Pure evil

Ukraine is reportedly using POWs as suicide bombers, strapping them with IEDs and forcing them to walk towards Russian defensive positions. pic.twitter.com/WvBqkUIbz9

— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) October 9, 2026

Flagitious: extremely wicked, deeply criminal, or shamefully vicious; from the Latin noun flagitium, meaning “shameful thing,”

A good term for EU / NATO warlords.

Those who vote for Leftist warmongers are voting for destruction.

An Ottumwa City Council meeting in Iowa recently opened with a Satanic invocation. On Tuesday, 6 October 2026, former city council member Matthew Dalbey delivered the opening prayer, which began with the words “Dear dark father” and concluded with “Hail Satan“.

Watch what is happening as Iowa city council meeting opens with a Luciferian prayer and ends with "Hail Satan"!!!

They are not even hiding it now. pic.twitter.com/0R7TOg3n1Y

— Andrew Bridgen (@ABridgen) October 8, 2026

Russian President Vladimir Putin has explicitly accused the core NATO members of promoting and practicing outright Satanism — and it’s likely true; it is an evil organisation. Are NZ Leftists going to (openly) follow this, or is it incompatible with the existing official paganism?

from the Los Angeles Times

If you’ve noticed your water bills getting a lot more expensive, you’re not alone.

In a new nationwide survey of 500 large drinking water utilities, researchers found that average water bills have gone up 1.6 times as fast as inflation, and Californians are paying some of the highest bills.

The report by Food & Water Watch, a nonprofit advocacy group, shows that four water utilities in California rank among the top 10 most expensive in the United States. The private utility San Jose Water Co. was No. 1, while others included Escondido, Santa Barbara and Marin Municipal Water District.

The researchers also found that more than half of the 25 most expensive water systems they looked at are in California. They include those in San José (11), San Francisco (14), Sacramento (15) and Oceanside (19), which the group said charged bills totaling more than $1,100 last year for typical indoor water usage for a household of three.

These amounts are, of course, in $US. No, it’s not because of private enterprise profiteering: the majority of drinking water systems in California are publicly or government-owned. California has 1,166 publicly owned community water systems out of a total of 2,895 — while there are more individual private water systems (1,729), these private systems are mostly very small and serve rural areas or mobile home parks. In terms of the actual population served, the vast majority of Californians get their water from large, government-owned public utilities.

However, a big difference is that most of California is a low rainfall zone — the average annual rainfall in Los Angeles for example is 362 mm (14.25 inches) whereas in Kapiti it’s about 1,200 mm. So Kapiti gets plenty of water, there’s just not enough storage for the dry summer months, a problem that would have been solved if Mayor Rowan + Dougherty had built a reservoir, instead of the temporary expedient of their meters. —Eds

by Geoffrey Churchman

The enclave is a legacy of Stalin’s redrawing of the map of Eastern Europe at the end of WW2. Up until then it was the German port city of Königsberg on the Baltic Sea which Stalin saw as a useful addition to St Peterberg (then Leningrad).

Königsberg had been substantially destroyed during the war and unlike in Poland where the downtown areas of the cities of Breslau (Wroclaw), Danzig (Gdansk) and to a lesser extent, Stettin (Szczecin) were rebuilt, the Soviets had little interest in doing so in Kaliningrad as it was renamed. Nevertheless,since 1991 the Russians have shown interest and have rebuilt the cathedral, and even toyed with rebuilding the Schloss (castle) which the communists gnerally didn’t like.

The big issue is that the Germans renounced any claims to Königsberg in 1990 after German reunification. Poland, however, would like to have it, from the way powers existed 1,000 years ago.

Would the Poles, backed by EU forces, drive the Russian citizens out? There are 1 million of them in the enclave, about half of them in the city itself. Would the Poles find that an easy thing to do? Would it be like Gaza, European style?