‘Underground’ by Suelette Dreyfus & Julian Assange.
Rolling Stone described it thus: ‘Gripping … The bizarre lives and crimes of an extraordinary group of teenage hackers’.
My copy, 2011 edition ~ $22.70 posted from Book Depository.

I read most of this story as a ‘pirated edition’ off the Internet about 20 years ago. Rereading this updated edition, rate it as one of the few books that did not put me to sleep late at night.

One common rejoinder made to Donald Trump’s pledge to bring back jobs to America, is that all the old jobs have gone, replaced by automation. This sort of critique was recently made by Robin Pagnamenta, “Donald is a New Class of Luddite Doomed to Defeat by Automation,” The Australian, January 31, 2017, p. 9. Thus, welders cost about $ US 25 an hour to employ, but a robot welder would only cost $US 8. Presumably this would apply to any job one cares to name.

The fallacy in the argument is that while all other things being equal, the welding example is true, only a minority of manufacturing tasks are completely automated; one estimation is that 10 percent of manufacturing tasks can be done by robots at present: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2946704/Cheaper-robots-replace-factory-workers-study.html. This figure will grow, of course, in the future. Thinking machines can replace everyone, and maybe even the 1 percenters will be replaced as well in the future.

Social commentator Hugh Mackay says much that we would disagree with, but all he publishes is informative and thought provoking. Thus, in his Gandhi Oration, delivered at the University of New South Wales on January 30, 2017, while acknowledging that we have much to be grateful for in this country, there are still alarming problems, indicating that we are no longer “the lucky country”:
“We are a society in the grip of epidemics of anxiety, obesity and depression – 20% of Australians experience some form of mental illness.

More than 700,000 children are living in poverty. Although we pride ourselves on our low rate of unemployment, we often overlook the problem of underemployment. About 2 million Australians are either unemployed or underemployed. 100,000 Australians are homeless. We are further from egalitarianism than we were 50 years ago. We are showing signs of a disturbing retreat from the values of an open, tolerant society for which we were once famous.”
Australians do not trust big business, and for good reason, given their track record on selling us out (my view). Mackay says; “An international survey conducted by Ipsos showed that more than 70% of Australians believe the nation “needs a strong leader to take the country back from the rich and powerful”; 68% believe “the economy is rigged to the advantage of the rich and powerful”; and 61% believe “traditional parties and politicians don’t care about people like me”.

Fortunately, Uncle Len has not been given a gold star from Centrelink, a $10,000 debt, awarded from Centrelink’s error-full debt recovery system. One digital chief officer, is quoted in The Advertiser (January, 27, 2017, p. 27), the world’s greatest comic magazine – sorry, I mixed that file up with my 1960s Fantastic Four comics http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Fantastic_Four:_World's_Greatest_Comics_Magazine_Vol_1_10 as saying that “Most dating sites do more data transactions,” and presumably do not bungle things up.

As Peta Credlin has recently pointed out: (http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/peta-credlin-muslim-polygamy-bedded-down-by-pc-bureaucrats/news-story/63d16aa1c4fd872a503bc7cfb829b41d00, Muslim polygamy is being accepted by the Australian state. Centrelink is paying spousal benefits to Muslim families with multiple wives, and it refuses to collect data on polygamous marriages, even though it ruthlessly pursues everything an Anglo-Australian like me does.

In Civil War Two: The Coming Breakup of America, (1997), Vietnam vet Thomas W. Chittum argued that America would split apart along ethno-racial lines. Since 1997, the evidence for this thesis has continued to grow, with migrant crime, terrorist attacks, and attacks on Whites by Blacks in the knockout game and polar bear hunting. Black scholar Thomas Sowell saw this as the “early skirmishes in a race war”: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/362030/early-skirmishes-race-war-thomas-sowell.

However, the ethno-racial fault line is but one of a number of seismic forces set to impact upon modern Western societies. One of the great divides is class and political, as dramatically illustrated by the 2016 US election, where we saw a battle between, essentially, a globalist new class elite, and the ordinary traditional Americans. This battle has been played out to a lesser extent in Australia, with the rise, again, of Pauline Hanson and One Nation.

Sir John Glubb (1897-1986: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bagot_Glubb),  was old school, a British military man, who turned to writing in his later years, bringing his entire practical experience to bear.

The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival (1976) (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LVbwY54Ue8), is a relevant work for our time. His thesis is that history repeats itself, but individuals don’t learn. He opens his work by saying exactly that: “‘The only thing we learn from history,’ it has been said, ‘is that men never learn from history.’” There are many reasons for this, but one he stresses is that people take only a limited view of history, not considering the history of the human race itself. There is thus a cultural bias that distorts their vision and thinking.

The latest big “race” fight is that the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, has been called “racist” for saying that certain foreign-trained doctors who failed its core exam to become emergency specialists, were under-skilled: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/doctors-in-race-claim-lacking-in-key-skills/news-story/f0ac06b310bb063911ff89119d4468cf.

Here are the basic facts, as we quote from The Australian:

The Australian Border Force – that’s right we have some sort of border “protection” – has told The Australian that the guns which the crims have, arrive as parts. (The Australian, February 6, 2017, p. 3)
That is stating the obvious, but what is interesting is that most of the parts simply come through regular international mail. The rest, a minority, come from sea, small crafts and air.

Now I hate to be a spoil sport but could it be that this is only because detecting gun parts in regular mail is not too hard with the magic of x-rays, which is like having Superman on the staff. Could it be that guns brought in through the north on boats, landing on isolated parts of the coast, are just not detected? Maybe the security forces have only got the low hanging fruit.

So, it is not just crazies like me who are getting ready for doomsday – according to an article in the New Yorker.com, January 30, 2017, so are the super-rich:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich.

Thus, the co. founder of Reddit has had laser eye surgery not to look cool, but to improve his survival chances come one of a number of possible disasters, and the aftermath, “the temporary collapse of our government and structures.” What has he prepped? “I own a couple of motorcycles. I have a bunch of guns and ammo. Food. I figure that, with that, I can hole up in my house for some amount of time.”
Well, if a million refugees come a’ knockin,’ good luck with that one.

The Australian ruling elites are concerned that Pauline Hanson’s One Nation is on the rise: “Hanson on the Rise as Coalition Support Dives,” The Australian, February 6, 2017, p.1.

Coalition support is now 46 percent to Labor 54 percent in two-party preferred terms, which is the lowest level since Turnbull knocked out Abbott as Prime Minister.

Don’t despair – help may be on the way – coming up the generational ladder. While Generation X and Y were arguably as selfish as the baby boomers, Generation Z, born in the year 2001 or later, are more conservative than any generation since those born before 1945:
http://www.marcomm.news/gen-z-is-the-most-conservative-generation-since-those-born-before-1945/.

On issues such as same-sex marriage, transgenderism and marijuana legalisation, according to UK survey research by global brand consultancy firm, The Gild, 59 percent of the Gen Z sample described this attitudes as being between “moderate” and “conservative.” On the other hand 83 percent of Gen Y and 85 percent of Gen X were “quite” or “very literal.”
This is very hopeful because Gen Z has been subject to unrelenting politically correct propaganda and attempted brainwashing in schools. However, as the most computer literate of all generations, it seems that they have used the internet to de-program themselves. I have three boys, two who are Gen Y and one Gen Z and the Gen Z boy is, if there is such a turn of phrase, radically conservative.

The new class elites and academic chatterers have been beside themselves, with Trump daring to suspend the admission of Syrian refugees. Writing in the perhaps now ironically named The American Interest (January 28, reproduced in The Australian, February 4-5, 2017, pp. 18-19), Walter Russell Mead and Nicholas M. Gallagher give the typical response: “Not since Franklin D. Roosevelt has an American president done anything so cruel and bigoted.”
But wait, there’s more:
“And only Barack Obama has exhibited this degree of callous indifference to the suffering of the Syrian people.” Obama? What!

Here is the immigration/refugee faith in a nutshell. The West, because it is thought to be composed solely of “migrants” (never mind that Northern Europe while Aboriginal people can be freely demographically displaced), must be an endless source of sympathy and compassion, always taking in refugees. This can never end no matter what the residents of the host country think. No matter what the migrants do, the host people will be made to tolerate it, or else slammed as racists and dealt with by guilt, force, the law or all of the above.

I don’t know about you, but as a Christian I can feel a satanic presence as like never before. We are seeing an array of Satanic symbolism used by rock starts in music videos. There is also a disturbing trend in paedophilic crimes, not just in migrant rapes of white children (e.g. Rotherham and other UK towns), but among other celeb. figures.
Micah Rhodes, one of the heads of the Portland Resistance movement, fighting against President Trump, has been arrested on four counts of second-degree sexual abuse of a teenage boy and girl:
http://koin.com/2017/01/30/portlands-resistance-co-leader-charged-with-sexual-abuse/.

Rhodes, a black, is a registered sex offender based on his convictions of first-degree sexual abuse and first-degree sodomy, but the prior conviction was not widely known because state laws did not make juvenile records publicly available.

A student at Wisconsin College has been arrested for faking a “hate crime.” He had placed anti-Muslim graffiti on his dorm room and on a wall outside of his dorm room, to gain attention. He was influenced by “the outpouring of support a Jewish student recently received when he was a victim of a threatening note pushed under his door”:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/03/fake-hate-crime-wisconsin-college-student-put-anti-muslim-graffiti-on-own-door/.

This is probably one of the rare occasions when the police actually detected a fraud; usually they just go along for the ride because the anti-racist mania is a big industry, keeping many in good jobs, with fine wines and top class food.

Where does all the money come from? Who finances the rioters? A recent article by Chuck Ross, which looked at the funding of the group who disrupted Milo’s Berkeley event: http://dailycaller.com/author/chuck-ross/, notes that George Soros is in the chain of funding leading to the group Refuse Fascism. The group on their Facebook page claimed that vandalism and arson are not “violence,” rather violence was perpetrated through the policies of Trump and Yiannopoulos. Sure.

They did not mention the attack made at the protest by masked men in black with shovels upon one Trump supporter, leaving him unconscious, or the pepper spraying of a female Trump supporter.

As reported by Natural News.com: http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-02-04-record-radiation-level-detected-a-fukushima-reactor-unimaginable-could-kill-human-from-even-brief-exposure.html. radiation levels inside Fukushima’s Reactor No. 2 have surged from 73 Sieverts an hour to 530 Sieverts an hour. A single dose of 10 Sieverts of radiation could kill a person in weeks.

The region is so toxic that special remote controlled robots used to explore the radioactive depths have shutdown. Another remote controlled robot will not be used which may last for two hours.

UK government figures indicate that 45 percent of all new homes built in the next five years will be for migrants: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4192506/UK-needs-new-home-five-minutes-house-migrants.html.
Britain will need 243,000 new homes each year with 109,000 extra homes needed by migrants, for at least the next 22 years.

Over this period an extra 5.3 million new properties will be needed with an extra 2.4 million being devoted to the spiralling migrant population. A new home will thus need to be built every five minutes to house the mighty migrants.

The Provost of Glasgow’s Episcopal Church, St. Mary’s Cathedral, as a form of multicult interfaith, or whatever, replaced a reading from the Bible with a reading from the Koran, at the Eucharist of the Feast of the Epiphany. The reading was Surah 19 which is a famous passage denying the divinity of Christ:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/queens-chaplain-sacked-for-defending-christianity/news-story/b157863491edf6ce2a2c83725501fc9a
Here is the passage:
http://www.noblequran.com/translation/surah19.html.
The passage was enthusiastically read by a Muslim law student, who then placed the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCXgjWfsmIY.

Chaplain Gavin Ashenden protested about this, pointing out the obvious absurdity in the affair. However, “after a conversation instigated by officials at Buckingham Place,” Ashenden decided to resign as a queen’s chaplain, so he could freely comment. He was not sacked as such, but under the circumstances, had to resign.
He stated: “the Queen should not be drawn into public affairs where she is deemed to be taking a position,” which includes matters such as the assault on Christianity, even if she is Fidei Defensor.

It seems that a malfunction occurred with a British nuclear missile, a Trident II DS missile fired from a nuclear submarine off the coast of Florida in June last year. The missile, which was unarmed at the time, veered in the wrong direction towards America. That obviously could have set off a global nuclear war.  Downing Street covered the disaster up, until now, so that a House of Commons vote on the missile system would not be disrupted. Ah, corruption, it’s everywhere.
Apart from that, it makes one wonder, if push comes to shove, would the nukes even work, especially if spare parts are needed from China?

Canberra has a “headache” as Australian fighters from Syria are making a “jihadist exodus” back to Australia, often with new wives and families. (The Australian, January 23, 2017, p. 2) The children are “entitled to Australian citizenship as well as all the support and care the government can muster.”
Really? If Australia was more than the cuck state which it now is, no fighter would have gone to Syria – that would be treason. And if they did go, they would be stripped of citizenship and not permitted to return.
Who knows how many “terrorists” will be returning to Australia?
Malcolm, what if they start blowing up Australian capitalism? Won’t it be bad for business?  Do something, not for the children’s sake, but for that holy of holies, capital!