At the moment the US government is supposed “shut down,” as the Dumbocrats use their fiscal voting powers to create more problems for Donald Trump:
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/trump-launches-new-round-of-partisan-attacks-as-government-shutdown-hits-day-2/2018/01/21/0560aece-fe35-11e7-a46b-a3614530bd87_story.html?utm_term=.9893fbc7d060

     Fortunately, on this one, at least, Trump seems to be holding his ground, and working on an alternative strategy to get the money bills passed:
  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/21/donald-trump-senate-republicans-kill-60-vote-rule-end-government-shutdown/

     Dear Senator Bernardi,
Thank you for your ‘weekly dose of common sense’.  I note your comments about Bitcoin and other ‘cryptocurrencies’, but what really took my attention was your comment that:

“Already around 83 per cent of all global transactions are digital in nature. Cash usage is in steady decline and it won’t be long before there are calls for cash to be withdrawn from circulation”…
“We have already had some government ministers say the $100 note should be withdrawn from circulation. That is just the beginning…
 “There are appealing incentives for government to abolish cash. Currency has associated printing and storage costs. It cannot be tracked and can be used for illegal activities.”

     My, the same old optics, the same old speakers, and the same politically correct nonsense; the woman’s march in the US, was just like the last one, one gigantic hatefest against Trump. There were all the stale themes, plus  immigration, the “Dreamers,” sand all of the agony issues of the Left:

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/20/as-women-march-a-year-after-trumps-election-his-approval-with-some-men-grows/?utm_term=.f759667179bd 
  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/20/donald-trump-trolls-womens-march/
  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/21/pro-abortioners-attempt-block-pro-life-banners-dc-womens-march-verbally-violent/ 
  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/20/photos-top-21-signs-from-the-angry-womens-march-in-d-c/ 
  http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/01/20/rob-reiner-womens-march-trump-tearing-away-fabric-democracy/ 
  http://yournewswire.com/british-actress-oprah-winfrey-weinstein/

     Those timid souls who have maintained the idiot view of history, that there are no conspiracies by the power elites, will find recent US revelations, fascinating. First the FBI set out to create a ‘secret society” to work to undermine Trump:
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-22/fbi-agents-discussed-secret-society-within-doj-and-fbi-working-undermine-trump

     Important text messages just “disappeared”:
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-22/whos-lying-fbi-says-5-months-texts-lost-yet-ig-horowitz-says-his-office-received
  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/22/gop-lawmakers-fbi-officials-peter-strzok-and-lisa-page-texted-about-secret-society-after-election/ 
  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/23/donald-trump-missing-f-b-texts-one-biggest-stories-long-time/

“Since good-looking politicians win more votes, a beauty advantage for politicians on the left or on the right is bound to have political consequences. We show that politicians on the right look more beautiful in Europe, the United States and Australia. Our explanation is that beautiful people earn more, which makes them less inclined to support redistribution. Our model of within-party competition predicts that voters use beauty as a cue for conservatism when they do not know much about candidates and that politicians on the right benefit more from beauty in low-information elections. Evidence from real and experimental elections confirms both predictions.”

  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272716302201

     An agreement has been struck between Japan and Australia to conduct military exercises out of Darwin, as part of a regional strategy to counter China’s growing military might:
  http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/defence/military-deal-with-japan-to-counter-chinas-might/news-story/25ec275dec028bad99b9e41bbc98a4eb

“The wide-ranging agreement, which will also allow military equipment and ammunition to be transported far more easily between the countries, will be progressed during the Prime Minister’s trip to Tokyo next week, as Australia faces a growing row with China over government criticism of Beijing’s Pacific aid. After official Chinese media branded Australia an “arrogant overlord’’ in the Pacific this week, Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi yesterday added to the diplomatic storm, saying he was shocked by International Development Minister Concetta Fierravanti-Wells’ public criticism of China’s Pacific aid and demanded a formal apology from Canberra. “I think she should apologise — and apologise very soon to stop the further damage in the relationship between Australia and Pacific leaders,” Mr Tuilaepa told The Weekend Australian.

     The MSM has been beside itself, doing cartwheels over Trump’s alleged description of places like Haiti as “sh*thole countries.” Trump denies that he used this turn of phrase, but he did indicate that he would like more people from places like Norway. Behind this is a weak racial identity, which the deranged cosmopolitan liberal/Left smelt immediately and pounced on. Writing on the national identity significance of Trump’s remarks, and the savage response by liberals, Patrick J. Buchanan had this to say:

“Still, by contrasting Norway as a desirable source of immigrants, as opposed to Haiti, El Salvador and Africa, Trump tabled a question that is roiling the West, the answer to which will decide its fate. Trump is saying with words, as he has with policies, that in taking in a million people a year, race, religion and national origin matter, if we are to preserve our national unity and national character.

     January is here and the invasion versus settlement debate is back making news headlines. The Prime Minister wants to keep Australia Day as it is while the Greens are calling for the date to be changed. We’ve all heard the generic talking points. Team ‘Invasion Day’ says 26 January is offensive to some Australians. Team ‘Australia Day’ says 26 January is a day for all Australians regardless. Yet there is a fundamental point which goes to the heart of this debate that literally no one, to date, seems to have picked up on. Hence, this article.

     Native title can only exist if Australia was settled, not invaded. Why? Because international law recognises all territories acquired through invasion and annexation by force, prior to World War II, as lawful conquests. This ‘Right of Conquest’ doctrine was first conceived by the International Law Commission of the United Nations and later adopted as UN General Assembly Resolution 3314. Provided that all citizens of a lawfully conquered territory are granted equal rights by the local law, international law doesn’t consider the descendants of the conqueror and the conquered as two separate peoples. This in turn invalidates any claims to separate land rights under the same jurisdiction. As one of the 193 member states of the United Nations, Australia is not exempt from this doctrine.

“Pro-Trump protesters stormed a speech being made by Sadiq Khan, shouting pro-Brexit slogans and calling for the London Mayor’s arrest. The disruption led to the temporary suspension of the speech.
Khan had just begun his address at a conference for the Fabian Society, a socialist group, in London when demonstrators in the audience started calling for his arrest. Some of the group held US flags and anti-EU banners as their supporters clapped and heckled the Labour mayor.
The demonstration follows US President Donald Trump’s cancellation of a planned visit to the UK capital next month. Khan, a vocal critic of the  US president, responded to news of the cancellation by saying Trump “had got the message” that Londoners were opposed to his policies.”

  https://www.rt.com/uk/415809-trump-london-sadiq-khan-protest/

     President Trump has been pounded by the liberal/Left for his alleged comments (which he denies making), about not wanting to take migrants from “sh*t hole countries.” It was crude, but this is the real world, and there are numerous accounts of the much worse foul language used by Hillary Clinton, as abuse of staff:
  http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441367/hillary-clintons-security-detail-curses-foul-mouth

     As expected this debunking site says “unproven”:
  https://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/secretservice.asp 
but, of course it would be difficult to prove claims made by such agents, anonymously. Nevertheless, MSM agrees with the foul-mouthed Hillary scenario:
  https://nypost.com/2015/10/02/secret-service-agents-hillary-is-a-nightmare-to-work-with/ 
  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/21/hillary-clinton-curses-swear-words-ed-klein

     Just before the latest moral outrage over Trump by the liberal/Left/progressives, there was the previous move, still going, to impeach Trump because he is, according to the progressives, “insane.” Here, for example is one report:

“A psychiatrist has called for Donald Trump to be physically detained for an “emergency” mental health evaluation, sparking a debate about the professional ethics of “armchair” diagnosis.
Dr Bandy Lee, assistant professor in forensic psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, met with a dozen Democratic politicians last month to “brief” them on Mr Trump’s fitness for office — despite never having met or evaluated the US President".

     Articles are doing the internet rounds claiming that the Deep State is planning to assassinate Donald Trump:
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/the-deep-states-plan-c-murder-donald-trump_01032018

“Longtime Donald Trump advisor and confidante Roger Stone is warning once again about the deep state. This time, he said that the deep state’s “plan C” is to simply murder the president, since plans A and B won’t work out.
With trust in the mainstream media at an all-time low, the global elitists are on the verge of losing their grip on humanity’s throat. And Roger Stone says emphatically that they plan to go down swinging. According to New American, the Deep State’s “Plan A,” is the imploding “investigation” into alleged “Russian collusion” by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, said Stone. If and when that fails, which Stone suggested was likely and soon, the establishment would move to “Plan B.” In essence, Plan B would involve trying to get a majority of Trump’s cabinet to declare him unfit for office. This would allow Trump to be removed under the U.S. Constitution’s 25th Amendment. This scheme is also going to most likely fail, Stone said. Last but not least, though, Stone warned of “Plan C,” which is killing the president.”

     I have just sped read the new book on the Trump presidency by Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, (Little Brown, 2018). The Trump inner circle hates this book, but really as a critique of Trump, it falls very short.

     This genre of investigative reporting aims to bring new insights via interviews about hot topics. While the book is an interesting read, and quite professionally written, indeed to the highest standard, it really does not measure up to the cut and thrust that I am used to in the wild world of the internet sites. Thus, while the book briefly deals with Trump’s womanising, it does not, unless I missed it in my haste, discuss the court cases against Trump on alleged sexual abuse issues. It does not relate this material to the ongoing moral panic of “zippergate,” the exposure of sexual misadventures of Hollywood movers and shakers, and other powerful men.

     The 61.6 percenters who voted for same sex marriage, must also have voted for the end of religious freedom, since at present the government does not seem very concerned about its pledge that no bill on same sex marriage would impinge on religious freedom. Before the plebby, 62 percent of voters supported legal guarantees for freedom of religion, even though numerous people strongly argued that this was naïve, and that once the same sex vote was secured, freedom of religion would be forgotten. And, it has. Even the mildest amendments protecting freedom of religion have been voted down:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/editorials/marriage-legislation-puts-religious-freedom-in-doubt/news-story/ce9ec86ca4a6f93aadafab5ba283fee1

     This is a parliament where the same sex legislation passage was treated like some sort of wartime victory, with pollies hugging in the parliament. What would the Founding fathers have thought if they could have seen that?

      My, my, anyone would think that suddenly, after decades of talk, and promotion of the policy of Asianisation (“we are a part of Asia”), our politicians are suddenly worried about Chinese influence! Treason laws? What?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/national-security/treason-laws-put-focus-on-labors-china-links/news-story/dd75c425afb5ecf4db036d6705ffe0b6

“Malcolm Turnbull is escalating pressure on Bill Shorten to back a dramatic expansion of treason laws to curb foreign influence in Australian politics amid growing fears over the use of cash and covert activities to undermine the national interest.

     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

     First, the same sex marriage legislation, and then, almost instantly, we have this:
http://theconversation.com/we-have-marriage-equality-now-we-need-lgbtqi-inclusive-sexuality-education-in-schools-87501
https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/sexuality/agenda/article/2017/12/08/opinion-we-have-marriage-equality-now-we-need-lgbtqi-inclusive-sexuality
https://billmuehlenberg.com/2017/12/08/day-day-infamy/

     Read all about it if you need more details than the headlines.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-15/scheme-pay-trump-accusers-emerges-one-woman-was-offered-750000
     Well, that explains it. Trump had better get ready for the next storm that is blowing his way.

     What took the liberal elites so long to get to their destination? Clearly, their aim with the sexual moral panic over men in power asking actresses/women for sex, something that goes on in millions of bars right across the West every night, was to work up to having another go at taking down Donald Trump.  It did not work in the election, but now, well, it is worth a go.  It was tried to bring Judge Moore to his knees and get him to pull out of the Alabama election. Instead, Moore basically told the chattering class where to go and pressed on.  But, the moral panic was enough among white women to cost him the election, narrowly.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/12/11/steve-bannon-theres-a-special-place-in-hell-for-republicans-who-do-not-back-trump/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sadly-trump-is-winning_us_5a2b1110e4b022ec613b823f

     Now, let us examine one allegation against Trump with the eye of a lawyer:
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/12/12/brzezinski-trump-literally-sexually-harassed-gillibrand

     More bad news, but at this late time in civilisational collapse, it is to be expected. In America’s version of the same sex marriage vote, pro-abortion, and all-round political corrector Democrat Doug Jones beat conservative Alt Right candidate Judge Moore. The establishment, and our old friends, poured money into this to make an example of Moore. It was a show of power, with the standard New World Order overlords playing the game, as usual:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/10/26/doug-jones-pushed-felon-voting-rights-soros-funded-org/

     Black men voted 93 percent Dumbocrat,  6 percent Moore; Black women 98 percent Demobat, less than 2 percent Moore, which is higher than their vote for Obama. Who says race does not matter? Only brainwashed whites.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/black-voters-helped-propel-doug-jones-alabama-senate-win-article-1.3695132