Forget about knife and car attacks, Sweden, a once Nordic country, now has embraced further diversity and  pluralism, with an increase in – yes, you guessed it – grenade attacks! Here is a reliable true news source on this one:

“The number of hand grenade attacks in Sweden has risen by 550 per cent in just three years, with police describing the situation as “completely unacceptable”.
Police data shows that in 2014 the Swedish force investigated eight grenade incidents, none of which involved a detonation.  But last year this figure inflated by a massive 550 per cent, as officers saw a total of 52 grenade-related incidents, 27 of which involved detonations.
At first, the grenade attacks were mostly directed at cars and homes linked to criminals and their relatives  — but from two years ago perpetrators began to target the nation’s “society and state”, an expert at Sweden’s National Police Department told SVT.”
At: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/08/06/hand-grenade-attacks-sevenfold-sweden/
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/halland/handgranatsattacker-har-okat-markant

to THE AUSTRALIAN
     Graham Richardson claims (‘Spouting feel-good fluff is no proof of foreman material’, 7/8) that constitutional recognition of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders is ‘within reach if both sides get behind the campaign.’  On the contrary, irrespective of what MPs do, the Australian people will almost certainly reject any form of constitutional recognition, provided that they have been adequately informed beforehand by a fully articulated ‘No’ case supported by equitable government funding (50% of allotted funds to each side).
     This is because there has been too much gung-ho talk by the Aboriginal lobby about a treaty and Aboriginal sovereignty, to say nothing of special seats in Parliament or an entrenched advisory body, and the people are too savvy not to realise that success in achieving constitutional recognition would be used as the basis for pushing the more wide-reaching demands in the future.  In short, widespread public faith in the whole campaign has been irretrievably lost. True statesmanship would recognize this and seek other ways of honouring the Aboriginal peoples, ways that do not threaten national unity and security and which are just to other Australians.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic.

     As a symbolic representation of the existential homelessness of modern Western man, I am always on the lookout for material to tell you about that affirms my raison d’etre, a word which I found on-line, but don’t know the meaning of, having no meaning or point for my existence.

     Anyway, I am getting off topic, which for me is remarkable. But, what was my topic? Think, Len, think. Your fans expect a lot from you, like coherence and all that. Now I remember, I have re-read my title….high tech homelessness. You see the high tech elite at Silicon Valley, which is, I suppose, an entire valley full of silicon, are living in their cars because of the high cost of living. HA! HA, again. Why don’t they just clean up all the silicon and make homes for people? Or, bring in more migrants, who through their economic magic will make even more homes?

     In news that should worry all Australians, the Coalition government has today told public servants that they can be sacked for their political opinions.  From The Australian:

The Turnbull government will today seek to impose restrictions on public servants criticising the Coalition on social media, warning that employees risk disciplinary action for “liking” anti-government posts or privately emailing negative material to a friend from home.
Documents obtained by The Australian show public servants would also be warned they could be in breach of the public service code of conduct if they do not remove “nasty comments” about the government posted by others on the employee’s Facebook page.
You can read the new guidelines here.

     I am really getting to dislike this guy. If I wasn’t a Christian, I would have said a stronger word, like “hate.” But, you know the story, it’s not what we do. We love, but as I am full of original sin, I “dislike,” imperfect as I am. So, what has this bozo done now?

    Just to be sure I get this right, let me quote from the news service:
http://www.laciviltacattolica.it/articolo/evangelical-fundamentalism-and-catholic-integralism-in-the-usa-a-surprising-ecumenism/
https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/popes-associates-compare-right-wing-us-christians-jihadists/

     Few of us care about synagogues being built: how do they harm us? And, few of us would oppose the construction of a new synagogue, especially in iconic Jewish areas such as Bondi. It is simply part of Australian culture. Yet, as incredible as it sounds, the construction of a new synagogue has been stopped, not because of Nazi protests, but because of the Islamic terrorism threat. Here is a news summary of the key points: http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/bondi-synagogue-ban-over-terrorism-risk-leaves-jewish-community-shocked-and-furious/news-story/6ec6252d613583df7797c7cac2b25de4:

“A LOCAL council has banned the construction of a synagogue in Bondi because it could be a terrorist target, in a shock move that religious leaders say has caved in to Islamic extremism and created a dangerous precedent.  The decision, which has rocked the longstanding Jewish community in the iconic suburb, was upheld in court this week as the nation reeled from the alleged airline terror threat and debate raged over increased security measures at airports and other public places.

     Each day it is not too difficult to find hundreds of articles from countries across the world supporting the anti-immigration case. To prove my own point, I reach for today’s The Australian, and find: “Refugee Numbers Squeezing Suburb,” (August 5-6, 2017, p. 8) (“Middle-class progressives have no qualms about determining moral values. Yet a fairer approach would surely entail sacrificing comfort for a cause.”)

     Another critical approach is the historical one, of looking at past societies that were brought down by immigration. A case for the fall of Rome being based upon out-of-control immigration was made by Peter Heather, The Fall of The Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians, (Pan Books, 2006). The punch line is that Rome did not fall from all those things which conservatives like to think it fell from, such as too much tax, but because the state had been weakened by out-of-control immigration, and finished off by the barbarians.

     That is the conclusion which I have made after reading the latest news reports, claiming that US is now preparing for a imminent  North Korean nuclear strike: The Weekend Australian, August 5-6, 2017, p. 15. I note the irony of many now calling for Australia to develop defences against missiles, not only from North Korea, but also our great trading partner China: The Australian, August 4, 2017, p. 1 Why then did you elites feed the dragon in the first place and help make it so strong? Why should the national security elite and other members of the nervous political class talk about the “Chinese nuclear menace” now, after helping to build this very thing? Pig Iron Bob would be proud. So much for the Asianisation rhetoric.

     From what I have read, even if the US can shoot down North Korea’s nuclear missiles – and that is a big “if” – it is certain that North Korea can destroy the city of Seoul, which would severely impact upon the world’s high tech infrastructure. Worse would be a successful EMP attack on the US, which could kill 90 percent of Americans: http://www.emp.news/2017-04-12-emp-commission-chairman-confirms-that-a-nuclear-emp-attack-could-kill-90-of-the-u-s-population.html. Probably even more Australians would die in an EMP attack, given our high level of urbanisation. Not many Australians are prepared for anything, beyond fast food, drugs and grog.

     I don’t have money to buy books anymore, but I think I can do this review just from online comments, cobbling it together. Don’t tell anyone, it will just be a secret between you and me. Times are extremely hard in extreme Right journalism.

     Dinesh D’Souza, has just published The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left, (Regnery, 2017). The thesis of the book is that it is not President Trump and conservatives who are “Nazis,” as the Left likes to say, but they are themselves. So there! Take that! The American Left, as represented by the Democrats, has a racist past, and at present acts like typical fascists, attacking free speech, the right to associate, and everything good and noble. The rotters.

     It has been reported that Australia’s 38 public university Vice-Chancellors were paid on average $890,000. Eleven of the VCs got their scaly hands on over $ 1 million of taxpayers’ money: The Weekend Australian, August 5-6, 2017, p. 05. Well, they are called Vice-Chancellors.

     I am outraged at this vast waste of public money. I call on all concerned Australians to protest about this, to take to the streets in angry, legal demonstrations, demanding that the VCs be sacked and replaced by robots, or even monkeys, doing their jobs vastly cheaper and ten times more efficient.
Begin replacing all university academics by on-line teaching, and sack most lecturers. Close down the physical universities and make them into entertainment centres, homes or shopping complexes. Or, just bulldoze down the sandstone buildings, and leave the rubble as a symbol of the destruction which these bestial entities have caused humanity:
https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/1992/12/the-treason-of-the-intellectuals-ldquothe-undoing-of-thoughtrdquo 
Don’t get nostalgic about it; if necessary I will get the legals done and  drive the crane with the wrecking ball, and do the demolition work myself. For free. We have had enough of the abuse of the universities.
     Ok, who is with me on the first protest march, hands up?

     I admire Andrew Bolt and the great work that he is doing. However this column: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/labors-society-of-bludgers/news-story/0dbb091e314d4419413ccf785d2a352b, “Labor’s Society of Bludgers,” seems to be reverting back to old fashioned class warfare.
     Of course, we know that the vision of Labor, like all of the Left, is one of parasitism, to have the many feed off of the few, especially through its tax policy on high income earners, which they think will pull in $10.8 billion over the next four years. That is not new and is what socialists do, just like dogs like to mess up lamp posts.

     A more urgent task for thinkers is to outline to the public the challenge which social credit poses to the established financial and economic system. This site has numerous articles on this, but let me tell the story simply. Today, many people are struggling to even buy a reasonable quantity of groceries to keep body and soul together. This is a dramatic illustration of the deficiency of purchasing power. There is no shortage of goods, but people do not have the money to get them. This intuition says that there is something fundamentally wrong with the present system and that we need to strive to find something better, to solve the fundamental economic problem.
     So, Andrew, how about a bit of thinking outside of the box, if you dare!

     Every US Senator, except Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders, voted for the Russian sanctions, even though there is no evidence that Russia did interfere in the US elections. Even if it did, Russia performed a service of exposing corruption, if not criminality, but the power elite do not worry about that:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/01/sarah-sanders-blasts-press-for-russia-scandal-fake-news-points-to-clintons-real-russia-relationships/

     All that counts is having something on Trump, who, for all his defects, has become a symbol of opposition to the New World Order, or as it is now called, globalism: http://www.unz.com/tsaker/sanctions-smoke-and-mirrors-from-a-kindergarten-on-lsd/.

     An article, “Worker Implants ‘Only a Matter of Time’” The Australian, August 3, 2017, p. 6, reports on the alarming trend of workers being “enhanced” by implanted technology in their bodies, to be  able to perform their jobs better – for the corporates.
     It is expected that body and brain implants will be common by 2030, and of course, 70 percent of people will support it; 70 percent of people will support anything I suppose. The elites, though tend to ignore surveys that do not support their globalism, such that 71 percent of US liberals, surprisingly enough, support US immigration restriction of all legal and illegal immigration:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/01/surveys-show-60-percent-opposition-immigration/
     People have become machines, as a prelude to being replaced by machines; here is yet another article celebrating our robot replacement future, and the end of the human world: “Rise of the Robot,” The Australian, August 3, 2017, p. 10.  Really, now, it is just a race between which horseman of the apocalypse gets us first: economic/cultural/ethnoracial breakdown, or the technological apocalypse.

     A recent article has noted that about sixty percent of US respondents in two surveys want to stop all legal and illegal immigration. The polls, which gave people the freedom to voice their real thoughts, surprisingly showed that white American college graduates are more, not less, opposed to immigration than the average American. Almost three-of-four white liberals hide their preference for zero net immigration, and they are more likely than moderates and conservatives in doing this. In fact, 71 percent of liberals support immigration restriction. That is good, but it will do nothing unless these people take action, and they are unlikely to do so, because it would threaten their jobs and creature comforts.

     Now to Australia. An article in Quadrant, July 26, 2017, E. R. Drabik, “The Great Immigration Non-Debate,” https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2017/07/great-immigration-non-debate/, points out that Australia is going in the opposite direction of much of the West, which has questioned continual mass migration, at least to some degree. Australia is accelerating its immigration like there is no tomorrow, because there probably won’t be at this rate:

     Good work Aussie Security guys for stopping the jihadists gassing a plane, which may have crashed into a city. However, mass immigration has potentially made the West into the next battle field, and it is only a matter of time before some catastrophe like that, or worse, happens.

     An example of this “battleground Australia” is seen in the incident involving Islamist Numan Haider, who had been identified by ASIO as a national security risk. He was interviewed by two Victorian police, who almost died from the incident. Here is the account given by The Australian: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/national-security/it-was-him-or-my-partner-when-cop-knew-he-had-to-kill-jihadist/news-story/f16cb379b6f1d774e27aa3b54c9d97a2

     Ron Asher, In his new updated addition of "In the Jaws of the Dragon: How China is Taking Over New Zealand and Australia", ($40 posted from TrossPublishing.co.nz, 2017), is well recommended for all concerned about china’s aggressive buy ups of lands across the world. There is  lots of information about buy ups of farmland and property, but that is not what I want to focus on here.

     The bulk of the book performs the valuable task of locating China as a military threat to the free world. Trump, at the time of writing has blamed China for the North Korean missile tests, basically because China could have stopped them, but China has most likely given nuclear technical aid to North Korea to advance its nuclear program. Even the mainstream papers, which generally fall all over China, are beginning to have articles expressing some concern about China’s military might: The Australian, August 1, 2017, p. 11.

to THE AUSTRALIAN
     Tony Abbott effectively nails the republican issue on the head (‘Imagine Bill our Head of Fate’, 2/8) by reminding us that the Crown gives us ‘national continuity and a focus of loyalty that’s above politics’. Something enormously valuable that has been bequeathed to Australia by the British people’s 1100 year-old constitutional history will be lost if the republican campaign is successful. Abbott could have added that a constitutional monarchy, based on sacred tradition, is by far the best protection of a people against tyranny, whether that is based on inadequate ideology pushed by ‘green-left’ witchdoctors, lust for power in unbalanced persons or financial greed of cliques of merchants.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic.

to THE AGE
     My defence of the spiritual nature of monarchy and its unifying capacity within the realm has struck a few nerves (letters, 1/8). Yes, of course there have been some very bad monarchs and others have been unable to successfully protect their peoples from disorder; but the majority of kings and queens, and not only those of Britain, have by and large ruled well and not betrayed the ideal. History has, too, a lengthy list of corrupt republics.
     It is significant that the world’s arts and literature are filled with the joyful celebration of royalty. By their very nature republics and presidents simply can’t compete, and no amount of derision can hide this.   
NJ, Belgrave, Vic

     A story showing the degeneracy of the universities, as reflected in the wider society, is the saga of the mattress, as discussed by Bettina Arndt in The Australian, but covered by many others for a long time in the US: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/mattress-girl-saga-a-warning-to-unis-on-sexual-assault-cases/news-story/daecd8a0b17438c2a2fc4a681d159da5.

“Last week the long saga over the Columbia University mattress girl came to an end. It was a costly lesson for the New York university and a sign that buying into the notion of a “campus rape culture” can prove a big mistake for esteemed centres of higher learning. Australian universities take note.
In 2015 the mattress girl, Emma Sulkowicz, became a global celebrity by turning what was found to be a false rape allegation into performance art by carrying her mattress with her everywhere on campus. She was protesting against Columbia’s decision not to take action against a young German student, Paul Nungesser, whom she’d accused of choking and anally raping her.
Columbia has now reached a confidential settlement with Nungesser following his lawsuit claiming the university supported “an outrageous display of harassment and defamation” by allowing Sulkowicz for three years to use her mattress to hold campus protests where people openly called him a rapist. Sulkowicz was given academic credit for the performance as part of her visual arts major and was allowed to carry the mattress in her graduation ceremony.
It’s most unlikely any jury would have convicted Nungesser given the facts of the case. There’s a Facebook message from Sulkowicz to Nungesser two days after the alleged rape saying she was keen to join in a party in his room. A month later she sought more contact: “I want to see youyououo¬you”. The following month she messaged: “I love you Paul. Where are you?” Hardly surprising that the university’s investigation found Nungesser not guilty of assault.
Similarly murky facts emerged in accusations made by two other women about Nungesser. Investigations were held. The man was found not guilty.”

     I probably know the least about technology at this site, but I did have a great Uncle Murphy, after whom, Murphy’s Law is named, which has to count for something. Everything will go wrong at the worst possible time: http://www.murphys-laws.com/.

     Now take ATM machines. I don’t even know what that stands for, if it stands for anything, but I have seen them. Yes, people who have money, get money out of them. These little boxes of joy seem to be everywhere, like telephone boxes once were, but you don’t see them anymore, do you? But, ATMs? Being on the dole, eternally, I would not know about that.