Transgender identity is on the rise with teens. After all, for all of us old folks out there, who heard much about this sort of stuff when we were going out to the creek getting tadpoles? Or fishing down at some local stream, that is now too polluted to even fall into anymore? Anyway, let’s see what a fairly politically correct article has to say about this:
  https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/culture-mind-and-brain/201811/why-is-transgender-identity-the-rise-among-teens

“As attested by current controversies, rates of transgender identity appear to be on the rise, particularly among young people. Increased social acceptance of a previously stigmatized condition likely plays a role in this process, but other findings are clearly puzzling: Transgender identity is now reported among young natal females at rates that clearly exceed all known statistics to date. In a recent survey of 250 families whose children developed symptoms of gender dysphoria during or right after puberty, Lisa Littman, a physician and professor of behavioral science at Brown University, found that over 80 percent of the youth in her sample were female at birth. Littman’s study reported many other surprising findings. To meet the diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria, a child typically needs to have shown observable characteristics of the condition prior to puberty, such as “a strong rejection of typically feminine or masculine toys," or “a strong resistance to wearing typically feminine or masculine clothes." Again, 80 percent of the parents in the study reported observing none of these early signs in their children.

     I saw the clip for Brightburn (2019) on You-Ban-It-Tube, and did not think much of it. Basically, it retells the Superman origin story, with an evil Superman. Mum believes in her little boy from space, but in the end, he kills every main character, his foster dad with his heat vision, and his mum by dropping her from high up. Then he takes out a plane. Presumably the next movie has him going to the city, destroying that, then facing the military. Oh, his weakness is metal from the space craft that he landed in. Here is a take on all of this, giving it an anti-immigration spin:
  https://www.counter-currents.com/2019/06/the-greatest-anti-immigration-film-of-all-time-brightburn/

“In a remarkable final scene that appears only after the credits have begun to roll, a crazed Alex Jones-type character starts yelling about more reports coming from all over the world of violent happenings similar to those that have been occurring in Brightburn, Kansas. Much to the chagrin of the Leftists, these interstellar “migrants” are actually invaders. It does appear that the various nations are calling such reports “conspiracy theories.” Even as Armageddon looms, the Left cannot admit that it has been wrong all along and that diversity really isn’t our greatest strength. And in the most delicious irony of all, by deplatforming truthtellers like Alex Jones, only the Dissident Right will be aware that it’s time to take defensive actions. The Left would rather dismantle the 9-1-1 system than run the risk of being called racists for reporting an invasion by non-Europeans, even of the intergalactic kind.”

     In our world, or is it worlds, of fluid genders and everything else, there is nothing preventing a person from identifying with being anything, even a light ray, a black hole or an entire galaxy. Or closer to home, a baby who needs nappies. This is the original site that I followed from Natural News, and I was shocked to some near-naked lady in an ad for a motor bike. I am still shocked, but should not be, anymore than a surgeon should feel queasy at the sight of blood. So, viewer discretion advised …  no, don’t go there. Wait, the ad is gone and there are a bunch of Leftists rattling on about something … gasp!
  https://pluralist.com/camille-lola-transgender-adult-baby/
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-06-11-man-who-transitioned-into-a-woman-then-into-a-diaper-wearing-baby.html

“Consider 21-year-old “Camille” Lola, a self-identifying “transgender” who after his “conversion” came to the realization that he still isn’t happy or content, which prompted him to “convert” again into a diaper-wearing “baby.” According to reports, the Switzerland native decided to become a “baby” upon realizing that he wasn’t actually a “woman” inside a man’s body, but rather a deeply broken individual who experienced serious trauma when he was a child, and now wants to “correct my life” by reliving his earliest years. Presumably at the prompting of his “affirming friends,” Camille decided that the best course of action early on was to deny his biological existence and pretend to be the opposite sex, which didn’t work. So, he’s now trying another form of role-playing that, like his first attempt, will also be unsuccessful. That’s because Camille is in need of loving therapy or counselling to help him overcome his mental derangement, which he’s apparently beginning to self-diagnose as he explores transition after transition, while never finding success.”

     A reader asked why I am still in London. Well, someone has to report from the war zone! And war it is, seemingly of all against all, as gay people, among most others, are regularly assaulted. The latest:

“Five teenagers have now been arrested over a robbery and homophobic attack on a couple after they 'refused to kiss' while travelling on a bus, police said this evening. Melania Geymonat, 28, from Uruguay, was with her American girlfriend Chris after an evening out in West Hampstead, London, when they were attacked at 2.30am on May 30. Police say the couple were sat on the top deck when they were approached by a group of males who began to make lewd and homophobic comments to them. The pair were punched several times and left covered in blood before the males ran off the bus. A phone and bag were also stolen during the assault. Four males aged between 15-18 were arrested on Friday on suspicion of robbery and aggravated GBH. The fifth suspect was detained on Saturday morning. "They have been taken to separate London police stations for questioning," a Met Police spokesman said.

     The ever-delightful Ann Coulter, has an eye-opening piece about how far things are spiralling down in the de-education system, with now the rejection of standards of evidence as “racist”!
  https://www.takimag.com/article/the-whole-folk-tale-and-nothing-but-the-folk-tale/

“New York City public school teachers recently revealed that they have been instructed to reject “objectivity,” “written documentation” and “perfectionism” by Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, as part of his effort to “dismantle racism.” Carranza identified these values as tools of the “white-supremacy culture.” Our cultural overlords are way ahead of Carranza. With lightning speed, we’ve abandoned old, hidebound, Anglo-Saxon facts-and-evidence standards in deference to new, fresh African folk tale standards. (According to J. Bekunuru Kubayanda, writing in the Afro-Hispanic Review, even Latin America and the Caribbean got their oral history traditions from Africa.) Thus, for example, Gen. Robert E. Lee has been re-invented as a white genocidal lunatic. Meanwhile, actual tape-recorded evidence of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. engaging in sex orgies will not put a dent in his hero status.

     As noted by Bret Stevens:

“Penetrated. Compromised. Subverted. Sabotaged. Dominated. Everyone wants to escape the system, and even a quarter of a million dollars can boost someone out of the rat race, so Western infrastructure is for sale. Find the right network tech or middle manager, buy him out, and he will hand over the keys to the kingdom. He has no loyalty to this society; he hates it. It forces him to commute through a wasteland every day to spend ten hours wasting his time convincing morons to stop doing moron things, and fixing errors made by other morons who were managed by imbeciles. If he gets a chance to sell out, he will do it, and delight in the destruction he causes because finally, he gets his revenge.”

To The Australian        Neither John Wylie ("Indigenous call deserves response from the heart", 18/6) nor Kenneth Wiltshire ("Voice to Parliament too important to get wrong", 18/6) has provided a successful and convincing case for constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians. As for Wylie's vague, sentimental and untrustworthy assertions, Australians generally are under no obligation, legal, moral or spiritual, to engage in "a generous and respectful accommodation with indigenous Australians." He does not address the questionable status in the context of constitutional change, of Australians identifying as "indigenous" or the consequent doubt as to the validity of their case. As for Wiltshire, it is ingenuous of him to state that "it is hard not to wonder what all the fuss is about regarding this proposal", when he makes no effort to counter the well-established case that constitutional entrenchment in any form would be fundamentally divisive of this nation, threatening our internal stability and national security, and also fundamentally inequitable towards all non-indigenous Australians.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     I was reading a philosophical piece about Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) and historical causality, or lack of it, not understanding much of it, and was going to move on, until I read this passage quoted below, and the lights were suddenly turned on:
  https://www.counter-currents.com/2019/06/spengler-on-causation/#more-93938

“The “official” reason given for the collapse of the Soviet Union is that President Reagan’s arms build-up led to a competitive arms race that bankrupted the Soviet Union. That is pure hogwash. North Korea has assembled a nuclear program with an economy just a small fraction of that of the former Soviet Union and with a far greater power differential than that which existed between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. The real reason for the collapse of the Soviet Union was a collective loss of will, a loss that has yet to affect North Korea. But how does one go about explaining a nation’s loss of will? There are too many variables, too many moving parts, for a cause-and-effect explanation to be satisfactory. Spengler’s great insight is that nations, like individual human beings, are organic entities, and all organic entities have a life span. One can eat healthy foods, exercise regularly, avoid drugs, tobacco, and excessive alcohol consumption, and yet one will inevitably die. This is the destiny of all individuals, and according to Spengler, the destiny of all cultures and civilizations. We on the dissident Right have the advantage that we are aware that the West has lost its will to survive, that Western Civilization is slowly committing suicide.

To The Australian        Australia appears to be shirking a family obligation ("Don't deny us sanctuary, white farmers tell Dutton", 19/6). The government should honour the policy espoused last year by Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton to effect a special refugee intake of persecuted white South Africans. We owe this to these people because they are kith and kin of the majority of us Australians. We admire Jews and Aboriginals for fighting for the interests of their peoples, even if we disagree with some of their policies. So why not the same loyalty to our own? Moreover, they will make excellent new Australians and benefit the whole nation.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     Now one cannot discuss the immigration status of people, illegal immigrants, without facing Big Tech bans:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-06-08-youtubes-new-censorship-purge-bans-videos-that-talk-about-illegal-immigrants.html

     The next site to fall to the Big Tech bans is Natural News.com, being permanently banned by Facebook. Mike Adams has never done anything even mildly racist, and exactly the opposite in fact, openly championing the idea that there is a genocidal policy against Blacks, which could well be true too. But, he has taken on the anarcho-tyrannical system, especially regarding health, so he must go:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-06-09-facebook-bans-natural-news-health-ranger-responds.html

     Here is some news that the local rags are not reporting: that New Zealanders, now that all of the emotion has died down, and the headscarfs put back in the knicker drawer, are ignoring the gun ban:
  https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/new-zealand-gun-control-fails-as-kiwis-ignore-the-new-bans_06102019
  https://www.libertynation.com/kiwis-just-say-no-to-gun-ban/

“New Zealand politicians who rushed to enact nationwide gun confiscation following the Christchurch mosque massacres are befuddled by the lack of enthusiasm from citizens who have yet to comply with the new law. The so-called “gun reform” was expected to rid the vast New Zealand countryside of most semi-automatic firearms, magazines over a specified limit, and shotguns. Two months ago, Reuters breathlessly reported, “New Zealand police expect tens of thousands of firearms to be surrendered by a guns buy-back scheme.” Law enforcement authorities averred that “it could be more.” Pregnant with the expectation that gun owners would trade their firearms for cash, the political class is nonplussed by the results. Only 530 guns have thus far been turned in to the authorities.

     For gentle Christian readers, like me, who don’t really go much for the race/Western civilisation line most of the boys discuss, there is still a lesson behind it all. Consider how the traditional beliefs of the Church are being eroded in the name of political correctness. Here is an example:
  https://www.msn.com/g00/en-au/news/australia/catholic-schoolgirls-are-being-taught-that-god-is-gender-neutral-and-are-banned-from-using-the-words-lord-father-and-son-in-prayers/ar-AACfBj0?ocid=spartandhp&fbclid=IwAR1UI_4h7t4JMo3o4DUp_k_EZL1iLxYS4-b8hyaC67lMiZicp5J-_AwdQ0g&i10c.ua=1&i10c.encReferrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmF0dXJhbG5ld3MuY29tLzIwM%54ktMDYtMTAtY2F0aG9saWMtbGVhZGVycy1pbi1hdX%4e0cmFsaWEtYmxhc3BoZW1lLWdvZC1sZ2J0cXAuaHR%74bA%3d%3d&i10c.dv=10#page=2

     Oh dear, I would never have been able to type such a URL … why do they have to be so long? Is some esoteric secret of the universe encoded in it?

     Big Tech is getting into overdrive, banning even anti-racist posts because somehow these violate its sacred standards, but even more interesting are bans on items that have been off platform, which occurred to Natural News. Social critic Matt Forney also got banned for doing nothing but being his loveable self:

“You gotta love the Kafka-esque logic. I was banned for a violation of the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities even though my account was inactive and the only things I had publicly published on it were pictures of myself. I appeal and get told that they can’t tell me what I specifically did wrong, only that their decision to ban me is final. This ban isn’t much an issue for me since, as I said earlier, I had stopped posting or promoting my work on Facebook a long time ago and I only used my account to look at expat/language exchange groups and communicate with a few people (all of whom have other means by which they can contact me). Indeed, I’ve been on the receiving end of Facebook’s censorship for quite a long time: my blog’s Facebook page was banned all the way back in 2014—long before the current censorship wave started—due to repeated false flagging by feminists. Facebook has been dying as a platform for the longest time and I had actually briefly deleted my account outright last summer. However, this ban is more evidence that the noose of censorship is tightening around us all. I was likely put on some list of “white nationalists” or “extremists” due to my work reporting on the 2016 presidential election, and this was probably part of a greater purge of right-wingers from Facebook in preparation for the 2020 election. Big Tech is angry and upset that independent journalists, writers, video hosts, and other content creators were able to help Donald Trump in 2016, and they intend to ensure that that can never happen again.”

     There we go, the great English comic John Cleese saying that London is not English enough! John, you have been too busy making people laugh to pay attention to what has been happening, as London is now majority non-white, so your England is gone, gone, gone. Why Somali parents are sending their kiddies home because of the knife violence, so England as you knew it is at the zombie apocalypse level:
  https://news.yahoo.com/john-cleese-slams-london-for-not-being-english-enough-092406316.html
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7077579/Somali-parents-London-send-children-Africa-knife-crime-epidemic.html

“Hundreds of British parents are sending their teenage children back to East Africa to avoid the knife crime epidemic that has struck London and seen 51 murders this year. And the teenagers say they feel safer there, despite the Foreign and Commonwealth office advising against all travel to Somalia and warning against the threat of terrorism across Kenya. One Somali mother, Amina, was interviewed on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme and told the harrowing story of how her 15-year-old son was stabbed four times, just 17 days after he returned from a year-long stay in their homeland. She said: 'They damaged his bladder, his kidneys, his liver. He's got permanent damage. 'He was safer there [in Somaliland] than he was here, 100 per cent more safe than in London.' Last year the Foreign Office named Somalia the 13th most dangerous country in the world due to its constant threat of terrorism. And yet two in five Somalian families in London are sending their children home to avoid the knife crime epidemic hitting the capital, according to the mayor of Islington."

     What happened to Australia’s once-bipartisan policies favouring decentralisation? Why is every proposal to develop an outback mine, dam, irrigation scheme or a real power station now labelled “controversial” by the ABC and opposed by the ALP/Greens? This coastal-city focus and the hostility to new outback industry (except for wind/solar toys) has surely reached its zenith with the recent state budget for Queensland. The population of coastal and metropolitan Queensland is surging with baby-boom retirees, welfare recipients, grey nomads, tourists, overseas students, migrants and winter refugees. But the outback is dying with lagging industry and many aging farmers retiring to the coast. We are creating a country with no heart. The growing urban and seaside population needs power, water and food.

     However two critical power-water-food infrastructure projects that have been on the drawing boards for decades did not even rate a mention in the state budget – an expansion of coal-fired power at Kogan Creek and a water supply dam at Nathan Gorge. The current policy of all major parties is cluttering the countryside with piddling subsidised intermittent power producers like solar panels and wind turbines plus their expensive network of roads and transmission lines. This is inflating electricity prices, and future generations will see this bi-partisan energy policy as a disastrous blunder. It is also a mistake to encourage or subsidise private electricity cartels and put politicians, not engineers, in charge of power generation. The Kogan Creek power station with its adjacent coal mine was opened in 2007. It is connected to the National Grid and integrated with local gas-fired and solar supplies. It was always planned to add another generating unit at Kogan Creek, but twelve long years have passed with no action.

     Another addition to clown world, as the great cultural spiral down continues:
  https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2019/06/11/yoga-instructor-teaches-class-aimed-undoing-whiteness/

“A Seattle yoga instructor is teaching a class that is aimed at “Undoing Whiteness,” by showing white yoga students how white supremacy is present in their “body, mind and heart.” The class is taught by Laura Humpf, a yoga teacher of 15 years who claims that the class known as “Undoing Whiteness,” will teach students how to “unpack the harmful ways white supremacy is embedded” in the culture. “I do stand behind white people needing to talk to other white people on how to undo whiteness,” Humpf told the Seattle Times. “Can I keep refining it and doing it differently and better? Yeah, and I will forever and ever. But I believe in this space as one tool.” Humpf claims that she decided to offer the class after watching the “racist ways,” in which white people showed up to yoga classes. “I was seeing white people show up in yoga spaces in racist ways,” Humpf explained. Particularly irksome to Humpf, was witnessing white yoga instructors make racially insensitive jokes.

     The Swedish police, should be concerned about grenade attacks, friendly people waving around AK 47s and migrant no-go zones:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grenade_attacks_in_Sweden
  https://www.euronews.com/2018/04/10/sweden-has-a-problem-with-hand-grenades-and-here-s-why
  https://www.cbsnews.com/video/swedens-no-go-zones/
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teVkiadJpXM

     But, they are not, happily accepting this as all part of diversity excitement in modernity. However, they have come up with a brilliant politically correct solution to their failure to deal with this social rot: blame the Christians, yes, the Christians:

For any association or secular institution to reach its first century is noteworthy and, in our times, remarkable enough in itself. That alone would be sufficient reason for us to join together tonight in this celebration of the centenary of the Fabian Society, brought into formal existence in London a hundred years ago this month. And, incidentally, I trust it will be noted in the appropriate quarters that those of us here tonight associated with the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Labor Government have been so far able to overcome our notorious prejudices as to celebrate a British institution - indeed in many respects a quintessential British institution.

     We have been covering the rape of Europe for some time at this site. Here is an article updating this Gothic horror:
  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14209/sweden-self-inflicted-mess

“According to an Amnesty International report, in Sweden, rape investigations are under-prioritized, there are "excessively long waiting times for the results of DNA analyses", there is not enough support for rape victims and not enough work is done for preventative purposes. In 2017, a Swedish police report, "Utsatta områden 2017", ("Vulnerable Areas 2017", commonly known as "no-go zones" or lawless areas) showed that there are 61 such areas in Sweden. They encompass 200 criminal networks, consisting of an estimated 5,000 criminals. Twenty-three of those areas were especially critical.... "I cannot bear to see children faring so badly.... There should be no doubt that the Government does what it can for these children [of ISIS terrorists] and if possible they should be brought to Sweden." — Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström. Unfortunately, the horrific fate of enslaved Yazidi children does not appear to be something that Wallström "cannot bear".

     Well, well, well … YouTube has banned an instrumental music group, musicians with no lyrics at all on grounds of hate speech. Wow, that is new, even abstract sounds can be racist/hate blah blah now! But, there is no ban on numerous music videos showing what most of us would call race hate: showing white Trump supporters being tortured to death, or a non-white group praising the grooming and rape of white children.
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6478981/Paedophiles-grooming-children-young-six-live-streams-YouTube.html 
  https://www.vox.com/2019/6/7/18656597/youtube-harassment-policy-susan-wojcicki

     So, no, it is no just videos promoting Nazi stuff, that is old hat and was done relatively long ago. Here are some basic items to bring one up to speed on the banning issues:
  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jun/05/youtube-bans-videos-promoting-nazi-ideology
  https://www.amren.com/commentary/2019/06/voxadpocalpyse-and-the-guild-of-journalists/
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-06/will-not-end-well-youtubes-latest-purge-extremist-content
  https://www.rt.com/news/461170-youtube-bans-videos-reactions/
  https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/internet-shutdowns-don-t-make-anyone-safer-1.1268141
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-07/when-whining-becomes-weapon-latest-youtube-ad-pocalypse