After economic collapse, comes barter, where people set up an alternative economy and trade what little they have left. Barter has its problems, such as finding someone willing to exchange the goods you want, for the goods you have, but beyond that, it is only sustainable for as long as the basic goods exist. Without new production, things will then go back to hunting and gathering.
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-12/venezuelas-socialist-hyperinflation-turned-people-back-barter-system

“In the wake of socialist Venezuela’s massive hyperinflation, citizens have returned to the original monetary system in order to survive. While it is virtually impossible to visualize the inflationary trend in Venezuela, Bloomberg’s Cafe Con Leche index signals a roughly comparable level of 43,478%. More absurdly, annualizing the last three months of data, paints an even more dismal picture: inflation of 482,153%. Looking at just the past month, Reuters reports that June inflation accelerated to 128.4%, the fastest this year, from 110.1% in May, according to opposition legislator Angel Alvarado. Even more shocking, food prices rose by 183% in June. “It is by far the worst hyperinflation suffered by a Latin American country,” Alvarado said in an interview. The barter system is now prevalent in the collapsed economy of the authoritarian dictator, Nicolas Maduro.

     The Australian electricity market has become a stinking swamp covered with a tangled net of treaties, laws, rules, obligations, prohibitions, targets, taxes and subsidies. The swamp conceals the rubble of demolished coal generators; another plant destined for destruction (Liddell) is gradually sinking in the green ooze. The swamp is slowly claiming paddocks of subsidised solar panels that, at best, only work for six hours per sunny day. The scene is uglified by spec-built regiments of ailing wind turbines that are often idle, but sometimes whirling madly. To distract the gullible media from this mess, big diesel generators charge a gigantic battery which pumps water uphill and then lets it run down again. A garbage dump of dead lithium batteries fills a nearby gully and the swamp is fenced by locked green gates.

     The stagnant water is stirred on sunny days by luxury launches carrying academics-with-models, green media evangelists, climate alarmists, emissions inspectors and power regulators. Speculative sharks constantly patrol the swamp snapping up every smelly subsidy morsel scattered by politicians in posh yachts fishing for votes. Helicopters full of unelected UN officials hover overhead, creating choppy waves of uncertainty. A pleasant hill overlooking the swamp houses the air-conditioned offices of the power regulators. They have no windows to the world and few power engineers; they stare at screens, run models and press buttons. The way out of the energy swamp is to retrace the way we got in.

     The late George Carlin (1937-2008),     a sardonic American stand-up comic, once said:” “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” Oh, is it as bad as that? Will we have difficulty educating the masses about financial realities if they are that dumbed down? Just consider this, and cry:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRh1zXFKC_o 
  https://georgecarlin.com

    This explains a lot; such as how easy it is for the elites to control the masses with just media propaganda, and why they have allowed “democracy” to exist on paper, since they can control people just as easily as a dictatorship, but with less expenditure of resources, in a decentralised black market kind of way. It is truly amazing how the Satanic system works. It makes the evil villains of the comic books and movies, look like, well, fiction.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LvDdWrbrzI 

     The false news media are now playing the narrative that President Trump is a Russian spy, and always has been. Some chatterers proclaim that he is a “traitor,” although it is hard to see the meaning of that word now when they themselves seek to dissolve the entire nation state and crate on open borders swampland. In this context Putin’s claim about $ 400 million being illegally tipped into the open mouth of the Clinton election campaign by US intelligence:
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-16/putin-claims-us-intelligence-agents-funneled-400-million-clinton-campaign

“Vladimir Putin made a bombshell claim during Monday’s joint press conference with President Trump in Helsinki, Finland, when the Russian President said some $400 million in illegally earned profits was funneled to the Clinton campaign by associates of American-born British financier Bill Browder - at one time the largest foreign portfolio investors in Russia. The scheme involved members of the U.S. intelligence community, said Putin, who he said “accompanied and guided these transactions.”

     I came across this article, the subject matter of which I have not, surprise, surprise, seen in the mainstream press. The Senate has just passed legislation which could, in the event of another global financial crisis – and a big one is predicted to be just around the corner – to take cash savings in bailing out “distressed” banks. Guess whose cash that is going to be?
  https://www.ainsliebullion.com.au/gold-silver-bullion-news/senate-passes-e2-80-98bail-in-e2-80-99-law-e2-80-93-how-safe-is-your-cash-now-/tabid/88/a/1722/default.aspx

“Few would know that very quietly on 14 February 2018, with just 7 senators present, the Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Crisis Resolution Powers And Other Measures) Bill 2017 was passed into law on a voice vote.  You likely saw no press on the matter and yet the ramifications for all Australians are potentially huge. This is a very long and complicated piece of legislation but at its very core it brings Australia into line with the ‘Bail In’ agenda of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) as agreed at the G20 here in Brisbane in 2014.  ‘Bail In’ is about government not bailing out distressed institutions as we saw in the GFC using tax payer’s money, rather using the creditors of the bank to bail itself out. The legislation allows our banking regulator APRA ‘crisis powers’ to secretly step in and run distressed banks.  It allows APRA to then confiscate and write off certain types of bonds and hybrid securities and allows them to confiscate cash savings of SMSF’s.  Whereas elsewhere around the world, including our neighbours New Zealand, they specifically include the confiscation of depositors’ funds (savings), the Aussie version just cleverly doesn’t specifically exclude that….

     In this world of hyper-consumerism, we do not hear too much about the meaning of life today. Life is about getting enough money to survive, or if you are rich, doing your best to make sure others do not. But, as incredible as it seems some people still think about what was once called the “big questions”:
  https://www.livescience.com/63094-conservative-meaning-of-life.html?utm_source=ls-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20180719-ls 
  http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1948550618768241

“Meaning is personal to each of us. However, a new study published June 15 in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science suggests that some people might be better at finding that meaning than others — and the difference may come down to politics. According to the study, which compiled survey results from more than 50,000 participants in 16 countries, people who identified as political conservatives were more likely to find meaning and satisfaction in their lives than liberals were. “Political conservatives tend to be happier than liberals, a finding that has been labeled the ‘happiness gap’ in media reporting,” a team of psychologists from the University of Southern California (USC) wrote in the new paper. “One conservative commentator even described it as ‘niftily self-reinforcing; it depresses liberals.’”

     We can hope. We can pray. But, there is some chance, that Facebok could go down the financial drain:
  https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/25/tech-stocks-poised-for-bloodbath-on-thursday-with-facebook-on-track-fo.html

“The tech-heavy Nasdaq was set for a big down day Thursday after disappointing quarterly results from Facebook sent the social media giant hurtling toward its biggest share price decline ever and on trackto lose more than $125 billion in market value. The Invesco QQQ Trust, which tracks the Nasdaq 100 index and can give traders a good idea of how the Nasdaq stocks will trade, was down more than 2 percent at one point in after-hours trading Wednesday. At last count, the ETF was off by about 1.5 percent. Facebook lost more than a fifth of its value after hours. Nasdaq futures opened lower Wednesday evening, off by about 0.8 percent. By 11:20 p.m. ET, they had declined further by 0.96 percent. Big technology stocks other than Facebook felt the collateral damage as investors fled the sector. Apple lost about 1 percent. Facebook’s “FANG” brethren were also lower. Amazon, which reports after the bell Thursday, lost 2.3 percent. Netflix, which disappointed FANG investors with its own set of weak results earlier this earnings season, shed about 3 percent in after-hours. Google parent Alphabet fell 2.4 percent."

     Those of us on the Christian right have long known of the one world New World Order agenda of the United nations. It is not the only globalist organisation, but is a key part of it, and works to champion most globalist causes, free trade, climate change, mass immigration, gun control, you name it.
  https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/24/rep-mark-meadows-its-about-time-we-defund-the-united-nations/

     The solution given by Rep Mark Meadows is that the US stop funding the UN. It can then wither away, since nobody else, probably even George Soros, is going to want to pour money down that endless sinkhole.

     First, here is the link about the Möbius strip, the creation of a one-dimensional surface from a two dimensional one. And, here as well is a piece of art by M. C. Escher, Dutch artist, featuring ants eternally trapped on the strip:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Möbius_strip
  https://ferrebeekeeper.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/prints-of-ants-by-m-c-escher/

     Let no-one say that we are the culturally illiterate Right. Never miss a chance to have a good protest against the bad Nazis and show one’s moral supremacy, that’s the spirit! Thus, whenever there is a high profile speaker from the Right, the antifa must get out and go thought the usual rituals, much like ants go through their programed responses. Thus, antifa did their usual song and dance with the  Lauren Southern visit. The general  idea is to shut down using force anyone they do not agree with. And, they call that “antifascism”! Oh, and victims foot the bill, not the antifa!
  https://amp.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/lauren-southerns-provocative-personality-has-always-been-there/news-story/50f1de0841f14f6837dada0c57a66ff1

     We have heard a lot about Georgey Soros and his drive to end the Western nation state and crate open borders, leading to a vast tragedy of the commons and universal misery and tyranny, and the creation of not open but closed, if not dead societies – but who else follows the doomsday cult of open borders? Why, more of the super-rich, of course:
  https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/29/midterms-billionaire-koch-brothers-threaten-to-support-democrats-pushing-open-borders-free-trade/

“Pro-mass immigration GOP mega-donor billionaire Koch brothers are threatening to support Democrats who push for open borders and multinational free trade in the upcoming midterm elections. During a conference with millionaire and billionaire donors, officials with the Kochs’ network of organizations said that they would gladly put funding in the pockets of Democrats so long as they support aspects of their agenda, which include promoting mass immigration and job-killing free trade deals. “I know this is uncomfortable,” Americans for Prosperity CEO Emily Seidel told donors, according to CNBC. “If you are a Democrat and stand up to Elizabeth Warren to corral enough votes for financial reform that breaks barriers for community banks and families, you’re darn right we will work with you.”

     I have covered Plan B type material, where things may not go as either we, or our enemies hope, because life is uncertain. Civilisations have collapsed before, and if you accept that the world is older than 4,000 years, 99 percent of species on the planet have faced extinction events. So, It does hit the fan. But, is It about to again? There are many opinions on this, but we little people all lack vital information. The elite, however, are fully cashed up on data, and would do anything to save their butts. One computer expert has already given advice to some of the elites who can see the writing on the wall:
  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/the-wealthy-elitists-plan-to-survive-the-apocalypse-and-leave-us-behind_07242018
  https://medium.com/s/futurehuman/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1

“They started out innocuously enough. Ethereum or bitcoin? Is quantum computing a real thing? Slowly but surely, however, they edged into their real topics of concern. Which region will be less impacted by the coming climate crisis: New Zealand or Alaska? Is Google really building Ray Kurzweil a home for his brain, and will his consciousness live through the transition, or will it die and be reborn as a whole new one? Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked, “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?”

     Don’t you just love it when the Deep State tells you that they are doing something to help you, but the obvious technocratic control implications are conveniently ignored? Consider My Health record. What could possibility be wrong with streamlining everything in the name of IT efficiency. What could go wrong?
  https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/lifestyle/health/doctors-outraged-that-police-ato-can-access-my-health-record/news-story/92e2ecb06f3e2581ff101a6420c0c379
  https://myaccount.news.com.au/sites/dailytelegraph/subscribe.html?sourceCode=DTWEB_WRE170_a_GGL&mode=premium&dest=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/lifestyle/health/doctors-outraged-that-police-ato-can-access-my-health-record/news-story/92e2ecb06f3e2581ff101a6420c0c379?memtype=anonymous

     How embarrassing, I hit a paywall, so I cannot paste in the information. To make it stranger, the link I was given let me in first, so I read that the police and ATO could access the records, and that some IT firm was worried about hacking. As soon as I went to cut ‘n’ paste the material, the page just froze up, and Word crashed. Then I went to the Taskmaster function to get off the frozen program, and coming back in the link did not work!    The lesson here is that I do not trust the IT society. Sure, we use computers, but these things create as many problems as they solve, and give more to the elites than they give to us. I do not want to trust my health records being put in a central data base, given all of the health hacking attacks occurring, the most recent being in Singapore.

     What a great title, if I say so myself, and even I want to read it, but I have to write it first. Speaking of first things,  first here are two articles dealing with numerous weird things Leftoid have done. I particularly like the one where the Left girls runs onto the stage where Lauren Southern is speaking and screams that she loves refugees. I think at that point the girl should have been cross examined by Southern. Do you love all refugees? What about white refugees, don’t you hate them? Sure you do, that’s just what Leftoids do. But now you have contradicted yourself. And, by your own theology, you are racist to boot. Oh, that would be truly entertaining.
  https://www.counter-currents.com/2018/07/has-the-left-gone-completely-crazy-no-actually/
  https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=lauren+southern+antifa+jumps+stage&&view=detail&mid=6FA06282357E06B5569A6FA06282357E06B5569A&&FORM=VRDGAR

     However, the most profound article in this area this journal article run/article cycle, comes from Natural News, with the following arresting title linking Satanism and human sacrifice:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-07-24-the-lefts-true-agenda-revealed-satanic-human-sacrifice-on-an-industrial-scale.html

     President Trump has not done much, but what he has done is spearhead a much-needed attack upon the mainstream media. In turn, the media have responded that he is aiding those who would want to restrict the freedom of the press. I will not go into all the internal details about the present US debates here, as you can read it in the links below. The ethical issues need to be thought through from our perspective, though:
  https://apnews.com/2bbf5451248c46e49533ac6d54a115fb/Times-publisher-asks-Trump-to-reconsider-anti-media-rhetoric 
  https://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/07/29/bernstein-trump-is-undermining-the-free-press-because-we-are-reporting-the-truth/
  https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/07/30/nyt-upset-threats-media-ignores-500-plus-attacks-trump-supporters/

     The immigration lobby tell us that immigration always has net economic benefits. Really?
  https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/06/non-western-asylum-seekers-to-cost-dutch-society-billions-study-shows/ 
  https://gellerreport.com/2018/06/migrants-costing-billions.html/

“In contrast to what was told, migrants are far from economically beneficial for society. Research by mathematician Jan van Beek shows that admitting non-western asylum seekers into the country, results in high net costs for Dutch society, WNL reports. In his research Van Beek tries to make a distinction between asylum seekers and migrants that come to work or study in the Netherlands. He sees a high dependence on benefits in the asylum seeking group. “You can calculate what people during their lifetimes contribute to government finances and what they receive in benefits and pensions,” van Beek says. According to him, the cost for non-western asylum seekers are “a few hundred thousand euros”, which is much higher than the fifty to one hundred thousand euros that a 2003 statistical report showed. Van Beek’s calculation shows that while the average non-western asylum seeker costs 250,000 euros during his lifetime, the costs become higher by family reunification and getting kids. The result is that just one asylum seeker could cost Dutch society not 250,000 but 4 x 250,000; because family reunification and children have to be incorporated in the costs for society as well.”

     Here is a literary piece lamenting about the fall of modern man, from once being a warrior, to now simply selling consumer goods. It is worth a quick read:
  https://local.theonion.com/[object%20Object

     The problem with this sort of article is that the man in question seems to be actually doing quite well, for at least he has a job. A starker view of reality might entail examining the harms that feminism has done as part of it tradition of critique, in eliminating men from the workplace:
  https://www.counter-currents.com/2018/06/a-man-out-of-season-ludovicis-the-confessions-of-an-anti-feminist/

     More crazy talk from the epicentre of madn4ess, the US university system
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-28/professor-claims-civility-euphemism-white-supremacy

“A New York University educator recently asserted that current “calls for civility are just a power play by those who feel that white supremacy is under threat.” Simran Jeet Singh, a Henry R. Luce Post-Doctoral Fellow for Religion in International Affairs at NYU’s Center for Religion and Media, made the claim Monday evening in two Twitter threads that appeared to be a response to widespread calls for civility after Maxine Waters publicly endorsed the mass harassment of members of the Trump administration this weekend. “Calls for civility are just a power play by those who feel that white supremacy is under threat.” 

     It’s good to know where your hard-earnt taxpayer dollars end up. We are at “peace,” for “our” government is looking after “our” welfare, and spending OUR money with the wisdom of Solomon:
  https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/an-investigation-into-the-islamic-council-of-victoria-reveals-its-received-24m-in-state-grants-since-2010/news-story/7e6c6a0d017e453fada892273d7c67fe

     What … the story now has a pay wall, and since my journalism operates on the smell of an oily rag, and sometimes not even that … no, maybe there is some other link … no … nothing. But, does it matter? Twenty four million is small cheese compared to the billions spent on the multicult industry, and the tens of billions on mass migration. The joke is on us, all the way to the grave. I imagine that Hell will be something like this.

     I have been reporting on the Pope’s globalist and communist comments for some time now, most of these remarks relating to immigration, and how he welcomes the Islamic transformation of Europe. Naturally, there has been a reaction to this, no, not my comments, which are generally ignored, but the no-hope Pope’s:
  https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/04/italian-church-faces-growing-divide-between-prelates-people-immigration/

“As the Italian hierarchy aligns itself ever more closely with the open-borders movement, the country’s citizens — most of whom are Catholic — seem to be moving in the opposite direction, creating a curious lay-clerical split. Italy’s interior minister, Matteo Salvini, is now the most trusted politician in the country by a significant margin, a position he has earned above all by his firm stance against unchecked mass migration. Yet when Salvini refused debarkation rights in late June to the NGO vessel Aquarius that was carrying hundreds of African migrants, the Italian bishops were among those protesting most loudly.”

     Nearing retirement, I am as cranky as ever, but still delight in the occasional juicy legal story, like when globalists get sued:
  https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/07/exclusive-german-opposition-party-files-charges-against-seven-ngos-for-human-trafficking-including-doctors-without-borders/

“The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has filed criminal charges against seven German NGO’s for human trafficking — including Doctors Without Borders. The groups being charged are Against SOS Mediterranee, Sea-Watch, Doctors without Borders Germany, Save The Children Germany, Jugend Rettet (all Berlin), Mission Lifeline (Dresden) and Sea-Eye (Regensburg). The controversial NGOs have come under scrutiny lately for their efforts picking up illegal immigrants off the coast of Libya under the pretense they are “being rescued from drowning” and bringing them to Europe. The Italian government recently announced that they are closing their ports to these “humanitarian” ships in an effort to stop the illegal migration. Malta has since impounded multiple Sea-Watch vessels that are sponsored by the Lutheran Church in Germany using taxpayer funds.”