The latest lost from the California fires, which still rage, is the complete destruction of the forest town ironically named paradise, which now looks like something out of Dante’s Inferno. Hollywood celebrity homes have been burnt, including:  Mylie Cyrus, Bruce Jenner, Khloé Kardashian and Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Orlando Bloom, Kylie Jenner, Gigi and Bella Hadid, Kendall Jenner etc.
  https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/a24931056/celebrity-homes-affected-california-fire/

     The intensity of the fire is being blamed on climate change blah, blah. Yet could it be that “divine retribution” is a factor here? Not in terms of a direct Sodom and Gomorrah punishment, but more along the lines that God has turned His back on those who have departed from the ways of righteousness? Last Sunday, my hell and brimstone Black  pastor here in Tallahassee Florida, preached exactly that. He loves Trump and often wears a Make America Great Again hat, and is an NRA member, and owns numerous AR 15 black rifles. It was a bit of a shock at first, but the message sunk in that divine protections against the myriad evils of the world can be withdrawn by those walking the treacherous path of globalist secular humanism. Sure, many innocent people died but the problem is that this is an inevitable flow-on effect.

To The Australian        Travers McLeod does not acknowledge the deep concerns some of us have about the Global Compact on Migration ("Step up? We've stepped aside by failing to sign migration pact", 23/11). Australia has joined the responsible lead of the USA, Hungary and Austria in checking a UNO plan that would threaten our sovereignty and our ability to make our own decisions about who enters Australia and why. There are dangers that the pact might create new rights and entitlements for would-be immigrants, watering down the distinction between legal and illegal migration and causing a huge resettlement of people such as already threatens the stability of several European nations. The pact appears to be another strategy by those seeking to establish a one-world government - a global tyranny from which there would be no place of refuge anywhere on earth.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     It used to be that the dissents were from the old USSR, some that we may not have even heard of, for simple acts like writing a book that the Party did not like. But, times have changed, and now the West begins to lose freedom, fast. Sure, we have all heard of the tyrannical treatment of Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, but closer to home we now have populist dissidents, who are being suppressed, hard, just the way the elites like it:
  https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/11/19/bokhari-rise-of-the-western-dissidents/

“Who would have thought that the highest court in Europe, home of the enlightenment, would uphold a case in which a woman was prosecuted for blasphemy against Islam? Who would have thought that Britain, the birthplace of liberalism and the free press, would ban an independent journalist from its shores for satirizing the same religion? Who would have thought that Germany, whose living memory of the totalitarian Stasi is just three decades old, would put its largest opposition party under surveillance? Just a few years ago, all three would sound far-fetched. But cases like these have become common as elites in virtually every western country mount a panicked attempt to contain the rise of populism (the goal, in the words of a Google executive, is to render it a “hiccup”in history’s march towards progress).

     Here in Australia we have an institutionalised Asianisation lobby, which has now morphed into a make-Australia-part-of China lobby. There is an economic rationalist Right wing version of this, and a politically correct Left wing form. Different starting points, same destination.  Thus, consider the Left, who embrace, among other things, homosexualism, transgenderism etc. as fundamental to human nature, and human rights. I will not argue, but I want to know; what happens if the master nation, number one, does not agree with your other values? How do you deal with the conflict? Ignore it?
  https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/19/china/chinese-erotic-fiction-writer-prison-intl/index.html

“A Chinese novelist has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for writing and distributing homoerotic novels, provoking widespread debate online over the severity of her sentence. The female writer, surnamed Liu, but more commonly known by her internet pseudonym Tianyi, was arrested in 2017 following the success of her novel "Occupy," according to reports in Chinese state media. The book was described by police in East China's Anhui Province as depicting "obscene sexual behavior between males" set to themes of "violence, abuse and humiliation." Despite being sentenced to 10 years in prison by a court in the city of Wuhu on October 31, Liu's case was brought only recently to nationwide attention after being shared widely online. The popularity of homoerotic fiction, dubbed "boys love," has soared in recent years in China, where a booming cottage industry of self-published authors churn out hundreds of new titles each month. Such is the success of the genre, that several titles have been adapted into film, including last year's popular web series "Guardian." Recently, Chinese internet giant Tencent also looked to capitalize on the trend with the announcement it had acquired two popular titles for adaption online.”

     YES, THIS IS HOW MOST CRAZY PEOPLE WRITE, ALL IN CAPITAL LETTERS. HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THAT? WELL, UNIVERSITIES  SURE HAVE:
  https://www.theorganicprepper.com/frighten-university-students-all-caps/
  https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1046977/university-lecturers-not-to-use-cap-letters-student-failure

“Staff at Leeds Trinity's school of journalism have also been told to "write in a helpful, warm tone, avoiding officious language and negative instructions". Some blasted the move as "more academic mollycoddling" of the snowflake generation. An "enhancing student understanding, engagement and achievement" memo lists dos and don'ts - with "do" and "don't" among words frowned upon. Generally, avoid using capital letters for emphasis and "the overuse of 'do', and, especially, 'DON'T'."

     Civil liberty folk are rightly concerned that the Andrew government anti-association laws have passed the Lower House, and are unfortunately not heading to the outhouse, where they belong, but directly into law:
  https://www.hrlc.org.au/news/2018/9/6/dangerous-anti-association-laws-pass-lower-house?fbclid=IwAR1qHhchHYPxAMEq3a635FTOzKKAHz91hshwKG7wMTQ379icKzfTvg1b0I8

“The laws will give police excessive powers to issue ‘anti-association notices’, telling people – including children as young as 14 – who they can and can’t be friends with or spend time with. Human rights advocates, lawyers and community workers all say that these laws are an attack on our democratic rights and neither politicians nor police officers should have a role in deciding who people can and can’t be friends with. Ruth Barson, a director of legal advocacy at the Human Rights Law Centre, said that the laws are senseless, dangerous and a sign that Premier Andrews is pandering to Matthew Guy’s toxic law and order agenda. "We should all be free to decide who we spend our time with and who we want to be friends with. Every single Victorian should be worried about these laws because they're excessive and ripe for abuse. Such laws belong in a police state – not the connected, harmonious community that we all want Victoria to be," said Ms Barson. The new anti-association laws are fundamentally different to existing laws in the following key ways: 

     You know the usual 9/11 conspiracy theories. But, a while back I stumbled over the twisted steel girders of this one, that involves the Mafia. Who knows, maybe everyone got into the show:
  http://www.amerika.org/politics/my-favorite-9-11-theory-comes-out-with-italian-bridge-collapse/

“This scam begins by having an architect specify expensive materials, which are then “liberated” from the construction site by nefarious actors, and replaced with cheap imported varieties which are then approved by (bribed) inspectors. The criminals pocket the difference in cost between the high-quality materials and the inferior substitutes. Rumor had it that New York architects got wise to this and began to design buildings that used quite a bit more steel because they knew that the construction would involve materials a few grades below what was originally designated. That would keep the buildings aloft for the half-century required for all parties to escape prosecution. Not only that, but law enforcement was aware of the problem in the 1980s, revealing a wide breadth of afflicted construction projects. Says Thomas Galvin, former chief executive of the convention center and now president of Xerox Realty Corp:

     Don’t worry, with all of the information out there, the people will work out what is going down, and will take a stand, defeating the bad guys, and reigning in this age of plenty. The normies may not be lions of freedom, but they are at least pussy cats of liberty. Sure:
  https://www.rt.com/uk/443726-human-microchip-employees-security/

“Some of the  UK's largest companies are planning to implant their staff with microchips to “improve security” and restrict employees from accessing “sensitive documents,” sparking ethical concerns over such a move.
The Swedish firm, Biohax, which makes human chip implants, claims it is in talks with a number of the UK’s major businesses from the financial and legal sectors, to implant their employees with the devices, The Telegraph reports. Jowan Österlund, founder and CEO of Biohax who is a former body piercer, told the paper that his microchips, which cost £150 each, could help financial and legal companies enhance security. “These companies have sensitive documents they are dealing with. [The chips] would allow them to set restrictions for whoever,” he told The Telegraph. Österlund, who says he’s lined up one prospective UK company, with “hundreds and thousands of employees,” insists employers could offer this as an opt-in. “If you have a 15% uptake that is still a huge number of people that won’t require a physical ID pass.”

     This may be more common, as medicine becomes subjected to the same forces of decline as everything else:
  https://nypost.com/2018/11/02/surgeon-mistakenly-removes-womans-kidney/

“A Florida surgeon mistook a woman’s healthy kidney for a cancerous tumor — and inexplicably removed it during a routine back surgery, according to a report. Maureen Pacheco, then 51, checked into Wellington Regional Medical Center back in April 2016 to get the bones in her lower back fused in the wake of a car accident, The Palm Beach Post reported. During the operation, Dr. Ramon Vazquez spotted the organ — which he believed to be a tumor, declared an emergency and removed it, according to a lawsuit obtained by the paper that was settled in September. Pacheco never had a say in the matter, according to the lawsuit. And Vazquez wasn’t even the one performing the back surgery. His job was to cut her open so surgeons could perform the operation. “As you can imagine, when someone goes in for a back surgery, she would never expect to wake up and be told when she’s just waking up from anesthesia, that one of her kidneys has been unnecessarily removed,” Pacheco’s attorney, Donald J. Ward, told the paper. Florida’s Department of Health has since filed a complaint against Vasquez — saying he provided a “presumptive diagnosis of a gynecologic malignancy, lymphoma, and/or other metastatic disease.”

     A new lobby has called for Australia to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. Calling itself “The Saltbush Club” the group includes top scientists and engineers covering every aspect of the global warming/energy debate, as well as representatives from small business, big business, farmers and consumers. It challenges the whole idea of a consensus on man-made global warming, condemns the unjustified demonization of CO2 and denounces the baseless war on coal. Australia’s push to meet the Paris carbon dioxide emission targets is leading to higher electricity prices and unreliable supply. People think the Paris Accord is just about commitments to lower CO2. It is really about transferring wealth via the sticky-fingered UN to the so-called Less Developed Countries. It’s about advancing centralised UN control of people’s lives on a global scale. We must reject the UN Agenda which is crippling western industry with high-cost unreliable electricity, in a futile attempt to control global climate.
  Viv Forbes, Washpool, Qld

Viv Forbes is Executive Director of the Saltbush Club
www.saltbushclub.com

To The Age        Your editorial on Brexit ("Britain cannot turn its back on the EU", 16/11) wrongly makes light of the clear verdict of the 2016 referendum which undoubtedly meant that a majority wanted a complete and fundamental severance of British sovereignty from EU jurisdiction. One of the most vital elements was precisely the need to throw off any subjugation to EU courts, for this would enable a vital restoration of free speech in Britain. Your language betrays you: British loyalists and their Australian supporters are smeared as 'little Englanders", who are "misty-eyed" and "jingoist". Meanwhile the globalist functionary Macron shows the kind of future that would lie in the EU: eventual complete absorption and subordination to a "European army".
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

To The Australian        Henry Ergas asks "what can be done to give our nation, and the patriotism it is owed, reinvigorated meaning in today's world?" ("Frenchman with a forked tongue", 16/11) The answer, which he shirks providing, is that we need a fundamental reversal of post-war immigration policy and a profound reform of the Christian sacred tradition. "Common descent or a common rootedness in ancestral soil" remain vitally important and potentially capable of restoration as drivers of national policy. Religious and ethnic solidarity are still the two most binding influences on national unity. We need a reduced immigration intake with priority given to European and Christian persons; but we cannot rely on an exclusivist theology that has become badly out of date as well as severely questioned by historical research into the early centuries AD.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     Thanks to Denis who forwarded this incredible story, from a site I had not heard of, which does not mean much because I have not heard of very much at all in this large and diverse, culturally rich world. Like lying migrants for example, who in the wildest stretch of their imagination, would even contemplate that migrants, who are all rocket scientists, if given half a chance, would lie?
  https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/11/ngo-caught-on-camera-admitting-they-teach-migrants-to-lie-and-act-the-part-of-the-refugee-in-trauma/

“Documentary film-makers Lauren Southern and Caolan Robertson have released shocking new recordings in which the director of a major NGO in Europe told their undercover team how she teaches migrants to lie and pretend to be persecuted Christians to border police. Ariel Ricker, Executive Director of Advocates Abroad, was caught in the recordings admitting that the asylum process is simply theatre. “This is all like a big theatre production, everyone has a part to play and a refugee has to act the part of the refugee in trauma for the interviewers, but it is extremely difficult to do this because unless they are taught how to be this character, this actor, then they go about it usually the opposite way,” Ricker says. Ricker’s NGO, Advocates Abroad, provides legal aid to refugees and migrants seeking asylum in Europe. They have 380 staff members that are primarily involved in preparing refugees and migrants for their asylum interviews. In 2017, they worked with over 15,000 refugees. Southern’s team points out that they also recently campaigned with 12 British MPs to raise $100,000 in donations. In the shocking undercover video, Ricker also admits to teaching the migrants how to cry, to “act the part” of the “refugee in trauma” and even throw up to show extreme emotion.

     Mobile phones irritate me, almost as much as the people who use them. Now there is strong evidence that such devices cause cancer, not that I would wish harm to irritating people:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-11-15-absolute-scientific-proof-that-cell-phone-radiation-causes-cancer.html
  https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/scientists-find-clear-evidence-phone-13549308

“It’s something that’s been widely debated for years, and now scientists have ‘clear evidence’ that phone radiation causes cancer - at least in rats. Researchers from the National Toxicology Program found that radiation from phones using 2G and 3G caused male rats to develop cancerous tumours in the heart and brain. Dr John Bucher, who led the study, said: “We believe that the link between radio frequency radiation and tumours in male rats is real.” In the study, the researchers housed rats in special chambers, where they exposed the animals to phone radiation from the womb and through their lifetime.”

     The Pope, who welcomes the Islamisation of Europe, is going to Morocco, to strengthen Christian-Muslin ties. Why in the name of Heaven is this needed, when the Catholic church is in crisis?
  https://www.timesofisrael.com/pope-plans-morocco-trip-in-march-to-strengthen-christian-muslim-ties/

     I suppose while there are multicult headlines, the media is not covering the sexual abuse crisis, and the Pope’s role in not adequately  addressing it:
  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/19/pope-francis-catholic-church-abuse-scandal-crisis-america 
  https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2018/11/15/pope-francis-undermines-vatican-diplomatic-immunity-with-usccb-intervention/

     The caravan of illegal invaders, said by the Left to be poor desperate people, had suddenly given rise to most of South America wanting to come to America, so that North America becomes South America. Then, I suppose, they will want to go to Europe and eat that, which I am not explicitly saying is a bad thing, just a thing:
  https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2018/11/13/gallup-five-million-central-americans-want-to-follow-the-caravans-to-us/

“Five million poor Central Americans want to migrate into the United States’ communities and workplaces, according to a report by Gallup. The caravans of economic migrants moving northwards to the U.S. border “actually represent a relatively small fragment of a much larger group of people in their own region — and around the world — who say they would like to move to the U.S. if they could,” said Gallup. The five million number is one-in-three adults in Central America, the survey firm said. But average birth rate and family size in Central America are roughly twice as large as in the United States, so the migration of 5 million could lead to the birth of at least 5 million additional people after the migrants get jobs in the United States.”

     This is where it all leads; a concern with fighting the cultural wars and all matter of Leftist nonsense has weakened the US to such a degree that the military will be struggling against foes such as China or Russia
  https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/11/15/study-confirms-u-s-military-superiority-eroded-dangerous-degree/

“The American military’s superiority “has eroded to a dangerous degree,” and U.S. ability to win a war against adversaries like China and Russia “is increasingly in doubt,” a bipartisan report commissioned by Congress to evaluate U.S. President Donald Trump’s defense strategy revealed on Wednesday, echoing other assessments. “U.S. military superiority is no longer assured and the implications for American interests and American security are severe,” the National Defense Strategy Commission determined after reviewing classified documents, receiving Pentagon briefings, and interviewing top officials from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). Consistent with those analyses, Wednesday’s report found that the U.S. is facing a “crisis of national security,” especially if faced with a multi-front conflict, adding:

     The stupid evil US party, the Democrats, have moved to conduct civil war by making America ungovernable without yet, “firing a single shot”
  https://gellerreport.com/2018/11/democrats-subpoena-cannon.html/
  https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/11/democrats-reportedly-have-a-subpoena-cannon-aimed-at-over-85-trump-targets/

“The Democrats prepare a “subpoena cannon” aimed at over 85 people in President Donald Trump’s sphere. These subpoenas will not come out at once. Democrat California Rep. Adam Schiff, who will take over the House Intelligence Committee, told Axios that the committee will “prioritize what they view as the most pressing topics, which he says range from Trump’s potential business dealings with Russia to where things currently stand with North Korea.”

To The Australian        Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is right in principle that Jewish people, like all other religious and/or ethnic groups, should not be immune to public criticism ("Criticism of Jews 'is free speech'", 19/11). Moreover, questioning "the Holocaust death toll" is not unethical if it is based on evidence and reasoned argument and is not malicious. Jews and their friends should ensure that the term "anti-Semitic" is not misused to shut down open debate in areas where Jewish interests are involved. On the other hand, critics of Jews in public forums have a commensurate duty to avoid giving unjustified and unnecessary offence - and to balance negative comment by noting the wonderful contribution made by Jews to human culture and civilization.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     God is taking more time than I thought He would take, ending the tragicomedy that we call modern life (I have in mind Sodom and Gomorrah). So we enter the next cycle of madness where the elites tell us that a Republic is “nationalistic” and that we need an “Australian,” president, even though these same people want to Asianise Australia, are generally cucks for the Communist Party of China, and are total globalists. Could they be telling some fibs, just to get their demonic claws on the constitution?
  https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/labor-promises-160m-republic-ballot-as-first-step-to-constitutional-change-20181109-p50f19.html?fbclid=IwAR1KR3nKuuzd2lRv81YOKbzBiv56_4ngmt1RDV1bviA6G7Dr5-wZODoaQjU

“Australians will be asked to vote on a republic in a $160 million national plebiscite under a Labor plan that rejects a postal survey in favour of a public ballot to resolve decades of dispute. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has signed off on the funding plan to ask voters a "yes or no" question in the next term of Parliament, without any funding for official campaigns for or against the change. The plan assumes the same cost as the federal government’s original plebiscite on same-sex marriage but is double that of the postal survey eventually adopted and run last year. The Labor spokesman on an Australian head of state, Matt Thistlethwaite, said the recent visit to Australia by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would not hurt the case for a republic but the nation needed stronger political leadership to make the change. "I’m conscious that if you talk to the average Australian at the moment it’s probably not in their top 10 list of priorities and I understand that," he said.”