INTERNET STARTING TO FORGET ITSELF

Internet content is at risk from changes in coding that threaten to make old files unreadable, and from broken hyperlinks to sites that are not maintained, according to Vint Cerf, the man sometimes called the "Father of the Internet" for his work on TCP/IP, the language a computer uses to access the internet.

Speaking at a presentation organised by the University of New South Wales' engineering faculty and Google in Sydney on Wednesday (27th June), Cerf likened the phenomenon to memory loss in a human:

"We have a big problem. I call it the digital dark age. We don’t curate our digital content with much care and until we realise that, we can’t get any of it. It’s gone, we can’t read any of the bits anymore."

Cerf believes that everything on the internet today -- from photos and documents to records and social media -- could cease to be functional in as little as a decade, as old formats and standards are superseded.

Cerf (left)

Cerf called for a new digital preservation regime that would "respect" old code and back up old content.

“I’m a big fan of a project to create a regime in which we can assure ourselves the digital content that has meaning to you and to me and to others is still readable...The regime that should be in place [is] one in which old software is preserved, hardware can be emulated in the files so we can run old operating systems and old software so we can actually do something with the digital objects that have been captured and stored...Think of all the papers we read now, especially academic papers that have url references. Think about what happens 10, 20, 50 years from now when those don’t resolve anymore because the domain names were abandoned or someone forgot to pay the rent.”

Cerf also addressed the issue of where such a vast quantity of data could be stored.

“If all the resolution process needs to be maintained for a long period of time, someone has to store the data somewhere,” Cerf said. “It still has to be retrievable and it still has to be interpretable and some of the other things.”

Cerf praised the efforts of Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive over the last 20 years.

Because he works for Google, Cerf failed to mention several other waves of "internet amnesia" specifically created by his corporate masters, such as shadow banning, rigged search results, and deplatforming.

Frankly, if the internet were a person it would already have serious mental issues.

HEIMBACH FREE FOR NOW AND BINGE WATCHING "A HANDMAID'S TALE"

Matt Heimbach, the disgraced leader of the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP), has been released from prison after serving a 38-day sentence for breaking parole on a suspended sentence from 2017.

Heimbach, aged 27, was jailed following an assault on his father-in-law and fellow TWP member Matt Parrott, aged 36, which took place when Parrott caught Heimbach fucking his wife Jessica.

Since his release, Heimbach has been in touch with the Jewish Leftist smear site the Southern Poverty Law Center, which asked him what he plans to do next. Heimbach replied:

“Catching up on Season 2 of The Handmaid's Tale.”

This is a reference to the TV series set in a future dystopia where traditionalist values are brought back to deal with a demographic crisis. 

Heimbach favourite: A Handmaid's Tale

The SPLC also asked Heimbach if he would attend either of the rallies this August to mark the one-year anniversary of the Unite the Right rally:

“Nah, between work and watching The Handmaid's Tale, I’ve been told that Orange is the New Black is pretty good.” 

Heimbach was also contacted by news site Talking Point Memo. He told the site that the TWP was defunct and that he was no longer involved in politics.

“I’m just focusing on my responsibilities and duties. To my family — and God.”

Matt Parrot, who was also contacted by TPM, said that his new "full-time job" involved being "a single dad," implying that he is now separated from his slut wife.

“I decisively failed at my original mission which was to be a voice for working class white folks, and ended up in the middle of the most humiliating white trash spectacle of the year,” Parrott told TPM by phone. "I could not have possibly down a worse job with my original plan and I give up.”

Parrott emphasised that he was completely finished with politics. 

“I'm not just done for now, I’m done with politics forever.”

Heimbach will face a new trial in September for the assault on Parrott.

FORTESS EUROPE UNDER ITS GREAT LEADER SALVINI DECIDES TO BUILD "MIGRANT PRISONS"

Europeans are so jaded with fake refugees 
that this is how they now see them.

In a crisis meeting held in Brussels yesterday, European leaders, under pressure from Italy's Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, agreed to set up de facto prisons for migrants in order to stem the flood of African migrants who have been pouring into Europe and destabilising it in recent years. 

The migrants, who are almost entirely young men drawn to Europe by its welfare, higher standard of living, and the unguarded status of European women, have been abusing the lenient refugee systems of European countries to illegally enter the continent and remain. 

The problems intensified a few years ago when childless European politicians, like Germany's Angela Merkel, were tricked by "bleeding heart" stories in the media to invite in droves of fake refugees. 

Recently, however, the wave of migrants has created a populist and nationalist backlash, with populist and nationalist parties making significant electoral breakthroughs, especially in Italy, where Salvini's nationalist Lega Party is now part of the government. 

According to the agreement reached in Brussels, the migrant prisons, which are called "secure centres" for PR reasons, will be set up in those EU states that volunteer to participate. 

Voluntary! Nice! Let me guess, not a single Eastern European country will volunteer to set one up.

This is a win-win for Salvini, because it means that not only will migrants be locked up, greatly killing their incentive to come to Europe, but it also means that no European country will be able to criticise Italy's treatment of migrants without, at the same time, increasing its own share of the burden. 

Keeping the migrants in the "secure centres" will also make it easier to return them to their own countries when their claims are rejected. This is because they will not be able to disappear or contract a sham marriage with a local drug addict as they now do.

Hero Salvini

In a statement Salvini said: 

"I’m satisfied and proud of our government’s results in Brussels. Finally Europe has been forced to discuss an Italian proposal… (and) finally Italy is no longer isolated and has returned to being a protagonist."

There is also a report that "asylum processing centres" will be set up in North Africa, along the lines suggested by the right-wing Austrian government, which also includes a nationalist party. At present such cases are processed in Europe. This will further reduce the pull factors except in the tiny percentage of genuine asylum cases.

Meanwhile the NGO SOS Méditerranée, which was collaborating with criminal gangs and running the migrant ferry ship Aquarius, has been exposed as a gang of liars. 

They always claimed that they were merely saving lives, but since Italy stopped being so cooperative, their ship has been empty of migrants. 

This is not because there are suddenly no migrants -- there are still plenty, and recently even around 100 of them drowned. The reason the Aquarius is empty is simply because the crew of the Aquarius don't want to take them back to Libya. 

They also know that "rescuing" migrants by taking them back to Libya is not acceptable to the gangs they have been working with or the migrants themselves. They know that if they took on migrants and tried to return them to the Libyan shore instead of bringing them to Europe, they would face a mutiny that could cost them their lives. 

Really, if that happened that would be the best thing ever, as these NGOs are effectively demographic terrorist organisations working to destroy Europe.

Every rose must have its thorns.

WILL MILO'S FRIVOLOUS "SHOOT JOURNALISTS" COMMENTS BE LINKED TO ANNAPOLIS BLOODBATH?

Optics: Milo bathing in the blood of innocent journalists?

Troubled Alt-Lite figure Milo Yiannopoulos has recently been sending violent and threatening messages to innocent journalists, expressing a wish to see them gunned down in a pool of blood and shattered bone. 

Meanwhile in as yet unrelated news, five people have just been shot to death in an attack on a newspaper office in Annapolis, Maryland.

“I can’t wait for the vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight,” Milo wrote in a text message to one journalist who recently contacted him, later explaining that it was his standard response to any request for comment from the press. 

As reported by CBS, the shooting occurred at the offices of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis:

Senior law enforcement officials confirmed with CBS News that the suspect is a white man in his 20s and didn’t have identification on him. He is also reportedly refusing to identify himself to authorities. CBS News is also reporting that the suspect was armed with a shotgun.

According to police, first shots were reported at 2:40 p.m. after the shooter entered the building, which houses the Capital Gazette and several other businesses.

The building was immediately evacuated when police arrived on scene, and officers searched the building to secure the scene. Police have since secured the building and are transitioning it into a crime scene.

Authorities say they were on the scene between 60 and 90 seconds after receiving the report.

Anne Arundel County Police Department spokesman Lt. Ryan Frashure says they don’t believe this to be a “mass casualty” incident, but won’t give further details on numbers until the scene has been secured..

It seems highly unlikely that Milo or his followers would have any connection with this shooting. But, whenever something like this happens, the Fake News Media always tries to connect it to someone in the Dissident Right -- hence the Sam Hyde meme -- so it was obviously stupid of Milo to make such comments. Especially when he is seeking to revive his flagging career by staging a takeover of a normie political part in the UK, namely UKIP, along with other members of the Alt-Lite, including Paul Joseph Watson, Sargon of Akkad, and Count Dankula.

DEMOCRATS THE PARTY OF DYING BOOMERS AND RISING TRIBALISTS: PRIMARY SHOCK IN NEW YORK

Pushing the Democrats to destruction, LOL: Ocasio-Cortez

I think we can already call the 2020 US Presidential election. Donald Trump will win in a landslide.

Without credible opposition, there is no alternative outcome, and right now the Democrats are very far from being credible opposition. 

This has been underlined in a recent poll that shows Democrats still looking back, doubling down on past failure, and clinging onto old, discredited politicians to keep the capstone on the divisive politics that will define the Party's next -- and possibly last -- generation. 

The poll, carried out by Harvard CAPS/Harris, asked Democrat voters who they thought would be the favourite to win the Democratic nomination for the 2020 vote. 

This!

Surprisingly 32% went for ex-Obama-VP and serial molester Joe Biden, who would become 78 a few days after the election, while 18% still believed Hillary (aged 73) was the ideal candidate to lead the Dems. Bernie Sanders (79) and Elizabeth Warren (71) were third and fourth with 16% and 10% respectively. 

Really, there is no escaping the obvious pattern here: Dem voters are clinging onto a dying cadre of ageing White politicians because they know this is their last, fading hope of uniting disparate groups to win again. They also know that this is the only thing that still keeps them backing the party.

The next generation of Democrat politicians will quite clearly be tribalists, basing their power on appealing to racial minorities and victim groups, and on hating White people. While taking over states and cities will be possibilities, sweeping the nation will become an impossibility.

Don't believe me? Well, this useful map will help:

It shows how non-White Democrats are taking over more and more parts of the party, starting from the grassroots up.  

We already got a taste of this in the defeat of Democratic Party stalwart Joseph Crowley in the Congressional primary in Bronx and Queens the other day. Crowley was a White, 10-term veteran, who tried to build awkward coalitions and not piss off the wrong people. In other words, prime boomer. But that didn't mesh with the increasingly shrill tribalistic note in Democratic politics.

Here the winner was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old Hispanic with strong socialist credentials that included robust criticism of Israel. In other words, a pure tribalist with little thought or care for the greater unity of the party that the Dems need to function as a national party. 

"HATE CRIME" CHARGES FOR FIELDS A BAD OMEN FOR "UNITE THE RIGHT" CIVIL CASE

Fields (second from left)

Right now there is a civil case against the main organisers and participants of the "Unite the Right" rally held in Charlottesville last year. The last I heard was that the judge in the case was considering his verdict -- something that apparently needs to drag on for several weeks!

If this civil case goes against those involved, it could see them financially ruined.

So, it's not exactly the best omen for them that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has just come out with comprehensive "hate crime" charges against James Alex Fields, one of the men involved in the handful of criminal cases generated by the rally. 

Fields, of course, was the man who famously drove his car into a crowd of leftists on the day of the rally, in an incident that killed one woman and injured several others. A statement released by Sessions gives a good idea of where he is trying to go with this:

"Today's indictment should send a clear message to every would-be criminal in America that we aggressively prosecute violent crimes of hate that threaten the core principles of our nation."

Really, that seems like overkill for something that still looks to me like a scared kid trying to get away from a Leftist mob.

The detail of the indictment against Fields is also ominously full of boomerist "Hitler panic" cliches. 

As reported on by Reuters:

According to the indictment, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, Fields routinely promoted racist ideologies on his social media accounts, including expressing support for Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust.

Prior to heading out for the rally, it says, a family member texted and told him to be careful.

"We're not the ones who need to be careful," he responded, along with an image of Adolf Hitler.

He is charged with wilfully causing bodily harm to Heyer, which resulted in her death, "because of the actual and perceived race, colour, religion, and national origin of individuals in a crowd."

He also faces multiple counts of committing a hate crime with an attempt to kill, and charges of bias-motivated interference with federally protected activity resulting in death.

None of this augurs well for the ongoing civil cases.

In the same way that Trump gives Russia a hard time in order to protect himself from empty accusations of "Russian collusion" by the media, so Sessions seems to be coming down hard on the Alt-Right in order to fend off equally empty accusations of "racism" against the Trump administration (pro-tip: it's not working!)

It remains to be seen whether this hard-line approach in a criminal case will spill over into a related civil case. 

I hope I'm wrong, but my guess is that it will.

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SUPREME COURT STOPS FUCKING WITH THE CONSTITUTION LONG ENOUGH TO PASS TRUMP TRAVEL BAN

A broken clock is right twice a day, and in the same way, the US Supreme Court can occasionally get it right, as we see in the Court's recent 5-4 decision to uphold President Trump's completely sensible travel ban on people from nations connected to terrorism and anarchy. The ruling overturns numerous attempts by blatantly political lower courts to overturn the ban.

As reported by the communist BBC, which was none too pleased by the decision:

The court's reversal is viewed as a victory for the Trump administration. The ban prohibits most people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen from entering the US. Mr Trump said the Supreme Court decision was a "great victory" for the nation and constitution.

"We have to be tough and we have to be safe and we have to be secure," the Republican president said in Tuesday's meeting with lawmakers.

"The ruling shows that all the attacks from the media and the Democrat politicians were wrong, and they turned out to be very wrong," he added.

The ban is sometimes wrongly referred to as a "Muslim ban," which is stupid because there are dozens of Muslim countries that are not included in the ban. The only reason it can be spun by the Left as a "Muslim ban" is because Muslim nations tend to be more connected to terrorism and anarchy, which is what the ban is really aimed at -- except in the case of Iran, which is merely on the list to please Israel.

Responding to the Court's decision, Trump also used the occasion to take a quick swipe at the EU, telling reporters:

"If you look at the European Union, they're meeting right now to toughen up their immigration policies because they've been over-run, they've been over-run. And frankly, a lot of those countries are not the same places anymore."

The Supreme Court has done more to undermine America than perhaps any other institution in the last few decades, with countless bad decisions that have made a mockery of America's constitution and democracy. 

The fact that they finally got something right doesn't mean they are off the hook. It just reminds us of all the reasons why this anti-democratic body should be abolished, as this could so easily have gone the other way.

TRAD NEWS RIGHT AGAIN: USS FITZGERALD CRASH WAS "DIVERSITY MALFUNCTION"

The US Government is covering up the fact that Feminism and "anti-male sexism" is destroying the navy.

You may already have forgotten the crash of the USS Fitzgerald, a $1.5 billion dollar US Navy ship loaded with all the latest navigation technology, that mysteriously crashed into a giant Filipino container ship in the Pacific Ocean, south of Japan, last year. But it was a massive one. 

Seven were killed, dozens injured, and some bananas on their way to Japan were probably delayed. As for the US ship, that was basically totalled, with repair costs now estimated at around half-a-billion dollars! 

At the time, because of the mealy mouthed way that the Fake News Media were reporting on the accident, we at TRAD NEWS immediately suspected that this was a serious "diversity malfunction." 

Here we are calling this out last June:

Let's stop beating around the bush and instead focus on the most likely cause of maritime mayhem in the modern US navy, namely the old bugbear of "diversity" and the organisation's well-known policies of fast-tracking women and minorities.

Remember, the military services in the US don't merely exist to defend the country against its enemies and carry out globalist wars/ They are also a handy tool to remind the very divided United States of America how "united" they are -- or should be.

Accordingly, a search for crew shots of the USS Fitzgerald, suggests that the ship was in fact being used as something of an "affirmative action" guinea pig and showboat. 

Well, once again, it looks like we were spot on, as, over a year later (which is a real scandal), details are starting to leak out.

According to a piece at The Other McCain blog, at the time of the accident both the Officer on Deck, the actual person in direct control of the ship, and the Tactical Action Officer, the person in direct control of the ship's surveillance equipment, were both -- yes, you guessed it -- ladies! As yet, their races have not been revealed.

What's more the two ladies had apparently been having a bit of a "tiff" and were not speaking to each other. These revelations are based on an anonymous email sent to The Other McCain supplemented by a bit of digging:

Not until a year later, when the final reports are made public and the guilty parties have been court-martialed, does the truth come out. The OOD was named Sarah, and the Tactical Action Officer was named Natalie, and they weren’t speaking to each other!!! The Tactical Action Officer would normally be in near constant communication with the OOD, but there is no record of any communication between them that entire shift!

Another fun fact: In the Navy that won WWII, the damage control officers were usually some of the biggest and strongest men aboard, able to close hatches, shore up damaged areas with timbers, etc. The Fitz’s damage control officer was also a woman, and she never left the bridge. She handled the aftermath of the accident remotely, without lifting a finger herself!

Look it up: The OOD was Sarah Coppock, Tactical Action Officer was Natalie Combs. . . .

As The Other McCain points out, it looks like the US Navy -- and in fact the whole military establishment -- has been lowering discipline and training standards to accelerate “gender integration,” a major policy push at the Pentagon during the Obama administration.

Watch out America's enemies! These trained killers could give you a very nasty cuddle...and then accuse you of rape in the morning.

One of the reason that ships don't always sink when they are hit as badly as the USS Fitzgereald was, is because they are compartmentalised by bulkheads that can be shut off to limit the inflow of seawater. Unfortunately a common female characteristic is the inability to "compartmentalise" or separate emotions from their jobs, with the result that bad "feels" mess up the way they do their job. Not such a problem when it's just the laundry or baking bread that's involved, but quite a different matter when US navy lives and equipment are at stake.

This inability to compartmentalise emotions is definitely what seems to have happened here, with the petty emotions between the two female officers effectively causing seven deaths and wrecking the US Navy's budget for the year. But just saying this will now have you denounced for "hate speech" and "bigotry," revealing how mad and diseased our society has become.

Now it seems that a lot of high-ranking US Navy officers are involved in a massive operation to shut off the bulkheads and stop the flooding that will capsize the US Navy's most prized vessel the "USS Diversity," a fantasy ship that is badly holed below the waterline by this major "diversity malfunction."

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ERDOGAN WINS ELECTION - SUPPORT BASE MOVES TOWARDS NATIONALISM, AS OPPONENT MINES BUGMAN VOTE

The result of the Turkish election is that the country's long-standing leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has been elected President for a five-year term, gaining over 50% of the vote in the first round. 

At the same time there was an Parliamentary election, in which Erdogan's political coalition, the People's Alliance won 344 of the 600 seats. 

This is the first election since the country voted last year in a Referendum to change the constitution towards a more Executive Presidential system, rather like the USA, so that the President can rule without a majority in the legislative assembly. However, the fact that Erdogan controls the Parliament as well, means that his rule will be strengthened.

Erdogan's opponent in the Presidential race was Muharrem Ince of the Republican People's Party. 

This is the party of modern Turkey's founder Kemal Ataturk. Many years ago this would be considered a quasi-fascist party, committed to the secularisation and modernisation of Turkey. But now it is just a crappy social democratic party that wants Turkey to join the EU and become as cucked and gayed-up as Western Europe. Ince only got around 30% of the vote, mainly from Turkish bugmen in Istanbul and the Aegean coastline, which caters to Western tourists.

Typical Ince voter: Turkish bugman prowling the Aegean seafront hoping to bang tourist tottie.

More interesting than the presidential election was the parliamentary election. Erdogan is the de facto leader of the soft-Islamist Justice and Development Party (JDP). Despite its social conservatism this party is actually business-friendly and pro-Europe.

But to win both the presidential election and gain a parliamentary majority, Erdogan had to form an alliance with the Eurosceptic and nationalist Movement Party (NMP), which the liberal Western media hysterically refers to a "far-right" or "ultranationalist." 

Significantly in this election Erdogan's own JDP lost ground, going from 49.50% of the vote and 317 seats in 2015 to  42.56% of the vote and 295 seats. It was therefore only thanks to support from the NMP that Erdogan could win both elections, as the NMP scored 11.1% in the Parliamentary vote and increased its number of seats from 40 to 49.

In short, this election represents a bolstering of Erdogan's slightly weakening power by bringing on board a Turkish nationalist and eurosceptic element. Needless to say, this makes it all the more unlikely that Turkey will ever join the EU.

Around 3 million Turks living overseas voted in the election. Many of them have the right to vote in the European countries in which they live, where they usually vote for left-wing parties. In the Turkish elections, by contrast, they tend to vote right-wing.

ALBANIAN SUPREMACISTS USE WORLD CUP TO TROLL SERBS

Shaqiri: hate gesture

The soccer World Cup has turned into a "political football" after two "hate-filled" Albanian Supremacists used goal-scoring celebrations to make crude political points and insult their opponents on Friday (22nd June). 

Making this even more surprising is the fact that the two players concerned weren't even playing for Albania, which has never qualified for the World Cup. Instead they were playing for Switzerland against Serbia!!!

The two players, Xherdan Shaqiri and Granit Xhaka, both of whom are of Albanian ethnicity, made Albanian Supremacist gestures with their hands to taunt the Serbian team after scoring their goals. 

As reported by the communist BBC:

Serbia has hit out at a "provocative" double eagle celebration by two ethnic Albanian goalscorers in the World Cup.

Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri scored for Switzerland who beat Serbia 2-1.

Their gesture is a nationalist symbol representing the double headed eagle on Albania's national flag. Critics say it could inflame tensions among Serbian nationalists and ethnic Albanians.

Albanian leaders applauded the pair. A pro-government Serbian newspaper said they had "humiliated" Switzerland.

The celebration has brought political tensions in the Balkans on to the World Cup stage.

BBC Monitoring reports that in Serbia, pro-government newspaper Informer used a derogatory term for Albanians, saying "the Albanian clan within 'clockmakers' team was sending poisoned arrows weeks before, so the match couldn't pass without a provocation".

The gestures were especially insulting, as Albanians are Muslims who have operated historically as a kind of Fifth Column in Europe, assisting invaders like the Ottoman Turks, and displacing Serbs from their historical homelands.

"Racist" Shaqiri taunts Serbs by showing off the physique of the Supreme Albanian Superman.

Xhaka and Shaqiri's families are Albanians from Kosovo, a traditional Serbian territory that has been ethnically cleansed by Albanian terrorists backed up by NATO since 1999. 

Commenting on Shaqiri's loyalties and the fact that he wears a Swiss flag on one boot and a Kosovan one on the other, the Serbian striker Aleksandar Mitrovic asked: 

"If he loves Kosovo so much and decides to flaunt the flag, why did he refuse a chance to play for their team?"

The "double eagle" celebrations of Xhaka and Shaqiri meant that Switzerland was not competing as Switzerland but was instead participating in insulting a victim of Muslim and US aggression. 

This incident underlines the increasing meaningless of the World Cup as an arena for national teams, as many Western European teams, like Switzerland, have been colonised by players whose loyalties clearly remain elsewhere.

SAUDI WOMEN ALLOWED TO DRIVE: LUCKILY NO TREES IN ARABIA

There can be no denying it. The Saudi government is making a major PR push to improve its image. In fact, considering how bad the desert kingdom's public image is there is plenty they could do to improve things.

How about NOT bombing and starving Yemeni civilians? 

Or how about "rethinking" the stoning of women to death for being adultery and slapping their domestic servants to death (even when they're on holiday)? 

Or just maybe they could stop flying in Instagram models and paying them to be shat on. 

Let's face it, they could change almost anything they do and it would be an improvement. But, instead, as a cheap sop to shrill Western feminists, they do the one thing that actually makes things worse -- they allow women to drive. 

Progress, motherfucker!

Here is the "ever-reliable" CNN on this "landmark" day for women:

Women in Saudi Arabia can legally get behind the wheel of a car for the first time Sunday as the kingdom lifts its longstanding ban on women driving.

The end of the controversial ban brings the ultra-conservative Gulf nation into line with the rest of the world.

It also represents the culmination of years of campaigning by activists who have sometimes been arrested and imprisoned for their efforts.

The step will free many women from the constraints of needing to use public transportation or hire a male driver to travel even small distances, allowing many more to join the workforce.

Hiring women is a key part of Saudi Arabia's ambitious plan to overhaul its economy, known as Vision 2030. The reform agenda is being spearheaded by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Great, now they will be able to drive to their pole-dancing jobs before getting stoned to death the next day!

Of all the things the Saudis could do to change their image, this was the dumbest. Let me tell you why. First it increases the number of inexperienced drivers. Second it introduces to the roads of the kingdom that most dangerous four-wheeled creature known to man -- a woman behind a steering wheel.  And thirdly because of this: 

How a Saudi man views the road:

How a Saudi woman views the road:

Luckily Saudi Arabia is a vast treeless waste filled with soft sand that can soften a lot of extremely bad driving.

That could possibly minimise some of the carnage that this crap PR move could cause. Not sure if that's a good thing or not, LOL.