I remember the fun we had as kids when the power went out. Mum would fire up the hurricane lantern and we would cook baked beans on the woodstove. It was like indoor camping, Boy’s Own Annual, and we had a great time, a true adventure in our own house!
According to my brother in South Australia, who seems to have forgotten the good times which we had as kids, South Australia’s blackout from severe storms was “frightening.” There were trees uprooted and buildings destroyed, and extensive flood damage. As well, 80,000 lightning strikes were recorded.

There is apparently now a bit of a debate about the role that renewable energy had in the blackout and the vulnerabilities created from these sources due to rapid changes from output conditions and that renewables lack a reliable baseload generation. And there is the mystery as to why power lines north of Melrose toppled down while nearby trees did not. High voltage towers survived Queensland’s cyclones but severe winds in South Australia puts the whole place back to the dark ages. Please explain.

What happens when feminism clashes with multiculturalism? It seems that multiculturalism wins. As reported in “‘Women Silenced’ in Stifling Culture of Aboriginal Unity,” (The Weekend Australian, October 1-2, 2016, p. 7), in the 1970s many female Aboriginal leaders put ethnic solidarity, “standing as a people” over feminist issues.

According to indigenous researcher Suzanne Ingram, Aboriginal women are still facing racial solidarity pressures, serving as “solidarity stewardesses serving a sophisticated silencing agenda,” on issues of domestic violence in their communities. Ms Ingram believes that the issue of “silencing” has got worse with women who speak out about black-on-black violence being seen as engaging in betrayal.
Her paper “Silent Drivers/Driving Silence – Aboriginal Women’s Voices on Domestic Violence,” published in Social Alternatives (vol. 35, 2016, pp. 6-12), cites alarming statistics that “intimate partner violence” can be as high as 38 times greater for Aboriginal women than non-Aboriginal women.

Mike Adams at Natural News.com, September 30, 2016, delivered a controversial article: “The Coming Collapse of Western Civilization: The Shocking Reason Why Liberal Americans are Weak, but Islamic Soldiers are Strong.”
He makes the argument that the military attacks on Muslim populations in the Middle East are killing off the weak and leaving survivors who will become super soldiers. It is Darwin’s natural selection and the survival of the fittest at work.

In the West there is selection pressure favouring the physically weak, those who follow the agenda of political correctness. For example, not mentioned by Adams, but relevant to his argument, is speculation by a Fort Myers doctor that male voters for Hillary Clinton may have low testosterone (ABC-7.com, October 2, 2016). It is quite possible that many Western men are being selected by unnatural selection to be beta rather than alpha males. The beta male, conforming to the system succeeds, but the physical alpha, the types who built Western civilisation, what Vera West calls the “John Wayne man,” are now no longer needed. They are more likely now to be unemployed and hence no longer contributing to the next generation, hence redundant.

The allusion there is to Mae West – and don’t ask me who she was all you young folk. I was reminded of her famous quote (again to be looked up) after watching on YouTube highlights or lowlights of Hillary Clinton debate with Donald Trump. I noticed how Hillary was scratching her cheek just when Trump was nailing her. First I thought that it was nervous stress, but Infowars.com thinks otherwise. (My source: SHTFplan.com, September 29, 2016).

The claim is that the face scratching was secret signals to moderator Lester Holt to go to her without changing the subject. Alternative news reporters have gone back over Clinton interview footage and noted that she seldom touches her face. Interviewed World Series Poker champion Mike Matusaw, believes that Clinton was using hand signals.
I am not surprised. Trump didn’t pick up on it and was like a high school boy on a first date. He is no match for the likes of Clinton and that is why he is certain to lose. He goes to a sword fight with a feather duster. Too much ego, not enough fight.

Andrew Bolt (Herald Sun, October 1, 2016) points out that “hate speech” is taking a mutated meaning. A Perth woman seeing people posting “anti-marriage equality” stickers on a sign that she was standing in front of said: “Does anyone by chance know who is responsible for this hatred? I’d love to speak to them.” Yes, it was a rhetorical question. This is a common point of view of the “Yes” approach.

The sign said “Keep Marriage Man and Woman.” This sentiment, held by the vast majority of the human race throughout time, has now been regarded by proponents of the “new morality” as hate speech. But there is no point arguing with them: call it “late for dinner,” it will be opposed. “Hate” is fast losing any emotional impact it once had.

This article was written by Jeremy Lee who passed away a few years ago.  

Uber-globalist, Jewish billionaire investor George Soros has pledge $US 500 million in investments to assist refugees and migrants through his Open Society Foundations, a network of causes supporting globalist agendas. The main thrust of the new programme will be to assist migrants and refugees arriving in Europe, not to help them back to their homelands of course, but to settle in Europe (“the new normal”).

Along with this 51 corporations, including Facebook and Twitter, have collectively pledged $US 650 million for the same lucky folk. Again, the aim is resettlement and “integration”, not to deal with the problem which led to a majority of young men of military age who could have fought tyranny, fleeing with their mobile phones and “V” for victory signs to Europe for their safety.

The great section 18C “non-debate” has ended. Malcolm Turnbull has said that he has more important things to do – no doubt working with his mate Obama to get in the TPP before either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump are elected president, because they both oppose the TPP.
Yes, the leader of the Liberals is too busy to defend what should be the fundamental liberal value, freedom of speech. Instead, energies must be devoted to be “freedom” of corporations – which are by definition collectivist entities – to be able to override all of the hard fought freedoms of the people through the globalist TPP.

The section 18 C non-debate closed with the multicult lobby having the final say, because, this is after all, their legislation. Free speech is not an absolute, they said, citing the example that one cannot falsely shout “fire” in a cinema. Nobody said it was and neither should be the multicult right not to be offended, especially since almost anything can offend somebody and the bar is at tripping level.

This is a story that I have put off covering for some time because it upset me so: “Poland Considers Banning Abortion after Baby Born Alive Dies Screaming for an Hour,” at http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/abortion-debate-sparked-in-poland-after-baby-born-alive-dies-amidst-agony.
The baby in Poland was born after two botched abortion attempts and was left by hospital personnel to scream for an hour before dying. No anaesthetics or care was given to the baby. A polish reporter who broke the story said:

“The scream of this child was so traumatic for the personnel that they declared that they will never forget it.” The incident, thankfully, is now fuelling an abortion debate in Poland, a Catholic country where 70 percent of people are pro-life.

British journalist and writer, Melanie Phillips (“Spoilt White Protesters Ease Western Guilt by Piling on Hypocrisy,” The Australian, September 21, 2016, p. 10) has made some insightful comments about the politically correct culture of anti-racism and white guilt. While she gives examples, the most concerning examples are all around us.

Across all Australian universities in courses in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, there is now an unquestioned culture of white guilt. Whites are responsible for all the evils of the past and present; coloured peoples are eternal victims. “Limousine liberals,” or at least Volvo liberals, proclaim to trembling students about “white privilege.”

First we were warned about “Generation Jihad Threat Looms” (The Australian, September 21, 2016, p. 1) – the return of dozens of “Australian children from Islamic State-controlled Syria and Iraq.” That problems is how to “reintegrate a generation of battle-scarred children back into community life.” Many of these children were taken by their parents to the war zones, the parents being fighters. There are thought to be 110 Australians fighting in Syria and Iraq and they will pose a threat to Australia upon return. More on that, later.

Now, here is the twist: Many of the children are not Australian citizens, but if it was shown that their parents, mainly fathers, were Australian, Australia would be likely to take them even without parents. Some of these children are the product of Australian men who raped local women, such as the Yazidis, who ISIS hoped to destroy because of its “blonde bloodline.” On the racial genocide aspects of this see: “ISIS Wants to Impregnate Yazidi Women and Smash Our Blond Bloodline”: Fears Grow for the 300 Women Kidnapped from Sinjar,” Daily Mail Australia, August 14 2014. Apparently Australia has a legal and moral obligation to raise these children. Got that?

They have their brief day in the sun, and then they fall. Malcolm Turnbull was loved by both the Big End of Town as well as the chattering class. He was not only pro-Big Business, but also championed politically correct causes such as the Republic, the Aboriginal Constitutional recognition, and same-sex marriage.

However, the latest Newspoll (The Australian, September 27, 2016, p. 1) not only shows the incompetent Labor Party racing ahead at 52 to 48 percent in two-party preferred terms, but Turnbull’s ship sinking. Abbott in the final Newspoll before his replacement by Turnbull had a satisfaction rating of 30 percent, but Turnbull’s satisfaction rating is now at 32 percent. Before Abbott’s fall the Coalition’s primary vote was 39 percent, and today is 38 percent. Clearly the Coalition and Turnbull are “on the nose,” but what else is new.

Here is a subject which most of us have not thought about: eye pressure spikes. According to Charles McMonnies, “Intraocular Pressure Spikes in Keratectosia, Axial Myopia, and Glaucoma,” Optometry and Vision Science, vol. 85, 2008, pp. 1018-1026, there is an eye danger from activities leading to pressure on the eyes, such as sleeping face down or even doing a gym workout. Fluid pressure in the eyes increase from a wide range of activities such as weight lifting or even eye rubbing. Even a firm touch of the eyes can cause a pressure spike three to five times normal pressure, and strong rubbing can raise pressure to 10 times normal levels.

Pressure spikes normally are not a problem, but those that are long and/or frequent may contribute to eye pressure-related diseases such as glaucoma, and rapidly increasing myopia (short-sightedness).
All this is alarming when one first hears of it, but common sense should prevail in eye care. Treat the cause of eye conditions (dry eyes) that lead to rubbing. Avoid heavy lifting and don’t sleep with your eyes in contact with the pillow. Most importantly, regular eye check-ups, especially pressure tests, is a must for anyone over 40-years. Eye care is a neglected part of health, but sight is our most important sense.

Almost all of us freedom movement folk, especially those in the US, have a world view model where the super-elite of the capitalist hyper-class secure their power through a one-world government, or through the rule of corporations. What has been called the “Deep State” – the ultimate rulers – are those committed to centralised one-world power structures.

An interesting different point of view has been given by Charles Hugh Smith who says that the capitalist superclass is becoming aware of the critical instabilities of globalisation and are preparing for a radical philosophical jumping of ship to autarky and self-sufficiency, because they are coming to accept that financialised globalisation leads to perpetual instability and unending cycles of boom and bust: http://www.oftwominds.com/blogoct14/instability10-14.html.
The argument of Charles Smith is that there is a great U-turn, but I have yet to see evidence of the elite making it. Charles Smith is of course right in arguing that self-sufficiency is the only true stable state, but the elites appear incapable of recognising this and all evidence indicates that they are still committed to the globalist dream. I doubt very much if they are capable of change and are much more likely

A tremendous article by Maurice Newman (“Road to Tyranny is Paved with Leftie Assumptions,” The Australian, September 27, 2016, p. 14), deserves mention before it disappears down the memory hole.
The primarily Left Media, he says, does not publicise that in the July election almost 600,000 voters gave their first preference to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. These are the Australian version of the “deplorables,” the term used by Hillary Clinton to dismiss the white dispossessed “uneducated.”

And Newman says that the chattering class must vilify these Australians with no debate “lest too many of us waver on the virtues of bigger government, central planning, more bloated bureaucracies, higher taxes, unaffordable welfare, a “carbon-free” economy, more regulations, open borders, gender-free and values-free schools and same-sex marriage: the sort of agenda that finds favour at the UN.”

There were warnings that renewables made it vulnerable: from JoNova's Website
Australians are going to be talking about this for weeks. Indeed, the SA Blackout is the stuff of legends.
The Greens are blaming coal (what else?) for causing bad storms and blackouts. Forget that Queensland gets hit with cyclones all the time and the whole state grid doesn’t break. Some greenies are also raging against “the politicization” of the storms. Yes, Indeedy. Go tell that to Will Steffen.

We are not being told the whole story. We do know that South Australia has the highest emphasis on renewables in the world. It also has a fragile electricity network, and wild price spikes to boot http://joannenova.com.au/2016/07/wind-power-sucks-money-and-electricity-in-south-australia/. (Coincidence?)
The death of a few transmission towers should not knock out a whole state, nor should it take so long to recover from.

StopThese Things tells us that they hear that SA grid managers are running the system at 220V, not 230V (like the rest of Australia) in order to cope with the fluxes from wind power. It would be good to get confirmation of that. In November 2015 after a large blackout in South Australia, StopTheseThings predicted that after the coal plant was shut in April 2016, there would be statewide blackouts:

It’s also to be borne in mind that these 110,000 homes and businesses were plunged into darkness at a time when SA’s Northern and Playford coal-fired plants at Port Augusta (with a combined capacity of 784 MW) were still happily chugging away.
The owner of Port Augusta’s plants, Alinta has already signalled that it will close them in April 2016, due to the market distortions caused by the massive subsidies to wind power set up under the Large-Scale RET (renewable energy targets). If it does, South Australians can expect statewide blackouts with the kind of regularity that you’d be hard pressed to find outside of sub-Saharan Africa.

Ref: theoccidentalobserver.net/2016/09/intellectual-terrorism-against-free-speech/
Ed. note: Apropos the University of Chicago’s Orwellian stance on free speech, Dr. Sunic, based on his experience growing up in Yugoslavia, ties the war on free speech to communism. Originally published in Pravda, February 9, 2002.

The modern thought police is hard to spot, as it often seeks cover under soothing words such as “democracy” and “human rights.” While each member state of the European Union likes to show off the beauties of its constitutional paragraph, seldom does it attempt to talk about the ambiguities of its criminal code. Last year, in June and November, the European Commission held poorly publicized meetings in Brussels and Strasbourg whose historical importance regarding the future of free speech could overshadow the recent launching of the new euro currency.

Our organisation is fortunate to have many economically and financially literate people, active in social credit. Thus, we should begin work on a submission to be made to the royal commission into the Financial system, if this ever sees the light of day. At present, Turnbull opposes it, but the Labor party is championing the idea. Back in August Shorten sent a letter to Turnbull outlining some of the terms of reference, or issues, which would need to be examined. These include:

1.    The extent of illegal and unethical practices within Australian financial services.
2.    Do Australian financial services adequately meet their duty of care to customers?
3.    How does the ethical, cultural standards and business practices of Australian financial services impact on the behaviour and practices of these institutions?
4.    Is Australia’s regulatory framework adequate to police illegal and unethical behaviour in the Australian financial services institutions?
5.    How does Australian experience in all of the above compare or contrast to international experience?
6.    Any other relevant issues.

In his last days, Emperor Obama is searching for legacy acts.  One of his most dangerous is to transfer internet domain control from American supervision to an international body.  Former UN ambassador, John Bolton has been expressing alarm about this, saying that it will finish off the internet: Breitbart.com, September 22, 2016. He has said:
“But because it’s entirely a U.S. government proposition with the U.S. peole involved, the Internet has been free and open. If, as the Administration wants to do, it’s transferred to an international body, I will predict right here: within 10 years it will come under the control of the United Nations, and the Internet as we know it will end because there are governments around the world that are already doing everything they can to prevent a free and open Internet in their countries, and it will extend to ours in due course.”

Obama presses the self-destruct button on October 1, 2016.
This is part of Obama’s quest for global governance, which Hillary Clinton hopes to continue.