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     Civil Liberties Australia argues that Australia is not a Christian country, but Kevin Donnelly disagrees (‘We are a Christian nation’, 15/6). Each party describes Australia in the way it wishes to see it;  but the truth is that we look a bit like the ‘muddle’ that E. M. Forster saw India as being a century ago and later described in ‘A Passage to India’.

     What kind of nation should we aim to be? My answer is that we should seek to be a people who are collectively aware of the numinous and the mysterious. That is where we should primarily locate the sacred, not in theology or past works of art or acts of charity (as Donnelly does).
     He wants to resuscitate a mode of Christianity that appears to be in slow terminal decline. Liberty Australia thinks to dance on its grave. Neither approach will lead to a fruitful tomorrow. Only a fresh visioning of the ‘worlds beyond’ will be sufficient.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic

     I was not surprised to read that “ “Despite there being many illegal migrants and failed asylum seekers from North Africa and the Middle East, last year the Berlin government has overwhelmingly deported only migrants from the Balkan states”: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/06/12/80-per-cent-migrants-deported-berlin-balkans/. For, after all, the future of Germany is to become part of the Islamic caliphate, aided and abetted by Merkel.

     I was not surprised to read that Merkel was in Mexico, saying that walls are bad, bad, bad, because, presumably, borders should not exist: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/angela-merkel-criticises-donald-trump-mexico-city-walls-us-border-infrastructure-german-chancellor-a7786116.html. She did not condemn Israel’s wall, which is working fine: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/background-and-overview-of-israel-s-security-fence. After all, the future of the United States is to be, the Disunited States of Greater Mexico.

     So sung the Eagles in their 1976 song “The Last Resort.” While some segments of the high tech elites are looking to abandon Earth for space: http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/stephen-hawking-warns-that-humans-must-leave-earth-in-100-years/news-story/4b979ea1ab2d0fe6f3eb68f45b0d25c0, there have come warnings that this may not be possible any time soon.
     Space cadets will face the onslaught of cosmic rays once in space, outside of the protective magnetic shield of the Earth. With this will come, not super powers, as depicted in the Fantastic Four comics, but cancer: http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-06-12-astronauts-extremely-likely-to-die-from-cancer-if-they-travel-to-mars-warns-new-science-study.html. Cosmic rays will severely damage the DNA of cells, and affected cancer cells may alter near-by cells, or “bystander” cells, causing mega-mutations. Merely having thicker shields and space suits may not solve the problem, given the length of time to be spent in space, let alone staying there, forever.
     We are all going to stay on this planet and see how it all pans out. No doubt, everything will come out in the wash, one way of another.

     Hey, that’s the sort of paranoid conspiratorial title readers have come to expect, and love, from me. But, the title is only a paraphrase of “Aussie Unis Boost Chinese Military,” The Weekend Australian, June 10-11, 2017, p.1.
     The story here is universities are supplying the Chinese military with technological leadership and knowledge which China needs for advanced military and industry superiority. The claims have been made by public intellectual Clive Hamilton. Here is how just some of this works, courtesy of your tax payer’s dollars, according to The Australian:

“For instance, last year the ARC awarded a $400,000 grant to Adelaide University for a research partnership with the Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials, which is part of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China. Government-owned AVIC is the major supplier of military aircraft to the People’s Liberation Army Air Force.
As Mr Hamilton and Mr Joske say, “when the PLA unveiled its first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, it was loaded with Shenyang J-15 fighter jets built by AVIC”.
The Adelaide University project is intended to help develop materials and devices that, the ARC’s proposal says, “are comfortable, quiet and energy-efficient” for use in aircraft, motor vehicles and ships. The authors point out: “It will also enhance the PLA Air Force’s capacity to improve the performance of its most sophisticated warplanes.”

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     Noel Pearson is fantasising when he claims (‘Token change is not an option for Pearson’, 16/6) that the establishment of the Constitution in 1901 has led to a ‘lack of structural power’ for our Aboriginals that ‘cascades down into the daily lives on the streets of communities.’  There are plenty of reasonable life opportunities for today’s Australians who happen to have Aboriginal blood, so there is no need at all to create national political division where there is none. It would be statesmanlike for Pearson to admit that any kind of constitutional recognition is against the interests of the great majority of today’s Australians and to rededicate himself to uncontentious efforts to improve Aboriginal welfare.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic

     Our favourite mainstream conservative journalist Andrew Bolt has bravely fought back against what appears to be antifa attackers, who savagely attacked him on Lygon Street, Melbourne, which is full of nice snacky sidewalk eating spots:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmohao7jXnc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anUyzZzz4Q0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e_1XTt9Kbc

     Bolt was cowardly attacked from behind by one thug, who threw some substance onto him, and then a second low-life joined the attack, hurling Bolt into tables and chairs. Bolt fought back, strategically getting his back to a shop front, and kicked one guy in the groin, then punched him in the face, and then punched another guy in the face. He must have done some damage because Melbourne Antifa were crying on their Facebook page that Bolt assaulted them! One needs to only look at the footage to see that Bolt could have been killed by the attack if the substance was something deadly, so he needs some more work on situational awareness: https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Personal-Defense-Jeff-Cooper/dp/1581604955.

This is the full text of Enoch Powell's so-called 'Rivers of Blood' speech, which was delivered to a Conservative Association meeting in Birmingham on April 20 1968.
Ref: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/3643823/Enoch-Powells-Rivers-of-Blood-speech.html

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature.

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     Fred Chaney is idealistic but not realistic (‘Don’t fear the T-word’, 8/6). All advocacy of a treaty between our Aboriginals and other Australians implicitly means support for an eventual partition of the continent into two nations.  Australia has already moved too far in that direction with the Mabo judgment, plucked out of the air by judicial adventurism, and subsequent land agreements with, as Chaney notes, ‘peoples, collectives, not individual Aboriginal people’.

     Constitutionally we need to treat all Australians as equal, for reasons of equity, national unity, social stability and political security in dealing with the rather threatening world situation that is developing.  Our governments are right to seek to improve Aboriginal welfare - the benefiting of Aboriginal individuals seen as disadvantaged Australian citizens.
NJ, Belgrave

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     God does not write books, nor does he dictate them word for word through human intermediaries. This applies to the Bible as well as the Koran.  So merely advocating metaphorical rather than literal interpretation (Letters, 8/6) is not sufficient to deal with the current religion-based political crisis.

     On the other hand both these holy books have many passages that are profound and beautiful, which may well be the result of exceptional inspiration. Thus, asserting, as does Jim Campbell (8/6), that ‘there are no arguable circumstances’ under which the Koran should ‘play a role in shaping the character of any Australian citizen’ is an unhelpful and extremist approach.
     Islam itself contains the solution in its doctrine of shirk - that nothing in creation can be equated to God. Muslims generally need to accept that this applies to their prophet, their book and their tradition. Ditto for Christians.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic

     The three London terrorists shouted, “This is for Allah,” as they went on a rampage, with the new weapons of choice, a truck and knives. They killed seven people and hospitalised 48 others. One Queensland woman had her throat slashed. This is the third Islamic terrorist attack in Britain in the past three months. The mayor of the now non-white majority city of London (http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/census-reveals-white-britons-as-minority-in-capital-for-first-time-8405998.html),  himself a Muslim, said that there was no reason to be alarmed and that London is one of the safest cities in the world: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/06/04/trump-blasts-london-mayor-sadiq-khan-saying-no-reason-alarmed-london-attack/; http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-06-04-mainstream-media-complicit-in-excusing-global-terrorism-as-london-suffers-deadly-isis-linked-attack.html.   After all, as he said last year, terrorism is “part and parcel of living in a big city.”

     Mike Adams in the article referenced above, is spot on in saying that this is open warfare on Western civilisation: “Western civilization, you see, has become obsessed with self-induced idiocy and political correctness that’s so insane, its political leaders can’t even muster the will to engage in simple acts of self-defense against a cultural onslaught. Western Europe, in particular, is being overrun by radicals who practice an extreme, violent form of Islam that has zero tolerance for anyone who isn’t obedient to their narratives.

     Another day, another terrorist attack. Although I know that global warming is a myth, it is possible that so many candle-lit vigils will be held, that we may find the poles melting and glaciers, well, turning into slushies!! Of course, I jest: global warming, as Don Trumpeter well knows, is just hot air, as conspiracy to stop the West enjoying the fruits of the good life.

     No sooner than I had completed my masterpiece article on the London bombing, sorry, truck and knife attacks, then we have a terrible terror in Melbourne, with an abduction and killing, with the police shooting the terrorist dead: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/05/world/australia/australia-terrorism-isis-hostage-killing.html?_r=0. All of this brought to you from the unfriendly people at ISIS Pty Ltd.

     Open homosexual Alt Right figure, Jack Donovan, who had previously defended white nationalism, the right of whites to defend their own identity, http://www.jack-donovan.com/axis/2011/12/mighty-white/, has now written a piece: “Why I am Not a White Nationalist”:
https://www.jack-donovan.com/axis/2017/05/why-i-am-not-a-white-nationalist/.

     Donovan gives various loosely woven arguments, such as the one that white nationalists, at least in America, are disunited and fight more among themselves than the enemy. They are broken people, who “suck.” No statistical proof is offered to substantiate this, being, like most journalism, based on his gut feelings.

(Own report) - On her trip to Argentina and Mexico last week, Chancellor Angela Merkel sought to use the tensions between US President Donald Trump and Latin America to strengthen German influence on the subcontinent, by expanding business relations. Berlin would like to knit closer ties to Argentina through a free trade agreement with the South American Mercosur alliance and is planning to expand bi-lateral trade with Mexico, on the basis of the existing free trade agreement. Already long before Trump's electoral victory, the German government had been seeking to strengthen its trade with Latin America. Trump's threats to fortify the Mexican border with a wall and the revocation of the NAFTA free trade agreement have practically driven the countries of this region into Berlin's arms. This was even reinforced, when Chancellor Merkel publicly criticized the wall project. The coup had the desired effect, despite the fact that the EU - under German pressure - is surrounding itself with wall-like border fortifications. The German effort to expand its Latin American influence is also directed at China.
Ref: http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/fulltext/59035

     Marc Randazza , a Las Vegas-based lawyer who  specialises  in free-speech cases, is representing the publisher of a leading neo-Nazi website, Andrew Anglin. Anglin is being  sued for allegedly  orchestrating an anti-Semitic online trolling campaign against a Montana Jewish  family. The mainstream press give no reason for why he chose this particular family to “harass,” but his website gives his point of view. I should add that I do not support the Anglin site, and what he represents, and see  many of his articles as alarming and fanatical. But, as a free speech advocate I still have an interest in the case, which raises fascinating points of law.

     According to Mr Randazza:
“Everybody deserves to have their constitutional rights defended… Nobody needs the First Amendment to protect Mr. Rogers. That’s not what it’s there for.”
See: http://www.timesofisrael.com/first-amendment-lawyer-defending-neo-nazi-website-publisher/; https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/06/09/us/ap-us-internet-trolling-lawsuit.html?_r=0.
The point is that real free speech laws protect unpopular speech.

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     So the Maritime Union and others are agitating for acceptance of the divisive Uluru Statement (‘Unions lead push for Uluru proposal’, 12/6). Nothing new here! As former communist Geoff McDonald wrote in his 1982 book ‘Red Over Black’, nearly 70 years ago communist leaders were saying how the first step towards making Australia a communist nation would be to establish black republic areas on our continent. These included J. B. Miles, Lance Sharkey, Barnard Taft and the Aarons brothers.
     And what would it mean if we went communist? Eventual subjection to an international tyranny operating through the UNO. In whose interests would that be? Certainly not those of our Aboriginals!
NJ, Belgrave, Vic

     The 1970s back to the land movement failed, although it did produce some insightful books which people who hope to survive the coming storm should buy in hard cover now, while they still can. There are also some real bargains on Kindle, which can also be preserved, such as this little monster for just $ 12: https://www.amazon.com.au/d/Homesteading-Z-Books-1-Bundle-ebook/B072B8MVXN/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1497166664&sr=8-7&keywords=homesteading.

    I am not in the book advertising business, but I think there is an answer to the question raised by Eleanor Agnew in Back to the Land (see: http://energyskeptic.com/2011/why-back-to-the-land-failed/), about why the back to the land movement in the 1970s failed. Sure, these people from white affluent families were not ready for the hard toil of farm life and romanticised it, but beyond all else, they were not educated about the ways of the rural. It is best to have grown up in a rural environment to really know what it is like to fight a bushfire, or combat flood, but obtaining knowledge from books is a great help. This was not done in the past, so the movement failed.
    As well, as this was mainly a revolt by white affluent people against modernity, they always had the choice of returning to jobs. But, that choice has now gone, so there may be no more option but to succeed in an alternative lifestyle, or starve. When cities become too dangerous to live in, in the coming anarchy, failure will not be an option: https://www.stratfor.com/weekly/why-so-much-anarchy.

     The politically correct “Out of Africa” position for the evolution of the human species was recently shaken by the discovery of fossils with human-like teeth in Bulgaria and Greece, dated to 7.2 million years: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/05/22/europe-birthplace-mankind-not-africa-scientists-find/. I have written about this previously, pointing out that it shatters the standard hypothesis that mankind arose in Africa, and also that Europeans were a late arrival on the evolutionary scene, and consequently must be backward.

     Now there is news which further challenges the received hypothesis about human origins, with fossils found in Morocco being regarded by some scientists as the oldest Homo sapiens fossils, at 350,000 years old. If this proves to be so, and the fossils are genuinely Homo sapiens, and some scientists, to be expected doubt this, this shoots down the idea that humans are only 100,000 years old, and that that is an inadequate time for racial characteristics to develop.
I look forward to more sacred cows in human prehistory being slaughted in the time to come.

     Alt Right intellectual F. Roger Devlin, penned an important essay published in The Occidental Quarterly in Summer 2006: “Sexual Utopia in Power.” In 2015, the essay was expanded into a 192 page book, and published by Alt Right publishing company, Counter-Currents: https://www.counter-currents.com/sexual-utopia-in-power/. The book traces the breakdown of morality and sexual roles which began in the 1960s, and the disaster which it has brought for social life today.

     All of this is not new to us, but Devlin goes further, challenging the typical conservative response to the crisis, which strangely has much in common with feminism in blaming men. Instead, Devlin looks at the sins of women, such as female hypergamy (mating up), infidelity, narcissism and deceptiveness. This is unusual because conservatives seem to have swallowed hook, line and sinker, the feminist world view, that women can do no wrong. Men are fearful to call out women, and Trump’s dealings with various female journalists is an example of this. Perhaps the lack of testosterone in many men has led to them becoming de facto women: http://www.rooshv.com/the-decline-in-testosterone-is-destroying-the-basis-of-masculinity.

     As I say before making any health comments, I am not qualified in anything, and only giving my unfounded opinion, so if you have any medical problem, go see a doctor, and be sure that conventional medicine will put you on the right track. Sure.

     I am somewhat anxious having read an article by the respected Dr Mercola: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/07/22/high-fructose-diet-contributes-to-high-blood-pressure.aspx, who argues that studies show that daily levels of fructose, greater than 74 grams had an impact on blood pressure levels. The breakdown of fructose leads to increased uric acid levels, and uric acid inhibits nitric oxide levels in the blood, which suppresses nitric oxides’ effectiveness in dilating blood vessels. As well, sugar consumption results in excess insulin and leptin production which is also a   risk for diabetes: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/02/25/sugar-blood-pressure.aspx; https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1439101671/optimalwellnessc.

     Slowly, bit by bit, freedoms are eroded in the New World Order, because good people do not fight hard enough, if they fight at all.

     Australian medical professionals now face 10 years in gaol for expressing doubts about vaccine effectiveness and/or safety: http://yournewswire.com/vaccine-skepticism-australia-jail/; https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/oct/20/australian-nurses-who-spread-anti-vaccination-messages-face-prosecution.  And, the Australian government wants people to report any such vaccine sceptics to the authorities, so that they can be locked away in a steel cage.