Ah, multiculturalism, simply wonderful…According to a group of women it is alright for Muslim men to hit their wives: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/its-ok-to-hit-wives-say-hizb-uttahrir-women/news-story/52dd838887cb0a0c32686c7a31cb96d8. As I want to get this accurate, I will attempt the magic trick of cutting and pasting from the article with my electronic scissors:

“Muslim men are allowed to hit their wives — but only gently, and not with fists, instead using short sticks and pieces of fabric, according to a new video produced by the Australian women’s branch of radical Islamic political movement Hizb ut-Tahrir.

To The Australian
     It may be true (‘Indigenous leaders rail at “beads and trinkets”’, 8/5) that, because there was ‘no consent’ by the Kaurareg people to Captain Cook’s claiming British sovereignty over eastern Australia in 1770, a wrong was committed at that time, but it is not an ‘enduring wrong’ and indigenous groups are foolish to see it as a ‘grievance which Australia must now make right.’ Owing to the lack of effective resistance nearly 250 years ago and also to the passage of time the nation of Australia possesses full de iure right to its current territory.

     Any ‘nationwide resistance campaign against minimalist change’ will not be welcomed by most Australians; nor will any tampering with our Constitution, something which will be seen indeed as ‘substantive change’ by most of us.
     Finally, it is inconsistent - if not hypocritical - for a particular ethnic group to demand special treatment while rejecting any discrimination of an ethnic kind.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic

    Back in the days when people seriously regarded Trump as an opponent of globalism and open borders, rather than being just another neo-conman stooge,  Salon writer Anis Shivani wrote a piece, “Everyone’s Wrong on Immigration: Open Borders are the Only Way to Defeat Trump and Build a Better World.” : http://www.salon.com/2017/03/15/everyones-wrong-on-immigration-open-borders-are-the-only-way-to-defeat-trump-and-build-a-better-world/. He quotes studies showing that world economic output would double if people could freely move wherever they wanted, which means, to the West from the Third World in their billions. Nations are not like homes he says, but are abstractions, only as good as the freedom within it.

    This sort of argument is advanced purely for the West to take migrants. India, China and Japan are exempt from taking in the tens of millions of poor Africans, or the billions of them in the future. To suppose that this would increase economic output is just economic theology, because it is more likely to lead to the collapse of the West rather than any economic revival. Let India and China take in proportionately more migrants than the West, and then maybe we should think about it.

    Voltaire François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), was a leading French Enlightenment thinker, who was infamous in his day for his attacks upon the Catholic church, and for advocating free thought and free speech. If a law such as section 18 C had existed in his day, he would have been prosecuted. There is considerable debate about this, but Voltaire by today’s standards, and by the standards of section 18 C would be regarded as an anti-Semite: http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/30/books/l-voltaire-and-the-jews-590990.html; D. Prager and J. Telushkin, Why the Jews? The Reason for Antisemitism, (Simona nd Schuster, 1983), pp. 128-129; L. Poliakov, The History of Anti-Semitism from Voltaire to Wagner, (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975), pp. 88-89. These authors quote quite shocking passages from Voltaire that would be in violation of section 18 C, even if  this section was reasonably constructed.

    Hence, Voltaire is a controversial figure, to say the least, but I agree that he was a keen free speech advocate. However, he was a destroyer of almost everything and he would be attacking the Australian establishment relentlessly – from a prison cell – if he was alive in Australia today.

    In a desperate Trump-like U-turn, Le Pen, at the 11th hour is now saying that as president she will allocate at least 0.7 percent of the French gross domestic product to Africa, which is 15 billion Euros on an annual basis: http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-eco/2017/05/02/97002-20170502FILWWW00336-le-pen-promet-07-du-pib-pour-la-cooperation-avec-l-afrique.php?cmtpage=0. This is more than the amount now spent on the EU, which she campaigned against.

    This cultural cringing, to attempt to get black votes has dramatically failed, as French voters in Africa overwhelmingly reject her, as does the multicult in France. Like Trump, she has surrendered her support base, but she has backed off even sooner than Trump. In the future Right nationalist candidates will be openly globalist and cosmopolitan, identical to socialist candidates, thus saving time and producing efficiency. Take Trump’s administration today. No more useless talk about defending America; Russia is the treat and the sooner there is nuclear war to destroy the politically incorrect Putin, the better: https://www.rt.com/news/387063-nato-counter-resurgent-russia/. If the planet burns, that is just the cost for eliminating the scourge of nationalism: https://www.rt.com/shows/boom-bust/384294-trupm-war-syria-us/. Better dead than free.

    My title is from a book which I have not read, but I saw somewhere, but I forgot where, by some author, whose name I can’t remember. Brain fogs seem to be my lot for much of my waking hours. Anyway, I digress from what I was writing about. What was that? I can’t remember. Well not exactly can’t remember, more like, I never said what it was that I was going to say in the first place. Hell, Greenacres made a comedy series about this kind of brain flatulence, with its delightful character Hank Kimball (played by Alvy Moore, 1921-1997) where  the Encyclopedia of Television states that Kimball “personifies a kind of infinite regress, where every empirical statement branches into multiple statements that in turn preclude it, spiraling each new observation back and away from itself like an inductive Ecsherism.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Kimball. He qualified himself to death, the ultimate fate of government agencies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVcXhaGOZyg.

    That brings me to dropping out, something I would have done if I had gone to university in the 1960s, dropped out and never returned. In fact, it is a mighty good thing to do today, saving oneself great debt while being unemployed. But many folk are now downscaling selling their homes and hitting the road in mobile homes: http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-05-04-husband-and-wife-ditch-fancy-house-and-cars-to-happily-live-in-a-van.html; https://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-29856/i-live-in-a-van-heres-why-i-think-its-the-ultimate-life-hack.html; http://livingfree.news/.
    I definitely welcome the movement to downscaling. With jobs set to disappear, and the evil financial system in place still, people will need to adopt these alternative life styles. I hope someday to put together a book about this, Uncle Len’s Tips for the Simple Life, if my busy schedule permits, and I remember.
Remember, what?

    There are very few academic philosophers who have opposed political correctness and the agendas of the Left. Philosophy, unlike sociology is not an over-the-top Left wing discipline, but it is not one to support Traditionalist values, at least in the Anglo-sphere. France is a little different.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), who was at one time a socialist, and always a liberal, was at least freethinking enough to write the little essay “The Superior Virtue of the Oppressed,” in Unpopular Essays, (Unwin, 1950), pp. 69-75, which mildly attacked one of the early doctrines of the pc cult, namely that minorities are in some way morally superior. Not so, Russell showed easily enough, since there is zero evidence for this thesis. He concluded:  “sooner or later the oppressed class will argue that its superior virtue is a reason in favour of its having power, and the oppressors will find their own weapons turned against them.” (p. 74)

Ref: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
Filming undercover in East Timor in 1993 I followed a landscape of crosses: great black crosses etched against the sky, crosses on peaks, crosses marching down the hillsides, crosses beside the road. They littered the earth and crowded the eye.  
The inscriptions on the crosses revealed the extinction of whole families, wiped out in the space of a year, a month, a day.  Village after village stood as memorials.

Kraras is one such village. Known as the "village of the widows", the population of 287 people was murdered by Indonesian troops.

    “A man came into a wood one day with an axe in his hand and begged all the trees to give him a small branch which he wanted for a particular purpose. The trees were good-natured and gave him one of their branches. What did the man do but fix it into the axe head, and soon set to work cutting down tree after tree. Then the trees saw how foolish they had been in giving their enemy the means of destroying themselves.” Aesop’s Fables (Oxford University Press, 2008)
    Guess who the trees are, and who the axeman is.

    Mr Li, who is from China, has been conducting a critique of our work he arguing in defence of the superiority of East Asians. In a recent email he is angered at the idea proposed that Northern Europeans have high intelligence and creativity, and he cites Jared Diamond’s popular book Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997), p. 22 in refutation. This is a popular book, with few scholarly references, and in the concluding paragraph of this essay, critics are referenced.

    Essentially the point is that according to Diamond the people of northern Europe contributed nothing to civilisation until the last one thousand years. The cold regions were a backwater. As Mr Li notes that claim does not withstand scrutiny, and is based on dated Middle eastern biased archaeological evidence. I have been reporting for years about all matter of Northern European technologies and scientific ideas at this site, which Li is free to search. There are numerous discoveries, including astronomical innovations which the Northern Europeans produced, some dating from the Upper Paleolithic, and thus older than anything found in Asia and the Middle East: https://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4184; http://www2.astronomicalheritage.net/index.php/show-theme?idtheme=7;
http://journalofcosmology.com/AncientAstronomy105.html;
http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/astronomy.htm.

    So sang John Lennon with the Beatles in 1968. Now it seems, Generation Y and Z may be looking in precisely that direction for social change: https://qz.com/971374/europes-youth-dont-care-to-vote-but-theyre-ready-to-join-a-mass-revolt/.

    A survey of around 580,000 young Europeans, from 13 countries, as part of an EU-sponsored survey, titled, Generation What? http://www.generation-what.eu/en/, asked the question: would you actively participate in a large-scale uprising against the generation in power if it happened in the next days or months. Over half of the 18 to 34 year olds said that they would. For example,  67 percent of young people in Greece, and 65 percent in Italy were prepared to join a large-scale uprising, but only 37 percent of Germans. However, 61 percent of the French were willing to revolt, a figure which coheres with the large-scale disillusionment of French voters with the political process and elections:  http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/799707/French-election-boycott-vote-blanc-not-voting-Marine-Le-Pen. There is a small chance that the 14 million people who are boycotting the elections could lead to Le Pen becoming president, which would be a sweet irony. But, it won’t happen, because the NWO elites will not permit it, even for a token resistance, as given by Trump.

To the Herald Sun 4/5/17 
Fat cats need a diet 
As Australia's resources fat cats made the billionaires top 100 list again, I was reminded of Alaska which in 1976, nine years after oil was discovered, amended its Constitution to dedicate its yearly oil revenues, in part, to a state investment fund.
Every person since 1982, a permanent fund dividend has been paid to every Alaskan men, woman and child in recognition of the ownership, in part, of its resources.
From a 2008 high of $3269, in more recent years the PFD has been between $1000 and $1500 per person.

We know that an alternative economic/financial position such as social credit, which would ring in an era of untold freedom and prosperity, is held at present by a minority of the population, say less than 10 percent. But, what happens as more people hear about the doctrine and word spreads? Scientists have now shown that a minority opinion, once reaching 10 percent of the population grows fast and soon becomes the dominant paradigm: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110725190044.htm.

A team of scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,  who are members of the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC) at Rensselaer, used computational and analytical methods to discover the tipping point where a minority belief becomes the majority opinion. According to SCNARC Director Boleslaw Szymanski,

As the Libbies get ready to do us over with the next budget, the universities are in line for a thrashing. Student fees are likely to rise by 25 percent, students will start repaying their loans sooner, so that they can be obedient wage slaves all their pitiful lives, and they will be charged a loan fee at the start of their studies. Yes, as much as I hate the universities I cannot but wonder where does all of the money go from the trillions of full-fee-paying foreign students, who all eventually become migrants?

The universities soak up $ 9.5 billion each year in taxpayers’ money. Much of that goes to feed 66,500 administrators, and masses of senior academic staff receiving over $150,000 a year for doing as little as possible. It is well known that much of the teaching is done by junior staff, while the seniors just have a smooth ride from big pay to the next. What is worse is that thousands of academic draw a salary in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences from working to destroy Traditional Australia. They are now openly attacking Whites, even if they are White themselves, like a virus-infected disease organism, because the reward structure is good.

The latest in the gender agenda war is that feminism clubs are being established in schoolyards right across the country, to fight for gender equality which has still not come, and never will, and to  attack “white male privilege” and “hegemonic masculinity,” you know, the usual nonsense: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/education/victorian-schools-adopt-antiprivilege-feminist-clubs/news-story/abcabe64665c4aa1e134354979daa730.

This sort of compost is produced by academic feminists by the truckloads each day at tax payer funded universities. These women, or womyn, are all well paid. They are well fed, and warmly wrapped in their traditional Leftoid scarves, unlike the thousands of homeless men struggling to survive on our streets: http://www.homelessnessaustralia.org.au/index.php/about-homelessness/homeless-statistics.

Assimilation, the idea that small numbers of migrants, very gradually come to integrate into a dominant culture, and then blend in, is one of the great myths of liberalism. It has been debunked, first by  recent Islamic immigration, not only with home-grown terrorism: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/12/opinions/orlando-homegrown-terror-bergen/, but also with the process of endless chain migration which has now been set into motion: http://www.dw.com/en/report-nearly-one-in-two-muslims-in-germany-engaged-in-aiding-refugees/a-38137761, and its dispossessing effects upon the dwindling numbers of locals: http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/05/everything-you-have-learned-in-school-is-wrong/.

Secondly, the assimilation thesis is defeated  by the sheer numbers of migrants which have completely transformed Western society. Australia, in particular is paraded as a “successful” multicultural society because the elites have been completely able to transform its Anglo-Saxon basis, 99 percent at Federation, to one where nearly half of all Australians, which only has a legal meaning, were either born overseas or have at least one parent who was: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/australias-demographic-details-will-shock-you-almost-half-of-us-are-foreigners-or-their-children/news-story/7ae164c13cf15f7e9b5d3ee7c6465816. This is “successsful” because the transformation was done without a civil revolt, because of the deracination of Anglos and white pathology, something which needs discussion all on its own. It is not “successful’ considering the ethnic interests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Genetic_Interests of the displaced group, any more than Aboriginalists see their displacement as “successful.”

We have been debating a most delightful fellow from China who objects to our material. At first I thought that he was defending the notion that the Chinese were the smartest people on Earth, but he has said in a recent email that he is sceptical that intelligence differs between races, citing the falsification of the supposedly low genetic IQ scores of Hispanics when better environments are provided: see also Fred Reed’s critique of the racial realists on this point: http://takimag.com/article/race_realism_and_race_realists_fred_reed#axzz4fizFdR9t.

However Mr Li also believes that the Ashkenazi Jews are “smarter than my people, the East Asians.” He says that this is “Not because of genetics, but because of their culture, which emphasizes learning for the sake of knowledge, unlike ours, which merely emphasizes learning for the sake of getting a better life.”
Well, blow me over – so much for the Confucian ethic and the virtues of learning, all seemingly long gone:  https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/confucius.

Today it is not politically correct to argue with pride for the achievements of the white race, especially the Nordic group. According to the political Left, races are a social construction, and do not exist until it is convenient for the elites to do a flip flop on that, when whites need to be genocided, punished, abused or non-whites need rewarding by affirmative action. Then races exist.

I notice with interest Charles Murray’s tables in Human Accomplishment  (Harper Collins, 2003), reproduced at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Accomplishment. This is worth considering in detail because it shows that White Europeans did succeed, for better or for worse, in creating the modern world, because if we are to fight for survive, it is important to know that there is something worth fighting for, some higher ideal.

While there is a move to attack and discredit IQ at this site, which I think is a good thing given the reductionist nature of this measure, perhaps some parting shots will be permitted before moving on.

Renewal vol. 20, no. 2, reported on IQ studies done on children born in Californian communes conducted by UCLA anthropologist Professor Thomas S. Weisner: http://articles.latimes.com/1991-12-06/news/mn-503_1_countercultural-children. These children were Anglo and had an IQ average of 113, with the Anglo control group having an IQ of 114. There have been a few studies like this, but it is politically incorrect to measure anything other than the broad category of “White,” which will certainly generate lower IQ scores given its vast variety (regression to the mean), taking in all manner of sub-groups with lower IQ scores.

This article stemmed from reading a paper written by an Indian chap on a proposal for a National Dividend for India.  An excellent paper, it has just one small historical error:  from his readings, the chap believed that A.R. Orage coined the term ‘social credit’ which was published in an edition of 'The New Age'. Historically, this was not so, and historical accuracy is important, so this error will be corrected.