Even though by some accounts the North Korean situation is de-escalating, the Middle East, as always, is hot enough to light your pipe by:
  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/ww3-alert-iran-threatens-strikes-will-be-met-with-force-after-us-led-syria-attacks_04302018 

“Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of Iran, has launched a blistering verbal attack against the US in the wake of missile strikes on Syrian bases in Hama and Aleppo on Sunday night. In a bellicose speech on Monday, Khamenei accused the US of causing a “regional crisis” in the Middle East by creating “instability” that has “brought misery to people”. Iran will respond in kind to missile strikes on any of its bases in Syria or elsewhere, Khamenei was quoted as saying by Israeli state media. “The era of ‘hit and run’ attacks has ended, and from now on attacks will be met with firm force,” Khamenei said just hours after the missile attack on Syria that has been blamed on Israel, the US and Britain. Missiles struck a number of Syrian military facilities in strikes that a UK-based war monitor said killed at least 26 troops, many of whom were Iranians. Syrian state media closely linked with President Bashar al-Assad claimed British and US forces were involved in the missile attack.”

     The New York Times is so liberal that it is said liberals orbit its building like satellites. Now, to its shock and horror, this paper has discovered the well known psychological fact that friendship involves discrimination … gasp: 
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/science/friendship-discrimination.html

“Take the new evidence that people choose friends who resemble themselves, right down to the moment-to-moment pattern of blood flow in the brain. The tendency toward homophily, toward flocking together with birds of your inner and outer feather, gives rise to a harmonious sense of belonging and shared purpose, to easy laughter and volumes of subtext mutually, wordlessly, joyfully understood. But homophily, researchers said, is also the basis of tribalism, xenophobia and racism, the urge to “otherize” those who differ from you and your beloved friends in one or more ways. The impulse can yield absurd results. One recent study from the University of Michigan had subjects stand outside on a cold winter day and read a brief story about a hiker who was described as either a “left-wing, pro-gay-rights Democrat” or a “right-wing, anti-gay-rights Republican.”

     Some of the negative consequences of the cashless society are appearing in that great social disaster experiment in Nordic genocide, Sweden:
  http://www.collapse.news/2018-04-29-sweden-reveals-why-a-cashless-society-may-not-be-such-a-good-idea.html 

“Only recently, Stefan Ingves, the current head of the Swedish central bank Riksbank, issued a statement warning the country that it could soon be faced with a situation where private sector banks have taken complete control over the national payment system. In his view, it’s something that’s not really desirable. Therefore, he called for new laws that would help to secure public control over any payment system, mainly because a working payments system is a “collective good” that benefits the general public as a whole. According to Ingves, the citizens have every right to not let control of payment systems go to private institutions, much less those that are financially interested, especially for certain things like public works and national defense. “Most citizens would feel uncomfortable to surrender these social functions to private companies,” he said. “It should be obvious that Sweden’s preparedness would be weakened if, in a serious crisis of war, we had not decided in advanced how households and companies would pay for fuel, supplies and other necessities.”

     Democracy is sick and dying right across the West. Free speech is ceasing to exist as nations go into civil war mode. My shed, in fact is in civil war mode, with the rats and cockroaches in an eternal battle. But, I digress. Yet another indication of this is the attack made on black rapper Kanye West for supporting Donny Trumper:
  http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/04/30/snoop-doggs-cousin-issues-crip-alert-kanye-tells-gangsters-fck-kanye-up/

“A former member of rapper Snoop Dogg’s 90s entourage known as Tha Dog Pound has called for gangsters to attack hip-hop star Kanye West for his support of President Donald Trump. Daz Dillinger, Snoop Dogg’s cousin and collaborator on several 90’s era Dogg Pound hits, threatened Kanye on a since-deleted Instagram video. Dillinger says in the video, “Better not ever see you in concert. Better not ever see you around the LBC. Better not ever see you around California. Stay in Calabasas, ya hear me? ‘Cuz we got a Crip alert for Kanye.” The rapper issued a “national alert,” telling all his fellow Crip gang members to “f**** Kanye up” if they see him in California.”

     Battle fatigue makes one a little cynical, if not cranky. The rape of Britain phenomenon, seen in the child grooming/rape/torture cases of thousands of white British girls by migrant men, has led to increasingly extreme cases, with lower ages of the raped victims … now it seems even toddlers are not safe:
  http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/04/30/five-times-child-grooming-offices-youngest-two-years-old/ 

“There have been more than 6,000 grooming crimes recorded in the UK in less than five years, with numbers dramatically rising in the past 12 months, Home Office statistics reveal. The data reveals there were more than five times more reported grooming offences last year than in the previous 12 months, with children as young as two-years-old as targets. Offences were logged by police in England and Wales from April 2013 to December 2017, and appear to be rapidly accelerating as new offences are added to the statute books. Between April and December 2017, in the space of just eight months, there were a total of 2,996 grooming crimes recorded.”
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/10/26/enormous-rise-child-sex-grooming/

     Climate Aristocrats and Bureaucrats from 190 nations are meeting in Bonn, dreaming up rules “to prevent the globe from warming more than 2°C”. They have forgotten the lesson of mighty King Canute - he demonstrated that not even his great power could roll back the tide. Changing Climate is the natural state on Earth. Just 12,000 years ago the globe warmed quickly by over 10°C, the great ice sheets melted, and sea levels rose dramatically. Then it got cold again. Temperatures then fluctuated over a range of about 5°C during the Egyptian Warm period, the Roman Warm period, the Dark Ages Mini Ice Age, the Medieval Warm period and the grim times of the Little Ice Age.

     We are fortunate to live in the fruitful Modern Warm Era and global temperatures are probably near the top for this climate cycle. None of the warm eras were caused by man’s use of coal, gas, or petroleum or by bovine emissions. And none of the cold eras were triggered by mandating more windmills, taxing open fires or following emission targets set in Bonn, Brussels, Rio or Rome. This is their 48th Climate talk fest. It’s time the Climate Aristocrats admitted they cannot predict or control climate, they have harmed consumers (especially the world’s poorest people), and they are achieving nothing useful for the environment. Send them home now (on their zero-emission bicycles).
  Viv Forbes, Washpool, Qld

To THE AUSTRALIAN    Lesley Beckhouse is right (5/5) to oppose the 'National Compact on Permanent Migration' published by the ACTU and other groups. A close study of it shows that the signatories simply ignore the grim writing on the wall - that serious commitment to 'sustainable' development can only mean a drastic curtailment of our currently runaway immigration policy. A responsible compact would explain clearly now when and how in the future immigration is to be reduced and how, under continuation of the present policy, the problems mentioned by Beckhouse will be addressed.

     The national situation appears to be as follows: administrators of a corrupt financial system, international in scope, are seeking present-time selfish profit at the expense of future generations. Unfortunately, the main sacred tradition of the West, Christianity, having failed to take account of the findings of comparative religion in the past two centuries, is gravely weakened and unable to provide a needed restraining influence, as well as a sound critique of the vacuous, feel-good, fashionable ideology of the compact.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     No matter how crazy other articles will appear at this site, the one dealing with Sweden usually takes the cake, although the one about the Japanese using radioactive dirt in roads is a strong contender. But, here I put my case:
  https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/04/swedens-minister-of-social-affairs-claims-countrys-elderly-not-muslim-migrants-are-the-big-problem

“Sweden’s Minister of Social Affairs, Annika Strandhäll, told newspaper Aftonbladet that the country’s elderly and not refugees, are overloading the healthcare system. The Swedish health care system is so overloaded that the care queues for surgery are so long that patients literally start to rot, Aftonbladet reported earlier. Strandhäl is convinced this is not due to mass migration to Sweden. When readers of Aftonbladet claim that it is the acceptance of refugees that has made Swedish healthcare worse, the minister answers: “That’s not true, that’s not true! We have a rapidly aging population in Sweden. Life expectancy increases by 3.5 hours a day and we have a larger number of chroniclers with life-long relationships with healthcare today than 30 years ago.” According to Strandhäll, “the number of people aged 70 years and older will increase by 300,000 by 2025. That is the big problem, according to her. Refugee reception has nothing to do with it”.

     You have to hand it to the Japanese, they have true samurai spirit and do not let little things like atomic bombs being dropped on them set them back. A truly great people, who are unfortunately facing all of the problems which we face, although they are holding back the tide on mass immigration by using their ingenuity to go robots. But…
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-05-02-japan-to-build-roads-out-of-radioactive-fukushima-dirt.html 

“When nuclear disaster struck at Japan’s Fukushima-Daiichi power plant, it was clear that the environmental impact of such extreme amounts of radiation would be immeasurable. Reports on just how bad the situation at the plant is have continued to reveal a devastating truth: Even in 2017, the amount of radiation being produced by the damaged reactors was lethal. In spite of the obvious risk, Japanese government officials are now looking to make use of the radioactive Fukushima — by using dirt from the site to build new roads. Roughly six years after the meltdown began, the radiation in and around the nuclear reactors was still being described as a “nuclear explosion that doesn’t end.”

     I know that the French are supposed to be romantic, but, give me a break:
  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43974078 

“French President Emmanuel Macron committed a rather delicious faux pas on Wednesday that left his Australian audience scratching their heads. Mr Macron has been in the country on a diplomatic trip, discussing weighty issues like climate change and defence. The president’s immaculate English, however, failed him momentarily as he thanked PM Malcolm Turnbull. “Thank you and your delicious wife for your warm welcome, the perfect organisation of this trip,” he said. “Thanks to you and Lucy, thank you very much, Mr Prime Minister,” he added, before the two men shook hands.”

     The mass immigration mania is in full swing for this time of the year, with Trump pumping away to bring in heaps of guest workers to “do your jobs.” In the article below, Ann Coulter demolishes him, showing how he has contradicted his basic election promises. Nothing new here from a Deep State bunny.
  https://www.vdare.com/articles/ann-coulter-gop-midterm-slogan-we-need-guest-workers-to-do-your-jobs

     Even though Trump is no gong to do it, opinion polls show that radical immigration reform is approved by the American voters:
  https://www.amren.com/news/2018/05/poll-shows-extreme-immigration-proposals-are-broadly-popular/ 

     Here is the latest piece of tyranny: Victoria’s Local Government Act 2018, Bill:
  https://larryhannigan.com/government-state/13-victorian-local-government-act-2018-submissions/ 

     What the Bill does is to transfer a massive amount of state power to local councils. Thus, councils become “authorities” in their own right (section 68), with the power to make local laws for any matter which the council has a function or power. These local laws may be enforced by the police: section 327. For example, in accordance with section 151, councils may compulsory acquire any land that may be required by the council.
    Is there some sort of knock down constitutional argument against this? This is the first weapon that actionists call on:
  https://www.change.org/p/daniel-andrews-dump-victoria-s-local-government-act-2018-bill-that-will-give-councils-authority-status?utm_medium=email&utm_source=petition_signer_receipt&utm_campaign=triggered&share_context=signature_receipt&recruiter=31314222

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     A strange situation: 73 percent of  Americans believe that artificial intelligence will destroy more jobs than it creates, but, surprise, surprise, most also believe that their job will be safe! Talk about, not in my backyard! This is a prime example of the psychology of cognitive blindspots, for if people could think clearly they would see that whatever job they had, even flipping burgers, a machine could in principle, and soon in practice, replace it. Thus, my son was amazed when he started first year mathematics this year, to see computer applications, all available on the web, that solved with working almost all calculus problems. STEM degrees could well be a waste of time in the future, as with degrees like law, where if it can’t be done by a machine, then it will be outsourced to Asia for cheap labour to do the job.
  http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/03/08/report-most-americans-think-ai-will-destroy-jobs-but-will-not-take-their-own-job/

     If one can survive with minimalism, why work?
  https://www.theminimalists.com/minimalism/ 

     Now here is an interesting one:
  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/10/christians-oppose-abortion-hate-sex/

“A recent article in the Times-Standard out of Humboldt County, California, took aim at pro-lifers, alleging that they oppose abortion because they think “human sexuality is something to be ashamed of.” This bizarre opinion piece was written by Rev. Bryan Jessup of Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Church in Bayside, California, and trotted out tired, pro-choice rhetoric that Christians wish to “impose” anti-abortion morality based on religion. “Regarding the 40- day protest in Eureka,” the reverend wrote, “people need to know that not all religions believe that human sexuality is something to be ashamed of. They need to know that some ways of faith regard sexuality as a blessing to be carefully enjoyed between people — even if they aren’t married or heterosexual.” Jessup went on to assert that freedom of religion means that “people whose faith allows them more freedom around their sexuality are also free to do as they see fit” because the United States is a secular nation.”

     The Australian, which I can now only afford to buy on the weekend (March 10-11, 2018), had a number of articles dealing with the conservative crisis. Who are the conservatives that this paper loves so much? John Howard is one, who is still campaigning that there should be “no alteration or weakening” of Australia’s gun laws. The concern is that pump action shotguns and semi auto rifles may be used under special circumstances in rural operations. Wow, what a cucked low T society Australia is.

     It is impossible to believe that the ANZACs came from such an emasculated place. It does not take long to destroy a civilisation, and maybe it will not take too long to destroy the regime that “con-servativism” has produced. Australian conservatives are generally mass immigration, pro-globalism and one cycle in political correctness behind the Left. I hope that it dies, soon. It is an interesting question : who is the most dangerous, con-servatives, as defined, or the all-out Left?

     All of us who spend our days looking for the sign of the times in the news cycle, can feel it coming, the end of politics, primarily brought on by the creation of multiracial, multicultural societies by non-democratic mass immigration. That, of course is not the only issue, for there is economics, the elephant in the room. Over all, these civilisational crises have led to peole losing faith in the political process, which is very reasonable when the entire system is rotten to the core. Here are some statistics from America, which is leading the West into the sunset:
  https://www.axios.com/americans-lose-faith-democracy-754a034d-2a8a-4b20-b1d4-fbd4127385a5.html 

     Almost 40 percent of people in the sample said that they have lost faith in the democratic process, whatever that means. I expect the same would hold true for Australia. Democracies do not last very long as Plato observed over 2,500 years ago, as he watched Athenian democracy tear itself apart.
  http://www.amerika.org/politics/insights-into-civilization-collapse-from-north-america/ 

     Remember when Donald Trump was elected president of the USA and Mal Turnbull was told the news via his trusty mobile phone? His head sunk, in an “oh poo” moment. Now they are all buddies and Mal intends to use a fair chunk of Australia’s $2.53 trillion superannuation to give to Trump so that the Donald can fix America’s infrastructure, which is rated by engineers at the D or fail level:
  https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/trumps-infrastructure-plan-gets-25-trillion-nudge-from-australia-20180222-h0wghz.html 

“Australian politicians have pointed to their own success in selling or leasing public assets to finance new construction without incurring new debt -- a concept known as asset recycling. Joe Hockey, now Australia’s ambassador to the US, was a key champion of the initiative when he was federal treasurer and has been pivotal in promoting it in Washington.  “There’s no doubt when it comes to infrastructure and better rollout of infrastructure, Australia has some examples that may be of use to the United States,” Hockey said on Wednesday. Fund managers in Turnbull’s delegation of 22 business leaders will continue the push at the National Governors Association meeting this weekend.

     The good news is that the impending nuclear war between the US and North Korea has been postponed for a little while. Chubby Kim seems willing to talk, but it could all be 4-dimensional chess, as he plays the soft West. We will see. But, then there is India and Pakistan, living proof of the joy of multiculturalism:
  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/world-war-3-pakistan-vows-revenge-on-india-after-attack_02272018 
  https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/924492/World-War-3-Pakistan-promises-revenge-for-India-LoC-border-attack-New-Delhi-Islamabad 
  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/are-you-prepared-for-the-war-to-end-all-wars_02262018 

“As the world quietly goes about their business, Pakistan has vowed to get revenge on India after an attack.  The tensions between the two nations are quickly spiraling out of control leading many to wonder if World War 3 will break out in the area soon. According to the Express UK, the devastating attack from India along the contested border known as the Line of Control (LoC) as tensions between the two South Asian nations flare, a retired soldier has claimed. The LoC splits the region of Kashmir, with Pakistan owning one side and India, the other. The region of Kashmir has beencontested by both countries for decades causing high levels of tensions between the neighboring states. Fayaz Ahmad, a politician from the Kashmir region of India, stated that announcements were made over some loudspeakers on the Pakistan side of Balakote that have declared acts of “retaliation” will take place. 

     We may know the sins of Winnie the pooh Churchill from David Irving’s work on World War II, but Churchill was up to evil long before that:
  http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2031992,00.html 

“In 1943, some 3 million brown-skinned subjects of the Raj died in the Bengal famine, one of history’s worst. Mukerjee delves into official documents and oral accounts of survivors to paint a horrifying portrait of how Churchill, as part of the Western war effort, ordered the diversion of food from starving Indians to already well-supplied British soldiers and stockpiles in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, including Greece and Yugoslavia. And he did so with a churlishness that cannot be excused on grounds of policy: Churchill’s only response to a telegram from the government in Delhi about people perishing in the famine was to ask why Gandhi hadn’t died yet. British imperialism had long justified itself with the pretense that it was conducted for the benefit of the governed. Churchill’s conduct in the summer and fall of 1943 gave the lie to this myth. “I hate Indians,” he told the Secretary of State for India, Leopold Amery.