Having worked in the building trade, I was amazed to read that vegetables could soon be making buildings stronger. But how?
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-08-14-will-future-buildings-be-made-from-vegetables.html
  https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/165003?returnurl=https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/165003

“It is well known that vegetables are good for people but they could also be the key to making stronger and greener buildings. Engineers at Lancaster University are working with industrial partners at Cellucomp Ltd UK to research how concrete mixtures can be strengthened and made more environmentally friendly by adding ‘nano platelets’ extracted from the fibres of root vegetables. The work, which is being supported with £195,000 by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 funding, will build on findings from early tests that have demonstrated that concrete mixtures including nano platelets from sugar beet or carrot significantly improve the mechanical properties of concrete. These vegetable-composite concretes were also found to out-perform all commercially available cement additives, such as graphene and carbon nanotubes and at a much lower cost. The root vegetable nano platelets work both to increase the amount of calcium silicate hydrate – the main substance that controls the performance of concrete, and stop any cracks that appear in the concrete.

     The big anti-Trump issue at this present insane news cycle is whether Trump in his whole life said the N word. You know, the word that Black rap gangs freely say. If Trump even thought it, well, that is beyond the pale, so to speak. No matter that the libtards can freely call the president and his daughter anything they like. Here for your interest are all the relevant articles about this.
  https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/08/15/nolte-media-omarosa-hypocrisy-dog-c**t/ 
  https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/08/14/cbs-news-suggests-n-word-tape-exists-omits-aides-statement-that-it-does-not/
  https://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/08/14/sarah-sanders-i-cant-guarantee-there-is-no-tape-of-trump-using-n-word/
  https://www.thecut.com/2018/08/omarosa-tapes-explained.html 
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-15/black-americans-view-omarosa-two-bit-opportunist-racial-sellout-ego-driven-hustler

     Part of the present troubles for Trump come from him employing a Black women who was a troublesome contestant on Trump’s reality TV show, the apprentice. Why Trump would employ someone who was always a loose cannon can only be explained by Trump’s general inadequacy. But, that is all which we have to work with today, rusty and faulty tools, if not fools. Australia has an even worst situation.

     Time to stop being a nice old lady, to put on my boxing gloves and get down and dirty with the down and dirty. Like the Clintons, a family of evil. And, being angry about this article, I may even allude to a cuss word, so watch out! Further, I don’t mean rapist Bill, or “crooked” Hillary as President Trump referred to her. Take the next cab off the rank, Chelsea Clinton, now being groomed by the Dark Lords of Mordor, to take the role of president in the future American s-hole.
  https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/14/chelsea-clinton-legalizing-abortion-created-trillions-in-economic-growth/

“The daughter of former President Bill Clinton and 2016 Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton recently spoke at Rise Up for Roe, an abortion rights campaign event created to advocate against the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. During her speech, Clinton reportedly said: It is not a disconnected fact … that American women entering the labor force from 1973 to 2009 added three and a half trillion dollars to our economy. … The net, new entrance of women — that is not disconnected from the fact that Roe became the law of the land in January of 1973. So, I think, whatever it is that people say they care about, I think that you can connect to this issue. Of course, I would hope that they would care about our equal rights and dignity to make our own choices — but, if that is not sufficiently persuasive, hopefully, come some of these other arguments that you’ve expressed so beautifully, will be. There is no way to actually check Clinton’s economic rhetoric. But according to a 2008 report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics: Since 1976, the percentage of working women who were self-employed has trended up (from 4.4 percent in 1976 to 5.2 percent in 2008), while the percentage of men who were self-employed has edged down (from 8.4 percent to 7.6 percent). In 2008, 38 percent of all self-employed persons were women, compared with 27 percent in 1976.”

     Did he say it? Did he really say it?
  https://www.rt.com/news/436006-australia-muslims-final-solution/

“Senator Fraser Anning of the right-wing Katter's Australian Party (KAP) found himself in hot water over his inflammatory anti-Muslim maiden speech he delivered in the parliament. Claiming that Muslim Australians are unable to integrate, he said adherents of Islam “do not work and live on welfare,” and bring the threat of terrorism. Fanning fears of Muslim immigrants “stealing jobs” and “sympathizing with Islamic State [IS, formerly ISIS],” Anning offered: “The final solution to the immigration problem is, of course, a popular vote. We don't need a plebiscite to cut immigration numbers; we just need a government that is willing to institute a sustainable population policy.” The words used by Anning usually refer to the Nazi policy of genocide carried out against the Jews during the Holocaust. At that time, ensuring the “final solution” (Endlosung) of the so-called “Jewish question” was the backbone of the Third Reich’s actions on occupied lands. Unsurprisingly, local politicians produced a range of angry statements lambasting Anning’s language. “Australia is the most successful multicultural society in the world built on a foundation of mutual respect. We reject and condemn racism in any form,” Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Twitter. Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Alan Tudge, said Senator Anning's comments did not reflect the views of the Government or the views “of fair-minded Australians.” The country “will always maintain a non-discriminatory immigration program,” he tweeted.

     Debt debt, everywhere, and not a drop to drink. Simply replacing the word “water” by “debt” produced a sentence which may well describe the fate of nations, as they drown in debt, but the people die from “thirst”:
  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/the-looming-economic-collapse-the-250-trillion-dollar-worldwide-debt-crisis_08152018

“As governments raise taxes to cope with their unending spending habits, people are increasingly being forced to supplement their own income with loans. And according to most financial experts, this debt problem is so big that it will usher in a global economic collapse of epic proportions. According to the Institute of International Finance’s latest Global Debt Monitor, the amount of debt held in the world rose by the biggest amount in two years during the first quarter of 2018. It grew by $8 trillion to hit a new all-time high of $247 trillion, up from $238 trillion as of December 31, 2017.  And that’s up by $30 trillion from the end of 2016. Global debt is staggering to the point most of it will never be repaid and as governments continue their spending sprees and the debts keep mounting, the future of the economy looks bleak. There is more than enough economic data out there to show there could be an economic collapse and stock market crash in 2018. Bill Gross stated in 2017 that “our highly levered financial system is like a truckload of nitroglycerin on a bumpy road”. One wrong move and the whole thing could blow sky high, wrote the Epic Economist. Once this bubble pops, it will fling the globe into a financial crisis of epic proportions never before seen.”

     Being gay, let alone, happy, is now not enough for the fierce politically correct cultural Marxist regime, for, more, more, more is required to feed the hungry sacrificial  god of pc:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-08-15-gender-fluid-actress-besieged-by-angry-left-wing-haters-batwoman.html

“The cult of LGBT has moved the goal posts once again, and is now demanding that its members demonstrate some sort of next-level “gayness” in order to truly qualify as genuine LGBT. Otherwise, like Hollywood actress Ruby Rose recently learned, they could be accused by the radical Left of being “not gay enough.” Rose, who self-identifies as “gender fluid,” was recently cast as “Batwoman,” making her the first openly gay superhero ever to headline a network television show. Since Batwoman’s alter ego, Kate Kane, is a self-described lesbian, many critics felt as though Rose was “perfect” for the role. But social justice warriors (SJWs) all over social media disagreed.

     By now we all know that the university system is not based upon classical liberal values such as free speech, but rather, upon cultural Marxist ones. Oh, I know, they try, but at the end of the day, the Left rise up and for all effective purposes there may not be any departure from the globalist party line. After all, there are no academics in Australia who have a position, and who are actively critical of ANYTHING the status quo does not like. No criticisms of immigration, multiculturalism, or anything Alt Right, let alone defending traditional Christian values. There are not even any social creditors in any departments that I could see from an internet search. Maybe they are hiding, and I do not blame them if they are, for the universities, as shown by US riots over the years, are dangerous fanatical places, because many students are dangerous fanatics.
  https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/15/us-professor-who-says-being-transgender-is-a-delusion-to-speak-at-wa-university

“A US professor of paediatric medicine, who says the transgender movement is based on ideology rather than science, will speak at the University of Western Australia despite pressure to ban him. A student petition with more than 6,000 signatures is protesting against the appearance on Friday of the paediatric endocrinologist Dr Quentin Van Meter, who is on a national tour sponsored by The Australian Family Association. Van Meter has said that using puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria was akin to child abuse. “Transgender is actually a delusional disorder,” he said. “It’s a state of mind with no biologic basis for it that can be found.” Van Meter is president of the American College of Paediatricians, which is known for its opposition to marriage equality, gender reassignment and abortion. A UWA statement said on Wednesday that while the university did not endorse the opinions of its speakers, cancelling the event would “create an undesirable precedent for the exclusion of objectionable views” from the university. “The views which have been expressed by the speakers in the past, particularly with respect to transgender people, are at odds with the university’s values of respect for human dignity and diversity,” the statement said. “That respect, in relation to LGBTIQA+ people generally, has been evidenced by the Rainbow Flag, which has flown for some months at the front of the UWA campus.”

     Thanks to my older brother John, in worse health than me, who emailed me about this story that people in the “more civilised eastern states” (as John describes us), may not have heard about. Today, I will let the story speak for itself.
  https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/australias-most-racist-college-st-marks-college-in-adelaide-under-fire-for-offensive-costumes/news-story/3371b2b56162c0c07c7aa3b3d418f80e

“Happy Hanukkah from Auschwitz!!” reads the image caption. The photo, taken at an event organised and hosted at the elite St Mark’s residential college, features two recent students from the University of Adelaide wearing striped concentration camp-style pyjamas, caricature hook noses and a yellow Star of David pinned on their chests. The students are also depicted wearing mock shackles with prisoner identification numbers marked on their inner arms, simulating those tattooed on Jewish concentration camp victims during the Holocaust. Other photos, also taken at St Mark’s College — and unearthed as part of a news.com.au investigation into university college culture — feature a student dressed as Adolf Hitler and others doing the Nazi salute. The images are not from one party. They’re from a number of similar events hosted at the college year after year. Students who attended this year’s Orientation week in February say a whole table of students attended an evening event dressed as Adolf Hitler. “There were about 10 people, all boys, who came dressed wearing swastika armbands and moustaches,” says a student who wished not to be named, fearing reprisals. “There was basically free licence to choose whatever costume you want. I can’t believe that others could stand by and not step in. It baffles me.”

     With Big Tech censorship running out of control, as the emperors of the cyber-universe drink their power, Trump has made the first squeaks against this, hinting that he may at last be getting off his butt on this threat to the West and fundamental freedoms:
  https://www.rt.com/usa/436282-trump-censorship-social-media/

“US President Donald Trump has spoken out about censorship against conservatives on social media, saying it is a “very dangerous thing” and calling for everyone to be allowed to participate in the online conversation.
“Social media is totally discriminating against Republican/conservative voices. Speaking loudly and clearly for the Trump administration, we won’t let that happen. They are closing down the opinions of many people on the RIGHT, while at the same time doing nothing to others,” Trump wrote.

     Tech futurist Robert Tercek is  author of  Vaporized: Solid Strategies for Success in a Dematerialized World, (LifeTree Media, 2015). He addresses a problem which by now is well known to most of us, namely that there is a process of “vaporisation” occurring where former material industries are becoming dematerialised by digitalisation. A good example of this is given in Tercek’s discussion of what happened to Tower Records.:
  https://vaporizedbook.com/what-happened-to-tower-records-7b243736d73a

     Tower Records on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles was considered to be one of the most famous record shops in the world, and went strong for 36 years. But then the shop, and others in the chain closed in 2006. Other record shops closed soon after, because the physical products that they sold were replaced by MP3 players and the dawn of digital music, of downloadable music and subscription streaming-audio services. An entire industry was “vaporised” or digitalised. This is the thesis of Vaporized:

     It is all happening in the United States, with the deranged Left openly advocating socialism and crazy measures such as empting the jails:
  https://gellerreport.com/2018/07/democratic-embracing-socialism.html/

“If a self-declared socialist represents the party’s future, Democrats may find themselves becoming more and more irrelevant. Is that what all Democrats really aspire to? Do 31% of citizens from the land of the free and the home of the brave really hope to live in a socialist nation?
Let’s take a look at Ocasio-Cortez’s platform:
•    Medicare For All
•    Housing As A Basic Right
•    A Peace Economy
•    Federal Jobs Guarantee
•    Gun Control/Assault Weapons Ban
•    Criminal Justice Reform, End Private Prisons
•    Immigration Justice/Abolish ICE
•    Solidarity with Puerto Rico
•    Mobilizing Against Climate Change
•    Clean Campaign Finance
•    Higher Education, Free Trade Publish Post Once published, the post will appear on the blog listing School For All
•    Women’s Rights
•    Support LGBTQIA+ (What does the “+” represent? Are there some genders we’ve left out?)
•    Support Seniors
•    Curb Wall Street Gambling: Restore Glass Steagall.

     Yawn … hasn’t the entire UK population been poisoned by the Russian yet, so stop Donald Trump, increase immigration …
  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-44760875

“Police have launched a murder inquiry after a woman exposed to the nerve agent Novichok in Wiltshire died. Dawn Sturgess, 44, died in hospital on Sunday evening after falling ill on 30 June. Charlie Rowley, 45, who was also exposed to the nerve agent in Amesbury, remains critically ill in hospital. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia was “deeply concerned” about the incident - but said accusations that it was involved are “absurd”. The UK government previously blamed Russia for the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with Novichok in Salisbury in March. Russian authorities denied any involvement in the poisoning. Investigators say the possibility that the two cases are linked is a “clear line of inquiry”. Theresa May said she was “appalled and shocked” by the death of mother of three Ms Sturgess, from Durrington. Home Secretary Sajid Javid will chair a meeting of the government’s emergency committee Cobra later today. A post-mortem examination of Ms Sturgess is due to take place and her family has been informed, police said.”

     I was marginally hopeful that President Trump would fight for US gun rights against the evil UN one world agenda, but apparently, not so:
  http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/media-silent-as-us-agrees-to-full-implementation-of-united-nations-gun-control-pact/229586

“The Third Review Conference (RevCon) of the United Nations’ Program of Action (PoA) on Small Arms and Light Weapons was held in New York last week with a 2018 agreement, which states that its purpose is to serve as “a renewed commitment to prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects.” “We, the States participating in the third United Nations Conference to review progress made in the implementation of the Program of Action to prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects, convened at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 18 to 29 June 2018 to review progress made in implementation and identify priorities for strengthened implementation, reaffirm our commitment to the full and effective implementation of all of the provisions of the Program of Action and the International Tracing Instrument, with a view to ending the human suffering caused by the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons.”

     Here in Australia, Mal and the rest of the gang tell us all of the time that globalism is good; if greed is good was the mantra of the 1980s, today it is globalism that can cure everything form eroded teeth to footrot. However, some folk out there are not buying it:
  https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/12/chadwick-moore-left-for-dead-in-danville-how-globalism-is-killing-working-class-america/

“The city of Danville, Virginia sits in the bellybutton of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a hat-toss over the North Carolina border and about 85 miles northwest of Raleigh. It’s low hill country and Danville straddles the frothy, hocolate-milk waters of the Dan River. Downtown, once a booming trade district, today is a decomposed industrial husk, a tidy cluster of silent rectangles ensnared by broad, ghostly thoroughfares built for a time in the not-so-distant past when people and goods poured in and out of town. Those days are gone, perhaps never to return. The story of Danville is one echoed in countless communities across the country, a gutted middle class left for dead in the wake of sweeping international trade deals in Washington, applauded by liberal economists and a lockstep media portraying such policies as inevitable, ultimately good, and a win for the American consumer–a narrative usually coupled with condescending and disdainful attitudes toward displaced workers for a perceived inability to sprint ahead with the times.”

     Remember Hen Kissinger? How could we forget him? Well, he’s back, writing for The Atlantic, about the dangers of the AI revolution, and the article is a good one:
  https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/henry-kissinger-ai-could-mean-the-end-of-human-history/559124/
  https://www.rt.com/news/432425-henry-kissinger-artificial-intelligence/

“What would be the impact on history of self-learning machines—machines that acquired knowledge by processes particular to themselves, and applied that knowledge to ends for which there may be no category of human understanding? Would these machines learn to communicate with one another? How would choices be made among emerging options? Was it possible that human history might go the way of the Incas, faced with a Spanish culture incomprehensible and even awe-inspiring to them? Were we at the edge of a new phase of human history?” Kissinger goes on to note the expected benefits of AI in numerous fields, such as medicine, but is deeply concerned about possible areas of failure, ranging from rogue AI that seeks to destroy humanity, to AI that makes human explanations somewhat redundant:

     Here are two stories which may be of interest, detailing how “comic”  Sacha Baron Cohen got to interview two conservative figures, and make them look like gooses. How is it not possible to detect these sorts of people? Why, just why do people always flock like geese being herded when the media comes on the scene? Is it the desire for attention? The fragile human need to be part of the in-group, even though the in-group despises you? We see this psychological phenomenon regularly. It is an extreme vulnerability in anyone seriously wanting to resist tyranny as the mainstream media have been shown by the entire Trump affair, to be far from a friendly force.
  https://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/07/12/exclusive-sacha-baron-cohen-posed-as-disabled-veteran-trump-voter-with-bullet-necklace-and-infowars-stickers-in-palin-prank/
  https://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/07/12/exclusive-sheriff-joe-sacha-baron-cohen-duped-me-posing-finnish-comedian/

     He seems to have smelt a rat, but did not walk out of the interview, or simply challenge him.  A fundamental mistake, or is it simply the curse of the low IQ?

     A view from the sensible Left about the future of America; it does not have one. According to John Ralston Saul, America is a failed state, and the inevitable consequences of this will follow:
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-09/chris-hedges-america-failed-state

“Our “corporate coup d’état in slow motion,” as the writer John Ralston Saul calls it, has opened a Pandora’s box of evils that is transforming America into a failed state. The “unholy trinity of corruption, impunity and violence,” he said, can no longer be checked. The ruling elites abjectly serve corporate power to exploit and impoverish the citizenry. Democratic institutions, including the courts, are mechanisms of corporate repression. Financial fraud and corporate crime are carried out with impunity. The decay is exacerbated by the state’s indiscriminate use of violence abroad and at home, where rogue law enforcement agencies harass and arrest citizens and the undocumented and often kill the unarmed. A depressed and enraged population, trapped by chronic unemployment and underemployment, is overdosing on opioids and beset by rising suicide rates. It engages in acts of nihilistic violence, including mass shootings. Hate groups proliferate. The savagery, mayhem and grotesque distortions familiar to those on the outer reaches of empire increasingly characterize American existence. And presiding over it all is the American version of Ubu Roi, playwright Alfred Jarry’s gluttonous, idiotic, vulgar, narcissistic and infantile king, who turned politics into burlesque.

     Uncle Len has not been sleeping as well as he should. First, the cold; so cold in the tool shed which I live in that even the cockroaches are rugging up. I have seen the smarter ones lighting little fires to keep warm on the cold cement shed floor. Then there are the barking dogs; legions of them that roam the vast urban wastelands of Adelaide searching for anything, or anyone to eat. One dare not venture out of doors when the wild beasts roam. Just ask …  this poor woman:
http://amp.abc.net.au/article/9959360

“A woman who says her mental health is deteriorating as a result of barking dogs near her home believes urgent change is needed to stop people being driven crazy. For four years Jane in Adelaide’s inner south-east has been trying to cope with barking from two neighbouring properties, including a little “shrill” dog just metres from the interior of her home. “I think she’s got separation anxiety,” she told ABC Radio Adelaide Mornings program. “She could go from 6:00pm to 10:00pm at night, barking most of that time.” Jane recorded evidence of the dog barking relentlessly for nearly an hour-and-a-half from a backyard while its owners were out on Australia Day in 2015. The dog is excited and does not appear to be barking at anything in particular.”

     Over in Germany, the chattering class are getting very excited, while drinking whatever foul drinks they drink, over the dawning reality of complete ethnic replacement of the Nordic Germanic people, that is, racial eliminationism. For example:
  https://www.huffingtonpost.de/entry/umvolkt-uns-deutsches-volk-muss-abgeschafft-werden_de_5b439482e4b048036ea12cf8

     My god, it is in German, whatever that language was. But, there is still a historical record of the language the so-called German people spoke, and the article translated by my magical oracle says:

     England, whatever that once was, is set to lose one of its most loved comics, John Cleese, who is moving to the Caribbean in November 2018. 
  https://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/john-cleese-to-move-to-caribbean-in-november-11364282988777

     Cleese made headlines by lamenting that immigration was changing England for the worse, a claim more recently made by President Trump:
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2032956/John-Cleese-London-longer-English-city-thats-got-2012-Olympics.html