Britain:
‘A man with Down’s syndrome was locked in a one-bedroom flat and deprived of his basic human rights for ten months until his death, a report has found.
Detained against his will by health and council officials in the north east, David Parsons was denied regular contact with his wife and family and ‘abandoned’ by those caring for him…’

‘The ruling can only be the start of a deeper intrusion of the political class into free speech, already so under threat on so many fronts.’

Oslo police.  How long before we begin to lose ours?
h/t Gates of Vienna

‘..This special TV news report from Australia is refreshingly candid about a would-be Muslim terrorist who planned his murderous jihad against his adopted country while drawing welfare benefits for nineteen years at the expense of the Australian taxpayer.

There’s only one problem: the report never actually aired on Australian television. It was produced by the network last year, but political correctness prevented it from being released.

Now a copy of the banned news video has been leaked…’
here, at Gates of Vienna

‘Labor’s secret $100 million deal with the Greens
$11 billion mining tax passed early this morning
Government tried to keep deal details secret
The deal means the Government will defer concessions for foreign banks to get $20 million a year in revenue the Greens want spent on public facilities.
The announcement today ended 12 hours of secrecy in which the Greens and Labor kept from Parliament and the voters details of the deal to get the Mineral Resource Rental Tax (MRRT) through the House of Representatives early this morning…’
“If a private individual tried this, offering cash in secret to get a law passed, they’d end up in jail. And they’d probably share a cell with the member of Parliament who took the money.”
Malcolm Farr, National Political Editor

James Delingpole
‘..Here is a gloriously revealing string of emails in which activists and global warming research groups discuss how best to manipulate reality so that climate change looks more scary and dangerous than it really is:’
UPDATE:  Trueblue NZ has a great post on this–he’s as angry as we all ought to be.  I wonder if the braindead cheerleaders for the crypto-socialist NZ National Party will even acknowledge that the Nat’s slimy and duplicitous ‘Emissions Trading Scheme’ is based on a series of lies and is no more than a convenient vehicle to tax the productive still more?  Calling Adolf from ‘No Minister’……answer this, if you can.

Francis Porretto: 
‘…We are reminded of what Bill Clinton said on 11 March 1993,
“We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans . . . .”
Bill Clinton then said on 12 August 1993,
“If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government’s ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.”
Clinton was the president of the United States when he said those things. He never after bothered to qualify them, let alone retract them. They’re the clearest possible explication of the dangers of a government which claims to have interests of its own.
……Private Americans, who wish only to be free, cannot win this game with no rules. Neither can we withdraw from it. We can only end it. It’s become highly unlikely that we can do so via the ballot box; the political class has rigged that element of the game in its own favor, and will fight to the death against any attempt to cleanse it.
It’s time to look at one another and ask the hard questions.‘
(bold mine kg)

is a joke in the People’s Republic of Victoria

Thanks to Kirsten for the image.