Family 'lose everything' after their electric car catches fire and sets their house ablaze while three children were sleeping in their beds
A family of five says it has 'lost everything' after their electric car caught fire and destroyed their home in a devastating blaze.
Julie Hensby, 44, has spoken of the chaos as she fetched her three sleeping children from their beds as a fire spread from their electric car and towards their house.
Mrs Hensby and her husband David, 48, their son Jay, 15, and twin daughters Summer and Aimee, nine, were all asleep when the fire broke out.
Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service were called at 11.14pm on Monday to reports that a car was on fire and threatening a property in Ruddlemoor, near St Austell.
The family say they may not have been aware of the blaze as it spread from the charging point outside to the front door had it not been for some strangers driving by their property and stopping to wake them.
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Laurence Fox: sacrificed to the gods of eco-fascism
The BBC and its kin will insist that Laurence Fox’s ‘crime’ involved taking an on-air dig at a female journalist after she made hurtful remarks about men’s mental health.
It was a single comment using language that mimicked hers and yet Fox, a straight white bloke occupying the lowest tier in the Oppression Olympics, deserved the full witch-burning treatment. There is no forgiveness in a world run by social justice because the punishment is designed for the person – not the crime.
Forget looking for balanced reporting.
What’s not to love about this situation for the press? Fox gave them 48 hours of monetised click-bait heaven and the removal of a powerful voice that threatened their comfy ideological consensus. Bargain.
The flames of outrage quickly spread from Fox’s GB News desk to the host of the show in question, Dan Wootton, and fellow presenter Calvin Robinson.
This swift culling has frightened the remaining presenters into a pact of silence while others are theatrically championing freedom of speech so long as it fits within the rules laid out by people and organisations that are allergic to the concept. Those who remain at GB News are effectively pacing along the bars of a prison cell.
For those who think they will remain safe by pandering to the narrative, be warned – Mark Steyn was axed for speaking the truth about Covid vaccine injuries before it was safe to do so. He was deleted from the conversation for one of the most virtuous public service tasks imaginable by a vindictive and partisan media regulator.
If Mark Steyn can be cancelled for helping victims of Big Pharma, anybody can be cancelled for any reason at any time.
You are safe for as long as your presence on the screen keeps the centre-right calm and preoccupied. At this point, you are a distraction – an ad playing before the scary movie begins. Do not imagine that you will be allowed to achieve any kind of influential position. It serves the Left better to cut down conservative commentators in messy public scandals and in doing so, soil the image of the entire cause. Whether you like GB News is irrelevant, the lesson applies to all conservative news outlets.
The Left play long games, and this is one of them.
Laurence Fox did not go quietly into the night as was intended because his power and his platform are not based on GB News. He has accumulated power outside the reach of regulators, especially when backed by the political machine of the Reclaim Party.
Being fearless in the world of politics is a dangerous game.
Last night we heard that Laurence Fox had been arrested in his home. While his mates at GB News languish in metaphoric jail cells, he inhabits a tangible one. According to sources, he is being held under suspicion for ‘conspiring to damage Ulez cameras’. These are the newly erected devices used to fine citizens for driving around their home suburbs in a worst-case dystopian nightmare dreamt up by car-hating bicycle riders.
In true Fox style, he sat on his couch in a Churchillian fashion, filming police as they searched his home while calmly smoking a cigar. Some joked that there were more police in Fox’s house than patrolling the British shoreline where hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants break the law at the behest of criminal gangs and terror cells.
His subsequent arrest followed comments made on a recent podcast with Maajid Nawaz called Warrior Creed during which Fox said, ‘I encourage them [the people nicknamed Blade Runners] to tear down every single camera there is and I will be joining them to tear down cameras as well, because I’m one of those people that puts my money where my mouth is.’
It’s a bizarre situation.
The Blade Runners are engaging in civil disobedience against what many feel is an unlawful infringement on basic human liberties.
They are condemned, many speculate, because the government is set to make a lot of money out of the Ulez scheme, up to £300 million in the first year.
That same government praises and often endorses civil disobedience and damage to public property when it is caused by a range of ‘green’ movements in the UK, including Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil. These protests endorse the establishment of even more coercive ‘Net Zero’ policies. Their civil disobedience is akin to a ‘social licence’ while Ulez protests represent the withdrawal of public support.
The problem is not the existence of civil disobedience – it is whether or not you are supporting the expanding powers of the State or trying to protect individual citizen freedom.
It is, for lack of a better term, an ideological war for the soul of Western Civilisation which has been corroded by do-gooders, corporate seat-warmers, and cardboard cut-out politicians who aspire to nothing more than a glass of champagne at the big table.
Unlike the Black Lives Matter activists who destroyed public monuments and statues central to the cultural heritage of UK towns, Fox hasn’t touched a Ulez camera. Meanwhile police knelt in the rubble of Western Civilisation, honouring the BLM vandals while assaulting British citizens who tried to protect public property.
‘In London’s knife-ridden capital city where a 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death with a sword, we have one, two – another three upstairs – going through my house,’ he said. ‘The Ulez “scam” cameras outside of London are a complete scam. There is no scientific evidence. Sadiq Khan rubbished the evidence and had it rewritten to serve his own needs. No one voted for it. This is the bringing in of a surveillance state.’
When the people of Germany tore down the Berlin Wall – dismantling it block-by-block, taking sledgehammers to the symbol of communist occupation and unending civil cruelty – the world cheered.
The dismantling of the physical manifestation of a totalitarian state used to be something praised by the Western world.
In the years since 1990, the West has taken on many of these authoritarian ‘vibes’ seeping out of the noxious hivemind festering within the European Union and United Nations. We are overrun with those who seek to control and extort.
Covid’s assigning of ‘ticks’ and ‘crosses’ to human beings via the issuing of ‘health passes’ to signify obedience to government fear-mongering and corporate interest was horrifying but short-lived. The tyranny of Net Zero is a far greater threat as the existential Boogeyman of Global Boiling has no start date, no clearly defined parameters, and a manifestation so vague that any warm day or light drizzle can be used by its preachers and zealots to justify its ‘truth’.
At least in centuries past, charlatan priests went to the trouble of making bleeding statues and accumulating piles of rusted nails – today’s eco-warriors are the laziest religious practitioners in history.
Still, the Net Zero zealots have a metaphoric volcano and they intend to chuck sacrifices into it.
The discussion we need to have – urgently and preferably before any more sacrifices are made – is what we do with governments that impose restrictions, regulations, and taxes that violate our basic understanding of civil liberty? How do we stop these enormously powerful international groups from turning our society into a tightly controlled police state where public policy, written to benefit the profit margins of corporations, can be stopped?
When does it become acceptable to resist unhinged and dangerous government policies? And we better have these discussions before Online Safety and Misinformation and Disinformation laws silence us forever.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/10/laurence-fox-sacrificed-to-the-gods-of-eco-fascism/ ?
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Climate of fear. Soon you won’t even be able to talk about the weather
Are you paying more attention to what you say these days? Do you feel you must conform to a prevailing narrative lest you offend someone, or worse, impact your career prospects?
If so, you have succumbed to a doctrine which has been decades in the framing and which now influences every aspect of our democratic way of life.
From school to the workplace, Cultural Marxism is gaining hold, instructing us that freedom of thought is a deadly sin.
Like ancient witchcraft, the doctrine’s authors have twisted natural climate change to increasingly control human behaviour. Whether it’s deciding on what is acceptable speech and how we must vote, prohibiting gas stoves in new homes, deciding which cars we drive and what foods we eat, Big Brother is now everywhere, insisting on our obedience.
The current high priests driving the doctrine reside within the United Nations and the World Economic Forum. With major input from Beijing, they are propagating the ‘Great reset of capitalism’ which promises bigger, ever more controlling governments to ensure ‘better and fairer outcomes’.
Those outcomes are to be achieved by rich countries, responsible for ‘excessive levels of greenhouse gas emissions’, paying trillion of dollars in climate reparations to developing countries, for the environmental damage they cause. Australia has signed up to this.
Meanwhile China, which boasts the world’s second-biggest economy, the most billionaires, the largest standing army, hypersonic missiles and successful Mars and Moon landings, retains ‘developing nation’ status.
Having invented anthropogenic climate change as an existential threat, the globalists driving the agenda have made fear the weapon of choice. They are ably supported by weather bureaus, other government agencies, politicians, academics and the media who reinforce doomsday scenarios at every opportunity.
For example the Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology recently chose a few warm September days to announce the beginning of another El Nino event. Despite cautioning its slow development might limit its strength, the damage was in the headlines.
It’s all Emergency Management Minister, Murray Watt, needed to warn that heatwaves are a silent killer that ‘lead to more deaths each year than other natural disasters’. News agencies as far away as France warned ‘Australia is facing its most intense bushfire season since the “Black Summer” of 2019-2020, when a series of out-of-control infernos raged across the eastern seaboard’.
The declaration was also enough for the University of Melbourne to bleat, ‘The evolving frequency of extreme events and conditions… challenges our conventional understanding of what constitutes “extreme”…’, scarily adding, ‘By failing to deal with the root causes of climate change, we will forever be putting band-aids on a gaping wound’.
They are right about one thing. What once was accepted as normal is now considered extreme.
George Orwell warned us, ‘Those who control the present control the past and those who control the past control the future’. The Bureau of Meteorology agrees. As scientist Dr Jennifer Marohasy, among others, repeatedly demonstrates, through peer-reviewed publications and elsewhere, Australia’s historical temperatures are dropped to cool the past without scientific justification. Dr Marohasy says, ‘This has the effect of making the present appear hotter – it is a way of generating more global warming for the same weather.’
The Bureau’s regular predictions of the demise of the iconic Great Barrier Reef, due to ‘more frequent and severe bleaching events…’, is a powerful headline grabber. However, a recent Australian Institute of Marine Science report finds that coral coverage on the northern and central parts of the Great Barrier Reef is at its highest level since monitoring began 36 years ago. According to a poll, only three per cent of Australians know this. The media has done its job.
And, should Mother Nature throw a curve ball, the BoM is there to catch it. Like when 2022 looked like being the first in 163 years of Sydney Observatory Hill monitoring, that temperatures would not exceed 32 degrees Celsius, the Bureau leant a solar panel against a hedge directed at the Stevenson screen. It was a good try but alas, Mother Nature prevailed.
One can only imagine the media pile-on should a 163-year high have been recorded.
Sensing the public’s fear of anthropogenic climate change is beginning to wane, officialdom has begun further tightening the net. Already the government’s media censor and global warming disciple, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, has stepped up its scrutiny. Only approved narratives escape censure.
For example, worried that viewers may be influenced by the optimistic Aims Barrier Reef report, Acma was quick to jump on a segment on Sky News that failed to mention that the reef’s splendid recovery was still at risk. Who knew Acma employed marine biologists?
Soon it won’t matter. Under the Albanese government’s proposed misinformation and disinformation laws, Acma will gain sweeping powers to require any Australian to appear at a time and place of its choosing to answer questions about misinformation or disinformation. Heavy fines will apply for non-attendance.
That threat alone will put a brake on free speech and evidenced-based judgements.
Except for governments which will be exempt even though, throughout the pandemic, they were the source of much misinformation and disinformation.
Still, climate activists like billionaire renewable energy investor, Michael Cannon-Brookes, seem relaxed about more government intervention and looming mandatory climate-related reporting. Why not? They stand to make more billions from the net-zero 2050 witchcraft.
Meanwhile, a self-satisfied, sensible, ‘developing’ China, ‘will set its own path and not be influenced by outside factors’. As the world’s largest emitter and building two coal-fired power stations a week, Beijing’s determination renders the entire global climate change initiatives crippling Western societies an exercise in complete futility.
Without a concerted fightback, the time will soon come when Millennials and Gen Z will reflect on their own carefree, relatively prosperous youth, and whisper to their children, ‘What we were told was conspiracy theory was Cultural Marxism after all. We’re so sorry for what we’ve bequeathed you.’
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/10/climate-of-fear/
****************************************************Australian Greenies silent on planned bulldozing of ‘koala central’ for huge wind farm
Koala habitats will be ripped apart to build wind farms in central Queensland so state and federal Labor governments can chase their fantasy of meeting useless, costly and unobtainable renewable energy targets.
If you need any more evidence that green zealotry has entered the delusional phase, this is it in my opinion.
Federal and state environment ministers Tanya Plibersek and Leanne Linard and previous enviro minister Meaghan Scanlon have, perhaps unwittingly, paved the way for koalas to be sacrificed on the renewable energy altar to appease the green evangelists.
Here I have to say I am on the side of the koalas. And I remind Plibersek and Linard that in 2022 the status of the koala was changed from vulnerable to endangered in Queensland and NSW.
Linard said the Palaszczuk Government was strongly committed to protecting and conserving koalas and their habitat.
Not strong enough, it seems, to dissuade Plibersek from using her ministerial powers to approve Lotus Creek wind farm on the Nebo-Connors Range 175km northwest of Rockhampton.
Earlier this year The Courier-Mail reported the project by the South Korean-owned Ark Energy will have 55 wind turbines able to generate 1.7 million megawatt hours of renewable energy a year – enough to power 305,000 homes.
In approving the project, Plibersek overturned a decision by her Coalition predecessor Sussan Ley, who in 2020 said the wind farm was as “clearly unacceptable” and in breach of federal environment laws, partly because the site was home to koalas and other species afflicted by the previous summer’s catastrophic bushfires.
The Plibersek approval of the Lotus Creek project gave the green light to the bulldozing of old-growth forest containing 341ha of known koala habitat, The Australian reported.
However, The Australian said that figure was likely to be underestimated.
The national daily quoted renowned nature photographer Steven Nowakowski describing the forest as “koala central”.
There are more threats to our beloved koalas. I noticed protesters outside The Courier-Mail’s Bush Summit in Rockhampton waving Save the Koala placards when objecting to state government approval of the Moah Creek wind turbine development on untouched native bushland 30km west of Rockhampton. The project put 380ha of koala habitat at the mercy of the bulldozers, The Courier-Mail reported.
It seems absurd to me that the Labor government refuses to approve dams, coal and gas projects on environmental grounds while approving wind turbines that are clearly a direct threat to an endangered species.
And I haven’t heard a word of protest from animal rights activists, the Queensland Greens, or the Australian Conservation Foundation, the World Wildlife Fund or Friends of the Earth. Why?
More pain may be coming for the endangered koala. Plibersek has now been asked to approve 88 giant turbines in the middle of an upland tropical forest at Chalumbin on the Atherton Tableland, where 844ha of koala habitat were identified in the original plan.
The developer is the same corporation backing Lotus Creek.
The ABC reported the controversial $1 billion wind farm was adjacent to World Heritage-protected rainforests. And that the project was scaled back from the original 200 turbines in an effort to appease conservationists and some traditional owners.
Conservationists opposed to the Chalumbin wind farm, two hours southwest of Cairns, say it would pose a threat to a number of animals including the northern greater glider, the red goshawk, the magnificent brood frog, the masked owl and the spectacled flying fox. I haven’t heard a peep out of Linard or Palaszczuk about this.
Alarm bells are ringing. Documents tabled by federal parliament Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young show the federal Environment Department is assessing 140 proposals with the potential to have a detrimental impact on koalas.
Plibersek is the ultimate decision- maker on developments that affect threatened species.
In state parliament Shane Knuth from Katter’s Australia Party gave a valuable perspective.
“This wind farm will comprise some of the tallest turbines in the Southern Hemisphere which will destroy forest and threaten endangered species,” he told the House.
“To further highlight the renewable fantasy to achieve the government’s 50 per cent renewable target by 2030, this will require an additional 2,200 megawatts of new renewables, which means 540,000 hectares of land has to be cleared for wind farms, excluding transmission lines.
“As long as it is a wind farm, foreign-owned companies can clear whatever they like.
“Governments continue to knock back any new water project proposed while at the same time wind farms are given a free pass to completely destroy natural habitat.’’
Knuth specifically referred to the abandoned Tully-Millstream hydro-electric Scheme that was “a clean, green approved project” that would have powered 100,000 homes.
“It was abandoned in 1988 due to the declaration of the Wet Tropics World Heritage area,” he said.
Knuth is right.
It is clear to me that state and federal Labor environmental ministers are ignoring the serious threats posed by renewable energy projects.
So are the Greens as they continue their long march to gain control of federal, state and local governments.
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