I saw this article, which seemed to give one ray of hope in the otherwise total darkness of internet censorship and shutdowns, but then nothing seems to have come from it:
  https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/un-declares-online-freedom-to-be-a-human-right-that-must-be-protected-a7120186.html?amp&__twitter_impression=true

“The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution for the “promotion, protection, and enjoyment of human rights on the internet” which condemns any country that intentionally disrupts the internet access of its citizens. The resolution stresses that “the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online” particularly with regards to the freedom of expression already protected by articles 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Though it was passed by consensus, the resolution was opposed by a small number of countries including Russia and China who wished to make a number of amendments, in particular aiming to delete calls for a "human rights based approach" for providing and expanding access to the internet and remove key references to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and language on freedom of expression from the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.”

     This article has been sitting in the pile, gathering cyber-dust, but it is an interesting perspective, justifying ethno-nationalism, theologically. Of course, for many Christian universalists, any concern about saving one’s own race, even though the Others do it, is “racist.” This needs to be countered:
  https://www.counter-currents.com/2018/07/a-theological-argument-for-ethnonationalism/ 
  http://faithandheritage.com/2011/01/a-biblical-defense-of-ethno-nationalism/

“It is common among white Christians today to believe that any sort of pride of race is inherently wrong or evil. Many Christians express the belief that we should only boast in our identity in Christ. There is a sense in which this is true. The Apostle Paul considered everything that he could claim to be “but dung” in comparison to the “excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord,”  including his own ancestry! It’s extremely important to note that Paul is making a comparison by hyperbole. Paul is saying that in comparison with Christ’s righteousness, all that we have and all that we are is worthless! It is also important to point out that Paul is comparing his own righteousness, to the righteousness of Christ. It is in this sense that nothing about us matters for salvation. We are saved solely by the merits of Christ. Even Christ demands that our loyalty to himself exceed our loyalty to our immediate families and spouses!  It would be a severe mistake however to conclude that attributes such as ancestry or even marriage are meaningless!

This is the Chinese Year of the pig – appropriately it is the year we must remove the snouts of many pigs from the troughs kept full by tax payers and electricity users.

 An election year is the best time to put maximum pressure on all politicians. Soon we will have gone so far backwards in management of electricity, essential infrastructure, water, vegetation, bushfires, education and the climate war on hydro-carbons that recovery will be very difficult. Things are bad now but if the Limp-LNP’s or the ALP/Greens again get control of energy policy, what is now bad will get much worse. We are faced with either a confused calamity or a dreadful disaster.

     I have said all of this before, but here is a spin on this theme by Jeff Sanders, blogging at P J Media.com, which is the most concise summary I have come across in, well, the last 30 minutes:
  https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/five-reasons-why-western-civilization-is-good/

“Some cultures are superior to others. Would you rather live in a civilization that takes care of widows or burns them to death? Would you rather live in a culture that believes women are equal to men, or in a society that believes females are intrinsically inferior and can be bought, sold, and have horrible procedures inflicted on them (female genital mutilation)? Some cultures have a framework of just laws with the presumption of innocence for the accused and the basic right to a trial by a jury of peers. Other cultures like Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, North Korea, and Iran have barbaric judicial systems and often just make up the rules as they go along, in order to further the agenda of the regime.

     The site Amerika.org, usually has some good quotable paragraphs about the plight of the West, a perennial theme for us. Here is one about the present degeneracy known as teaching:
  http://www.amerika.org/politics/social-engineering-educational-marxism/

“And who are today’s teachers? They’re the outcasts, the losers, the socially inept afterthoughts that were never good enough during their own educational experience and are out for revenge against the world that left them behind. They’ve been corrupted by a college system that has been compromised by communist ideologues and subversive donors, pampered by the advanced degrees their ancestors could never afford, and enslaved by a perverse pantheon of modern media voices. They lack the ability to think critically, but are unable to recognize it, and thus will force toxic progressivism on their students. Affirmative action programs will see many children learning from cultures that are not their own, leading to further confusion.

     This is where the culture of white guilt leads; white children so hating themselves that they sue their parents, meaning that white people have not right to exist:
  https://worldnewsdailyreport.com/17-year-old-teenager-sues-his-parents-for-being-born-white/?fbclid=IwAR1B0izpRwNonVKxsg8-PEYYwaIrKHZKEpBLTKcR-FsMxwjiLcg7CG8OZXo

“St-Louis, MO | A 17-year-old is undertaking one of the most controversial lawsuits of the history of the country as he is suing his own biological parents for being born white. Anthony Dwight, 17, claims he has suffered his whole life from the shame of being born white. “When I was a kid, I’d spend hours in the shower trying to wash off the white off my skin, but it would never go away,” he recalls painfully. “Isn’t there enough white people on this planet already? Haven’t we inflicted enough suffering, racism and oppression in this world?” he asked reporters.

     I was excited, almost as much as any monarchist was, by the announcement that a Black American film star, Meagan Markle, who had played fantastic dramatic roles of “penetrating depth,” truly fit for a Royal (reader discretion advised, perhaps older men with heart conditions should not go to the links below), was to marry into the Royal family. Although she was advancing in her reproductive years (elderly primigravida)), the gods of fertility have smiled upon her, and she will bring forth child any time from  April 1.
  https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/5008396/when-meghan-markle-baby-due-prince-harry-birth/ 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVh9wHWHUbI
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziX_zKGy6-g
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b5d5J81iAQ

And, despite people writing nasty things about Meg, we are seeing that this was an excellent choice, almost as good as the much loved Diana Spencer, which was another fairy tale princess who added colour to the otherwise starchy Royals:
  https://pagesix.com/2019/01/26/how-meghan-markles-ambitious-attitude-is-affecting-prince-harry/

     Iconic mega-feminist Hillary Clinton, who still wants to be president when Trump is arrested and locked in a cage with starving rats, wants New York State to legalise abortions up until birth:
  https://www.lifenews.com/2019/01/07/hillary-clinton-wants-new-york-state-to-legalize-abortions-up-to-birth-theres-no-time-to-wait/?fbclid=IwAR05J_OqaXVEhkdtqMzZoNqOCnZjz08U-fKM2p_Fxantc_d8oqC0T3doxVM

“On Sunday, she announced plans to help New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo push a radical pro-abortion bill in his state. “I’ll be joining Gov. Cuomo as he lays out his plan to codify Roe v. Wade and pass the Reproductive Health Act,” Clinton wrote on Twitter. “There’s no time to wait.” Cuomo made no secret of his plans to ram the pro-abortion bill through the state legislature. He said he wants to see it pass within 30 days. Pro-abortion lawmakers in New York have been trying to pass the radical pro-abortion Reproductive Health Act for years. Already one of the most pro-abortion states in America, New York would be made even more pro-abortion if the legislation passes. The bill would allow abortions on viable, late-term unborn babies for any “health” reason and would keep abortion on demand legal in the state if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. The Times Union reports the bill would end a decades-old law that would criminalize late-term abortions if Roe is overturned and replace it with new language allowing abortion on demand. State Sen. Liz Krueger, D-Manhattan, is the sponsor. “It would proclaim abortion as a fundamental right and impose an extreme abortion agenda on all New Yorkers,” according to New York State Right to Life.”

     Each week the anti-West commo Pope does ever more to excel in anti-Western sentiment, hoping like a good Pope to get a pat on his head from the globalist elites. Thus, he has headed down south to promote  mass immigrations holidays to America:
  http://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2019/01/24/pope-heads-to-caravan-country-to-push-central-american-migration/

“Pope Francis decried the fear of migrants Thursday during his visit to Panama, seemingly advocating for the migrant caravans that flooded the southern U.S. border. Francis made the comments during his visit to preside over World Youth Day in Panama amid the fomenting of more migrant caravans in Central America. The pontiff urged church leaders to advocate for hospitality and acceptance of migrants in the countries to which they try to gain entrance, which in past months have been Mexico and the U.S. “The Church, by virtue of her universality, can provide the fraternal hospitality and acceptance that can enable the communities of origin and of destination to dialogue and to help overcome fears and suspicions,” Francis said, according to The Wall Street Journal. Francis also told reporters during his flight to Panama that fear over migrants was “making us crazy.”

     A recent article at Natural News, argued the the typical American diet is a disease threat, and even a short exposure to a high sugar, high saturated fat, low vitamin diet can cause numerous health problems. The same could be said for the fast food diets that Australians are eating:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-01-27-western-diet-is-a-disease-vector-on-par-with-influenza.html

“In fact, the Western diet is so bad that studies have shown that even a short amount of exposure to it can raise your chances of cardiometabolic disorders like heart disease and diabetes. In a study that was funded by the American Heart Association, female rats were fed the equivalent of a typical American diet, and those mice showed common symptoms of diabetes like high blood pressure and blood vessel damage, even after a short time, when compared to a control group. In addition, these rats had four times more fat in their abdominal area than those in the control group, despite some of them not appearing to be obese. This indicates that the negative effects of this way of eating might set in long before traditional disease markers become obvious. In a human clinical study, participants who ate hamburgers quickly experienced pathological changes in blood vessels, including oxidative stress, inflammation, and vasoconstriction. Interestingly, the mere act of adding avocado to the burger canceled these effects out in a different group. It’s easy to see how giving one’s diet a complete overhaul could have a significant positive impact on their overall health.”

     With all the things going on, it is natural to sit back and ponder; how did it happen, on whose watch did all of this occur? One natural strata of people to blame is my generation of baby boomers, and in his book, A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America, (Hachette, New York, 2017), author Bruce Gibney does just that. In fact, he argues that the baby boomer generation are technically sociopaths, having the clinical symptoms of this psychological disorder, such as extreme narcissism.
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-13/did-baby-boomers-ruin-america
  https://www.amazon.com/Generation-Sociopaths-Boomers-Betrayed-America/dp/0316395781/?tag=misesinsti-20
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh6hesHk6yE

     The lack of empathy, prudence and genuine altruism among boomers does stand out. However, what we have also seen is that later generations also have the same sociopathological trait seeing themselves as unique precious snowflakes; not all, but it is something which is very common.
  https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15597300.how-the-cult-of-narcissism-is-killing-our-humanity/
  https://mic.com/articles/40753/7-reasons-millennials-are-such-narcissists#.h4fhwRURf
  https://www.indy100.com/article/millennial-narcissistic-gen-y-narcissism-scale-study-7588141

     This is a peep at what is in line for us in the future, as our economy implodes; Venezuela shows the way in communist control as bank accounts are frozen, allegedly to stop terrorism. Here are some comments on this by J. G. Martinez, straight from the lion’s den:
  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/personal-bank-accounts-in-venezuela-frozen-to-fight-terrorism_12142018

“Controlling a society is not an easy task. It is about controlling food production means, limiting the mobility of people, denying access to everything, allowing basic human rights to be violated by the uniformed corps (very important because these groups have weaponry), and allowing irregular gangs take over resources that, otherwise, they would never be able to have control of. Therefore, they NEED desperately to make people knee, and one of the ways they can do it, is via the control of the circulating money. This is nothing new. The original Rothschild said once “give me the control of the currency of a country, and I wouldn´t mind who governs it”. Or something like that. That is exactly what this mafia has done. They’re now freezing bank accounts within Venezuela. To do so, the criminal gang in power has reinforced their strategy.  They are freezing bank accounts inside Venezuela, in our national currency, if they detect someone is using the account from another country. My own bank accounts, with over 15 years of history, included. This is against the right to use the private and personal property, guaranteed in our Constitution.

     Slowly, facts about the true cost of the European White replacement immigration program are coming to light:
  https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/01/27/unpublished-swedish-report-reveals-migrant-costs-far-higher-than-govt-claims/

“A leaked unpublished document from Sweden’s Justice Ministry has revealed that the costs of mass migration are far higher than figures currently expressed by the government. The document comes after the new coalition government agreed to relax the rules for chain migration, or “family reunification”, which will likely lead to a larger influx of migrants than previously estimated. Following the announcement of the policy, the Swedish Migration Board sent the report to the Justice Ministry which calculated the added costs in the millions. Despite the reports, Swedish Social Democrat Justice Minister Morgan Johansson has referred to prior, much less costly, figures throughout the week, Expressen reports. The previous report, compiled in Septemeber of last year, estimated that chain migration would cost Swedish taxpayers  910 million Swedish kronor (£76.15 million) from 2019 to 2021. The new estimate sees that number increase to 1.365 billion Swedish kronor (£114.2 million) over the same period.”

     While James Reed is hoping that China may continue on the best of the West, I for one, have my doubts, and I pretty much have doubts about everything. For one thing, at long last, China is running head-first into a great wall of debt:
  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-20/chinas-looming-great-wall-of-debt/10713614

“China's debt has been a key factor to its economic success in riding out the GFC, due to a large government stimulus injected into its economy. However, the financial boost has mostly led to China having one of the highest corporate debts in the world, only second to the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong. The past year has been a tumultuous one for the Chinese market: it was hit by an economic downturn, and for the first time in two years, exports unexpectedly plunged to its lowest point, all of this against the backdrop of an ongoing trade dispute and punishing tariffs by the US. Beijing made moves to solve its issues by slashing central bank reserves earlier this month — the fifth time within a year — freeing up $US116 billion ($161.3 billion) to stimulate more economic growth. But forecasted figures by a number of global financial institutions are not looking too positive for the global superpower, and adding to the debt fears is an opaqueness and inability for analysts to completely obtain information and understand the full extent or impact of the potential looming problem.”

     President Trump’s greatest errors involve listening to his globalist son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who constantly advises him to do exactly the opposite of what he needs to survive, and actually doing what he says. Apparently Trump’s decision to back down on the government shutdown, came from this guy. The decision underlined what little confidence thinking Righters had left in the orange man.  While Trump constantly claims to have a high IQ, which is no doubt self-delusional, he fails to see that once he is knocked off his throne, the Democrats will destroy him and his sacred business. Whatever the elite have on him now cannot be as bad as what they will do to him. Thus, he needs to pull out all stops, and if necessary declare martial law to ensure border security. He has nothing to lose because his entire family, except for Jared Kushner, no doubt, will also go down.

     Here is a glimpse of the globalist mind in action, already preparing to bury the West under migrants. Only migrants matter in their agenda. Of course, migrants are just pawns in the game;
  https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2019/01/28/starbucks-howard-schultz-america-exists-for-immigrants-not-americans/

“Starbucks investor Howard Schultz wants to get elected president and to amnesty at least 11 million illegal migrants in the United States. But his justification for the amnesty includes no rules or principles that would prevent his huge amnesty from expanding into an open-borders policy which would benefit investors at the expense of white-collar and blue-collar Americans, said Jessica Vaughan, policy director at the Center for Immigraiton Studies. Schultz told 60 Minutes:

     I came across this rant by actor Mel Gibson about Hollywood, and find it way too outlandish to believe. Beware of anyone talking about “blood.” What do people think is going on: a conspiracy theory?
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_Theory_(film)
  https://newspunch.com/mel-gibson-parasites-blood-kids/ 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq88lnhuVxw
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL2LLR80ltk

     Surely more “false” news, don’t you think? How can so many people say such nasty things about those wonderful people who bring into our barren and empty lives, such CGI magic, colour and diversity of experience? Talk about ingratitude.

     Good times! Left wing progressive media entity, BuzzFeed, is cutting staff, like they are going out of style, which they are:
  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/business/media/buzzfeed-layoffs.html

“This is going to be a tough week,” Ben Smith, the editor in chief of BuzzFeed News, wrote in an email to his staff on Wednesday. On Friday, the newsroom learned just how tough, when the company laid off 43 of the roughly 250 journalists who worked in that division, according to a BuzzFeed spokesman. The cut was the start of a planned 15 percent reduction of the overall work force at BuzzFeed, a company perhaps best known for producing content meant to be shared on social media. The layoffs, which the staff learned about from an email sent by the BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti, are expected to continue into next week and affect around 200 employees. The staff reduction at BuzzFeed News included the seven members of the national desk, the six-person national security team and the two journalists covering health, according to the spokesman. All but two members of the entertainment team were laid off and all but one on the L.B.G.T. desk. There were no cuts to the technology, politics or investigations teams. “The national desk at @BuzzFeedNews was killed off today,” Tina Susman, the national editor, wrote on Twitter. “This was my first full-time editing gig, and I nearly didn’t take the job, but despite tday’s gloominess i’m glad I did. It’s been great, and I’m proud to ride out the front door with my team.”

     Those concerned about the ill-effects of runaway technology may rejoice in the failure of one Dr Frankenstein experiment; the failure of mini kidney organoids from human stem cells:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-12-09-mini-kidney-organoids-grown-from-human-stem-cells-fail.html

“Scientists who thought they could manipulate human stem cells to grow kidneys in a laboratory have found that those Franken-kidneys sprouted their own brain and muscle cells, essentially going “rogue” and “behaving” in this completely unexpected manner. So what happens if they put these kidneys in humans? Will the human body reject these foreign brain cells and wage a deadly auto-immune war? Or will the humans survive the rogue experimentation and become some freaky beasts with multiple brains and new organ muscles that function independently of the human body that houses them? If this all sounds like a scene from a science-fiction-horror film, that’s because it’s already been filmed.”

     Forgive me! This China article has been sitting in my “silly pile,” and I have not been silly or drunk enough to write on it. But, having tipped a near reservoir of cheap red wine down my throat, to drown my sorrows, now I am ready:
  https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/beijing-to-the-us-by-train-china-outlines-plans-to-connect-world-by-high-speed-rail-network-9342749.html

“China has outlined its plan to connect the world by high-speed rail, including an underwater link to the US running a total 13,000km. The ‘China to Russia plus the United States’ line proposed by the Chinese Academy of Engineering would start in the north east of China, travel up through Siberia, across the Bering Strait to Alaska and down through Canada before reaching the contiguous US, The Beijing Times reports. Other planned lines - construction of which has reportedly began in China - are a link to London via Paris, Berlin and Moscow, along with a second route to Europe following the silk road to reach as far as Germany via Iran and Turkey. The international legs of the lines are currently under negotiation, the state ran paper said.”