There has been excitement among the alien life crowd that an unusual asteroid, called “Oumuamua,” which passed through the solar system on its merry way, could have been an alien probe or space ship:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5198325/Was-Oumuamua-alien-spacecraft.html
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/stephen-hawking-joins-effort-to-confirm-if-oumuamua-object-is-alien-probe_12132017
Probing of the asteroid may have awaken the aliens inside to our existence, and being super-advanced, they will come back with their mates to kill us. Then cook us, and eat us.
Other, cooler scientists think that this thing has a heart of ice, with an outer organic layer, much like our ruling elites:
https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/oumuamua-has-a-heart-of-ice

     It is pretty unlikely that there is intelligent life in the universe, especially on Earth:
http://www.amerika.org/politics/what-it-means-if-we-are-the-only-life-in-the-universe/

     This stunning article by Andrew Bolt alerts us to some of the implications of immigration/refugeeism:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/who-let-them-in-another-riot-and-an-ambush/news-story/7d6f1626e5a59ef3c28eefd14e86d49b:

“A memo was circulated to Victoria Police members this week expressing concerns about a “deliberate ploy” by groups of teenagers to “lure” officers into backstreets to attack them.
According to the memo, officers in a patrol car in Tarneit tailing a vehicle driven by a boy as young as 13 saw up to 40 teens of African appearance running towards a lane way.
“Police saw a group of Africans who were being very hostile ... as the vehicle approached Destiny Lane, a group of 30-40 Africans ran towards Destiny Lane,’’ it said.
“It’s believed this was a deliberate ploy to lure police into the lane way, with no escape or exit paths unless they drove through (a) group of people … (where they could be) easily surrounded.’’

     I just knew it, I just knew it …all that global warming bunk…a new ice age could be coming:
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/the-sun-is-going-dark-no-sunspots-for-96-days-ice-age-approaches_12192017

     The sun has not had sunspots for 96 days now, and is diminishing in intensity according to NASA:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/12/15/the-sun-is-blank-nasa-data-shows-it-to-be-dimming/
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-20/martin-armstrong-warns-sun-cooling-faster-anyone-suspected

     As a Christmas present, the noble editor and his lovely wife, whom I have met once, posted to me a nice hardback copy of Camille Paglia’s Glittering Images: A Journey through Art from Egypt to Star Wars  (2012). The book ranges over a massive number of topics, and I cannot adequately assess much of the material because I don’t have a university education, and even if I did, it would be, like centuries old, and irrelevant to the world of pop culture, which is concerned with the here and now.  Sure, I have heard of Any Warhol, paintings of soup tins, everybody is famous for 15 minutes, Star Wars, and the like.
     However, the opening page of the book, which ties all of this up caught my eye:

“Modern life is a sea of images. Our eyes are flooded by bright pictures and clusters of text flashing at us from every direction. The brain, overstimulated, must rapidly adapt to process this swirling barrage of disconnected data. Culture in the developed world is largely defined by all-pervasive mass media and slavishly monitored personal electronic devices.  The exhilarating expansion of instant global communication has liberated a host of individual voices but paradoxically threatened to overwhelm individuality itself.
     How to survive in this age of vertigo? We must learn to see. Amid so much jittery clutter, it is crucial to find focus, the basis of stability, identity, and life direction.  Children above all deserve rescue from the torrential stream of flickering images, which addict them to seductive distractions and make social reality, with its duties and ethical concerns, seem dull and futile.  The only way to teach focus is to present the eye with opportunities for steady perception – best supplied by the contemplation of art.  Looking at art requires stillness and receptivity, which realign our senses and produce a magical tranquillity.”

     Rapper, or is it candy wrapper, Eminem, is at it again:
https://usaherald.com/eminem-raps-kidnapping-ivanka-trump-raping-ann-coulter/

“Following Eminem’s controversial freestyle rap “The Storm,” he continues to slam the President and other political figure(s) with whom he disagrees with. On his latest album, “Like Home,” the 45-year-old rapper expressed his desire to place First Daughter Ivanka Trump in his car trunk and rape conservative commentator Ann Coulter, as reported by Breitbart News.”

     This is what happens when “good’ men do nothing for too long, and just allow it to happen; the elites viciously turn on local inhabitants and begin to demographically replace them, because Europe is “too white”:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/12/18/eu-white-mass-migration-norm/

“Brussels has said that Europeans must accept mass migration from the third world as the “new norm”, warning that neither walls nor policies will allow any part of the EU to remain “homogenous and migration-free”.
“It’s time to face the truth. We cannot and will never be able to stop migration,” writes EU Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos, in a piece for POLITICO, published Monday entitled, “Europe’s Migrants Are Here to Stay”.
In it, the Eurocrat wrote “human mobility will increasingly define the 21st century”, and that mass migration is an issue Brussels has committed Europe to “for the long haul”, stating: “Migration is deeply intertwined with our policies on economics, trade, education and employment — to name just a few.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-migration-migrants-are-here-to-stay-refugee-crisis/
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/11/28/eu-president-without-millions-african-migrants-europe-lody/
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/12/20/un-director-general-calls-migration-right-world-move/

     Just in case you Aussies think that your country is more degenerate than ours, consider that our FBI has actively engaged in treason to attempt to bring down president Trump:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-12-20-revealed-the-fbi-plot-to-overthrow-the-presidency-and-commit-organized-treason-in-america.html

“Perhaps one of the most outrageous and desperate allegations made by the left in recent history is the idea that President Trump and various members of his team colluded with the Russians throughout the 2016 presidential election, which ultimately helped Trump defeat Hillary Clinton last November. Despite no concrete evidence whatsoever, the liberals, including and especially leftists within the mainstream media, have been hellbent on convincing the American people that something illegal occurred. Eventually, they were rewarded for their efforts with the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who has gone on to conduct one of the most biased and politicized FBI investigations in American history.
To give just one example, it was recently revealed that a top FBI agent at the center of the investigation into the so-called “Russia collusion scandal,” Peter Strzok, exchanged several anti-Trump text messages with FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who was also appointed to Mueller’s investigative team.  Although Strzok was suspended from the investigation for his overwhelming bias, it goes to show that Robert Mueller really didn’t take enough time to ensure that his team was fair and honest in the first place. (Related: The bogus “Trump-Russia collusion” story is nothing but a political hatchet job cooked up by Obama loyalist John Brennan.)
It’s also worth noting that Peter Strzok was the FBI’s lead investigator on the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified emails during her time as Secretary of State.  Strzok even interviewed Clinton on July 2, 2016, just days before then-FBI Director James Comey announced that he would not be recommending any charges. If Peter Strzok is this biased and this willing to defend liberal Democrats, why would Robert Mueller recruit him for his team?”

     I have been waiting for this one, the endgame of feminism and Metooism, making sex “illegal,” and Sweden, the capital of white race suicide is about to do it:

“The left-wing Swedish governing coalition is looking to drastically tighten the country’s sexual consent laws which will require prior verbal or written consent from both partners in the near future.
The government has said the new laws, which will go into effect in July of next year, will require both partners to have explicit verbal or written consent in order to engage in sexual activity, or be open to potential rape charges Die Welt reports.
Previously Swedish law stated that sexual relations were deemed consensual as long as neither partner said “no” except in cases of extreme intoxication. The new legislation claims to only require oral permission beforehand but many have speculated that in a potential rape allegation it would be wiser to have the permission written down on paper.”
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/12/20/new-swedish-consent-laws-require-written-permission-sexual-relations/

     For at least 50 years Australian taxpayers and other innocents have supported a parasitic industry in academia, bureaucracy, law, media and the tax-exempt Green Alarm “Charities”, all studying, regulating, inspecting and writing about yet another “imminent threat to Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef.”
     It has become the never-ending battle of the Coral Sea.

     The threats change, but there is always a doomsday forecast – Crown-of-Thorns, oil drilling, fishing, cane farming, coastal shipping, global warming, ocean acidity, coral bleaching, port dredging, chemical and fertiliser runoff, coal transport, river sediments, loss of world heritage status etc. Every recycled scare, magnified by the media and parroted by politicians, generates more income for the alarm industry, usually at the expense of taxpayers, consumers or local industries.

     The elites have made Britain into something resembling the TV show The Walking Dead. That may seem to be an exaggeration, since the zombies, and some groups allegedly eat terrified “normies.”
But consider:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1552482/Missing-girls-body-put-into-kebab.html
 shops on the Blackpool Promenade. She was last seen on the evening of Saturday Nov 1 2003. After kissing her mother goodbye she left alone - and vanished, Mr Holroyde said.

     A missing persons inquiry began but police later launched a murder investigation after receiving information that Charlene had been “killed and chopped up”, the court heard.
No trace of Charlene’s body has ever been found.

     The Kate Steinle case may be a turning point in the cultural/racial war that is gripping America:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/mexican-acquitted-of-murder-faces-gun-immigration-charges/

     “Help me, Dad.”
Kate Steinle’s dying words after she was shot by an illegal alien are heartrending to any father—and should be to any American.
But apparently not. Steinle’s killer, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, has just been found Not Guilty in San Francisco.”
An article at vDare.com explains:

     Here is a great article cutting down, fairly, American libertarianism, the extreme free market, hyper-individualist philosophy of Big Business:
https://www.counter-currents.com/2017/11/the-moral-poverty-of-libertarianism/

    The article quotes from Murray Rothbard’s The Ethics of Liberty:
https://www.amazon.com/Ethics-Liberty-Murray-N-Rothbard/dp/0814775594
  where in chapter 14, “Children and Rights,” he says: “the parent should have the legal right not to feed the child i.e. allow it to die.”

     The significance of this week’s North Korea missile launch needs to be noted. First, the high altitude missile, indicating that it is capable of hitting anywhere in the world, raises the grim prospect North Korea is likely to try an EMP attack on the United states, which would fry electronics, and make the US a post-apocalyptic wasteland, as that common phrase now goes:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-30/north-koreas-newest-missile-capable-carrying-multiple-warheads
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-28/it-can-reach-washington-dc-latest-north-korean-icbm-can-hit-all-continental-us
https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-11-30-alert-north-korea-can-now-kill-90-of-the-u-s-population-video-lecture.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3CFFS4NKJQ

     Australia has also been threatened by North Korea with nuclear annihilation, and since we followed the “populate or perish” mania of mass immigration after 1946, instead of getting nuclear missiles, and as we have no defence against them, Australia could be used as a scapegoat example by North Korea to show the US it means business. The US would not retaliate if an Australian city, or cities, bit the radioactive dust. Why should it? Wake up silly Aussies.

     Just when you thought Hussein Obama, America’s first black Muslim president was gone, along comes the movement to put his wife, Michelle Obama on the meaningless, globalist  throne:
http://www.unz.com/mwhitney/why-the-democrats-will-run-michele-obama-in-2020/

“The Dems need a proven commodity, a Princeton under-grad with a Harvard Law degree. Magna cum laude. A spotless record, no sordid affairs, embarrassing arrests or spotty personal history. A paragon, a shining example of strength, virtue, perseverance. A telegenic, charismatic pillar of the community who can deliver a barnburner with the best of them. A black woman whose name recognition makes her the most formidable candidate in the country today, bar none.
Michelle Obama. It’s as plain as the nose on your face.

to THE AUSTRALIAN
     Jennifer Oriel is right (Commentary, 4/12) that Australia Day can be celebrated in an inclusive way that should offend no one. We can indeed dance with the descendants of our first peoples, of seafaring British adventurers and the pioneers who followed, and of later immigrants from countries all around the world.
     This does not mean ignoring the fact that, as with most if not all historic events, there was loss as well as gain involved in the 1788 landing of the First Fleet and the subsequent transformation of human living conditions on this continent. One way of honouring this awareness could be the institution of a very brief period of public silent remembrance at, say, eleven in the morning each January 26th. By contrast, the raking up of past grievances to foment national division or for other dubious purposes should be condemned and shunned.
  NJ, Belgrave, Vic.

to THE AGE
     Jon Jovanovic is himself irrational in equating ‘religions of all persuasions’ with a ‘hurtful and damaging irrationality’ that is ‘faith-based’ (4/12). Not only does he neglect to consider the massive wickedness perpetrated by atheistic regimes (France post-1789, Russia post-1917 and China post-1949), but he fails to see that there are two kinds of irrationality, one of lesser cognitive value than logical reason but the other superior.
     We have various names for this ‘higher irrationality’: conscience, intuition, inspiration, mysticism, imagination, second sight, the sixth sense, and so on. It has enhanced human living conditions throughout history and sacred traditions are essentially its guardians and advocates, wrongdoing by benighted religious persons and groups notwithstanding.
  NJ, Belgrave, Vic

     Mike Adams continues his outpouring of critique on Bitcoin:
http://collapse.news/2017-12-05-federal-reserve-vice-chairman-declares-bitcoin-a-serious-risk-to-financial-stability-crypto-markets-plunge.html
http://collapse.news/2017-12-04-bitcoin-now-consuming-more-electricity-than-12-u-s-states-as-inefficient-mining-heads-for-collapse.html
http://collapse.news/2017-12-03-how-to-explain-the-bitcoin-bubble-to-young-people.html

     I have no competency on this matter, but I find his articles informative, and personally, if I had money to invest, which I do not, I would not be acting as many young people are, and having faith in this cryptocurrency, just because it is gee whiz, high tech, computer based. I do not see what prevents the entire system from collapsing. The reply is that conventional fiat currency faces the same problem.

     Here is a man, just like me, who believes that the Earth is flat, but instead of just dreaming about it, he built a rocket to fly into space to see for himself. But, he was stopped by authorities, for, after all, he could have crashed into a university, which would have been a great tragedy:
https://news.sky.com/story/mad-mike-hughes-forced-to-delay-home-made-rocket-launch-11146298

     He did not seem to have a plan for landing… maybe he hoped to parachute out, or fly? Any way, the moral of the story is that everybody has to have a dream, however crazy.  But, it is a pity that more people with this sort of manic energy, did not devote their steam into the political fight, such as immigration and the money question. Aaaah, my moment of sanity.

     In many parts of the world, knife crimes are on the increase. There have been many disturbing attacks, but one attack which was particularly distressful was on a woman in Brooklyn, New York, who had her throat cut by a stranger while she was walking on the street in broad daylight:
https://nypost.com/2017/10/20/slashing-victim-details-terrifying-moment-a-stranger-cut-her-throat/

Here is a good analysis of the situational awareness needed to avoid such attacks:
http://www.activeresponsetraining.net/bad-survival-math-fail-to-recognize-assaultive-behavior-denial-throat-cut