The Australian has a user only pay for it article by Alan Dupont, “China on Road to a big Crash.” I would have loved to have reported on this, and at one time I could afford to buy The Australian each day, but those days are gone. It is hard enough making it to the end of each week, without doing the super-high quality research I used to do. When the big crash comes, I am preparing to eat grass.  So, using only the free resources of the community centre, let’s see what I can produce on the same theme, on the cheap; collapse journalism.
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-10/nightmare-scenario-beijing-50-million-chinese-apartments-are-empty
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-10/why-chinese-authorities-are-freaking-out

“Back in 2017, we explained why the "fate of the world economy is in the hands of China's housing bubble." The answer was simple: for the Chinese population, and growing middle class, to keep spending vibrant and borrowing elevated, it had to feel comfortable and confident that its wealth would keep rising. However, unlike the US where the stock market is the ultimate barometer of the confidence boosting "wealth effect", in China it has always been about housing as three quarters of Chinese household assets are parked in real estate, compared to only 28% in the US, with the remainder invested financial assets. … Meanwhile, in the process of reflating the latest housing bubble, another dire byproduct of this artificial housing "market" has emerged: tens of millions of apartments and houses standing empty across the country. According to Bloomberg, soon-to-be-published research will show that roughly 22% of China’s urban housing stock is unoccupied, according to Professor Gan Li, who runs the main nationwide study. That amounts to more than 50 million empty homes.

     We all tend to think in terms of the nation state, and the threat of world government and all that. But, a sober look at world finance indicates that “nations” pretty much disappeared long ago, in say the 19th century sense of nations. There are still the domestic shadows, but the real mechanisms of control are now completely globalised. An excellent article on the “US” debt brought this home to me, and even though I have been writing on this for decades, I still mistakenly fall back into the 19th century paradigm of nationalism vs globalism; we all do. But, there is only an earth-wide type of gravitational field of finance, and “matter,” that is, what we think are solid “nations” arise from it, much like matter is made up of mostly empty space at the sub-atomic level, and I am no science geek:
  https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-who-owns-a-record-2121-trillion-of-us-debt-2018-08-21?mod=mw_share_facebook&fbclid=IwAR1iSAjQyu5Xw-kydxSSxQ2kdfWLS2I2SoQxQw_kLVPluBLyypt-wFW2PoY

“Who owns the huge and growing U.S. national debt? By and large, Americans. Some 70% of the national debt is owned by domestic government, institutions investors and the Federal Reserve. A shade under 30% is owned by foreign entities, according to the latest information from the U.S. Treasury. The nation’s debt climbed to a record $21.21 trillion at the end of June, a 6.9% increase from a year earlier. American institutions such as private and state pension funds as well as individual investors were the biggest holders. They owned $6.89 trillion in debt and absorbed about four-fifths of the increase over the past year. Foreigners, led by the Chinese and Japanese, owned $6.21 trillion. Those two countries have cut their stakes since 2015, but each country still owns more than $1 trillion worth of Treasury bonds and notes.”

     French president Macron has gone on the attack against nationalism, targeting Trump, and even wanting a New World order EU army. All of this and more came out at the Paris peace Forum, where he hoped to shine like a star, but France did not foot much of the bill:
  https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/11/11/virgil-frances-macron-attacks-americas-trump-and-americans-help-pay-for-it/

“You see, even as Macron is zapping Trump for being a nationalist, the French president will be pushing, in Trump’s absence, a whole new initiative built around—you guessed it—globalism. As the Post also reported, “The president plans to fly home just as Macron’s Paris Peace Forum kicks off for three days of meetings aimed at galvanizing global action on shared challenges, such as climate change.” The Post quoted Thomas Wright, a Europe expert at the Brookings Institution, saying that Macron planned the Paris Peace Forum as “a counterpoint to ‘America First.’” Thus we can see: All the “Macron Attacks Trump” headlines are part of a deliberate strategy. … Under “Main Partners” and “Grand Partners,” we see such liberal reliables as the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Open Society Foundations. That last group, of course, is the outfit founded and funded by George Soros; just in 2017, he gave his philanthropic tool another $18 billion. So we can see: Macron has done a great job of rounding up the usual suspects of limousine liberalism. 

     Who does not have a sense of battle fatigue and bone deep weariness, from the normie sheeple just not taking a stand, doing nothing, as they go about their grazing? I am thinking of the people we meet in the street, nice enough, but lacking in the basic survival instinct of seeking protection against wolves, and having a child-like faith that the government will protect them, when in reality, the government serves the interests of the capitalist super-class and the Dark Lords behind even them.
  https://www.9news.com.au/2018/10/31/09/10/australia-joins-trans-pacific-partnership?fbclid=IwAR1XgU8klKEAf7BI6GP-h4VwJ82Pq5RcFfKbmPGKzXA2NmbBhiBhGPD7yDE

“Australia follows Canada, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand and Singapore in ratifying the TPP, which also involves Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, Peru and Vietnam. The deal almost fell over when the United States pulled out, but Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and then-prime minister Malcolm Turnbull resurrected it. "This is a great and enduring achievement for free trade in the face of a rising tide of protectionism in many countries," Mr Turnbull tweeted. "Thanks especially to @AbeShinzo - we resolved to get this deal done in Sydney nearly two years ago as we walked around the cliffs at South Head." Labor backed the legislation for the TPP despite raising concerns it needed stronger labour market testing and could allow foreign companies to sue the government. The opposition was forced to defend its support for the agreement, which sparked internal tensions and angered the union movement.”

     With the mid-term elections in a few days, trump has released two goal-kicker videos. One has some super-killer migrant who the Demoncrats let into the country, along with an interview from another migrant killer. The other video has one half on the jobs Trump has created, then the other half on antifa/Soros-funded anarchists rampaging. It is enough to make anyone who wants a job, and to live, vote Republican:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGTD_Kt_nlw
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVadlz6wEVU
  https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2018/11/01/cnn-hollywood-reporter-declare-new-trump-ad-against-caravan-racist/ 

     Look, I was fiddling around with old newspaper to … well, never you mind. I was about to use and abuse a slice from the Adelaide great intellectual Sunday Snail, when I read, with great difficulty, since I am illiterate, “School Flunkers are Making Uni Grade,” October 28, 2018, p. 18. Incredible as it seems, over half of all Year 12 students who had flunked their exams were still admitted to university! Whoooaaah! Now you don’t even need to pass to get in, and soon, once in, you won’t even need to pass to get your piece of worthless paper. It will be simply a degree machine, to milk the rich foreign students, before they become migrants to Australia, producing the beautiful Asian utopia. It will be wonderful, those who profit (in the short-term), say.

    This has created the desire  … I can’t believe that I actually used a pseudo-erotic word such as “desire,” but my intensions are pure, as far as a dirty, dispossessed Anglo-hobo can be “pure” … what was I saying? Ok, the urge, no, that’s a bad word too …  maybe the interest, to go to university myself. If the universities are as depraved as James Reed says they are, well, I just have to be there, wallowing in the filth like a pig in poop. And, I have even worked out my course. I want to do Feminism 101 to learn about exotic sexualities, and meet nice homely girls with blue hair, who wear combat boots, and like me, exist in a perpetual state of utter confusion. Perhaps I will know “love,” but not as humans generally know it, before oblivion. Who knows? It will be like visiting another planet, only less radioactive.

     Don’t worry, your money is going to a better place, a happier place, where it will no longer have to worry about the problems of this river of tears:
  https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/foxtel-yet-to-reveal-spend-details-over-governments-30-million-handout-20180212-h0vyh3.html

“News Corp is refusing to explain exactly how it will spend taxpayers' money more than six months after the Turnbull government granted Foxtel $30 million. While a funding agreement has been drawn up and signed, Foxtel and its parent company remain tight-lipped about which sports have benefited from the government handout. The broadcaster was eligible for the first instalment – worth $7.5 million – last month after the government signed off on its 2017-18 "strategic roadmap". Foxtel has been airing AFL Women's League games as well as women's softball in recent weeks. However, it is unclear whether taxpayer funds were used to obtain these broadcast rights. A Foxtel spokesman declined to comment and instead referred questions to News Corp, which owns a 50 per cent stake in Foxtel. A News Corp spokeswoman refused to specifically detail which sports benefited from the government's first $7.5 million grant but said Foxtel's commitment to women's and niche sports was evident.”

     We have been following articles about the coming economic crash, and how even the Murdoch press are speaking about economic Armageddon, and how one needs to become a “prepper”:
  https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/six-path-ways-to-australias-economic-armageddon/news-story/5f11849237d1621569e85a9f2c2a1948
  https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/how-to-prepare-for-economic-armageddon/news-story/08c0ab60e4184ee2d2f3e3d199a5a803

     Then there is the looming Big Tech crash:
  http://www.amerika.org/politics/big-tech-crash-threatens-to-wipe-out-american-and-world-economies/ 
  http://www.amerika.org/politics/dot-com-3-0-collapse-is-here-and-will-end-western-economies/

     To appreciate what poverty can do to your spirit, it helps to be poor, not being able to pay bills, and not even getting decent food. Today the poverty line is set at $ 433 per week for a single adult, but for the same single, New Start only pays $ 275.10 per week. How then does one survive? As I see it, one does not, and is expected to go away and quietly rot, for they will replace you.
  https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/australia/more-than-3-million-australians-in-poverty-a-study-has-found-ng-b88992355z?fbclid=IwAR2m4eqnobJWvlCLu4caWwcepGJ-0h-u0u39nyptmR0VWKGHr8VcSnP17N4

“MORE than three million Australians are living in poverty, including 739,000 children, according to a new report. That means about one in eight adults and one in six children are living below the poverty line. About half (53 per cent) of households living in poverty are relying on social security as their main source of income, the research by the Australian Council of Social Service and UNSW Sydney also shows. The report sets the poverty line as living on less than $433 a week for a single adult, or $909 for a couple with two children. On average, those living in poverty in Australia are missing that mark by $135 a week. While the majority are relying on social security, more than a third of households in poverty (38 per cent) are relying on wages. ACOSS chief executive Dr Cassandra Goldie says the findings should sway Prime Minister Scott Morrison to make ending poverty in all its forms his top priority. "The government argues that poverty in Australia is not the problem. They are wrong," she said.

     Apart from the support of mass migration and open borders, the Euro-elites support Islam as the new religion of globalism, for it delivers much of what they want. No doubt they could devise something more cosmopolitan, but Islam fits well with mass immigration, so they will go with that one. In this light court decisions can be understood more readily:
  https://www.foxnews.com/world/defaming-muhammad-does-not-fall-under-purview-of-free-speech-european-court-rules

“The freedom of speech does not extend to include defaming the prophet of Islam, the European Court of Human rights ruled Thursday. The Strasbourg-based ECHR ruled that insulting Islamic prophet Muhammad “goes beyond the permissible limits of an objective debate” and “could stir up prejudice and put at risk religious peace.” The court’s decision comes after it rejected an Austrian woman’s claim that her previous conviction for calling Muhammad a pedophile, due to his marriage to a 6-year-old girl, violated her freedom of speech. The ECHR ruled Austrian courts had “carefully balanced her right to freedom of expression with the right of others to have their religious feelings protected.”

     Here is an example of the West digging its own grave; millions of dollars pump into the welfarism of food stamps, flowing like a river to terrorists, to fund the destruction of the West:
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/23/report-millions-in-food-stamp-dollars-flowed-to-terrorists/

“Millions of taxpayers dollars trafficked through food stamp fraud went to terrorists who funded their activities at home and abroad, according to an explosive report from the Government Accountability Institute (GAI). The report from GAI, where Breitbart News Senior-Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer serves as president, highlighted several instances where money obtained through Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits fraud went to fund acts of terrorism, including the 1993 World Trade Center bombings and the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing. Although this method of using food stamp fraud money for terrorism has been around since the 1980s, it gained notoriety when New York City detectives testified before a Senate subcommittee about the 1993 World Trade Center bombings.”

     That horrible communist critter Merkel, who is the “slayer of Europe,” through her open borders immigration invasion policy, has announced that she will step down as leader of her party. Stock markets were as excited as many people were. Maybe some native Germans, perhaps six in number, might make it  to 2050, as after all she is going in 2021, and by that time it should all be over, mission accomplished, Germany over and out, Germanistan in.
  https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2018/10/29/global-markets-celebrate-election-of-bolsonaro-and-downfall-of-merkel/
  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-election-merkel-idUSKCN1AX263 

     A position has emerged that it is anti-Semitic to criticise George Soros, presumably on anything. How does one counter this? Does one go silent, or roll over and die? These are no doubt very good strategies. Or, we could ask Israel for an umpire’s decision:
  https://gellerreport.com/2018/10/schiff-criticism-soros.html/ 
  https://gellerreport.com/2018/10/israel-denounces-soros.html/ 
  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-hungary-soros-idUSKBN19V1J4

“Israel’s foreign ministry has issued a statement denouncing U.S. billionaire George Soros, a move that appeared designed to align Israel more closely with Hungary ahead of a visit to Budapest next week by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Soros, a Hungarian-born Jew who has spent a large part of his fortune funding pro-democracy and human rights groups, has repeatedly been targeted by Hungary’s right-wing government, in particular over his support for more open immigration. In the latest case, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has backed a campaign in which Soros is singled out as an enemy of the state. “Let’s not allow Soros to have the last laugh” say billboards next to a picture of the 86-year-old investor, a campaign that Jewish groups and others say foments anti-Semitism.”

     California is on the front line of the cultural degeneracy bringing down the West. If it can be done, California will do it, providing it smashes traditional Western society:
  https://familyvoice.org.au/news/kids-pushing-parents-to-suicide

“A new Californian bill allows an individual to aid, advise, and encourage a person to commit suicide - and sign off on the method of suicide-while financially benefiting from the person’s death. FamilyVoice WA Director Darryl Budge is deeply concerned by this new depth to the slippery slope. "Introducing legal coercion to direct financial beneficiaries of a person's lawful killing would explode the cases of elder abuse, where murder, not just financial exploitation, will be the common result." "Family members who "encourage" the terminally ill into killing themselves will be granted full legal immunity, regardless of their motives for doing so. The patient would have to explicitly state in their will that any family member who encourages assisted suicide are to receive nothing," The Daily Wire reported. Yesterday an Australian man who stood to gain $1.4 million in life insurance was convicted of aiding his wife's suicide. Cases like this would be legal in California if this bill passes.”

     Here is ethnomasochism in action, as only cucked Canada can do.
  https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/justin-trudeau-refuses-to-condemn-attack-on-pro-life-woman-roundhouse-kicke?utm_content=buffer9632c&utm_medium=WCDM%2BBuffer&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=WCDM

“Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refused to directly condemn a violent attack on a young pro-life woman by a pro-abortion advocate that happened in broad daylight during a pro-life event in Toronto on Sunday. A video of the attack has gone viral on social media. Despite that video, self-avowed feminist Trudeau did not directly condemn the violence against the pro-lifer when contacted by LifeSiteNews Thursday morning. Instead, a media request to the prime minister was handed off to the minister of public safety. That office then issued a generic statement: "We condemn all forms of violence."

     Look Uncle Len, poverty is no joking matter, because there are now too many of us:
  https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/16/more-than-three-million-australians-living-in-poverty-acoss-report-reveals?CMP=soc_567

“Poverty has become a consistent feature of Australian life, with millions still living below the breadline despite 27 years of uninterrupted economic growth, the Australian Council of Social Service says. A vital circuit-breaker is needed, including a complete overhaul of Australia’s employment services, a commitment to “full employment” and a guarantee of at least two days a week of early childhood care – highly subsidised for people on low incomes – and education for every child. A new report, Poverty in Australia 2018, has been released to coincide with Anti-Poverty Week. It shows there are just over three million people (13.2%) living below the relative poverty line, including 739,000 children (17.3% of children). The relative poverty line is considered to be 50% of median household disposable income. In Australia, the poverty line is defined as a single adult living on less than $433 a week, or $909 for a couple with two children, before housing costs. The figures refer to 2015-16, the most recent year for which data is available. One in eight adults and more than one in six children are living in poverty, and many of those are living in “deep poverty” – a staggering $135 per week below the poverty line on average.”

     Former Vice President Joe Biden is leader of the pack of racing dogs, for the prospective 2020 Democratic candidates, according to a recent poll from CNN. This poll found that 33 percent of Democrats and independents who leaned Democrats, thought that he would be the best bunny to take on President Trump. If so, Biden will be continuing the tradition set by the Clintons:
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/14/cnn-poll-biden-leads-field-2020-democratic-hopefuls/

“If Biden decides to run, he may have to answer to explosive revelations that he and his son Hunter struck a $1.5 billion deal with the Chinese government-backed Bank of China just ten days after the vice president and his son returned from a trip to China aboard Air Force Two. Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer, in his book Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends, detailed how Biden may have helped Hunter secure the $1.5 billion deal with a China-based investment firm that had ties to a Chinese atomic energy company indicted for “nuclear power conspiracy against the United States.” “The FBI arrests and charges senior officials in this company with stealing nuclear secrets in the United States. Specifically, they’re trying to get access to something called the AP-1000 nuclear reactor that is very similar to the ones that we put on U.S. submarines,” Schweizer wrote. “So again, you have the son of the vice president, a close aide to the secretary of state who are investing in a company that is trying to steal nuclear secrets in the United States. It’s a stunning story, and here’s the thing: none of this is required to be disclosed because they’ve figured out a way to get around these disclosure laws,” Schweizer continued.

     China, engaging in brainwashing? Taking out people’s brains, giving them a scrub over, then putting them back in squeaky clean skulls? Surely not!
  https://www.theepochtimes.com/brainwashing-centres-in-china-targeted-by-australian-senator_2655692.html

“Australian Conservatives Senator Cory Bernardi put forward two motions to federal Parliament tightly linked to strained Australian-China relations, on Aug 15. The first motion, which was rejected, called for a review of the Department for Education and Training’s engagement with Chinese Communist Party-administered Confucius Institutes. The successful second motion, while avoiding direct reference to China, targeted political re-education internment camps, which have become a hallmark of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) oppression. In the course of ostensibly delivering Chinese language and culture education, Confucius Institutes have come under scrutiny for, among other things, impinging on Australian academic freedom. Over 1,500 Confucius Classrooms and Confucius Institutes are hosted by primary and secondary schools and universities throughout the world. Bernardi’s motion noted that Australia has the third largest number of such institutions, after the United States and the United Kingdom. The setting up of Confucius Institutes involves forming a partnership between a Chinese university, a foreign university, and Hanban—the Office of Chinese Language Council International, which is an arm of the CCP’s Ministry of Education.”

     “Forced labour,” as defined by the International Labor Organization, is “all work or service which is exacted from any person under the threat of a penalty and for which the person has not offered himself or herself voluntarily.”
  https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/forced-labour/definition/lang--en/index.htm

     Forced labour though is precisely what the Liberal government is now forcing on the unemployed, under the guise of helping the farmers:
  https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/dole-bludgers-must-work-on-struggling-farms-or-risk-benefits/ar-BBOiXF5?li=AAgfYrC&ocid=mailsignout

     Everybody seems to be reading Breitbart.com, so here I go to see what I can find on my treasure hunt. For today, there is this gem, where the big rich Koch brothers, who champion unlimited immigration to the US, for all of the reasons our own elites and chatterers do, want migrants even if they go onto welfare! That is a new frontier because migrants are supposed to be all IT experts and rocket scientists, set to pay for boomer pensions:
  https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2018/10/14/billionaire-koch-brothers-trump-wrong-morally-right-import-foreign-welfare-dependents/

“Through the Koch brothers’ network of organizations—which have campaigned for Democrats’ open borders policies this election cycle—which include the pro-mass immigration LIBRE Initiative and the economic libertarianism group Freedom Partners, the billionaire donors are opposing Trump’s reform to the legal immigration system. Freedom Partners Executive Vice President Nathan Nascimento said in a statement that allowing mass migration of welfare-dependent foreign nationals into the U.S. is “morally right,” calling Trump’s reform “the wrong approach.” “We should always welcome people who desire to come here and contribute because is it both morally right and their efforts benefit our nation, economy, and taxpayers,” Nascimento said. Nascimento also said the U.S. must continue bringing more than 1.5 million immigrants to the country every year because there are not enough American workers willing to do blue-collar jobs, though economic data does not back up the so-called “labor shortage” claims made by the big business lobby and Chamber of Commerce.