Patrick Barron, has done an excellent job outlining the dangers of a cashless society. He is writing at the libertarian site Mises.org, which is very pro-individual freedom, and despite differences on many economic and financial issues, still is a friend, compared to the globalists we all confront, and as embodied in the drive for Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC).

There are many arguments against CBDCs, but the main one is one already seen with the Canadian truckers’ blockade, where the government ordered the banks to debank and cancel the protesters’ accounts, and even US supporters’ accounts. This shows the present power of the banks, and giving them even more power is to open the floodgates to potentially more of this activity, where individuals and organisations who step out of line get debanked and cancelled. This would have a crippling effect upon dissent, and along with digital identities, which are part of the deal, must all be opposed.

I have been covering material on the costs of electric vehicles, since this is one of the key planks of the climate change agenda. As I see it, the inadequacies of electric vehicles will become quite clear once the fossil fuelled cars are put off the road, if not much sooner, and by then, the agenda will be to lock people into 15-minute cities, since they will not have relatively cheap and effective transport. So, it is important to fight this business now.

Coming from America is more critical material, this time from the think tank Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF). A report that it has recently released has shown that electric vehicles have been subsidised by governments, and would cost tens of thousands of dollars more without tax payer paid incentives and support. In the US, the government supplies $ 22 billion in support to the electric car industry and owners. Without these handouts, the average new electric vehicle would cost $48,698 more to own over a 10-year period. According to the Report: "It is not an overstatement to say that the federal government is subsidizing EVs to a greater degree than even wind and solar electricity generation and embarking on an unprecedented endeavor to remake the entire American auto industry." "Despite these massive incentives, EVs are receiving a tepid response from the majority of Americans who cannot shoulder their higher cost." For consumers then, EV already “stink.”

Diversity is the latest buzz ideology of the Western New Class; previously it was equity, but now diversity is king, or is it queen? The diversity issue applies to all the categories beloved of the New Class intelligentsia, including race, ethnicity, gender and sex. The idea on race is that societies in the West that have traditionally been majority white need to demographically replace whites with non-whites, as has occurred in places like London. Thus, most Western countries are set to have non-white majorities within decades. Australia under its present immigration policy, which is largely Asian-based, may even beat the US to non-white status. Of course, conservatives speaking about this critically, are condemned as intolerant, even while the Left celebrates the passing of whites, and academic attack “whiteness” for a good living at white tax payer’s expense, paying while their graves collectively are dug.

The same argument applies to gender/sex, with the debates about what is a woman in the context of transgenderism. The very same arguments used to deconstruct race are also applied here in the gender domain.

This news item needs to be recorded for the record, as it shows what Australia faces as Chinese communist money washes over us. Police have busted a vast money-laundering syndicate based around Changjiang Currency Exchange. Money was laundered through 12 retail outlets. As a measure of the extent of this, the police seized $ 50 million worth of luxury cars and property. This was an Australia wide operation with Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth involved.

Alex Berenson has offered some material on the rapid decline of births seen right across the developed world. The article is of interest for covering the decline of births in the advanced Asian countries, while most of our attention has been on the West. Thus, South Korea and Taiwan are on the road to demographic death, with far below replacement level birth rates, having less than one child on average. This is interesting, as most thought by Western theorists, especially conservatives, have pinned the blame upon the rise of Leftist values such as feminism. That is a quite reasonable hypothesis, but it cannot be the full truth for the entire world, as the example of Asia shows.

My own hypothesis is that there is no one cause of the birth dearth, but it is a multi-variable caused phenomenon, where Leftist values feature, but it is clear that the culture of materialism over spiritual and religious values also has much to do with it. People may choose material things over children. But, even people wanting more children face economic problems. Indeed, the present cost of living crisis, and rent housing crisis will make matters even worse as young people will not even be able to get living space, let alone have children.  As Berenson rightly notes, “nothing less than the future of humanity is at stake.” 

The following is an important message from George Christensen about the dangers to freedom posed by Albanese’s Digital ID Bill. To meet the demands of their globalist masters of the UN, World Economic Forum, World Health organization, and others, the Labor government is introducing this  Bill which will bring in a vast digital identity system to be unleashed upon Australians. This will be far beyond what was intended with the past, failed, Australia Card in 1985, as technology has moved so far ahead now and allows the elites control beyond anything contemplated in the last century.

There are many reasons to oppose the digital ID system, including security issues, privacy violations, but above all, this is going to create a Big Brother dystopia: “The powers that be want to turn us into Communist China, with a social credit system that controls our every move and thought! A digital ID system is always the basis for a social credit system. And if they ever bring in a social credit system, your social credit score will likely determine what services you can access. Under such a system, the government holds you hostage.”

Jonathan Turley, the Shapiro Chair of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, has described the growing state of anarcho-tyranny seen most clearly in America, but present to varying degree right across the West now. In America, from both the Democrat Left and Republican right, there is a movement to reject the constitution and accept violence as the answer. As Professor Turley says:  “The polls by the University of Virginia Center for Politics shows a nation at war with itself. Fifty-two percent of Biden supporters say Republicans are now a threat to American life while 47 percent of Trump supporters say the same about Democrats. Among Biden supporters, 41 percent now believe violence is justified “to stop [Republicans] from achieving their goals.” An almost identical percentage, 38 percent, of Trump supporters now embrace violence to stop Democrats. Not surprisingly, many of these people have lost faith in democracy. Some 31 percent of Trump supporters believe that the nation should explore alternative forms of government.  Roughly a quarter (24 percent) of Biden supporters also question the viability of democracy.”

None of this should be surprising since it shows that beginning in the 1960s, a great philosophical gulf has developed between the Left and the Right. In general, conservatives have been content to allow the Leftist agenda on all things to dominate society, mainly as the Left instituted a long march through the institutions, such as the universities, to gain control of the nerve centres of society. Now their influence is everywhere from the schools to the law courts, as judges are university brainwashed as well. It is now wave after wave of woke, as Australia’s Voice referendum showed. But here there was a long-awaited fight back.

Following on from Musk’s X-ing about gun rights being great, he has warned that the West is sleepwalking into World War III. On this I think he is fundamentally wrong, since all indications are that the power elites in the West, such as the US neo-cons, and Democrats want to have war with Russia, and are not therefore “sleepwalking.”

To defend the most corrupt country in Europe, the Ukraine, where the secrets of the Western elites lie, the West is giving no option to Russia but to fight on. Trump could easily get a peace deal stitched up, but it seems the next step in the Great Reset must involve global war. My guess here is that the elites are presumably human, or if reptilian as some on the internet think, at least of finite intellect, and lacking in magical powers, although demonic/Satanic, they can make mistakes, major ones. And going through the route of world war to achieve their New World Order is the biggest mistake they have made.

If one wants proof of the greed of Big pHARMa, one need only consider the latest development in the Covid scam, as Pfizer has said it will charge US $ 1,400 for a five-day course of its Covid-19 antiviral drug Paxlovid. During the Covid freak-out, the cost to the US government was $ 529. In general, it is about time that governments wake-up to what is going down, but that would involve examining their sources of campaign funding.

https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/greedy-pfizer-joins-other-greedy-pharma-to-gouge-high-risk-vulnerable-hiv-patients-d7245834

Here is my winner for this week of the James Reed Post-Voice Referendum Freak-Out Award, which has no prize money beyond the mere distinction of winning. A Left-wing Aboriginal activist has said that No voters have denied the existence of indigenous people. “We cannot have reconciliation with people who do not say that we exist in this country, who are not talking about the truth of what has happened.” Naturally the “truth” that she is talking about, which will be pushed down Aussie throats in the state South African-style Truth Commissions, is the blackarm band view of history that is in the Uluru Statement, fully endorsed by our Leftist woke prime minister. You know, Australia was invaded and hence is illegitimate, which would not follow at international law, even if it was true.

So, in this sense, yes, this is all rejected, as it is based upon historical myths, created by Leftist academics. Second, the claim that No voters, which included a majority of indigenous voters, as the Northern Territory results showed, indicates that her claim is just logically incoherent, as indigenous voters would then not accept their own existence, which is completely contrary to fact.

The latest thing being pushed on the youth is the trendy cult of eco-anxiety, anxiety about the so-called environmental crisis. The main version of this is climate anxiety, where youth come to experience anxiety symptoms, often physical such as deep depression, and insomnia. This is largely a phenomena seen in the West, where the alleged effects of the radical climate change scenario is not being played out. The globalist narrative has always been that the West is at fault for this by creating the modern world with is comforts, that keeps the Third World populations  expanding, so the West must pay out to the Third World until the lifestyle of all is equal at the bottom of the globalist wheelie bin.

In George Orwell’s 1984 the “Ministry of Truth” had three sayings carved on its walls: “War is peace.  Freedom is slavery.  Ignorance is strength.” The EU is now very much duplicating this with its “Peace Facility” transferring billions of dollars worth of artillery and ammunition to Ukraine, and the “Media Freedom Act” giving European bureaucrats the unrestrained power to censor any speech or ideas they dislike.  This situation has been noted by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán who has said: “Brussels is creating an Orwellian world in front of our eyes.  They buy and supply weapons through the European Peace Facility.  They want to control the media through the Media Freedom Act.  We didn’t fight the communists to end up in 1984!”  However, it is here now.

There has been yet another tragic, and needless death of an Aboriginal prison in custody, in this case a 16-year-old youth in youth detention in Western Australia. The Western Australian premier said that the government had let the person down, but it was "hamstrung" by infrastructure challenges and staff shortages.

At a time of a massive housing and rent crisis, China goes in for the coup de grace. While Aussies are homeless, sleeping rough under bridges if they are lucky, or living in cars, those who are lucky enough to still have them, Australian property is now the most popular in the world for Chinese buyers. Our corrupt political class has made Australia into a sucker nation, which is just sold off to whoever has the loot. And who knows what goes on behind the scenes, what deals are done?

The tidal wave of Chinese buy-ups is fuelled by Chinese overseas students who now dominate the Australian universities; visit one today and see the future, for all will be Australian residents, 500,000 plus per year, forever. Their votes will keep the Labor Party in office until a power level is reached and a CCP party takes over Australia. Or, sooner, we go the way of Tibet … remember Tibet?

It seems that every week Elon Musk tweets, or is it now, X-es, a new message that sets the Left off. And above all else, nothing upsets the Left more than the ordinary person having guns. In their centralised power world, only their government has guns to tyrannise the population and rule by fear, as all communist regimes have done, for none trust the people, and in fact fear them.  Just remember during the Covid plandemic, how right across the West, including Australia, the police often went on foot patrols, armed, not only with their usual Batman utility kit, with handgun, but also, one of the team had a special sort of assault rifle.

In any case, Musk supported gun rights in the light of the Hamas attack upon unarmed civilians in Israel. "As tragic as the mass shootings are, armed citizens are essential to the defense of democracy," Musk wrote. On this he is spot on, because one can seldom depend upon the authorities to come and protect one from such assaults, and in general there is no legal compulsion of police to come to the aid of civilians. Despite what the gun banners say, as far as self-defence goes, the individual stands alone.

Whether the present Israel-Hamas war morphs into World War III or not, one of the main early-term economic consequences of the conflict will be rising oil prices and global inflation. A warning of what is to come has been given to us by Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Michelle Bullock. The terrible causal pathway is that rising oil prices leads to rising fuel costs and this has a cascading effect upon the entire economy, resulting in inflation. Another flow-on effect will be a slowdown in the global economy, outside of the military industrial complex, with impacts upon Australian trade.

This is all bad news at a time of cost-of-living crisis, but it will be worse if World War III erupts, which many are predicting. Best to start stocking up on food, meds, and especially toilet paper, as you never know. There is not much Australians can do to stop this, but we can strive to survive.

Australia’s annual immigration intake has already reached a record 500,000 people, fuelled by the international students. The Labor government has said that this is a one of thing, which is clearly false as they are set in pursuing a policy of replacement immigration to meet the demands of the globalists and local Big Australia elites. There is no reason to see Labor turning off the tap now that they have got this going, and I predict that Australia will be taking in first a million migrants in the next annual intake, then the sky’s the limit. At some point the new overlords will just demand open borders, which will suit local Big Business just fine. Until they too are replaced.

Meanwhile ordinary Aussies are feeling the pinch, not only in rents and housing, but for necessities such as food, with one in ten having shoplifted in the last year, which equates to 2.4 million people.

A group of AI and IT experts have issued a warning about the dangers of AI which is speeding ahead in development without concerns for safety. Stuart Russell, professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, said “There are more regulations on sandwich shops than there are on AI companies.” “If we build highly advanced autonomous AI, we risk creating systems that autonomously pursue undesirable goals … we may not be able to keep them in check.” An example is that Chat GPT could be made to produce malicious code by use of WormGPT.  This may in turn destroy databases, steal personal information, and bring down services.

The experts recommend that apart from mandatory safety protocols, AI companies need to be made liable for the harm done by their products. At the moment they have a dream ride, like Big Pharma, and can freely dump technologies onto the market, with no investigation, or concern of the social harms that may come. It is a common thing with technological developments. AI will be hard to control, given that the West is now in a cyber-arms race, so to speak, with Russia and communist China, neither of whom will worry much about the adverse effects of AI development, as power, and world domination, is all that matters.

This is one of those health human interest stories, to briefly take out minds off of unending crises. The article extracted below tells of some scientists thinking that blood transfusions, and organ donations may transmit memories from the donors. This could be cognitive memories, normal ones, but also biological memories of disease traits. The evidence is based upon many testimonies of people who had blood and/or organ transplants developing memories they did not previous have. But more of a concern is the biological memory one: “patients who’d received blood from donors who later had recurring brain haemorrhages were more than twice as likely to suffer one themselves.”

Does this mean that one should be careful about blood transfusion? Well the fact is that if one needs a blood transfusion, one really needs one, there is probably not much choice in the matter other than just dying!

Economist, Leith van Onselen has been doing excellent critical work on the intersection of the Australian rental crisis and the massive influx of migrants, and the overwhelming number of foreign students who now dominate the Australian university system. Overseas migration has halved Australia’s rentals, and foreign students are major players here. And the universities have been reaping the profits, while ordinary Aussies face homelessness. Universities do not pay tax, but are operating as corporate entities. Hence tax them on each international cash cow student they milk. This would certainly cause the universities to be less eager in recruit of foreigners over locals. Personally, I advocate closing the places down, with a radical reform of higher education.