To The Australian The proposed new Independent Office for Aboriginal People ('Echoes of Uluru as nascent office hailed for voice to parliament', 7/6) is plainly another step in the ongoing plan to divide this continent into two nations. Those behind this campaign know that in any fairly phrased referendum the vast majority of Australians would oppose such a separation. Thus an approach of 'Fabian gradualism' is being employed. WA Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ben Wyatt ignores the great achievements of British Australia in the pioneering era of our national history and slanderously sums them up as motivated by 'colonial racist and supremacist values'. There is every justification for most Australians to be deeply fearful about the more-or-less open destruction of our great Constitution that is happening. If only public opposition could become 'relentless', for continuing apathy will lead to disaster!
Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic
To The Age Greens MP Lidia Thorpe is simply wrong in claiming that Aboriginal people still own Victoria ('Aboriginal treaty must go further: Greens MP', 7/6). Sovereignty of the state has long been vested in Her Majesty the Queen of Australia. The only correct way to change that situation would be by a properly conducted referendum as stipulated by our Constitution. Radical agitators know that no such referendum would give them the result they want, so they are trying all sorts of spurious efforts of de-authorization of our nation, its history and government. Some states claiming without a thread of legal justification to have the right to enact treaties with 'the Aboriginal people' (a community not easily defined) is one such strategy. The Victorian state opposition is right that the making of treaties is a prerogative of the federal government.
Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic
To The Australian John Carroll is too pessimistic about what is happening to Western European culture and civilization (“Disdain for best of the West”, 9-10/6). He claims, without producing justifying evidence, that ‘the Church, the one institution that could replace the university as the master teacher of eternal truths, is in a state of hopeless disrepair.’ However, he totally ignores the profound restorative work that has been achieved by giant intellects working within the Christian sacred tradition, such as T. S. Eliot, Russell Kirk and Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and those working within a pan-religious context such as Rene Guenon, Ananda Coomaraswamy and Frithjof Schuon. Carroll’s pessimism extends to Western art, when he claims that ‘the high priest of modernism, Marcel Duchamp... has carried the day both in contemporary art and in university arts faculties.’ He says nothing about the greatest painter of last century, Andrew Wyeth, or about Balthus, or about the fact that representational painting of very high quality has continued to be done in all Western nations. It needs to be asked why so many great creators have been marginalized. That requires an analysis of the political orders of these nations (‘democracies’ in name only) and the international financial system, corruptly based on usury, which controls them. Carroll ignores that too.
Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic
At this advanced state of the decay game, we should not be surprised to see projects that give people jobs sacrificed at the altar of the environment:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-31/proposal-to-expand-christmas-island-phosphate-mine-knocked-back/9820382
“The community of Christmas Island could face an economic collapse after a proposal to expand the island’s phosphate mine was knocked back over fears of the impact to the island’s wildlife, including its world-famous red crabs. Phosphate Resources Limited has been mining on the Indian Ocean Territory for more than 100 years, but claims it needs to clear more crown land to access new deposits in order for the operations to remain viable. Under the expansion, the company wanted to clear an additional 6.83 hectares of land to undertake exploration drilling to determine the extent of more phosphate resources, in what has been described as a pristine area of the island.”
How absurd does it get? In California it is now illegal to have a shower and do laundry on the same day! This is to conserve water, even in times where there is no water shortage, “just to be sure”:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-03/its-now-against-law-california-shower-and-do-laundry-same-day
“Senate Bill 606 establishes a “governing body” to oversee all water suppliers, both private and public and will require extensive paperwork from those utility companies. Assembly Bill 1668 is where it gets personal. This establishes limits on indoor water usage for every person in California and the amount allowed will decrease even further over the next 12 years. The bill, until January 1, 2025, would establish 55 gallons per capita daily as the standard for indoor residential water use, beginning January 1, 2025, would establish the greater of 52.5 gallons per capita daily or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use, and beginning January 1, 2030, would establish the greater of 50 gallons per capita daily or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use. The bill would impose civil liability for a violation of an order or regulation issued pursuant to these provisions, as specified. If you’re wondering how the government would know how much water your family is using, the utility providers will be obligated to rat you out of face massive fines. And they’re encouraged to spy in all sorts of creative ways. They “shall use satellite imagery, site visits, or other best available technology to develop an accurate estimate of landscaped areas.”
Some great articles about the failure of gun control, with Australia getting a dishonourable mention:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/02/obama-encourages-gun-controllers-stay-committed-no-matter-how-long-takes/
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/02/gun-control-fail-shooting-attacks-rock-australia-london/
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/06/03/a-weekend-in-london-man-shot-in-face-woman-slashed-attempted-murder/
“Australian police discovered the bodies of seven mass shooting victims on May 11, and on May 31, a machine gun attack in London left a man in this twenties fighting for his life. These shootings are occurring in nations the left has long held up as having the kinds of gun control America should implement. For example, on October 16, 2015, during a campaign stop in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton described Australia’s confiscatory approach to gun control and said that “it would be worth considering doing it on the national level” here. And on July 5, 2016, Breitbart News reported that gun-toting action star Matt Damon used the Australian premiere of Jason Bourne to praise that country’s gun controls. Stuff magazine quoted Damon saying, “You guys did it here in one fell swoop and I wish that could happen in my country, but it’s such a personal issue for people that we cannot talk about it sensibly. We just can’t.”
It is good to see Ron Paul plunging into battle on the threat to freedom that a cashless society will bring. Many of us have said the same, but here is the take from across the lake:
“The crash of the dollar is not a matter of if…but when! The modus operandi for the inner cabal of the global elite is and always has been to provide order out of chaos…sometimes the chaos happen organically and sometimes it has to be created. Money has always been used as their greatest mechanism for control ever since the introduction of usury in the ancient world.”
https://goldsilver.com/blog/dr-ron-paul-on-the-coming-dollar-crash-and-cashless-society/
A very good question is raised here; what is being done about the authorities who turned a blind eye to the paedophilic grooming rape gangs in Britain. Read on:
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12435/rape-gangs-oxford
“What price has been paid, is being paid, or might be paid at some stage, by all those public officials who tacitly or otherwise allowed these modern-day atrocities to go on, doing nothing to stop them? The policemen, politicians, council workers and others who were shown to have failed time and again. They have never been sentenced to prison for any of their oversights -- and perhaps criminal charges (not even charges of criminal negligence) could never be brought against them. It is worth asking, however, if any of these people’s lives, career paths, or even pension plans were ever remotely affected by their proven failure to confront one of the greatest evils to have gone on in Britain. That is the mass rape of young girls motivated by adults propelled by (among much else) racism, religiosity, misogyny and class contempt. Perhaps the post grooming-gang career of just one public official might help to answer that question.
Colony collapse disorder, which is threatening bee populations across the globe, continues to be an unsolved problem, but a problem that will ring in an era of hunger, if not starvation, if bee populations continue to crash. Around one third of all humanity’s food, and 80 percent of crops are pollinated by bees, so the best case scenario would be economic collapse:
http://readynutrition.com/resources/will-the-extinction-of-bees-really-mean-the-end-of-humanity_04062018/
http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2012/05/insect-pollinators-contribute-29b-us-farm-income
While many internet sites like to take a quick fix approach to this problem, putting the blame on neonicotinoid chemicals alone, a search of the scientific literature reveals that there are probably a whole range of insecticides, and maybe herbicides, and perhaps industrial pollution, which are impacting upon the honey bee:
https://fordham.bepress.com/environ_2015/57/
It is straight out of the Terminator movies, with advances in artificial intelligence destroying humanity, the ultimate hubris:
http://collapse.news/2018-06-03-ai-could-spark-a-nuclear-apocalypse-by-2040.html
“A new study conducted by the RAND Corporation warns that advances in artificial intelligence could spark a nuclear apocalypse as soon as 2040. The researchers gathered information from experts in nuclear issues, government, AI research, AI policy, and national security. According to the paper, AI machines might not destroy the world autonomously, but artificial intelligence could encourage humans to take apocalyptic risks with military decisions. Humans will inevitably trust in AI technology to a greater extent, as advances are made in AI for detection, tracking, and targeting. The newfound data intelligence that AI provides will escalate war time tensions and encourage bold, calculated decisions. As armies trust AI to translate data, they will be more apt to take drastic measures against one another. It will be like playing chess against a computer that can predict your future moves and make decisions accordingly. Since 1945, the thought of mutually assured destruction through nuclear war has kept countries accountable to one another. With AI calculating risks more efficiently, armies will be able to attack with greater precision.
If women need any more proof of the harmfulness of feminism, which has nothing to do with women’s freedom, consider the latest remarks from that former Australian feminist icon, then tell me that political correctness has not self-destructed:
https://metro.co.uk/2018/05/31/germaine-greer-tells-hay-literary-festival-rape-just-bad-sex-7592531/?ito=cbshare
“Germaine Greer has sparked anger after she said that rapists should be given an ‘R’ tattoo on their cheek instead of being jailed in a speech at the Hay Literary Festival. Greer, who was raped at a party days before she turned 19, said that most rape was actually just ‘bad sex’ and ‘don’t involve any injury whatsoever’. She told an audience: ‘We are told it’s one of the most violent crimes in the world – bullshit’. She added: ‘Most rape is just lazy, just careless, just insensitive. ‘Every time a man rolls over on his exhausted wife and insists on enjoying his conjugal right, he is raping her. It will never end up in a court of law. ‘Instead of thinking of rape as a spectacularly violent crime – and some rapes are – think about it as non-consensual, that is, bad sex.”
The view has been advanced, even by the racial realist types at American Renaissance that Blacks have superior athletic ability to Whites. The only objection in the mainstream to this, is that it is a subtle racist claim, that Blacks do not therefore match Whites in intellectual ability, which hardly follows as a logical inference. Otherwise the system is happy to go along with this, another dig at Whites. However, here is a recent article from the Canadians, led by that great intellect Professor Ricardo Duchesne, refuting that:
https://www.eurocanadian.ca/2018/06/whites-are-better-in-almost-all-sports-and-strongest-in-world.html
“The scientific evidence is decisive: Whites, both males and females, dominate almost all the competitive sports. Blacks are very good in some sports, the sports that American media moguls love to showcase, basketball and football. They are also dominant in some athletics, but mainly just running. They are not good in all jumping competitions, white males and females absolutely dominate the pole vault Olympic medals. The constantly repeated phrase that “white men can’t jump” is a another lie of the establishment: White athletes have dominated the high jump. Just check the male and female Olympic medalists. As far as “major sports” are concerned: Whites dominate Hockey and Soccer and Tennis and Golf, and, to a considerable degree, Baseball as well. The majority of the top 100 Soccer players in the world are white. While some blacks have been excellent at Baseball, in a very good assessment “ranking the 25 best Baseball players of all time”, Whites outnumber non-whites 20 to 5.
Is there a metaphor buried in this story, somewhere, anywhere? A man kills a snake, cuts off its head, but then, by accident he gets bitten by the severed head. So, how is this possible? Demonic magic? The New World Order? Globalism? White privilege? Political correctness in the land of the snakes and ladders? No. No:
https://www.livescience.com/62771-decapitated-rattlesnake-bites-man.html?utm_source=ls-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20180608-ls
“The answer has to do with the snake’s physiology. Snakes are cold-blooded creatures, meaning they get heat from external sources, such as sunlight and warm surfaces. (The scientific term for this is “ectotherm.”) Because snakes don’t need to internally maintain their body temperature, they don’t need as much energy — which is burned up using oxygen — as warm-blooded “endotherms” do, said David Penning, an assistant professor of biology at Missouri Southern State University who wasn’t involved in the Texas case. If a mammal loses its head, it will die almost immediately. But snakes and other ectotherms, which don’t need as much oxygen to fuel the brain, can probably live on for minutes or even hours, Penning said. “Severing the head isn’t going to cause immediate death in the animal,” Penning told Live Science. “It doesn’t need that much oxygen in the first place.” Granted, the snake might not have been self-aware that it no longer had a body. Rather, it likely just felt the pain from the decapitation and then tried to defend itself, Penning said.”
Put this one in the eternal puzzle department:
https://www.theorganicprepper.com/swedish-home-guard-mobilized/
https://www.forsvarsmakten.se/sv/aktuellt/2018/06/historisk-ovning-forsvarsmakten-testar-hemvarnets-beredskap/
“For the first time since 1975, the Armed Forces carry out an unannounced emergency preparedness control of the entire Hemvärnet. All staff around Sweden who are part of one of the 40 home war battalions and who have the opportunity to attend the evening of 5 June and during the national day will be in charge of service. The alarm is ordered by the Armed Forces and participation in the exercise is voluntary. “We are committed to strengthening Sweden’s defense and increasing our operational capabilities. This is a way to do it. This exercise is great in several ways. We are testing the emergency chain for almost half our intervention organization, we have not done since 1975, says Micael Bydén, the commander. Initially, staff – from north to south – will be contacted and invited to stand for service. Thereafter, relations will begin to solve tasks, such as protection, guarding and patrolling. During the national day, home care personnel will be seen in many places around the country, from ports and airports to streets and squares. Since it is a voluntary exercise, the Armed Forces can not force anyone to settle, but the chief commander shows great confidence in his staff.”
Who says that there is no “positive social change,” for now there will be safe access to abortions, putting those pesky protesting Christian critters, people like shameful old arthritis granny, me, in their place, and isn’t about time people like that got what is coming to them? Thank God - no, not God - for a progressive parliament:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/abortion-clinic-safe-access-zones-become-law-in-nsw-20180607-p4zk18.html
“Protesters will face jail time for harassing people outside abortion facilities after NSW Parliament passed laws to impose 150-metre “safe access zones” around clinics and hospitals that provide terminations. The laws, which are aimed at ensuring the privacy and safety of women accessing clinics, passed easily and without amendment through the Legislative Assembly, with a final vote of 61 to 18 in favour. Labor MP Penny Sharpe, who co-sponsored the bill with Nationals MP Trevor Khan, welcomed its passaged as a “terrific day for women in NSW and the staff that work in reproductive health clinics”. The bill, which will amend the Public Health Act, will establish 150-metre “safe access zones” around abortion clinics, inside which it will be illegal to obstruct and harass people accessing clinics or record them without their consent. The most contentious provision, however, is the creation of a broad communication offence, which renders it illegal to make “a communication that relates to abortions, by any means”, that could cause “distress or anxiety” to a person accessing or leaving a clinic.”
I am not the only one deeply disturbed by the anti-Western position taken by our generally left universities. Here is some more common sense from Senator Cory Bernardi, “A Bridge Too Far for the ANU”:
https://www.corybernardi.com/a_bridge_too_far_for_the_anu
“Choices have consequences. It’s a simple message that sensible parents share with their children and that everyone will eventually learn for themselves. In a sign of emotional immaturity, where a poor choice is made, some will seek to deflect blame onto others. They will rationalise and justify whatever they can to avoid responsibility themselves. Choices have consequences. It’s a simple message that sensible parents share with their children and that everyone will eventually learn for themselves. In a sign of emotional immaturity, where a poor choice is made, some will seek to deflect blame onto others. They will rationalise and justify whatever they can to avoid responsibility themselves. We have seen a stark example of that immaturity this week by some of those involved with the Australian National University (ANU). ANU is our top rated tertiary institution that marks success by producing assorted leftists who perpetuate group-think and identity politics. One young man I know lasted a single semester at ANU before transferring to a university that was less concerned with gender fluidity and other PC nonsense. He commented to me that, “Every day at ANU entailed being drip-fed radical Kool-aid that was undermining the country and poisoning my mind”.
There was a protest in London a few days ago in support of gaoled activist Tommy Robinson, who was vocal in protesting against migrant rape grooming gangs. Some reports on the alternative media list the number of people attending, of all colours and races, as close to 20,000. Of course, the mainstream media found someone ready to give a Nazi salute, so forget it all, let the guy stay in gaol, let the gangs do what they do, and we will all hang our heads in shame:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-44427518
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/tommy-robinson-free-protest-nazi-salutes-london-violence-police-arrests-attacks-prison-a8393566.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGRqhVLuqEw
Robinson is on record for being critical of the US Alt Right, and is primarily a liberal. If he can be gaoled, this is a clear indication of how rotten the British system has become. No critic, at least anyone non-Leftoid, is safe.
Time to leave to go back home to the United States. I very much enjoyed coming to Australia once again, and I particularly enjoyed writing some mathematics papers for you which is my form of relaxation. After all, I am not married, and devote my time to science, prayer, and devotion to our Lord Jesus Christ. I want to follow up one point made in my paper on mathematical finitism, the position that the idea of infinity is philosophically problematical and should be jettisoned from mathematics. A number of readers were interested in my mention of finite but super-large numbers, and I will explore this further now. I appreciated receiving many warm emails from fans of mathematical analysis, some on remote sheep stations in the centre of Australia, who also pass lonely evenings, studying advanced calculus and real analysis.
First, let us return to Finitism, with some of the main papers being as follows
https://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/loewe/HiPhI/Slides/bendegem.pdf
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2272346.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A6e4ad837e563fca884ba1b46e6069c68
https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.ndjfl/1093634481
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2273760.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A5a69fb898236f1f5f11fb5b134fa9c78
This article follows on from Peter’s musings about the Left and their culture of critique of Western civilisation, and their denial that political correctness rules the university and “thinking’ sectors of society. Yes, pigs really do fly.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/06/lathams-law-52/
“What was Paul Ramsay thinking? In dedicating part of his estate’s $3 billion endowment to course work at an Australian university, the healthcare mogul should have known the sort of academic disciplines certain to excite the higher education sector. The Ramsay Centre for the Enhancement of the LGBTIQWTF alphabet would have had staff at La Trobe University, home of the Safe Schools program, doing cartwheels. The Ramsay Centre for the Study of Colonial Genocide could have been built as an annex to the QUT’s notorious Indigenous safe space, helping to develop 364 alternative dates to Australia Day. Yet there was Ramsay, idealistic to the end, wanting to focus academic attention on an obscure concept known as ‘Western Civilisation’. Hadn’t he read Foucault and Derrida?
We have heard it all before, so it is no surprise the read it again on “their’ ABC website from: “Dirk Moses is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sydney and senior editor of the Journal of Genocide Research.” Ok, we can guess what is coming:
http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2018/06/07/4853745.htm
“Why would an otherwise level-headed commentator like Greg Sheridan commence his column in The Australian with the extraordinary statement that the ANU’s decision “is a pivotal moment in modern Australian history”? Do members of the right-wing commentariat think that Western countries are succumbing to a poisonous cocktail of multiculturalism, Muslim immigration, political correctness and cultural Marxism that dilutes the white population and brainwashes young people at school and university? It seems that, much like Steve Bannon, they do. We are on the precipice of disaster, they seem to believe. The sense of crisis and doom is unmistakable. But it is not new. A closer examination of the critics reveals a generation of Australian men who were politically socialized in the 1960s and 1970s when the clash between communism and the Roman Catholic Church split the labour movement. The new Democratic Labor Party formed a home for socially conservative Roman Catholics who became active against “the left” at Australian universities. I well remember the apocalyptic sensibility of National Civic Council operatives during the 1980s, locked in an imaginary cosmic battle against the forces of communist evil, although you could count the far-left adherents at the University of Queensland on one hand. For most of us, the threat to democratic institutions was the Bjelke-Petersen government, not a communism that had long been a spent force. In the end, most Queenslanders agreed.
