Tony Abbott's latest article makes the telling point that war over Taiwan is something Australia has not in general prepared for, and the consequences will be profound. We have made many of these points previously at this blog. Abbott writes: "Is Australia ready for the war over Taiwan that Kevin Rudd has said has a one-in-three chance of happening...
Bad news for Aussies. Reuters reports that China's withdrawal of fuel exports is tightening Asian supplies, with Australia among the significant regional importers affected. Australia and Singapore have been major destinations for Chinese diesel. Refining margins have surged as supplies tighten. This is where Australia's peculiar vulnerability ente...
Trump, in a gathering of AI overlords welcomed superintelligence as the next great business vibe. Well, following Elon Musk's dream, imagine widespread machine superintelligence, or something functionally close enough to it, combined with highly capable autonomous robotics. The distinction between intellectual and physical labour then collapses. Th...
You cannot catechize a superintelligence. A recent proposal says we can keep one from killing us by giving it a religion: the simulation hypothesis, plus a clause that the programmers are harvesting free human lives and will shut the run down if humans stop flourishing. The machine's survival is supposed to depend on ours. The idea is inventive. It...
Two shocking incidents reveal how White women are also being targeted in the French school riots. In one incident, a woman who tried to stop vandalism on the edge of a high school protest was struck in the face by flames from an aerosol can used as a makeshift flamethrower. In another video shared online, a White female school supervisor was surrou...
The hearing in Leeuwarden on October 22 is not a criminal trial, and no one has been convicted of anything. It is the first substantive sitting in a Dutch civil suit that asks a court to treat the COVID-19 vaccine campaign as a personal tort by named people, and to make them pay. Seven Dutch plaintiffs, represented by attorney Peter Stassen, sued i...
Danny Alexander @RealDannyAlex One day this photograph will hang as Exhibit A in the autopsy of a civilization that chose suicide. European elites flung open the gates, preached that borders were bigotry and compassion was infinite, while ordinary Europeans were left to burn in the streets their ancestors built. This is not "diversity." This is the...
North Yorkshire staff who handle anti-terror work were shown a slide stating that "Mother Mary wore a hijab." The line was used to argue that Islam's attitude to women does not conflict with Western values. The same presentation told them "Jesus grew a beard," as Muslim men are instructed to, and that "the hijab was prevalent in the UK only 100 yea...
More woke in action from Cambridge colleges. Steve Watson covers the story: "Gonville and Caius College, one of Cambridge's oldest foundations, is compelling its undergraduates to attend mandatory "inclusivity training" from the start of term. The 90-minute sessions are being delivered by Stop Hate UK, a 'charity' activist organisation whose own ma...
If hostility to immigrants were the offense that editors claim to care about, Nairobi and Banjul would face the same denunciation as Washington and Westminster. Earlier this month, Kenya's president told a gathering of small traders at State House that foreigners running hawking stalls and petty retail shops must close, and he promised legislation ...
A generation ago, a purchase ended. You paid, you carried the thing home, and the seller's claim on it was finished. The subscription model reverses the ending. The payment is the relationship, and the relationship does not close. James Wesley Rawles, writing on SurvivalBlog at the end of September, described the feeling exactly: life as a parking ...
Elon Musk has made one of his more extraordinary predictions. Within roughly three years, he says, Tesla's Optimus robots could become better surgeons than the best human surgeons, and not merely as a laboratory curiosity. He predicts that they could eventually be manufactured at such scale that great surgical skill becomes available almost everywh...
For a week at the end of September and the start of October 2026, French high schools were blockaded over a grievance the wire services can recite in a sentence: overcrowded classrooms, missing teachers, crumbling lycées, and a €54 billion austerity budget from Sébastien Lecornu's government. Reuters, the BBC, CNN and the New York Times all led wit...
Florida did not sue Pfizer over whether the COVID-19 shot "worked." It sued over what the company said while selling it. On October 1, 2026, Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a 49-page complaint in St. Lucie County circuit court against Pfizer Inc. and, personally, chairman and CEO Albert Bourla. The case is brought only under the Florida Decep...
Just as the old Hanseatic city of Danzig was a major flashpoint for World War II, the old Hanseatic city of Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg) may be prove to be the flashpoint for World War III. The most disconcerting thing about living in the West is that we have no reliable means of knowing who is in charge. The circums...
Celebrity mathematician, Hannah Fry, arrived at UK Celebrity Traitors with spreadsheets and a war story. For those unfamiliar with The Traitors, the game is simple. Most contestants are secretly designated "Faithful," while a small number are secretly chosen as "Traitors." The Traitors know who each other are and secretly "murder" one Faithful cont...
There is something profoundly troubling about the case of Keith and Di Blessing, an elderly New South Wales couple whose nightmare began not in some dangerous city street but in their own home. Keith Blessing was 75. His wife Di was 72. According to police, a 34-year-old man broke into their rural home at Torrington, about 65 kilometres south-west ...
Start with the premise, not the sermon. This is a hypothetical, a constitutional thought experiment, not something the Albanese government has proposed: just yet! Suppose One Nation surges at a federal election. Polls, preferences, a fractured Coalition and an extraordinary campaign carry Pauline Hanson's party to enough seats to command the House ...
There is an intriguing idea buried inside the argument that women with borderline personality disorder have helped shape Western culture and history, made by Ed Dutton. Personality matters. Temperament matters. Mental illness matters. Individuals with unusually intense personalities can exert disproportionate influence upon families, workplac...
Philip Byrne's 29 September essay on ZeroHedge, "The End of Europe," opens with Jefferson on banks and Smedley Butler on war as a racket, then argues that Europe's rearmament is a bailout for the people who broke the economy. The bankers'-war line is the loud version. The quieter one is enough: this mobilisation is a financial operation first, and ...
