It seems that NASA are about to spend a whole heap of money in the search for alien life:
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-12/congress-planning-spend-millions-search-aliens-ufos

“Now, the U.S. House of Representatives has proposed a bill that includes $10 million in NASA funding for the next two years “to search for technosignatures, such as radio transmissions, in order to meet the NASA objective to search for life’s origin, evolution, distribution, and future in the universe.” Such technosignatures would come in the form of radio waves that have the telltale features of being produced by TV- or radio-type technologies. An intelligent civilization could also produce those signals intentionally to communicate with other civilizations like ours. “If it passes, it would definitely be a sea-change in Congressional attitude since Sen. Bryan terminated NASA’s SETI program, the High Resolution Microwave Survey, in 1993,” Tarter told Live Science in an email. She added that the funding seems to be an extension of the efforts of Rep. Lamar Smith, R–Texas, to bring attention to the search for life beyond Earth when he was the chairman of the House Science Committee. (Smith, who announced that he will retire at the end of his term this year, is a known denier of human-caused climate change.)

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     Many would agree that the cities cannot cope with more migrants since the un-natural population increase has tested infrastructure to the limit.  Evidence of this can be witnessed mornings and late afternoons where city streets are grid-locked with traffic.  Add the inadequacies of hospitals, for example, and one can see why the Big End of town now wish more migrants to be sent to country areas. While country towns have generally seen a decline in population, they will not want more people just for the sake of it.  Where there is an need for workers, more will be accepted provided they are willing. More people collecting welfare will not be a benefit.

     It seems that we here in Australia may no longer have to eagerly await the weekly addition of the latest zombie adventure coming to our TV from America, but we will have our own flesh-eating plague, soon:
  http://www.collapse.news/2018-05-11-a-flesh-eating-disease-is-spreading-in-australia.html 
  https://www.livescience.com/62321-buruli-ulcer-australia.html 
  https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/apr/16/tissue-destroying-ulcer-frequently-found-in-africa-spreading-rapidly-in-australia 

“A frightening flesh-eating disease is currently making its way across Australia, and puzzled scientists and officials aren’t sure how to stop this mysterious condition from wreaking havoc. Cases of an infection known as Buruli ulcer have spiked in recent years in the country, rising 150 percent from 74 cases in 2013 to 186 in 2016. It shows no signs of slowing down; last year saw a projected 286 cases. The infection causes unsightly skin ulcers that destroy the skin and the soft tissue around it. Complicating matters is the fact that scientists aren’t sure how it is spread or how to prevent it. They know it is caused by the Mycobacterium ulcerans bacterium, which is in the same family as the microbes behind leprosy and tuberculosis – hardly a comforting thought. It creates a toxin that destroys the tissue and creates big ulcers that are typically seen on the arms and legs.

     Here is yet another puzzling effect found in psychological science, and perhaps elsewhere; the decline effect, that the size of an effect decreases after repeated replications:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_effect

J. W. Schooler, “Metascience Could Rescue the ‘Replication Crisis,’” Nature, vol. 515, 2014, p. 9. The decline effect was originally seen in psychological research, but it has now been found to extend to drug testing, where the effectiveness of some drug diminishes over time, and even in the behaviour of non-human animals. There are many proposed explanations of the decline effect, and no doubt specific factors may be at work in different  fields of science. For example, the decline effect in the effectiveness of certain anti-psychotic drugs may be a real decline in effectiveness as people adapt to them over time. Nevertheless, it is also possible that we may be seeing here something of a generalised Heisenberg uncertainty effect, where observing the universe and measuring it, actually changes the universe: even in physics, measurements of the charge of electrons and a constant governing the decay of neutrons have exhibited the decline effect as John Horgan states:
  https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/the-truth-well-doubt-does-the-decline-effect-mean-that-all-science-is-truthy/

     While Europe moves to censor any criticism of Islamisation, supporters of the creation of a European Islamic caliphate freely proclaim the agenda of the new social order. For example, here is one prediction that Belgium will have a Muslim majority within 12 years:
  https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/05/pro-sharia-party-leader-belgium-will-have-a-muslim-majority-within-12-years/#.WvbRN_tLhQE.twitter

“The leader of Belgium’s “Islam” party said in a TV interview that Belgium will have a Muslim majority soon. Earlier we’ve reported on how his Islam party wants to introduce Sharia law and create an Islamic State in Belgium.
Redouane Ahrouch, who is the founder and leader of the party, attended a debate aired on Belgium’s national TV on Tuesday. In the VRT-programme “De Afspraak” he announced that his party will expand from Brussels to other big cities like Antwerp and Ghent. Ahrouch thinks Belgium’s changing population will increase his pro-sharia party’s chances: “Within 12 years, Belgium will have a Muslim majority”. He adds that then there will be two groups that can lead the country: “Extremists or democrats like us.”

     I don’t know who this musician is, but he made an insightful comment on the racism mania of the multicult. Included is a link to his music. Now all I need is Arnie’s computer skills in getting rid of the black highlight around the text:

MORRISSEY: People accuse, yes, but they can’t penetrate or illuminate. The sole point of all of those NME slurs was to turn my audience against me. I recall one NME piece many years ago which addressed its readers with ”we just can’t turn you off him, can we ?”. That said it all. And as far as racism goes, the modern Loony Left seem to forget that Hitler was Left wing! But of course, we are all called racist now, and the word is actually meaningless. It’s just a way of changing the subject. When someone calls you racist, what they are saying is ”hmm, you actually have a point, and I don’t know how to answer it, so perhaps if I distract you by calling you a bigot we’ll both forget how enlightened your comment was.”
https://www.morrisseycentral.com/messagesfrommorrissey/there-is-a-light-that-must-be-switched-on

     Everything is bigger and “better” in the United States, including corruption and the waste of public money on politically correct causes:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-05-13-corrupt-cdc-diverted-3-million-in-taxpayer-money-to-radical-left-wing-causes-having-nothing-to-do-with-science.html 

“A Republican running for office in California’s 37th congressional district is sounding the alarm about some shocking information he recently uncovered concerning the gross misuse of taxpayer dollars by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Ron Bassilian, an information technology (IT) guru who specializes in Microsoft’s Exchange enterprise email solution software, has offered up solid proof that the CDC knowingly diverted at least $3 million in taxpayer funding to leftist groups that have nothing to do with science. Back in 2014, Representative Karen Bass, a Democratic congresswoman from California, was seen handing over a giant $3 million check to a local group known as the South Los Angeles Healthcare Organizing Project that claims to advocate for improving the health of the poor. And emblazoned on the check as the payer was none other than the CDC.

     With Britain in a virtual state of multicult civil war, if not social chaos, with the breakdown of the rule of law, the multicult fascist state is responding by using the iron fist upon conservative white Britons. This is know as anarcho-tyranny: anarchy and chaos at the social level, tolerated if it is not caused by whites, but rigid state control of dissenting thought, not just on race and immigration, but now on everything:
  https://www.unz.com/sfrancis/anarcho-tyranny-where-multiculturalism-leads/ 
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-05-13-thought-police-uk-to-throw-people-in-prison-for-criticizing-transgender-surgery-maims-children.html

“The United Kingdom’s Sentencing Council has proposed Orwellian new guidelines that would make it a criminal offense to engage in free speech online whenever doing so might offend people who aren’t white or who belong to the cult of LGBT. Reports reveal how the Sentencing Council is actively advocating that the perpetrators of online “hate” posts, as it’s calling them, be sentenced to prison time. Social media users who share or even just comment on posts dealing with race or LGBT issues, for instance, would face a minimum six-month prison sentence, while the authors of such posts would face up to three years in prison. Pretty much any online content that’s deemed as in any way contributing to the “stirring” up of hatred towards racial, religious, or sexual “minority” groups is potentially subject to the harsh punishments being pushed by the U.K.’s Sentencing Council as part of its continued efforts to control what people say and do online.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5707039/Sharing-hate-posts-online-lead-six-months-jail.html

     Yes, another shooting here in  the US. It was getting near the time when one would expect the Deep State to either rollout another psy-ops, or alternatively, for some kid on Big Pharma meds, to flip a switch and go mad:
  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/santa-fe-high-school-shooting-suspect-idd-as-dimitrios-pagourtzis-live-updates-today-2018-5-18/

“The suspect in a Friday’s deadly Texas high school shooting has been identified as 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said 10 people were killed and 10 others wounded in the shooting Friday morning at Santa Fe High School south of Houston. The suspected shooter, who was in custody, also had explosive devices, including a molotov cocktail, that were found in the school and nearby, said Gov. Greg Abbott, who called the assault “one of the most heinous attacks that we’ve ever seen in the history of Texas schools.” Police found pressure cookers and pipe bombs around the school, one law enforcement source told CBS News.

     Let us catch this one before, like most pollution, it just disappears into the environment, making the world a wee bit more toxic:
  http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/05/17/journalists-admit-trump-called-ms-13-animals-still-declare-label-racist/
  http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/05/17/celebrities-freak-after-trump-calls-ms-13-gangsters-animals/ 
  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/05/17/nancy-pelosi-on-trump-calling-ms-13-gang-members-animals-does-he-not-believe-in-the-spark-of-divinity/ 
  http://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/05/17/tucker-carlson/

“Left-wing journalists conceded on Thursday that President Donald Trump had referred to MS-13, not immigrants in general, as “animals,” but still argued that Trump was racist — or that he was to blame for their own failures to provide accurate context.” Well, what has this violent Latino gang got up to that the left are defending, remembering that much of the left still defends the communist revolution?

     Contrary to all the textbooks pushed in social sciences courses to brainwash the young at universities, multiculturalism is not about ethnic diversity within the existing liberal-democratic framework. Multiculturalism, after mass immigration gets past a critical point, becomes changing the system and replacing the previous majority with a new majority, and tossing out institutions like the liberal/democratic rule of law, and replacing them with something new and sinister, a “rough beast,” to use William Butler Yeat’s phrase, that we have not clearly seen yet. It does not happen overnight, but it is the inevitability of Fabian gradualism:
  http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/21/report-slams-uk-failure-prosecute-fgm-abuse-europe/

“A report has slammed the “national scandal” of the UK failing to prosecute a single child abuser committing or enabling Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), saying it shows the system is failing to fight the practice, which is associated with some migrant groups. The document, produced by the Quilliam Foundation, claims “Britain remains alone in Europe in its inability to prosecute FGM” and examines different explanations, including “a lack of witnesses”, “cultural sensitivity”, and the “existence of legal loopholes”. It highlights figures showing that, in 2016-2017 alone, 5,391 new cases of FGM were recorded in the UK, but authorities failed to bring a single perpetrator of FGM to justice. Altogether, around 9,000 women sought National Health Service (NHS) help because of the practice in that 12 month period.”
https://www.quilliaminternational.com/shop/e-publications/fgm-legislation-in-britain-a-national-scandal/

     I am pleased to be holidaying in Australia taking a break from the dangers of living in the United States, which is now in a state of virtual civil war. Young Chris Knight, whom I knew from America as a student, invited me to write some papers in my spare time while here, which I am pleased to do. See, no rest for the good, as well as the wicked. My interest, as a Christian who believes in the literal truth of the Holy Scriptures is that science has been in many ways a threat to Biblical belief, in ways that are often subtle. Evolution is not subtle, nor is mechanistic accounts of the mind, which eliminate free will and the soul, but a subtle metaphysical threat is posed by certain so-called advances in mathematics, especially the theory of infinity, which in a sense deconstructs one of the divine attributes. If infinity is tamed and is just another mathematical object, as in the theory of transfinite set theory, then it is that much easier, along with the materialist baggage of the modern physical sciences, to abandon God. Who needs that hypothesis, Laplace said to Napoleon:
  https://www.quantumdiaries.org/2011/09/16/there-is-no-need-for-god-as-a-hypothesis/

     There is a current of thought which takes it that mathematics is the path to God, because God is Logos, and mathematics is allegedly Logos incarnate. Certainly, Jesus Christ, as a person of the Trinity, is an incarnation of the divine Logos that formed the universe, but it is drawing a long bow to therefore identify the divine Logos with an imperfect instrument such as mathematics. In these papers I explain why by illustrating some of the many theoretical limitations of logic and mathematics, and paradoxes and antinomies. This to my mind breaks the classical link which theologians have made with mathematics and the Divine.

     One of the best now arguments for the existence, or alleged existence of infinity in mathematics, outside of set theory, comes from number theory. While infinity is used in the theory of limits and hence the calculus, that symbol is one of convenience, and can be eliminated if necessary, in terms such as “increases without bonds,” what the ancient Greek philosophers would call the “potential infinite,” by contrast to the actual infinite. Strict finitists who would say that there are only a finite number of say natural numbers, 0, 1, 2, 3, … n … such as made by finitists in the following papers: 
  https://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/loewe/HiPhI/Slides/bendegem.pdf
  http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2272346.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A6e4ad837e563fca884ba1b46e6069c68 
  file://uofa/users$/users0/a1066120/1468-1449-1-PB.pdf 
  https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.ndjfl/1093634481 
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2273760.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A5a69fb898236f1f5f11fb5b134fa9c78 
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1746-8361.1955.tb01332.x

     The conventional Platonistic mathematician will argue that given a hypothetical “last” number L, simply consider L + 1, to obtain a larger number. The question-begging assumption is made that L + 1 actually denotes, but we ignore that. The argument assumes that numbers exist in some non-material realm of abstract essence, as has been done from Plato to Gödel. That view is subject to metaphysical difficulties that mathematicians seldom consider, such as how is mathematical knowledge possible if the entities in question have primarily a non-material existence, since causal interaction with the brain is ruled out:
  http://www.columbia.edu/~jc4345/benacerraf%20with%20bib.pdf

     A black police officer kills a naked Black rampaging man, and that is … racist!
  https://www.rt.com/usa/427861-naked-black-man-police-shooting/

     In a world where everything is “racist,” nothing is “racist.” Words are drained of all meaning.

     One of the best now arguments for the existence, or alleged existence of infinity in mathematics, outside of set theory, comes from number theory. While infinity is used in the theory of limits and hence the calculus, that symbol is one of convenience, and can be eliminated if necessary, in terms such as “increases without bonds,” what the ancient Greek philosophers would call the “potential infinite,” by contrast to the actual infinite. Strict finitists who would say that there are only a finite number of say natural numbers, 0, 1, 2, 3, … n … such as made by finitists in the following papers: 
  https://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/loewe/HiPhI/Slides/bendegem.pdf
  http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2272346.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A6e4ad837e563fca884ba1b46e6069c68 
  file://uofa/users$/users0/a1066120/1468-1449-1-PB.pdf 
  https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.ndjfl/1093634481 
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2273760.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A5a69fb898236f1f5f11fb5b134fa9c78 
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1746-8361.1955.tb01332.x

     The conventional Platonistic mathematician will argue that given a hypothetical “last” number L, simply consider L + 1, to obtain a larger number. The question-begging assumption is made that L + 1 actually denotes, but we ignore that. The argument assumes that numbers exist in some non-material realm of abstract essence, as has been done from Plato to Gödel. That view is subject to metaphysical difficulties that mathematicians seldom consider, such as how is mathematical knowledge possible if the entities in question have primarily a non-material existence, since causal interaction with the brain is ruled out:
  http://www.columbia.edu/~jc4345/benacerraf%20with%20bib.pdf 

     If a Platonist account of mathematical entities is rejected, and there are many good reasons for doing so:
  https://www.calstatela.edu/sites/default/files/groups/Department%20of%20Philosophy/realism_and_anti-realism_in_mathematics.pdf

     A black police officer kills a naked Black rampaging man, and that is … racist!
  https://www.rt.com/usa/427861-naked-black-man-police-shooting/

     In a world where everything is “racist,” nothing is “racist.” Words are drained of all meaning.

     Here is my candidate for mad item of the week: that babies need to give their consent for nappy changes:
  http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/10/watch-sex-consent-expert-tells-abc-news-babies-give-consent-nappy-changes/
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyOTPu09JXk&feature=youtu.be 
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5712589/ABC-fire-lefty-lunacy-segment-nappy-consent.html 

“‘Sexuality expert’ and author Deanne Carson has attracted mass ridicule after suggesting babies should “give consent” to having their nappies/diapers changed by their parents. Speaking to ABC News (Australia), Carson was asked what age clients she works with. She replied: “We work with children from three years old, we work with parents from birth”. “From birth?” the host responds, to which Carson smugly retorts: “Yeah, just about how to set up a culture of consent in their homes. So, ‘I’m going to change your nappy now, is that ok?’ “Of course the baby isn’t going to respond, ‘Yes mum that’s awesome, I’d love to have my nappy changed’. But if you leave a space and wait for body language and wait to make eye contact then you’re letting that child know that their response matters”.

     I tend to get more than a little cynical about articles by intellectuals at Alt Right sites, that draw on Nietzsche and other thinkers such as the flavour of the month, Evola (not to be confused with Ebola, as I once did whilst drunk) to define some sort of “superman” or “overman” who will rise from the ashes after the collapse, or what some like to call the Kali Yuga, or age of decay (actually, literally, “age of beans”):
  https://www.counter-currents.com/2018/04/evolas-nietzschean-ethics/ 

     I am not sure I understand the article which links Evola’s critique to Nietzsche, as I have not read either of these authors, only potted summaries. But, as a practical man, and former warrior, I do know that neither Evola nor Nietzsche, although writing  about the warrior ethos,  would have had a low chance of surviving any sort of grid-down scenario. Nietzsche went mad, and Evola was mainly a philosophical scribbler (and hence weak), so none of them would have got in much, if any, physical training. It is clear to me, that beyond all the academic dreaming about higher men, higher men, defined here as surviving men, they need to be able to survive the coming storm, and this is not done by speculation in books, or being glued to a computer. Beyond all else, the “higher” man will be a survivalist, immersed in the practical affairs of self-defence, food preparation, and living rough and tough, more so than any set of philosophical beliefs. Think Jeff Cooper over, say, those writing for most of the Alt Right. Some of these guys get sucker punched while raving before cameras, which indicates a lack of awareness of one’s environment. The acid test must be the size of the biceps, not the volume of bs produced.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Cooper 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDaErsPXqcY 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gffEqMytRtg 

     Life moves fast. The German anarcho-tyranny has given itself new powers of surveillance, including that of opening mail. One can be sure that such powers will be used to open the mail, not of terrorists, but those criticising the terrorism of the modern state, as many protestors may believe:
  https://www.rt.com/news/426353-german-surveillance-powers-protest/

     Not to be outdone the home of 1984, multicultural fascist Britain is now moving for six year prison sentences for those criticising Islam:
  https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/05/uk-proposes-six-year-prison-sentence-for-criticizing-islam
  http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/10/six-years-in-jail-proposed-for-online-hatred-of-religion-or-gender/ 

     Here is my pick of the theatre of the absurd from Sweden this week; mind you in a decadent, decaying wasteland like Sweden, which still remains ahead of the curve of the West’s implosion, it is often hard to get the winning story. But, here it is for this week:
  https://sputniknews.com/europe/201805101064316546-sweden-voodoo-magic/
  https://www.expressen.se/kvallsposten/manniskohandelsoffer-i-voodoons-jarngrepp/

“The district court in Malmö, often touted as “Sweden’s most multicultural city,” will next hear a case involving human traffickers allegedly using a Nigerian brand of witchcraft to force women into selling sex. Two female victims from Nigeria will testify in a case of human trafficking and prostitution, involving juju, a Nigerian variant of voodoo particularly popular in the Edo State from where many sex slaves trafficked into Europe come, the daily newspaper Expressen reported. “The traffickers have realized that by utilizing juju priests they can keep the women in obedience,” criminal investigator Simon Häggström from the National Operative Department told Expressen. “They really believe in two parallel worlds, one visible and one invisible. The invisible world consists of good and evil spirits that can affect one’s everyday life,” he added. The two women who will testify about human trafficking and forced prostitution claim to have both undergone a juju ritual, for which they received €45,000 and €40,000 ($53,000 and $47,000) respectively and took an oath to repay the money through work in Sweden, without fully understanding how large the sums actually are. One of the women told the police that during the ritual she was made to eat raw chicken heart, was cut on the chest with a razorblade and had animal blood rubbed into the wounds.”