I cannot bear the TV show Game of Thrones, which seems to be just a thrashing of Medieval culture and values, adding gratuitous sex to masses of mindless violence. Now there is global warming:
  https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2018/10/18/george-rr-martin-game-of-thrones-is-about-climate-change/
  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/t-magazine/george-rr-martin-qanda-game-of-thrones.html

“Martin: It’s kind of ironic because I started writing “Game of Thrones” all the way back in 1991, long before anybody was talking about climate change. But there is — in a very broad sense — there’s a certain parallel there. And the people in Westeros are fighting their individual battles over power and status and wealth. And those are so distracting them that they’re ignoring the threat of “winter is coming,” which has the potential to destroy all of them and to destroy their world. And there is a great parallel there to, I think, what I see this planet doing here, where we’re fighting our own battles. We’re fighting over issues, important issues, mind you — foreign policy, domestic policy, civil rights, social responsibility, social justice. All of these things are important.

To The Australian        Regardless of the way the Wentworth electorate's decision has gone, Australia is in a dangerously unstable state and we all need to work hard to promote greater national unity, better understanding between different-interest groups and more stable government at the federal level. How to do this? Harper Lee's insight in To Kill a Mockingbird comes to mind. Put yourself in the shoes of those you disagree with before barging ahead to grab what you think you want. As a monarchist, I enjoyed reading that in the 1999 constitutional referendum "the public denied the political class what it wished for, which was its own aggrandisement" ("Public affection keeps the republic at bay", 20-21/10), but that is only part of the truth. Huge numbers of Australians voted for a republic then either because they wanted an Australian head of state or because they preferred a more egalitarian political order, or both - admirable idealism there, if also (from my point of view) short-sighted. We monarchists need to ask: "How can we keep our Crown while to some degree satisfying those republican yearnings?” In two ways, one of which is already happening, as Caroline Overington notes ("A right royal love affair"): attuning royal behaviour more closely to the needs of ordinary people. The other way? A completely independent Australian Crown, established in careful co-operation with the House of Windsor.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

To The Age        Critics of our monarchy (20/10) are often on unsound ground. Joanne Jennings claims that "we are now part of Asia." Geographically yes, but culturally no. Look at our language for one thing. Alan Kininmonth deprecates "a long history of semi-benign irrelevance", but ignores the profound stability and security that we have been given for over two centuries by the checks and balances inbuilt into our constitutional history, presided over by dedicated Christian sovereigns. Worst of all, Des Files misrepresents the contribution of Prince Charles. Far from "loitering around the palace” and providing an "uninspiring example", he has become the most intelligent, sensitive, caring and hard-working Prince of Wales in British history, numbering among his friends the brilliant adventurer and Jungian philosopher, Laurens van der Post, the Muslim sage and Shakesperean scholar, Martin Lings, and Australia's own extraordinary polymath, Michael Collins Persse.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     Putin, what a man’s man! Trump needs to rub up against him just to get a bit more strength. Asked about threats to Russia and nuclear war, he stood his ground and said that Russia was unafraid of dying  “like martyrs” and a retaliation against aggressors would be so swift and brutal that they  would “die like dogs” bereft of the chance to ask for salvation.
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-20/putin-lays-down-law-valdai 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iS0-Mu-yLM

     It is hard to imagine any other political leaders, such as the hollow “men” that rule us in Australia, having enough testosterone to say this and mean it. They were probably terrified to even read Putin’s words, words from a man who rides bears half-naked, carrying an AK 47.

     Universities, at least in the US, and probably here in Ozzy, are running courses about queering the Bible, showing that the Bible is, I suppose, a gay document:
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/18/college-offers-credit-course-queering-bible/

“We will examine biblical passages that are central to prohibitions on homosexuality and the larger discourses of heteronormativity (constructed around gender, sexuality, class, national identity, state formations, kinship, children, etc.) in which homophobic readings of the Bible emerge. We will also look at the ways in which these discourses and the identities they shore up can be “queered,” as well as at biblical texts that can be read as queer friendly. This process of queering will allow and require us to approach the biblical text in new ways. Pomona student Daniel Silverman told Campus Reform the course meets the high demand at the school for classes that contain topics representative of left-wing ideology.

     Here comes the next wave of illegals from south of the border, down Mexico way, to attempt to break any form of US border control. Trump at long last has meekly suggested using the military to defend the US from an invasion of foreigners, just as China would do:
  https://www.breitbart.com/border/2018/10/18/exclusive-former-sheriff-joe-arpaio-send-u-s-military-deep-inside-mexico-stop-migrant-caravans/
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/18/ann-coulter-democrats-have-no-right-to-bring-in-millions-of-people-for-votes/
  https://www.breitbart.com/border/2018/10/19/watch-migrant-caravan-tears-down-border-fence-storms-mexico/
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-10-20-whos-financing-the-spontaneous-migrant-caravan-trekking-towards-the-united-states.html 
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/19/watch-caravan-migrant-says-march-to-u-s-border-is-for-jobs-not-asylum/

     The question is: who is funding the invading caravans, as these people are well prepared for their journey? And, it is done right in time to make it an election circus. President Trump has said that  a lot on money has been spend on this invasion, and of course, the false news folk deny this, saying that there is no evidence old Georgey is up to his usual tricks:
  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/20/world/americas/migrant-caravan-video-trump.html

     The big debate in transgender vs cis women sport was over a cycling race:
  https://www.foxnews.com/sports/not-fair-world-cycling-bronze-medalist-cries-foul-after-transgender-woman-wins-gold 
  https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/female-cyclist-who-lost-to-trans-woman-blasts-definitely-unfair-competition
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-10-18-finally-female-cyclist-cries-foul-over-biological-man-winning-womens-cycling-championship-by-claiming-to-be-a-transgender-woman.html
  https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/16/cyclist-transgender-win-unfair/

“The bronze medalist in last weekend’s female cycling championship isn’t pleased she lost to a biological male who identifies as a woman, Jennifer Wagner revealed this week. Wagner placed third in the women’s sprint 35-39 bracket of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Masters Track Cycling World Championships Saturday. She lost to silver medalist Carolien van Herrikhuyzen and champion Rachel McKinnon, a Canadian-born philosophy professor who “identifies” as female despite being biologically male. McKinnon boasted that he was the “First transgender woman world champion...ever” and some have taken his win as a milestone for “equality” in professional athletics. But while van Herrikhuyzen embraced it as an “an honest race under UCI rules,” Wagner took to social media Monday to argue the race was “definitely NOT fair,” and that the current rules – brought about by a “human rights” settlement last year – were wrong.”

     While members of the Left are free to post declarations of murder, while antifa generally get away with doing whatever violence that they will (this has been extensively covered by Mike Adams of Natural News.com), and riots by migrants are now just the way business is done, any Alt Right group that makes any form of resistance will be smashed by Deep Globalist State Law Pty Ltd. Exhibit one: the Proud Boys:
  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/nyregion/the-proud-boys-gavin-mcinnes-arrested.html

“The founder of the far-right group the Proud Boys said on Friday that he was arranging the surrender of several members whom the police are seeking in connection with a violent brawl outside a Republican club in Manhattan last weekend. At the same time, a senior official said the police had opened a broad criminal inquiry into the group’s activities. Gavin McInnes, 48, a polemical far-right speaker who started the Proud Boys in 2016, said several suspects would turn themselves in. By late Friday afternoon, two of the nine men sought by the police had been arrested. A police official said a lawyer representing at least four of the suspects had called the 19th Precinct on Friday to work out the details of their surrender. Though it was unclear how many might face charges, Mr. McInnes said the rest would soon be in custody. “They are going to be in the Tombs,” he said.”

     According to this paper from the Left, Britain is divided and the fault lies with, well, you guessed it, the usual kicking bags of the Left:
  https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/17/divided-britain-study-finds-huge-chasm-in-attitudes?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR2xrBlWjWo5dfcNtAf8L6MY0ihv41v7W9n3bp5Kd-SWz7qf8GyI4hh9mt4

“Britain is hugely divided across cultural, age and education lines, a major study of national attitudes has concluded, warning of a potential rise in far-right and anti-Islam sentiments unless politicians tackle long-standing disaffections behind the Brexit vote. There is a particular chasm between people living in affluent, multicultural cities and those from struggling post-industrial towns, according to the report from Hope Not Hate, based on six years of polling and focus groups. The study by the anti-fascism advocacy group, “sets out to understand the drivers of fear and hate” in England, and where data is available, in Wales and Scotland. It uncovers the often glaring extent of geographic splits between people of varying attitudes, with opposition to immigration and multiculturalism correlating closely with socio-economic deprivation.”

     Here was I as a high school maths teacher thinking that at least maths is free from the political correctness nonsense, but then I was sent a link to this article, and will have to think again. As one economist describes this:

“Math professor Ted Hill wrote an evolutionary theory paper on why male variability would be greater than female. It was accepted at one journal, but beore publication, pressure from Women in Mathematics led to the NSF asking that its name be removed as a grant source, then a co-author asking to be removed, then the journal accepting. A second journal heard about it, requested submission, accepted, but then removed the paper from its online site and put another paper of the same length there, after getting heat.”

     We have reported previously on San Francisco having a problem with people emptying their bowels on the streets, and unlike cats, not cleaning up their mess. Now there is an outbreak of typhus, something usually restricted to dark and dirty places, which is what the West is becoming:
  http://www.collapse.news/2018-10-17-typhus-outbreak-strikes-downtown-la.html

“Descending into filth and destitution, dirty downtown Los Angeles has become a breeding ground for disease. The county Department of Public Health is now warning downtown residents that a new flea-borne bacterial disease is spreading from the city’s garbage heaps and rat population. This flea-borne typhus causes flu-like symptoms. Once infected, humans experience high fever, chills, headache, and rash. The infectious bacteria, Rickettsia typhi and Rickettsia felis, are transmitted by fleas. The flea may emit infectious bacteria from their feces. When a person scratches their skin, the bacterium can enter the epidermis and permeate the person’s bloodstream. The fleas are attracted to stray cats, opossums, and the city’s growing rat population. These animals do not get sick, but they bring the fleas closer to human exposure.”

     Here is ethnomasochism in action, as only cucked Canada can do.
  https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/justin-trudeau-refuses-to-condemn-attack-on-pro-life-woman-roundhouse-kicke?utm_content=buffer9632c&utm_medium=WCDM%2BBuffer&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=WCDM

“Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refused to directly condemn a violent attack on a young pro-life woman by a pro-abortion advocate that happened in broad daylight during a pro-life event in Toronto on Sunday. A video of the attack has gone viral on social media. Despite that video, self-avowed feminist Trudeau did not directly condemn the violence against the pro-lifer when contacted by LifeSiteNews Thursday morning. Instead, a media request to the prime minister was handed off to the minister of public safety. That office then issued a generic statement: "We condemn all forms of violence."

     California is on the front line of the cultural degeneracy bringing down the West. If it can be done, California will do it, providing it smashes traditional Western society:
  https://familyvoice.org.au/news/kids-pushing-parents-to-suicide

“A new Californian bill allows an individual to aid, advise, and encourage a person to commit suicide - and sign off on the method of suicide-while financially benefiting from the person’s death. FamilyVoice WA Director Darryl Budge is deeply concerned by this new depth to the slippery slope. "Introducing legal coercion to direct financial beneficiaries of a person's lawful killing would explode the cases of elder abuse, where murder, not just financial exploitation, will be the common result." "Family members who "encourage" the terminally ill into killing themselves will be granted full legal immunity, regardless of their motives for doing so. The patient would have to explicitly state in their will that any family member who encourages assisted suicide are to receive nothing," The Daily Wire reported. Yesterday an Australian man who stood to gain $1.4 million in life insurance was convicted of aiding his wife's suicide. Cases like this would be legal in California if this bill passes.”

     Part of the strategy of the globalists is to smear anyone, who in any shape or form criticises open borders immigration, as “Nazi.” Here is an example from Germany:
  https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/10/students-in-germany-are-now-called-nazis-for-criticising-migration/#.W7txsBsQQMk.twitter

“Leftist suppression of freedom of speech becomes increasingly worse in Germany. Many students no longer dare to openly voice their opinion on migration policy, the Epoch Times reports. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party received several reports from students who have been called Nazi for criticising Angela Merkel’s migration policy. From this school year, the AfD started a “Neutral School Initiative” in Germany’s second largest city Hamburg. Goal of the initiative is to battle political indoctrination and to strengthen a democratic and free discourse in Hamburg schools.”

     Feminists freely profess their hatred of men, which borders on the criminal, if not, pathological.
  https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/15/retired-feminist-professsor-in-washpo-i-wish-all-men-were-dead/ 
  https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/06/11/washington-post/

“A retired history professor from Grinnell College and feminist announced that she wishes that “all men were dead” in a column for the Washington Post over the weekend. Retired history professor Victoria Bissell Brown published a bizarre column in the Washington Post on Friday in which she detailed an outburst she had at her husband that included her wishing for the death of all men. I yelled at my husband last night. Not pick-up-your-socks yell. Not how-could-you-ignore-that-red-light yell. This was real yelling. This was 30 minutes of from-the-gut yelling. Triggered by a small, thoughtless, dismissive, annoyed, patronizing comment. Really small. A micro-wave that triggered a hurricane. I blew. Hard and fast. And it terrified me. I’m still terrified by what I felt and what I said. I am almost 70 years old. I am a grandmother. Yet in that roiling moment, screaming at my husband as if he represented every clueless male on the planet (and I every angry woman of 2018), I announced that I hate all men and wish all men were dead. If one of my grandchildren yelled something that ridiculous, I’d have to stifle a laugh. The column, which is entitled “Thanks for not raping us, all you ‘good men.’ But it’s not enough,” reads like a passive-aggressive rant from the type of unhinged ideologue that makes most rational people think twice before self-identifying with the “feminist” label.”

     Well, Pauline’s motion had a predictable response from our pathetic politically correct Senate:
  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-16/morrison-regrets-senators-backing-anti-white-racism-support/10381038

“Prime Minister Scott Morrison has described as "regrettable" his own senators' decision to back a motion declaring "it is OK to be white", while the Coalition's leader in the Senate has apologised and blamed an "administrative error".

To The Australian              Paul Kelly, in discussing the growing national disunity within Australia ("The main parties are divided because we are divided", 24/10), concludes that in public forums "everything is now dressed in moral clothes" and he sees this as "the consequence of the decline of shared religious faith." In that case, the first thing needed for national renewal is the revival of religion. That means more than rising numbers of adherents; it means better, profounder understanding of sacred tradition. Since Christianity is, in the historical context, our main religion, it is Christians most of all who must find a way towards fruitful change. This cannot be achieved by a stubborn clinging to belief in "orthodoxy", whether Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant. It means a reformulation of the nature and significance of Jesus, his life, teaching and death. It means, too, a different critical attitude to the Bible. This revision must result in a theology that is compatible with the other great sacred traditions on the planet. An exclusivist approach, involving insistence on "magisterium", "deposit of faith", creeds or articles simply won't do. The way has been shown by many great minds in the last two centuries, such as P. D. Ouspensky, Ananda Coomaraswamy and Rene Guenon; but too many church leaders and congregations shirk the challenge.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     Boomers love their dope, cannabis or “pot.” For starters, Canada will have to soon change its pathetic politically correct maple leaf design, to marijuana leaves, now that they have moved into the new era of legalised dope:
  https://www.yahoo.com/news/canada-ushers-historic-new-era-legalization-cannabis-035458897.html

“The Great White North could find itself in a great white puff of pot smoke as Canada makes history by legalizing marijuana. What started as an election promise by Justin Trudeau in 2015, before he was prime minister, has led to Canada becoming the second country in the world to legalize the production, sales and distribution of recreational cannabis. Uruguay broke the mould in December 2013, but Canada is the first country in the G20 to move forward with pot legalization. Cannabis is being legalized in Canada through the Cannabis Act, the first alteration to the Canadian Criminal Code as it relates to pot prohibition in 95 years. It allows adults in Canada to do the following:

     I am excited, and I know all the loyal Royal watchers are too, out there in constitutional monarchy land, about the prospects of a new Royal, who will be Black, according to the sacred canons of multiculturalism. This is a truly wonderful thing, making a link between Britain and Africa, joining together the powerful African nation, and small, fragile British. It is also a small but important step in combating racism and opposition to mass immigration, undeniably good things. It is hoped that this symbolic gesture may lead the rather primitive barbarian British, who have achieved very little in their short existence, beyond playing the foolish game of cricket, and drinking warm beer and lukewarm effeminate tea, to new, higher levels of civilisation. I can say this, being of British heritage, and of course, deeply ashamed of it, and myself. Sometimes I whip myself to relieve the guilt of being white. My very best wishes for a problem free birth and many more children to come over the many, many happy  decades ahead. I will watch reruns of Suits, whenever possible.
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6276715/Harry-Meghan-announce-expecting-child-together.html
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcbpDvihULg 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziX_zKGy6-g 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tomiw1sZiC8

     Syria's Foreign Minister Walid Moualem at the recent UN General Assembly said that Syria wanted its refugees who have gone to Europe back, as the Syrain civil War is basically over:

““The government continues to rehabilitate the areas destroyed by terrorists, to restore normalcy," he told the meeting. "All conditions are now present for the voluntary return of Syrian refugees to the country, the country they had to leave because of terrorism and the unilateral economic measures that targeted their daily lives and their livelihoods. True enough, thousands of Syrian refugees abroad have started their journey back home. From this podium I would like to stress the following - the return of each and every Syrian refugee is a priority for the Syrian state. All doors are wide open for All Syrians abroad to return voluntarily and safely...