Here is news that even I, who am well up on the pollution of the world, both physical and metaphysical, found disturbing; we are literally becoming polluted with so much plastic that it is now invading our very bodies:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-11-05-all-our-bodies-are-filled-with-plastic.html 
  https://www.wired.com/story/your-poop-is-probably-full-of-plastic/

“Today at the United European Gastroenterology meeting in Vienna, researchers announced they have detected microplastics in stool samples from every single one of a small group of international test subjects. "Plastics are pervasive in everyday life and humans are exposed to plastics in numerous ways," said Philipp Schwable, a gastroenterologist at the Medical University of Vienna, who led the study, via email. And yet, even he did not expect that every poo would test positive. The pilot study tested eight subjects from eight different countries: Austria, Italy, Finland, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, and the UK. Each maintained a food diary the week before donating their stools, which they deposited in glass jars, wrapped in biohazard bags, and shipped in cardboard boxes marked "Biological Substance, Category B" to the Environment Agency Austria for analysis.

     Although the Left are violent, on an individual basis, they are weak. One-on-one, they seldom can deal with their Right opponents, not that anyone should be naughty and fighting anyway (bad, bad, illegal etc.), but this is simply my professional observation from YouTube pondering and viewing. However, there may be a scientific explanation for this, that stronger, muscular men, tend to be more conservative, if not Right wing:
  https://phys.org/news/2018-10-muscular-men-unequal-society.html
  https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-10-nice-people-finish-money.html

“Men with large upper bodies have a tendency to favour inequality in society and a limited redistribution of resources. This is the conclusion drawn by Professor Michael Bang Petersen and Associate Professor Lasse Laustsen from the Department of Political Science in a study published in the journal, Political Psychology. "The results challenge the belief that our political views are formed by logic and reason alone. Instead, our views seemingly reflect intuitions produced by a Stone Age mind," says Michael Bang Petersen. Modern man thinks with his caveman brain. The new study concerns humans, but takes a theoretical starting point in one of the most well-documented findings in the study of animals: Physical strength shapes the conflict behaviour of animals. If animals are larger and stronger than their rivals, they are prone to attempt to assert themselves in the struggle for status and resources. However, if they are weaker than their rivals, they are likely to withdraw from the conflict. According to the latest research results from Aarhus BSS, the same logic applies to modern men when they reason about political conflicts regarding the redistribution of resources in society.

     There is the future of high school education in multicultralia: teacher student fistfights:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=136&v=lKlUfhU199E 
  https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/04/us/california-teacher-punches-student/index.html

“A teacher and student at a southeast Los Angeles, California, high school came to blows Friday afternoon, and it was all caught on video. The footage from CNN affiliates KTLA-TV and KCAL shows Maywood Academy High School music teacher Marston Riley, 64, standing face to face with a 14-year-old boy at the front of a classroom when Riley punches him. It's at this point the two begin exchanging punches. The boy wound up on the ground wrapping his arms around Riley's leg. Riley, at this point, repeatedly punches him. The brawl ends with students and what appears to be a campus resource officer trying to separate the two, but Riley continues to pursue the student. It is not clear when the short video started and if it caught the entire exchange. Students told KTLA the fight began after Riley asked the student to leave the class because he wasn't wearing the proper uniform. The boy refused, students said, and video taken by another student shows the boy shouting profanity and a racial slur at Riley, who is black. The boy, who has not been identified, was taken to a local hospital where he was treated for moderate injuries and later released, according to a news release from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Riley was arrested on charges of child abuse, the release said. He posted bond and was released Saturday. Riley has an arraignment scheduled for November 30.”

     This is one of those stories that you need to check multiple times to make sure that your chronic insomnia has not led one into error. Macron does believe that both the US and Russia are enemies:
  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/emmanuel-macron-european-army-france-russia-us-military-defence-eu-a8619721.html?utm_source=reddit.com

“Emmanuel Macron has called for the creation of a “true European army” to allow the EU defend itself from threats ranging from Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin. The French president has pushed for closer EU defence union since coming to power last year but has been so far met with limited success amid foot-dragging by other member states. “We have to protect ourselves with respect to China, Russia and even the United States of America,” Mr Macron told France’s Europe 1 radio in an interview.

     Talk about snowflakes! In the US, and maybe here soon, everybody from the Left seems to be suffering psycho-damage from the rough and tough world of politics:
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/10/24/quarter-college-students-could-develop-ptsd-because-election-new-study-suggests/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.728c14908248 
  https://tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/07448481.2018.1515763?needAccess=true

“With a team of researchers, she surveyed 769 introductory psychology students at Arizona State University in January and February 2017, asking about their satisfaction with the 2016 election, whether they were upset about the outcome and whether the results of the race had affected their close relationships. The results were published Monday in an article, “Event-related clinical distress in college students: Responses to the 2016 U.S. Presidential election,” in the Journal of American College Health, a bimonthly, peer-reviewed public health journal. The article finds that 25 percent of students had “clinically significant event-related distress,” which it argues can predict future distress as well as diagnoses of PTSD, commonly associated with veterans and defined by the Mayo Clinic as “a mental health condition that’s triggered by a terrifying event — either experiencing it or witnessing it.” The research speaks to the personal toll of partisan battles, and it offers insight into the perspective of young Americans coming to political consciousness in the era of President Trump.”

     In the run up to the elections, Big Tech did what they could for the globalist team against Trump:
  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/facebook-makes-good-on-their-vow-to-censor-political-news-they-dislike_11062018
  https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/11/06/facebook-blocks-115-accounts-for-coordinated-inauthentic-behavior-ahead-of-midterm-elections/

“Social media giant Facebook has blocked 115 accounts suspected of “coordinated inauthentic behavior” across both Facebook and Instagram ahead of the midterm elections. ABC News reports that ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, Facebook has blocked a number of accounts across both Facebook and Instagram. In a blog post the company stated: “On Sunday evening, U.S. law enforcement contacted us about online activity that they recently discovered and which they believe may be linked to foreign entities,” said Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy Nathaniel Gleicher. “We immediately blocked these accounts and are now investigating them in more detail.” The company reportedly blocked 30 accounts on Facebook and another 85 on Instagram. The blocked Facebook pages reportedly communicated mainly in French and Russian although the majority of accounts on Instagram were English-speaking. “Typically, we would be further along with our analysis before announcing anything publicly,” Gleicher said. “But given that we are only one day away from important elections in the U.S., we wanted to let people know about the action we’ve taken and the facts as we know them today.”

     Who does not have a sense of battle fatigue and bone deep weariness, from the normie sheeple just not taking a stand, doing nothing, as they go about their grazing? I am thinking of the people we meet in the street, nice enough, but lacking in the basic survival instinct of seeking protection against wolves, and having a child-like faith that the government will protect them, when in reality, the government serves the interests of the capitalist super-class and the Dark Lords behind even them.
  https://www.9news.com.au/2018/10/31/09/10/australia-joins-trans-pacific-partnership?fbclid=IwAR1XgU8klKEAf7BI6GP-h4VwJ82Pq5RcFfKbmPGKzXA2NmbBhiBhGPD7yDE

“Australia follows Canada, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand and Singapore in ratifying the TPP, which also involves Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, Peru and Vietnam. The deal almost fell over when the United States pulled out, but Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and then-prime minister Malcolm Turnbull resurrected it. "This is a great and enduring achievement for free trade in the face of a rising tide of protectionism in many countries," Mr Turnbull tweeted. "Thanks especially to @AbeShinzo - we resolved to get this deal done in Sydney nearly two years ago as we walked around the cliffs at South Head." Labor backed the legislation for the TPP despite raising concerns it needed stronger labour market testing and could allow foreign companies to sue the government. The opposition was forced to defend its support for the agreement, which sparked internal tensions and angered the union movement.”

     Consider this headline from The Sydney Morning Herald: 

“Another 'incel' shooter: yoga studio killer wanted to crucify 'American whores.”
  https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/another-incel-shooter-yoga-studio-killer-wanted-to-crucify-american-whores-20181104-p50dvv.html

To The Australian        Greg Sheridan correctly notes ("Conservatives world over lose winning culture", 10-11/11) that "the real elephant in the room of conservative defeat is the decline of religious belief" and that "you cannot sustain a conservative culture in the face of the collapse of transcendent belief." Why then is there so little discussion in our national forums of the profound adjustments to Christian theology (much greater than those of the Reformation of 500 years ago) that are needed and that can lead to a renewal of sacred understanding in our culture? On another aspect of the diminution of conservative influence in Western nations Sheridan is regrettably obsequious. He dismisses scathingly "white identity politics", but one essential ingredient of conservative philosophy is respect and affection for one's ethnic group and the heritage it has bequeathed. Conservatives have been too easily paralysed by the "serpent's eye" of anti-racism fanatics.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     The US elections went basically as predicted, with the Democrats gaining the House, but the Trumpster Republicans getting a firm grip on the all-important Senate, which unlike the Senate in Australia, has real teeth. This is therefore, overall a victory for Trump, but also a clear wakeup call, as even the neo-cons are saying that the Democrat victories were because of changing US demographics, that is, that the country is becoming majority  non-white, and quicker than academics predicted:
  https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2018/11/06/illegal-migrants-boast-of-aiding-democrats-campaigns/
  http://www.amerika.org/politics/midterms-prove-that-not-being-the-other-guy-is-not-enough/

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     The boys referred me to an article reviewing US academic Stephen Baskerville’s book, The New Politics of Sex, (Angelico Press, 2017) by F. Roger Devlin, “The Criminalization of masculinity.” This is a good over view of the standard evils that feminism has delivered, and how the sexual revolution has harmed men, and led to the degradation of sex. But what caught my eye was the move by feminists to make  heterosexual relations sex into rape, something the radical  feminists in the 1970s only dreamt of. Here is what is happening on US university campuses:
  https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2018/11/07/the-criminalization-of-masculinity/

“For decades, feminists have assiduously promoted the lie that one woman in four (sometimes five) is raped while attending university. “Reputable scholars who investigate [such] claims,” writes Baskerville, “readily conclude that it is not simply exaggerated but a hoax.” At most, a lot of women, unprotected by traditional behavioral expectations, are learning the hard way that fornication is not the path to happiness. When such cases were brought before ordinary courts of law, they quickly got thrown out. So universities began, under feminist pressure, to establish internal procedures to handle accusations of sexual misconduct. These do not have to abide by the principles that govern ordinary courts of law, notably the presumption of innocence. One attorney cited by Baskerville describes the result as a disciplinary procedure where students nearly always lack lawyers, no legally trained judge oversees the process, testimony is not under oath, hearsay is freely considered, relevant evidence or even proper notice of the charges may not be given to both parties, students may be forced to incriminate themselves, and whatever “jury” is empaneled may not be of one’s peers.

     The Neocons may be worse that the Left, but at this late stage of degeneracy, who knows? What is clear is that there is now a clear division, not between Left and Right, but between the nationalist, who favour localism, and non-collectivistic policies, and the New World Order, generally communist/cultural Marxist globalists. These globalists range from the antifa types, right up to the vampire, raceless, faceless, super-capitalist class, that control the global economy through the black magic of finance. America is a clear example of the “great divide,” where 50 percent of the sheeple elected openly socialist candidates:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-11-07-half-of-americans-just-voted-to-destroy-the-country.html

     During the election campaign, Fox News refused to run the Trump caravan ad:
  https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2018/11/05/fox-news-will-no-longer-run-trump-caravan-ad/
  https://gellerreport.com/2018/11/nbc-fb-fascist-censorhip-block-trump.html/

     Antifa love nice little rhyming chants, such as the one in the title of this article. These feral thugs recently gathered outside the house of Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, and acted, well, mighty unfriendly:
  https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/7/tucker-carlsons-home-targeted-by-antifa-mob-we-kno/
  https://www.rt.com/usa/443394-tucker-antifa-home-protest/
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/08/vox-matt-yglesias-defends-terrorizing-tucker-carlsons-family/ 
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/08/watch-knock-knock-tucker-leftists-protest-tucker-carlson-at-his-home/

“Racist scumbag, leave town!” Every night you spread fear into our homes—fear of the other, fear of us, and fear of them. Each night you tell us we are not safe. Tonight you’re reminded that we have a voice. Tonight, we remind you that you are not safe either.#KnockKnock — Smash Racism DC (@SmashRacismDC) November 7, 2018. In another video shared, the group can be heard repeatedly chanting, “Racist scumbag, leave town.”
The tweet reads: “Every night you spread fear into our homes—fear of the other, fear of us, and fear of them. Each night you tell us we are not safe. Tonight you’re reminded that we have a voice. Tonight, we remind you that you are not safe either.”

     The Trump administration is throwing the politically correct into a tailspin, with its move to accept that there are only two genders, and that these are biologically defined. That means that there are not an infinite number of genders, as the radical Left proposes:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-11-08-delusional-left-gender-not-determined-by-biological-anatomy.html

“Though it’s still a rumor, reports indicate that President Trump is planning to establish solid guidelines that define gender “on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable.” In other words, “male” and “female” would be the only genders allowable on the “spectrum,” restoring the true binary definition of sex that’s existed since the beginning of time. It’s common sense to those with the ability to think rationally. But to the Left, it’s discrimination and (fill -in-the-blank)-phobia. Anyone who subscribes to the notion that humans only come in two varieties, man and woman, is a bigoted, misogynistic, homophobic racist, according to the deranged Left.

     The Pacific Ocean … calm, peaceful, but soon … radioactive:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-10-28-japan-to-drain-radioactive-fukushima-water-directly-into-pacific-ocean.html

“Government authorities in Japan have announced new plans to start dumping highly radioactive wastewater from the failed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility directly into the Pacific Ocean. Though the amount of radiation in the water far exceeds legally-permitted levels, according to the plant’s operator and documents reviewed by the U.K.’s Telegraph, there’s apparently no other place to put it at the site, which is on the verge of seeing its storage capacity completely maxed out. Reports indicate that approximately 1.09 million tons of contaminated water currently being stored inside 900 tanks at Fukushima will soon be drained in the Pacific in order to make more space for new water, a move that’s sparking outrage among local residents and a number of environmental organizations that worry about what the vast contamination will do to the world’s largest body of water.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/16/japan-plans-flush-fukushima-water-containing-radioactive-material/

     This is what happens when “good men” (i.e. normies) do nothing. First, they shut down the dissent Right, and now They’re coming for the Christians:
  https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/29/christian-news-site-lifesite-blackhosted-by-web-host/

“LifeSite, a Christian pro-life news outlet, was allegedly blacklisted by its web host and given just 12 hours to find another host the website, or risk being offline. “LifeSite just received an email at 8:30 p.m. EST from our web-hosting company alerting us that they will be taking our website down within 12 hours, if not sooner,” claimed LifeSite in a statement, Saturday. “We received absolutely no forewarning whatsoever about this decision.” “Our web developer is scrambling right now to set up a possibly-needed temporary solution to keep the website live. However, we’re going to have to go through the ordeal and expense of moving server companies,” the news outlet continued. “We also intend to fight these attacks, which will carry significant legal costs.”

     I don’t usually cover the European scene, which Richard does, but this one overlaps. Sweden has moved to bring in new rape laws, which eliminate the need to prove intent:
  https://www.thelocal.se/20180320/swedish-government-to-push-ahead-with-new-sexual-consent-law

“Sweden's government is to push ahead with a new sexual consent law despite questions over whether it is necessary. From July 1st having sex with someone without their explicit consent in Sweden will be illegal (the law will treat consent as possible either through words or clear actions), with the hope being that more rape and sexual assault cases will be prosecuted as a result. "If it's not voluntary, then yes, that's an assault. I think it's important to reach that clarity in legislation," Justice Minister Morgan Johansson said. Sweden's Council on Legislation looked at the government's proposal and questioned whether it was even needed, as much is already covered in existing laws. But Johansson does not agree and thinks the new law will lead to more convictions. "I think the number of crimes solved will increase. Above all through the combination of stronger and broader legislation together with increased support for the victims."

     With all of the discussion of immigration issues this week, I thought would make a brief note on the key historical source of information about the “grand plan” to Asianise Australia, a tremendous monograph by Denis McCormack that sets it all out with numerous references. I have referred to this work before, but did not get the reference exactly right, so here it is again:  Asianizing Australia - An Elite's Long-Term Project.
  https://reduceimmigration.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/mccormack_asianizingaustralia-aneliteslongtermproject_21jan2015.pdf

     If this makes your blood boil, then read further at the Reduce Immigration site about what YOU can do to fight this “cultural genocide”:
  https://reduceimmigration.wordpress.com/2015/01/21/australiaday-a-time-to-reflect-on-benign-cultural-genocide/

To The Australian        In defending Shakespeare from narrow-minded critics, John Carroll has provided a convincing psychological explanation of the anti-cultural behaviour of post-humanist individuals and groups currently attacking the Western European civilisation and its canon ("The Bard's big Q & A", 3-4/11). However, he makes a great mistake in asserting that the very basis of that culture is non-existent. There has been no "death of God" and Christianity still prevails. Nor is it true that "belief in God" has given way to "belief in humanist ideals". As for the "universals of goodness, beauty and truth", these have their basis in the sacred order on which humanists like Carroll have, in error, turned their backs - as do the "absolute standards" he gestures towards.

     Culture is not rooted in myth, as Carroll claims, but in a metaphysical reality that is approached through a faculty quite other than the logical reason: gnosis. His historical survey entirely omits reference to the writings of the great mystics such as Boehme and Eckhart. He also ignores the profound restorative work in metaphysics carried out by Rene Guenon, Ananda Coomaraswamy and their Perennialist school. It is from this blindness that he proceeds to unrealistic claims that "religion and politics are quite separate", that "politics does not belong in the classroom or the lecture hall”, that Western masterpieces are "apolitical" and "do not, collectively, point in any particular direction." They point to the Ultimate, and there is nothing to fear from political action wisely deployed!
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     With the mid-term elections in a few days, trump has released two goal-kicker videos. One has some super-killer migrant who the Demoncrats let into the country, along with an interview from another migrant killer. The other video has one half on the jobs Trump has created, then the other half on antifa/Soros-funded anarchists rampaging. It is enough to make anyone who wants a job, and to live, vote Republican:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGTD_Kt_nlw
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVadlz6wEVU
  https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2018/11/01/cnn-hollywood-reporter-declare-new-trump-ad-against-caravan-racist/