France is once more facing social chaos, with violent protests shaking the republic. On the face of things, the subject of the protests is the adoption of a reform to the pension system, something that was quietly done in Australia, raising the pension age from 65 years to 67, for some people born in years that would normally have yielded a pension. No doubt this game will be continued so pensions become only attainable at age 156 years. The retirement age that was previously set at 62 years, now is 64. Just imagine if the law was the same as in passive Australia! And, the truth is the same for both countries, and most of the West, that the social security systems are in crisis from mass overload, a product of mass immigration, although no-one will slam this until it is too late!

France though is ahead of the curve of collapse, with the health insurance system in bad shape as well; it is sick, if not dying. "A modest reform based on an implacable demographic observation has tipped France into an existential crisis in which everything is wavering... A much deeper malaise is rising to the surface. That of a country haunted by its decline". — Vincent Trémollet de Villers, Le Figaro, March 23, 2023. Guillaume Faye (1949-2019), was right; this is the general problem of the decline of the West.

Forget about the Voice and impending China war for the moment and consider that Punjabi is the fifth most spoken language in Australian homes, after English, and is Australia’s fastest growing language, but is not offered for study in Queensland schools. I checked and was horrified to see that Punjabi was not offered for study in Victorian schools either. Clearly something must be done about this!

https://www.danandrews.com.au/news/teaching-hindi-and-punjabi-in-victorian-schools#:~:text=More%20than%2020%20languages%20other,offering%20Punjabi%20language%20study%20onsite

Received by email, the latest Bob Livingston Alert, dealing with the AI takeover issue, which makes many good points, that may offer us some hope from the doom and gloom otherwise seen. His main point is that AI is over-rated, and is being deliberately propagandised by the technocrats making money from it. It is much like cancer researchers, who are always on the verge of a cure for cancer, if only the next funding grant is given. There is nothing about AI that is impressive when one considers what little it actually accomplishes.

It is a toy, a parlor trick built on software, not a living entity with independent observations and conclusions. And it's certainly not a god-like being capable of showering us with scientific ambrosia or building a perfect civilization.”

A new bill by Canada’s Members of the Ontario Legislative Assembly would prosecute anyone that misgendered, criticised or protested against transgenderism within "2SLGBTQI+ Community Safety Zones." Thus, anyone deemed “transphobic, homophobic or offensive” would face prosecution and a $25,000 fine, for violating the safe zone, where drag performances occur. Of course; why didn’t anyone think of this sooner?

https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/canadian-law-would-ban-offensive-remarks-within-100-meters-of-drag-performances-canada-ontario-lgbt-free-speech-

In the puzzling things category, why do so many buildings in Hong Kong have holes right in the middle of them? With space being short, one would have thought that nothing like this would not occur. I made a quick guess that it had something do with wind, but just as quickly dismissed the idea, as other buildings without holes survive high winds fine. No, the answer is to let dragons fly through, unobstructed, from the hills to the sea. Otherwise the dragon might get angry. Yes, well, fine, but couldn’t the dragon just fly over the building? And what happens if a dragon gets stuck in one of the holes, the dragon being overweight, eating high fat, high sugar, Chinese takeaway?

As we Australians become a part of China, we need to know these things.

No discrimination against the bald, please, I am in your ranks too. But Peter Dutton must clearly go to the head of the bald class, for his bold, and bald opposition to the Voice referendum. There was some equivocation as Dutton said that while the Liberals will go for a No, they would also support constitutional recognition, which is inconsistent with the No vote, since there is no separate question for this. But, this is a positive step for the No campaign, which also has many leading Aboriginals supporting the No case, such as Senator Price. I believe that if there is a massive grassroots campaign, with ordinary people getting out and spreading the word, the Voice can be shut down, at last.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/liberal-party-opposes-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-peter-dutton-federal-politics-australia/b2600aa4-755e-4db2-ad8b-d547f0690694

One more example, if one more example is needed of the Leftist mind at work. It is instructive for conservatives to meditate upon such stories. Thus, Steven Shaviro, a professor in Wayne State University‘s English department, posted a Facebook post saying that the Left should kill political opponents, conservatives, rather than protest them. He was suspended without pay. Now, while at first glance that seems shocking, really the idea the violence is golden is the heart of Leftism, through Marxism, which holds that capitalism needs to be over thrown by violent revolution. So, all the professor is doing is stating in a modern context something that Lenis, Stain and Mao put into bloody practice, killing over a hundred million people.

Here is a story for those who feel that a concern with science is misplaced. Well, the counter is that there are things that not only could kill you, but impact upon all life, thus affecting agriculture.  Take geomagnetic storms, for example. A few weeks back the Earth narrowly missed being hit by a coronal mass ejection from the sun that was 10-100 times greater than the Carrington Event of 1859, that set telegraph lines on fire. The 2023 CME would have fried modern society, leading, according to the estimates of EMP expert, Dr Peter Pry, a death of 90 percent of people:

https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/earth-hit-strongest-geomagnetic-storm-six-years-dazzling-auroras-spotted-across-us

The focus of the environmental movement, riddled to the core with Leftist politics has diverted needed attention away from real environmental crises which do in fact threaten human survival. The most important is the rapid decline in the quality and quantity of human sperm, thought to be a product of hormone-disrupting chemicals which are everywhere in modern industrial society. If the decline continues at the present rate, where sperm counts have declined by over 50 percent over the past 50 years, it has been projected that a radical population crash will occur around 2045, threatening human survival.

Other problems that are being ignored because of the globalist agenda of climate change politics include declining soil quality, water availability and biodiversity decline. All of these things directly impact upon our lives much more than abstract predictions of a rise on some statistical measure called, the average, or mean temperature. It is tragic, as it means that the things which are more likely to polish us off, will not be deal with before their dangerous effects impact upon us. I blame human decline upon the Left.

I have argued this thesis for years against the Greens, that there can be no “sustainable Australia” if mass immigration is held to. Now we have Terry McCrann writing on the same point, with the provocative, but accurate title: “Lunacy on Steroids.” The language is much fiercer than I can deliver, so a sample of the fiery prose follows. Will it have any impact upon Albo? I seriously doubt it.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/lunacy-on-steroids-why-we-cant-have-net-zero-plus-big-australia/news-story/7ab1083343b3047564889eb86e7c59cc

The Rasmussen Reports recently conducted a survey dealing with Covid vax injuries and deaths. The survey is a self-report, so it has all the limitations of that medium, but it is still informative. And it was found that 11 percent of American adults believed that a member of their household had died from Covid-19. But, the kicker is that 10 percent believe that a member of their household may have died due to the side-effects of the Covid vaxxes. That is interesting, since the mainstream Covid narrative has it that Covid-19 is a deadly disease, and that one can be best saved by the “life-saving” Covid vaxxes. Yet, clearly 10 percent of people in the sample may have a different opinion to that, and for good reason.

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/public_surveys/covid_19_virus_deaths_vs_vaccine_deaths?utm_campaign=RR03312023DN&utm_source=RR03312023DN&utm_medium=email

Janet Albrechtsen, “New Religion, Old Hypocrisies,” makes the point that I have made previously in various articles, that the Leftist ideology has become something more, becoming a new religion. This religion differs from theism of the past, having no transcendental god, but instead places the global elites as the new gods. That is why those of the World Economic Forum are so devoted to the idea of transhumanism, since that position involves humans transcending normal human death as they become cyborgs, having artificial bodies, just like in the sci fi literature they all must have grown up on.

The religious aspect is also clearly seen in climate change hysterics, where there are most of the secular equivalents of Christianity. There is a garden of Eden, the world before Europeans developed the world. There are the equivalents of Satan, white people, and the path to redemption, given by Critical Race Theory. Those who dissent are heretics, punished by the woke from cancellation, to possible death by antifa thugs. And there is paradise given by the attainment of a multi-racial communist New World Order. I would go further than calling this a religion, and see it as more of a cult, but one which has a death grip upon the West. There is a desperate need for de-programming, as with all victims rescued from cults.

Could it be that the German government, usually lost in a cloud of woke, is waking up? Probably not much. But, while it has taken a while, German investigators are now expressing doubts about the line fed to them by American intelligence, that whatever else, the US did not blow up the Nord Stream pipelines. The view given by US intelligence was that the Ukrainians blew up the pipeline, but the evidence for this has never been found, and it is doubtful that the Ukraine would have the diving sophistication to do such an operation. Journalist Seymour Hersh, who broke the story about a whistle-blower in the US intelligence network telling him that the US did the job, was also told by an intelligence insider: "It was a total fabrication by American intelligence that was passed along to the Germans, and aimed at discrediting your story." The US did it. It would be grounds for Germany declaring war on the US; but that was another time.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/dont-talk-about-nord-stream-details-wapo-report-upend-official-narrative

Here is the IQ take for the day. As I have said, I am sceptical about IQ being conceptually able to capture a multi-dimensional phenomenon like human intelligence. But the Dissent Right, places like American Renaissance, love IQ, which they see as indicating the superiority of East Asians to whites. Anyway, they report on the occurrence of a “Reverse Flynn effect,” something observed to have begun in the 1990s. This is plausible, since there are now numerous factors that are undermining human health, such as chemical pollution, which will also lower intelligence, and hence IQ. The idea that the lower scores might indicate that people are getting worse at taking these tests, gives the game away, as it admits that the tests have a relative aspect to them rather than measuring some objective quality.

https://www.amren.com/news/2023/04/new-study-reveals-sharp-decline-in-american-iq-scores/

May the best ideology … lose! Former Keating Labor government minister Gary Johns, has said that native title holders are concerned that the Voice referendum, if it succeeds could interfere with their claims.  “They say: ‘We’ve done our deals, we’ve got our contracts, we know our state members, federal members, public servants, and we are getting along fine—[it’s] not as well as we’d like, but we understand our own politics—so who the Hell [is] The Voice?'” Another group of native title holders wrote to the south Australian government: “We do not support and are deeply concerned by certain aspects of the proposed model, in particular the failure to build into the model native title groups and leadership,” the letter stated.

“The proposed model would establish a regional or local Voice with no defined representation, linkages or accountability back to native title groups—to First Nations. How is this a First Nations Voice?”

The Manhattan DA, who is prosecuting Donald Trump, for basically breathing, has been giving sweetheart deals to career criminals, most of whom are Black. Rodney Johnson, 53, who has nearly 90 arrests on his rap sheet and two state prison stints, had his felony robbery charges knocked down to minor misdemeanours by Bragg’s office last week. Thus, the DA goes after Trump, on a case that the electoral commission rejected going after because of lack of evidence, while someone who has been breaking the law for 35 years, gets a light slap on the wrist. It makes the rule of law a joke. And this is not restricted to the United States; I imagine if the voice referendum succeeds in Australia, setting up a de facto Third chamber of parliament, you will see some bizarre things as well.

https://www.amren.com/news/2023/04/manhattan-da-alvin-bragg-cuts-career-criminal-a-sweetheart-deal-while-busy-prosecuting-trump/

Ramesh Thakur, of the Australian National University, strongly puts the case that there is a parallel between the failed prophecies of doom by the climate change lobby, and the fear-mongering done by the cult of Covid to get people vaxxed, and continually vaxxed to the hilt. Thus, we have the climate changers alleging that there is only ten years to save the planet, but that 10 years never gets counted down, so it is always 10 years, and has been for decades. No climate apocalypse yet. Other times they are explicit about the date of doom; and once it is reached without the predicting coming true, yet another is made, along the lines of religious cults, as discussed in the classic study, by Leon Festinger (et al.), When Prophecy Fails (1956).

The same occurred with Covid, as even though only the immune suppressed and the aged were at great risk, otherwise healthy groups like children and teenagers were originally seen to be at equal risk; but that claim has now been dropped even by the World Health Organization. The pretty blue face masks were at the early days of the Covid years, regarded as inadequate then became mandated, and still are for healthcare settings.

Journalist Ben Bartee, reflects upon the philosophical parameters of Gen Z, and also his generation, the Millennials. The conclusion reached is that these generations are drained of moral virtues, and indeed such talk of them would be incomprehensible. In short, what is lacking is any sort of spiritual depth; embracing materialist culture in full, and raised on information technology, the capacity to respond to the grand questions of life have gone; there is little beyond the narcissism of contemporary materialism. This is grim indeed, but what can one expect, since the 1960s cultural revolution wheeled this in, and it has gotten worse by the decade? Conservatives have not grasped what this means for their programs of economic and social reform Anyone doubting this needs to leave the comfort of home, take a cut lunch and a thermos of tea, and spend a day at the local university.

https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/twitter-thread-expertly-dissects-millennial-gen-z-psychology/

Opposition Indigenous spokesman Julian Leeser wants Labor to jettison the second clause to the proposed wording of the Voice. The proposed second clause, gives the Voice power to “make representations to the parliament and the executive government of the commonwealth.” The reasons are, that too many crucial question remain unanswered. “First, who can the voice talk to? Which agencies are part of the executive government?”  “Second, what can it talk about? What are matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians? What does it mean to make representations? Does it imply or leave room for any reciprocal constitutional obligation on part of the executive?”

These are all good questions, that at present have not been answered, since, as I see it, the voice aims to create an open quiche which will be filled in by the elites who stand behind the referendum, manipulating events. And, if the second clause is rejected, the only purpose must be to engage in woke kowtowing, to supposedly look good for out international neighbours such as communist china. But really, does a nation engaged in an industrial-scale organ harvesting really care?

Monkey pox was a dud, infecting a few, then disappearing into a “community,” not to be discussed further. Clearly this virus will not be the next Big Thing. But, wait, maybe monkey pox needs some zap from renewed gain-of-function research? And that is exactly what is going to happen, with a  National Institutes of Health (NIH) researcher, planning to produce a virus that is 1,000 times more dangerous in mice, than the present one in humans. That has met with controversy, but the real question is why someone would want to produce such a virus, where there is little likelihood of it arising in nature? It is just asking for an “accidental’ release!

https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairs-rodgers-guthrie-and-griffith-demand-answers-on-nih-planned-experiments-using-more-lethal-group-of-monkeypox-virus