Garrett Sheldon, a retired US academic, has presented the typical lamentation of Job about the decline and fall of the modern university system, mainly in the US, but there is no reason to suppose the rest of the West is immune. He laments the fall of what was supposed to have existed, of a culture of critical discourse in the universities pre-woke, and pre-1960s. It may have been so, but I think it may also be somewhat exaggerated with nostalgia for the past and the golden days long past. He is surely right though about the future: “My guess is that in 10 years, half of America’s universities will be turned into vocational-technical schools or closed entirely (or possibly turned into minimum-security prisons or drug rehab centers). The remaining, I hope, will return to a model similar to the lively, rigorous and useful universities we once had. Combinations of online efficiency with onsite community may be the best solution. And if secondary schools returned to teaching the best of Western Civilization (literature, history, art, music, philosophy) it would prepare Americans who do not go to college to be well-informed, thoughtful citizens, Jefferson’s ideal for American democracy.”

As Covid showed, once the Chinese student money is gone, which will happen in the coming war with China, it will be game over for these evil institutions, which like a virus infection, have long been taken over. I look forward to their demise.

We have been reporting on what Bill gates got up to in his Australia visit, in his $ 70 million private jet. Climate change, and endless vaccines were on the agenda, but also the real shocker, that Gates will bankroll an Australian startup that will address the dire problem of methane emissions out of both ends of the cow. Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) alongside Harvest Road Group raised a total of $12 million for the Perth, Western Australia-based startup Rumin8. Cattle are going to be given a dietary supplement with “anti-methanogenic properties.” Well, I suppose it gives some jobs to locals, and it makes as much sense as anything else in this insane world.

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-01-31-bill-gates-invests-company-addressing-cow-burps.html

I have been saying this for years at the blog, and before the blog, that the antifa, and before that term, radical Leftoid activists, are children of the well-to-do elites, mostly white. P J Media does a detailed analysis of some recent antifa activities in the US, that of the Atlanta urban terrorists. The facts of these cases become forgotten quickly, but the point remains that time and time again, the main movers and shakers of these sort of protests, are white Leftist youth. Even in race-based riots, you see the same sort of person there. It was this way in the 1960s anti-Vietnam War protests, where the leaders went on to have top jobs in academia and politics. It is all training to be a good globalist.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/chris-queen/2023/01/25/turns-out-the-atlanta-terrorists-are-children-of-privilege-n1664631

I am always on the lookout for any expression of humility the medical profession, composed in my opinion of the most arrogant and self-righteous of any to roil off the university production line. A 7^th year medical student, Kevin Bass, has bravely published a piece in Newsweek.com, saying that the medical profession and health bureaucracies were wrong in their approach to Covid. The authorities all “repeatedly overstated the evidence and misled the public about its own views and policies, including on natural vs. artificial immunity, school closures and disease transmission, aerosol spread, mask mandates, and vaccine effectiveness and safety, especially among the young.” While not explicitly going into all the details about the Covid vax injuries, Bass does critique almost everything else, including the lockdowns, and the social-medical harm these did.

According to the clerics of the Green Cult, once we blow up our last coal mine, send all diesel engines to the wreckers, stop using concrete, reinvent sailing clippers, cover the grasslands with solar clutter and the hills with wind machines and then slaughter all of our cattle. . .  global climate will become serene - not too warm, not too cold. Wild weather will cease, and there will be no more droughts, floods, cyclones or snow storms and no more plant and animal extinctions.

But the records written in the rocks tell a far different story about climate changes. Even when nature was in full control, it was not a serene place.

Long before the first steam engine puffed along the first railway, earth was periodically battered by natural disasters – earthquakes, tidal waves, pole shifts, magnetic reversals, volcanic eruptions, wild weather and droughts. Huge areas were covered by suffocating continents of ice, desert sands, massive flows of mud and lava, beds of salt and thick coal seams. Thousands of species disappeared including dinosaurs, mammoths and Australia’s megafauna.

Modern humans are not immune to the threat of extinction, but it will not come from today’s warm, moist, atmosphere or from the gas of life, carbon dioxide. It will probably come from the next glacial climate cycle of this era, where long bitter glacial eras are separated by short warm periods. These global weather cycles are triggered by changing orbits in the solar system.

In every short warm era like today’s Holocene, the warming oceans expel enough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to support the abundant plant and animal life that currently surrounds us. But never has this “global warming” prevented the cyclic return of the ice. The Holocene warm era in which we live has already passed its peak and long before we reach Net Zero Emissions, the cold will return.

When blizzards blow and glaciers grow, the great ice sheets will spread again. Carbon dioxide will be removed from the atmosphere into the cooling oceans and most of mankind will be threatened by frosts, droughts, crop failures and starvation. A lucky few living in equatorial regions or clustered in shelters and hot houses around coal or nuclear power stations may survive.

Those still able to extract uranium, coal, oil or gas may manage to generate enough warmth and carbon dioxide plant food to partly offset the cold sun, the permafrost and the dry, barren atmosphere. And a few with appropriate skills and tools may become hunters and gatherers again (but most Neanderthals did not survive the last glacial cycle).

We should celebrate, not fear, the Modern Warm Era and give thanks for the many benefits gained from using those marvellous natural stores of hydro-carbon and nuclear energy to warm our homes, pump water, recharge batteries and feed our animals and plants.

These good times will not last forever.

When the ice returns, derelict wind turbines and snow-bound solar panels will remain as stark tomb-stones in the graveyard of the failed Green religion.

With the attack upon traditional meat-based diets by the climate change fanatics, new terms are coming for the diets that replace this, such as climavore. The basic idea is to only eat low impact foods. While I initially dismissed this, upon reading more I saw a silver lining on a rather dark cloud. Foods that have been transported across the globe do have an impact. While we can debate this, I think supporting local produce, and growing one’s own food in the back garden, or even in pots, would, from our perspective, aid in breaking down the centralisation of globalism. The Left can give it an environmental spin, but there may be merit in some of these things, far superior to insect eating!

Older readers may remember actress Jane Fonda going over to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and spitting on the US. She has continued to champion what we now call woke, Leftoid causes. Her latest claim is the climate change is a product of white racism. How can that be? Because of the system that whites produce, of industrialisation, the system that produced the movie industry, although that is probably doing more justice to her garbled remarks that she deserves. She apparently does not count the greenhouse gases emitted by communist China, more than the developed world combined, as a problem, as she loves all things communist.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jane-fonda-says-climate-crisis-can-be-blamed-on-racism-where-would-they-put-the-s-not-bel-air-11674750249

Britain now has a skyrocketing excess death rate, with 17,381 deaths registered in England and Wales in the seven days to January 13, which is 2,837 above average for the time of year,  the highest number of excess deaths since 3,429 in the week to February 12, 2021. MPs are calling for an investigation of this, and there is now extensive media coverage. No discussion that this might be caused by the vax. Covid itself cannot be the cause; remember the vaxxes are lifesaving. Some ideologies are blaming eggs, other climate change. I wonder how may deaths will have to occur before the system comes clean?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11671587/Massive-spike-excess-deaths-sparks-calls-urgent-investigation.html

It is a disturbing sign of the times, as the woke Left are turning on traditional Left feminists, such as J. K. Rowling, who for her criticisms of trans women in sport, and for holding to a more conventional definition of “woman,” has received numerous death threats. She is called a “trans-exclusionary radical feminist.” A recent protest saw Scottish politician standing next to signs calling for terfs to be beheaded. That is an interesting mode of death, that is practiced by another group, no so sympathetic to their cause. I wonder where all of this is going?

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/01/scotland-j-k-rowling-draws-attention-to-politicians-photographed-with-decapitate-terfs-sign

There has been extensive debate about the Project Veritas exposure, as only they can do, of an executive, who while drunk said that his Big Pharma company was engaged in “directed evolution” of the Covid-19 virus. This has been strongly denied by the establishment, but most of the vax critique movement think the expose is authentic. The executive has been filmed saying it was all a lie said while he was drunk, but he then goes on a freak out, undermining his case. So, it is all very odd, and suspicious. What is clear is that in a few days’ time, the story will drop from everyone’s attention, and it will be business as usual, as it always is. The show must go on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5n7RRKgDog&t=1s

This is a sign of the times. The World Health Organization, moving for globalist control of health, has advised nations of the medicines needed for radiological and nuclear disasters, and certainly nuclear war features in that. There is no doubt that medical authorities in Western nations already know what medicines to stockpile to deal with this, so probably this is as political act, to give recognition to the growing threat of nuclear war with Russia. It would be nice to have a personal stash of these sorts of medicines, but I seriously doubt whether Dr Bob would be willing to fill out prescription in anticipation of nuclear Armageddon!

This story caught my eye, and did not let go. So, we have a deadly radioactive capsule, about the size of a tooth, getting lost somewhere in a 1,400 kilometre stretch between Perth and a Pilbara mine. The capsule was in some device used in mining. It fell through a bolt hole during the trip, and was not noticed. What is wrong with this picture? How could something so deadly be released by a bolt coming lose? Surely deadly devices must have better security? But, apparently not. It makes me wonder what else is getting lost that we don’t get told about. And, will some hapless kangaroos eat the capsule and gain super powers? Or just die?

 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-27/radioactive-capsule-lost-in-wa-emergency-public-health-warning/101901472?utm_medium=social&utm_content=sf263759545&utm_campaign=abc_news&utm_source=m.facebook.com&sf263759545=1

We need to take note of the “predictions” of Bill Gates, as so far, all he has “predicted” has come true. He must be a true clairvoyant! While in his Australian visit, he told the local elites that the next pandemic will be man-made, and worse than Covid. I was not able to find Gate’s speech, or an elaboration of what this pandemic will be like. Man-made … is it bioterrorism, or just the normal business as usual, as viruses produced by gain-of-function research get tossed out the back door of labs, to infect the world, and keep Big Pharma’s profits flowing? It probably does not matter much since the results are the same. And we can expect the system, having freaked out on power once, to go into overdrive if something really deadly was released.

Lockdowns and virus concentration camps, already built, will be back on the menu.

I often wondered for how long Shakespeare, once the core of the English language departments at most Anglo universities, would survive thee invasion of woke. Well, Bill’s number is up. While not yet banned, it is on the way. The first step is to marginalise the works. Thus, many British universities are adding trigger warnings to Shakespeare and Greek tragedies. One such warning stated, “Tragedy is a genre obsessed with violence and suffering, often of a sexual or graphic kind, and so some of the content might be triggering for some students.” There are even warnings about depictions of rural life; anything that might frighten Left wing snowflakes. What a bunch; how will they possibly survive the hard times ahead, when tragedy arises to engulf them?

What to be done? Well, what can one do with a structure that has been thoroughly eaten away by white ants? Tear it down and rebuild.

US four-star Air Force General  Gen. Mike Minihan, head of Air Mobility Command, believes that the US will be at war with China within two years. This is based upon his intelligence data, which he would no doubt have plenty of, plus the obvious point that the US will be in election mode, and distracted. China will thus have an opportunity to move on Taiwan. Naturally, the US Defense Department, not wanting to scare the markets, said that that was just his opinion, and  Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, said, “What we’re seeing recently, is some very provocative behavior on the part of China’s forces and their attempt to re-establish a new normal.” “But whether or not that means that an invasion is imminent,” said Austin, “I seriously doubt that.”” I guess for the likes of him, there will be no war, until it is already undeniably kinetic.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-air-force-general-predicts-war-china-2025-memo-rcna67967

It has been said that science scares people; and it does indeed. Consider; the claim made by scientists recently that the Earth’s magnetic core has stopped rotating, and could reverse itself. The claim is based upon research published in the top-ranking journal Nature Geoscience. There is apparently a hot debate about what this means in the geoscience community, which for such a radical claim is natural enough. We don’t go into the science here, but the human significance of such events. Some internet sites are predicting a magnetic disaster, with dire effects upon animals, due to effects upon the Earth’s magnetic field, and our protection against cosmic radiation. That sounds plausible, only thing is, there is an argument that the core does not produce a magnetic field at all, and may not be moving in the first place. For those interested, there is material by a dissent geologist below. We will simply have to wait and see how this one goes, because there is absolutely nothing you and I can do to influence the Earth’s core, that’s for sure!

https://www.quora.com/If-Earths-core-stopped-spinning-and-stopped-producing-a-magnetic-field-around-the-Earth-could-life-on-Earth-survive

The environmentalists are all-the-go that renewable energy and electric cars will save the day of their so-called climate crisis. Some eco-nuts who are less crazy realise that energy is needed to keep things they like, such as universities, afloat. And to get to neo-Marxist brainwashing centres, transport is needed, and while some will go with bikes, for most big cities, cars are the thing. Electric cars. But, the problem here is that the grid cannot cope with present demands, let alone the demands that globalist environmentalists are set to put on it. My view is that this is a planned rather than a chaotic collapse, and that the globalists plan on remaking the world in their image. Unless we stop them. Of course.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/01/electric_vehicles_are_an_ideologically_driven_economic_misadventure.html

I try to present damaging information about the universities as I come to it; much of it from the US and Europe, with not much being published by much slower, more conformist Australia. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has detailed how MIT’s fealty to Chinese dollars, was something that silenced a speech he made when he was Secretary of State. Pompeo saw China as a continuation of Maoism and he intended to say it to the MIT. But, he was cancelled: “In a speech in October 2019, he told an audience of business-people (many of whom made money in China) that the Communist Party of China is “a Marxist-Leninist party focused on struggle and international domination.”

CNN.com, has done its best in the article linked below to “argue” that the brutal beating to death of Black man Tyre Nichols, by Black, not White police, is just another case of white supremacy in the police force. How can that be if the murderers were Black? Well, the idea put is that the Blacks have absorbed an anti-Black message, a product of racism, denying autonomy and agency to them, pretty racist I think. And who says this is so; where is the proof that these police did that beyond just an a priori assumption that this is so? There is no defence of the police brutality, but many US police get a view of particular groups by how they are treated, not because of some vague “white racism” that takes away their agency.

“Annoy the Woke Left, Celebrate Australia Day: As in America, children Down Under are being taught that their country is shameful and racist,” by Tom Switzer, was published in the Wall Street Journal.com, the day before Australia Day, but I must have missed it then, too engrossed in stock market movements, not. Switzer makes the good point that the woke Left, who have completed their long, or not so long, march through the institutions, including the education system, need to be defied before even passive resistance becomes illegal. It is a simple idea, but with surprising complexities if applied to much else beyond Australia Day. One only needs to see the cancellation that occurred to a conventional feminist such as J. K. Rowling for opposing the trans movement into women’s sport and the redefinition of “woman.” The woke Left is powerful, and nasty like vengeance full children, or little goblins. But, at some point, as Rowling showed, a stand needs to be made.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/annoy-the-woke-left-celebrate-australia-day-activists-british-history-indigenous-immigrants-nation-heritage-11674671357