To The Age        Establishing a block of "Indigenous" seats in the Senate would be a constitutional blunder and fundamentally inequitable ("Abbott idea worth heeding", 22/1). It is right for us to especially honour the Aboriginal people and their culture, because of their long period of custodianship of the continent. It is also good that we use some of our taxes to advance the welfare of Aboriginals experiencing poverty or long-range results of the cultural dislocation they have experienced as a people. However, legislation today needs to be founded on the equality, constitutionally, of all Australians, no matter what their ethnic and cultural origins and ancestry. The Abbott idea, like all other proposals for "constitutional recognition", is foolishly divisive and ethically unfair.
Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     This brief post by Brett Stevens, pretty much sums up the present crisis in a nutshell:

“Diversity everywhere seems to result in the same mixture of lack of social unity plus low grade ethnic warfare: vandalism, rape, corruption, theft, white flight, and periodic race riots. South Africa proves no exception. It turns out that when your society has diversity problems, the solution is not to simply give the minority groups a seat at the table; it is to send them away. Diversity does not work — in any form: religious, ethnic, cultural, racial — and it splinters civilizations into warring special interest groups who take focus away from the future and reality and turn it toward self-referential infighting, at which point society collapses and all of the ethnic groups are destroyed, leaving behind a cultureless grey mixed race.”

     The word is indeed a magical immigration place, and even the laws of physics are being to be less racist, and accept diversity ingot their formerly cold mathematical hearts, especially where migrants firing guns are concerned:
  https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-kate-steinle-appeal-20190116-story.html

“A Mexican man whose role in the shooting death of a woman walking on a San Francisco pier touched off a fierce immigration debate is seeking to overturn his felony gun possession conviction. It was the only charge he was found guilty of after a jury acquitted him of murder. Jose Inez Garcia Zarate had been deported five times at the time of the shooting and was wanted for a sixth deportation proceeding. Lawyers for Garcia Zarate filed the expected appeal last week in state court. He was charged with murder and illegal gun possession in the fatal shooting of Kate Steinle in July 2015. Steinle was shot in the back was she walked with her father on a city pier crowded with tourists taking in the sights. During the trial, his defense lawyers called an expert who testified that an unintentional ricochet shot killed Steinle. They argued that the weapon went off in their client’s hands in what was a tragic accident. Garcia Zarate wants the gun conviction overturned, contending he didn't know a gun was in his hands because it was wrapped in a T-shirt when it fired and he dropped it almost immediately after picking it up. He argues in court papers that he can't be convicted of illegal gun possession.

     The US Women’s March featured deranged, extremist feminism, with numerous signs saying all sorts of nonsense about female genitalia. You can see this sort of stuff here at this link:
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/19/photos-womens-march-protesters-call-for-trump-to-drop-dead-his-children-to-be-caged/

     I am not against Women’s Marches in general where there is a legitimate message. Thus, in Australia there was a different message to what we have seen in my home of America, more sensible, dealing with the serious issue of violence against women:
  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-israel-crime/australian-rallies-demand-safe-streets-for-women-after-israeli-student-murder-idUSKCN1PE04N?utm

     According to the World Health Organization, anti-vaxxers are one of the greatest health threats in 2019! What’s that? People who are concerned about what goes into vaccines and choose to exercise what little freedom they have left, not to have chemicals put into their veins? Yes, those folks, even if they are wrong, for after all, there is no regulation and control of alcohol, which is a far greater killer that exercising freedom!
 Here is the take from Mike Adams at Natural News.com, and I don’t think Mike will mine me quoting at length to get this message out there. We could see the end of Natural News.com, and I would no longer be able to cover things that they reported, as our societies descend ever further into the tyranny of darkness, finally becoming cesspools of hell:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-01-20-vaccine-deep-state-plots-to-seize-naturalnews-criminalize-speech.html

“From sources inside the vaccine deep state, I’m being told that this declaration by the World Health Organization is just the first step in a major assault being unleashed against Natural News and other independent journalism sources that rightfully question the lack of safety in toxic vaccines. With this declaration in place, the next steps will include:

     Next time I go into the cheap junk shop I will buy a yellow vest, and wear it proudly in the streets of Melbourne. Since the French yellow vest movement is now embracing both Left and Right, I don’t expect to be bashed up by antifa too quickly. Apparently there have been some recent fights, but Leftist members of the yellow vests had to stop and start punching themselves in the head. I wish. Anyway, the yellow vest protests are now going global, well, at least in Europe and Asia, and here is a neat summary, to ponder over a cup of herbal tea, or something stronger:
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-20/yellow-vest-movement-has-gone-worldwide

•    “Bulgaria: Yellow Vests began protesting the same weekend as the French movement - coming out in force on November 16 to protest in front of parliament and demand the resignation of the government.
•    Canada: Yellow Vest protests have taken place in more than a dozen cities across Canada - largely campaigning against the carbon price, Canada's participation in the UN's Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, the Trudeau administration and other issues.
•    Croatia: Croatians came out in force on December 15, gathering in Ban Jelacic Square.
•    Egypt: An Egyptian A lawyer was arrested and jailed for 15 days after he posted a picture of himself wearing a Yellow Vest in support of the French protests.
•    Finland: Finns came out in force in mid-December as well, gathering in front of Parliament in opposition to the UN's Global Migration pact.
•    Germany: Marching in solidarity with the French, German Yellow Vests similarly came out against the UN migration pact.
•    Iraq: Yellow Vests demonstrated in Basra, Iraq on December 5 to protest poor job opportunities among other things. They were reportedly fired upon with live ammunition by police.
•    Italy: There have been several ongoing Yellow Vest protests in Italy over the last several months, with some protesting the government's hard-line stance against illegal migrants, and other pro-government activists protesting against the EU. In January, Italy's ruling government came out in support of the Yellow Vest movement, which AFP noted was "extremely rare for European leaders to back anti-government protesters in a fellow member state."
•    Netherlands: The Dutch joined the party at the beginning of December, blocking roads, roundabouts and tollbooths.
•    Pakistan: Hundreds of engineers came out in December to protest government services and pay.
•    Poland: Polish Yellow Vests protested in November and December, blocking the A2 motorway outside of Warsaw, demanding compensation for pigs they were required to slaughter, as well as the import of unlabeled Ukrainian agricultural products.
•    Russia: Yellow Vests protested right before Christmas in Moscow's Hyde Park against increased parking fees. "I’m a driver with 20 years of experience, and I can understand that the authorities want to free the city and make it accessible to pedestrians," said resident Tamara Papuashvili, adding " it's just a disgrace. You can use the metro, but there are more and more people there, it just cannot cope."
•    Serbia: Civil rights organisation "Združena akcija Krov nad glavom" began using yellow vests in its protests to show solidarity with the French protesters, as well as opposition to high fuel prices. Serbians have protested for six weeks in a row.
•    Taiwan: The Tax and Legal Reform League which has been protesting against high taxes since 2016 organized a yellow vest march on December 19.
•    United Kingdom: UK Yellow Vests are mostly right wing, pro-Brexit groups who have held rallies in London and other UK cities.

     The present shutdown of the US government over the wall funding needs to be seen in the light of how the US spends its money, money that should go to national security. Thus, US $ 10.6 billion is going to South American countries as overseas aid. Beyond that, US $ 100 billion was secured for disaster relief over the past three years, but there is no money to deal with the immigration disaster. The reason is that the progressives want America to become non-white as fast as possible because these progressives are self-loathing racists, who benefit from a system that makes it ok to threaten to murder a white teenagers who smiles, on the pretence of “racism.” The system is tyrannical, and what is even more tyrannical is that it has been put up with for so long.
  https://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/12/18/schumer-wh-needs-congressional-approval-to-reallocate-money-to-wall-they-wont-get-it/ 
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-12-19-u-s-agrees-to-give-mexico-more-than-10-billion.html
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/19/building-border-wall-immigration-reform-top-issues-gop-voters/
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/19/thomas-massie-gop-secured-100-billion-hurricane-relief-cannot-find-5-billion-border-wall/
  https://apnews.com/0fcda32812024680ad98676379c47233?fbclid=IwAR0gSbGx2KdYqEDmSzlNNOvCiKySXrRT-AmGlWga-B0NK1ZXGgFcPB1sNp0 
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/19/coulter-gutless-president-in-wall-less-country/
  https://apnews.com/0fcda32812024680ad98676379c47233

     We are certainly covering some weird stories this week; looks like 2019 is a more insane year than last year! Even the professors, who should be asleep at this time of the year, feeding on their large tax payer’s funded salaries, atre going full bore genocide. Consider:
  https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11763

“A University of Georgia (UGA) teaching assistant wrote Wednesday on Facebook that “some white people may have to die for black communities to be made whole in this struggle to advance to freedom." He added that to suggest otherwise is “ahistorical and dangerously naive.” UGA philosophy TA Irami Osei-Frimpong made the comment during a conversation on the Overheard at UGA Facebook page. The comment has since been deleted. Osei-Frimpong claimed in May 2017 that Facebook suspended him for quoting from an article which detailed how Texas A&M professor Tommy Curry had said “in order to be equal, in order to be liberated, some white people may have to die.” “Killing some white people isn’t genocide; it’s killing some white people,” the UGA TA explained in a Medium post. “We had to kill some white people to get out of slavery. Maybe if we’d killed more during the 20th century we still wouldn’t talk about racialized voter disenfranchisement and housing, education, and employment discrimination. This should not be controversial.”

     I have known a lot of native Americans in my youth when I worked out West on cattle ranges, and they are good people, loyal and honest. Sure, they are no good around “fire water,” but that is probably an argument for how bad the drink is. Thus, when I saw the story about a group of young white school guys harassing an old Native American Vietnam vet, naturally my sympathies went to a fellow ex-soldier, over rich school kids. Hell, I was a punk at their age and deserved to have my butt kicked. However, then I read:
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/20/delingpole-left-wing-and-the-right-attack-kids-to-demonstrate-virtue/
  https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/01/20/critics-covington-maga-critics-push-back-against-portrayal-of-catholic-high-school-as-racist-to-native-american/

and see that the issue is more murky. I still don’t blame the chief, but feel that the Left, as usual, have exploited both parties for their own dark political aims.
  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/20/us/nathan-phillips-covington.html
  https://www.amren.com/news/2019/01/fuller-video-casts-new-light-on-covington-catholic-students-encounter-with-native-american-elder/
  https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/01/21/twitter-allows-verified-calls-for-violence-against-conservative-high-school-kids/ 
  https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/01/20/covington-catholic-high-school-student-nick-sandmann-i-was-not-going-to-become-angry-i-am-a-faithful-christian/
  https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/01/21/hollywood-meltdown-covington-race-hoax-this-is-a-disgrace-this-is-not-america/

     Israelis do not want any more non-Jewish migrants, whether they are skilled or not:
  https://www.timesofisrael.com/most-israelis-dont-want-non-jewish-migrants-even-if-they-are-highly-skilled/

“The majority of Israelis don’t support non-Jewish immigration to the country, even when the immigrants are highly trained or have advanced degrees, according to a new Pew Research Center report released on Tuesday.
The Pew poll found that 51 percent of Israelis oppose high-skilled immigration of foreigners moving to the country with a bachelor’s degree or higher. The Pew poll focused on immigration of those not entitled to Israeli citizenship under the law of return, which applies to anybody with at least one Jewish grandparent.”

     Sweden continues to decay, with the latest revelations, or is it horror story, being that half of all women in their early 20s feel unsafe:
  https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/01/sweden-half-of-women-in-early-20s-feel-unsafe-government-ramps-up-anti-hate-policing
  https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/01/16/nearly-half-of-swedish-women-early-20s-feel-insecure-crime/

“Statistics released by the Swedish criminal statistics agency Brå reveal that 42 percent of women aged 20 to 24 feel insecure in their everyday lives, fearful they could be victims of various crimes. The new statistics come as part of the agency’s National Security Survey (NTU) of 2018, which found that the women surveyed claimed to have changed their route or mode of transport due to fears of crime. Maria Söderström, an investigator at Brå, commented on the results, saying: “The fact that many people’s lives are limited by the fact that they have to change their travel routes and methods is a serious consequence of the insecurity and anxiety about crimes that young women say they experience.”

     This is an example of how far down the road to degeneracy we have come; it is cheaper to abort babies than have them born!
  https://www.lifenews.com/2019/01/16/california-says-more-babies-must-be-killed-in-abortions-because-giving-birth-costs-too-much/?fbclid=IwAR0MuMUmLmoGLuak5Epn5BsFv7AxJGQ2w_3WlirpbyhxR9ykpP5iamfC14M

“Earlier this week a California judge issued an order blocking President Trump’s new rules protecting Americans from having to pay for drugs and devices that may cause abortions. The ruling concerns the Obama mandate within Obamacare that forces Americans to pay for contraception, including drugs that can cause abortion that violate the consciences of a majority of Americans. In its arguments leading up to the judge’s decision, the state of California made a very disgusting argument as to why President Trump’s pro-life protections must be overturned and why residents of the Golden State and America must be forced to pay for abortion drugs. According to California and it’s attorney general, babies are just too darn expensive — so more babies either need to be killed in abortion or prevented from being born through contraception. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra argued in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that a regulation issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services would prevent an insufficient number of California women from conceiving and giving birth to children.

     The more that I learn about China, the more I respect the Chinese for their sense of racial solidarity. If the dream of modernity disappears tomorrow, and techno-society collapses, say from an EMP event, or more likely from its own internal rottenness, most Western people would probably commit suicide without the goodies and sweeties that consumerism bubbles out. Many Chinese would too, but a majority would happily go back to growing rice with a hand hoe. Hopefully, they would preserve some of the wisdom of both the East and West, but probably not. Anyway, that is why the globalists, knowing that they have succeeded in destroying the West, are turning their attention to China, because not a single stone must be left unturned. Of course, Israel continues to be a target as well, but China has now emerged as nationalist enemy number 1:
  https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46996116

“The billionaire philanthropist George Soros has used his annual speech at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, to launch a scathing attack on China and its president Xi Jinping. Mr Soros warned that artificial intelligence and machine learning could be used to entrench totalitarian control in the country. He said this scenario presented an "unprecedented danger". But he said the Chinese people were his "main source of hope". "China is not the only authoritarian regime in the world but it is the wealthiest, strongest and technologically most advanced," he said, noting concerns too about Vladimir Putin's Russia. "This makes Xi Jinping the most dangerous opponent of open societies," he said. Mr Soros, a prominent donor to the Democratic Party in the US, also criticised the Trump administration's stance towards China. "Instead of waging a trade war with practically the whole world, the US should focus on China," he said. He urged Washington to crack down on Chinese technology companies such as Huawei and ZTE, which he said present an "unacceptable security risk for the rest of the world". More broadly, Mr Soros cautioned that repressive regimes could utilise technology to control their citizens, in what he called "a mortal threat to open societies".

     The traditional ideal of masculinity is under attack like never before, because, well, that is just the stage that gender agenda has reached, from false equality, to masculine genocide now. So, every defence of traditional masculinity must be celebrated, and one such defence made these salient points:
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-25/smith-feminism-disease-and-masculinity-cure

“Evidence suggests that we should reverse this claim entirely and say that masculinity is entirely natural, and feminism is unhealthy. Feminism is a disease, and masculinity is the cure. As mentioned above, unlike feminism, masculinity is NOT a social construct or an ideology, it is an inherent biological reality. What feminists often present as “unhealthy” behaviors in masculinity are simply fabricated or exaggerated, and I am speaking from a Western perspective specifically. While men are designed to be more sexually aggressive, there is no “rape culture” in western society. Nowhere in the western world is rape advocated as acceptable. Nowhere is it protected by law. The #MeToo movement is yet another propaganda initiative which is meant to take criminal actions of a select few men and apply them to ALL men and masculinity in general. The lie of rape culture is promoted through false and rigged statistics. The fact that a large portion of reported sexual abuse is perpetrated by women is also ignored.  Clearly, rape is not the exclusive domain of masculinity.

     Suing people and organisations generally has a bad rap, I think undeserved in many ways, because often, suing is the only answer. For example, the vilification of the Covington student Nicholas Sandmann, was unrelenting, and he was savagely attacked even before full video evidence was looked at.
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/25/covington-bishop-apologizes-for-being-bullied-into-premature-statement/

     Thus, the bishop raced to condemn the students, allegedly based on pressure, rising on his high moral horse to say, “this behavior is opposed to the Church’s teachings on the dignity and respect of the human person. The matter is being investigated and we will take appropriate action, up to and including expulsion.” Yes, all that for simply smiling at a person who was loudly banging a drum in one’s face. But, then there was an apology: “The apology came after Sandmann’s family hired lawyer L. Lin Wood, who according to the Washington Post, “often [seeks] eye-popping damages for those he believes have been libeled or slandered in the press.” Maybe the good bishop will have something to worry about in the future, after he has been put through the wringer of court.

To The Australian        Gerard Henderson rightly notes that "the division between indigenous and other Australians is not quite what it seems" ("This nation of immigrants rightly cherishes its rich past", 26-27/1). There are important implications in this, which he does not draw out, but which need to be, so that ordinary Australians (the great majority of us) are not taken for a ride by confidence tricksters. The fact that most Australians "who identify as indigenous" have some non-indigenous blood, and that only "a very small number of Australians have only indigenous DNA", means that almost all those who currently present themselves as "indigenous leaders" of our so-called "First Peoples" are really laying claim to a representative status that they do not and cannot possess. In a nutshell, this means that their agitation for "constitutional recognition" and a changed date for Australia Day is morally built on sand.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

To The Age        Teela Reid, who has Wiradjuri and Wailwan ancestry, refers to "a First Nations Voice" ("Heart in search of a voice", 26/1), but can such a thing really exist or be brought into being at this stage of our history? It is not clear that the tribes which lived here before the 18th Century can be accurately described as "First Nations" and, in any case, they no longer exist - so how can they have a voice today? The great majority of Australians who identify as indigenous have some non-indigenous blood. Only a very small number of Australians have nothing but indigenous DNA. Thus very few of those who put themselves forward as indigenous spokespeople or leaders truly have the unadulterated representative status that they claim. Therefore, their agitation for "constitutional recognition", including the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and for a changed date for Australia Day, is morally built on sand.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     The latest internet censorship news is that the elites are moving on from shutting down discussion of race/immigration, to shutting down corporate critique, through use of software that does all of the censoring, passively:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-01-25-microsoft-now-conspiring-with-pro-monsanto-front-group-newsguard.html

“Microsoft has just unveiled its plans to partner up with NewsGuard, a “startup” company bent on censoring the world wide web, disguised as an app that helps users weed out “fake news.” Now, instead of being an app that users can choose to download, Microsoft will be incorporating the technology as an integrated feature of their mobile web browser, Edge. If you use your cellphone to surf the web, Edge might not be the best choice — unless you enjoy being spoon-fed leftist propaganda by a neocon corporation that is tied to Monsanto. As if the blatant censorship of conservatives across social media wasn’t bad enough, Microsoft and NewsGuard are now conspiring to suppress all kinds of information, ranging from conservative news organizations to scientific literature exposing the dangers of GMOs. As sources report, the censorship software NewsGuard will soon be a key element of Microsoft’s mobile web browser, Edge. Instead of having to download an app, users will simply have to click a button to enable the rating system. The system is described as a “green-red rating signal if a website is trying to get it right or instead has a hidden agenda or knowingly publishes falsehoods or propaganda.”

To The Australian        Paul Monk has offered a sturdy defence both of free speech (as a principle) and the ways in which our political order should be shaped in order to facilitate it ("The rules for civil engagement", 8-9/12). Yes, we should indeed "agree to open contentious subjects up to discussion, not shut them down." Monk does us a service by recommending Nadine Strossen's new book Hate: Why We Should Resist It With Free Speech, Not Censorship. The litmus test for this intellectual idealism is "Holocaust revisionism." At present this subject is usually shirked by otherwise honourable defenders of liberty; but, until the situation changes, decent persons in several nations will continue to be persecuted for expressing their dissident views; and the great service of men such as the late Professor Robert Faurisson will be largely ignored rather than thoughtfully analysed.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     When the constitution referendum occurs on Aboriginal recognition, expect that the lawyers will turn the country upside down, or using a more apt metaphor, tear it in two. This process of separatism, paid for out of your suffering taxpayer’s dollar, is happening right now, in its early stages.
  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-07/victorian-parliament-to-vote-on-negotiating-aboriginal-treaty/9843638
  https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/push-for-aboriginal-people-to-be-given-traditional-owner-rights-in-city-of-melbourne/news-story/ded6c85f4dad7c43dfc4fe93170a27b9?login=1

“Aboriginal people who do not live in the City of Melbourne could be given voting and candidate rights as “traditional owners”. An issues paper by the council said eligibility for enrolment and candidacy was currently restricted to residents, business owners and property owners. The paper said that, while many “traditional custodians” may not be residents or ratepayers within the council area, “the decisions and actions of the City of Melbourne Council have a particular impact on traditional custodians and their lands and waters”. “Aboriginals who are traditional custodians are recognised as having a link to land that is far stronger and deeper than many recognised land rights in the current electoral system,” it said. Councillor Nicolas Frances Gilley wants the council to approach the Andrews Government to amend the City of Melbourne Act to set up a special electoral franchise for traditional owners.”