I remember a book being around years ago called The Secret Life of Plants (1973), by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, which argued that plants were sentient, and that agriculture should take this fact into consideration. At the time I was sceptical and believed that if they were right, then probably we would end up eating nothing and starving!

     However, maybe I dismissed this claim too lightly:
http://www.naturalnews.com/2016-12-18-stunned-scientists-discover-that-plants-learn-like-humans-and-intelligently-adapt-to-their-environments-is-this-proof-of-plant-consciousness.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-08-05-stunning-discovery-reveals-that-plants-and-parasites-engage-in-social-media-information-sharing-for-self-defense.html.

     The Left newspaper The Guardian, has recently published a cartoon in its unfunny, “first dog on the Moon,” series, claiming that there is “unfortunately” not a plan, “to eradicate white people from the Earth.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/10/will-even-white-people-die-how-to-explain-nuclear-war-to-your-kids

     The two dogs are discussing the present North Korea crisis, which seems to be blamed on “white supremacists” being in the White House. You have got to be kidding – imagine if there really were white supremacists wouldn’t these leftists melt into a puddle of political correctness then? Anyway, here is the full transcript of the cartoon:

     I have been going through my old books, culling things out, to make it easier for those cleaning up after I die, perhaps in the coming nuclear Armageddon. Oh, wait, a contradiction; there will be no need to clean up, and no-one to do it anyway. But, I digress, perhaps getting on the senility train with Uncle Len.

     Here in my hand is a copy of Jewish intellectual,  Julien Benda, La Trahison des Clercs (The Treason of the Intellectuals) (1927). He argued that 19th and early 20th century intellectuals had departed from the cosmopolitan/universalist path, and had become apologists for nationalism, and what he called “racism,” but what others would call common sense.

     Marxist and extreme political ideologues in general typically do not debate.  Their characteristic strategic behaviour is to misrepresent, condemn and intimidate.  

     Their aim is to create social chaos, leaving an opening for them to seize the reins of political power.

     Each day it is not too difficult to find hundreds of articles from countries across the world supporting the anti-immigration case. To prove my own point, I reach for today’s The Australian, and find: “Refugee Numbers Squeezing Suburb,” (August 5-6, 2017, p. 8) (“Middle-class progressives have no qualms about determining moral values. Yet a fairer approach would surely entail sacrificing comfort for a cause.”)

     Another critical approach is the historical one, of looking at past societies that were brought down by immigration. A case for the fall of Rome being based upon out-of-control immigration was made by Peter Heather, The Fall of The Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians, (Pan Books, 2006). The punch line is that Rome did not fall from all those things which conservatives like to think it fell from, such as too much tax, but because the state had been weakened by out-of-control immigration, and finished off by the barbarians.

     Few of us care about synagogues being built: how do they harm us? And, few of us would oppose the construction of a new synagogue, especially in iconic Jewish areas such as Bondi. It is simply part of Australian culture. Yet, as incredible as it sounds, the construction of a new synagogue has been stopped, not because of Nazi protests, but because of the Islamic terrorism threat. Here is a news summary of the key points: http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/bondi-synagogue-ban-over-terrorism-risk-leaves-jewish-community-shocked-and-furious/news-story/6ec6252d613583df7797c7cac2b25de4:

“A LOCAL council has banned the construction of a synagogue in Bondi because it could be a terrorist target, in a shock move that religious leaders say has caved in to Islamic extremism and created a dangerous precedent.  The decision, which has rocked the longstanding Jewish community in the iconic suburb, was upheld in court this week as the nation reeled from the alleged airline terror threat and debate raged over increased security measures at airports and other public places.

     In news that should worry all Australians, the Coalition government has today told public servants that they can be sacked for their political opinions.  From The Australian:

The Turnbull government will today seek to impose restrictions on public servants criticising the Coalition on social media, warning that employees risk disciplinary action for “liking” anti-government posts or privately emailing negative material to a friend from home.
Documents obtained by The Australian show public servants would also be warned they could be in breach of the public service code of conduct if they do not remove “nasty comments” about the government posted by others on the employee’s Facebook page.
You can read the new guidelines here.

     I admire Andrew Bolt and the great work that he is doing. However this column: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/labors-society-of-bludgers/news-story/0dbb091e314d4419413ccf785d2a352b, “Labor’s Society of Bludgers,” seems to be reverting back to old fashioned class warfare.
     Of course, we know that the vision of Labor, like all of the Left, is one of parasitism, to have the many feed off of the few, especially through its tax policy on high income earners, which they think will pull in $10.8 billion over the next four years. That is not new and is what socialists do, just like dogs like to mess up lamp posts.

     A more urgent task for thinkers is to outline to the public the challenge which social credit poses to the established financial and economic system. This site has numerous articles on this, but let me tell the story simply. Today, many people are struggling to even buy a reasonable quantity of groceries to keep body and soul together. This is a dramatic illustration of the deficiency of purchasing power. There is no shortage of goods, but people do not have the money to get them. This intuition says that there is something fundamentally wrong with the present system and that we need to strive to find something better, to solve the fundamental economic problem.
     So, Andrew, how about a bit of thinking outside of the box, if you dare!

     It has been reported that Australia’s 38 public university Vice-Chancellors were paid on average $890,000. Eleven of the VCs got their scaly hands on over $ 1 million of taxpayers’ money: The Weekend Australian, August 5-6, 2017, p. 05. Well, they are called Vice-Chancellors.

     I am outraged at this vast waste of public money. I call on all concerned Australians to protest about this, to take to the streets in angry, legal demonstrations, demanding that the VCs be sacked and replaced by robots, or even monkeys, doing their jobs vastly cheaper and ten times more efficient.
Begin replacing all university academics by on-line teaching, and sack most lecturers. Close down the physical universities and make them into entertainment centres, homes or shopping complexes. Or, just bulldoze down the sandstone buildings, and leave the rubble as a symbol of the destruction which these bestial entities have caused humanity:
https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/1992/12/the-treason-of-the-intellectuals-ldquothe-undoing-of-thoughtrdquo 
Don’t get nostalgic about it; if necessary I will get the legals done and  drive the crane with the wrecking ball, and do the demolition work myself. For free. We have had enough of the abuse of the universities.
     Ok, who is with me on the first protest march, hands up?

     I don’t have money to buy books anymore, but I think I can do this review just from online comments, cobbling it together. Don’t tell anyone, it will just be a secret between you and me. Times are extremely hard in extreme Right journalism.

     Dinesh D’Souza, has just published The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left, (Regnery, 2017). The thesis of the book is that it is not President Trump and conservatives who are “Nazis,” as the Left likes to say, but they are themselves. So there! Take that! The American Left, as represented by the Democrats, has a racist past, and at present acts like typical fascists, attacking free speech, the right to associate, and everything good and noble. The rotters.

     Every US Senator, except Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders, voted for the Russian sanctions, even though there is no evidence that Russia did interfere in the US elections. Even if it did, Russia performed a service of exposing corruption, if not criminality, but the power elite do not worry about that:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/01/sarah-sanders-blasts-press-for-russia-scandal-fake-news-points-to-clintons-real-russia-relationships/

     All that counts is having something on Trump, who, for all his defects, has become a symbol of opposition to the New World Order, or as it is now called, globalism: http://www.unz.com/tsaker/sanctions-smoke-and-mirrors-from-a-kindergarten-on-lsd/.

     That is the conclusion which I have made after reading the latest news reports, claiming that US is now preparing for a imminent  North Korean nuclear strike: The Weekend Australian, August 5-6, 2017, p. 15. I note the irony of many now calling for Australia to develop defences against missiles, not only from North Korea, but also our great trading partner China: The Australian, August 4, 2017, p. 1 Why then did you elites feed the dragon in the first place and help make it so strong? Why should the national security elite and other members of the nervous political class talk about the “Chinese nuclear menace” now, after helping to build this very thing? Pig Iron Bob would be proud. So much for the Asianisation rhetoric.

     From what I have read, even if the US can shoot down North Korea’s nuclear missiles – and that is a big “if” – it is certain that North Korea can destroy the city of Seoul, which would severely impact upon the world’s high tech infrastructure. Worse would be a successful EMP attack on the US, which could kill 90 percent of Americans: http://www.emp.news/2017-04-12-emp-commission-chairman-confirms-that-a-nuclear-emp-attack-could-kill-90-of-the-u-s-population.html. Probably even more Australians would die in an EMP attack, given our high level of urbanisation. Not many Australians are prepared for anything, beyond fast food, drugs and grog.

     I am really getting to dislike this guy. If I wasn’t a Christian, I would have said a stronger word, like “hate.” But, you know the story, it’s not what we do. We love, but as I am full of original sin, I “dislike,” imperfect as I am. So, what has this bozo done now?

    Just to be sure I get this right, let me quote from the news service:
http://www.laciviltacattolica.it/articolo/evangelical-fundamentalism-and-catholic-integralism-in-the-usa-a-surprising-ecumenism/
https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/popes-associates-compare-right-wing-us-christians-jihadists/

to THE AGE
     No, despite your editorial claim (‘Leaders should unite on push for republic’, 29/7), the monarchy is much more than ‘a colonial and imperial relic’.  Monarchy by its nature enshrines something that no republic can provide: a glorious and spiritual mystique which has extraordinary power to unite subjects in a loyalty that provides national strength as well as the sense of being part of a noble enterprise, divinely sanctified. The oneness of the monarch echoes the oneness of God.
     The world’s arts and literature are filled with the joyful celebration of royalty. You will never find there anything comparable for republican presidents or prime ministers. As for Mr Shorten’s plans, it looks as though in a shifty manner he and his fellow-republicans are trying to dodge a referendum on the fundamental question. Such irresponsibility is the opposite of statesmanship.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic

     While we are still having debates about turning the other cheek, and whether or not one is justified defending one’s family from attackers seeking to eat us, or terrorists seeking to stab us:
http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/World/2017/07/28/22741370.html
and/or family, the Left is getting ready to do just that, at least in America.

     Far Left groups  are already undertaking terrorist and military training, to use extreme violence against conservatives. It is no longer, “Nazis,” that they seek to fight, but anyone opposing any aspect of the Left agenda. Look, here are some articles so you can judge this for yourself:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-27/far-left-militia-training-guerrilla-warfare-using-%E2%80%98sabotage-kidnapping-executions-an;
https://farleftwatch.com/2017/07/26/far-left-militia-training-for-guerrilla-warfare/;
https://www.redneckrevolt.org/about;
https://survivalblog.com/the-antifa-threat-spiral-some-safe-predictions-on-a-coming-unsafe-era-part-2/;
https://survivalblog.com/the-antifa-threat-spiral-some-safe-predictions-on-a-coming-unsafe-era-part-1/.
     Expect to see this in Australia, as we are always a few years behind the US in the decay and degeneracy stakes.

     Now here is something which really goes a long way in promoting multicult/multiracial harmony, especially at a time when there are tensions between local populations, who are being displaced, and migrant populations, who are surging to dominance:
http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/australian-women-need-us-to-fertilise-them-halal-chief-slams-white-men-in-facebook-rant/news-story/ec80593236bd78ebdaeedfce2b1d65b6.

     For the sake of accuracy, which is needed for people like us who are basically rabbits targeted for eradication, here is the punch line:

to THE AUSTRALIAN
     Galarrwuy Yunupingu has given a clear and noble account of the traditional Aboriginal process of settlement, but seems unaware of how, after the history of the last two or three centuries, it is irrelevant to constitutional procedures in the Australia of today.  Another mistake he makes is to imagine that Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten can speak on the issue of constitutional recognition for all Australians. They cannot, and true democracy demands that any change must be effected by means of a properly conducted referendum. Finally, there is a contradiction between his professions that he and the authors of the Uluru statement wish to be part of a unified nation, while he pursues an obviously divisive course which does not represent the wishes of all Aboriginals anyway.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic.

     Physicists and philosophers seem to have fallen in love with the idea of the multiverse: that there are other universes, not spatially connected to our own. There was first the splitting universe idea in quantum mechanics, to deal with the collapse of the wave packet problem, but today with string theory, it seems that everything goes;
https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2017/may/17/multiverse-have-astronomers-found-evidence-of-parallel-universes
https://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/2982-new-survey-hints-at-exotic-origin-for-the-cold-spot
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/can-physicists-ever-prove-multiverse-real-180958813/
     Now, a popular idea of the multiverse is that all realities are actualised. Every possible world is real, in some universe. There is a world where I am not a fat, aging professor of physics in a third-rate US campus, but instead, a young hot-blooded Nobel Prize winner.

     To reduce this idea to absurdity, let as consider this possible world: one of the omnipotent multiverse annihilators! If all realities are actualised then there is one possible world where cosmic killers exist, who would seek to destroy all other universes. Argue by assumption that such psychopaths have the power to annihilate universes.
    Thus, on the assumption that the multiverse exists, it follows that it would not exist, since the cosmic killers would have annihilated us. Since they have not, they do not exist. It follows that the multiverse does not exist. Physicists need to go back to the drawing board. 

to THE AGE
     My defence of the spiritual nature of monarchy and its unifying capacity within the realm has struck a few nerves (letters, 1/8). Yes, of course there have been some very bad monarchs and others have been unable to successfully protect their peoples from disorder; but the majority of kings and queens, and not only those of Britain, have by and large ruled well and not betrayed the ideal. History has, too, a lengthy list of corrupt republics.
     It is significant that the world’s arts and literature are filled with the joyful celebration of royalty. By their very nature republics and presidents simply can’t compete, and no amount of derision can hide this.   
NJ, Belgrave, Vic

     Here is an uncomfortable issue for conservatives. It has long been pointed out at many stronger sites that European women support refugee intake more than men. Why might this be?
    There is one proposal based on the fact that the majority of the refugees are young men of military age, who have fled the country to save their bacon, rather than women and children, who have been left behind:
https://www.rt.com/news/343753-germany-refugees-males-statistics/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/05/16/trumps-claim-that-young-strong-men-dominate-the-european-migrant-crisis/?utm_term=.c74112b79371

    The latest news story has it that older women are cashing in on this flood of young men:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/07/28/growing-trend-older-austrian-women-becoming-sugar-mamas-young-migrants/