I found this phenomenon, of extreme parasitism in the insect kingdom, illuminating:
  https://www.livescience.com/62986-alien-wasp-parasitoid-xenomorph.html?utm_source=ls-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20180705-ls
  https://jhr.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=25219

“Imagine you are a caterpillar. You’re sitting down for a nice picnic lunch with your caterpillar buddies in the shade of a eucalyptus tree, munching on the tasty leaves and joking about caterpillar things (“Why did the butterfly get kicked out of the dance? Because it was a mothball! LOLOLOL”), when suddenly, you feel it — a stabbing pain in your stomach. Your whole body starts to quake. You feel heavy inside, like something is trying to break free. Then, something does. One bite at a time, dozens of black larval wasps gnaw their way through your body. Your buddies freak out until they are silenced by the same fate — each one split open by a brood of black alien babies. Needless to say, this is not the picnic you hoped for. Unfortunately for caterpillars, similar incidents happen all over the world, all the time. This is the grim calling card of Microgastrinae, a subfamily of parasitoid wasps that reproduce by injecting their eggs into caterpillars and then allowing their young to literally eat their way through the host bug’s body.

To The Age (11/07/2018)         Your editorial on Britain and the UK ('May walks tightrope amid Brexit chaos', 11/7) correctly identifies a major aspect of the Brexit controversy: 'the electorate is pitted against its own representatives.' It was always doubtful that Theresa May, no matter what declarations she made, would lead in the enactment of a resumption of British sovereign independence. She was a 'remain' advocate in 2016 and she was the recommended successor for leadership of the Conservative Party by outgoing PM David Cameron, also a 'remain' man.

     A truly honourable British parliament would by now have implemented a 'hard' (that is, firm and authentic) Brexit. That it has not happened calls into question the integrity of that institution and is an affront to genuine democracy. Huge numbers of 'little people' and 'ordinary Britons' made a supreme effort in 2016 and overcame a largely biased press and a campaign enjoying superior financial and institutional resources. It will, alas, be very hard for them to succeed a second time; and in the meanwhile May's 'soft' (pseudo) Brexit bleeds their confidence and energies. It's a sad story.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     So, if the “refugees” are all allowed in, and open borders are created, if everyone becomes fluid in their sexuality, and all dead white men literature removed from the  child care centres known as universities – then what? What does the Left do for an encore?
  http://www.collapse.news/2018-07-05-left-wing-agenda-now-becomes-clear-the-complete-elimination-of-prisons-borders-profits.html
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-07-07-walkaway-founder-abused-by-hate-filled-left-wing-bigots-at-a-public-camera-store.html

     Numerous tweets from the Left indicate that this is only the beginning. There will be no profits and no prisons, since people of colour are disproportionately inmates. Hence, open up all prisons and let the beautiful people roam free, to bring joy and splendour to the land:

     When I grew up, I never heard about female genital mutilation. Boys were generally circumcised, but the custom was on the way out. Not so today, for female genital mutilation:
  https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/07/08/england-new-female-genital-mutilation-case-every-two-hours-experts-demand-action/

“Around 4,500 new cases of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) were recorded in England over the last year, more than one every two hours, official data shows. Between April 2017 and March 2018, around 6,200 women and girls who visited a doctor, midwife, or other public health services in England had been exposed to the form of abuse at some point, the National Health Service (NHS) said on Thursday. Some cases had already been recorded, but 4,495 were being logged for the first time since the government made it compulsory for medical practitioners to report cases of FGM in 2015.”

     The latest wisdom from the psychologists is that old people are racists:
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5921739/Older-people-really-racist-Prejudices-grow-feel-anxious-death.html

“Older people are more racist – but it’s not because they are ‘from a different time’. We become more prejudiced as we age because we feel increasingly insecure and anxious about death, psychologists claim.
Scientists said hating a group can bring a sense of belonging and identity to those facing their own mortality because they are able to share that prejudice with others.

The Trumpsters trumpeted too soon, as North Korea is as mean as ever, according to a rant by KCNA, the North Korean news agency:
  https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/07/08/world-view-north-korea-issues-vitriolic-anti-u-s-rant-collapsing-denuclearization-talks/

“It was, however, so regretful to mention what the U.S. side had shown in its attitude and stand at the first DPRK-U.S. high-level talks held on 6 and 7 July. The DPRK [North Korea] side, during the talks, put forward the constructive proposals to seek a balanced implementation of all the provisions of the Joint Statement out of its firm willingness to remain faithful to the implementation of the spirit and agreed points of the DPRK-U.S. summit meeting and talks.

     I have been waiting for feminism to implode since the 1970s. I thought at the time, once feminist demands conflict with corporate capitalism, boy, I mean, girl, then we will see action. Now it is starting to happen, first with the Me Too movement, and then this:
  https://amp.smh.com.au/business/workplace/new-zealand-may-force-private-companies-to-pick-women-directors-20180708-p4zq85.html

“New Zealand’s government is prepared to force private businesses to appoint more women directors if companies don’t make sufficient progress themselves, Minister for Women Julie Anne Genter says. The government said last week that it will ensure half of all directors on state sector boards and committees are women by 2021, compared with 46 per cent at the end of 2017. By comparison, women held just 19 per cent of directorships across the 159 companies listed on the main board of the New Zealand stock exchange, according to a report in January. “We’re awaiting the next report, and I’m keen to see where they get to,” Genter told Television New Zealand’s Q+A program Sunday. “If they’re not going to make progress, if it’s going to sit there at 19 per cent, then we might have to start thinking about ways government can incentivise them. Under Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, the world’s youngest female leader, the government is forging ahead with plans to change the way women are treated in society and allow them to achieve their full potential, including an ambitious goal to eliminate the gender pay gap.”

     University students tend to be liberals or to the Left and certainly as a group support mass immigration and globalisation. It is therefore fitting that they get a taste of the real world of immigration and globalisation. This report is from the US, but is still relevant to the Australian situation:
  https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2018/07/06/salaries-us-college-grad-hit-by-flood-million-foreign-visa-workers/

“College-graduate salaries are barely keeping pace with inflation, but the editor of an influential progressive website says the government should import “drastically” more foreign college-graduates for white-collar jobs in the United States. “We should drastically increase the number of such [visa-] workers who can come — if not eliminate the cap entirely,” said Matt Yglesias, editor of Vox.com Yglesias’ call for a much bigger — or even unlimited — supply of foreign college graduates comes as Americans’ salaries are just creeping ahead of inflation, according to the Conference Board, a nonprofit consulting firm. Annual growth in white-collar salaries is even lagging behind growth in blue-collar wages, according to board’s June 2018 estimate.”
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/26/17500756/democrats-immigration-agenda

     If Sweden was a cow, a vet would have to put it down, because it would be cruel to let a dying animal suffer in pain.
  https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/07/sweden-dental-hygienist-fined-50000-for-identifying-child-refugees-who-were-actually-adults

“Bernt Herlitz is being severely punished for trying to reveal the age of fake children. Now he has to pay 425 thousand kronor [$48,500] within 30 days to his former employer Region Gotland – money he does not have. The language of the judgment is harsh and at times activist against Herlitz. Previously, Samhällsnytt revealed that several of the people whom he suggested to the Migration Board were discovered to be adults as a result of medical age tests. Despite this and despite some of them being convicted of gross violent crime, they will stay in Sweden, thanks to the amnesty of the government and the Center Party. Samhällsnytt has previously noted the case of the dental hygienist Bernt Herlitz from Gotland in several articles. Herlitz has responded that several asylum seekers who were registered as unaccompanied children showed a dental development that is more typical for people over 25 years old.

     Mathematics and physics are my passions in life, but I have grave concerns about the survival of basic knowledge, which permits civilisation to continue. In a nutshell, people are becoming so dumbed down, even given technology, which they use like “magic,” that if some sort of collapse occurs, it may not be possible for any sort of speedy rebuilding of advanced knowledge, contrary to thinkers such as Lewis Dartnell, in The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm, (Penguin, New York, 2015). People may not be even able to understand long sentences, like the previous one.
  http://the-knowledge.org/en-gb/the-book/

     Rebuilding the world from first scientific principles will, at some point require a high degree of mathematical knowledge, and I do not believe that Dartnell has considered how difficult it will be to preserve mathematical knowledge. Consider:

     As a cradle Catholic, and now an ex-Catholic, I described myself as abandoned and betrayed by the Church. Almost every week the Third World Pope comes out with a new politically correct announcement to make the elite happy. But, I am not the only one feeling this way:
  http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/06/27/former-vatican-doctrinal-chief-many-catholics-feel-abandoned-and-betrayed-by-shepherds/

“Cardinal Gerhard Müller said this week that many bishops today are involved in “a blatant process of Protestantizing” the Catholic Church, leaving many of the faithful confused and disoriented. In a powerful interview published Tuesday in Catholic World Report, the former prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith had particularly strong words for his fellow German bishops. A group of these bishops, led by the president of the German Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, “see themselves as trendsetters of the Catholic Church on the march into modernity,” Müller warned. These German bishops “consider the secularization and de-Christianization of Europe as an irreversible development,” he said, and for this reason have abandoned the “New Evangelization,” since it is in their view “a battle against the objective course of history, resembling Don Quixote’s battle against the windmills.”

     One litmus test of impending social collapse is when core institutions no longer function as they should. When workers begin committing suicide in significant numbers, one knows that there is a problem:
  http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/389999-american-health-care-workers-are-committing-suicide-in-unprecedented 
  http://collapse.news/2018-06-04-us-health-care-system-collapsing-so-rapidly-that-workers-are-now-committing-suicide.html

“As America focuses on one epidemic — the opioid crisis — another goes entirely ignored. American health-care workers are dying by suicide in unprecedented numbers. Earlier this month, a medical student and a resident at NYU medical school completed suicide less than a week apart. My junior colleague took her life just 11 days before her 35th birthday. I had supervised her as she transitioned into practice from fellowship. She said that the way I said her name foretold if the conversation pointed to a weakness or a strength in her patient assessment. My last sight of her was as she drove off to her new job. Less than six months later, she made a life-ending choice. A scan of her suicide note, asking that I be notified, was emailed to me. I did not show it to anyone. The news of her suicide was announced by an email in the department. We all went about our business, as if suicide by a young colleague is usual. And perhaps, in a way it is. After all, physician suicide — and more broadly health-care worker suicide — is a huge issue in the U.S. In my own experience, I have lost six colleagues to suicide — five physicians and one physician assistant. That does not include the suicides that I have heard about through the whisper network at work.”

     Writers are covering the development of civil war in the USA, but Greece also has its instabilities:
  https://gellerreport.com/2018/05/greeks-afraid-muslim-migrants.html/ 
  http://www.iefimerida.gr/video/412297/dimarhos-lesvoy-oi-katoikoi-fovoyntai-na-kykloforisoyn-vinteoo

“Spyros Galinis, the mayor of Mytilene, the capital of the island of Lesbos, told Greek news outlet Iefimerida, that the people in his city are increasingly concerned about migrants. Galinis said that “Women are afraid to go out of their homes, we keep our children in our houses”. According to the mayor, Lesbos is exhausted of the ongoing dangerous situation with migrants. The people of Lesbos were once represented by the media as the people of solidarity, who even opened their homes to refugees from Syria. But now the situation has completely changed, as the once solidary and tolerant residents of Lesbos are facing the cruel reality of the uncontrolled mass immigration crisis that is inflicting Europe once again. Mr Galinos added: “Our citizens feel abandoned by Greece and by the EU, Greek citizens meanwhile form only one third of the people living on this island”. Earlier , the Médecins Sans Frontières agency warned that Lesbos “has reached a point of eruption “

     More absurdities from our friends, the universities, full of Arts/Farts/Humanities departments where the-to-be described sort of bs is freely cultivated. Unfortunately, normal manure is natural and helps the garden grow, but the manure produced by the modern university is highly toxic and quite dangerous to life and society. I submit to your consideration a prime example of academic research in the Humanities/Social Sciences:
  http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/06/20/academic-journal-publishes-study-on-dog-rape-culture-claims-female-dogs-are-oppressed/

“A women’s studies researcher says she examined the genitals of 10,000 dogs for her study on canine “rape culture” this month. The journal Gender, Place, and Culture, is a monthly peer-reviewed publication that focuses on issues of feminist geography. In 2015, it was ranked the thirteenth most influential women’s studies academic journal in the world. This year, the journal published an unusual piece by researcher Helen Wilson about “rape culture” in “urban dog parks.” The article, titled “Human reactions to rape culture and queer performativity at urban dog parks in Portland, Oregon,” astonishingly argues that female dogs suffer oppression at the paws of male dogs and that humans are indifferent to violence between dogs. In what must have been an attempt to reach peak academic absurdity, Wilson says that she examined the genitals of almost 10,000 dogs during her observational study into canine “rape culture.” “The usual caveats of observational research also apply here,” Wilson wrote. “While I closely and respectfully examined the genitals of slightly fewer than ten thousand dogs, being careful not to cause alarm and moving away if any dog appeared uncomfortable, there is some relevant margin of error concerning my observations about their gender in some instances.”

     There was shock! horror! among libtards when President Trump pardoned conservative film-maker Dinesh D’Souza, who claims that he was persecuted by President Obama:
  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44319709 
  http://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/06/01/maher-trump-turning-pardons-into-partisan-tool-to-undermine-our-democracy/
  http://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/06/04/dinesh-dsouza-i-was-targeted-by-narcissistic-obama/

“Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” conservative political commentator and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza said he was prosecuted for making an illegal campaign contribution because his film about former President Barack Obama was “emotionally damaging ” to “a narcissistic president.” D’Souza said, “You have to look at the context of this. Let’s remember, just weeks before all of this went down I released a movie in the theater, 2,000 theaters about Obama and it wasn’t just a critique of his policies. I was in Kenya at his family homestead. I interviewed his brother in a slum in Nairobi. It was an emotionally damaging movie to Obama, and the president was very upset by it. I’m not just speculating. I know this because he was regularly denouncing me on his website Barackobama.com. So when that happens and a few later the FBI comes banging on your door.”

     Here are some interesting comments of immigration limitation coming from the last remnants of the intelligent Left. The URL has a rude word in it for us gentle souls, so I have censored it so no-one is offended. But, that’s just the way the Left write. Nevertheless, it is good to see some of our points being made from the other side:
  http://kunstler.com/clusterf**k-nation/conflict-escalation/

“My website was down early this morning, and I’m just a little suspicious that it had something to do with me expressing an opinion outside the “Overton Window” of what is considered acceptable discourse on illegal immigration. Namely, that it’s illegal, with all that implies. At least I wasn’t thrown out of a restaurant over the weekend, though the fact is I didn’t even try to eat out. Now my particular problem may turn out to be no more than a cockroach chewing through some wires in the Jersey server farm where this blog dwells — we’ll find out soon enough — but there are obviously other signs that “the Resistance” is tuning up the antagonism against its perceived enemies. I’m in the peculiar position of not being a partisan of President Trump, and yet being a publicly avowed enemy — if there’s any doubt — of the Resistance, especially these days its institutional branch known as the Democratic Party. What a ragtag and bobtail of mendacious cowards it has become.

     Imagine my excitement when I read the article by Janet Albrechtsen, arguing this. Let the magic not be spoilt by my words:

“We are funding our own demise. A country that is the product of Western civilisation has a death wish when it sends billions of taxpayer dollars to a swag of fancy universities, few of which teach students the tenets of Western civilisation. Each year the federal government — meaning we taxpayers — sends $16.8 billion to universities because educating the next generation is a fine way to spend our money. Except for this: a detailed history audit conducted last year by the Institute of Public Affairs found that few Australian universities teach the core subjects about the history of Western civilisation. More university subjects cover the history of film than democracy, more focus on identity than the Enlightenment.

     It is the gold standard now, that Trump, according to American universities, and even our pathetic ones in Australia, is a dictator. Yet these universities are not only silent about the ultra-authoritarianism of China, the universities celebrate it. They do so because they court Chinese money, in the form of students, who will become migrants to the West, moving into the elite power structure, and ultimately cementing power for mother China:
  https://www.digitalprintaustralia.com/bookstore/non-fiction/politics-philosophy/the-howard-legacy.html

     Then there is the money universities borrow for their little building projects, most of which comes from China. The great irony in this form of colonialism is that the free speech that the academics and socialist cub students trade on to do as they do, does not exist in China. They would never get away with an attack on the Chinese nation as they do nations of the West in China, and I admire China for its strength in controlling the cancer of nation-eroding political correctness. However, while not being “anti-Chinese,” this does not mean that we should be oblivious to the China threat. I have written before about a brilliant book by Clive Hamilton, Silent Invasion: China’s Influence in Australia, (Hardie Grant Books, Richmond, 2018), a book which has some trouble seeing the light of day. Probably, the university presses would not touch it.

     Here is some good news from the United States, about one university which is eliminating useless disciplines that do not generate employment:
  http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/03/22/university-of-wisconsin-campus-considers-eliminating-13-majors-that-dont-lead-to-lucrative-careers/ 
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2018/03/21/university-of-wisconsin-campus-pushes-plan-to-drop-13-majors-including-english-history-and-philosophy/?utm_term=.02d9b72f9203

“The University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point has proposed dropping 13 majors in the humanities and social sciences — including English, philosophy, history, sociology and Spanish — while adding programs with “clear career pathways” as a way to address declining enrolment and a multimillion-dollar deficit. Students and faculty members have reacted with surprise and concern to the news, which is being portrayed by the school’s administration as a path to regain enrolment and provide new opportunities to students. Critics see something else: a waning commitment to liberal arts education and a chance to lay off faculty under new rules that weakened tenure.

     Really, incidents like the one I am about to describe make one lose all faith in the belief of the goodness of the human race. I type this with my one good finger, not crippled with arthritis, in anger, sweat dripping onto the computer key board. I hope that I don’t get electrocuted before finishing. So, here I was in Rundle Mall, in a far away land called “Adelaide,” outside a shopping centre and this Buddhist monk approaches me and gives me a Buddhist card for peace, and puts a thingy of beads around my wrist. Thank you I say in my most friendly, love ‘n’ peace voice.

     Then he asks me for $30 and writes my name in a note book. I had previously told him my name. What, I said, where is the religion of poverty and humbleness! I am the poorest person in Adelaide, and am bin shopping at the moment. I can give you 50 cents. He was offended at this, so I said: “here, have your junk back. I prefer war anyway.” Then I walked off to leave him to try his luck with the wealthy Asian students living along North Terrace, while I searched the bins to survive. Yes, it is a metaphor for the plight of the dispossessed Anglo Saxon. I am a living metaphor for dispossessed (too many S’s) Anglo Saxons. It’s my day job.