"The fundamental appeal of the sword to its owner lies in its serving as an embodiment of his phallic energy, symbolizing his aggressive power as a warrior. Through his sword this power extends even to the dispensation of life and death."
--‐ Philip S. Rawson,

     The kukri knife/sword is the national weapon and tool of Nepal, and symbol of the Gurkhas, who have served Britain in numerous conflicts. The knife has a blade from 12 inches to as long as 24 inches, thick, maybe 6 mm, of spring steel. The longer versions can be used to decapitate water buffalos, lopping off the head with one stroke. The blade is carved, roughly shaped like a boomerang, but with the cutting edge on the recurve side only. This blade geometry enables the kukri to cut above its weight, out-cutting even many swords.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHpwITXxaT8

     Here is another good, but way too late article about the dangers of female, let alone, feminist academics.
  https://vdare.com/articles/are-women-destroying-academia-probably?scroll_to_paragraph=4

“A recent column by Christopher DeGroot looked how feminization is destroying academia. [The University of Narcissism, Takimag, October 25, 2019] A recent video by British independent scientist “The Jolly Heretic”—Dr Edward Dutton—has gone even further, claiming that female dominance of universities is destroying the “genius” type that is critical to the generation of original ideas (This idea is developed further in The Genius Famine, by Edward Dutton & Bruce Charlton). DeGroot highlighted the appalling case of Eric Thompson of Moreno Valley College in California, who was ultimately fired for being what, in less female-dominated times, would have been described as good academic. Three complaints were made against Thompson by his, naturally Woke and mainly female, students. Each was upheld. In 2014, Thompson was naïve enough to chair a seminar on the “Nature vs Nurture” debate with regard to same-sex attraction. This is indeed very much a “debate,” because 60% of the variance in male sexuality is to do with environment, in contrast to 80% of the variance in female sexuality [The evolution of human female sexual orientation, by A. Jeffrey et al., Evolutionary Psychological Science, 2019]. But Thompson’s presenting both sides of the argument mortified some of his students, who hold to the Politically Correct dogma that everything is caused by environment except sexual orientation, which is supposedly 100% genetic.

     Today’s theme song, sound track from the TV show Vikings, by fever Ray, If I Had a Heart, because this pagan stuff reminds me of the modern university:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym-a4CN9GlQ

     Academia is full of fraud, with many academics producing shonky papers by manipulating statistics to increase the number of published papers. Then there is the totally cooked up stuff like this:
  https://nypost.com/2019/11/02/stanford-professor-who-changed-america-with-just-one-study-was-also-a-liar/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
  https://www.amazon.com/Great-Pretender-Undercover-Mission-Understanding/dp/1538715287/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1572643585&sr=1-1

     I saw the article first referred to at Zerohedge.com, which seemed to be a typical genocide article, so I just needed to find the “get whitey” aspect, and then done and dusted, and I could have my fifth drink for the day (not water):
  https://www.zerohedge.com/health/11000-experts-make-modest-proposal-end-global-warming-just-kill-billions-people

“Over 11,000 experts from around the world have banded together to call for solutions to the  'climate emergency,' including population control - which "must be stabilized—and, ideally, gradually reduced—within a framework that ensures social integrity." The solution? Fewer people! When absorbed in sequence, the charts lay out a devastating trend for planetary health. From meat consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and ice loss to sea-level rise and extreme weather events, they lay out a grim portrait of 40 years of squandered opportunities. The scientists make specific calls for policymakers to quickly implement systemic change to energy, food, and economic policies. But they go one step further, into the politically fraught territory of population control. It “must be stabilized—and, ideally, gradually reduced—within a framework that ensures social integrity,” they write. -Bloomberg
"We are encouraged by a recent surge of concern," reads the letter. "Governmental bodies are making climate emergency declarations. Schoolchildren are striking. Ecocide lawsuits are proceeding in the courts. Grassroots citizen movements are demanding change, and many countries, states and provinces, cities, and businesses are responding.”

     Ah! Here are the sorts of articles that I spend countless hours each day, to bring fresh to your table, travelling many stormy seas in my yellow rain coat and rubber boots, all made from plastic, glorious plastic:
  https://www.rt.com/news/472337-green-economy-fraud-marketing/

“Eco-consciousness has become a winning marketing strategy, but products sold as eco-friendly often aren't. From solar panels to paper straws, many of our supposed environmental saviors are making the problem worse.
The fight against climate change is poised to make a lot of people very, very rich. The world is expected to invest some $90 trillion in new infrastructure to stave off climate doom over the next ten to 15 years, according to a report from the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, and manufacturers of consumer products want a piece of the action, with study after study revealing customers will pay more for “sustainable” and earth-friendly products. A third of consumers buy based on a brand’s environmental impact, according to Unilever, with a fifth explicitly favoring green messaging. Not all products sold as sustainable, however, actually are. In fact, some are worse for the environment than the products they've replaced. But there is a reluctance to tear away from the warm fuzzy feeling that comes with doing good for the planet, even when the virtue one is signaling is wholly imaginary.

     China is intensely nationalist, and definitely socialist, so, doesn’t that make it a form of national, or nationalist, socialism? Some go further, seeing China as the Third Reich of the West, and that is a Chinese opinion too, note that Ms Sensitive Anti-Racist thought police womyn.
  https://saraacarter.com/chang-china-is-the-third-reich-of-the-21st-century/

“Scholar Gordan Chang warns that the United States must ultimately “disengage from China” on all fronts if it is to maintain its status as a global superpower or risk China’s massive potential to change the geopolitical structure of the world. Chang, who just returned from Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea, spoke on The Sara Carter Show where he described the current state of Beijing and the authoritarian government’s influence across the globe. “This is the Third Reich in the 21st century,” said Chang. China’s policy “is incompatibility with our system. We are unfortunately going to have to reverse course and disengage from China to protect ourselves – to reduce our vulnerability to an extremely dangerous actor.” This reporter was recently in Japan and South Korea with Chang and other experts who attended the international CPAC conventions. It is an international effort to connect with foreign allies who are battling increased pressure by socialist and leftist leaders bent on targeting open markets, democracy and independence. “What we have to do ultimately is to disengage from China to get our companies out of China, to get China out of the United States because we cannot live with this militant Communist superstate that takes the position that China is the world’s only sovereign state,” said Chang. He noted that the Chinese government sees the U.S. as  basically subjects of Beijing’s expansion and that the communist government believes “Americans must acknowledge Chinese sovereignty and obey them.”

     As a kiwi migrant to Oz, I am still sad to see New Zealand, transferred into a socialist cesspool, being unable to even feed its people. Wearing head coverings will not solve this crisis:
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7637761/Jacinda-Ardern-pressure-amid-New-Zealand-poverty-crisis.html
  https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/nz-is-doing-very-well-but-many-more-kiwis-are-being-left-behind-20191101-p536jw.html

“New Zealand's government is coming under increasing political pressure to raise welfare payments, echoing a similar debate in Australia. The surging cost of living has exposed inequalities in New Zealand at a time when the local economy is doing well. Growth rates are well above Australia's and the OECD average. The Kiwi economy is close to full employment, with unemployment rates at an 11-year low of 3.9 per cent. Yet more are being left behind, with surging numbers of people sleeping rough and applying for hardship grants. Figures from the Ministry of Social Development reveal the dark side of New Zealand's have-and-have-not society. This winter, 29,000 emergency housing grants were made - doubling last year's tally - at a cost of NZ$41 million ($38 million).”

To The Australian          No, you are wrong in your editorial ("Big dangers in Farage's antics", 6/11). It is not Nigel Farage that threatens to derail Brexit but Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party. Farage stands unequivocally for a clear and clean break with the EU. Johnson's refusal to enter an alliance with the Brexit Party (obviously necessary to give the best possible chance of defeating the Remain camp) is merely the latest betrayal of the British people by the Tories. In the past, under Ted Heath, the Conservatives misled voters about what entry into the 'European Common Market' would mean. David Cameron, an Establishment man, called the 2016 referendum confident, as he has admitted, that Remain would win. Theresa May produced a proposed "deal" with the EU that amounted to surrender (a pseudo-Brexit). Boris Johnson has largely taken that over. If the British people really want Brexit, they must take the bull by the horns and vote Farage and his party into power.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

To The Australian        Luke Slattery is unfair to conservatives ("To Menzies, ordinary Australians were anything but", 8/11) in referring to an alleged "tendency on the right to vaunt pecuniary values over all others." This entirely ignores the idealism that is essential to right wing political theory in many contexts. Whether one looks at centre right men like T. S. Eliot or Russell Kirk, or hard right spokesmen such as John Tyndall or Kevin McDonald, one sees a clear distaste for those who pursue "the golden calf" of personal financial profit. It is a Confucian respect for the ways of the elders that drives conservatism, a love of the tried and the true. Where the hard right errs, we may feel, is in proposing solutions to political questions that have really been superannuated by history. Nothing can stop the mixing of peoples that is now under way.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

To The Age        Waleed Aly pulls a long bow ("New walls, old prejudices", 8/11) in associating support for Brexit with "believing in the eternal supremacy of the British Empire". Everyone knows that the days of imperial grandeur are long gone, except in profitable period films like "Vanity Fair". What is at issue is the future of a British way of life distinguished by the degree of personal freedom given to subjects of the realm and the legal tradition underpinning that. The Brexit Party (more so than the Conservatives) is the freedom party; and walls, essentially, are beneficial to culture and civilisation, as well as to liberty.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave

     What is evolving in the US with the Democrats frantically searching for anything to nail President Trump, is nothing short of a political coup; even sensible observers from the Left, such as James Howard Kunstler see this, and appreciate its dangers:
  https://usawatchdog.com/msm-co-conspirators-with-deep-state-treason-james-howard-kunstler/

“Renowned author and journalist James Howard Kunstler thinks what has been happening for the last few years with the mainstream media’s coverage of President Trump borders on criminal activity. Kunstler explains, “What I am waiting for is if and when indictments come down from Mr. Barr and Mr. Durham.  I am wondering whether the editors and publishers of the Washington Post and New York Times and the producers at CNN and MSNBC are going to be named as unindicted co-conspirators in this effort to gaslight the country and really stage a coup to remove the President and to nullify the 2016 election. I say this as someone who is not necessarily a Trump supporter. I didn’t vote for the guy. I am not a cheerleader for the guy, but basically, I think the behavior of his antagonists has been much worse and much more dangerous for the nation and the American project as a long term matter.  I really need to see some action to hold people responsible for the acts they have committed. . . . I am not an attorney, and I have never worked for the Department of Justice, but it seems to me that by naming the publishers and editors of these companies as unindicted co-conspirators, that allows you to avoid the appearance of trying to shut down the press because you are not going to put them in jail, but you are going  to put them in disrepute. That may prompt their boards of directors to fire a few people and maybe change the way they do business at these places.”

     The answer in the modern regime is “no, the concept of a woman is a social construction.” All is relativism, except white racism, the only absolute. Say otherwise and face the consequences:
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7643251/Charity-hounds-birth-coach-post-saying-women-children.html

“A birth coach has been ‘ostracised’ by her professional organisation after transgender activists branded as offensive a Facebook post in which she said that only women can have babies. Lynsey McCarthy-Calvert, 45, was forced to stand down as spokesperson for Doula UK and has since resigned altogether from the national organisation for birth coaches. Her exit comes after transgender rights activists triggered an investigation in which Doula UK concluded her message breached its equality and diversity guidelines. They did not expel the mother- of-four, who has been a doula – who provide continuous support during pregnancy – for six years, but threatened to suspend her unless she deleted the post. Mrs McCarthy-Calvert did so, but resigned believing Doula UK had ‘acquiesced’ to demands from a small number of activists and failed to stand up for women’s rights. ‘I am angry and sad,’ she said last night. ‘I was effectively ostracised for saying I am a woman and so are my clients.

     Hello. We are out in the bush and I have made a fire and have billy boiled tea boiling. Then, when we are relaxed, I slowly chat with you about the attack upon manhood, and other topics. Here are some videos by the Bjorn Andreas Bull-Hanson doing just that. You have got to like the guy. Nothing new here, but there is a different, homely way of putting the problems. One of the reasons I sold up everything and moved to the scrub to live in a four-man tent plus camo tarps, was precisely due to the emasculating effects of urban life, which the videos discuss in detail. I hope that you enjoy them, and pass on the links.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kkUNZChoeM
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfwChWI-QoU
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUYpznnAuY

     I have not seen John Carpenter’s movie, They Live (1989), about a man who has suddenly has a pair of sunglasses that reveal what reality is like, underneath the deception that is presented to us.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTK8eff1Zsk

     Here is an excellent discussion:
  https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/they_live_we_sleep_beware_the_growing_evil_in_our_midst

     Mike Adams has published a recent no-holds barred, full contact description of how Civil War II in America will unfold if President Trump is impeached. My only comment is that even if Trump is not impeached, the level of division is now much greater than in the period leading up to Civil War I, so a social collapse is coming either way. Australians need to be aware of this, because the coming chaos in America will leave your society totally vulnerable to China. Are you ready for what is coming your way?
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-11-03-things-happen-if-the-dems-succeed-in-removing-trump.html

     First, Adams makes a disclaimer: “This author does not condone any of the actions outlined below. This is analysis, not a call for action. Many of the events described below involve mass executions and other horrific crimes. We hope to see none of this come to pass.” Yes, agree, fair enough. Adams says:

     Much like all action movies today, Terminator: Dark Fate (2019), is full of politically correct feminist ideology and utter bs. Audiences saw this with Marvel’s Captain Marvel, and Avengers: Endgame, where the female characters were over-the-top empowered and the males, like Thor, emasculated, if not degraded to being obese drunks, as all white men are, of course. Oh, and this ethnic group is supposed to pay to watch this trashing, critique and deconstruction. If there were not ladies present I might saw something a bit more gamey.

     However, there were some redeeming aspects of the above movies, namely special effects. In the latest Terminator movie, the plot involves the evil machines of the future sending back to our time a killer robot to eliminate human leaders, which was played out in a number of past movies, having Arnold Schwarzenegger. This one also has an ageing Arnie robot, coming to the aid of an aging Linda Hamilton, all nursing home stuff. Even though I have not seen the movie, the shorts make me feel old. There are many reviews of the movie on YouTube savaging this movie, for there is no anger like that of fans who feel betrayed. Just wait and see what they do to James Bond 007! Anyway, the plot is unbelievable, and simply involves the belief that feminist girl power, even in old ducks, can win against beings that were nearly impossible to stop with 20th and 21st century weapons in the previous movies. Here are some critiques by former fans:
  https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/11/03/biggest-dumbest-woketard-plot-hole-in-terminator-dark-fate/
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua2OU_jM7f8
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMHY_bdhWGw

     This article, referenced below, is behind a paywall, as they increasingly are, but I popped down to the local library and read the hard copy: Bo Seo, “Mass Surveillance Just an Act Away.” Australian Financial Review, October 31, 2019, p. 15. The issue is the government’s quest to get enhanced powers to use facial recognition technology. This was done for various sensible activities such as road safety, but behind this was the dark side, the lack of a need for warrants, ministerial discretion and automated decision-making, all of which got canned recently by a bipartisan parliamentary committee. The bills will resurface. They will, if passed, enable the Department of Home Affairs to maintain a centralised data bank of facial images from government sources and identity markers and information. This data can then be used by government departments to commit evil acts … no kidding … it will be used for a wide range of surveillance purposes. But, hey, the elites say, if you have not broken the law, what is there to be afraid of? That is fine if one is willing to throw away the common law protections that developed over the centuries, which the modern Western technocratic state, soon to be totalitarian, is only too willing to do.
  https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/mass-surveillance-the-facial-recognition-bill-explained-20191029-p5358t

     Freedom fighters, keep your eyes on this one, it will bob up again.

     It is sad, really. Trump made a big song and dance about the, what, maybe three feet of wall so far built, but all it takes is just a cheap saw to cut through it:
  https://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/6471819/trumps-wall-easy-to-cut-with-cheap-saw/?cs=10193

“He's building a wall - and they're cutting holes right through it. Migrants and smugglers have succeeded in cutting through US President Donald Trump's "virtually inpenetrable" border wall using cordless saws that cost as little as $US100 ($A145) apiece at hardware stores, border agents and officials told The Washington Post. Trump administration officials admitted being aware of "a few instances" in which human smugglers managed to breach rebuilt sections of the $US10-billion wall that Trump once promised Mexico would pay for, the paper reported. The widely available saws can cut through the wall's steel bollards within a matter of minutes. The nine metre panels can then be easily pushed forward, allowing people to pass through. Most of the reported border crossings involving cuts through the wall have occurred in the busy area near San Diego [in southern California], the paper said. Past and present border officials insisted the newly reinforced sections of wall are still harder to cut through than they were before. They attributed the new breaches to the constant innovation of smuggling gangs, which amount to a multibillion-dollar industry of sneaking undocumented immigrants into the US. "They're not just going to leave San Diego because the wall gets better," Ronald Vitiello, a former US Border Patrol and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief, told the Post. "That's life on the border." Trump touts the wall as almost impossible to get through and has brought reporters along to show off what he calls the "Rolls Royce" of walls.”

     It has happened, and the cosmopolitan elite are only just warming up; don’t dare say “ladies and gentlemen” now:
  https://europe.infowars.com/theaters-to-ax-ladies-and-gentlemen-under-new-lgbt-guidelines/
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7644549/Ladies-gentlemen-banned-theatre-actor-union-Equitys-new-gender-neutral-guide.html

“U.K. theaters will soon be safe spaces from phrases such as 'ladies and gentlemen' and a variety of appearance-based compliments under new guidelines published by the Equity actor's union, according to reports. Policies are being implemented to foster a more welcoming environment for LGBT performers or audience members who may not identify as male or female. Venues are being urged to introduce "gender neutral terminology for collective calls, both front of house and backstage," according to the Sunday Times. "Last night the National Theatre, which supported Equity in producing the guide, said that it was still using 'ladies and gentlemen' in some of its announcements but would make it a priority to phase the words out." Additionally, the guide advises actors should not receive "backhanded compliments" or be called "brave." Compliments based on "appearance, clothing, voice, quality, identity or the performer being brave" should also be avoided. The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced it will "strive to create environments which welcome and support trans people and people who identify their gender as fluid," the Daily Mail reports. London's Old Vic theater recently abandoned men's and women's toilets in favor of gender neutral offerings. "Coming to the theatre is a shared and communal experience in one single auditorium and we want to please our audience and give them a great evening," said Nica Burns, co-owner of Nimax Theaters in London. "We wouldn't want anyone to feel offended or annoyed."

     This following discussion shows how truly crazy modern physics is. Thus, I do not have much respect for claims of a climate crisis with, what, 11,000 scientists proclaiming it, because I don’t have much faith in the bulk of science anyway, beyond the sound basics, especially the mathematical mysticism that engulfs higher physics, like quantum mechanics and relativity. These geeks seem to forget that mathematics itself is merely deductions made from postulates that are not provable in principle, under pain of circularity or infinite regression:
  https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/mathematics-science-and-epistemology/infinite-regress-and-foundations-of-mathematics/C62D570403969E5319F4223AED123707
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain

“The Boltzmann brain argument suggests that it is more likely for a single brain to spontaneously and briefly form in a void (complete with a false memory of having existed in our universe) than it is for our universe to have come about in the way modern science thinks it actually did. It was first proposed as a reductio ad absurdum response to Ludwig Boltzmann's early explanation for the low-entropy state of our universe. In this physics thought experiment, a Boltzmann brain is a fully formed brain, complete with memories of a full human life in our universe, that arises due to extremely rare random fluctuations out of a state of thermodynamic equilibrium. Theoretically over a period of time on the order of hundreds of billions of years, by sheer chance atoms in a void could spontaneously come together in such a way as to assemble a functioning human brain. Like any brain in such circumstances, it would almost immediately stop functioning and begin to deteriorate. The idea is ironically named after the Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906), who in 1896 published a theory that tried to account for the fact that we find ourselves in a universe that is not as chaotic as the budding field of thermodynamics seemed to predict.