Alan Kohler has published the latest Quarterly Essay, entitled, “The Great Divide: Australia’s Housing Mess and How to Fix It.” It is well known by us all that Australia has an acute housing crisis, a product of mass immigration as the site Macrobusiness.com.au has extensively documented. But Kohler discusses yet another worrying factor, that “all young people today – are paying more than twice the multiple of their income for a house than their parents – and their grandparents – did, and it’s only vaguely possible because both partners work to pay it off.” Housing prices are astronomical compared to the past, with August 2023 figures, the median Australian house price being $732,886, 7.4 times annualised average weekly earnings. Young people, living in a cost of living crisis only have a chance of paying this off with two working wages.

The problem in a nutshell, Kohler locates back to the turn of the century, where housing became very much part of speculative investment capital, whereas in the past, housing was for living. I think that is only partly true, and the big change, occurred after the end of World War II when migration began to really kicked in. I think the link between immigration levels and the commodification of land and property is the key to understanding the great transformation occurring now in Australia, and at least in the extract below, Kohler does not deal with this issue. For more see my article today “Big Business Privatises the Gains from Mass Immigration, While Putting the Costs on Us,” which goes into the real causes of our housing crisis.

There is hope for controlling illegal immigration; all it needs is border control and the will to enforce border protection. Thus, the number of illegals invading Germany has decreased after border control had more of a try. The number of illegals entering Germany every day, fell from 700 to 300, which is something, but is still 300 too high. But Germany needs to follow the example of Hungary, who during the 2015 illegal migrant crisis was receiving 10,000 illegals a day, but after building a border wall, the numbers of illegals dropped to only a handful a day. America’s illegal immigration problem would have been solved if Donald Trump had ploughed ahead and put up the wall, instead of sitting on his hands.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/11/27/that-was-easy-germany-discovers-you-can-in-fact-slash-illegal-immigration-by-policing-borders/

I don’t know if Mary Poppins would agree, if she is not yet cancelled, but humour is a great ideological weapon of the Right. The Left try to use humour, but they typically fall on their faces, as it is hard to be humorous when your day job is so absurd anyway.

An academic paper “Humor, Ridicule, and the Far Right: Mainstreaming Exclusion Through Online Animation,” by Jordan McSwiney et al., in the journal Television and New Media, looks at how One Nation has used humour to great effect. That is true, but I am afraid the Americans are much more savage in their attacks upon the Left; the rude rhetoric of Javier Milei is a good example. I will not give links to others, even stronger, as since we are a family publication, some of the sites may be a bit “gamey,” others too earthy, and we need to protect the children readers. But trust me, publications in Australia which satirise the Left typically send them into moral panic, which is a joy to see. The blog here uses satire, often at a Swiftian level (Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), author of Gulliver’s Travels (1726)).

The health authorities are not publicising this, but the state of Victoria is experiencing a surge in cardiac arrest cases. The problem began in 2021, corresponding to the Covid vax rollout, and from 2021 to 2022, there was an increase relative to the pre-Covid vax year of 2020 of 5.8 percent. There were 6,934 cases from 2020-2021, but 7,361 cases from 2021-2022.

The Australian heath authorities and the government deny any connection of this to the Covid vax rollout; naturally they have legal issues in mind, and probably are true believers. However, as discussed by the Epoch Times.com, which has been excellent in covering the Covid plandemic, “In 2022, Dr. Eli Jaffe, a leading figure in emergency medicine and health care management in Israel, along with other authors, published a staggering study in the journal Scientific Reports. The team analysed data from Israel National Emergency Medical Services, revealing that from January to May 2021, there was a surge of over 25 percent in emergency calls related to cardiac arrest and acute coronary syndrome (a severe form of coronary heart disease) among individuals aged 16 to 39, compared to the same period in 2019 and 2020. The researchers found that the increase in emergency calls related to cardiac issues was associated with COVID-19 vaccine administration but unrelated to COVID-19 infection. The authors of the paper pointed out that the research results have raised concerns about undetected severe cardiovascular side effects induced by vaccines.”

Well, if eating bugs is the only way to save the planet, we seriously need to think about the great question from Hamlet, to be or not to be (Act 3, Scene 1). But I can imagine the UN posters, based upon the old World War I recruitment campaigns, only there would not be Uncle Sam pointing saying “I Want You,” but a blue-haired, non-binary person saying: “Eat bugs to save our planet.” Times change.

While the bug-eating, eliminate meat idea, came from the World Economic Forum, now the critique of meat-eating will be furthered by the United Nations’ Food & Agriculture Organization during the COP28 climate summit next month. These elites are deadly serious about the end of meat, and by implication, associated farming. It seems absurd, but they don’t think like that in terms of common sense. They merely ask: what is needed to achieve our goals, and then set their rockets full-power to reaching it, no matter who gets crushed in the process.

Richard Miller, your London correspondent has asked me to keep readers up to date on the Ireland situation, following from the riots that were an anti-immigration backlash. As I previously covered for the blog, the Irish authorities, including the prime minister, have taken the stance that this is just a Right wing racist riot, and have not mentioned the immigration word, let alone this word with the word “crime.”

But, as detailed below, the American press are much fairer on this issue than our controlled media, with the New York Post.com openly stating that in 2023 141,600 immigrants arrived, increasing the population by 2 percent, and relative to the US if the same increase occurred there, the population would swell by 9 million people.  As in Australia, Ireland has an acute housing shortage because of migrants, and the discontent among the community here is very real. You hear it everywhere, from the pubs to the supermarkets.

Apparently, hospitals in China are facing an inundation of sick children afflicted by a virulent form of pneumonia, “white lung syndrome.” Chinese workers in hazmat suits have been spraying the streets and Chinese authorities have reintroduced masks and social distancing. After Covid, we would expect no less from the communists. But, there are now many cases of European and American children coming down with lung infections, although it is not yet known if these infections are the same as the communist Chinese ones.

It is possible that this could evolve into another global health crisis, one the elites such as Bill Gates have been long anticipating. My guess is at this stage, this will not be another Covid, something else bigger and nastier is being planned, but we need to keep vigilant, certainly in this post-Covid world.

This item is from Canada, which is in an even more advanced state of woke decline and post-truth in medicine than Australia, which is hard to believe after the Covid plandemic here. But a woke working group of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada has proposed that doctors should be concerned more with social justice and anti-racism politics than medical expertise and knowledge. Changes to medical training will “afford us the opportunity to think critically and propose a vision for the practice of medicine which is rooted in social justice, anti-racism, anti-oppression and cultural safety, promoting a broader cultural shift which is necessary for the profession.” The reason for this is racism, racism racism, everywhere. The new neo-Marxist model “would prioritize bidirectional relationships with patients, providers, communities, the land, the health system and society at large rather than the individual physician as a gatekeeper of professionalized knowledge. With this new model, we can reflect a stance of humility over hubris.”

All this is absurd, and it has not yet been accepted, but given Canada it may. It shows that the woke cultural Marxist agenda is well advanced in marching through medicine. And, if they do succeed, it would degenerate to the state anticipated in my title, that one gets operated upon by people who are no more than Arts type graduates who say the right things, but have little medical knowledge. It will be back to the witch doctors, only Left-wing ones.

To deal with the cost-of-living crisis, especially the rise in energy costs, I have taken some radical measures. The television went long ago; I tossed it out in the hard rubbish, as Australian TV is just hard rubbish. Then when the next wave of rises came for this financial year, I turned off the fridge. To get by I use powered, sorry, powdered, milk. I get fresh vegetables if I can afford them, or else use tin vegetables. As for meat, I go for tinned fish, as the tinned meats are just too salty. Electricity use is put to a minimum, using a wind-up light to see to get around my flat, so I don’t need to turn on a switch. Computer use is done at the community library, and like the farmers of previous generations, I work by the daylight, and sleep at night, what sleep I can get. If I am lucky, I can pay the electric service charge that takes up most of the bill. On a positive note, I no longer drink alcohol, not being able to afford it; going cold stone sober was the hardest thing about my descent into extreme poverty. But at least, as the rain comes pouring down here in Melbourne, I am not yet sleeping rough in the urban wilds.

There are items that float across my news feed indicating a gradual awareness that the agenda of White replacement mass migration, may have, shall we say, a few problems, not from Whites resisting the passive genocide of their race, but from the importation of crime. The corporate elites who see migration of economic benefit in driving down wages, and creating competition for jobs and housing, still need a society with only moderate degrees of crime, not enough to affect business.

But, the Germany’s federal police office, the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), has reported that mass immigration into Germany is a major factor in the rise in violent crime across Germany, with violent crime increasing by 17 percent in the first half of 2023. Reports of violent crime in public rose by 14 percent and reports of violent offenses in private residences increased by about 3 percent.

With the Great White Replacement agenda underway in the West, which was begun by the globalist elites, but became institutionalised, so that now in zombie fashion, the White New Class now carries forward the genocide agenda against their own people. If there is one quality which the White race excels in it is moralisation, and seeking the high moral ground, be they conservatives or radicals. Thus, a racial inquisition has been put into place. In Australia, part of this White guilt black arm band view of history was pushed with the Voice referendum, that in a great victory was soundly defeated, giving inspiration to nationalists, everywhere. In the US we see the inquisition in many forms, including Joe Biden’s claim that white supremacism, defined as Trump supporters and anyone who is White holding to values the Democrats disapprove of, is the greatest threat to America, more than terrorism and communist China it seems.

This culture of attacking whiteness itself, which is another word for “White people,” was once the localised theme of Left-wing academics doing well on tax payer funded university positions. But the idea that all Whites are racist has now spread to the corporate sphere, where for example the Coca-Cola Company has demanded that its White employees should be “less White.”  We should not drink coke anyway. Businesses are now moving along the lines of “decentring whiteness,” which ultimately means, not employing White people at all, as whiteness is seen as an inevitable characteristic of White people. “It’s about hate, humiliation, and power,” said Tucker Carlson.  “Attacking people on the basis of their race is a sin.  They can try to disguise it with Orwellian terms like ‘anti-racism,’ but this is the purest kind of race hate. It will destroy America faster than anything else.” That, or whites start organising to protect their interests as they fast become minorities and no longer run the mad house.

In the aftermath of the populist revolt against Ireland’s mass immigration great White replacement, where an Algerian migrant stabbed four people, including three children, and a riot broke out from an anti-immigration protest, the question being asked by nationalists is whether a populist revolt will emerge in Britain, and I think Australia as well, which is suffering from the same globalist ideology. Britain is for the time worse than Australia, but if Australia’s mass immigration program continues, it may be worse in a different way, as the numbers of  Chinese could lead to a change in the political culture. Already we have seen the Chinese vote influence the last federal election, helping the Australian Labor Party, and the replacement immigration program was just getting started back then.

With the push by the globalists to eliminate cash, and set up Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), activists are working on strategies to oppose this. The election of Javier Milei as president of Argentina, suggests one radical way. Milei is a libertarian economist, believing that the state should have its influence reduced to merely dealing with areas of market failure, the so-called “night watchman” view. Thus, collectivist entities such as central banks would be rejected by libertarians, and this is what Milei is proposing, to shut down Argentina’s central bank. No central bank, no Central Bank Digital Currency, it’s logical! And Milei is firm on this, saying that the matter is “non-negotiable.”

As detailed below, there are some issues in Milei getting together his razor gang to set to work cutting government departments down to size, but in principle it can be done. The free market, once allowed to be free will work seeming economic miracles, and Argentina, once the wealthiest country in South America, surely needs this.

The Daily Sceptic.org, had a very nice piece featuring a dialogue between two ordinary blokes about their cars. That sort of thing goes on in pubs every day. But the difference is that the subject was electric cars, in particular, the cost of running them. While electric cars seem cheaper, simply being plugged into the mains supply overnight ready for the next day, as everyone who has a car knows, cars break down, things go wrong. And for electric cars the main issue is battery replacement, tens of thousands of dollars. If the battery plays up, there will usually be big money involved, and be sure as the car ages, just like everything else in the universe, the battery too will show the signs of wear and entropy.

At the end of these sorts of debates, the electric car owner usually falls back to the line of “I am helping save the planet.” But even here this is not so, as there the environmental costs of mining the rare earths, and pollution in the mining areas, and the big issue of what to do with the batteries when they die. The power source issue is another thing in itself. And that all assumes that the car does not catch on fire, and leave fire fighters with the quest of putting out the battery fire, if they can.

Killer robots, primarily drones which will have AI sophisticated enough to be able to make autonomous decisions about killing, are soon to be developed by the United States, China, Israel and almost certainly Russia. There has been a move to have the UN make a binding resolution to restrict this use, but the above countries, and Australia as well, are opposing this. The idea from the US perspective is, as US Deputy Secretary of Defense, Kathleen Hicks, said in a speech earlier this year, to counter China’s People's Liberation Army's (PLA): “We'll counter the PLA's mass with mass of our own, but ours will be harder to plan for, harder to hit, harder to beat.”

An inevitable AI arms race is now occurring, and it is difficult to see how this can be halted with communist China’s relentless drive to conquer the planet. The spin-off will be the ultimate use of these robots as civil police to be used by the Deep State to deal with troublemakers.  Why discuss the science and technology? Because the world is fast becoming a technocratic dystopia, and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.  

Once, not long ago, the survivalist movement, now more softly know as preppers, were thought to be a lunatic fringe, preparing for hypothetical events that were unlikely to happen. But, then the Covid lockdowns came, and people realised that with lockdowns and police and government freak-outs, it would have been good to have supplies of groceries, food items and medicines. Thus, there was the great toilet paper buy ups, where one could go into a supermarket and watch toilet paper going off the shelves as quickly as it was restocked. People would fight over toilet paper.

One of the surest signs that people are scared, is if they are still allowed by the state to buy guns, they go out and buy guns until it hurts. Thus, in the US, polls are showing that for a majority of the population, 52 percent, there is someone in each household owning a gun or guns. And, cutting across the political spectrum, polls also show that 6 in 10 Americans believe owning a gun is a necessary measure to protect against criminals. Further, 55 percent of voters believe that “Woke politicians are to blame for rising crime.” This all runs counter to the Biden administration’s rhetoric that guns cause crime, and that only white racists have an interest in firearms ownership. But 41 percent of Democrats say that they, or someone in their household, owns a gun. And, 42 percent of Democrat voters say that crime is increasing.

One of the topics conveniently and deliberately neglected by health authorities in Australia, are the ill-effects of the lockdowns upon school children. Recently the New York Times, of all papers, given its woke pro-vax stance, published a piece entitled “The Startling Evidence of Learning Loss Is In.”

The lockdowns had a devasting impact upon education: “The evidence is now in, and it is startling. The school closures that took 50 million children out of classrooms at the start of the pandemic may prove to be the most damaging disruption in the history of American education. It also set student progress in math and reading back by two decades and widened the achievement gap that separates poor and wealthy children.” The effects, as detailed below, include: “the learning loss; the disengagement from education overall; the depression and anxiety and suicidality due to severe isolation (often summarized as “mental health impacts”); the chronic absenteeism that would inevitably come because when you tell kids that their education isn’t important – isn’t a societal priority – well, they will believe you; the dropout rates; the graduating without being able to read; the abuse at home; the loss of community and hope.”

We should not be surprised to hear this one, but it is one more item to show that the globalists are dead serious about pushing in Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDS). It seems if the technology is available then the inevitable tyranny follows, if the evil ones rule, as the money power does.

Thus, Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has recently said: “CBDCs can replace cash which is costly to distribute in island economies.” “They can offer resilience in more advanced economies. And they can improve financial inclusion where few hold bank accounts.” “CBDCs would offer a safe and low-cost alternative [to cash]. They would also offer a bridge to go between private monies and a yardstick to measure their value, just like cash today which we can withdraw from our banks.”

As far as the Covid plandemic went, the facemask fetish irritated me greatly, since I knew from my career in nursing, at least until marriage and children, that masks were fragile and failed. There are may reasons for his, but the main one is that masks get contaminated quickly and need to be regularly replaced, which usually they are not done by non-health care professionals. The ordinary people often keep the same one on all day, which comes to concentrate the viruses in the fabric.

It is therefore no surprise to learn that a study by Norwegian researchers found that Covid infections were higher in those wearing facemasks, compared to those seldom or never wearing them, by 40 percent. This questions the adoption now of face masks in hospitals in South Australia and Western Australia, where we can be sure that not all wearers are going to be observing proper procedure, and in any case, other studies have questioned the utility of such masks, such as a major report in the Cochrane Review last year.