I don’t usually cover the European scene, which Richard does, but this one overlaps. Sweden has moved to bring in new rape laws, which eliminate the need to prove intent:
  https://www.thelocal.se/20180320/swedish-government-to-push-ahead-with-new-sexual-consent-law

“Sweden's government is to push ahead with a new sexual consent law despite questions over whether it is necessary. From July 1st having sex with someone without their explicit consent in Sweden will be illegal (the law will treat consent as possible either through words or clear actions), with the hope being that more rape and sexual assault cases will be prosecuted as a result. "If it's not voluntary, then yes, that's an assault. I think it's important to reach that clarity in legislation," Justice Minister Morgan Johansson said. Sweden's Council on Legislation looked at the government's proposal and questioned whether it was even needed, as much is already covered in existing laws. But Johansson does not agree and thinks the new law will lead to more convictions. "I think the number of crimes solved will increase. Above all through the combination of stronger and broader legislation together with increased support for the victims."

     With all of the discussion of immigration issues this week, I thought would make a brief note on the key historical source of information about the “grand plan” to Asianise Australia, a tremendous monograph by Denis McCormack that sets it all out with numerous references. I have referred to this work before, but did not get the reference exactly right, so here it is again:  Asianizing Australia - An Elite's Long-Term Project.
  https://reduceimmigration.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/mccormack_asianizingaustralia-aneliteslongtermproject_21jan2015.pdf

     If this makes your blood boil, then read further at the Reduce Immigration site about what YOU can do to fight this “cultural genocide”:
  https://reduceimmigration.wordpress.com/2015/01/21/australiaday-a-time-to-reflect-on-benign-cultural-genocide/

To The Australian        In defending Shakespeare from narrow-minded critics, John Carroll has provided a convincing psychological explanation of the anti-cultural behaviour of post-humanist individuals and groups currently attacking the Western European civilisation and its canon ("The Bard's big Q & A", 3-4/11). However, he makes a great mistake in asserting that the very basis of that culture is non-existent. There has been no "death of God" and Christianity still prevails. Nor is it true that "belief in God" has given way to "belief in humanist ideals". As for the "universals of goodness, beauty and truth", these have their basis in the sacred order on which humanists like Carroll have, in error, turned their backs - as do the "absolute standards" he gestures towards.

     Culture is not rooted in myth, as Carroll claims, but in a metaphysical reality that is approached through a faculty quite other than the logical reason: gnosis. His historical survey entirely omits reference to the writings of the great mystics such as Boehme and Eckhart. He also ignores the profound restorative work in metaphysics carried out by Rene Guenon, Ananda Coomaraswamy and their Perennialist school. It is from this blindness that he proceeds to unrealistic claims that "religion and politics are quite separate", that "politics does not belong in the classroom or the lecture hall”, that Western masterpieces are "apolitical" and "do not, collectively, point in any particular direction." They point to the Ultimate, and there is nothing to fear from political action wisely deployed!
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     With the mid-term elections in a few days, trump has released two goal-kicker videos. One has some super-killer migrant who the Demoncrats let into the country, along with an interview from another migrant killer. The other video has one half on the jobs Trump has created, then the other half on antifa/Soros-funded anarchists rampaging. It is enough to make anyone who wants a job, and to live, vote Republican:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGTD_Kt_nlw
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVadlz6wEVU
  https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2018/11/01/cnn-hollywood-reporter-declare-new-trump-ad-against-caravan-racist/ 

     We have been following articles about the coming economic crash, and how even the Murdoch press are speaking about economic Armageddon, and how one needs to become a “prepper”:
  https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/six-path-ways-to-australias-economic-armageddon/news-story/5f11849237d1621569e85a9f2c2a1948
  https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/how-to-prepare-for-economic-armageddon/news-story/08c0ab60e4184ee2d2f3e3d199a5a803

     Then there is the looming Big Tech crash:
  http://www.amerika.org/politics/big-tech-crash-threatens-to-wipe-out-american-and-world-economies/ 
  http://www.amerika.org/politics/dot-com-3-0-collapse-is-here-and-will-end-western-economies/

     I stopped eating blueberries because I was worried about the natural sugar content, since being over-weight, and old, is a diabetes worry. But, I was mistaken, for blueberries are jam-packed with natural goodness:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-11-01-blueberries-contain-a-specific-substance-that-can-prolong-your-life.html

“You might have already heard about the anthocyanins in blueberries that give them their blue color and their impressive antioxidant benefits, but the compound responsible for their extraordinary ant-aging effects is known as pterostilbene – and blueberries are the only place you can get it. Pterostilbene is so beneficial because it activates three different pathways that play a role in aging. First of all, it increases the activity of the adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase, or AMPK, pathway. As you age, your AMPK activation slows down, and this contributes to accelerated aging and weight gain. That’s because AMPK regulates your body’s production of energy. Increasing AMPK pathway activity brings down fat and blood sugar levels in the blood while reducing body fat stores and chronic inflammation. It has also been shown to improve memory and stop the beta-amyloid plaque and tau tangles behind Alzheimer’s disease form forming. Therefore, it’s estimated to cause a 20 percent lifespan increase. The second way that pterostilbene can extend your life is by limiting the expression of a signaling pathway known as mTOR, which regulates cell growth, proliferation and survival. When things go wrong with this pathway, it can lead to chronic degenerative conditions and cancer. Scientists say that inhibiting this pathway by 25 percent can result in a 20 percent lifespan increase, and animal studies back this up.”

     The no-hope Pope is back, making his typical migration cringing boot-licking comments:
  https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/11/01/pope-francis-nations-are-built-by-migrants/

“Nations do not build themselves, they “are built by migrants, just as migrants built Europe,” Pope Francis told a group of missionaries this week. “Europe was not just born like that,” the pope told a delegation of Scalabrini missionaries in off-the-cuff remarks in the Vatican Monday. “Europe was made by many waves of migrants over the centuries.” Using the example of the “caravan traveling from Honduras to the United States,” Francis said that migrants prefer to stick together, to move as a group rather than to go it alone like “free agents.” In this way, migrants form their own “communities.”

     This is a taste of what is in store as former White countries become non-white. The progressive Left are just a warm-up of what is coming our way, as we will soon see in South Africa:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-11-01-radical-left-now-calling-for-banning-of-voting-rights-for-all-straight-white-men.html
  https://pjmedia.com/election/former-tv-ceo-says-u-s-should-ban-straight-white-males-from-voting/

“Steven Clifford, author and former CEO of the King Broadcasting Company and National Mobile Television, told PJM that the federal government should “prohibit straight white males from voting” in U.S. elections as a way to “save” democracy. “I think it’s the only hope for democracy in America and I will be leading a great movement to prohibit straight white males, who I believe supported Donald Trump by about 85 percent, from exercising the franchise and I think that will save our democracy,” Clifford said during an interview after speaking at the forum “Destroying the Myths of Market Fundamentalism,” which was organized by the Center for Study of Responsive Law – a group former independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader founded in 1968. Clifford, author of the book CEO Pay Machine: How it Trashes America and How to Stop it, urged Democrats to explain their policy proposals to voters rather than focus on the reasons they oppose President Trump.”

     Look, I was fiddling around with old newspaper to … well, never you mind. I was about to use and abuse a slice from the Adelaide great intellectual Sunday Snail, when I read, with great difficulty, since I am illiterate, “School Flunkers are Making Uni Grade,” October 28, 2018, p. 18. Incredible as it seems, over half of all Year 12 students who had flunked their exams were still admitted to university! Whoooaaah! Now you don’t even need to pass to get in, and soon, once in, you won’t even need to pass to get your piece of worthless paper. It will be simply a degree machine, to milk the rich foreign students, before they become migrants to Australia, producing the beautiful Asian utopia. It will be wonderful, those who profit (in the short-term), say.

    This has created the desire  … I can’t believe that I actually used a pseudo-erotic word such as “desire,” but my intensions are pure, as far as a dirty, dispossessed Anglo-hobo can be “pure” … what was I saying? Ok, the urge, no, that’s a bad word too …  maybe the interest, to go to university myself. If the universities are as depraved as James Reed says they are, well, I just have to be there, wallowing in the filth like a pig in poop. And, I have even worked out my course. I want to do Feminism 101 to learn about exotic sexualities, and meet nice homely girls with blue hair, who wear combat boots, and like me, exist in a perpetual state of utter confusion. Perhaps I will know “love,” but not as humans generally know it, before oblivion. Who knows? It will be like visiting another planet, only less radioactive.

     I recall hearing on the radio at the time, the actual tapes left behind by fanatic Jim Jones, who led 900 Americans to commit suicide by drinking poison 40 years ago in Guyana South America. The tapes were chilling as Jones screamed as the most mad of mad men do. He did it for hours, totally crazed. And, reflecting back today, I hear that same level of madness and psycho-pathology in the globalists, and their grunter antifart puppets. As well, Jones got as far as he did because he was a utopian socialist:
  https://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_29_1/tsc-29-1-vinson.shtml

“Jones was a pioneer in promoting what today we call multiculturalism. He insisted on making his congregation as diverse and rainbow-friendly as possible. He moved the Temple to California in 1965 and eventually ended up in San Francisco. Along the way Jones drew great acclaim in liberal circles as a humanitarian and social reformer. As Wikipedia noted, “Jones enjoyed public support and contact with some of the highest level politicians in the United States. Jones personally met with vice presidential candidate Walter Mondale and First Lady Rosalynn Carter. Guests at a large 1976 testimonial dinner for Jones included Governor Jerry Brown, Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally, and Assemblyman Willie Brown, among others.”

     Not only do we have, among the caravan of illegals heading to the US border for compassion invasion, people who have openly stated that they are only there to take  US jobs, but now we find that some of them are even lodging law suits against the Trump administration, even before getting to Us territory! That has to be a bloody first; people allegedly soooo desperate, and yet someone has an interest to lodge a lawsuit, even before getting to the border!
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-02/migrant-caravan-members-sue-trump-over-shockingly-unconstitutional-border-policies
  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/migrants-traveling-to-us-sue-trump-government-claim-violation-of-constitutional-rights

“ [A] dozen migrants traveling by foot from Honduras to the U.S. to seek asylum filed a class-action lawsuit Thursday against President Trump, the Department of Homeland Security and others, claiming a violation of their due process under the Fifth Amendment. The Fifth Amendment states that, "no person… shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." A recent PBS report cited former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who ruled in 1993 case that "it is well established that the Fifth Amendment entitles aliens to due process of law in a deportation proceeding." Twelve Honduran nationals, including six children, are listed as plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

     As readers will know, I am a hater of much of the sham environmentalism of today, which is just social justice warrior socialism; immigration and population increase have never been addressed by these Greenies, so, they really only care about socialism, not the survival of nature. A real environmentalists, like immigration critic Garret Hardin and Pentti Linkola:
  https://www.amazon.com.au/Can-Life-Prevail-Pentti-Linkola/dp/1907166637

     All tend to be anti-humanist, and what is wrong with that? Anyway, I am getting old and digressing a bit. Here is the text of an email I received raising some good points about electric cars; sorry I don’t know who wrote it, but good work anyway:

     “We all experience many freakish and unexpected events – you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed later on. When you are an old guy, you can look back, and maybe this rambling life has some through-line. Others can see it better sometimes. But when you glimpse it yourself, you see it more clearly than anyone.” – Viggo Mortensen, actor and author of Coincidence of Memory (Perceval Press, 2002).

     With the evil globalist conspiratorial Unite Nations seeking to destroy Western civilisation with its migration pact:
  https://www.amren.com/news/2018/10/the-uns-plan-to-end-civilization/

It is good to see that not everybody is as apathetic as Australians; certainly not Austria, which is spelt similarly, and letter writers often make this mistake.
  https://www.rt.com/news/442805-austria-rejects-un-migration-pact/

     Don’t worry, your money is going to a better place, a happier place, where it will no longer have to worry about the problems of this river of tears:
  https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/foxtel-yet-to-reveal-spend-details-over-governments-30-million-handout-20180212-h0vyh3.html

“News Corp is refusing to explain exactly how it will spend taxpayers' money more than six months after the Turnbull government granted Foxtel $30 million. While a funding agreement has been drawn up and signed, Foxtel and its parent company remain tight-lipped about which sports have benefited from the government handout. The broadcaster was eligible for the first instalment – worth $7.5 million – last month after the government signed off on its 2017-18 "strategic roadmap". Foxtel has been airing AFL Women's League games as well as women's softball in recent weeks. However, it is unclear whether taxpayer funds were used to obtain these broadcast rights. A Foxtel spokesman declined to comment and instead referred questions to News Corp, which owns a 50 per cent stake in Foxtel. A News Corp spokeswoman refused to specifically detail which sports benefited from the government's first $7.5 million grant but said Foxtel's commitment to women's and niche sports was evident.”

     It seems that one of the women who made false rape accusations against Justice Brett Kavanaugh, is being investigated by the FBI. Some say that this may lead to her prosecution, and if found guilty, jailing. But, I am not so sure, for the FBI is an anti-Trump organization and who knows what they will do.
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/02/brett-kavanaugh-rape-accuser-admits-she-made-up-her-story-doj-fbi/
  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/02/brett-kavanaugh-accuser-referred-fbi-doj-investigation/1863210002/ 
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/02/majority-u-s-women-democrats-used-kavanaugh-sexual-assault-accusations-for-political-gain/

“Just days before the midterm elections, Sen. Chuck Grassley asked the federal authorities on Friday to investigate another person he says made false claims against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Grassley, in a letter to the Department of Justice and FBI, said a woman by the name of Judy Munro-Leighton took responsibility for authoring an anonymous letter that made allegations that Kavanaugh and a friend raped her. After she was tracked down and interviewed by Senate investigators, the woman recanted and said she was not, in fact. the author  and had never met Kavanaugh. Grassley claims the woman is a left-wing activist and told investigators it was "just a ploy," he wrote in the letter. Her full comments to investigators were not made available and efforts by USA TODAY to reach Munro-Leighton were unsuccessful. Grassley asked for federal authorities to investigate her on allegations of making false statements and obstruction. The letter marks at least the fourth request Grassley has made of federal authorities to investigate those involved in the controversial Kavanaugh proceedings, which were extended due to a series of sexual assault allegations surfacing when Kavanaugh was in high school and college.”

     Animal models in drug and vaccine testing are used to confirm drug effectiveness, but not conclusively until human studies are done. But, if bad effects are seen, then this is grounds for caution. Not so, apparently, for mobile phones. I am sure that most young people, who are virtually a part of their mobile phones, are more concerned about their phone getting cancer than them. Nevertheless, a recent study found that there was “clear evidence” of malignant tumours in the hearts, brains and adrenal glands of male rats.
  https://www.livescience.com/63996-cellphones-cancer-rats-ntp-study.html?utm_source=ls-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20181103-ls 
  https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/results/areas/cellphones/index.html

     One science site says that human users should not be unduly concerned:

     My 80th birthday, and nobody remembered, including me, until I checked the calendar the day after. My God, I really am living on borrowed time, if you call this “living,” and “time” (perhaps there is some truth to the “universe as a computer simulation’ idea? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis ). Really I should not be surprised that nobody cares, because, well, I have no family, and no friends, unless the nice ethnic man, who does not speak much English (“English?” What’s that?) I rent the tool shed from is a “friend.” Anyway, the day after, the day after, President Crumpet sent me, what I take to be a personal birthday greeting, telling me that although I am surrounded by traitors and fools, I need to keep positive, whatever that means:

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

     To appreciate what poverty can do to your spirit, it helps to be poor, not being able to pay bills, and not even getting decent food. Today the poverty line is set at $ 433 per week for a single adult, but for the same single, New Start only pays $ 275.10 per week. How then does one survive? As I see it, one does not, and is expected to go away and quietly rot, for they will replace you.
  https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/australia/more-than-3-million-australians-in-poverty-a-study-has-found-ng-b88992355z?fbclid=IwAR2m4eqnobJWvlCLu4caWwcepGJ-0h-u0u39nyptmR0VWKGHr8VcSnP17N4

“MORE than three million Australians are living in poverty, including 739,000 children, according to a new report. That means about one in eight adults and one in six children are living below the poverty line. About half (53 per cent) of households living in poverty are relying on social security as their main source of income, the research by the Australian Council of Social Service and UNSW Sydney also shows. The report sets the poverty line as living on less than $433 a week for a single adult, or $909 for a couple with two children. On average, those living in poverty in Australia are missing that mark by $135 a week. While the majority are relying on social security, more than a third of households in poverty (38 per cent) are relying on wages. ACOSS chief executive Dr Cassandra Goldie says the findings should sway Prime Minister Scott Morrison to make ending poverty in all its forms his top priority. "The government argues that poverty in Australia is not the problem. They are wrong," she said.

     Right! It is Tasmania’s turn to do something politically correct and spectacular, such as removing gender from birth certificates, which I suppose, eliminates gender from the real world, which is a gender construction, anyway.
  https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/worldtoday/tasmania-to-vote-on-removing-gender-from-birth-certificates/10423540

     Yes, Labor and the Greens are pushing this. Isn’t interesting that the Greens don’t say much about the alleged environmental catastrophe that is supposed to be hitting us? I am not saying that such a thing exists, for surely God would not allow anything like that, but the Greens are supposed to believe it. Yet they spend their time on social justice warrior issues, which in their context, would not be significant. And Labor … isn’t that supposed to be  about Australian working people, not mass immigration to swamp their jobs? Whatever happened to that party? That just shows that the Greens are watermelons; green on the outside, but all red and full of water on the inside. As for Labor, I am not sure what vegetable or plant best depicts them. Maybe poison ivy.