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Depreciators of our custom of celebrating on Australia Day the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 (Letters, 21/8) forget how much there is in that event worthy of continued affirmation today. Captain Phillip, a man of sterling courage and integrity, led a group of other very brave men to successfully establish an outpost of his culture in a frighteningly remote and puzzling land. Without their daring and boldness, the nation we live in today with such good fortune would not have been later established (1901) after the pioneering phase of the setting up of the colonies.
The Eureka Rebellion, the Harvester decision, Federation, the Furneaux Islands Festival - none of these can match the human heroism and dedication of Phillip and his men, the drama of the landing or the relevance to us all of the event.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic
Please do not be intimidated or cowed into thinking you cannot speak up for traditional marriage and for family and for children. You can and you should. There is absolutely nothing wrong with speaking up in the face of this attack on our society's foundations.
Longtime reporter and commentator Mark Anderson of www.thetruthhound.com and www.steemit/@truthhound explores the major media's post-Charlottesville assault on nationhood and on truth, under the clever guise of stamping out "hate," and asks: Is Nationalism the core problem, or is it internationalism?
Remember that Nick X team, who claim to stand for freedom and independence, voted against the reforms to section 18 C, for reasons you can well guess: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2017/03/31/senate-votes-down-18c-reforms.html
“Labor, the Greens, the Nick Xenophon Team and crossbencher Jacqui Lambie opposed changes to the wording of 18C, robbing the government of the 39 votes it needs to get it through the upper house.”
While “Normies” are liking to say “I’m not radical, don’t shut down my precious site,” the System moves on, going down the list of everyone they don’t like.
We now have the news of Facebook blocking a traditional marriage campaign in the same sex marriage debate:
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion/opinion-free-speech-hijacked-by-gay-marriage-supporters/news-story/cd702eea8ca24f012645007647959486
Here is a good article which I see as supporting in abstract, not by name, the noble Reduce Immigration Write On Campaign: https://reduceimmigration.wordpress.com/
http://theconversation.com/why-a-population-of-say-15-million-makes-sense-for-australia-78391
The article is entitled “Why a Population of, Say, 15 Million Makes Sense for Australia.” The article rightly notes that the two major parties accept rapid population growth, and so do the capitalists, the retailers, real estate developers, financial sector and media. They could have added university academics, and the entire new class here too.
North Korea has again threatened Australia for “blindly’ aggravating war:
http://www.smh.com.au/world/north-korea-warns-australia-against-suicidal-military-drills-with-united-states-20170821-gy13z7.html following on from previous threats of a nuclear strike on Australia:
http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/north-korea-threatens-australia-with-nuclear-strike-over-us-allegiance/news-story/fa28ccb9eaaff6c02f5c12bdc19bc227
I am not sure how this will be played out. Most people dismiss the idea of Australia copping a nuke, but there is a scenario where North Korea shows that it means business by nuking Australia. Trump allows this, making us a sacrificial lamb, just like was done at Gallipoli. Australia, is, after all, expendable to these big players.
The amazing world of the internet allows speedy communication. Sometimes you may click on an article, read it, and find, after finishing it, that things have moved on and an update has been posted. On-line journalism has a frantic, if not manic pace, but it is suicidal and ultimately destructive, imploding on itself. News drowns news, and in the end, one is too numbed to know what to think. Backache and eye-burn-out are part of the game.
But, given that, here is my update on writings that supplement things which you have read here. First, Charlottesville, if it has not bored you yet, has obtained symbolic meaning for the American right:
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2017/08/19/feelings-and-thoughts-on-charlottesville/
Apparently the antifa “is a major gift to the right”:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/noam-chomsky-antifa-is-a-major-gift-to-the-right/article/2631786
Here is a good piece poking fun at Australian prohibited weapons law:
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com.au/2017/08/australian-gun-culture-part-15.html
The laws relate to weapons that are not firearms. For example, Biblical era missile launchers, potato and water balloon launchers are banned. No crossbows, no slingshots as used by kids a few decades ago, all types of martial arts weapons (anything found in a Bruce Lee movie), no personal alarms, and the list goes on and on.
But, to simplify, in America, which holds to the English common law position, now eroded in England and Australia, everything is allowed except that which is prohibited. But, in Australia, everything is prohibited, except what is allowed. As with every other issue, these erosions of freedoms have been allowed to occur over many decades because the masses of ordinary sheeple people just don’t take a stand against them. We have slid into being a totalitarian police state, and this is only early days yet. As the song says, they have only just begun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__VQX2Xn7tI
Even conservative cultural critics like me love to visit the ever-cranky Jim Goad over at Taki’s Mag to see what he has said about the latest piece of cultural collapse. He is my measuring stick of the collapse. How many minutes to Goad does humanity have left?
Here is his take on Charlottesville, the lunar Left and Trump:
http://takimag.com/article/peace_through_violence_jim_goad/print#axzz4qR6MTOtZ
Many angry four-letter words at this site, so do not go there if you are easily offended, as you must be by almost everything in our sinister society.
A great existential survival article has appeared at the otherwise brief news service Breitbart.com: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/07/30/malloch-europa-eurabia-last-man/
by Ted Malloch, “Europa, Eurabia and the Last Man,” July 30, 2017.
The reference to the “last man,” is to the description given by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, to depict world-weary men, concerned only for their personal comfort and security, who are incapable of defence, and thus are opportunistic pacifists. Nietzsche saw the West as heading towards the mass production of such “last men,” which would ultimately spell the doom of their societies when faced with an external threat.
A story showing the degeneracy of the universities, as reflected in the wider society, is the saga of the mattress, as discussed by Bettina Arndt in The Australian, but covered by many others for a long time in the US: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/mattress-girl-saga-a-warning-to-unis-on-sexual-assault-cases/news-story/daecd8a0b17438c2a2fc4a681d159da5.
“Last week the long saga over the Columbia University mattress girl came to an end. It was a costly lesson for the New York university and a sign that buying into the notion of a “campus rape culture” can prove a big mistake for esteemed centres of higher learning. Australian universities take note.
In 2015 the mattress girl, Emma Sulkowicz, became a global celebrity by turning what was found to be a false rape allegation into performance art by carrying her mattress with her everywhere on campus. She was protesting against Columbia’s decision not to take action against a young German student, Paul Nungesser, whom she’d accused of choking and anally raping her.
Columbia has now reached a confidential settlement with Nungesser following his lawsuit claiming the university supported “an outrageous display of harassment and defamation” by allowing Sulkowicz for three years to use her mattress to hold campus protests where people openly called him a rapist. Sulkowicz was given academic credit for the performance as part of her visual arts major and was allowed to carry the mattress in her graduation ceremony.
It’s most unlikely any jury would have convicted Nungesser given the facts of the case. There’s a Facebook message from Sulkowicz to Nungesser two days after the alleged rape saying she was keen to join in a party in his room. A month later she sought more contact: “I want to see youyououo¬you”. The following month she messaged: “I love you Paul. Where are you?” Hardly surprising that the university’s investigation found Nungesser not guilty of assault.
Similarly murky facts emerged in accusations made by two other women about Nungesser. Investigations were held. The man was found not guilty.”
Ron Asher, In his new updated addition of "In the Jaws of the Dragon: How China is Taking Over New Zealand and Australia", ($40 posted from TrossPublishing.co.nz, 2017), is well recommended for all concerned about china’s aggressive buy ups of lands across the world. There is lots of information about buy ups of farmland and property, but that is not what I want to focus on here.
The bulk of the book performs the valuable task of locating China as a military threat to the free world. Trump, at the time of writing has blamed China for the North Korean missile tests, basically because China could have stopped them, but China has most likely given nuclear technical aid to North Korea to advance its nuclear program. Even the mainstream papers, which generally fall all over China, are beginning to have articles expressing some concern about China’s military might: The Australian, August 1, 2017, p. 11.
Any economic activity that is created with the purpose of “creating Jobs” (i.e. human work) is irrational, wasteful, regressive, immoral and tyrannical. Increases in production efficiency should provide our needs and wants while releasing us from toil.
Distribution is an entirely different issue, to be effected increasingly by specific and appropriate means other than by earned income as technology displaces labour as a factor of production.
The “indigenous recognition campaign ditched” http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/indigenous/indigenous-recognise-campaign-ditched/news-story/b444305a94a3acccc26f1cb96a1223000, headline, refers to the abandonment of the Recognise Campaign, which gobbled up tens of millions of our taxpayer’s dollars over the last five years. This is a specific campaign, distinct from the entire referendum issue.
Therefore, do not mistake this piece of news for any end of the Aboriginal constitutional recognition threat. Aboriginalists and the politically correct establishment have abandoned any “minimalist” proposal, and have showed their true colours, by now advocating substantial constitutional reform, with a referendum probably being held in May 2018. The main issue will be to add an indigenous voice to parliament, which I see as being to implant a new Aboriginal overlord committee to rule over Australia. As every law impacts on Aboriginals, there will be an influence over all Australian laws, and the culture of subservience set up. The sovereignty of parliament will be lost, and that is the clear agenda.
An informative article at: http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2017/07/28/anthropologys-obsession-with-african-origins/, has made the argument that the “out-of-Africa” paradigm in anthropology, has been advanced primarily because of cultural Marxist egalitarian ideology, as the author Austin Layard, observes:
“ Largely due to the anti-racist politicization of anthropology, the currently accepted evolutionary paradigm is that Africa was the source of an intellectual watershed event sometime between 100,000 to 50,000 years ago, and that it was only a matter of time before this new breed of clever Africans spread out and replaced all the dim-witted archaic human populations in the rest of the world, such as Neanderthals. (As used here, the term ‘racist’ refers to views that race and racial differences are a legitimate variable in research on humans, with none of the usual negative connotations found in the popular and scientific literature.)
One of the neglected aspects of immigration and multiculturalism is the problem of enclaves, the creation of nations within nations, which was raised in the 1980s, but is not heard much nowadays. However, there is an informative article by Bernard Salt about “non-English-speaking clusters” in our capital cities:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/the-curious-nature-of-nonenglish-speaking-clusters-in-our-cities/news-story/4eaf844601ae657450e40c9c942b4473
“Last year’s census figures confirm our extraordinarily diverse cultural and linguistic composition. About 18 million out of 24 million speak English. About three million were born overseas but are English proficient, including about 1.5 million British and Kiwi immigrants. However, there are 820,000 Australian residents who described their English proficiency as poor and a further 193,000 who are about as proficient in English as I am in Mandarin.
Indeed, the number of residents who say they do not speak English is up from 118,000 a decade ago, which suggests that this cohort is growing by an average of 7000 people a year. If Australia is to remain one of the most welcoming and inclusive immigrant nations on earth then we also need to develop our language skills. And this doesn’t necessarily mean that all migrants must immediately learn English. I think that given the basis of modern Australian prosperity it is entirely appropriate for Mandarin to be taught universally in schools. I learned French in secondary school in the 1970s; today’s kids should be learning the language of our single most important trading partner.
Across the country 16 per cent of the population does not speak English at all or well, but in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide this proportion is closer to 18 per cent. And in parts of each of these cities there are well-defined non-English-speaking enclaves including the northern suburbs of Adelaide centred on Salisbury, the southwestern suburbs of Sydney between Lakemba and Cabramatta, and in Melbourne’s west around Sunshine and southeast around Dandenong. Brisbane’s southside centred on Logan and Sunnybank is also a non-English-speaking hotspot.”
The governor of Virginia, declared a state of emergency after a large-scale clash between right protestors and counter-protestors, including Black Live Matters, antifa and “religious” groups, whoever they are, at the “Unite the Right” protest rally. The protest was over plans to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a city park in Charlottesville. It sired critical segments of self-righteous political correctness such as this one, which has everything:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LinG32vnqqk
An alternative viewpoint by Mike Adams is this:
A study has confirmed that about 41 percent of cancers are caused by the environment and lifestyles: http://cmajopen.ca/content/5/3/E540.full
But you don’t need to swim through the technicalities of the paper, as there is a neat summary provided by the authors:
“Background: Estimates of the proportion of cancer cases that can be attributed to modifiable risk factors are not available for Canada and, more specifically, Alberta. The purpose of this study was to estimate the total proportion of cancer cases in Alberta in 2012 that could be attributed to a set of 24 modifiable lifestyle and environmental risk factors.
Many of my brother paranoid doomsters are stocking up big in anticipation of nuclear war over the North Korea situation:
