This is a controversial one, as the question of the death penalty for Christians, has been long debated, so we can expect that we may respond to this story in different ways. The Pope has revised the Catechism, to now condemn the death penalty: 
  http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2018/pope-revises-catechism-to-say-death-penalty-is-inadmissible.cfm  
  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pope-francis-death-penalty-catechism-capital-punishment-trump-executions-catholic-church-vatican-a8475026.html

“Building on the development of Catholic Church teaching against capital punishment, Pope Francis has ordered a revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to assert "the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person" and to commit the church to working toward its abolition worldwide. The catechism's paragraph on capital punishment, 2267, already had been updated by St. John Paul II in 1997 to strengthen its skepticism about the need to use the death penalty in the modern world and, particularly, to affirm the importance of protecting all human life. Announcing the change Aug. 2, Cardinal Luis Ladaria, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said, "The new text, following in the footsteps of the teaching of John Paul II in 'Evangelium Vitae,' affirms that ending the life of a criminal as punishment for a crime is inadmissible because it attacks the dignity of the person, a dignity that is not lost even after having committed the most serious crimes."

     We do not get a lot of new New Zealand news items to report about here, but those that do come across our desk (computer screen) are usually bad, sad, or mad. Take this little drop of anarcho-tyrannical oppression:
  https://www.rt.com/news/435074-new-zealand-southern-cancelled/

“Right-wing activist Lauren Southern has fallen victim to yet another last-minute venue cancellation, after the owner of a New Zealand building recieved complaints about Southern and co-speaker Stefan Molyneux’s platform. The self-described “alt-media” pair was swinging by Auckland on the final stop in their antipodean tour, fresh off the back of visiting Australia, where Southern begged God not to “nuke Melbourne” for it's supposed Biblical sins. Dogged by controversy, it appears that strife followed them across the Tasman with their only New Zealand venue canceling at the last minute. Due to a raft of complaints, owner of Auckland’s Powerstation venue Gabrielle Mullins canceled the event, citing a disagreement with the speakers’ message. “As soon as we found out [what their message was], we weren’t comfortable at all because it goes against quite a lot of things that we say,” the owner told the NZ Herald. “They can say whatever they want but personally I don’t want it in my venue.” Southern took to Twitter, lampooning yet another cancelation by quoting the Lord of the Rings, a film New Zealand is famous for. “One does not simply walk into a venue in New Zealand,” she wrote to her 387,000 followers.

     France first, and although mention has been made about this by Bruce a few days ago, here is my take, short and sour:
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6001135/A-devastating-report-reveals-300-000-illegal-migrants-living-one-French-suburb.html

•    Andrew Malone ventured into the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis for a week
•    The neighbourhood is home to as many as 300,000 illegal immigrants
•    Many rely on crime or the 'black economy' to get by and live in poverty
•    He found rule of French law, equality, religious freedom, was lost in the suburb
•    There are more mosques there than anywhere else and 35 known jihadis.”

     Whooa … here is the latest bit of climate change nonsense. Climate change is sexist and disproportionately affects women and girls:
  http://news.trust.org/item/20180724181453-whorb/

“Climate projections about rising sea levels and soaring temperatures increasingly dominate global headlines, but one climate story that rarely gets told is the tale of how women and girls are hit hardest by extreme weather and shocks. Yet there are myriad ways in which women and girls suffer more than men from the effects of climate change, experts said last week at a debate held by the UK-funded Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters program. Why? In parts of the world where grave gender inequality is already stark, droughts, floods and other freak weather events mean women and girls are often among the last to receive help. In Chad, researchers Virginie Le Masson and Colette Benoudji have encountered an unexpected manifestation of that dynamic. While studying how living conditions affect the ability of people to resist climate change, they found that female victims of domestic abuse were particularly vulnerable to wild weather. Victims of child marriage and female genital mutilation have less access to a long list of resources during times of climate crises: education, information and land ownership among others. "To sum up: domestic violence impedes resilience building because it prevents those who survived violence to fulfil their basic needs and interests," said Le Masson, a research associate with the Overseas Development Institute think-tank in London.”

     Surely, there is nothing here to get excited about: The New York Times employs an Asian woman editor who has made racist comments about white people. So what? Each day academics all  over the West pump out the same sorts of poison to vulnerable students, as part of the cultural war. And, the pay is good, coming from your tax payers’ dollars. Talk about digging our own graves. Here is all of the coverage of this evet  we need, which proves to us beyond all doubt that President Trump is right in seeing the mainstream false news media as the “enemy of the people.” If this was done to any other ethno-racial group, whoa, the world would shake and  riots would burn entire cities to the ground.
  http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/08/02/new-york-times-stands-by-new-tech-writer-sarah-jeong-after-racist-tweets-surface.html 
  https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/08/02/sarah-jeong-new-york-times-dumb-ss-f-ing-white-people/
  http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/02/new-york-times-sarah-jeong-racist/ 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWniYCWNrS8

     Statements of anti-white hatred like this have become institutionalised now, and of course, beyond that are the systematic rapes of white children in Europe, especially Britain, that the authorities essentially allow to occur, while hitting with an iron fist, all and every legitimate democratic criticism of mass migration. This is anarcho-tyranny in action, and part of the program of white genocide. Even crying out against our oppression is socially constructed as racism, that magic debate stopping word. Finally, some of the soft Dissent Right are recognising that civil war is coming to America, and by implication, to a suburb near you:
  https://vdare.com/posts/peter-brimelow-and-jared-taylor-is-civil-war-coming

     Hussein Obama, who most libtards would be happy to have as global emperor, is back, promoting racial harmony as never before; officially backing the grabbing of the land of Whites in South Africa:
  http://www.neonnettle.com/news/4707-obama-officially-backs-white-genocide-in-south-africa

“Former US President Barack Obama has officially endorsed South Africa's leaders for introducing new laws to seize land from White farmers. The South African Government amended the country's constitution this week, allowing for the seizure of farmland owned by White people, without compensation. On Tuesday, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa vowed to confiscate farmland owned by the White farmers since 1600s, and "return" it to the country's Black population, by introducing a constitutional amendment in parliament. Race killings and violent land grabs have reached epidemic levels in the country, with some referring to the crisis as "White genocide." Following Ramaphosa's promise to take back land from the countries White minority and give it to Black citizens, thousands of South African farming families have arrived in Russia after fleeing their farms for fear of death as the government, and violent mobs, take land from White citizens.During a speech at the 2018 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture in Johannesburg, Obama praised Ramaphosa for amending the constitution and legalizing the theft of land from White farmers without compensating them.”

     We know that the globalist elites hope to kill our kind, in a long-drawn out miserable process, and that we fight a desperate battle, ten thousand times worse than The Lord of the Rings, to even save anything of Traditional society at all, while apathy and a dumbing down of IQ are set to finish us off. Not a single destructive stone has been not upturned against our kind, and probably if one million dollars was offered in a contest just to come up with some new nail to put in the coffin of white Western civilisation, the money would be unclaimed. All the effort that could have been spent putting humanity out to mars and  the stars, has gone into the culture of the political czars. But, I digress; China has seen the writing on the wall for it, being the next head to be put on the chopper, and is taking action:
  http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201808/04/WS5b64e9caa3100d951b8c8926.html

“Families that have two children will enjoy preferential policies for housing loans in Xianning, Hubei province, in Central China, under one of the local government's new measures to encourage new births. The city's health and family planning commission published a document on Wednesday announcing several measures regarding baby care and home purchases to help families with two children. In what is believed to be a first for China, families with two children will get the same interest rate for their second home purchase as that for the first home under the new measures. Usually, families have to pay higher interest when they take out a loan to buy a second home in the city and other places in China.

     Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has become a money magnet for those with green political agendas. The climax of this green racket was the sudden dumping of $443 million by the Australian Government into a small foundation controlled by big businesses and groups committed to one side of the man-made global warming debate.This gigantic green gift is designed to polish the green electoral credentials of the embattled Turnbull government but has prompted an Inquiry by the Australian Senate. Naturally the ALP Opposition wants the money returned so they can re-use it to buy green votes for themselves when they take power.

     The Great Barrier Reef Foundation (whose Brisbane office is far from the Reef) has a huge board whose members have current or past ties to Commonwealth Bank, BHP, Esso, University of Queensland, Boeing, Qantas, Shell, Rio Tinto, Peabody Energy, Origin Energy, AGL, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Queensland Ballet, Suncorp, UNICEF and James Cook University. All are infected with the green religion or see it in their interests to polish their green halo. There is even an Al-Gore-trained climate alarmist on the board, plus a Director of Tilt Renewables Limited and a Partner of Affirmative Investment Management, the world’s first dedicated green bond fund management company.

     For our readers, this will be an incredible story so let us go straight to the source:
  https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11183
  http://www.elon.edu/e-net/Article/164677

“It is time for Christians to challenge the inadequacy, intolerance and misogyny of this paradigm of abortion. As my deeply Christian mother taught me, “You shouldn’t have a baby because you are pregnant. You should have a baby because you want to be a mother, because you want to have a family.” The moral wisdom of this Christian perspective recognizes that parenting is a profoundly moral act. To choose to have a child is to make a significant moral commitment to that child to raise it or to place it for adoption. Given the fact that only 1 percent of women place their children for adoption, the overwhelming majority of women who continue unplanned pregnancies are making the choice to mother that child. Creating healthy families requires more than ensuring that babies are born. It recognizes that creating healthy families and raising children is a deeply spiritual and moral task requiring commitment, desire, and love on the part of the parent(s).

     Move over cultural Marxism and the Frankfurt School (this stopped me from ever eating frankfurts, which I liked drowned in tomato sauce), here comes cultural Maoism, the modern doctrine of communist brain control that old chairman Mao himself devised:
  https://www.infowars.com/nyu-professor-were-on-the-verge-of-completely-losing-our-culture/

“NYU professor Michael Rectenwald warns that western civilization is under siege from Maoist totalitarians and that we are on the verge of “completely losing our culture.” In a blistering Facebook post, Rectenwald provided perhaps the most succinct summary of the threat facing the west ever written. “We’re undergoing a Maoist-like Cultural Revolution — with the power of the corporate mass media, corporate social media, the academy, most of corporate America, the deep state, the shadow government, and most of the legal apparatuses behind it,” wrote the professor, adding that, “Anti-western, anti-individual, anti-Christian, anti-liberty monsters are ravaging our cultural legacies as well as our contemporary arts and letters.” “Our entire culture is under siege and undergoing an utter and relentless social justice dismantling,” warned Rectenwald. “Leftist totalitarianism is running amok. We’re on the precipice of completely losing our culture, the benefits of western civilization, and the entire legacy of western civilizational history.” He ended the post by asserting, “A major resurgence and counter attack is necessary and soon.” In a follow up post, the professor doubled down on his warning, remarking, “How dare the left have pretensions of moral superiority. Leftists in power have mass-murdered and imprisoned more people than any other contingent in political history. Don’t come around here acting morally superior to me or anyone else, you monsters.”

     When the job of the police is to control the thought of White people, it is only natural that what were once normal police duties must be jettisoned. Thus, the UK police, who devote most of their energies into dealing with White thought crimes, must let issues like the mass rapes of White British children, and child brides go, which naturally they would due to “racism” and other magic politically correct concepts:
  https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/police-turn-a-blind-eye-to-child-brides-vw7hfvppl

“Police forces have been accused of failing thousands of victims of forced marriages by charging a suspect in only one in 38 cases. Officials at the Home Office received more than 3,800 reports of forced marriages or victims being at risk of forced marriage in the past three years. Hundreds of the victims are children, with the youngest only four years old. However, The Times surveyed police forces and found that fewer than 80 suspects had been charged in this time. It became illegal to force someone to marry in 2014 but only three cases have resulted in convictions. Yesterday the police watchdog said that it would act to ensure that forces improved their performance and that victims were adequately protected."

     Who says that crazy doomsday news cannot be fun? Why should the apocalypse and the end of the world as we know it, be such grim things, when it is possible to laugh all the way to oblivion? There are academics out there in ivory towers who seem to be having a ball:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-08-04-apocalypse-could-come-in-the-form-of-malicious-ai-from-aliens.html
  https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.02180.pdf

“The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has provoked many critical discussions on technical and philosophical levels (Cirkovi´c 2013 ´ ). It is much debated whether contact with ETI would benefit or harm humanity (Baum et al. 2011; Shostak 2014; Brin 2014; Billingham & Benford 2014), and whether mankind should (Benford 2014; Gertz 2016b) or should not (Zaitsev 2011; Vakoch 2016) keep quiet in order to protect Earth from threats, or even “cloak” our planet using lasers to compensate for Earth’s transit signatures (Kipping & Teachey 2016). One of the scenarios considered in the literature is the reception of an ETI message through  electromagnetic radiation, e.g. through a radio telescope (Cocconi & Morrison 1959). Alternatively, a message might be found in the form of, or through, an alien probe, as first suggested by Bracewell (1960). It was suggested to search the solar system for non-terrestrial artifacts (Papagiannis 1995; Tough & Lemarchand 2004; Haqq-Misra & Kopparapu 2012), particularly for starships (Martin & Bond 1980) in addition to classical SETI (Gertz 2016a).

     The radical Leftoid group antifa have violently threaten Black media personality Candace Owens, who had replied to the anti-White racist Tweets of the Asian journalist employed and defended by The New York Times, where she replaced the word “white” with non-white groups.  Thus as she put it, “to be clear: ANTIFA, an all-white fascist organization, just grew violent and attacked an all-black and Hispanic police force. Because I, a BLACK woman, was eating breakfast. Is this the civil rights era all over again.”
  https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/08/06/antifa-harasses-candace-owens-at-breakfast-stop-white-supremacy/

     Then there are the mad claims that President Trump will become a monarch of the US if Judge Kavanaugh is put in the Supreme Court. No, what the Left are scared about is a challenge to existing abortion on demand laws, which sadly but ironically, is the largest killer of Black babies in America (and even if it was not, it is still a leading killer):
  http://www.protectingblacklife.org/facts-about-abortion/ 
  https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/01/sen-richard-blumenthal-president-trump-will-become-monarch-if-judge-kavanaugh-confirmed/

     A convincing case for the inevitability of patriarchy was made by Steven Goldberg in his book, Why Men Rule: A Theory of Male Dominance, (Open Court, 1999), which argued that ultimately, male physiology, such as higher testosterone levels, let to greater male dominance, and hence to men ruling most areas of life. I am quite happy with this, so long as men strive to be men, and not cucked wimps. On this topic, I notice this:
  https://vdare.com/articles/patriarchy-it-s-a-man-s-world-and-it-s-women-s-fault
  http://www.mankindquarterly.org/archive/issue/58-3/2

“If a theory recently presented by two female researchers from Britain is correct, then patriarchy only evolved because of the male need to give women what they wanted, females are literally evolved to like and accept the patriarchal system, and, by implication, we’d have no civilization if it hadn’t developed. Zoologist Dr Rachel Grant, of the University of Northampton, and biologist Dr Tamara Montrose, of University Centre, Hartpury, presented their explosive findings in the Spring 2018 issue of the “racist” and “sexist” journal Mankind Quarterly. In their study, entitled It’s a Man’s World: Mate Guarding and the Evolution of Patriarchy, they argue that there is fundamental conflict of interest between men and women. Men have nothing to lose from a sexual encounter, so they want to have sex with as many good-looking (and thus genetically healthy) and young (and thus fertile) women as possible. But women have a great deal to lose from a sexual encounter, because they can get pregnant and they produce a far smaller number of gametes than men. They and their offspring are more likely to survive if they get a man who will invest in them and look after them.

     The government wonders why kids are not learning, and what could possibly be wrong with our education system. Forget the political correctness, just consider that there really is a blackboard/white board (we must not discriminate) jungle:
  https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/law-order/renmark-high-student-stabbed/news-story/d19bd2f109ae6b795d08a6924e0e880d?utm_source=The%20Advertiser&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial

     This sort of US-style violence is becoming more common in  Australian schools. It is not at US levels yet, by a long way, but we have been put on the same path. Nobody should wonder why schools, and students are in rapid decline compared to ordered, disciplined countries like Japan, and places like Singapore. Schools are in the frontline of the cultural war and the students are the meat in a very foul and rotten sandwich, the snack food from hell.

     Age and alcohol must be effecting my memory, since I thought that I wrote on the following topic, and have a déjà vu sense about it, but the Google search engine did not turn up anything, so given that is from an IT giant, it must be the truth, I guess … Anyway, here is a good article slamming the universities and suggesting that they be stripped of public funding:
  https://www.spectator.com.au/2018/07/lathams-law-105/

“Higher education has deteriorated so badly, so quickly we are now involved in a civilisational struggle to bring it back into the mainstream of society. This is critical work, requiring a new approach to university funding and staffing. Institutions that abandon the Australian values of freedom, pluralism and meritocracy can no longer expect to be funded by the Australian taxpayer. To earn the gift of public money they need to serve the public interest. The evidence suggests universities now serve themselves, having been colonised by mutant strains of left-wing activism. How can the scale of the takeover be measured? Fortunately there’s a ready reckoner: the essays published daily on the Conversation website, billed by Australia’s university sector as ‘unlocking the knowledge of researchers and academics to (solve) society’s biggest problems.’ I’ve read this material for the first three weeks of July, a total of 122 items, reflecting the priorities of the nation’s scholars. What type of issues are they interested in? By far the largest category is environmental advocacy, with 27 articles or one-quarter of the total.

     After waiting for 30 minutes in a line at the bank to get out my pension, with crippling heartburn, or is it heart disease (?), I was well in the mood for this article, which tells us that banks are an oligopoly that exploit customers:
  https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/03/banking-industry-found-to-be-an-oligopoly-that-exploits-its-customers

“Australia’s banking system has become so concentrated its major banks can pass on costs and set prices to boost profits without fear of losing market share, through every stage of the economic cycle, the Productivity Commission has found. The “four pillars” policy, which has underpinned Australia’s banking system since the 1990s, and which was designed to prevent mergers between the four biggest banks to maintain competition, has likely contributed to the problem, with evidence showing it is now preventing competition. The reality of Australia’s “oligopolistic banking system” means the biggest banks are now regularly exploiting the inertia of existing customers, maintaining their market position with persistently opaque pricing, conflicted advice and remuneration arrangements, and a lack of easily accessible information that induces their customers to maintain loyalty to unsuitable products. They are also overwhelming the population with a proliferation of thousands of similar financial products that are impossible to sift through. Those are some of the damning conclusions in a report on the competitiveness of the financial system by the Productivity Commission (PC), released on Friday. The treasurer, Scott Morrison, has welcomed the report, saying he will consider which recommendations to adopt after consulting widely, and after the banking royal commission has wrapped up.”

     The Dark Lords of IT are working their way down the list, knocking off sites that upset the globalist agenda. It was only a matter of time before the full-on Alex Jones copped it, and now he has been booted off almost everything. Naturally, conservatives have been outraged by this, as they should. But, really, it is surely just another volley in the cultural war. It would be utterly amazing if the “reptiles” did not censor the internet, including the sites that developed that meme. I can see the days of the internet as numbered. In the short term alternative media should be used, but eventually the Deep State will shut them down too. We will have to go back to the pre-internet days. Hopefully, enough material will have been got out by then that it may not matter too much.
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/06/apple-facebook-spotify-remove-alex-jones-content/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4bcef103fb41 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eujugOy3QZ0
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-08-06-the-internet-dark-ages-descends-upon-us-facebook-google-spotify-twitter-all-conspire-to-outlaw-conservative-speech-with-no-due-process.html 
  https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/08/06/facebook-blocks-congressional-candidate-elizabeth-hengs-video-ad-about-communist-crimes/ 
  https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/08/06/gary-cohn-warns-facebook-bigger-threat-than-banks-before-great-recession/ 
  https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/08/06/brent-bozell-censoring-infowars-not-just-a-slippery-slope-its-a-dangerous-cliff/
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-07-24-online-censorship-is-a-war-against-human-knowledge-civilization.html

     Once the ban on free speech is in place, then the agenda will be to attack any dissidents, by freezing them out of society, as suggested by Brittany Pettibone in these Tweets, not yet suppressed:

     Contrary to the happy world of the Australian globalist, who has worked for decades to make Australia a “part of Asia,” when Asia goes to war, Australia will be inevitably pulled in, being a “part of Asia.”
  https://amp.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/a-major-new-war-is-looming-and-this-one-sits-worryingly-close-to-home/news-story/c7df5e33026348beb5ed54afd6cb706c

“A MAJOR new war is looming — and this one sits worryingly close to home. Asia is at risk of descending into a region-wide crisis with global implications, a leading expert in Asia-Pacific affairs has warned. Dr Brendan Taylor, Associate Professor at ANU Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, argues Asia is at a dangerous crossroads in his new book The Four Flashpoints: How Asia Goes to War. Dr Taylor argues there are four key “flashpoints” — politically unstable areas with the potential to erupt into sudden conflict — and all are situated within the continent. “The risk of major war in Asia is much greater today than most individuals assume,” he warns. “All it would take is an accidental clash between the wrong two militaries, at the wrong place or the wrong time, and a highly dangerous escalation could occur. Asia has been lucky so far that it hasn’t.”

     This article says that it is time for the US and Europe to face the politics of cultural displacement:
  https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/30/its-time-for-the-united-states-and-europe-to-face-the-politics-of-cultural-displacement/

“The U.S. electorate is perhaps more polarized today over the definition of American identity and the value of diversity than at any time in recent memory. There are, of course, many drivers of this divide, including economic anxiety about globalization, wage stagnation, and career displacement, along with a perceived loss of community values due to continuing immigration and a fear of immigrant crime and foreign terrorism, often driven by exaggerated claims about the threat. The result is that for many Americans, demographic change and immigration pose a direct challenge to established concepts of identity and pre-existing social hierarchies. While economic concerns are real, they are often a byproduct of an overarching narrative that explains economic success or failure as being tied to industries, cultural norms, and a way of life that perhaps died out some time ago. Whether the narratives are about trade protection for steel and aluminum, preserving the coal industry, or protecting U.S. workers from low-cost labor around the world, the resonating theme is about preventing dynamic societal change. Unfortunately for those seeking to stop the march of time, demographic change is coming quickly.