The 1960s babies grew up to be genuine monsters, happily over-turning traditional morality and institutions, as part of their social justice worldview. Every horrible social agenda we now have has come from them, and of course, they have been manipulated all the way, but have done so as willing tools of their overlords. They now have complete rule over sectors such as the media and universities, which are little more than cultural Marxist thought control  factories. Finally, as the boomers fall comfortably into retirement, they are going back to something that they have loved all of their lives: dope.
  https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/12/646423762/more-older-americans-are-turning-to-marijuana

“Members of the generation that came of age in the era of marijuana are reaching for weed in their golden years. A study published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence this month suggests that increasing numbers of middle aged and older adults are using marijuana — and using it a lot. The analysis comes from data gathered in the National Survey on Drug Use and Healthfrom 2015 and 2016. About 9 percent of U.S. adults between ages 50 and 64 used marijuana in the  previous year, according to survey results. About 3 percent of people over 65 used the drug in that time period. This appears to be up from years past. In 2013, the same survey reported that 7 percent of middle-aged Americans used marijuana in the previous year, and only 1.4 percent of people over 65.

To Weekend Australian Magazine        Why is it that among the "30 influential Australians" whom you invited to "reflect on the past three decades and their hopes for the future" ("30 years", Sep 15-16) there is virtually no-one from the cultural and political Right? Such an imbalance means, for example, that we have three commentators advocating indigenous constitutional recognition (Noel Pearson, Cathy Freeman and Richard Flanagan) but no-one on the other side. You could have chosen, for example, John Howard, Keith Windschuttle, Wilson Tuckey, Les Murray and John Stone. Maybe you could now, instead, publish an article on 'What the Right hopes for".
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

To The Australian    Why is it that there is no reporting of the Ursula Haverbeck case in our major public forums? Should not our advocates for free speech be clamouring in protest at Germany's treatment of an 89 year-old woman - put in jail purely because she publicly expresses a dissident view about history? And what about all those bleeding hearts opposed to the bullying of women? Should they not be expressing outrage against the pre-trial treatment of Haverbeck by the German government? She was to be transported 155 miles from prison to courthouse, stopping at five different prisons for a night on the way. She would travel in a crowded prison van and be submitted to a body search at each arrival. She would share her prison cell each night with real criminals. All this, presumably, to weaken her before her trial in Hamburg. There is a huge story here. Why the silence?
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

To The Age        Warwick McFadyen says that "it's time for a new anthem and a new flag" ("Anthem row reveals nation's discord", 17/9). Perhaps he's right about the anthem, but wrong about our flag. The flag is one of the most beautiful in the world; its use of the union jack pays homage to the foundation of our nation, which was essentially British; its use of the Southern Cross is geographically appropriate and conveys an idea of aspiration in which all Australians can share. On the other hand, although Australia remains a relatively peaceful, harmonious and united nation (compared to most other nations), there is currently an immense struggle for its soul - between the Left (secular, republican, egalitarian) and the Right (religious, royalist and hierarchical). There are idealists and well-meaning people on both sides. Until the matter is resolved and some new consensus is reached, finding a suitable new anthem should be left in the "too hard" basket.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     It’s enough to make one become a Buddhist … just joking … but who would have thought that the head of the Buddhists would be saying things that warm the dark, cold  pits of my black  heart?
  https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/09/13/dalai-lama-sweden-europe-europeans/
  https://www.france24.com/en/20180912-dalai-lama-says-europe-belongs-europeans 
  https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/09/13/delingpole-if-only-the-dalai-lama-ran-the-church/

“The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said Wednesday that "Europe belongs to the Europeans" and that refugees should return to their native countries to rebuild them. Speaking at a conference in Sweden's third-largest city of Malmo, home to a large immigrant population, the Dalai Lama -- who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 -- said Europe was "morally responsible" for helping "a refugee really facing danger against their life".
"Receive them, help them, educate them... but ultimately they should develop their own country," said the 83-year-old Tibetan who fled the capital Lhasa in fear of his life after China poured troops into the region to crush an uprising.”

     Here is one for my Christian brothers and sisters, whom as yet may not have exactly the same level of concern,  I have about the universities. The issue here is that a Christian influence upon contemporary universities, at least elite Ivy League American ones, seems to have drained away, and I think Australia is not far behind, so to speak:
  https://www.thecollegefix.com/more-yale-freshmen-identify-as-lgbtq-than-conservative/

“Queer freshmen greatly outnumber conservatives at the university, according to a survey. A Yale Daily News survey of freshmen students at that university found that more students of the class of 2022 identify on the LGBTQ spectrum than as conservative, and that queer freshmen even outnumber other sizable demographics in the class, such as Protestants and Catholics. The paper’s survey, the results of which are composed of 864 respondents, or just over one-half of the freshman class, found that only nine percent of respondents identified as “somewhat conservative,” with one percent identifying as “very conservative.” LGBTQ respondents, on the other hand, greatly outnumberd conservatives in total: According to the survey, “nearly 5 percent [of respondents] identify as gay and just over 9 percent as bisexual or transsexual. Three percent opted not to answer, and the remaining 8 percent identified as asexual, ace spectrum or questioning their sexual orientation.” This combined demographic outnumbers even Protestants and Catholics, whom the survey identified as 16 percent and 15 percent of the incoming class, respectively. A 2018 Gallup poll estimated that 4.5 percent of all Americans identified as LGBTQ.”

     Leftist objectives have the problem of deception, having some extremely superficial plausibility, which disappears after more than two seconds analysis:
  https://gellerreport.com/2018/09/soros-zuckerberg-freeing-violent-fellons.html/
  https://pjmedia.com/trending/soros-zuckerberg-fund-ohio-ballot-effort-that-could-see-rapists-other-violent-felons-set-free/

“Ohioans will soon be voting on Issue 1, a ballot initiative that is ostensibly about reforming drug laws, but actually is about giving "get out of jail free" cards to not only drug offenders, but dozens of other kinds of criminals in Ohio's prisons. The ballot initiative is known as "The Neighborhood Safety Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Amendment" and is a six-page amendment to the Ohio Constitution. (You can read the actual language of the ballot, as well as pro and con arguments regarding the issue at the non-partisan voting information site, ivoters.com.) The premise is that too many non-violent criminals are clogging up the courts and prison system and we need to get them out of prisons and back into society. Supposedly this will save the state of Ohio a ton of money. Prison expenditures should only be for violent offenders, proponents say. Only that's not what will happen if Issue 1 passes. Here are three reasons Issue 1 is a terrible idea.

     Remember Jill St John, the Bond girl from Sean Connery’s Diamonds are Forever? Even the villain liked her. Well, she ended up with Henry Kissinger (for a time), showing that looks for men don’t matter that much and that power goes way beyond it. Yes, Kissinger knows when a man is an alpha and is not afraid to say so. In a recent interview he praised President Trump:
  https://christianjournal.net/podcast/henry-kissinger-supports-trump-calls-trump-phenomenon-foreign-countries-havent-seen/
  http://thehill.com/homenews/310937-kissinger-trump-a-phenomenon-that-foreign-countries-havent-seen

“Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said in an interview Sunday that President-elect Donald Trump could go down in history as a "very considerable president." "Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen," Kissinger said on CBS's "Face The Nation." "So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office. At the same time, extraordinary opportunity."

     With cuckiness, deracination and overall national weakness and cowardice, flowing like flood waters through the West, it is good to hear words of resistance to the global tyranny by Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who rejects the EU globalist  agenda in no uncertain terms:
  https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/09/hungarys-orban-to-eu-you-condemn-us-because-we-are-not-a-nation-of-migrants 
  https://www.rt.com/news/438210-orban-not-nation-migrants/

“Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivered a fiery speech to European lawmakers in Strasbourg, before they began deliberations on suspending the country’s key EU rights due to his government’s policies. Orban accused the “pro-migrant majority” of having “already made up their minds” to invoke the European Union Treaty’s Article 7 against Hungary, for its treatment of migrants and minorities, and the ruling party purported abuse of the law and suppression of media freedoms. “Hungary will not accede to this blackmailing, Hungary will protect its borders, stop illegal migration and - if needed - we will stand up to you,” said Orban, who was re-elected with an overwhelming majority in April. “Hungary is going to be condemned because the Hungarian people have decided that this country is not going to be a country of migrants.”

     Big Tech is now banning anyone they do not like with the puniest of excuses, such as “mean” words. Meanwhile, Leftoids are free to advocate killing president Trump, and jihadists rage against the West. That is business as usual:
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-13/alex-jones-was-banned-twitter-mean-words-yet-antifa-groups-calling-assassination
  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/bezos-kafka-and-a-replacement-for-book-burning_09122018
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-09-13-natural-news-calls-for-the-arrest-prosecution-of-google-executives-for-racketeering-and-fraud.html
  https://farleftwatch.com/antifa-groups-are-using-twitter-and-facebook-to-advocate-for-the-assassination-of-president-trump/

“While social media companies collude to silence right-of-center influencers, violent far-left extremist groups appear to be given a pass. This NYC based antifa group has been using their “leftist privilege” to freely violate Twitter and Facebook Terms of Service. In another glaring example of “non existent social media bias”, this extremist group is apparently allowed to use their social media account to advocate for murder. The Base is a NYC based “anarchist center” that is run by the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement, a violent extremist group that we have covered extensively. The extremist group is currently offering downloadable poster and stickers that include images of guns and other calls to violence but the most concerning was an image that depicted the murder of President Donald Trump.”

     It is good to see White  folks voting with their feet, or rather hip pocket, against politically correct corporates, doing their pc  thing:
  https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2018/09/06/huffington-post-accuses-unruly-whites-of-destructive-rage-over-nike-kaepernick-ad/

“The Huffington Post has accused “unruly” white people of flying into a “destructive rage,” in response to Nike’s latest “Just Do It” ad featuring Colin Kaepernick. The article claims that social media posts made by Nike customers who are seendestroying their Nike products is an example of dangerous “destructive rage,” MRCTV reported. “Unruly whites were seen vandalizing property, damaging well-mown lawns and setting fire to running shoes that had chiefly been worn for purposes other than running,” the Huffington Post article exclaims.”

     Imagine that you are in Orwellian Britain, which is Australia in a few years’ time. The kids are having a birthday party, playing with toy guns. Everybody is having fun, but then the police arrive ready to kill everybody:
  https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/09/06/licence-nerf-gun-uk-cops-swoop-childrens-birthday-party/
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6134397/Police-swoop-eight-year-old-boys-Nerf-gun-birthday-party.html

“Police swooped on a boy's eighth birthday party after bangs from plastic toy Nerf guns were mistaken for real gunfire. The officers were deployed after a neighbour reported the sound of children screaming in the quiet village of Yaxham, Norfolk. But moments after arriving they found Oliver Green celebrating his birthday by shooting the soft brightly-coloured bullets with his friends in the toy gun battle. And when police asked what was happened, Oliver told them: 'I am the birthday boy officer, but I am not sure what I have done wrong.”

     It seems if one is Leftoid, making films is no problem. Choose your target; for Americans this must be the top guy Donald Trump, then just say anything you want, making sure that you drop Hitler in at some point. Don’t argue, present evidence or offer proof, just run with the sheer excitement of the hunt because the rest of the vicious pack is barking with you, in chasing the rabbit:
  https://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/09/05/michael-moore-film-fahrenheit-11-9-ties-trump-hitlers-rise/

“Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore is back, this time with a movie titled Fahrenheit 11/9 that will tie Adolf Hitler’s rise to power to President Donald Trump’s election. In an article published in The Hollywood Reporter Wednesday profiling Moore’s upcoming movie, Gregg Kilday writes, “Fahrenheit 11/9 is at its most provocative when it veers away from Trump’s ascension to recount Adolf Hitler’s rise, with an emphasis on how the media in the 1930s, from The New York Times to the Jewish press, normalized the Fuhrer.” “Moore insists he isn’t making a direct comparison between Trump and Hitler but rather making ‘a serious point about fascism,'” the article continues. Kilday also writes that Moore thinks “the fascism of the 21st century would not be like the fascism of the 20th century. It would not come with concentration camps and swastikas, but with a TV show and a smiley face. The fascists of the 21st century will convince the people to go against their own interests by using television and branding.” Self-proclaimed socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will also appear in the film along with far-left House hopeful Rashida Tlaib, who is running for Congress in Michigan. The THRarticle notes that Moore even did some door-knocking for Tlaib. Moore has long been a critic of President Trump and conservative causes. In February, he called the National Rifle Association a “terrorist organization,” and implied it was worse than ISIS.”

     I am perhaps not a good one to criticise body images, being overweight myself, one being ancient, and two, having severe arthritis which limits my mobility. But, I can still make health observations for young women. And, the present cult of accepting being morbidly obsese is a killer for young women, and men too. Positive body image may involve rejecting being model thin, but it does not mean accepting being morbidly obese. Magazines are not helping here:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-09-09-cosmo-magazine-now-celebrating-morbid-obesity-feminism.html#

“Cosmo U.K. just featured a size-26 model on the cover of their latest issue. While feminists and so-called body positivity activists are celebrating the fact that a 300-pound woman got to be on the cover of a popular magazine, many people are concerned about what kind of message this “activism” is really sending. No one would argue that body shaming is wrong, but is fat activism really the answer? Obesity is a top risk factor for virtually every major disease that plagues modern society: Heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and even cancer. Promoting healthy minds and bodies is not the same as promoting obesity, which is already rampant in most Western nations like the United States and the United Kingdom. Critics have been quick to point out the disparity between the two and have lambasted Cosmo U.K. for promoting unhealthy lifestyle choices.”

     When the champions of diversity and mass immigration’s virtues speak, they do not discuss hard case, inconvenient issues such a female genital circumcision. If all cultures are equal, except our own which is racist and must be eliminated, then what possible reason is there against this practice? If diversity and multiculturalism decide all, then it seems decisive:
  http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/Muslim-groups-call-for-female-circumcision-to-be-medicalised-155186.html

“A number of Sri Lankan Muslim groups have called on the government to medicalise female circumcision. In representations made to the Parliamentary Committee on Women and Gender, members of the All Ceylon Jamiyathul Ulama, All Ceylon YMMA Conference, Centre for Islamic Studies and United Religions Initiative urged the Health Ministry to withdraw a recent circular prohibiting medical professionals from carrying out female circumcision. In their submission, the joint Muslim groups stated that the Muslim community is very concerned about moves to ban this obligatory Islamic duty on the grounds that it is Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). “We wish to categorically state that the practice of female circumcision is an obligatory Islamic duty, that it confers numerous benefits and is not Female Genital Mutilation. As such we condemn all moves to ban the practice of female circumcision by legislation and/ or by government bodies and urge that no moves be taken in this direction which we will regard as an unwarranted intrusion on and infringement of our religious duties guaranteed by the law and constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka”, the Muslim representatives said in their submission. “We also request the Ministry of Health to withdraw a recent circular it issued prohibiting medical practitioners from performing the procedure and to issue a fresh circular excluding Islamic female circumcision a.k.a hoodectomy from the definition of FGM”

     Here is the latest piece of Facebook censorship: a NPR report which challenges the fake science behind US school shooting claims:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-09-09-facebook-censors-npr-report-exposing-the-fake-science-behind-school-shooting-claims.html

“The federal government is lying about the number of school shootings that occur annually in the United States, and Facebook doesn’t want you to know about it. NPR was brave enough to challenge the official narrative, joining up with the non-profit group Child Trends to take a closer look at the alleged statistics on school-associated gun violence. What they found is that the U.S. Department of Education is greatly inflating the numbers, presumably to push the anti-gun agenda. “More than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened,” NPR revealed in a bold article entitled, “The School Shootings That Weren’t.” But people who tried to share this NPR article on Facebook found that the Zuckerberg empire isn’t too happy with it. Writing for DCClothesline.com, Jonathan Miltimore reported that a colleague of his, Sean Malone, tried to share the article with his several thousand Facebook followers and friends, only to have it flagged as “spam” and removed from the platform entirely. “Facebook’s crackdown on fake news and ‘hate speech’ has been well chronicled,” writes Miltimore. “There are many reasons to be wary of such censorship: Who decides what’s true? Who decides what’s fake? Who decides what’s hateful?”

     We have been examining for some time at this site some of the concerns raised by advances in robotics and information technology, from increasing unemployment, through to vastly expanding the Deep State’s already massive powers of social control and manipulation. Then , there is the military adventures, using killer robots.
  https://www.breitbart.com/news/killer-robots-film-warns-of-perils-of-automation-2/

     Film maker Maxim Pozdarovkin has made a movie about this called, The Truth about Killer Robots. It covers all of the basics, but has the interesting point that killer robots are not something which will happen in the future, but are being used now. For example, the Dallas police have already loaded a robot with explosives to send into a building where there was an armed standoff, to kill the sniper-assailant. In this case, about 1 pound of C4 explosive was used, attached to the robot’s extended arm:
  https://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/12/us/dallas-police-robot-c4-explosives/index.html

     It is good to see some baby steps being made by more mainstream sources in thinking critically about the ideology of diversity. Here is Fox News’ Tucker Carlson beginning the questioning process:
  https://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/09/08/tucker-carlson-to-dems-since-diversity-is-our-strength-is-our-new-national-motto-please-be-specific-as-you-explain-it/

“CARLSON: They’ve talked a lot about norms, called a lot of people racist, and tried to make anyone who disagrees with them shut up. And, of course, they’ve lectured us endlessly about something called diversity as if that answers some relevant question. OBAMA: Our diversity, our patchwork heritage, is not a weakness. It is still and always will be one of our greatest strengths. BERNARD SANDERS, POLITICIAN, JUNIOR UNITED STATES SENATOR, VERMONT: Our diversity is one of our greatest strengths. HILLARY CLINTON, FORMER FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN POLITICIAN AND DIPLOMAT: We know our diversity is a strength, not a weakness. CARLSON: Well they all agree on that. It’s hard to know exactly what it means though other than stop talking or else. We won’t stop talking.

     If it is not the anti-Pope mouthing off about the joys of infinite  immigration, it is the ever-conspiratorial UN. Look, despite everything you read by the hour, knives, rapes, terrorism, and other items, there is no European migration crisis, and in fact, immigration should be increased exponentially for at least the next 20 trillion years, just as a warm up:
  https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/18/denial-un-high-commissioner-says-no-real-migrant-crisis-in-europe/

“The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has claimed that while Germany saw a migrant crisis in 2015, there is currently no crisis in Europe, and some are over dramatising mass migration. Mr Grandi said that despite a continued flow of migrants from North Africa and elsewhere, Europe is not undergoing a “migrant crisis,” saying: “the real refugee crises were and are in Africa, in the Middle East, [and] in Asia,” German newspaper Die Zeitreports. “I have just returned from a trip to Bangladesh, where you have one million refugees in the worst of conditions, where you have an emergency — but not in Europe!” he added. The UN official also slammed the rhetoric of the leaders of the European populist movement such as Italian leader Matteo Salvini, saying: “to say that there is an invasion of Europe, that we are a continent besieged by people coming to exploit us, is profoundly wrong”. He claimed such rhetoric promoted xenophobia and racism.”

     Most of know that the next big economic crash is not too far off and that predictions are that it will resemble the Great Depression. There are plenty of crash sites on the internet proposing that and worse. But, what do more mainstream sources say, if we read between the lines?
  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/jpmorgan-the-next-market-crash-will-usher-in-major-social-unrest_09062018

“Predictions about the next market crash aren’t all flowers and rainbows. But JPMorgan Chase claims that not only will the public be subjected to a major financial crisis, but it will be compounded by the massive social unrest that will follow. J.P. Morgan’s top quant, Marko Kolanovic, predicts a “Great Liquidity Crisis” will hit the financial markets hard and be marked by flash crashes in stock prices and social unrest. According to CNBC, Kolanovic says that the timing of when this next crisis will occur is uncertain but markets appear to be safe through the first half of 2019. Kolanovic is a 43-year-old analyst with a Ph.D. in theoretical physics. He has risen in prominence for explaining, and occasionally predicting, how the new, algorithm-dominated stock market will behave. Kolanovic predicts the market will suffer from sudden and severe stock sell-offs sparked by lightning-fast machines. Unprecedented actions by central banks to shore up asset prices will all lead to social unrest not seen in the United States in half a century.”