The way the game now seems to be played, is that any US politician who met with Russian officials, if they are on team Trump, must be dumped for the purposes of national security.
However, flying in the face of this double standard, we see evidence of Nancy Pelosi, minority leader of the US House of Representatives, sitting across the table from the Russian Ambassador, even though she said that she has never met him: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/03/03/impeach-nancy-pelosi-met-with-russian-president-in-2010-n2293837. Can this be proof that magic happens? Are all the Marvel superhero movies, such as Dr Strange (2016), the tremendous magician, correct?

More likely though, it seems that if you are on the side of the Liberal-Left, telling the truth is something one does not have to do, because we live in a post-truth world, where reality is a social construct, the product of the deranged minds of sociologists: https://compassioninpolitics.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/14-criticisms-of-the-social-construction-of-reality-the-postmodern-versions/.

Oh, I am only joking, just tickling the false news censors. Now we are relaxed, we can note that German Leftists, although perhaps liking to have everyone in the universe who could cement their power do so, their present quest remains with non-citizens: http://www.infowars.com/leftists-in-germany-want-to-give-refugees-the-vote/.

In answer to a survey, about whether non-citizens like refugees should be given the vote, supporters of the Social Democrats (SPD), 63.7% supported the proposal, along with 64.8% of Green Party voters, while supporters of the anti-immigration AfD party opposed the idea by a margin of 96.9%.

This one has it all in one power-packed toxic capsule: “RACIST THUG WALKS FREE: Man Escapes Jail after SPITTING in 9-Month-Old Baby’s Face and Screaming at Stunned Mum: ‘White People Shouldn’t Breed’” at https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2918885/man-spat-babys-face-shouted-white-people-should-breed/.

Rezzas Abdulla spat on little Layla-Jean in her pram and told the stunned mother his thoughts on racial eugenics. Although any “White” person would have faced not only the full wrath of the courts, and endless attacks by Leftoids and other chatterers, Mr Spit, who had two previous convictions for race-hate attacks on White women, escaped jail and was handed an eight month sentence, suspended for 18 months, thank you very much, to attend psychiatrists paid for from the public purse.

UK Tory MP Pauline Latham has shown some spirited resistance against the New World Order philosophy of open borders, by claiming that the Dubs Amendment, regarding refugees, would act as a “pull factor” and encourage more so-called refugees to flood into Europe. The best thing that the UK could do is to push to ensure that refugees remained in their homelands. “We should stop being so sentimental and be looking at what [is] the best thing to do for these families and children and that is keep them in the region,” she said during an emergency House of Commons debate over the scrapping of the Dubs amendment.

Latham also said that France is not “Nazi Germany.”
“These children are not under threat of murder, they are in safe countries, [and] the governments [of those countries] should be dealing with [them].”
If France is “rat-infested,” it has nothing to do with Britain, she chirped.
Good to see some old-fashioned cannon fire from Britain.

A Danish man, who filmed himself burning the Quran, and placed the film on Facebook, will be charged for blasphemy, the first prosecution in 46 years: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/denmark-man-burned-quran-koran-video-blasphemy-facebook-islam-prosecuted-charged-46-years-a7594796.html.

Here is what Denmark’s  Jan Reckendorff, from the public prosecutor’s office in Viborg, said: “It is the prosecution’s view that circumstances involving the burning of holy books such as the Bible and the Quran can in some cases be a violation of the blasphemy clause, which covers public scorn or mockery of religion.
“It is our opinion that the circumstances of this case mean it should be prosecuted so the courts now have an opportunity to take a position on the matter.”

The French republican ideal of the creation of a raceless, placeless cosmopolitan republic, one that is open to all cultures in its blanket embrace of universalism, is rapidly imploding. This is seen daily as rioters simply burn the country to the ground, as French police flee armed mobs in Paris: http://www.wnd.com/2017/02/french-police-flee-armed-mob-riots-spread-to-paris-center/.

The end of France, the nation, as it was once known, is also seen in the tale of demographics. Falko Baumgartner, “The Africanization of France …as of 2014,” at http://alternative-right.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-africanization-of-france-as-of-2014.html, consulting medical data relating to the prevalence of sickle cell disease in newborns, a disease found primarily in Africans, concluded that one third of all French newborns are non-white, mainly of African or Middle Eastern origin:  http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2014/09/the-africanization-of-france-medical-data-suggests-one-third-french-births-are-non-white/.

This seems to be the beginning of “The Swamp” biting back, a metaphor recently used on the pro-freedom site, “The Saker”: http://thesaker.is/the-swamp-strikes-back/. The forces of darkness are now beginning to censor Alt Right pro-Trump sites, bringing them down.

A chilling example is Google essentially blacklisting the entire NaturalNews.com site, claimed by Mike Adams here: http://naturalnews.com/2017-02-22-google-blacklists-natural-news-removes-140000-pages-from-its-index-memory-holes-natural-news-investigative-articles.html.

No sooner than I had finished my article on Trump and Sweden, and sent it to the editor via carrier pigeon, did I come across an article by two leading Swedish politicians, saying that Trump was right about Sweden being full of refugee-generated crime: Jimmie Akesson and Mattias Karlsson, “TRUMP IS RIGHT: SWEDEN’S EMBRACE OF REFUGEES ISN’T WORKING”:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-is-right-swedens-embrace-of-refugees-isnt-working-1487807010.

People off the street cannot get into the article, but a summary is offered: “The country has accepted 275,000 asylum-seekers, many without passports – leading to riots and crime.”

Leftist agitator, Saul Alinsky published an influential book in 1971, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals. Obama and Clinton both were weaned on it. I could not find a copy of the book, but here are the rules, thanks to Wikipedia:

1.    “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people.
“Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood.
2.    “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone.
3.    “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.”
Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.
4.    “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.
5.    “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
6.    “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones.
7.    “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
Don’t become old news.
8.    “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new.
9.    “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist.
10.    “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.” It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign.
11.    “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog.
12.    “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem.
13.    “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.”

To The Australian
It is going to be very hard at this stage for Malcolm Turnbull to offer ‘a credible reason why conservatives should remain within the tent’ (‘The crisis of conservatism’, 25-26/2). He had his chance: he could have promoted Abbott and Bernardi to ministerial rank at least, but he didn’t; and now look at the result!  Paul Kelly painstakingly shows the mess the Liberal Party is now in, but not how it can regain electoral momentum.

It is correct that, historically, conservatism has been weak in Australia and for the reasons Kelly notes; but this does not mean that, with a lengthening history and more chance of developing political maturity, it cannot become stronger. One serious problem is indeed that ‘there is no leadership figure accepted as the authoritative voice of conservatism.’ Perhaps a more serious problem is that the Christian churches have failed to provide significant support for conservative philosophy, too many of their leaders fellow travelling with the left.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic

The Weekend Australian, February 25-26, 2017, has a big spread on the crisis in the Liberals. First, there was the cover story about Tony Abbott’s continuing criticisms of Malcolm Turnbull, where he sees Mal as lacking the conservative values to lead the party. On this line of thought, there will be a continuous drift of voters to One Nation, and the Liberal party will be doomed.

On this, I first note that Abbott showed himself to be lacking in basic conservative, let alone liberal values. He did not pursue his promise to axe section 18 C, cowardly caving in to the ethno-multicult lobby. Why should anyone therefore listen to him? He is yesterday’s man.

The latest on the Aboriginal recognition issue: predictably enough a treaty and an elected body with the power to veto legislation, has emerged from nationwide indigenous discussion meetings on constitutional reform: The Weekend Australian, February 25-26, 2017, p. 10. This, of course, is quite contrary to the hype given by conservatives, that the changes will only be cosmetic and of no political significance.

As has been argued in many articles at this site, this will lead to the breakup of Australia, and will make law-making virtually unworkable. It is time that the barely disguised radical agenda behind this issue be fully exposed to the public. Ensure that all you speak to know, to vote “No”!  Get onto Pauline Hanson and educate her on this issue. It is high time for her to speak up on it. Enough on Muslim immigration!

To The Age
No, we should not ban Christianity (Letters, 27/2), but Christian sacred tradition needs to be better understood in many quarters. The profound initiatory teaching of Jesus, plainly visible in the canonical gospels, has become embedded in a mire of erroneous dogma and incompatible cult practices. Yes, there’s another swamp that needs to be drained!

However, the great religions (Christianity, Islam and others) remain vitally important for the sustaining of just and viable political orders within nations. This is mainly because of their insistence on the need for humanity to maintain connections with the worlds beyond, angelic and divine. It is those connections that support the practice of virtue and nourish qualities such as humility, love and honour.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic

Coffee house Starbucks was one company that was first off the mark to oppose president Trump’s temporary hold on immigration from seven countries which had been flagged by the Obama administration as being a source of terrorists. It then announced that it would hire 10,000 Muslim refugees in  response.

But, if Starbucks feels so morally superior, why hadn’t it employed these migrants before? Why not 20,000? Why not have an entire Muslim staff, including senior management?

Some indication of the enormous economic costs of immigration are given by Breitbart news in a cost estimate of the amount of money that will be needed to support the 519,018 refugees who have been resettled by the United States government since October 2009: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/19/refugees-will-cost-taxpayers-an-estimated-4-billion-in-fy-2017/.

The cost is US $ 4.1 billion. The article grimly notes, “Even if the Trump administration were to entirely shut down the flow of refugees into the United States in FY 2018 and beyond, the refugees who have already arrived in the country will cost at least another $3.5 billion in 2018, and about $2 billion to $3 billion annually thereafter until FY 2022 and beyond.”

The “false news” media zeroed in on Trump for allegedly speaking of a “phony terror attack” in Sweden and the former Swedish foreign minister wondered what Trump was “smoking”:  http://nypost.com/2017/02/19/swedes-ask-what-trumps-smoking-after-he-cites-unknown-terror-attack/.

Trump, however, did not state that a terrorist attack as such had occurred in Sweden, but said, “You’ve got to keep our country safe. You look at what’s happening in Germany, you look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this? They took in large numbers. They’re having problems like they never thought possible.”
Do you see any mention in this of a terrorist attack, at least conventionally defined? No, anyone with eyes would see that this is not so.

Without cell walls, with open border cells, cells would fall apart and cease to exist. Cell membranes hold cells together and prevent invading organisms from destroying the cell. What is true at the microbiological level, is also true at the macro-sociological level.

Frontex, the European Border and coast Guard Agency, has reports that there has been an overwhelmingly significant drop in illegal immigration in countries which have constructed walls, and strong border defences:  http://reliefweb.int/report/world/frontex-annual-risk-analysis-2017.

The Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has said to the UN General assembly that Japan must improve the living standards of its own people before considering to take in Syrian refugees – in 2016 Japan received 5,000 refugee applications, but accepted 11 people, which is probably about right: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/30/japan-says-it-must-look-after-its-own-before-allowing-syrian-refugees-in.
However, Japan will give US $ 1.6 billion to assist Syrians and Iraqis.
That seems to be a more sensible approach rather than the “feel good’ open border policy adopted in Germany.

Two migrants to Japan out of the first batch, have been accused of raping a Japanese woman: http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2016/02/22/tokyo-cops-arrest-turkish-asylum-seekers-in-gang-rape-of-woman/. This will no doubt harden Japan’s policy, which is a good thing for them.

There is something of a broad emerging consensus among the diverse groups and free-wheeling thinkers, going under the umbrella term “Alt Right,” that the key to dealing with the multitude of problems facing us – whether it be the financial/money question, race realities, immigration, feminism, etc. – is that there needs to be strong manly people to seek solutions and to fight for them. But manhood, along with other virtues of our civilisation, has been undermined.

Many see the destruction of manhood in purely socio-political terms, and of course, at a minimum, there is in this, much truth. But, as Roosh, a microbiologist, argues in his article “The Decline in Testosterone is Destroying the Basis of Masculinity,” http://www.rooshv.com/the-decline-in-testosterone-is-destroying-the-basis-of-masculinity, there is probably an underlying biochemical explanation for the rise of leftism and general cuckoldry, or what we may now call, “cuckism.”

We need to be paying close attention to how the elites are fighting against Trump, because it gives us an indication of how they would battle, say, alternative financial movements, such as social credit. Of course we already have seen what they have done in the past, with the Alberta experiment, but we have not seen anything yet, as the evil empire strikes back.

First, according to the New York Post (http://nypost.com/2017/02/11/how-obama-is-scheming-to-sabotage-trumps-presidency/), Obama has set up a “shadow government” in a bunker less than two miles from the White House, and has an army of agitators, numbering at least 30,000, working to bring Trump down. Already the Obama shadows worked to destroy former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, using waves of damaging stories, before details about Obama’s Iran nuclear deal was revealed: http://www.collapse.news/2017-02-15-traitors-inside-the-bureaucracy-civil-war-heats-up-as-obamas-sleeper-cells-succeed-in-destroying-flynn.html.