The young are turning to socialism in droves. It is a problem if they do not come out of this dementia quick.
  https://medium.com/@micbusler/young-americans-ignorance-results-in-them-favoring-socialism-3cf3906bca10

“According to a Gallup poll conducted last year, nearly 50% of young adults have a positive view of Socialism. This contrasts with 34% of Generation Xers and less than 30% of baby boomers. Maybe older Americans know something that younger Americans simply do not know. The poll also found that while 50% of young adults view Capitalism favorably, that figure is down from 66% in 2010. What happened in the last decade to sway the youth? It appears that the combination of a stagnant economy and ignorance of basic principles are what led the youth to view socialism more favourably and capitalism less favourably. Older and wiser Americans know more about the workings of Capitalism and its overall positive outcomes in the real world.”

     Lock down is tough. But, for alcoholics such as myself, there is always the bottom of a bottle to search for. One is never alone with a bottle of booze, pathetic I know. But, suddenly there is a shortage of alcohol. Oh my, just as well I took our resident survivalist John Steele’s advice to stock up on vital supplies, such as plenty of alcohol. Kiddies reading this, do not follow my bad example, or you will end up like me, or worse, so learn your lesson about the evils of drink.
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8606265/Victoria-reports-460-cases-coronavirus-overnight.html?ito=push-notification&ci=27035&si=12817605

“'Stage four restrictions will make a difference but we won't see them for another week or more.' The tough stay-at-home restrictions, which include an 8pm-5am curfew for metropolitan Melbourne, have been in place for almost a week. The fresh infections come amid fears Victorians could be left without medicine, alcohol and school supplies after major businesses were closed by the state's stage four lockdown.”

     White genocide is passive, and best done slowly like boiling the proverbial frog in water. Take choirs for example, which will be disassembled if they are too white, which nowadays means having any whites at all:
  https://www.britishfreedomparty.com/sheffield_choir_axed_for_being_too_white

Well, it was not possible to cut and paste from those nationalist guys, so we go to the Left: “In a break with centuries of tradition, Sheffield cathedral is to stand down its choir in order to make a “completely fresh start” with a new team of choristers that reflects and engages with an increasingly diverse city. A statement published on the cathedral’s website on Wednesday said “significant change” was needed. The cathedral’s governing body, the Chapter, had decided on “a new model for Anglican choral life here, with a renewed ambition for engagement and inclusion”, it added. Although the cathedral’s music department had been the subject of a review, the closure of the choir was unexpected and is likely to infuriate traditionalists in the Church of England and classical music circles. Apart from a handful of adult singers, the current choir is drawn largely from schools in the Sheffield area (including private schools) and mainly performs music from the Anglican choral tradition. Peter Bradley, the cathedral’s dean, said: “The city is changing pretty quickly and we feel cathedral music needs to have a wider reach. We want to be more ambitious, and that means engaging with a wider group of children and reaching parts of the city we haven’t reached before.” In future, there may be more than one choir drawn from larger numbers of children and university students, he said. The population of Sheffield and the surrounding area is growing, getting younger and becoming more diverse, and in recent years, the cathedral had welcomed refugees and supported people living on the streets, Bradley said.

     Here is a horror scenario where Pelosi becomes president. If Australia readers do not know how bad she is, then you can see her in action on YouTube. You guys have nothing to compare to this and under the flowing scenario someone dozens of times worse than Hillary Clinton, as president. Oh gasp!  
  www.westernjournal.com/leftist-harvard-prof-pushes-scenario-pelosi-become-president/

“It’s difficult to know when to take Laurence Tribe seriously. Yes, the notoriously left-leaning Harvard law professor is one of our nation’s foremost constitutional scholars. You might not agree with him, but he’s been both massively prolific and influential in his work. For better or ill, Tribe was the legal mentor of Barack Obama. He helped kill Robert Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court through his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He’s argued a not-insignificant number of cases before the high court. Conservatives may loathe him, but he’s one of the most important legal minds of the past century. He’s also a man who’s come undone in the age of Donald Trump, using his Twitter account to spread misinformation about the president when he isn’t coming up with his own: This is like watching the final years of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, when he became obsessed with the paranormal and convinced that fairies existed and had been captured on camera. The difference is that Doyle wrote “The Hound of the Baskervilles” and not “American Constitutional Law,” and he wasn’t being invited on MSNBC to talk about the existence of the fairies. (To be fair, that might have been a bit anachronistic.) Thus, if you heard the situation Tribe described on Joy Reid’s MSNBC show on Friday regarding what would happen if no presidential winner were declared by Jan. 20, 2021, due to delays or mail-in ballot difficulties —  that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would take office as the next president — you were probably wondering whether this was Tribe speaking as a constitutional scholar or as a man who could use a nice, long rest. The answer: It’s not as bonkers as you think, but the situation also isn’t as well-thought-out as you would expect from one of our top constitutional scholars. “There is a procedure — it’s a very elaborate procedure — in every state for resolving disputes by the date of the so-called safe harbor on Dec. 8,” Tribe said. “So, really, all of the efforts that Trump is making to both pretend that he can extend the date of the election, which everyone understands he can’t do that. That date is set at Nov. 3 by act of Congress. All of that is designed simply to cast doubt in the way that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin wants to, and the way that [former Trump adviser Steve] Bannon has tried to do from time to time on the ability of our system to work,” he said.”

     America is an advanced lesson in the collapse of a modern techno-industrial society. It seems well accepted on the street that civil war, or at least chaotic breakdown, which is even worse, is around the corner, and everyone I speak to here in Florida, believes that the police will not protect you, and in a way, are part of the problem, certainly not being on our side, but defending the corporates. The riots well illustrated this, where the police were ordered not to intervene when ordinary deplorables were under attack, but moved rather quickly when the homes of the rich might have been threatened. Anyway, once the trucks stop, even the rich are going to have trouble, unless they fly out, because truckers are no fools and will not be going into cities that have been police defunded, where they will be sitting ducks.
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-08-06-trucking-companies-stay-out-of-cities-where-police-have-been-defunded.html
  https://www.westernjournal.com/trucking-company-owner-cities-defund-police-big-surprise/

“Cities that decide to cut their police funding could be cutting their own supply lines, too. That was the message a trucking executive carried to “Fox & Friends First” on Wednesday, and it’s something urban politicians — in the thrall of Black Lives Matter rioters and antifa anarchists — should be seriously considering unless they think citizens can start growing their own food. Because if it’s not safe for truckers to carry goods — they just might not do it. And trucking companies won’t be willing to risk the business. “Our first priority is to support our drivers and their safety when they’re on the road,” Mike Kucharski, co-owner of Summit, Illinois-based JKC Trucking, told the Fox program. “Defunding the police is a bad idea because when you’re on the road, you have — you’re for weeks and days at a time, driving 11 hours with valuable cargo, everybody wants to steal this.” On the road, Kucharski said, “There’s no safe place. Violence is everywhere. So, if you’re going to be having valuable cargo and there’s going to be no police to rely on, who’s going to protect our drivers? “The states that are going to defund the police, we’re not going to go to because we’re trying to avoid those states for safety reasons.” It’s a message Kucharski has been trying to spread far and wide. “These drivers have the right to refuse a load because they are worried about their own safety,” Kucharski told conservative, Wisconsin-based radio host Vicki McKenna in a June 30 interview, according to a JKC Trucking news release. “If these drivers all refuse to go into these areas, the food supply chain collapses. There’s going to be no more essential goods. The people in these states are going to run out of food. Then there’s going to be complete chaos. I’d say 72 hours and that’s it. The party’s over.” And it isn’t just the hot spots like Minneapolis, where the self-important city council has already voted to begin the process of dismantling the police department. Or New York, where leftist Mayor Bill de Blasio and a leftist city council are apparently more interested in painting the words “Black Lives Matter” on the street than protecting actual black lives with adequate police officers.”

     Tasmania has now recorded its coldest day of -14 C, and snow is falling in all sorts of place it has never done before. Does anyone remember global warming? You know, temperature risers and all that? That was the scam crisis before the present two. I will be thinking of this while I freeze and possibly die in an ice block in my flat here in Melbourne, being too poor for heating. At least our resident survivalist, John Steele, out in the Victorian scrub, will be burning half a forest that he has no doubt cut down, hopefully no Australian animals in it, such as polar bears, wolves, walruses, seals … as we will soon see on Melbournian streets, since people have gone.
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8602325/Cold-weekend-Tasmania-records-coldest-day-mercury-plunged-14C.html?ito=push-notification&ci=26911&si=12817605

“Tasmania has recorded its coldest ever day since records began of -14.2C as the rest of the eastern states are warned to prepare for heavy rain and cold temperatures this weekend. The Bureau of Meterology labelled this week's weather as 'a very significant event', and beat the state's previous record of -14C in 1983. So cold, in fact, that it was actually warmer at the Australian Antartic reasearch station in Casey on Thursday, meteorologist Simon Louis told the ABC. 'I don't think that would happen very often at all,' he said. Video footage, taken on Wednesday, showed Aussie Rules players bracing the icy conditions to train in Launceston in the north of the state. A wombat was also filmed wandering along a boardwalk looking for his underground burrow in the snow earlier in the week.”

     First the universities move away from classic liberal values such as freedom of discussion, but then the vacuum is replaced by something at the opposite end of the spectrum, the new kid on the block, China, and its Maoist/beehive capitalist values. And, the universities have all  gone crazier than usual. Could it be another form of Coviddy?
  https://amp.smh.com.au/world/asia/china-exporting-ccp-speech-controls-to-australia-as-second-university-caught-in-row-20200805-p55irf.html

“The Chinese Communist Party is harnessing an online cyber policing portal, accessible in Australia, to increase its international influence, as it encourages Chinese internet users to dob in acts that undermine Beijing's image.
Australian universities have been engulfed in a fresh row over academic freedom after co-ordinated protests from nationalist Chinese students forced UNSW to take down social media posts critical of the Chinese Communist Party's actions in Hong Kong. UNSW vice-chancellor Ian Jacobs on Wednesday apologised for the decision, telling staff there was "no excuse for our failure in this instance" and the social media posts should never have been removed. "I apologise for this mistake and reaffirm unequivocally our previous commitment to freedom of expression and academic freedom," he said. A second Australian educational institution was embroiled in controversy on Wednesday after Charles Darwin University apologised following complaints from Chinese students. The students said an introduction to an assignment was racist after it stated that the coronavirus had originated in China. Other Chinese students in Australia say they are afraid of speaking out against the party line, fearful they will be reported by their compatriots to the Chinese embassy or have their families in China targeted.

     Here is yet another example of how corrupt US society has become due to the regime of Leftism and diversity. One of “the squad,” a diverse US senator, marries her brother, illegal, violates US immigration law, but doesn’t even get a slap on the wrist. Go figure; how could the world not be run by the conspirators?
  https://www.wnd.com/2020/08/dhs-insider-ilhan-omar-wont-prosecuted-marrying-brother/

“Federal investigators have decided not to prosecute Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for immigration fraud despite the publicly available evidence that she married her brother to gain him lawful status to remain in the United States. The news that two separate federal agencies have declined to pursue charges against Omar after a months-long probe came from a veteran insider at the Department of Homeland Security. The case was investigated by the FBI and involved at least one other agency, but the U.S. Attorney in Minnesota, Erica MacDonald, has decided not to prosecute. MacDonald is a Republican who was appointed to her post in June 2018 by President Trump.”

     I like the following article that compares big Tech to organised crime. Indeed, the metaphor can be extended to cover much of modernity, where not only does government blend into crime syndicates, with corrupt cops, politicians and everyone in between, but entire institutions, such as the universities reek of criminality, treason, degeneracy, you name it. Corruption and rottenness is  everywhere, a universal sewer flowing throughout the land, which is what we would expect in a world undergoing decomposition:
  http://archive.is/oxMtl

“On Wednesday, the House's top antitrust subcommittee grilled big-tech CEOs Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos, who appeared via videoconferencing software. Some people called it tech's "Big Tobacco moment" while others compared it with past antitrust investigations of Microsoft and AT&T. To me, the hearing - and the ongoing investigations - conjured another set of hearings from 70 years ago: the probe into mob activity led by Sen. Estes Kefauver, D-Tenn. Those hearings led to a wave of enforcement, new laws and eventually, in 1970, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. What we learned at Wednesday's hearing suggests the behavior of Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon calls for a comparably comprehensive and forceful response. (Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon, owns The Washington Post.) There are more than a few similarities between the organized crime and these four companies. Like the Mafia, the threats that Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google pose to American democracy flow from the power they have over key services (from email to social media to music and film), the way they use dominance in one area to achieve dominance in others and their ability to use fear to stop challenges to their control. Like the Mafia, they are a resilient, surveillance-based shadow government. So citizens are dual subjects - of the country, and of the flawed online markets created by these companies. Like the mob, big tech has friends in very high places. Likewise, big tech is an oligarchy with several bosses, who compete in some territories but generally divide power among themselves, without consulting elected officials. Obviously, I am not saying Facebook and Google murder and kneecap their opponents, or burn down businesses that refuse to play by their rules; I am not equating tech companies with the mob. While just about every Mafia enterprise was illegal, big tech operates in a legal gray area; these companies argue that they have broken no laws. They evade taxes using legal loopholes, not as the mob does by simply refusing to report income. Still, the analogy is useful, because it helps us think about a certain kind of oligarchic governing power that exists alongside - is interwoven with - responsive democratic systems. It helps us to think through what an effective governmental response to systemic interference with, dominance of, and bullying of businesses with less power might look like. The hearing, compressed into one afternoon with all the CEOs present at one time, was not ideal, but arguably the best Congress could get without getting dragged into an extended legal fight over subpoenas. In one of the funnier moments, Bezos said, "I don't want to be sitting here," and then trailed off, revealing a basic truth.”

     Here is yet another example of toxic Leftism:
  https://reclaimthenet.org/palatine-high-school-teacher-fired-white-privilege-social-media/

“Jeanne Hedgepeth, a Palatine High School, Illinois, social studies teacher, has been fired over one of her social media posts after the Township High School District 211 board members voted 5-2 to terminate her employment. “I am about facts, truth-seeking and love,” Hedgepeth wrote in the Facebook post that led to her termination. “I will speak on any topic I choose because I live in a free country. I find the term ‘white privilege’ as racist as the ‘N’ word. You have not walked in my shoes either so do not make assumptions about me and my so called privilege. You think America is racist? Then you’ve been hoodwinked by the white liberal establishment and race baiters like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Travel the world and go see that every nation has racism and some more than others but few make efforts such as we do to mitigate or eliminate it.” She also recommended the work of economist Thomas Sowell, political commentator and activist Candace Owens, and author and radio host Larry Elder. Additionally, Hedgepeth argued that there is a “deeper problem than racism.” She finished by recommending that the black community should stop believing “Democrats, mainstream media and intellectuals in ivory towers.”

8 August 2020

Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef is once again the excuse for extending Green control of all land and waters. Their current scare concerns the quality of water draining into the Coral Sea. Their hidden agenda is to eliminate coastal agriculture, mining and commercial fishing. They would surrender the land to kangaroos, cassowaries, lantana, cane toads, wild cats and feral pigs and the seas to marauding sharks, cruising whales and aboriginal fishermen.

Reef Warriors will never be satisfied until pure water drains from farms, mines, ports and rivers along the Queensland coast. This is an impossible and misguided dream. Pure water is sterile and nothing flourishes in it.

Vibrant offshore life needs winds, rivers and creeks to deliver minerals and nutrients into coastal waters.

Corals, shellfish and marine plants need calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, nitrogen, sulphur, carbon dioxide and trace elements to build their skeletons, shells and plant tissues.

Australian soils are leached and deficient in many minerals. Farmers know that farm crops and domestic animals need mineral fertilisers for healthy growth – so do potted plants, orchards and gardens; and so does all ocean life.

Many of these minerals are supplied naturally by erosion of rocks such as limestone, magnesite, rock phosphate, dolomite, basalt or granite. This is a slow process but mining, crushing or calcining of these rocks can speed things up, providing natural mineral fertilizer for farms, and any dust and river runoff provides free fertilizer for offshore marine life.

     A NSW Bushfire Enquiry concluded: “Hazard-reduction burns should be greatly increased”. What a breath of good sense. If there is no fuel, there can be no fire. They also urge a return to indigenous fire management. Aboriginals burnt anything and everything, at any time, for any reason. They had no water-bombers and seldom tried to put fires out, but they did understand back-burning. Their vegetation management created the vast and productive open forests and grasslands that supported large populations of marsupials and birds. But tree huggers would never support this. They prefer scrub, weeds, pests and occasional fierce wildfires.

     This video is worth looking at because it shows two ultra-white cops arresting a white woman for being nude on a public beach, only she has on a thong bikini. Of course, I do not approve, but the point is that the cops were super-eager to make an arrest. There is a comment by some guy who comes along, films it, and maybe has some legal background, who shows how ignorant the cops are. In the end they have to consult a printout to try and work out the law, even though they have already assaulted and false imprisoned said bikini girl. The problem is that cops basically do the easy revenue raising stuff, and soft questionable targets, rather than the hard yard of tackling real crime. This bikini event should not have happened. Instead, these cops should have ben following up crimes in the area. All this while US cops are standing by letting antifa burn, destroy and murder America.
  https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2020/08/04/watch-acrobat-detained-wearing-thong-sc-beach-im-not-nude/

     All of the so-called racism events are really about faulty police work. It is a pity that the ideologically-based Marxism attack directed things to the race dead end, when police reform, not defunding is what is needed. Defunded police will be even worse than what we have now, as only the worst police will remain in a job. Good work, Marxist ferals … but, that was your plan!

     The link below is to a video featuring Fred Markert of The IsaacNewtonproject.com, who is an expert in the rise and fall of civilisations. The short of the long is that the West is now spiralling into collapse. Markert was a former communist, but now a Christian and he argues that only a return to Christian living can save us, because Western civilisation is terminally sick e.g. abortion, the gender agenda, loss of freedom etc. That’s right, not by economics, but by a spiritual revolt against the decency of the modernists.
  https://www.brighteon.com/7f2c713f-442e-4a21-a05f-44463beab95c
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-08-04-civilization-expert-fred-markert-warns-america-catastrophic-collapse.html

“People who have seen this interview are raving about its impact on their lives, and some have personally texted me and told me they almost couldn’t watch the last half because it was “too scary,” but after they watched all the way through, they understood the importance of the discussion. If you watch just one video this week, make it this one. It’s a can’t-miss, high-IQ discussion about why America has already passed the tipping point and is headed for a cultural, financial and moral collapse from which no nation in history has recovered. It’s more than just America, too: This discussion warns about the collapse of all of Western civilization. When a nation begins to maim its children in the name of LGBT progressivism, for example, it’s one of the last signs that collapse is imminent. And America is already there. If this nation doesn’t immediately denounce child mutilations, child murder (abortion), child rape (pedophilia, widely practiced by Democrats) and other heinous sins such as using aborted fetal tissue in vaccines, we will not exist much longer.”

     What do the rich do with their money, besides use it to make more money, and life miserable for us? Why, if you are the world’s richest woman you support the most woke politically correct causes around. Like Jeff Bezos ex-wife, for example.
  https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/08/jeff-bezos-ex-wife-funding-black-lives-matter-daniel-greenfield/

“It's the ultimate feminist story. Your ridiculously wealthy husband cheats on you, you divorce him, become insanely rich, and give the money away to racial supremacists. Here's McKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, with the inevitable Medium post about how much money she's giving to BLM. But first, a lecture. “Opportunities that flowed from the mere chance of skin color, sexual orientation, gender, or zip code may have yielded resources that can be powerful levers for change... I began work to complete my pledge with the belief that my life had yielded two assets that could be of particular value to others: the money these systems helped deliver to me...” Lady, the money was delivered to you because you married an investment guy who went on to found a dot com monster that consumed the retail sector, destroying numerous small businesses. And you're using the money to fund lefty racists, instead of, say, the many businesses that went under to make you that money. But, in all fairness, Bezos left McKenzie for Lauren Sanchez, a "person of color" in the current formula. So, McKenzie already traded in her position to that of a person of color. Now she's giving away a ton of money to a bunch of racist hate groups, including the Movement for Black Lives, an anti-semitic BLM group that supports BDS.

     As a high school maths teacher, I have long speculated about how the woke politically correct would get their talons into my abstract discipline. Now I know:
  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/07/does_mathematics__western_imperialism.html

“Is mathematics next on the chopping block to be deconstructed as a form of "Western imperialism"? A young woman describing herself as a teacher, Ph.D. student, and "social justice change agent," recently gained notoriety for tweeting, "The idea of 2+2 equaling 4 is cultural," a product of "western imperialism/colonialism." Yes, even mathematics, held up as the most objective and neutral of disciplines, is being reshaped by critical theory, which claims that all ideas are social constructions by groups using their power to advance their own interests. This is not just the inflammatory language of young social justice warriors.  Alan Bishop, who teaches at Cambridge University, wrote an article titled "Western Mathematics: The Secret Weapon of Cultural Imperialism," in which he deplores "the process of cultural invasion in colonised countries by western mathematics." In Educational Studies in Mathematics, two math educators at Georgia State University write, "Dominant mathematics is a system established as right and True by the White men who have historically controlled and constructed the game."  The authors call for "critical mathematics" to expose "the power dynamic between the oppressor — White, male mathematicians — and the oppressed — the marginalized Other." Rochelle Gutiérrez, an education professor at the University of Illinois, writes that "mathematics itself operates as Whiteness.  Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as the mathematical community is generally viewed as White."  Gutiérrez charges that algebra and geometry perpetuate white privilege because the textbook version of math history is Eurocentric: "[c]urricula emphasizing terms like Pythagorean theorem and pi perpetuate a perception that mathematics was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans."

     Well, the bodycam footage of the entire George Floyd arrest has been released, and it clearly shows that Floyd used the phrase “I can’t breathe” long before the police restrained him, this being consistent with him being a criminal trying to get rid of evidence. And this is the new martyr of the revolution, a true symbol of the state of America, and the West, today.  
  https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/why-george-floyd-died-bodycam/

“Early, one of the officers has a gun on him, and tells him repeatedly to put his hands on the wheel. Floyd says, “I got shot the same way before.” Well then, says the cop, put your hands on the wheel when I tell you to.
The police tell him repeatedly to get out of the car, but he keeps saying, “Please don’t shoot me, please don’t shoot me.” Yet he refuses to obey them. At the 1:28 moment, Floyd says, “I just lost my mom, man.” (He was lying about that.) At the 1:51 point, a female voice is heard saying, “Stop resisting!” Floyd continues to resist arrest as they’re trying to cuff him. At about the 2:12 point, the officer says again, “Stop resisting!” At 2:19, the police finally get the cuffs on Floyd, and put him back into the seat of his car. In the seconds before a break at 3:57, one of the bystanders (a black woman) tells an officer that Floyd has mental problems. Then, at 3:57, we see Floyd cuffed and standing on the street. An officer says, “Are you on something right now?” “No, nothing,” says Floyd.

     New York is becoming a case study of what is going to happen as the communist revolution rolls over America, and then the rest of the West. To get the ball rolling, the strategy is anarcho-tyranny in New York, where budget cuts to the police, despite all of their faults, are leading to a Mad Max world, with the rule of law in crisis:
  https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-york-citys-rule-of-law-in-crisis-warns-current-former-nypd-leaders_3413849.html?ref=brief_News&__sta=ns.nzl.lzosulzsxkmovq.ktlqhi%7CYVY&__stm_medium=email&__stm_source=smartech
  https://www.theepochtimes.com/nyc-mayor-de-blasio-plans-1-5-billion-nypd-budget-cut_3406149.html

“New York City is spiraling into a rule-of-law crisis, according to the city’s police department, citing the recent surge in shootings and a paralyzed justice system that can’t keep repeat offenders off the streets. While the NYPD has sounded the alarm for months, city leaders seem to be headed in the opposite direction, slashing the department’s budget by $1 billion. “I hope I’m not the only one—it takes a long time to turn the ship—that sees the iceberg directly in front of us,” NYPD Commissioner Dermont Shea told NY1 on June 22. The problem is the result of multiple compounding factors, several current and former NYPD leaders said. First, the city passed a bail reform law that allowed more criminals to immediately get back on the streets. Then the city went into lockdown in response to the CCP virus pandemic, resulting in the shutdown of the court system, which created a sizable backlog of cases. It then released hundreds from its jails, saying it would mitigate the spread of the virus among inmates. Finally, protests sparked by the death of George Floyd during his arrest in Minneapolis in May quickly turned violent, fueling resentment toward police and elevating calls for abolishing police altogether. There were 250 victims of shootings across the city between June 1 and June 28—an increase of nearly 160 percent from the same period last year, and the largest number for that four-week time frame since 1996. On the Fourth of July weekend, 39 people were shot across the city, including two men in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. A 20-year-old died after a dispute during a party that spilled out into the street ended with bullets flying. Three days later, the street had been cleared and there was no evidence of a crime scene. Three men fixing a car on the street said the incident was a celebration gone wrong. “Their energy in the city is all messed up,” one said, declining to provide his name. When asked if the city should do something about the shootings, he said: “We should do something about it. We need to stop acting stupid.” The city needs to reopen recreation facilities, said two women sitting on the stairs of a house near the scene of the crime. Frustration among the youth runs high as the virus lockdown forced them to stay inside even as the summer came, they said.”

     I haver been covering the attack being made on Western science by the woke politically correct Left and ethnics, who are obviously seeking to deconstruct the society itself. Jordan Peterson has also recognised this, that soon it will be open season on the hard sciences as well … no, it is already happening.
  https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jordan-peterson-the-activists-are-now-stalking-the-hard-scientists

“I have watched the universities of the Western world devour themselves in a myriad of fatal errors over the last two decades, and take little pleasure in observing the inevitable unfold. It is a failing of human reason, with all its limitations, ego, and pretensions, to serve as Cassandra; to derive a certain satisfaction in watching the ship whose demise was foretold breach its hull on rocks hidden from all other observers. The self-righteous pleasure of “I told you so,” is, however, of little comfort when the icy water wends its way around ankle, knee and thigh, threatening to swamp everything still retaining its incalculable and unlikely value, even if it simultaneously makes short shrift of the ignorance and willful blindness that is frequently part and parcel of the death of something once great. … … other recent events drive these points home. A highly cited professor of physics, who I cannot name, at a university I cannot name either (suffice it to say that the former has garnered 100+ publications and 7000+ citations in a highly technical field) had his standard Canadian Federal grant application rejected because he had failed to sufficiently detail his plans to ensure diversity, inclusivity and equity (DIE) practices while conducting his scientific inquiry. It is now standard practice for university hiring boards to insist that their faculty job applicants submit a DIE plan with their curriculum vitae — a terribly dangerous occurrence of its own. I believe that the fundamental reason such plans are required, particularly of those who practice in the so-called “hard” STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) is so that those who could not hope to assess the quality of research endeavours in those specialties as a consequence of their own inability or ignorance, can be made into judges by enforcing the adoption of standards of attitude and behaviour that have nothing to do with the fields in question.

7 August 2020

Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef is once again the excuse for extending Green control of all land and waters. Their current scare concerns the quality of water draining into the Coral Sea.

Their hidden agenda is to eliminate coastal agriculture, mining and commercial fishing. They would surrender the land to kangaroos, cassowaries, lantana, cane toads, wild cats and feral pigs and the seas to marauding sharks, cruising whales and aboriginal fishermen.

Reef Warriors will never be satisfied until pure water drains from farms, mines, ports and rivers along the Queensland coast. This is an impossible and misguided dream. Pure water is sterile and nothing flourishes in it.

Vibrant offshore life needs winds, rivers and creeks to deliver minerals and nutrients into coastal waters.

Corals, shellfish and marine plants need calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, nitrogen, sulphur, carbon dioxide and trace elements to build their skeletons, shells and plant tissues.

Australian soils are leached and deficient in many minerals. Farmers know that farm crops and domestic animals need mineral fertilisers for healthy growth – so do potted plants, orchards and gardens; and so does all ocean life.

Many of these minerals are supplied naturally by erosion of rocks such as limestone, magnesite, rock phosphate, dolomite, basalt or granite. This is a slow process but mining, crushing or calcining of these rocks can speed things up, providing natural mineral fertilizer for farms, and any dust and river runoff provides free fertilizer for offshore marine life.

Seaweed and other marine plants need fertile muds delivered by flooding rivers and all marine animals welcome bits of dead animal life.

All natural fertilisers used for land plants will also benefit sea plants. Dust and smoke from bushfires, volcanoes, smelters and power stations can deliver natural nutrients such as oxides of nitrogen, sulphur and carbon (all essential for vigorous healthy vegetation) to soils and plants in surrounding areas. There is no danger as long as exhaust stacks or volcanic cones are high enough or remote enough to dilute these gases before they reach the ground.

The atmosphere and surface waters are efficient distributers of dilute aerial fertilisers to land and sea plants. This is far safer and cheaper than manufacturing artificial fertilisers and animal supplements and then selling these products to farmers who sometimes over-apply.

The main run-off dangers to coastal waters are herbicide and pesticide residue and soluble artificial chemical fertilisers used in excessive quantities – this is real pollution and it must be controlled. Farmers have an incentive to control it – every bit that runs off is money wasted in purchase and application. Governments should stop employing green activists – we must restore a real department of agriculture employing experienced agronomists dedicated to helping farmers, not looking for ways to put them out of business.

One of the safest and most complete sources of trace nutrients for land and sea plants is coal – decomposed coal, coal dust, or emissions from coal combustion. Why so good? Because almost every element in coal came from plants and is needed by plants. In the coalfields, the outcrops of weathered coal seams can often be seen on aerial photos as bands of better soil and thicker healthier scrub.

Barrier Reef Water Warriors need a dose of reality and perspective. Since construction of the Burdekin Falls Dam, the mighty Burdekin River delivers far less sediment and nutrients into the Coral Sea.  We can assist nature to restore some of this loss with aerial or aqueous mineral nutrients from mining and agricultural sources.

Coal mining and combustion provides many nutrients that benefit all plant and animal life. None are toxic unless artificially concentrated.