Yo, the censorship of everything the elites don’t like has now progressed to websites and people who are just reporting on news that the mainstream are not reporting on, so for some reason, it must be shut down, terminated:
  https://www.rt.com/usa/441144-facebook-rt-america-correspondent/

“RT America’s Rachel Blevins has had her public account axed by Facebook amid the social media giant’s recent crackdown on alternative news sources. Blevins says she only posted her journalistic work and is baffled by the move. Rachel says she had to work hard for four years to amass a following of nearly 70,000 people. She has no clue as to what might have prompted Facebook censors to see red and banish her from the site in the 'inauthentic behavior' crackdown, as she only posted her own work, articles and video reports. The RT America correspondent said that Facebook listed a plethora of reasons as to why her account got the chop. Rachel says the social media giant said it was a “fake account”, was “misleading users” and was “violating Facebook’s spam policy”.

     Hillary Clinton has called for an end of “civility” when dealing with her opponents, the deplorables, White Americans, and the antifa have been happy to oblige, as the recent riot in Portland shows. Police opened fire with less-than-lethal rounds. The Right Wing Christian groups (e.g. Patriot Prayer) and others, as well as the opposing antifa, used bare fists and batons to thump each other:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=nSQrM3R-0HA 
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-14/violence-breaks-out-portland-streets-antifa-clashes-patriot-prayer

     It has been said that both parties had a smacking good time, and each group went home to mend cuts, tend to bruises, and lick wounded prides, getting ready for round 2.

     I thought New Zealand was like say, Ireland, with abortion on demand, but, no. Anyway, the move is on to end New Zealand’s abortion ban, because, as always, it violate human rights, or some fiddle sticks like that:
  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/08/new-zealands-degrading-abortion-ban-breaches-human-rights-say-activists?CMP=soc_567

“An abortion advocacy group in New Zealand has laid a discrimination complaint alleging New Zealand’s strict abortion laws breach the human rights of pregnant people, and subject them to “ritual humiliation”. As experts prepare to hand down a major review into the country’s controversial abortion laws later this month, ALRANZ Abortion Rights Aotearoa has teamed up with five women who have experienced difficulties and emotional pain in accessing abortions in bringing their complaint to the country’s human rights commission. Under New Zealand law, abortion is a crime and legal only in cases of incest, “mental subnormality” or foetal abnormality, or where the physical or mental health of the mother would be seriously impacted by having a child. Other factors that may be taken into consideration but are not grounds in themselves include “sexual violation” and “extremes of age”. The joint complaint alleges that pregnant women suffer “demonstrably worse treatment than other people seeking health care” when accessing abortions, and experience “hurt feelings, loss of dignity, and cruel, degrading, and disproportionately severe treatment”. Terry Bellamak, national president of ALRANZ is awaiting the findings of a Law Commission review of the laws.”

     I am back, mentally refreshed from my stay in a psychiatric institution. It was great; showers (no showers in my shed, I wash very rarely), toilets (no toilets in my shed; guess how I handle that one, and two), and food not from dumpster diving. Sure I had a drip feeding powerful drugs into my veins 24/7, but I ask you, is this really something to worry about, when one can dine on a hot toasted cheese and tomato sandwich? Returning to my shed left me with a feeling of depression, but not enough to be put back in to the glorious mental health cycle. So, it is back to my eternal friends and support animals, the cockroaches. Speaking of emotional support animals:
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-10/woman-booted-flight-after-refusing-leave-her-emotional-support-squirrel

“The ongoing controversy surrounding passengers' demands to take their 'emotional support animals' with them on long flights took a hilarious turn on Tuesday when a woman was forcibly removed from a Frontier Airlines flight after she was told that her "emotional support" squirrel wouldn't be allowed on board. Passengers were forced to deplane from flight 1612 from Orlando, Fla., to Cleveland on Tuesday when the woman refused to obey a request to leave the flight with her squirrel, at which point the airline called the Orlando Police, who escorted the woman off the plane. The woman argued that she included in her reservation notes that she would be traveling with an emotional support animal - though the airline argued that she did NOT indicate that said animal would be a squirrel, according to the Cleveland Fox affiliate. Frontier said it doesn't allow rodents on its fights.”

     Former Vice President Joe Biden is leader of the pack of racing dogs, for the prospective 2020 Democratic candidates, according to a recent poll from CNN. This poll found that 33 percent of Democrats and independents who leaned Democrats, thought that he would be the best bunny to take on President Trump. If so, Biden will be continuing the tradition set by the Clintons:
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/14/cnn-poll-biden-leads-field-2020-democratic-hopefuls/

“If Biden decides to run, he may have to answer to explosive revelations that he and his son Hunter struck a $1.5 billion deal with the Chinese government-backed Bank of China just ten days after the vice president and his son returned from a trip to China aboard Air Force Two. Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer, in his book Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends, detailed how Biden may have helped Hunter secure the $1.5 billion deal with a China-based investment firm that had ties to a Chinese atomic energy company indicted for “nuclear power conspiracy against the United States.” “The FBI arrests and charges senior officials in this company with stealing nuclear secrets in the United States. Specifically, they’re trying to get access to something called the AP-1000 nuclear reactor that is very similar to the ones that we put on U.S. submarines,” Schweizer wrote. “So again, you have the son of the vice president, a close aide to the secretary of state who are investing in a company that is trying to steal nuclear secrets in the United States. It’s a stunning story, and here’s the thing: none of this is required to be disclosed because they’ve figured out a way to get around these disclosure laws,” Schweizer continued.

     Here is a good intro. essay about cultural Marxism, one to educate newies and normies about the anarcho-tyrannical plan to destroy the world, if not the entire universe:
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-11/cultural-marxism-americas-new-mainline-ideology

“This theory says that the driving force behind the socialist revolution is not the proletariat - but the intellectuals. While Marxism has largely disappeared from the workers' movement, Marxist theory flourishes today in cultural institutions, in the academic world, and in the mass media. This “cultural Marxism” goes back to Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) and the Frankfurt School. The theorists of Marxism recognized that the proletariat would not play the expected historical role as a “revolutionary subject.” Therefore, for the revolution to happen, the movement must depend on the cultural leaders to destroy the existing, mainly Christian, culture and morality and then drive the disoriented masses to Communism as their new creed. The goal of this movement is to establish a world government in which the Marxist intellectuals have the final say. In this sense, the cultural Marxists are the continuation of what started with the Russian revolution.

     Was this why witches were once burnt at the stake? No, it was due to patriarchal oppression, and fortunately, in our enlightened age, such brutality is a long forgotten thing:
  https://www.seeker.com/seven-accused-african-witches-burned-to-death-1769174209.html
  https://www.enca.com/africa/five-women-beaten-and-burned-part-of-rising-wave-of-tanzanian-witch-killings
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXidzbNPwSQ 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izT9yrg23PM

     Nowadays modern witches do great and exciting things, like defend political correctness by placing curses upon figures of  the Right, and who could not see that as a fine thing to do with one’s black magical powers?
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/13/dozens-witches-gather-place-public-hex-brett-kavanaugh/

     Time crystals? No, I had not hears of them either, before reading this:
  https://www.iqsdirectory.com/resources/time-crystals-a-new-form-of-matter-that-could-change-everything/

“Time crystals are systems of atoms that arrange themselves in time the way more traditional solids crystallize in space. In case your brain isn’t bent enough trying to figure out what that means, the two groups of scientists created radically different structures that both fall under the label “time crystals.” These atomic arrangements are not time travel portals or infinite Rube Goldberg Machines, but rather the advent of a whole new state of matter–independent from the familiar solids, liquids, and gases that comprise our known universe. MIT theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek first proposed the idea of time crystals in 2012, positing that if properties change over time rather than in space that it might create new states of matter. Less than six years later, the two groups of scientists created crystals that seem to possess properties similar to those he proposed.

     Human sperm is going to be as scarce as hen’s teeth in the future. (I just thought about this and realised that hens don’t have teeth.)
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6249825/The-male-fertility-crisis-continues-Quality-sperm-plummets.html

“Sperm count is plummeting - meaning an increasing number of men may need IVF if they hope to conceive, new research shows. Researchers in the US and Spain analyzed semen samples from two major fertility centers between 2002 and 2017. The number of men in their cohort went up seven-fold, from 8,000 to 60,000 in that time, with an increasing number diagnosed with oligospermia, a type of male infertility. What's more, among those men with fertility issues, an increasing number have a sperm count so low they have a higher risk of needing IVF to conceive, while the number of men with a 'normal' sperm count dropped. Lead researchers Dr Ashley Tiegs, who is presenting the findings at a reproductive medicine conference on Monday, told DailyMail.com the drop in sperm quality is possibly driven by environmental factors like smoking, stress, obesity, and exposures to chemicals in plastics.

     China, engaging in brainwashing? Taking out people’s brains, giving them a scrub over, then putting them back in squeaky clean skulls? Surely not!
  https://www.theepochtimes.com/brainwashing-centres-in-china-targeted-by-australian-senator_2655692.html

“Australian Conservatives Senator Cory Bernardi put forward two motions to federal Parliament tightly linked to strained Australian-China relations, on Aug 15. The first motion, which was rejected, called for a review of the Department for Education and Training’s engagement with Chinese Communist Party-administered Confucius Institutes. The successful second motion, while avoiding direct reference to China, targeted political re-education internment camps, which have become a hallmark of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) oppression. In the course of ostensibly delivering Chinese language and culture education, Confucius Institutes have come under scrutiny for, among other things, impinging on Australian academic freedom. Over 1,500 Confucius Classrooms and Confucius Institutes are hosted by primary and secondary schools and universities throughout the world. Bernardi’s motion noted that Australia has the third largest number of such institutions, after the United States and the United Kingdom. The setting up of Confucius Institutes involves forming a partnership between a Chinese university, a foreign university, and Hanban—the Office of Chinese Language Council International, which is an arm of the CCP’s Ministry of Education.”

     The Danish Immigration and Integration Minister has taken a stand against the mass immigration swamping EU program:
  https://gellerreport.com/2018/10/denmark-refuses-eu-migrant-quota.html/

“The Venstre party politician said that Denmark would not be opening the country’s borders to asylum seekers, saying: “Although we have gained significantly better control over the influx, we are still in the position that we are struggling to integrate the many refugees who have come to Denmark in recent years.” “Despite the fact that more refugees have come to work, there are still too many who do not support themselves. This applies especially to women, where too few contribute. That is why I have decided that Denmark should not take quota refugees in 2018,” Støjberg added, according to Jyllands-Posten. The statement comes after the Danish government passed legislation allowing the immigration minister to set the number of asylum seekers that would be welcomed into the country each year.

     Steven Pinker is riding the waves of greatness as the latest leading thinker. No doubt in time he will be replaced by another, for academia is today much like popular music charts. Anyway, he has a new book supposedly defending Enlightenment values, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, (Viking, New York, 2018). While all of that sounds good, and we would expect a sustained critique of political correctness on the university campus, what we find instead is that Pinker defines basically Trump as the greatest threat to Enlightenment values! Yes, not postmodernism, which explicitly undermines scientific rationality, or radical Islam, but nationalists! Does he have an agenda you may ask?
  https://www.counter-currents.com/2018/03/steven-pinkers-anti-enlightenment-attack-on-white-identitarians/

     I would quote a slab of text from the Counter-currents.com site, but every time you cut and paste from them you get a block of black which is not helpful for the promotion of ideas. However, in summary … wait … a kind computer geek suggested going to print mode to overcome the block, and here is the text, straight from author Ricardo Duchesne, who is far better and more coherent that the Peterson guy, and has taken him apart, anyway:

     The TPP has had a zombie existence since President Trump crushed the original plan under foot like crushing the head of a serpent. But, the evil globalist elites never give up in their eternal quest to destroy everything of value and sink the nation state, our heritage and future. However, while the program has crept on, it has had its setbacks, such as a blow delivered by the otherwise weak Centre Alliance:
  https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/foreign-affairs/labor-under-pressure-to-kill-transpacific-partnership/news-story/f77a55523fc814ebdb780580dc9aca47
  https://centrealliance.org.au/media/media/no-deal-centre-alliance-to-reject-tpp-11-enabling-legislation/

“While Centre Alliance supports open and fair trade, the party will not be supporting TPP-11 enabling legislation," said Trade spokesperson Senator Rex Patrick. "The deal that has been negotiated by the Government is, on balance, bad for Australia." Recently released modelling commissioned by Australian industry heavyweights shows that the deal would result in, at best, a 0.5% increase to GDP by 2030. This figure must be tempered by the fact that the Productivity Commission has found that predictions for growth and jobs from Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have rarely been delivered because the economic models employed exaggerate the benefits, ignores many of the costs and assume away unemployment effects. The modelling shows Australia's grain exports would not change at all under the deal and all other agriculture could decline. It also shows that durable manufacturing, a key sector of interest to Centre Alliance, would actually shrink under TPP-11.

     “Forced labour,” as defined by the International Labor Organization, is “all work or service which is exacted from any person under the threat of a penalty and for which the person has not offered himself or herself voluntarily.”
  https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/forced-labour/definition/lang--en/index.htm

     Forced labour though is precisely what the Liberal government is now forcing on the unemployed, under the guise of helping the farmers:
  https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/dole-bludgers-must-work-on-struggling-farms-or-risk-benefits/ar-BBOiXF5?li=AAgfYrC&ocid=mailsignout

     Everybody seems to be reading Breitbart.com, so here I go to see what I can find on my treasure hunt. For today, there is this gem, where the big rich Koch brothers, who champion unlimited immigration to the US, for all of the reasons our own elites and chatterers do, want migrants even if they go onto welfare! That is a new frontier because migrants are supposed to be all IT experts and rocket scientists, set to pay for boomer pensions:
  https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2018/10/14/billionaire-koch-brothers-trump-wrong-morally-right-import-foreign-welfare-dependents/

“Through the Koch brothers’ network of organizations—which have campaigned for Democrats’ open borders policies this election cycle—which include the pro-mass immigration LIBRE Initiative and the economic libertarianism group Freedom Partners, the billionaire donors are opposing Trump’s reform to the legal immigration system. Freedom Partners Executive Vice President Nathan Nascimento said in a statement that allowing mass migration of welfare-dependent foreign nationals into the U.S. is “morally right,” calling Trump’s reform “the wrong approach.” “We should always welcome people who desire to come here and contribute because is it both morally right and their efforts benefit our nation, economy, and taxpayers,” Nascimento said. Nascimento also said the U.S. must continue bringing more than 1.5 million immigrants to the country every year because there are not enough American workers willing to do blue-collar jobs, though economic data does not back up the so-called “labor shortage” claims made by the big business lobby and Chamber of Commerce.

     Truly amazing stuff: sensible feminist Camille Paglia says that the sort of feminism based upon destroying men, which is the foul brew spewed from our universities, is poisonous to culture and could bring down civilisation on its own.
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/13/camille-paglia-feminism-based-on-destroying-men-is-absolute-poison-to-culture/
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb2JEX8DYYE

“The feminist icon – who prefers the original brand of feminism that won women the right to vote and raised up heroines such as Katharine Hepburn, Amelia Earhart, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh – said the more recent second wave of feminism is “an absolute poison that has spread worldwide.” Paglia said the original feminists “admired what men had done – there was no male-bashing – as became systemic to second-wave feminism.” The brand of feminism recreated by Betty Friedan in the 1960s, Paglia said, is now based on “denigrating men” and “defining men as oppressors and tyrants through history.” “It is an absolute lie,” she said, “an extrapolation of neuroticism on the part of these fanatics.” The author of Sexual Personae, Paglia added the “snowflake generation” is also a result of social media, “where people feel they have so many friends and they want a sense that reality is comforting them and cushioning them and so on.”

     The title of this article is taken from the old 1960s early politically correct, multiracial sci fi Star Trek, with Mr Spock telling Captain Jim, that the crazy stuff they have just found is “life,” but not as we know it. That in itself is crazy, because how else can we conceptualise “life,” but in terms of what we know? It is simply a contradiction in terms. Spock’s hyper-rational irrationalism reminds me of Mr Smartie, all-meat-eater, Jordan Peterson, hero to young men with weak or no father figures. Here is a recent example of Peterson’s Spockism, that Supreme Court judge Brett Kavanaugh should immediately resign:
  https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/10/jordan-peterson-attempts-to-explain-his-call-for-kavanaugh-to-step-down/
  https://jordanbpeterson.com/political-correctness/notes-on-my-kavanaugh-tweet/

“I asked myself a question, after reading these posts: “Is there an alternative to confirming or not confirming Kavanaugh?” When a choice appears starkly binary, a third path appears impossible, by definition — but might possibly still be worth seeking. I tried to place myself in Kavanaugh’s position, while generating a potential answer (and think that I can do so with some justification, having been publicly identified as reprehensible by many people—prominent journalists, activists, and academics among them). I thought, “He can’t withdraw, prior to the nomination, because his reputation has been savaged so badly that withdrawal would not only mean loss of the Supreme Court nomination, but demolition of his entire career and future life.” So the only way for Kavanaugh was forward, through the FBI investigation, on to the nomination hearing, and the hope that he would be… what? Cleared? Not cleared, because it is too late for that, even given the favorable or at least not damning FBI report.

     A comment if I may on James Reed's excellent piece on Socialism and the Intellectuals. There is a very interesting but disturbing new report by Mike Adams on Natural News titled Is demonic possession now sweeping America, claiming that the Democrats evidenced by their behaviour and actions are the "demoncrats", and suggesting a wave of demon possession amoungst their ranks. This gives clear proof of the words from Ephesians 6:12 We wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. It is well worth a re-read of the rest of the passage.

     James, I take hope in the work of Dr Christine Jones whom we heard speak very recently here at Inverell on plants (weeds included) and their role in creating health in our soil. Weeds only thrive in the vaccuum you spoke of, they fill a void, but eventually create in the soil the conditions for the "good seed" to germinate, grow and eventually take the place of the weed. (The mills of God grind slowly but the do grind) The good seed will eventually out-compete the weed in the long term. I do not wish to postulate on the way the current crop of weeds is going to bring about health in society, (not sure they would make for healthy compost even),except to to remember Eric Butlers words, they have within them the seeds of their own destruction. Lets keep lighting candles because darkness cannot compete with light. It will be very interesting to observe our new Prime Ministers dance as he tries to serve God and Mammon.
  David Smith

     Basically, I love anything that makes consumer goods and life more comfortable, in this age of plenty. Consumption is everything. One can never have enough, and if God did not want this to be so, then He would not have given us infinite resources.  But, this age of plenty requires energy, and plenty of it, or it would not, by definition be an “age of plenty.” Sure, we have enough oil and gas to burn until the sun explodes in a trillion years, but some people feel that nuclear is better. Radiation is felt to be a problem, when mega-storms destroy nuclear power plants. That is why we need these guys to eat up all of the radioactive baddies, like pac men:
  https://sputniknews.com/science/201810081068701682-nuclear-waste-neutralizing-bacteria/

“The unique bacteria, discovered in a nuclear waste storage site in Siberia, shows promise as a tool for the creation of a natural barrier to the spread of radionuclides. Researchers from the Moscow-based Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and the Russian Academy of Sciences' Federal Research Center for Biotechnology have been able to isolate microorganisms which can be used to safeguard the surrounding environment from liquid radioactive waste. Scientists made the discovery while conducting microbiological studies of the groundwater at the Seversky deep radiation burial site in Seversk, Tomsk region, Siberia, where liquid radioactive waste from the Siberian Chemical Combine, which supplies and reprocesses low enriched uranium for nuclear fuel, is stored.

     I have long believed that the social welfare system would eventually be eliminated, dying the death of a thousand cuts. This has slowly happened with the dole and other benefits. Now the mangy cat is out of the bag on the end of pensions:
  https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/federal-treasurer-warns-welfare-not-guaranteed-for-future-generations/news-story/c667fa3140cd3cfa8c4f47a2ac981cc0

“There is no guarantee the pension will be available for future generations, federal Treasurer Scott Morrison warned yesterday. Mr Morrison said Australia could not take for granted its generous safety net or assume it would always be there. At a post-Budget breakfast in Brisbane, he said Australia needed to keep growing the economy and had to be globally competitive. “We owe to future generations (to pay for) health, schools, pensions, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme,” he said. ‘‘There are no guarantees about that.” Mr Morrison said the Federal Government was committed to ensuring pensions and essential services would be there in the future, through good financial management. Pushing the need for corporate tax cuts for the big end of town, he warned that the US, UK and France could soon all be more competitive than Australia.”