companies that currently provide the types of trains that we have in mind,” says Mr Daran Ponter, chair of the Greater Wellington Regional Council.
The new fleet is expected to be delivered by the end of 2028, enabling service frequencies on the Wairarapa and Kapiti lines to be increased from 2029.
A 2020 book on the life of Kamala Harris has been pulled by Amazon days after she was installed as the Democratic Party nominee for this year’s presidential election.
The author of Kamala Harris & The Future of America: An Essay in Three Parts, (left wing) journalist Caleb Maupin told Jimmy Dore that the book had been selling on Amazon without issue since 2020, but out of blue this week he was contacted by the retail giant to say the book was being pulled due to a problem with its cover art.
When Maupin made adjustments the book listing was cancelled. Customers trying to navigate to the book end up with a message saying ‘We’re sorry. The web address you’ve entered is not a functioning page on our site.’
In this book, originally published in 2020, and censored in 2024 when Kamala was named the Democrat Candidate, Caleb Maupin goes over the life story and political background of a woman he considers to be the most dangerous potential US President in history.
On Sunday, several Big Tech companies faced intense backlash after it appeared that they were suppressing search results related to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Now, they’re facing accusations of election interference, and even a Senate investigation.
Google users began noticing that the search engine’s Autocomplete function was omitting results related to the assassination attempt against Trump. Social media users began to spread similar images online, and soon, members of government, as well as Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr, had picked up examples of their own.
Trump’s assassination attempt was nowhere to be seen, even when users searched “the assassination attempt of” in the Google search bar.
The New York Post tested the theory themselves, using the last names of U.S. presidents who were assassinated or faced attempted assassination, followed by the letters “assassi” to see what autocomplete suggested. While each of these were given helpful, related results, Trump’s assassination attempt was nowhere to be found when typed in.
The outlet said that, “Even the keywords ‘Trump assassination attempt’ yielded no additional terms from Google.”
As observed previously, Google is part of the Globalist cabal. Microsoft’s MSN is also full of Biden regime propaganda, but its search engine ‘Bing’ isn’t nearly as censorious as Google.
