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Both the current Spanish crisis (‘Civil war wounds reopened as sides fire up over Catalonia’, 16/10) and ongoing controversy over the events in Australia in 1975 (‘Did Britain have a role in Dismissal?’) are similar in that, behind argumentation about constitutional matters, two different and mutually hostile visions of the political order are embattled.
Historian Jenny Hocking appears to be conducting her research in order to fire up anti-British and pro-republic sentiment. Both in 1936 and today Catalonian separatism has been used to try to move Spain away from Christian monarchy towards secular and atheistic republicanism. This is accompanied by misrepresentation (‘Franco’s Falange’): Franco was a Catholic patriot, not a fascist, and successfully kept both the Falange and Hitler at arm’s length after the 1939 Nationalist victory. He bequeathed to Spain the present unifying monarchy.
History shows that we have much more to fear of an Australian republic going communist than of our present Christian monarchy going fascist.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic
Lives of Our Own (Createspace, 2017), is a brilliant new book by leading social credit theorist and philosopher, M. Oliver Heydorn. The subtitle of the book aptly sums up what this treatise is about: Social Credit, Catholicism, and a Distributist Social Order.
The tone of the book is set with an epigraph from Hilaire Belloc, published in 1934, expressing his support for the rationality and morality of the social credit agenda, of overcoming restricted purchasing power, freeing people from wage-slavery, and ensuring that people are “to be fully fed, well housed, well clothed and given manifold opportunity for the enjoyment of life.” This is no longer a truism, because our world of 2017 is quickly approaching that of the Great Depression era, with record numbers of homeless and unemployed.
While I attack the baby boomer generation a lot for letting the world down, the millennials look like surpassing even them in the decline and fall stakes:
http://collapse.news/2017-10-13-top-2o-fear-millennials-decline-self-reliance-practical-intelligence.html
Here are there top fears:
1. “Having to wait in the house all day for a delivery because the delivery man did not specifically say what time he would arrive.
2. Forgetting log-in passwords.
3. Leaving your phone at home.
4. No free WiFi at the hotel.
5. The buffering sign when you are streaming something online.
6. Standing in public transport.
7. Running for the bus/train only to have the doors close on your face.
8. Forgetting your umbrella and then finding out it’s raining.
9. Having to get out of bed to turn off the lights.
10. Finding an empty bottle in the fridge that was put there by a lazy roommate.
11. Being unable to find the TV remote just as your favorite show is starting.
12. Being “seen-zoned”: when a friend sees your message but doesn’t bother to reply.
13. Having to put on pants just to open the door.
14. When an avocado isn’t ripe enough.
15. Not having enough hangers that you reach the point where you pile your clothes on one hanger.
16. Running out of toilet paper.
17. When restaurant crew people don’t bring condiments with your food and you have to ask them for some.
18. Your laptop is low on battery but your charger is in another room.
19. Realizing the milk has run out after boiling the kettle.
20. Sat Nav re-routing.”
It has been a busy week here in LA, with the Harvey Weinstein revelations of sexual abuse. This Hollywood big knob was exposed as having sexually assaulted, and allegedly raped at least three women over many years, with even his brother expressing shock! horror! at the depths of “depravity”:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bob-weinstein-gets-emotional-depraved-harvey-saving-company-his-waking-nightmare-1048905
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/harvey-weinstein-it-was-like-a-hunter-with-a-wild-animal-the-fear-turned-him-on-asia-argento-gwyneth-paltrow-angelina-jolie-george-clooney-lucia-evans-emma-de-caunes-ronan-farrow-tklf3lm0k
His wife has left him, and Weinstein was apparently “suicidal,’ which could be true given the distance that he has fallen.
Donald Trump’s most insane decision was to bring his family, especially his daughter Ivanka, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, into essentially running the Trump presidency. She has constantly led her father into taking the libtard road, or to make decisions not in America’s best interests; she is a globalist and cosmopolitan.
Thus, she has been in support of keeping illegals on via the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) scheme:
http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2017/10/11/angel-mom-ivanka-which-child-choose-lose-hands-illegal-support-agenda/
Here is a round up for this week of some more items on the road to decay and disintegration.
Dr Andrew Joyce writes for the Occidental observer.net, and other Alt Right publications. As far as I am aware, he has no criminal record, but he has been denied entry to America! So, in the past have other Alt Right folk, although radical jihadist preachers, and Left lunatics can come and go as they please:
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2017/10/11/banned-in-americaa-sequel/
Here is the real reason why the likes of Dr Joyce are quarantined:
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Paul Morrisey’s subtly articulated advocacy of a return to ‘a more liberal approach to education’ (‘We need an education in wisdom, not specious buzzwords’, 13/10) is welcome for its insistence on the importance of vision and respect for the primacy of wisdom in the promotion of a truly generous, diverse and free national education. He is right to warn against the over-influence of ‘the bureaucratic state’ and to favour an approach of ‘overseeing and enabling’ rather than ‘controlling and enforcing’, especially as regards the secondary and tertiary sectors.
The pursuit of wisdom requires more than refinement of reasoning. Supra-rational modes of achieving understanding need to be adopted: intuition, conscience, inspiration, contemplation, even ‘second sight’. As Josef Pieper noted in his 1952 book ‘Leisure the Basis of Culture’, both teachers and students need to develop a philosophical attitude ‘which presupposes silence, a contemplative attention to things’ and adequate leisure time. The enemies are crude ideology and the nanny state.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic
Here is how migration changes a culture, fundamentally: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37518289
http://speisa.com/modules/articles/index.php/item.844/swedish-authorities-approved-of-child-marriage.html
Sweden has legalised child marriages for Muslim immigrants, who have children wives. This is due to the huge influx of migrants, and many girls, as young as 14, are pregnant: https://sputniknews.com/europe/201709251057665752-sweden-migrants-child-marriage/
The sequence of events that the FBI and other authorities have given for the Las Vegas shooting has now, officially, fallen apart: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/10/556828806/las-vegas-gunman-shot-security-guard-before-firing-into-crowd-police-say
“At a news conference Monday, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo revised one of the key details on the reported timeline of events that night: when exactly shooter Stephen Paddock injured Jesus Campos, the unarmed Mandalay Bay security guard who came to investigate his floor.
“What we have learned is Mr. Campos was encountered by the suspect prior to [Paddock’s] shooting to the outside world,” Lombardo said. He told reporters Monday that Paddock shot Campos at 9:59 p.m. local time on Oct. 1, roughly six minutes before turning his gun on the crowd at the Route 91 Harvest music festival.
“Immediately upon being injured, [Campos] notified security of his situation,” Lombardo said. He added that Campos also prevented a maintenance worker from being shot. But Lombardo also acknowledged that police “weren’t aware of [Campos] being shot until they met him in the hallway after exiting the elevator” onto Paddock’s floor.”
Remember the rhetoric from Obama et al. about all those poor refugees fleeing to Europe with their latest phones and money, were actually children, not young men of military-service age who could fight for their homeland? Well, a Swedish dentist, Bernt Herlitz revealed that from his observations of molar teeth of migrant patients, 80 percent of the so-called migrant “children” were actually adults. This revelation led to Helitz being fired and he may lose his house. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/10/swedish-dentist-reveals-80-migrant-children-actually-adults-fired-now-may-lose-home/
This act of war against a native Swede occurred even though it is now openly admitted that the so-called migrant children are adults: http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/681228/child-migrants-age-test-sweden-department-migration-refugee
Their purpose is population replacement of Nordics.
For yonks they waged a war on coal
And painted miners black;
They threw explorers on the dole
And shut the gates outback.
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It is good that Jill Murphy, a ‘yes’ voter in the postal survey on marriage, can accept, if grudgingly, that a ‘no’ vote ‘is not solely a product of homophobia’ (12/10). However, she neither tells us her ‘no’ friend’s arguments nor tries to rebut them. Instead, she trots out all the old chestnuts about how outrageous the survey is, that it enshrines ‘prejudices’, that it causes unnecessary suffering to gay people, that gays wanting to marry concerns no-one else and that ‘no’ voters are often motivated by fear.
More alarmingly, she seems clearly to believe that the community’s decisions on who is to have what rights must accord with her own simplistic views about ‘equality’ and ‘love’. She also ignores entirely the major arguments of ‘no’ advocates. So, yes, ‘our identities are bound up with our beliefs’, but it is possible to free ourselves from error by using reasoning to approach truth.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic
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An important aspect of the Spanish constitutional crisis is its relevance to our own ongoing constitutional contest between those for and against our monarchy, since an independent Catalonia would cease its royalist allegiance to become a republic. This is in accord with a regional tradition that goes back to the October 1936 declaration that Barcelona was to become the capital of the new ‘Soviet States of Western Europe’. That was less than twenty years after the communist murder of the Romanovs.
In both nations the issue of regional and cultural autonomy is used, by a sort of confidence trick, as a means of effecting fundamental change in the political order; and the essence of each struggle is an attack on the traditional Christian religion and culture of the West.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic
Following the Las Vegas false flag massacre, the MSM have been rolling out thick the gun banning rhetoric. Prior to this, the gun amnesty was hailed as a success because each of these intrinsic dangerous guns was turned in.
Guns, apparently kill people and thus are intrinsically bad, unless they are the guns held by the Deep State, to keep 'You in Line'. Then they are good.
An incredible statistic: that over two-thirds of Americans are overweight or outrightly obese:
http://time.com/3929990/americans-overweight-obese/
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2323411
This state of ill-health is itself responsible for a multitude of diseases, including diabetes and cardiovascular disease, as well as an array of cancers. It may also be responsible for the crash in testosterone and low sperm counts in the West.
Honoré de Balzac is reputed to have said: “Behind every great fortune there is a great crime.” This alleged quote came to mind when reading James Petras, “How Billionaires become Billionaires,” at http://www.unz.com/jpetras/how-billionaires-become-billionaires/.
One of the ways they do it is because the taxation system is set up to benefit the hyper-rich who have deduction opportunities far beyond the normal tax payer. Then there is outright tax evasion, rather than tax minimisation:
Here is a report by Alfred McCoy detailing how a war between the US and China may go:
http://www.unz.com/article/world-war-iii-with-china/
Do you want to hear about how China is surpassing everybody in every thing? Well, you have come to the right place. The short of the long is that China wins. Oh, let’s not talk about the likelihood of a China economic crash caused by its financial bubble bursting, and the same for the US and the rest of the world, because McCoy does not:
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/mountain-debt-chinas-economy-going-crash-19770
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-08/china-debt-may-cause-next-australian-financial-crisis/8602086
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-22/the-trouble-with-china-and-what-it-means-for-australia/8545886
We are seeing a feeding frenzy that would disturb sharks, as the liberals go mad over gun control. It is their time to strike while the barrel is still hot, and smoking.
In London, with severe gun restrictions, the Royal London Hospital has seen a dramatic rise in gunshot wounds, exceeding knife wounds, with 50-60 victims per year, a 20-30 percent rise in just 2-3 years. The average age of the victims was getting younger, because these people are primarily gang memebers:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/leading-trauma-surgeon-reveals-shocking-extent-of-london-s-gun-crime-a3651761.html
The new Century foundation has its update of The Color of Crime: Race, Crime, and Justice in America:
https://www.amren.com/the-color-of-crime/
Here is a summary:
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