More Affluence, the Less Babies By Mrs Vera West

     The demographic transition theory is usually applied to the Third World. It holds that with increasing affluence, and education of women, population numbers drop as women become feminists, and go for affluence and materialism over traditional roles and religion, and strop having babies. It is basically true of the West as well, with below replacement levels of population in Whites everywhere. Not even a lock down in a so-called pandemic change anything, as feminism is stronger:
  https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/opinion/tory-shepherd-we-did-not-get-busy-in-the-lockdown-australias-fertility-rate-is-forecast-to-drop-to-158-next-year/news-story/42e40be8c9ab7808d9d705baa1aa2b96

“Once upon a time – before the Great Toilet Paper Panic Buy – people thought there might be something a little sexy about a pandemic lockdown. Maybe there’ll be a ’rona baby boom, they sniggered. It wasn’t an entirely daft thought. In disasters people often press on the horn. Look at South Australia’s famous statewide blackout in September 2016, which brought on a little baby bump in June 2017. Turns out being cooped up with our loved ones because of a raging virus is not up there with candlelit dinners after a catastrophic power failure. We did not, dear friends, get busy in the lockdown. Australia’s fertility rate is forecast to drop to 1.58 next year. The Federal Government’s projection that it would hit 1.9 was, well, premature. That’s 1.58 babies per woman, which is well below what they call “replacement rate” and far lower than the 3.55 births per woman in 1961. That fall, on top of the slowdown in immigration, means that population growth will slow to a crawl. (Migrants not only bring themselves, they bring a higher fertility rate because they tend to be in the right age bracket). To get to replacement rate, you’d have to have at least an extra 42 per cent of a baby per woman. Tricky. We don’t know for sure why baby making hasn’t been a priority during the pandemic. It could be the sense of impending doom, the paralysing fear of the future, or simply too much talk of airborne snot particles. Maybe it was because, as a range of studies found, women have ended up doing more domestic labour during the pandemic. Even if they don’t have kids. And I imagine that child caring and homeschooling and working from home all at the same time has a powerful contraceptive effect. So there’ll be no wave of ’rona babies. But the fact is Australia’s fertility rate was sliding anyway, and even that 1.9 estimate was overcooked. We’re not alone – fertility rates are falling around the world. A study of 195 countries published in The Lancet in 2018 found, while populations are increasing in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, the fertility rate everywhere else is decreasing. In rich countries like Australia, the more education and the more access to contraception a woman has, the fewer babies she is likely to have. Women are waiting longer to have children, which tends to mean they have fewer, or none at all.”

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US Civil War This Way Comes: Normies Will Not be Safe! By Charles Taylor

     We have said it all before, so now I merely post links of everyone else catching up. Like here, and we all need to think about this before the Left goes totally kinetic.
  https://counter-currents.com/2020/10/yes-we-are-headed-for-violent-civil-war/

“On October 1st, with little fanfare, Politico published an extraordinary opinion piece  that may be the most important thing I’ve read all year. Titled “Americans Increasingly Believe Violence is Justified if the Other Side Wins,” the essay was penned by three “senior fellows” at the Hoover Institution, New America, and the Hudson Institute, as well as a professor of “political communication” at Louisiana State University and a professor of government at the University of Maryland (that’s five authors, in case you lost count). Way back in November of 2017 (my, how long ago that seems . . . ) a mere 8% of both Democrats and Republicans held that it is legitimate to use violence to advance their political goals. Actually, there’s nothing “mere” about it. It ought to surprise us that such a sizeable percentage of both parties could hold such a radical view. Also surprising is Republicans running neck and neck with Democrats. Contrary to how they are perceived by Leftists, conservatives are slow to embrace the idea of violence, or any sort of punitive measures against their opponents. Their Achilles heel, in fact, is commitment to “fair play.”

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White Racial Dispossession: Planned from the Beginning By Chris Knight (Florida)

     The UN pushed on the policy of “non-discrimination” in the 1960s, it all coming together around 1965. The White Australia Policy look slightly longer to be murdered, but I have seen one MSM paper, dated 1945, when our boys were dying in the jungles of Asia, saying that the war indicates that the White Australia Policy will have to go, as if it caused the war. Ultimately all the politicians, Labor and Liberal, supported the abolition, or worked to undermine it.  The link below is the official narrative, but once you read the American story below, you will be able to deconstruct its globalist Left narrative:
  https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/end-of-white-australia-policy

     Here is what they did to America:
  https://www.amren.com/news/2020/10/how-a-1965-immigration-law-forever-changed-the-makeup-of-america/

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The Irish Slave Trade By Patrick Doyle

     The narrative about slavery is conveniently dominated by the trans-Atlantic Black slave trade, as that is a good political weapon in American culture today. But, if the debate was fair, and all slavery condemned, then the slavery of Slavs, where the very word comes from, and the Irish, should be acknowledged by the Left. Here is material for those who came in late, which is most people. James LaFond, has written extensively on White slavery in America,     and here is his convenient summary:
  https://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=12544

“Below are some dates and numbers that figure prominently in the Irish Slave trade from the fine article linked at the bottom of the page:

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Nordicide By Brian Simpson

     Georgie Anne Geyer, in her book, Americans No More, (Atlantic monthly press, (1996), wrote about Americans: “history is replete with the sagas of great defeats, of peoples wiped off the face of the earth, and of cultures transformed through clashes with others. Across and throughout history, nations fell, disintegrated, lost their nerve, made disastrous decisions, fought wars of self-destruction, and were not wise enough to sustain themselves. But I, at least, have never been able to discover another nation in human history, much less a great and powerful one, that literally willed itself out of existence through lethargy, and worst of all, guilt over things it did not even do.”

     This is well seen in the decline of the White population numbers as a proportion of the populations. The US, for example, is set to become non-White majority some think in about 10 years or so now; it was once 2050, then 2040. The whole of Western Europe, and even Australia is on track for the same fate at various times, but all well before 2050. Australia does not even keep track of its racial ethnic profile. Demographer Charles Price used to publish work on this, but that was decades ago. One look at the Sydney CBD shows Australia’s future as it slowly melts away. 

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At Least There May Still be a White 007 James Bond By Bruce Bennett

     The Covid freak-out delayed cinemas getting the latest Bond movie, No Time To die, which may surface in November 2020 according to some reports; other say 2021. Anyway, there was a push for a Black 007, then an experiment with a woman, but it looks like action hero Tom Hardy, of Mad Max fame will take the role, a great White hope:
  https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2020/sep/21/007-heaven-why-tom-hardy-as-the-new-bond-is-too-good-to-be-true
  https://7news.com.au/entertainment/odds-slashed-amid-rumours-tom-hardy-could-be-the-new-james-bond-c-1330807#:~:text=Tom%20Hardy%20will%20reportedly%20play,has%20been%20confirmed%20as%20Bond

“This weekend it was reported that Tom Hardy had been cast as the next James Bond. And that’s a perfectly reasonable thing to believe, so long as you’re prepared to go on the say-so of an unsourced post on a Star Trek blog that hardly anyone has heard of. If that’s the case, then we should probably adjust our expectations for the next era of Bond. When Daniel Craig was announced as the new 007, it was via a big-budget stunt where he raced up the river Thames on an assault boat. If the Tom Hardy news is true, then the world will have to remember hearing about it from a 470-word blogpost on something called the Vulcan Reporter, which had to spend a fifth of its word count explaining who James Bond is. Tighten your belts, lads, because it looks like Bond is going absolutely threadbare. Still, this freakishly obscure post has nevertheless been taken as gospel by several newspapers, which means one of two things: that Covid has starved us of real film news to such an extent that we’re willing to believe whatever unsourced speculation gets lobbed at us, or that we’re all excited about the prospect of seeing Tom Hardy as 007. If it actually happens, it would be an interesting choice. It would mean that Hardy is, by far, the most established actor ever to play James Bond. Usually the role of 007 is handed to someone who, like Pierce Brosnan or Daniel Craig, are up-and-comers with a solid background in TV and a clutch of splashy supporting roles to their name. But Tom Hardy? Tom Hardy is Venom. He’s Mad Max. The films he has made in the last five years alone have not only earned $2bn around the world, but have also won 12 Oscars.”

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Survivalist Video of the Week By John Steele

     Here is my latest survivalist video, pick of the week, where Canadian Prepper, a mixed-race guy, and basically politically neutral, argues that 95 per cent of people are not going to survive the coming collapse of Western civilization because they have been made super-soft by consumerism. I think it was Brian Simpson, who is as obsessed with race stuff as I am survivalism, reported on the famous mouse utopia experiment, where mice that had everything, affluence and comfort, ultimately self-destructed. That post is well worth reading again:
  https://blog.alor.org/index.php/mouse-utopia-and-this-age-of-plenty-by-brian-simpson

     Canadian prepper even admits that racial differences exist.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WXrbgjcvXU&t=1037s

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The Carbon Lockdown By Viv Forbes


     The Covid Lockdown is a practice run for the big one – the Carbon Lockdown. If climate alarmists win the elections, our freedoms and prosperity will evaporate like CO2 from a warm beer. The fact that their green energy program is madness will be irrelevant to the new WCO (World Carbon Organisation). To meet UN Paris targets there will be no more petrol cars, diesel trucks, reliable electricity, beef burgers or Christmas ham, but bio-fuelled battleships, hydrogen-fuelled planes and sail-powered bulk carriers will be decreed (except in the BRICS world). Diesel submarines will be scrapped and NATO will mandate battery-powered battle tanks. Pit ponies will return to the mines, and farmers will plough with Clydesdales. Soon they will design a mask that absorbs CO2 from your breath. Mega-cities will be “unsustainable”. You will be confined to your local commune and shop in pedal-powered trikes with battery-assist. You must eat local food and use electric power only when they switch it on for your district (but never on still, frosty mornings). Our obedience to the Covid Lockdown has given them confidence to enforce their Carbon Lockdown. They will track us with microchips and control our travel, food, water and electricity usage via 6G. We are entering the GREEN ZONE.

 

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For Sheeple in the Green Leafy Suburbs: Part II By John Steele

     Here is my latest survivalist video, pick of the week, where Canadian Prepper, a mixed-race guy, and basically politically neutral, argues that 95 per cent of people are not going to survive the coming collapse of Western civilization because they have been made super-soft by consumerism. I think it was Brian Simpson, who is as obsessed with race stuff as I am survivalism, reported on the famous mouse utopia experiment, where mice that had everything, affluence and comfort, ultimately self-destructed. That post is well worth reading again:
  https://blog.alor.org/index.php/mouse-utopia-and-this-age-of-plenty-by-brian-simpson

     Canadian prepper even admits that racial differences exist.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WXrbgjcvXU&t=1037s

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Evil and Ugliness By Brian Simpson

     In our culture, once upon a time, and to some degree the mythos still exists, goodness was associated with light, evil with darkness, something that must go back to our primal past. And, associated with this, is I think the recognition that evil people tend to be ugly. You can have a look at the villains at present on the US stage, you would not be wrong in taking most of them to be demons. A few days back a photo of one popular Left figure seemed to indicate growth deformities on her neck, leading to one wit writing that she was growing gills!

     It was the philosopher Wittgenstein who said: “the human body is the best picture of the human soul.” Being a philosopher, he was probably meaning to advance materialism, but there is another mytho-poetic reading of this claim. You can get a rough idea of what most people are like by looking at their faces. Physically beautiful people tend to be better quality people, not always, but at a statistically significant level.
  https://www.insider.com/benefits-of-being-attractive-science-2018-12#companies-with-attractive-ceos-might-make-more-money-2 
  https://www.macleans.ca/society/science/the-mysterious-power-of-attractive-people/ 
  https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/games-primates-play/201203/the-truth-about-why-beautiful-people-are-more-successful 
  https://medium.com/swlh/attractive-people-are-more-likely-to-be-trusted-elected-and-listened-to-a0735869d2e8 

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Commos Say: Christianity Does Not Belong in China! By James Reed

     It seems that along with putting people in concentration camps, organ harvesting and generally committing genocide of the Uyghurs, all facts the Left does not adequately face up to, even if only a passing mention is made of “cultural genocide” …
  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-10/uyghur-culture-under-threat-in-china-thrives-in-australia/11673636

… there is the treatment of Christians, which is something of a combative sport for the commos:
  https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/10/07/communists-warn-citizens-christianity-does-not-belong-china/

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Now Cross Cultural Accidental Political Correctness! By James Reed

     Now you don’t even have to say a politically incorrect word; you can say a word in another language that sounds like it, and still get smashed. Welcome to the new Dark Age of woke superstitions:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-09-05-professor-on-leave-after-students-offended-n-word.html 
  https://campusreform.org/?ID=15580&utm_

“Communications professor at the University of California’s Marshall School of Business is on a short-term break after saying a Chinese word that sounds similar to an English language racial slur. During a recent online class, Greg Patton, who is an "expert in communication, interpersonal and leadership effectiveness," according to his faculty bio, explained the usage of a Chinese filler word for “that,” comparing it to the usage of “like,” “um,” and other American filler words. On Tuesday evening, the USC Marshall School of Business provided Campus Reform with a statement, confirming that Patton is no longer teaching his course. “Recently, a USC faculty member during class used a Chinese word that sounds similar to a racial slur in English. We acknowledge the historical, cultural and harmful impact of racist language,” the statement read. Patton “agreed to take a short term pause while we are reviewing to better understand the situation and to take any appropriate next steps.” Another instructor is temporarily teaching the class. USC is now “offering supportive measures to any student, faculty, or staff member who requests assistance.” The school is “committed to building a culture of respect and dignity where all members of our community can feel safe, supported, and can thrive.”

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Hypernormalism By James Reed

     This is interesting, discussing the concept of hypernormalism, which for some odd reason reminds me of some sort of over-reactive thyroid disease, but I am probably wrong about that one, having an under-reactive thyroid that makes me the opposite of the Incredible Hulk, the Forgettable Sulk. The issue relates to our concern about why there is so little resistance from the normies, when it is basically open season on them and all they are being picked off like ducks in a shooting gallery at once was the Royal Shows, soon to be the Republican Shows.
  https://gellerreport.com/2020/08/bidenriotsblm-threatens-to-rip-president-trump-from-white-house-we-about-to-go-get-that-motherfer.html/
  https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/08/29/hypernormalisation-documentary.aspx

“Documentary filmmaker and BBC journalist Adam Curtis has developed a cult following for his eccentric films that combine BBC archival footage into artistic montages combined with dark narratives that create a unique storytelling experience that’s both journalistic and entertaining. His latest film, “HyperNormalisation,” came out in 2016 and is perhaps even more apropos now, as many have the feeling that they’re waking up to an unprecedented, and unreal, world anew each and every day — and so-called fake news is all around. The term “HyperNormalisation” was coined by Alexei Yurchak, a Russian historian. In an interview with The Economist, Curtis explained that it’s used to describe the feeling that comes with accepting total fakeness as normal. Yurchak had used it in relation to living in the Soviet Union during the 1980s, but Curtis used it in response to living in the present-day U.S. and Europe. He said: “Everyone in my country and in America and throughout Europe knows that the system that they are living under isn’t working as it is supposed to; that there is a lot of corruption at the top … There is a sense of everything being slightly unreal; that you fight a war that seems to cost you nothing and it has no consequences at home; that money seems to grow on trees; that goods come from China and don’t seem to cost you anything; that phones make you feel liberated but that maybe they’re manipulating you but you’re not quite sure. It’s all slightly odd and slightly corrupt. So I was trying to make a film about where that feeling came from … I was just trying to show the same feeling of unreality, and also that those in charge know that we know that they don’t know what’s going on. That same feeling is pervasive in our society, and that’s what the film is about.”

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Western Civilisation: A Jolly Good Idea By Richard Miller (London)

     Here is a conservative article, which warms our heart, but to which there is a deeper critique. First, here is Professor Andrew Roberts defence of the West:
  https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/no-reason-to-taint-with-guilt-our-faith-in-western-culture/news-story/7dc40163246ca2409986dab554f6ac06

“We all know the joke that Mahatma Gandhi supposedly made when he was asked what he thought about Western civilisation: “I think it might be a good idea.” The gag is apocryphal, in fact, first appearing two decades after his death, but very many people have taken it literally, arguing that there really is no such thing as Western civilisation, from ideologues such as Noam Chomsky to the activists of the Rhodes Must Fall movement at Oxford University who have succeeded in pulling down the statue of the benefactor of the Rhodes scholarships from Oriel College. This belief that Western civilisation is, at heart, uniquely morally defective has recently been exemplified by The New York Times’ inane and wildly historically inaccurate 1619 Project, which essentially attempts to present the entirety of American history from Plymouth Rock to today solely through the prism of race and slavery. “America Wasn’t a Democracy Until Black Americans Made it One”, was the headline of one essay in The New York Times Magazine launching the Project, alongside, “American Capitalism is Brutal: You Can Trace That to the Plantation” and “How Segregation Caused Your Traffic Jam”. When no fewer than 12 – in the circumstances very brave – American Civil War historians sent a letter itemising all the myriad factual errors in the Project’s founding document, The New York Times refused to print it, yet the Project plans to create and distribute school curriculums that will “re-centre” America’s memory. None of this would amount to much if only schools and colleges in Britain, America, Australia and across the English-speaking peoples were not so keen to apologise for and deny Western civilisation, and to abolish or dumb down the teaching of important aspects of it.

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The Age Of Extremes Necessitates Extremism By Peter West (Resident Fanatic)

     Examining posts from overseas sites, you cannot but notice that their concerns are not about economics, the constitution or other red, white and blue issues, but survival of the engulfing chaos. They are warning us of a savage storm approaching. The wise will open their eyes and prepare now. Remember the story of Noah? 2 Peter 4-6: “For … God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; … He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight; … He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly …” That’s something to think about while enjoying the last dregs of Western consumerism/materialism/affluence, because our modernity makes Sodomorrah look sweetly clean by comparison:
  https://www.zerohedge.com/political/suddenly-fear-social-unrest-everywhere

“Anyone with eyes can see that the mercury is rising across America. The riots that follow the deaths of folks like George Floyd and now Jacob Blake, the current violence in Kenosha, Seattle’s lawless autonomous zone, the movement to ‘defund the police’, the anger behind the surge of ‘cancel culture’ — the nation’s social fabric is suddenly stretched taut and starting to tear at the seams. Is it any surprise that gun sales are up 72%(!) vs last year, with first-time buyers driving a material percentage of that increase: According to a report by the Washington Post, the National Sports Shooting Foundation says that first-time gun buyers played a heavy role in the increase.  Women and black Americans have also shown interest in arming themselves this year. “Nearly 5 million Americans purchased a firearm for the very first time in 2020. NSSF surveyed firearm retailers which reported that 40% of sales were conducted to purchasers who have never previously owned a firearm,” the organization said in its analysis, which tracked background checks associated with the sale of a firearm reported by the FBI’s National Instant Background Check System. “This is a tectonic shift in the firearm and ammunition industry marketplace and complete transformation of today’s gun-owning community,” said Lawrence G. Keane, a senior vice president at the foundation. “These first-time buyers represent a group of people who, until now, were agnostic regarding firearm ownership. That’s rapidly changing… This rise in public ire is something we’ve been warning of for years here at PeakProsperity.com. While there are many serious injustices that exist in today’s society, we believe the root cause for the majority of them lies in the misguided and frequently immoral policies perpetrated by the Federal Reserve and Congress — policies that reward the already-rich at the expense of the general public. 2020 has revealed this truth clearly in the response to the covid-19 pandemic. With the $5+ trillion unleashed between the monetary and fiscal “rescue” stimulus efforts, the battle cry from our “leaders” has been: Defend the rich!  Despite an unprecedented decline in economic activity, asset prices have more than recovered their losses and many are now back at all-time-highs in what has been the shortest-lived bear market history.”

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Open Season on Whites By Charles Taylor

     Dr Steve Turley comments on the execution by the antifa of a Trump supporter in Portland. The antifarts announced their support for the murder of the patriot prayer supporter. Dr Turley thinks that a line has been crossed. Well, I don’t know, the following items show whites being virtually harvested, hunted down like prey, even children. Most of the killers and attackers simply walk away. Next thing will be that the killers will be given the keys to the cities, if anything is left unburnt, or there are any doors left standing to unlock.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfRCAVFJu9w
  https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/shocking-video-of-man-attacked-from-behind-while-walking-shared-on-instagram/news-story/759ab093027feaa475d3e94127f4d256

“A shocking video of a man being attacked while walking on a street in the US has emerged on social media. The video, which was uploaded to Instagram on Monday, shows a man with a green T-shirt, shorts and cap, walking along a footpath before being approached by a man from behind. The second man hits the lone walker over the head with what appears to be a brick. He then falls to the ground, face first as the attacker runs off. “YOUNG MAN YOU GOT KNOCKED TF OUT. B***H YOU BET NOT RUN,” the caption read. It also contained the hashtags #whitelivesdon’tmatter’ and #blacklivesmatter. While the clip hasn’t been verified and the context is unclear, it appears to have happened on Monday in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. The video has been viewed nearly 3000 times since it was uploaded, with many flooding the post with comments of disbelief. The post has since been removed.”

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On White, Red and Black Pills By Peter West

     Articles come and go, disappearing like the morning dew on a Spring day. I found this of interest about embracing the black pill, the negativities and pessimism. You know, our brief is to always be optimistic, even if like in that episode of Monty Python “It’s Just a Flesh Wound” scene:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6VTci1Bunk 
  https://affirmativeright.blogspot.com/2020/08/embrace-black-pill.html

     I read the above again and wondered why I noted it first as supporting my argument, since the essay, as I now read it is all over the place, much like me. Anyway, my point is that nothing guarantees victory in saving this world. From a Christian perspective, the Earth, while created with the rest of the universe as being “good,” was never intended to be eternal, it too will pass away, and was something of a testing ground for the spirit of man. The purpose of life was never about accumulating material things, affluence, plenty, but engaging in a spiritual struggle against evil. That epic quest seems to have been lost sight of in this age of consumerism, economicism and materialism.

Black Rapper on Cancel Culture By Charles Taylor (Florida)

     This guy is called 50 cents, and probably sells himself short, he must be worth at least one dollar, given that he has bravely taken on “cancel culture,” which he sees as an attack on manhood.
  https://www.theblaze.com/news/50-cent-cancel-culture-straight-men
  https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/50-cent-power-cancel-culture-kanye-west-1234749629/
  https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/50-cent-cancelled-cancel-culture-straight-men-inferior-rap-power-tv-show-a9690806.html

“50 Cent has criticised cancel culture, stating that its biggest target is straight men. The rapper – real name Curtis Jackson – tore into the mentality of the people who orchestrate campaigns against people, arguing that it boils down to "saying something about someone who chooses something different". Jackson told Variety that "inferior" demographics are now "more superior" than "heterosexual males... because we have no organisation". He continued by saying that these demographics "have been conditioned because they’ve been taken advantage of in the earliest stages". Jackson concluded: "The biggest target is heterosexual males in general." The rapper, and star of US drama Power, said he thinks it can be "so unfair" when people in the entertainment industry receive backlash. "I’m an entertainer, so to entertain is, I believe, to provoke emotion," he said. "They gotta go to jail to get cancelled, they gotta shoot a girl," Jackson added, seemingly hinting at rapper Tory Lanez, who allegedly shot Megan Thee Stallion in both feet earlier this year. “You gotta do something extremely bad to be cancelled, and I think it’s so unfair to the people that are," he added. Despite his claim that "heterosexual males" are the "biggest targets", though, Jackson proclaimed: "I don’t believe I can be cancelled."

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If 2 +2 = 5, Then Close Down the Universities! (It is Actually Logically Valid!) By James Reed

     We have ben covering the 2 + 2 = 5 scam at the US universities, you know, Leftists doing mathematics, which does not surprise me.  An update:
  https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/08/31/harvard-promotes-claim-that-225/

“On Sunday, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health promoted research on Twitter by one doctoral student that claims that two plus two can equal five. The research was quickly mocked by Twitter users, many of whom questioned the value of a Harvard education. In a Twitter thread published at the beginning of August, Harvard doctoral student Kareem Carr explained why some theorists believe that two plus two equals five. Carr claims that mathematical equations, such as two plus two equals four, are abstractions. On Sunday, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health promoted Carr’s thread, inviting questions about the current quality of a Harvard education. “Statements like “2+2 = 4” are abstractions. What that means is they’re generalizations of “something”. You should always think of these statements as associated with an underlying reality,” Carr wrote. “As a data analyst, I love numbers but It’s my job to connect them to reality. Carr claims that the mathematical equations society uses to represent real-world scenarios are not always applicable. “Literal-minded people might sometimes say things like I put a rooster and hen together and I came back a year later and there were three of them (1+1=3) or they might say I left a fox and a hen together and later I came back and there was only one (1+1=1),” Carr tweeted.”

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Pro-Growth Propaganda … Why Do They Bother, They Have Us Licked? By James Reed

     I gave up on the immigration limitation issue long ago, since it seems to me that within the framework of the present debt-based financial system, the evil capitalists will always be plugging for more people to sell more junk, to make property more expensive by competition, to dispossess the remnant of Anglo-Australia and in general to turn Australia into more of a cesspool than it already is. They will not stop unless Nature stops them, so it was good to see, despite the ill-effects otherwise … yes, I know, New World Order … the Covid-19 shutdowns at least having the one silver lining of slowing down the insane mass movement of people. But, in the end, Australia will be pushed to ecological collapse, simply burnt out as the entire planet will be, unless some Darwinian event intervenes in the meantime … like a real pandemic 1918+ style, or a hyper-Carrington solar event, turning the lights out, or the Second Coming would be even more decisive, bringing the whole tragicomedy to a merciful end. What has all the blood, sweat, tears and sacrifice been for?
  http://www.crispinhull.com.au/2020/08/28/more-pro-population-growth-propaganda/

“There was more fear-mongering, self-serving, and flawed guestimates over population this week – this time from the quintessential accountant and consultant to big business and government, KPMG. Shock, horror, Australia’s population would be 1.1 million less by 2029-30 because of the reduction in immigration caused by Covid. That would be a “$117 billion” hit to the economy over the decade by dragging down economic growth, KPMG calculates. That would leave every Australian $2850 worse off each year, KPMG says. So, KPMG and its big-business clients hope that the masses will be lulled into supporting a return to higher immigration. Well, let’s hope a bit of counter-propaganda will prevent that. Even on KPMG’s figures, this hit to the Australian economy and therefore living standards of Australians is suspect. KPMG’s says GDP would be $117 billion lower each year by 2029-30 if we do not have these 1.1 million extra people, and that would leave every one of the 28 million Australians by then $2850 worse off each year – that is a total of $79.8 billion, let’s say $80 billion. Bear with me with the figures. But if instead we have the extra immigrants, that $80 billion will not be “lost” because of the extra $117 billion in GDP the immigrants would provide. Take that $80 billion for the existing population away from KPMG’s $117 billion, it leaves $37 billion a year for the 1.1 million immigrants themselves, which comes to just $33,636 each immigrant per year, well below the Australian average income. So they are dragging their heels. They are a cost to the Australian community not an asset. There is clearly something wrong with these “plucked-from-the-air” figures.

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