Here are some insightful comments critical of present Australian immigration policy, just for a change from me sounding off:
  https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/inquirer/were-the-big-losers-in-this-immigration-numbers-game/news-story/76c7538c9a22b7e4df275186fee52788

“This week the Morrison government announced its intention to reduce the annual cap on new permanent migrants from 190,000 to 160,000. This lower figure will apply for the next four years. The trouble with the announcement is that an effective cap of about 160,000 has been in place for the past two years. It’s a Clayton’s change — the cap change you have when you’re not having a cap change. In combination with other announcements, which will mean even more temporary migrants, the government has decided that the population will continue to grow at a rapid pace, mainly as a result of immigration. Rather than act on a very clear message from the public that the migrant intake should be cut, the government has preferred to appease various sectional interests while pretending otherwise. We should expect better, even of a government in its last throes. The bigger picture is that there has been a significant disintegration of the broad consensus on immigration — you could call it a settlement — that was achieved by prime minister John Howard. This consensus involved strong border protection preventing the entry of illegal migrants while expanding the pathways for legal migrants to enter and stay in the country. …

     Since the days of the gold rush and the wool boom, Australia has always relied heavily on its great primary industries – mining, farming, forestry and fishing and their supporting transport, energy and processing industries. First was the export of hides and tallow, wool and timber. Then came the great discoveries of gold, coal, copper and silver-lead-zinc, followed by exports of wheat, butter, meat and cotton. Luckily the effects of droughts in the rural sector were often moderated by booms or new discoveries in minerals. Today government royalties and taxes on our massive exports of coal, gas, iron ore, nickel, copper, silver-lead-zinc, aluminium and uranium have become the main-stays of the tax-consuming and ever-growing state and federal bureaucracies. These back-bone industries, directly or indirectly, have always paid the wages of most of the workers of Australia.

     Every one of these primary industries must have three things –

To The Australian    There it is, almost hidden away in the twelfth paragraph of Greg Sheridan's piece "The Art of No Deal" (30-31/3): the essential issue at stake in the fight over Brexit. Sheridan notes that a UK choice of a no-deal Brexit, which apparently a majority of its MPs in the House of Commons will not embrace, would "liberate its courts and its life from the dim tyranny of the grossly misnamed European Court of Justice." Unrepresentative and self-interested elites the world over characteristically corrupt the judicial proceedings in their nations to imprison dangerous opponents and stifle effective criticism. Kafka, Koestler, Orwell and Solzhenitsyn in their famous novels all showed this wickedness in action and how difficult it is to get out from under the oppression, once it's in place. The EU has continued this dark tradition. The Conservative Party needs to appoint a clearly pro-Brexit leader and that person needs to call a general election precisely on the Brexit issue. It could function like a second referendum; and how foolish would UK voters be to let go such a golden opportunity of confirming British sovereignty and adherence to traditional freedoms!
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

To The Age        There is more than mere subterfuge in the UK government's manoeuverings in the Brexit confusion ("'Trickery of the highest order': May splits votes to get the deal done"). There is corruption at the highest levels as financial elites, aided by "useful idiots", seek to frustrate the 2016 referendum decision to leave the EU. The EU itself is the creature of those elites, which are globalist rather than nationalist. They are more than willing to stamp on traditional British liberties, via the European Court of Justice, as their real interests are control of populations in order to add to their own power and profits. It is astonishing that a Conservative leader (Theresa May) and a majority of members in the House of Commons appear ready to ensure continued subservience to the EU rather than allow a "no deal" exit. Their behaviour is an anti-democratic disgrace.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     Parts of the infrastructure of Western cities are falling apart quicker than expected, and the costs of replacement is often too high to undertake, so duct tape patch-ups constantly take place.
  https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/mar/21/marseille-falls-apart-why-is-frances-second-city-crumbling?

“Marseille, France’s second city, is facing its biggest crisis in decades as city-centre residents fear historical buildings that have turned to slums could crumble and fall. Grief and fury spread through the heart of the city after eight people were killed in November when two buildings collapsed near the picturesque old port. Citizens’ protests groups are asking how a city that has spent millions in the past decade on high-profile waterfront museum projects and attracting cruise-ship visitors could abandon residents and architecture to fatal neglect. In 2015, a government report warned that 40,000 dilapidated and dangerous homes were a health or security risk to 100,000 people, many in the city centre, but campaigners say little was done. Hundreds of families in Marseille have been evacuated from flats feared to be unsafe in recent months. Around 1,000 people – many on low incomes – are still sleeping in hotels, waiting to be rehoused. The crisis has highlighted Marseille’s unique makeup. With a population of around 850,000, it is smaller than the likes of Barcelona and Naples, and its diverse society is seen as symbol of modern France. But following industrial decline, a high number of its residents still live in poverty.”

     Is it right wingers? I don’t know; let’s ask MI5:
  https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/21/mi5-number-of-far-right-terror-cases-absolutely-dwarfed-by-the-number-of-islamist-cases/

“The number of far-right terror cases the authorities are faced with is “absolutely dwarfed” by the number of cases related to radical Islam, according to Britain’s Security Service, better known as MI5. MI5 specialises in counter-espionage and domestic security, in contrast to the foreign intelligence-oriented Secret Intelligence Service – better known as SIS or MI6, made famous by Ian Flemming’s James Bond books. The assessment of the relative seriousness of the Islamist terror threat and the far-right terror threat was disclosed halfway through a Guardian report focusing heavily on the latter, later republished by other media outlets including CNN and Microsoft-owned MSN. The left-liberal newspaper led on claims by the far-left HOPE Not Hate organisation, which describes itself as “anti-fascist” and has previously received funding from billionaire open borders campaigner George Soros, that “huge numbers of Britons are among the global audience for far-right forums” online.

     Here is neo-masculinity author Roosh v, presenting a critique of the “natural life”:
  https://www.rooshv.com/the-rejection-of-natural-living?awt_l=DbHeX&awt_m=3hDbnrXM7RcrK0n&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=roosh+autoresponder&utm_source=roosh+weekly+broadcast

“When man moved from the village to the city, he traded bodily suffering for mental suffering, yet the sum of his suffering remained the same. If anything, he has chosen a new kind of suffering that is much harder to solve. It robs him of his sleep, blocks his ability to connect with the opposite sex, and silences the sound of the river. He believes he made a good deal as he sits in his air-conditioned office, but he’s sitting in an air-conditioned office, wondering how he will get his next hit of external stimulation and pleasure. Year by year, he is gradually taken away from anything resembling a natural life, trading it for one of excess, anxiety, and neverending cycles of self-help.

     The UK today, the rest of the West tomorrow:
  http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/cwn/2019/march/they-arrested-him-for-islamophobia-muslim-targets-street-preacher-police-arrest-the-christian

“Britain was once the home of world missions. But today, it's increasingly hostile to the gospel. In the latest episode, London police are under fire for arresting an elderly Nigerian man for preaching on the streets of London. His name is Preacher Olu and he was arrested last Saturday, accused of breaching the peace and Islamophobia. Phone video of his arrest went worldwide on social media. "You can arrest me if you want to. You can arrest me if you want to," the preacher says after police tell him to stop talking about Jesus.”

     Learn to code goes the saying about those displaced and tossed onto the streets. But, there are billions of coders in India going cheap, and doing a good job for the capitalists, so scratch that one. But, there is always the service industry and making coffee. Wait, that one too is going:
  https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Baristas-beware-A-robot-that-makes-gourmet-cups-13708775.php

“In the food industry, it seems, the robot revolution is well underway, with machines mastering skilled tasks that have always been performed by people. In Boston, robots have replaced chefs and are creating complex bowls of food for customers. In Prague, machines are displacing bartenders and servers using an app. In Denver, they're taking orders at a fast food drive through. Robots are even making the perfect loaf of bread these days, taking charge of an art that has remained in human hands for thousands of years. Now comes Briggo, a company that has created a fully automated, robotic brewing machine that that can push out 100 cups of coffee in a single hour -- equaling the output of three to four baristas, according to the company.

     Here are the US universities, as usual, on the leading wave, getting down and taking the present culture of banning whitey to the next level:
  https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/03/25/university-of-colorado-denver-course-removes-white-authors-from-curriculum/
  https://www.thecollegefix.com/american-political-thought-course-at-cu-denver-removes-all-white-men-from-curriculum/

“I can clearly recall the first day of class a few semesters ago when I eagerly began a course called “American Political Thought” at the University of Colorado, Denver. My excitement quickly soured, however, after Professor Chad Shomura explained to the students in the room that most traditional “American Political Thought” courses are too focused on the achievements of white men. As a consequence, he told us he had removed every single white male and their theoretical perspectives from the entire course curriculum. This is echoed in the syllabus:

     I just saw the guy who is prime minister, his name escapes me, but he is just another faceless player anyway whose role will be taken over by some other faceless player after the next election, rattling on about the horror of One Nation going after funds from the US National Rifle Association. This was to attack the sacred John Howard memorial of gun banning, something the Liberals cherish, next to Howard’s Asianisation and globalisation program. Anyway, this is exploding:
  https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/one-nations-jame-ashby-filmed-lobbying-for-nra-donations/news-story/0b76859117e10d447eff7ecd9799e0fa

“One Nation has spectacularly accused international news organisation Al-Jazeera of being “foreign agents” and referred it to ASIO and the AFP for interfering in Australian elections, after the news channel revealed Pauline Hanson’s right-hand man sought $20m in donations from America’s gun lobby. An Al-Jazeera investigation has filmed James Ashby and the party’s Queensland state leader Steve Dickson in both America and Australia plotting to use the NRA to boost their donations and water down gun laws. An Al-Jazeera reporter posed as a fake gun lobbyist to approach Mr Ashby and Mr Dickson, and later set up meetings for the two men in Washington with NRA officials, where they asked for donations and received advice on using the death of gun victims to promote pro-gun policies. A One Nation spokesman told The Australian this morning that they did not recognise Al-Jazeera’s legitimacy and he had referred the news organisation to Australia’s domestic spy agency and the federal police. “Al Jazeera are a state-owned propaganda arm of the Qatari government that supports Islamic extremist groups and are not a legitimate media organisation,” he said. The Australian Federal Police confirmed it has received One Nation’s referral against Al-Jazeera. The revelations about One Nation’s search for US gun lobby money comes in the wake of the Christchurch terror attacks and a push on the Liberal Party to put One Nation last on its how-to-vote cards.”

     Today we live in a world where people can be imprisoned for just reading literature that the Deep State does not like, equating right wing literature with terrorism:
  https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/03/amber-rudd-viewers-of-online-terrorist-material-face-15-years-in-jail

     But, when it suits the system, those from the Left who have made false claims of a crime, get no punishment at all:
  https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/03/26/chicago-mayor-emanuel-on-jussie-smollett-is-there-no-decency-in-this-man/ 
  https://www.amren.com/news/2019/03/jussie-smollett-charges-dropped-actor-wont-be-prosecuted-on-charges-he-faked-attack/
  https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jussie-smollett-wont-be-prosecuted-on-charges-he-faked-attack

     Well it was predictable. With all the socialists candidates, old Bernie Sanders, not to be confused with the fried chicken guy, is entering the presidential race of 2020, and the guy is a chardonnay socialist with heaps of money, just like all of the socialist types here in Australia, especially in the media and entertainment industry:
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/21/2020-socialist-candidate-bernie-sanders-3-houses-millions-bank/ 
  https://trad-news.blogspot.com/2019/02/bernie-begins-2020-presidential.html
  https://www.npr.org/2019/02/19/676923000/bernie-sanders-enters-2020-presidential-campaign-no-longer-an-underdog

     Donald Trump was the last chance of saving America, but has hopelessly failed as Ann Coulter has detailed in a strong column that says it all about this traitor:
  https://vdare.com/articles/ann-coulter-trump-s-failing-on-immigration-don-t-ask-me-to-lie-about-it?scroll_to_paragraph=8

     Readers need to be brought up to speed on new developments in transgender, non-binary biology:
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/21/transgenderism-a-mans-penis-can-be-a-female-penis/

“A man’s penis becomes a female penis once a man declares himself to be transgender, says Indya Moore, one of the players in a transgender-themed TV show on FX network.

@IndyaMoore

If a woman has a penis, her penis is a biologically female penis.

9:31 AM - Feb 18, 2019

     The Jussie Smollett story in a nutshell; a B-grade actor staged a fake racist attack upon himself, by two hired “actors” complete with a noose around his neck, and Trump MAGA caps on the fake attackers. The police investigated and found that the report was fake, and then incredibly move to prosecute the Black B-grade actor. But, before this heaps of progressives jumped on the anti-racist wagon to show their moral superiority, and now have gone quiet. Here are the main articles:
  https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/02/18/cbs-jussie-smollett-concocted-staged-attack-after-hate-letter-didnt-get-enough-attention/
  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/spreading-the-fake-smollett-maga-country-hate-crime-a-mainstream-media-montage_02182019 
  https://www.tmz.com/2019/02/18/jussie-smollett-rehearse-attack-brothers-law-enforcement/
  https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/02/19/nolte-jussie-smollett-media-hoax-is-a-hate-crime-against-trump-supporters/ 
  https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/02/19/tmz-fox-studios-keeping-jussie-smollett-on-as-empire-regular/

     To top it all off Big IT has decided that nobody will say that the Smollett hoax is a hoax, and already censorship has occurred!
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-02-18-liberals-dream-world-fake-hate-crime-hoaxes.html

     There is a good feeling when insignificant worm-like creatures, such as  myself, find that their pet near-educated prejudices are confirmed, or at least confirmed in their own conspiratorial minds by people of significance. It is a “ha, ha, told you so moment”:
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/11591193/Australia-PM-advisor-says-climate-change-a-UN-led-ruse.html

“Australia PM adviser says climate change is 'UN-led ruse to establish new world order' Tony Abbott's business adviser says global warming a fallacy supported by United Nations to 'create a new authoritarian world order under its control' Climate change is a hoax developed as part of a secret plot by the United Nations to undermine democracies and takeover the world, a top adviser to Tony Abbott, Australia’s prime minister, has warned. Maurice Newman, the chief business adviser to the prime minister, said the science showing links between human activity and the warming climate was wrong but was being used as a “hook” by the UN to expand its global control. “This is not about facts or logic. It’s about a new world order under the control of the UN,” he wrote in The Australian.”

     The Russians want to join up with China and rule the world:
  https://www.politico.eu/blogs/the-coming-wars/2019/02/russia-china-alliance-rule-the-world/

“In the halls of the Kremlin these days, it’s all about China — and whether or not Moscow can convince Beijing to form an alliance against the West. Russia’s obsession with a potential alliance with China was already obvious at the Valdai Discussion Club, an annual gathering of Russia’s biggest foreign policy minds, in 2017. At their next meeting, late last year, the idea seemed to move from the speculative to something Russia wants to realize. And soon. Russia’s view of China has shifted significantly over the past five years. Every Russian speech — from obscure academics to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin himself — played that note and no other. There was even a new sense of desperation in the air. As Sergey Karaganov, a former adviser to Putin, explained to me at breakfast, now everything must be about China.

     First, the basic material, then my analysis:
  https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/broadcast/sonia-kruger-vilified-muslims-in-2016-today-show-segment-tribunal-finds/news-story/5de8ae47e34c2ea9672674c7f3052842?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=TodaySHeadlines

“Channel Nine TV host Sonia Kruger vilified Muslim people when she said Muslim immigration to Australia should be banned because she wanted to feel “safe”, a tribunal has found. But it was not racial vilification, because Muslim people are not a race, the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal said, in its decision released today on Kruger’s remarks on the Today during a panel chat in July, 2016. “Personally, I would like to see it (Muslim immigration) stop now for Australia,” Kruger said on-air on July 18, during a discussion in the wake of terror attacks in Nice on Bastille Day, on whether the number of migrants and refugees allowed into a country increased the risk of terror attacks.  “Because I want to feel safe, as all of our citizens do when they go out to celebrate Australia Day, and I’d like to see freedom of speech,” Kruger continued.

     As long-term readers would know, I have been championing a campaign the close down the universities for some years now. Sometimes it seems that someone is listening. Why, I even wrote to the White House to see if President Trump would do anything, such as cut funding to starve the cancer. I did not get a reply, but maybe someone in the office got the idea and passed it on:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-03-04-trump-announces-executive-order-universities-free-speech.html

“Upset that conservatives continue to be silenced, banned, and even attacked on America’s increasingly Left-wing college campuses, POTUS Donald Trump said on Saturday he’s prepared to fire a financial warning shot across their bows. Speaking to a packed, enthusiastic crowd at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland, the president said he was preparing to sign an executive order denying federal funds to any college or university that did not protect all students’ First Amendment rights to free speech. “Today I am proud to announce that I will be very soon signing an executive order requiring colleges and universities to support free speech if they want federal research dollars,” the president said after bringing Hayden Williams on stage with him, who was sucker punched by a Left-wing activist at the University of California-Berkeley last month. As reported by The National Sentinel, police at UC-Berkley arrested Zachary Greenberg, 28, about 1 p.m. Friday after a judge issued an arrest warrant for the February 19 attack on Williams, 26. Several videos of the attack show Greenberg verbally berating Williams before punching him in the face, then physically assaulting him.

     The president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, wants to change the name of the country to something like “Maharlika,” because of, well, imperialism, colonialism and all that jazz, as the country was named after King Philip of Spain. Ok, they want to cut ties with the West. Fine, but why should the United States therefore have to defend these fellows from China?
  https://www.amren.com/news/2019/03/duterte-stresses-desire-to-rename-philippines/
  https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1091675/duterte-stresses-desire-to-rename-philippines?utm_expid=.XqNwTug2W6nwDVUSgFJXed.1
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-05/mike-pompeos-war-warning-china

“As President Trump flew home from his Hanoi summit with Kim Jong Un, Mike Pompeo peeled off and flew to Manila. And there the Secretary of State made a startling declaration. Any armed attack by China on a Philippine ship or plane in the South China Sea, he told the Philippine government, will be treated as an attack on an American ship or plane, bringing a U.S. military response. “China’s island building and military activities in the South China Sea threaten your sovereignty, security and, therefore, economic livelihood, as well as that of the United States,” said Pompeo. “As the South China Sea is part of the Pacific, any armed attack on Philippine forces, aircraft or public vessels in the South China Sea will trigger mutual defense obligations under article 4 of our mutual defense treaty.”