Relax, let an old lady handle this one. There is a growing cultural war over toilets, with something of a trend to create unisex toilets:
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/gender-neutral-public-toilets-should-be-the-norm-20160503-golmtp.html
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/public-service-push-for-genderneutral-bathrooms-20170511-gw2taq.html

     Urinals are on the way out, with the sort of standard toilets we all have at home coming to the fore. Thus, men, being extremely poor aims, will make these toilets unhygienic for women.  Ladies, you know what I mean! All in the name of political correctness.

     In our anti-discrimination, equality mad society, where inclusion is everything, Bob Katter sure stirred up a hornets’ nest of controversy:
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/politics/federal/2017/12/07/we-shouldn-t--encourage--homosexual-behaviour.html

“Independent MP Bob Katter has stood by his controversial statement in parliament on Wednesday accusing gay people of being ‘murderers’ who passed on AIDS to the heterosexual community via blood donation.
Mr Katter was widely criticised for his contribution to the same sex marriage debate on Wednesday, where the Member for Kennedy criticised homosexual men for giving blood.
‘You want to talk about equality? Well they wanted equality in the giving of blood. They said we have a right as homosexuals to give blood, so they did,’ Mr Katter said.
‘And I think it was 72 children were injected with AIDS from the blood that was given. It was hushed up. It was amazing to me that it never got any publicity at all.”

     Transsexuals will be able to serve in the US military, after courts overturned Trump’s ban, which shows who rules America:
https://www.axios.com/transgender-individuals-can-enlist-in-military-beginning-jan-1-2516662158.html

     Russia, however, has built a superior military force, probably the finest in the world, with weapons and men, that could whip the West many times over:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/satan-2-russia-icbm-missile-destroy-countries-us-nuclear-weapons-intercontinental-ballistic-a8022831.html

     Natural news.com, recently had an article about aluminium in vaccines:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-12-11-no-science-anyone-who-dares-mention-vaccines-contain-aluminum-is-immediately-derided-as-an-anti-vaxxer.html

     The mainstream medical profession holds that aluminium is an adjunct which boosts the vaccine’s capacity to produce an immune response.  But, what else might it do?

     I studied philosophy for a bit over a year, before dropping out, when I did an Arts degree at a mid-level US university. As a freshman, I had hoped that this discipline would help with the big questions, such as the meaning of life, and the existence of God, but I was very disappointed. At best, philosophy was engaged in technicalities that led nowhere; at worst, it was just another attack on traditionalism, but going deeper than the Social Sciences, attacking our common sense view of reality, such as that we have free will, minds and souls. All of this is done to support the ruling ideology of reductionist materialism.

     Not all philosophers though, go for the establishment line. Richard Cocks has published two papers at Sydneytrads.com, discussing the illogical nature of philosophers, with respect to the issue of determinism. If the thesis of determinism – that every event has a cause, sufficient for its explanation, running back in an endless chain of causes – and if this thesis is inconsistent with the existence of free will, then how is the reasoning leading to acceptance of the determinist thesis acceptable?
https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2016/03/19/the-illogicality-of-determinism/
https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2016/10/28/the-illogicality-of-determinism-further-considerations/
https://sydneytrads.com/2016/09/13/richard-cocks-3/

     How about this for a movie plot? A mad scientist invents a device which allegedly gives the masses entertainment value, but which later is revealed to be killing them. People start dying out. Maybe they come back as zombies; maybe not. Anyway, apocalypse. But wait, it is not a movie:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-12-15-cellphones-driving-modern-humans-to-the-brink-of-insanity-new-science.html

“As it turns out, the mass poisoning of human brains with cellphone radiation has only been going on for a generation or so. It may be the common cause behind the insanity, and California health authorities have just confirmed this possibility by issuing new warnings about the adverse brain effects of cellphone radiation exposure.
“The research suggests cellphones could increase our risk for brain cancer and tumors, low sperm count, headaches, as well as impaired memory, hearing, and sleep,” reports CBS News / San Francisco. In other words, cellphone radiation has been found to directly interfere with normal brain function, leading people to demonstrate abnormal cognitive function. This, combined with the brain-warping harmful effects of social media, seems to have driven our society to the brink of runaway mental illness across the masses.
Just as the Romans destroyed their civilization with the help of lead poisoning in the water aqueducts, we may be destroying our own civilization by frying all our brains with cellphone radiation (and thereby driving our people insane).”

     Hey, you know that you are really poor when all you have left to sell is your blood plasma, as many millennials now face:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-12-18-lacking-any-real-job-skills-broke-millennials-are-now-donating-blood-plasma-as-a-routine-source-of-income.html

“One former community college student spoke about how she visits an Oregon plasma donation center twice a week following a reduction in her hours at work.  At the center, people who donate plasma can earn anywhere from $25 to $150 per week over a maximum of eight visits per month.
The center she frequents markets itself to millennials, touting its close location to the University of Oregon on its website and mentioning that students are able to do their homework while donating. Around a third of the donors at that Eugene center are estimated to be under the age of 24.
It’s a popular approach, with ABC News reporting that 94 percent of the plasma in the world comes from the U.S.  It’s a $16.8 billion global industry that is still growing. Not surprisingly, four-fifths of the nation’s plasma centers are found in poor neighborhoods. The plasma is used for therapies to treat various diseases.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-10/plasma-pay-broke-millennials-sell-blood-just-survive

     Imagine harvesting the reproductive cells from aborted female foetuses and using them for IVF babies!!!!!!!! Well, progress towards this next big thing is underway:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/harvesting-eggs-from-aborted-babies-to-create-ivf-babies-ten-years-later-th

“Dr. Tal Biron-Shental, from Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba, Israel, was quoted by The Mail, as well as the BBC and a few other outlets, conceding that the concept of taking ovarian tissue from aborted babies “was controversial”.  In fact, her quotes revealed much about the direction the abortion ideology has taken; one of pure, ice-cold utilitarianism.

     Probably my final contribution before Christmas, since I will not be heading into Melbourne to use the internet. Nothing much electronic out here in the scrub. I tried plugging my laptop into an ant nest, but the ants merely crawled all over it.

     Now, we have this highly profound research by a professor, no less, saying that eating meat perpetuates hegemonic masculinity:
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/12/04/penn-state-professor-argues-that-eating-meat-perpetuates-patriarchy/
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10221

     I just knew it, I just knew it …all that global warming bunk…a new ice age could be coming:
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/the-sun-is-going-dark-no-sunspots-for-96-days-ice-age-approaches_12192017

     The sun has not had sunspots for 96 days now, and is diminishing in intensity according to NASA:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/12/15/the-sun-is-blank-nasa-data-shows-it-to-be-dimming/
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-20/martin-armstrong-warns-sun-cooling-faster-anyone-suspected

     As a Christmas present, the noble editor and his lovely wife, whom I have met once, posted to me a nice hardback copy of Camille Paglia’s Glittering Images: A Journey through Art from Egypt to Star Wars  (2012). The book ranges over a massive number of topics, and I cannot adequately assess much of the material because I don’t have a university education, and even if I did, it would be, like centuries old, and irrelevant to the world of pop culture, which is concerned with the here and now.  Sure, I have heard of Any Warhol, paintings of soup tins, everybody is famous for 15 minutes, Star Wars, and the like.
     However, the opening page of the book, which ties all of this up caught my eye:

“Modern life is a sea of images. Our eyes are flooded by bright pictures and clusters of text flashing at us from every direction. The brain, overstimulated, must rapidly adapt to process this swirling barrage of disconnected data. Culture in the developed world is largely defined by all-pervasive mass media and slavishly monitored personal electronic devices.  The exhilarating expansion of instant global communication has liberated a host of individual voices but paradoxically threatened to overwhelm individuality itself.
     How to survive in this age of vertigo? We must learn to see. Amid so much jittery clutter, it is crucial to find focus, the basis of stability, identity, and life direction.  Children above all deserve rescue from the torrential stream of flickering images, which addict them to seductive distractions and make social reality, with its duties and ethical concerns, seem dull and futile.  The only way to teach focus is to present the eye with opportunities for steady perception – best supplied by the contemplation of art.  Looking at art requires stillness and receptivity, which realign our senses and produce a magical tranquillity.”

     In many parts of the world, knife crimes are on the increase. There have been many disturbing attacks, but one attack which was particularly distressful was on a woman in Brooklyn, New York, who had her throat cut by a stranger while she was walking on the street in broad daylight:
https://nypost.com/2017/10/20/slashing-victim-details-terrifying-moment-a-stranger-cut-her-throat/

Here is a good analysis of the situational awareness needed to avoid such attacks:
http://www.activeresponsetraining.net/bad-survival-math-fail-to-recognize-assaultive-behavior-denial-throat-cut

     Once upon a time, rape was a serious crime, punishable by death. Today, especially in Europe, rape is a racial and politically correct construction
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/12/05/swedish-government-ban-websites-list-ethnic-origin-criminal-suspects/
https://www.amren.com/news/2017/12/women-under-islam/
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/12/06/swedish-deputy-no-go-zone-war-zones/

     We even find community service being given for horrendous rapes:
http://www.dailywire.com/news/14812/muslim-sweden-gets-40-hours-community-service-joseph-curl#exit-modal

     Here is an interesting article about the question of Western fertility: it is bad, but not as bad as most people think:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2013.00572.x/abstract

“With period fertility having risen in many low-fertility countries, an important emerging question is whether cohort fertility trends are also reversing. We produce new estimates of cohort fertility for 37 developed countries using a new, simple method that avoids the underestimation typical of previous approaches. Consistent with the idea that timing changes were largely responsible for the last decades’ low period fertility, we find that family size has remained considerably higher than the period rates of 1.5 in many “low-fertility” countries, averaging about 1.8 children. Our forecasts suggest that the long-term decline in cohort fertility is flattening or reversing in many world regions previously characterized by low fertility. We document the marked increase of cohort fertility in the English-speaking world and in Scandinavia; signs of an upward reversal in many low-fertility countries, including Japan and Germany; and continued declines in countries such as Taiwan and Portugal. We include in our forecasts estimates of statistical uncertainty and the possible effects of the recent economic recession.”

     First, the same sex marriage result, now this:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/28/elon-musk-cons-south-australia-out-of-50-million/

“Whoever handles Elon Musk’s public relations deserves a medal.
  The slippery snake oil salesman and rent-seeker extraordinaire has been down to South Australia – now reduced, pretty much, to a third world state under its disastrous left-wing administration – and conned the hapless locals out of $50 million to build them an all-but-useless giant battery to make up for the energy they have lost by blowing up their coal-fired power station and relying on wind power instead.
And how are the lickspittle media reporting this outrageous scam?”

     The elites have their knickers in a knot, as the saying goes, because President Trump dared to retweet a so-called “far Right” tweet:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42181073
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/30/europe/donald-trump-theresa-may-twitter-spat/index.html

     Theresa May criticised Trump for probably both the source and the content of the videos. The videos from Britain First, show an Islamist mob pushing a teenage boy off a roof, and then beating him to death. The Left wants Trump banned from multicult Britain. You see, it is a sin to point out these inconvenient multicult truths, and doing so is worse than pushing someone off a roof and beating them to death.  In a less insane age, all of this would have been dismissed as insane.

    The government has set up the Australian Digital Health Agency:
https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au
as a one-stop shop for medical records, or so they say.

     The My Health record system will collect the following information:
•    “Shared Health Summary – a clinically reviewed summary prepared by an individual’s key healthcare provider;
•    Event Summary – to capture key information about a key healthcare event relevant to ongoing care;
•    Discharge Summary – to support the transfer of a patient from a hospital back to the care of their nominated primary healthcare provider;
•    Specialist Letter – to capture key information about specialist visits;
•    eReferral – currently from GPs to specialists;
•    Prescription and Dispense Records.

     It was once thought that the only genetic changes possible were those carried by genes, which were separate from the environment, except when random genetic mutations occurred, which then changed the genes, allowing evolution by natural selection to occur. Then came epigenetics:

“that genetic changes caused by environmental factors may be passed down from one generation to another.  According to a team of researchers at the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) in Spain, the genetic changes may even be inherited by up to 14 generations thereafter.  The experts have examined the genetically engineered nematode roundworms called C.  elegans in order to carry out the study.  The roundworms are known to carry a specific gene that makes them glow bright under ultraviolet light once it is activated.

     The Advertiser, October 28, 2017, p. 48-49, had an article, “Surviving the End or a Load of Bunker,” with no “?”.  The article looked into Australian survivalists getting bunkers, you know, if global nuclear war breaks out.  Survival complexes in the US and Europe can be expensive, costing millions.  They may be made from abandoned missile silos, minus the missiles.  Intelligent, rich people are now buying into what was once a field dominated by cranks like me.

     University types say that such survival preps are a “distraction” that takes people away from the social issues.  I disagree; one can have a Noah’s Ark as a fall back solution just in case we fail to beat the bad guys, which is a reasonable bet.  Sure, if all the plants and animals die off, it will not matter how many cans of baked beans one has.  Yet, the quest then may be just to stick things out for a long as possible.  Maybe there will be a Second coming. If not, survivors make the most the disaster, and go down fighting.
     After all, we have to die of something, so death may as well be heroic and interesting!
  http://time.com/money/4665985/doomsday-bunkers-survive-apocalypse-sale/

     With declining white populations in the West from white genocidal policies most nations are accepting with joy the inevitable displacement of White populations, given cuckiness, apathy, and the desire, about all for comfort. But, Poland may be the exception:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/11/09/poland-declining-birth-rate-mass-migration-have-babies/

“Unlike Germany, which believes mass migration from third world countries is the only way to solve their demographic decline, Poland is encouraging couples to make their own citizens by ‘breeding like rabbits’, with the help of an educational video from the Polish health ministry.
Stopping short of a tutorial of baby making, the 30-second video put out by the National Health Programme opens with a field of rabbits and closes with a shot of a lovestruck couple enjoying a picnic, with a bunny seen popping out of a picnic basket.”
     This seems a good start and shows that Poland has its heart in the right place.