With the Asianise Australia lobby still having a massive love affair with the mighty China, it is worthwhile to consider whether the object of their undying love is so “mighty.” There are two sides to the China growth story, and here is the dark side:
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-23/rickards-new-reality-chinas-failing-economy-coming-soon

“The other half is pure waste, fraud and theft. About 45% of Chinese GDP is in the category of “investment.” A developed economy GDP such as the U.S. is about 70% consumption and 20% investment. There’s nothing wrong with 45% investment in a fast-growing developing economy assuming the investment is highly productive and intelligently allocated. That’s not the case in China. At least half of the investment there is pure waste. It takes the form of “ghost cities” that are fully-built with skyscrapers, apartments, hotels, clubs, and transportation networks – and are completely empty. This is not just western propaganda; I’ve seen the ghost cities first hand and walked around the empty offices and hotels. Chinese officials try to defend the ghost cities by claiming they are built for the future. That’s nonsense. Modern construction is impressive, but it’s also high maintenance. Those shiny new buildings require occupants, rents and continual maintenance to remain shiny and functional. The ghost cities will be obsolete long before they are ever occupied.

     The following article by Brett Stevens, is a good article which should be referenced here before it disappears down the memory hole. Brett Stevens at the site Amerika.org, gives an intriguing argument that the acceptance of pluralism and diversity, back in the day when liberal democracy was less insane, would have inevitably led to the present crisis:
  http://www.amerika.org/politics/democracy-leads-to-pluralism-which-destroys-unity/

“The idea behind pluralism is that instead of trying to find one right answer for everyone, society just accepts those differences as perpetual and stops worrying about uniting them. In theory, we all join together on the basis of our having nothing in common for the ideological purpose of defending our right to have nothing in common. You would think that conservatives would have seen the writing on the wall back then. But, no: apparently people are still shocked when Christmas is no longer an official holiday, kids get taught the right way to perform anal sex in fifth grade, or gay marriage becomes legal. In a pluralistic society, the envelope of tolerance has to be expanded as widely as possible, with one exception. Whatever came before is now assumed to be anti-pluralistic and therefore, the enemy. So while the new calendar will have Ramadan, Kwanzaa and Purim, it is not going to have those moldly old Christian holidays. Nor any of that old European stuff. Pluralism requires expanding tolerance, and stuff accepted by the presumably intolerant previous society does not expand tolerance.

     I previously covered the story that the present Pope is likely to have let sexual abuse float by his window, so to speak. But, it has been noticed, and now corroborated by a former Vatican official:
  https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/27/former-vatican-official-corroborates-allegations-against-pope-francis/

“A monsignor who worked at the apostolic nunciature to the United States has corroborated an explosive report accusing Pope Francis of rehabilitating Cardinal Theodore McCarrick despite knowing of his record of homosexual abuse of priests and seminarians. Contacted by the Catholic News Agency (CNA), Monsignor Jean-François Lantheaume, the former first counselor at the apostolic nunciature in Washington D.C., declined to give an interview, but affirmed the veracity of the report by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò. “Viganò said the truth. That’s all,” he wrote to CNA. In a written 11-page “testimony” published Saturday, the Vatican’s former ambassador to the United States said that Pope Francis had reinstating Cardinal Theodore McCarrick to a position of prominence despite direct knowledge of McCarrick’s sexual abuse.

     Unlike most people here, I don’t regularly survey Natural News.com, but I was alerted to the following item, which clearly shows just how violent the Left are, still advocating a neo-Marxist armed takeover of society, and dealing with their opponents in the standard historical fashion, which has not, for them, gone out of fashion:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-08-27-left-wing-antifa-group-calls-for-mass-armed-takeover-of-america-revolutionary-violence.html 
  https://pjmedia.com/trending/l-a-antifa-group-calls-for-revolutionary-violence-against-the-enemies-of-the-people/ 
  https://farleftwatch.com/antifa-group-calls-for-a-sea-of-armed-masses-to-stop-ice/

“The Los Angeles antifa group, Serve The People, recently organized and anti-ICE demonstration where they called for a “sea of armed masses” to take power. This Marxist extremist group doxed and threatened an LA resident for supporting ICE earlier this year and like many on the far-left, they have been continuously escalating their violent tactics and rhetoric.  report put out by the far-left blog, Incendiary News Service, provides a clear picture of what happened at this anti-ICE event: The organizers photographed someone with the intent to circulate her picture and dox her (as they have done previously):

     We have been covering the South African crisis, as the Black state moves to take White farms without compensation. President Trump was concerned about the possibility of genocide occurring, and his Tweet caused the libtard media to boil over, as if they ever needed any excuse to go on a rampage. As reported at the site below, there are numerous Tweets appearing, presumably from South Africa, saying ““Let us kill the white man, the white man must die” #SouthAfricanfarmers.” That sounds mighty unfriendly indeed.
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-27/south-africa-civil-war-looms-white-farmers-black-hitler-willing-die-over-property

“Echoing Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema says they’re prepared to die if it means South Africa will achieve land expropriation without compensation. In June, Simon Black warned that Malema, the so-called ‘Hitler of South Africa’, was busy telling white people in his country that he’s not going wage genocide against them. Yet. But now, as EWN reports, the party has claimed that it’s aware of white extremists who are opposed to the policy and are training as snipers in Pretoria to kill them. Malema was addressing the media on Thursday at the party’s headquarters in Braamfontein. “They will kill us for that. There’s a group of white right-wingers who are being trained by Jews in Pretoria to be snipers…”

     The mainstream media is satanically evil, and that is just on a good day. This dragon needs to be metaphysically and spiritually destroyed, and Queen Ann Coulter has come out swinging her broad sword, saying the sorts of extreme and creamy things that I usually say, and presumably, she is not an alcoholic, as I am, or suffering from mental decline, as I will be. This gives me a warm and fuzzy, if not furry feeling, inside, whatever that means:
  https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/08/29/exclusive-ann-coulter-i-want-trump-to-destroy-the-media-if-nothing-else/

“New York Times best-selling author and populist conservative columnist Ann Coulter says she just wants President Trump to “destroy the media” – even if nothing else is accomplished by his administration. In an exclusive interview on SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Sunday, Coulter told Breitbart News’s Deputy Political Editor Amanda House that she wants Trump to continue to “destroy” the establishment media, specifically exposing its distaste that the president tweeted about the killing of white farmers occurring in South Africa. Coulter said:

     About 3,000 Swedes, people living in a space that was once “Sweden,” have had microchips implanted in their hands, to make life easier. Yes, it is just too damned hard to get cards out of one’s pocket. This practice is starting to catch on in some US firms, where employees can have the convenience of getting a can of coke without even going for their credit card:
  https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611884/this-company-embeds-microchips-in-its-employees-and-they-love-it/

“When Patrick McMullan wants a Diet Dr Pepper while he’s at work, he pays for it with a wave of his hand. McMullan has a microchip implanted between his thumb and forefinger, and the vending machine immediately deducts money from his account. At his office, he’s one of dozens of employees who have been doing likewise for a year now. McMullan is the president of Three Square Market, a technology company that provides self-service mini-markets to hospitals, hotels, and company break rooms. Last August, he became one of roughly 50 employees at its headquarters in River Falls, Wisconsin, who volunteered to have a chip injected into their hand. The idea came about in early 2017, he says, when he was on a business trip to Sweden—a country where some people are getting subcutaneous microchips to do things like enter secure buildings or book train tickets.

     I have been covering the implosion of Sweden, and there has not been a single grain of good news to report, until now:
  https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/far-right-sweden-democrats-hope-topple-century-socialism-n901131

“Around 4,000 far-right supporters gathered on the grounds of a ruined castle last weekend to plot the downfall of the socialist ideas that have come to define their progressive country. Their views — anti-immigration, anti-establishment and often anti-Muslim — are not new amid the populist tsunami that’s crashed into much of the West. But this is Sweden, where socialists have dominated every election for the past 101 years, making the Nordic nation something of a lodestar for leftists around the world. Some polls predict that the supporters’ favored party, the Sweden Democrats, with roots in neo-Nazism and white nationalism, will win as much as 25 percent of the vote in an election scheduled for Sept. 9. Such a result would likely earn the Sweden Democrats more seats in Parliament than any other single party. At the party’s annual summer festival here, speeches were interspersed with heavy metal music as supporters gathered at Sölvesborg Castle for the headline act: an address by Jimmie Åkesson, the 39-year-old leader of the Sweden Democrats. “He’s the only politician I can trust,” a retiree named Jan shouted above the din. “We need him for our country. I don’t have so many years left, but for my children and for my grandchildren.”

     It feels like we have to fight the same old battles over and over again. I am referring to the rise of socialism, but in reality, socialism was never defeated, it simply mutated in form, becoming cultural Marxism. Now most young Americans prefer socialism to capitalism:
  https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/08/16/report-young-americans-prefer-socialism-to-capitalism/

“A new report from Gallup revealed that young people prefer socialism to capitalism. The Gallup report, which was published on August 13, details American attitudes on socialism and capitalism. The results specifically identified that positive attitude towards socialism amongst millennials. The majority of Americans, aged 18 to 29, now prefer socialism to capitalism. Americans aged 18 to 29 are as positive about socialism (51%) as they are about capitalism (45%). This represents a 12-point decline in young adults’ positive views of capitalism in just the past two years and a marked shift since 2010, when 68% viewed it positively. Meanwhile, young people’s views of socialism have fluctuated somewhat from year to year, but the 51% with a positive view today is the same as in 2010. A report from CNBC on the Gallup poll argued that many young Americans are struggling to get by in the current economy. For example, wages haven’t risen to match the rise in the cost-of-living. As a result, many young Americans are blaming the system for their struggles.

     Immigration, they say, bring people together, including, it seems, slaves and former slave owners:
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6067379/Yazidi-former-sex-slave-came-face-face-ISIS-captor-German-street.html
  https://gellerreport.com/2018/08/sex-slave-sees-isis-germany.html/

“A former Yazidi sex slave came face-to-face with her ISIS captor after escaping captivity to flee to Germany but was told that police could do nothing because he was a refugee, it has been claimed. Ashwaq Ta’lo was kidnapped by ISIS in August 2014, aged 15, and was kept in captivity by the jihadist man for three months but escaped and made her way to Europe. Speaking in a Facebook video, she said she had seen the man, Abu Humam, in 2016 and then again earlier this year in Schwäbisch Gmünd in south-western Germany. She told police and asylum officials about the encounter and although they identified the man from CCTV they said there was nothing they could do because the man was also registered as a refugee, The Times reports.”

     I have been saying for some time that with regards to the gender agenda, the next horizon will be undermining the taboo on paedophilia. The chattering class in America, and most probably here too, seem to get off on underage sex, and media sites, even somewhat mainstream, often report on the latest scandal. France may well be a testing ground for what is to come next, for the elites never rest, their sole reason for being is to completely dissolve tradition society:
  https://yournewswire.com/french-law-children-consent-sex/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

“President Macron’s government has voted against having an age of consent in France, becoming the latest nation to give in to pressure from an international network of liberal activists determined to normalize pedophilia and decriminalize sex with children across the world. Federal law in France now has no legal age of consent, meaning adults who have sex with children of any age will not be prosecuted for rape if the child victim is unable to prove “violence, threat, duress, or surprise.” The draft bill against sexual and gender-based violence, known as the Schiappa law, was signed into law by the French Parliament on 3 August, sparking outrage in France as parents and children’s rights groups accuse Emmanuel Macron’s government of betraying the nation’s children. The lack of an age of consent places millions of children in serious danger of sexual abuse in France, according to child protection officials. Childrens’ rights groups criticised Emmanuel Macron’s government for failing to provide a legal age of consent to protect children, pointing to the recent decision by French courts to refuse to prosecute two pedophiles for the rape of 11-year-old girls because authorities couldn’t prove the children did not consent.”

To The Australian          Stephen Chavura ably shows why the Left is so hostile to intellectual freedom ("Free speech is Morrison's chance to lead like Menzies", 31/8) and his advice to our new PM to launch a campaign in its defence is thoroughly sensible. The question needs to be asked, however, as to why the Left has become so powerful in our land despite its manifest errors, contradictions and unworkable policies. A vacuum must have occurred into which this torrent has poured; or, to use biblical language, in removing one devil we have inadvertently made space for seven new and worse devils to take over. Western European civilization successfully threw off the shackles of ecclesiastical obscurantism and the age of science swept in. The resultant vacuum manifests as the loss of influence and authority of the Church. Many human beings have to have a cause to fight for. Modern secular crusades was the answer.
     This indicates that it won't be enough for the West to bring back more freedom of speech. We need to revive our Christian sacred tradition so that it can provide worthy causes for activists to espouse. In essence, this means a realization that a profound initiatory tradition expressing itself through symbolism was perverted seventeen or more centuries ago into an absurd belief system and preposterous theology about the 'saving sacrifice' of Jesus.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     Australians need to watch US politics closely because what we see unfolding is how the Deep State and their puppet government seeks to impose its agenda, and to hell with democracy. The Democrats believe that Clinton, if not Obama, should be in power, and they will do whatever it takes to destroy Trump. The same measures were never done by Republicans in the past. The difference is that progressives are basically grown up versions of antifa, and retain the same lawless desire to utterly destroy enemies, not consider them as fellow citizens. It is unfortunate, but if that is how the game has to be played, sheer survival requires that Trump respond in kind. He probably has only one shot, and to date has constantly dropped the ball because of his weakness, and perhaps lack of intellect to take in the whole picture.
  https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/26/document-nancy-pelosi-democrats-will-destroy-trump-presidency-with-over-100-investigations-if-dems-win-house/

“A spreadsheet reportedly circulating among House Republicans details over 100 potential investigations into President Donald Trump that Democrats will launch if they win the November elections. They intend to impeach him — or, at best, cripple his presidency.
The document, reported by Axios on Sunday and hinted at by HuffPost on Friday (which put the number at a mere 52 investigations), is said to have Republicans “getting ready for hell,” as Democrats will use oversight to create gridlock, or worse.
Axios reports that some of the investigations, based on requests for inquiries made by Democrats while in the minority, include:

To The Australian          Roger Bridgland is mistaken (30/8) in claiming that Lauren Southern "is responsible for subsequent events" after organizing a speaking tour that she knew in advance would be controversial. For, while she could indeed reasonably expect "protests" and that her views would not "go uncontested", she cannot from that be fairly held responsible for the kind of protesting and contesting that her opponents actually engaged in. It was their decision to engage in violent and destructive mob behaviour and it is they who should be held responsible for the need to contain it. Moreover, society (in this case the state and people of Victoria) needs to ensure that it has an effective police force that will crack down on mob violence and threats thereof. If Victoria Police regularly does that, it won't be long before such massive police presence will not be needed at controversial public assemblies.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     Canberra breeds many white elephants, but now they are breeding a gigantic new breed of pachyderm in Australia’s Snowy Mountains – a Green Elephant. Grandly named “Snowy 2.0 Hydro-Electric”, it has the compulsory green skin, but it is just another big white elephant under a thick layer of green paint. Snowy 2.0 plans a hugely expensive complex of dams, tunnels, pumps, pipes, generators, roads and powerlines. Water will be pumped up-hill using grid power in times of low demand, and then released when needed to recover some of that energy. To call it “hydro-electric” is a fraud – it will not store one extra litre of water and will be a net consumer of electric power. It is a giant electric storage battery to be recharged using grid power.

     This is just the next episode in an expensive and impossible green dream to run Australian cities and industries, plus a growing electric vehicle fleet, on intermittent wind and solar energy and without coal, gas, oil or nuclear fuels. Surely we can learn from the unfolding disaster of a similar German Grand Plan:
  https://carbon-sense.com/2018/08/29/german-plan-to-abolish-carbon-fuels-fails/

     The ever politically correct BBC, just like our ABC, where the “C” stands for “communist,” is dropping programs where white males impart knowledge;
  https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/26/bbc-era-white-men-knowledge-passed/

“The era of TV shows in which white males impart information on a subject is dead, a top BBC executive has said, stating the corporation must find “different ways” of bringing expert insight and knowledge to audiences in future. BBC Four editor Cassian Harrison, an upper middle-class white male, told the Edinburgh Television Festival that people are no longer interested in “static” television programmes featuring a white male presenter talking about a topic, The Times reports. “There’s a mode of programming that involves a presenter, usually white, middle-aged and male, standing on a hill and ‘telling you like it is’. We all recognise the era of that has passed.”

     It is good to see Queen Ann Coulter, as she is affectionately called, ripping into the “Russians did it, took the election from dear Hillary” mythos. At long last, someone in the US has made the obvious point, that so what if they did, the US interferes in everybody’s elections, and has even toppled governments, and George Soros, does what he wants:
  https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/26/coulter-no-surprise-if-russia-meddled-pay-backs-a-bitch/

“She pointed to rising U.S. rival China, influential ally Israel, and Mexico, whose politicians and diplomats have repeatedly called for Mexican dual citizens and American citizens of Mexican descent to oppose tough immigration policies and Republican politicians. “[The Russians] are pikers compared to China, Israel, and Mexico interfering with our elections all the time.” “And, moreover, we do it all day long to other countries,” Coulter said of the United States. “We, I think it’s worth mentioning here, including someone we allow to live and enjoy this country’s largess, George Soros, who has specifically spent a billion dollars intervening in former Soviet satellite states.”

     War in Syria; it was never really about stopping ISIS, but rather, to flood Europe with “migrants’ and to set up things for the main event, a US vs Russia nuclear war, which the US Deep State so desperately want, with perhaps another false flag chemical attack on the way:
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-25/russian-official-suggests-deploying-nuclear-weapons-syria-respond-us-sanctions

“The long-running US and Russian proxy war in Syria has been largely forgotten of late, but suddenly snapped back into international headlines with John Bolton’s warning Assad and Russia this week that Washington will respond with “greater military force” should claims of a Syrian government chemical attack emerge in Idlib. In response, Russia subsequently warned of a staged “chemical provocation” coming and it appears a war of words is yet again ratcheting up over Syria, which has the very real potential of turning into an actual war. It fits a familiar pattern on Syria since Russian intervention at the invitation of President Bashar al-Assad in 2015: just when it appears the jihadists are on the brink of final defeat, and as stability is returning after seven years of grinding war, something happens to bring things right back to the brink of global crisis and escalation.

     As readers know, yours truly, a former Catholic, has been reporting on the dreadful decline of the Catholic Church. In particular, following in the wake of the US paedophile Catholic scandal, we now have one going directly to the head of the Church:
  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-knew-of-abusive-priest-claims-former-vatican-official-carlo-maria-vigano/ 
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-26/historic-bombshell-vatican-official-accuses-pope-francis-covering-sexual-abuse
  https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/08/26/former-vatican-official-accuses-pope-francis-of-knowingly-reinstating-abusive-cardinal/

“In a bombshell report, the Vatican’s former ambassador to the United States has accused Pope Francis of reinstating Cardinal Theodore McCarrick to a position of prominence despite knowing of McCarrick’s sexual abuse of priests, seminarians, and laypeople, including minors. Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò released an 11-page affidavit on Saturday alleging that Pope Benedict had imposed “canonical sanctions” on Cardinal McCarrick in 2009-2010 forbidding him from traveling, celebrating Mass in public, or participating in public meetings, but that Pope Francis later lifted these sanctions and made McCarrick a close personal advisor. Presenting himself as a whistleblower, Viganò declares that bishops “must have the courage to tear down the culture of secrecy and publicly confess the truths we have kept hidden.”

     In response to President Trump’s Tweet expressing concern about the plight of white farmers in South Africa, many from the conspiratorial Left have screamed “that’s racist!’ No, not the actual killing, but even saying it. It is the only thing these morons can say, like trained parrots. For these chatterers, drunk on political correctness, it is impossible that farm killings have occurred; maybe they see articles like this by the mainstream press as their form of “false news”;
  https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/south-africa-farm-attacks-brutal-crimes-landowners-face/news-story/dfaabafca743056b6d6656ea1fff49eb

     That is just one article of many that could be assembled from the mainstream press alone. All the reports of horrendous tortures, must also be dismissed, or more likely, ignored. That is precisely what a propaganda machine does. But, these must all be denied by the progressives, along with revealing remarks like:
  https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/08/24/south-africa-julius-malema-trumps-right-were-coming-for-white-farmers/