“Spend the years of learning squandering
Courage for the years of wandering
Through a world politely turning
From the loutishness of learning.”
Samuel Beckett, “Gnome” in Dublin Magazine Vol. 9 (1934), p. 8

     More on my “close the universities” theme. If academic research was achieving anything at all, even if most of it is false:
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124
then, at an absolute minimum, the articles should be read by the peer community.

     Canberra with its “zero emissions” target yearns to be Australia’s greenest address. 
Good. Let’s use them as a full-blown test of “zero emissions” before we all jump over that cliff.

     Canberra passes thousands of laws for us. If their zero emissions dream is fair dinkum, they need to pass just three laws for themselves.

to THE AUSTRALIAN
     Tony Abbott sees a main cause of ‘our civilisational self-doubt and the collapse of cultural self-confidence’ as being a ‘decline in belief’ (‘New conservative activists may be key to defending our fragile rights’, 2/11). Yes and no. If he means a loss of conviction in the reality of the transcendental, he is right. However, if he means a failure of belief in ‘orthodox’ theology, he is wrong.
     The Western world has reached a turning point from which there can be no going back. ‘Belief’ that Christianity is the only way to salvation, buttressed by false claims about the authority of ‘the Church’ or the authority of the Bible, must be revised, just as the Copernican revolution demanded a change in cosmological understanding.
     NJ, Belgrave, Vic

to THE AUSTRALIAN
     How amazing to learn that a law professor was able to persuade some netball parents in five minutes that the indigenous ‘voice’ to Parliament should be supported (‘Pollies, not people, the real obstacle’, 3/11)! How could the rest of us not see that it’s all so simple? It’s odd, however, that nowhere in Rosalind Dixon’s statement can we find a single reasoned argument justifying the proposed change.
     By contrast, Simon Breheny (‘Decision on “indigenous voice” a big win for liberal democracy’) gives us at least six such arguments to justify the Government’s decision. The most important of these is that any ‘advisory’ voice does not need to be constitutionally enshrined. Adequate recognition can be achieved without any tampering with the Constitution.
     NJ, Belgrave, Vic

     In preparation for the end of the world, or more likely, the end of my world, I am cleaning up my books, and finding a home for them. Some will wind up sent to Uncle Len, who will use them for burning in his shed, in an old 44 gallon  oil drum. For warmth and light in winter, and maybe to keep the mossies at bay in summer.  Some, I imagine, he will tear up, and put on the dirty cement floor, to keep his tootsies toasty in winter. I am pleased that great literature always finds a natural home.

     So, what first to briefly note and throw out? Here is my copy of Alain de Benoist, Beyond Human Rights, (Arktos, London, 2011). De Benoist is a leading French New Right theorist, who likes being photographed with his cat. Me, I hate cats, being highly allergic to their fur which always seems to get everywhere, just like human rights.

     This news item disturbed even me. It is one thing to contemplate economic doomsday, which always leaves the hope of rebuilding. But, a biological doomsday is different, especially if it is microbiologically caused. It hits you from within where you can’t defend yourself.

     The Black Death, which once devastated the European population, may be making a comeback, in a mutated form, which is airborne, that is spread by coughing etc. from person to person, and not just by fleas:
https://www.shtfplan.com/experts/air-travel-could-spread-plague-as-health-officials-warn-nine-countries_10262017
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/25/health/madagascar-pneumonic-plague-outbreak/index.html

     Gasp, more bad news, I would never have expected bad news on my birthday:

“Right now, white people are 72.9 percent of the Canadian population, but that number is expected to decrease to 50 percent by 2036.

     There are around 500,000 African “refugees” in Libya, who have now been given permission to flood into Europe:
http://russia-insider.com/en/hordes-africans-waiting-flood-europe-excellent-russian-tv-report/ri21318

     There is not much in the mainstream media about this, but the Russian press have covered it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdvDV6vXNk4

to THE AGE
     It is to be hoped that the Government’s proposed ‘parliamentary committee process’ to examine other models for constitutional recognition will adopt a sensible approach that is in line with the thinking and wishes of the great majority of Australians (‘Door open for treaties for Indigenous groups’, 28/10). That will certainly mean the complete rejection of any kind of alteration to the Constitution and of any proposal for a treaty or treaties.
     We do not want our nation divided and its stability and security jeopardized by inequitable measures based on sentimentality and foolish idealism. Thus, any process towards further reconciliation must be free of ideological prejudice and couched in terms that will gain very wide approval.
     NJ, Belgrave, Vic

to THE AUSTRALIAN
     It is regrettable that Noel Pearson has not learned anything from the Government’s decision on constitutional recognition (‘Prime Minister’s rejection is a kick in the guts for Aboriginal Australians’, 28-29/10). Instead he has resorted to a mixture of emotional special pleading and discourteous attacks on the Prime Minister and Tony Abbott.
     It does not help when he engages in excessive claims (‘Turnbull has broken the hearts of all Australians of goodwill.’) and misleading attributions (implying that Greg Craven, Anne Twomey, Julian Leeser and Damien Freeman are ‘true conservatives’, while ignoring the real conservatives on this issue such as Keith Windschuttle, Frank Salter, Greg Sheridan, Andrew Bolt and Gary Johns).
     Pearson has badly damaged any claims he has had to statesmanship.
     NJ, Belgrave, Vic

     The papers have been celebrating the appointment of Senator Lucy Gichuhi, Australia’s first African-born senator. She held second spot on the Family First ticket, and received only 152 direct votes, but by the magic of our political system, when it was found that the election of Bob Day was invalid, she entered parliament, joining the Australian Conservative Party, as Family First no longer existed:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-05/family-first-bob-day-election-ruled-invalid-by-high-court/8417204

     Senator Gichuhi is opposed to same sex marriage and has this to say:

     The rape of Europe continues, not just Sweden that everybody has accepted is now beyond doomed:
https://altright.com/2017/10/28/sweden-enters-accelerated-stage-of-muslim-takeover/
https://altright.com/2017/09/26/swedish-police-caught-paying-off-muslim-gangs-for-peace/
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-19/swedish-police-chief-rages-its-attack-against-society-after-station-bombing

     Gangs are now ruling and the police are bowing, and kneeling.

     The chattering class have been screaming loud about Mal Turnbull’s decision to abandon the report recommending an indigenous advisory voice to parliament, along with a separate commission to oversee “treaty-making and truth-telling.” “Truth-telling”? That smacks of something out of South Africa, doesn’t it?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/indigenous/turnbull-broke-our-hearts-on-recognition-says-indigenous-council/news-story/b4ed8aba821d60321c83461bdd7e9559

Let me quote from the above article:

     Austria’s general election was won by the center-right People’s Party with 32 percent of the vote. The center-left Social Democrats got 27 percent, and  the nationalist Freedom Party got 26 percent of the vote.
The leader of the winning People’s Party is Sebastian Kurz, who is 31 years old. One would have thought that he was a pinko but he has said:
“Our goal is that we decide who can come to Europe, and we decide who we help, and that we don’t let the [people] smugglers decide … The concept of no borders is not going to work.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/austrian-officials-says-europe-not-smugglers-must-decide-which-migrants-make-it/2016/04/04/ec18d318-fa91-11e5-886f-a037dba38301_story.html?utm_term=.1b71e6b4d892

     That gave the globalists heartburn again, having just expended a lot of energy neutralising Trump. Nevertheless, the beat goes on:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS3O5zg290k

     Libertarianism is a popular philosophy among free market loving folk in America, especially, but what does the doctrine really mean? Here we have a leading libertarian, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe,  sum it all up:

“The theoretical, irrefutable core of the libertarian doctrine is simple and straightforward and I have explained it already repeatedly at this place. If there were no scarcity in the world, human conflicts, or more precisely physical clashes, would be impossible. Interpersonal conflicts are always conflicts concerning scarce things. 
I want to do A with a given thing and you want to do B with the same thing. Because of such conflicts—and because we are able to communicate and argue with each other—we seek out norms of behavior with the purpose of avoiding these conflicts. The purpose of norms is conflict-avoidance. If we did not want to avoid conflicts, the search for norms of conduct would be senseless. We would simply fight and struggle. 
Absent a perfect harmony of all interests, conflicts regarding scarce resources can only be avoided if all scarce resources are assigned as private, exclusive property to some specified individual or group of individuals. Only then can I act independently, with my own things, from you, with your own things, without you and me clashing.”
http://www.vdare.com/articles/hans-hoppe-libertarianism-the-alt-right-and-antifa-a-libertarian-strategy-for-social-change

to THE AUSTRALIAN
     Janet Albrechtsen is right to defend Western culture and civilization and a knowledge of its history free from distortion by political ideology (‘We risk going down as age that forgot history’, 21-22/10). However, her own grasp of what needs defending (‘our modern liberal project’) is imperfect. Her claim that ‘we are all equal, regardless of skin colour, creed, sex or sexuality’ is unrealistic. The differences between individuals, and between peoples, need to be admitted and respected. Within the realms of politics and the law it is equity and not equality that should be espoused.

     Secondly, while she rightly laments the lack of university teaching of the history of the mediaeval and renaissance periods, as well as of British constitutional history, she is silent about the deficiency of fundamental Christian theology which has contributed greatly to the current impasse. Christianity undergirded the spectacular growth of the Western world, but cannot now contribute to renewal if it does not experience a new birth.

     In a number of emails to Australian activists Wallace Klinck wrote:

What nonsense and mischievous use of words to manipulate human minds and emotions!  Transgender?  No such thing—a pure fabrication.  Homophobic?  Another linguistic construct.  Any one who is not “phobic” in front of a lava flow, or during an earthquake, or a deadly plague, or a violent riot, or while facing the barrel of a gun is not likely to be long for this world.  If it can be shown that homosexuality has adverse consequences then any minimally intelligent individual would surely be “phobic” of it to the extent warranted—which is anything but inconsequential.

     While the mainstream media heap burning hot coals upon Donald Trump for his alleged claim that British spiralling crime rates are due to Islamic terrorists, in Sweden it just depends on how one defines “terrorism”:

“Twenty members of the Moderate Party in Sweden have proposed the government deploys the armed forces in some of the country’s most dangerous no-go zones to combat “gang violence”.
Sweden is being overtaken by Islamic no-go zones. Moderate Party politician Mikael Cederbratt declared:
“It is absolutely necessary to do something, because these gangs are like cancerous tumours in our country, and it is urgent. My absolute belief is that we, the nation of Sweden, must declare war on criminal gangs”:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/10/swedish-politicians-call-for-army-to-be-deployed-to-no-go-zones

     The African editor of France’s leading newspaper Le Monde, Hamidou Anne, said recently: “La France blanche, chrétienne…est finie. Terminée…”: “White, Christian  France is finished. Terminated. The future of the world is race-mixing.”
https://diversitymachtfrei.wordpress.com/2017/10/18/white-christian-france-is-finished-terminated-the-future-of-the-world-is-race-mixing/

     Well, no it is not.  China is not having any part of this, and is rapidly developing the technological superiority to deal with any Camp of the Saints invasion. Those Californian professors, advocating the genocide of white people, as a moral imperative, may get more than they bargained for, because they simply have not thought things through beyond their childish hatred:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-10-19-muslim-professor-stays-genocide-against-whites-is-morally-required-and-yes-he-works-at-a-california-university.html
http://takimag.com/article/morally_required_genocide_davod_cole/print#axzz4wDFusV1a

     Markus Willinger, Generation Identity: A Declaration of War Against the ‘68ers, (Arktos, London, 2013), is an identitarianism response to all the bad things happening in Europe, at least those things up until the publication date. It was published before the mass Muslim migration that has led to so much chaos, documented each day at numerous internet sites.

     The book aims to give a young European’s take on the dispossession of White Europeans. It has as its enemy, the “68ers,” which refers to the generation which became politically active around 1968, a time of massive social unrest across the West, especially Paris. It was a time that Marxists thought the revolution was coming, and that they would soon get power over life and death. This generation of Leftists hated everything about the West, and aimed, by a long march through the institutions, to destroy the West.