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     Tony Abbott effectively nails the republican issue on the head (‘Imagine Bill our Head of Fate’, 2/8) by reminding us that the Crown gives us ‘national continuity and a focus of loyalty that’s above politics’. Something enormously valuable that has been bequeathed to Australia by the British people’s 1100 year-old constitutional history will be lost if the republican campaign is successful. Abbott could have added that a constitutional monarchy, based on sacred tradition, is by far the best protection of a people against tyranny, whether that is based on inadequate ideology pushed by ‘green-left’ witchdoctors, lust for power in unbalanced persons or financial greed of cliques of merchants.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic.

     An article, “Worker Implants ‘Only a Matter of Time’” The Australian, August 3, 2017, p. 6, reports on the alarming trend of workers being “enhanced” by implanted technology in their bodies, to be  able to perform their jobs better – for the corporates.
     It is expected that body and brain implants will be common by 2030, and of course, 70 percent of people will support it; 70 percent of people will support anything I suppose. The elites, though tend to ignore surveys that do not support their globalism, such that 71 percent of US liberals, surprisingly enough, support US immigration restriction of all legal and illegal immigration:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/01/surveys-show-60-percent-opposition-immigration/
     People have become machines, as a prelude to being replaced by machines; here is yet another article celebrating our robot replacement future, and the end of the human world: “Rise of the Robot,” The Australian, August 3, 2017, p. 10.  Really, now, it is just a race between which horseman of the apocalypse gets us first: economic/cultural/ethnoracial breakdown, or the technological apocalypse.

     I probably know the least about technology at this site, but I did have a great Uncle Murphy, after whom, Murphy’s Law is named, which has to count for something. Everything will go wrong at the worst possible time: http://www.murphys-laws.com/.

     Now take ATM machines. I don’t even know what that stands for, if it stands for anything, but I have seen them. Yes, people who have money, get money out of them. These little boxes of joy seem to be everywhere, like telephone boxes once were, but you don’t see them anymore, do you? But, ATMs? Being on the dole, eternally, I would not know about that.

     Good work Aussie Security guys for stopping the jihadists gassing a plane, which may have crashed into a city. However, mass immigration has potentially made the West into the next battle field, and it is only a matter of time before some catastrophe like that, or worse, happens.

     An example of this “battleground Australia” is seen in the incident involving Islamist Numan Haider, who had been identified by ASIO as a national security risk. He was interviewed by two Victorian police, who almost died from the incident. Here is the account given by The Australian: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/national-security/it-was-him-or-my-partner-when-cop-knew-he-had-to-kill-jihadist/news-story/f16cb379b6f1d774e27aa3b54c9d97a2

     A recent article has noted that about sixty percent of US respondents in two surveys want to stop all legal and illegal immigration. The polls, which gave people the freedom to voice their real thoughts, surprisingly showed that white American college graduates are more, not less, opposed to immigration than the average American. Almost three-of-four white liberals hide their preference for zero net immigration, and they are more likely than moderates and conservatives in doing this. In fact, 71 percent of liberals support immigration restriction. That is good, but it will do nothing unless these people take action, and they are unlikely to do so, because it would threaten their jobs and creature comforts.

     Now to Australia. An article in Quadrant, July 26, 2017, E. R. Drabik, “The Great Immigration Non-Debate,” https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2017/07/great-immigration-non-debate/, points out that Australia is going in the opposite direction of much of the West, which has questioned continual mass migration, at least to some degree. Australia is accelerating its immigration like there is no tomorrow, because there probably won’t be at this rate:

     If readers think that I am giving the Pope a hard time, a product of my own Catholic dark night of the soul, then have a look at the seething, blistering attack made by Mike Adams. I won’t quote in detail because it may not even be legal, at least by civil law standards:
http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-07-23-after-vatican-staff-caught-in-gay-orgy-the-pope-says-gmos-are-approved-by-the-catholic-church.html.
     We do live in uncivil times.

     An insightful article by Miranda Devine, “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Climate Monster,” at http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-climate-monster/news-story/5079c031c43e3de67572402640cc6fc0, makes the point that many have got rich from peddling the idea of a climate catastrophe.

     She says that Al Gore is back with a new film and we can expect more hysteria:

     Uncle Len, who liberals would dismiss as a racist, joined Aboriginal activists, and mainly young people in Rundle Mall, in a place far away, called Adelaide,  on the 24th July, to protest about the penalty given to a White man who ran over a 14-year old Aboriginal boy in his ute: http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2017/07/21/driver-not-guilty-indigenous-teen-elijah-doughtys-manslaughter.  The lad was killed after stealing a motor bike in the Western Australian Goldfields region.

     One report said this: “Instead, the teenager, who wasn’t wearing a helmet, tumbled under the car after the impact and died instantly from severe injuries to his neck, chest, pelvis and right leg, a fractured skull and bruised lungs.

     Recovering from a massive hangover, I will try my best to be coherent, at least between coffees. If I was in Texas, in this mood, I could soon be able to go out and run over protesters, and not be punished:
https://www.centraltrack.com/a-texas-house-rep-wants-to-make-it-easier-to-run-over-protestors-with-your-car/.
This law is insane. There are already too many deaths and injuries from cars and someone has to do something about motor vehicles.

     I read Uncle Len’s article about the Aboriginal lad being killed by the White driver and agree with him that a kid dying over a motor bike, a hunk of metal for a human life, is just wrong:
https://newmatilda.com/2017/07/23/groundhog-day-elijah-doughty-joins-a-long-list-of-deaths-with-no-justice/. This is crass materialism before human life. Plenty of kids steal bikes and cars, and then after disciple are put back on the right track. What chance is there now?

 “.... By attacking the private ownership of property they [the socialists] struck unconsciously at the foundation on which in the historic policy of England’s individual liberty had always rested.  Because the privilege of ownership had ceased to be widespread as in the past and had become restricted to the few, they supposed that its destruction would extend to the freedom of many.
They forgot that, apart from economic liberty, political liberty has little meaning. Only so long as a man knows that he can defy superior power and still support himself and his loved ones is he a free man. Without that knowledge, whatever his standard of living or theoretical status, he is a kind of slave".

     Back in the year 2000, there was a UN document prepared which championed the idea of “replacement migration” in Europe, to deal with the alleged problem of a declining and ageing population: http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/migration/migration.htm.  No prizes for guessing the conclusions: migration is the big answer to every problem, provided that it is the migration of non-White people to the West. They meant it when talking about “replacement.”

     Documents such as this are actually quite common, and form the standard tool kit of the pro-migration lobby. It would be a mistake to identify one document as being the key, just as old salts activists decades ago, used to single out the Lima Declaration as being the main bad guy document leading to what we now call globalism. There is no one document, but rather a cultural movement among the power elite to push for changes, undermining the traditional world.

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     Greg Clarke is right that the direction of our religious curriculum overall should be ‘to increase religious literacy’, but this will be best done by the ‘comparative religion’ that he is unduly wary of. Children should be encouraged to learn about the ways in which people throughout history have responded to the sacred, but should not be propagandized to accept one particular viewpoint. Encouraging respect for alternative belief positions is an important way in which society maintains a climate of intellectual freedom and civil peace. Exclusivist fanaticism, whether that of a particular religion or that of atheists, should be politely disparaged.
     No matter how strongly you believe in a particular approach to religion, your children are entitled to freely make up their own minds in due course.  Could any God worth worshipping want otherwise?
NJ, Belgrave, Vic

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     Marcia Langton asks (‘Put nation first, Langton tells indigenous MPs’, 26/7): ‘Are the indigenous parliamentary representatives serving party interests rather than the national interest?’ I ask: ‘Is the Aboriginal lobby, whose numbers have been inflated by a questionable mode of definition of Aboriginality, putting its own selfish interests ahead of those of Australians as a whole?’
NJ, Belgrave, Vic

     Here is the really bad, unexpected news. Sperm quality in the West is crashing, but Australian sperm are some of the worse in the West, the lazy sods. Here is the scientific paper for our scientifically savvy readers: https://academic.oup.com/humupd/article/doi/10.1093/humupd/dmx022/4035689/Temporal-trends-in-sperm-count-a-systematic-review.

     And, here is the alarmist article for people more like me, who like a good apocalyptic scare, to get the animal spirits running: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-40719743

     One of the most socially significant events of our time has been the eclipse of Christian morality, and indeed traditional belief. Only decades ago, certainly in my memory, Christianity provided the social glue for society. This gradually came unstuck in the 1960s, and has accelerated ever since. We have had the most selfish generation which has ever existed, the baby boomers, squander the future of the nation and planet. They, above everybody else, have embraced every politically correct ideology and doctrine and sought to make it real. And, their power is at its peak now, as they go for broke. The world can presumably burn after them.

     This materialist generation have had little need for God; after all science and technology can solve all human problems, the founding doctrine of humanism: https://www.amazon.com/Arrogance-Humanism-Galaxy-Book/dp/0195028902. And it just goes on: http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/07/26/vice-documents-introduction-of-gender-neutral-kindergartens-in-sweden/.

     At the moment the political class is in panic about court rulings reinforcing the Constitutional requirement that prevent dual nationals from running for parliamentary office.  At present Senator Canavan seems to be in trouble because his mother, Australian-born, but Italian, signed him up for Italian citizenship in 2006, without his knowledge: The Australian, July, 26, 2017, p. 1.

     The cartoonists have made fun out of this claim, but I do not see any reason to doubt the claim as being sincere, for Italian mothers could culturally do such things for their sons. Obviously, mum did not know the consequences. What now?
    Well, I believe that section 44 of the Constitution is quite clear what needs to happen:

To THE AUSTRALIAN
     Cheryl Saunders, in advocating constitutional recognition (‘Their distilled voice of hope’, 28/7), claims that there is ‘a deep fissure in our national identity’, but perhaps this is a figment of her imagination or a piece of wishful thinking by a committed political activist. There are a lot of other Australians apart from the 1200 who produced the unimpressive and unconvincing ‘Uluru statement from the heart’ and I believe that most of them are very pleased that they live in a free nation in which civic unity and co-operation is found throughout the land.
     Aboriginal culture is highly regarded and deeply respected by most of us; and we are happy for public funds to be deployed generously to assist Aboriginal persons and groups in need. What we do not want is campaigns to split Australia and Australians.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic    

     A very good issue of the US anti-immigration journal The Social Contract, Summer, 2017, with some telling articles attacking globalism:  http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_27_4/index.shtml

     John Vinson, “Ending Nations Will Not End War,” criticises the universalism involved in a song like John Lennon’s Imagine, and Vinson is a Christian as well, who as president of the American Immigration Control Foundation, has written much on immigration control from a Christian perspective: http://www.aicfoundation.com/about.html.

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     David Baxter, quoting from one of the many beautiful hymns in the treasury of Christian sacred tradition, asks a pertinent question (28/7): why does God need human help to spread his word? Well, it seems from the most profound writings in all the great sacred traditions that there is not, after all, a clear dividing line between the divine and the human; rather there is a continuum in the universe linking together all beings and all being. Thus sacred scriptures are a joint activity of God and Man. And language is vital to communication and to community.
     Unfortunately, because ‘to err is human’, these scriptures are not, as it were, perfect and are prone to varieties of misinterpretation. That is why they should always be presented, in sacred buildings and in schools, in an atmosphere of free inquiry rather than fanatical authoritarianism.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic