I continue my diatribe against the universities, entities which I believe should be closed down and replaced by occupational training centres.
The Australian, November 8, 2017, p. 31 carried an article:
Another tragic shooting in the US, and of course, the usual, “ban all guns’ scream from libtards:
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/11/05/multiple-casualties-reported-in-texas-church-shooting/
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/11/05/celebrities-call-gun-control-immediately-following-texas-church-shooting/
The libtards are always ready to go, and can instantly fire off the same old tired rhetoric after a shooting. However, they never follow through the logic of their “blame the weapon” argument, and never argue for immigration restriction after terrorist truck attacks, or demand tighter regulations on truck hire. That would be “racist” in their theology.
Smartphones have come to dominate the lives of many people who own them, as the phone and its apps becomes the central organiser of their lives: The Australian, October 20, 2017, p. 11.
This article summarises research that indicates that this dependency upon smartphone technology weakens the intellect in numerous ways. For example, the ringing of the phone during demanding tasks led to people not optimally performing on those tasks. If they were unable to answer the phone, problem-solving skills diminished. In laboratory tests with groups of students, with their visible ringing phone, cognitive ability crashed.
There are some interesting papers at Brett Stevens Amerika.org website dealing with a variety of racialist themes, in a clear and scientifically backed fashion. I like his coolness in argumentation. But, the comments section is full of trolls and enemies and he should delete them.
For example, in “Ethnography of Civilizational Collapse”:
http://www.amerika.org/politics/ethnography-of-civilization-collapse/
he points out that civilizations start out strong and great, but because of social entropy, particularly the corruption of the elites, they end up “a mixed-race shadow of [their] former self.” People are physically weaker, and less intelligent. Ancient Egyptians had as their closest genetic relatives people from the Near East, Anatolia and Eastern Mediterranean Europeans, whereas modern Egyptians have more DNA in common with sub-Saharan Africans:
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/22/health/ancient-egypt-mummy-dna-genome-heritage/index.html
Ref 24th September 2015: http://australian-news.net/article/radical-feminists-relentless-war-on-white-males
Accompanying the Prime Minister at the media conference, Minister for Women, Michaela Cash, announced that a new program, the Respectful Relationships programs will be embedded in the Australian education curriculum and will be rolled out in Schools across Australia starting from kindergarten to Year 10.
Civil rights 1960s icon, Martin Luther King, had for a long time been criticised by American conservatives for his sexually immoral behaviour, especially with prostitutes, as well as plagiarism:
https://www.amazon.com/Martin-Luther-King-Plagiarism-Story/dp/0961936452
https://www.amazon.com/Plagiarism-Culture-War-Prominent-Americans/dp/0873190459
Recently released FBI files confirm this. Here is a sample, which makes fascinating reading:
How about a feminist argument for armed firearm carry in Australia: that women, but NOT men should be allowed, given all the appropriate testing, to be able to carry concealed handguns for self-defence so that situations like this do not arise:
https://freedomdaily.com/10-black-teens-attack-4th-white-woman-week-2x4s/
Then there is this future, coming at us as fast as a bullet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEXrbbjAk00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJhRiA6h1k0
The Australian November 6, 2017, p.1, moans about the world turning in a protectionist direction, while Australia, under Mal turn the Bull, wants to play free trade games. Can I say here that this is like wanting to be a virgin in a … no, my Christian prudery censor software, which I installed to control my use of bad metaphors just kicked in.
Anyway, Aussie households are supposed to have benefitted by $8,500 a year in household incomes from 30 years of free trade. I simply don’t believe it, and refuse to. Before all of this globalist nonsense, families could survive on one wage from dad, the family wage. Now, two parents working barely makes ends meet. US statistic indicate that real incomes have not risen since 1970, and I expect the same is true for Australia.
A good article at: http://takimag.com/article/diversity_is_our_doom_christopher_degroot#axzz4xh5nTPvE, on the diversity myth, soundly shows why leftist intellectuals are not as street wise as ordinary folk:
“Concerned mainly with the lives of working people, the Old Left, despite its unrealistic expectations, was still fairly grounded in reality. The New Left, by contrast, is characterized by delusional beliefs, the gospel of the identity-politics zealots. New Left intellectuals therefore seem to live in a different world from the rest of us. How does this happen? In part because these persons tend to come from wealth and remain at a certain comfortable remove from the destructive consequences of their ignorance. It is, indeed, the function of wealth to obscure what would otherwise be clear. Wealth not only corrupts the soul; it also makes one stupid, allowing for ideas that appear plausible only because they are never put to the test of practical experience, wherein something more than the approval of fellow frauds and cowards is at stake. Hence that curiosity of our decadent era, the intellectual who has no common sense. He is a chattering midget on a mission to chop you down to his own puny stature. If he has read many books and can quote many famous names, he still hasn’t the slightest understanding of the family and politics, although, in his foolish conceit, he thinks otherwise.
Unlike the ordinary academic “political theorist,” a white person living in a London slum can see for himself that, for women, Islam is de facto sex slavery. Observing Muslims live, he also notices no distinction between what we Westerners call church and state. For Islam, religion is the state. So this poor white person has no sentimental illusions about Islam’s compatibility with the West, because experience has shown him the impossibility of that project. And since his more honest and manly way of life does not require paying lip service to genteel cant—that is, what the vulgar success-crowd class calls morality—you won’t hear any intellectual herd chatter about diversity and inclusion and the like from this hearty and straightforward character.
“To do away with the very possibility of disagreement is one of the greatest political goods.”
It is not so with the diversity fundamentalists. Driven by needless guilt, petty envy, and, much less often, compassion, they have an anxious desire to believe that peoples and human nature itself are as conveniently shapable and interchangeable as the nifty gadgets affluent Westerners rely on to live lives of unprecedented ease, and correspondingly, unprecedented corruption.”
By some miracle the great Dick Smith got an article in The Australian (November 6, 2017), criticising our immigration-fuelled population increase. We have covered most of the points he raises at this site in other articles, but his opening paragraph is instructive:
“I believe we are on our way to destroying Australia as we know it today. Renowned building developer Harry Triguboff wants an Australia of 150 million people. My friend the billionaire retailer Gerry Harvey says Australia’s population is more likely to grow to 100 million by the end of the century and we have no control over it. How can that be? Surely as a democracy we have control over the size of our country.”
The Black Death killed off about one quarter of Europe, and that was before the high urbanisation which we have today, with people living like sardines in a tin, in the modern cesspools called cities. Today, the probability of a pandemic of some super-disease wiping out civilisation has been rated at 50 percent:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-05-25-a-global-pandemic-has-a-50-percent-chance-of-wiping-out-human-civilization-reveals-online-odds-firm.html
The last pandemic, the Spanish (actually Chinese) flu killed up to 50 million people worldwide, and society then was not as densely compact as it is today, done for the elites to get mega-bucks from immigration-fuelled population growth.
Air quality across the world has reached toxic levels, and although much publicity is given to Beijing’s life-threatening air, London is even worse with 197 micrograms of particulate per cubic metre, almost enough to eat it:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-02-15-air-quality-across-the-world-has-reached-toxic-levels.html
The World health organisation recommends that particular matter in the air stay below 25-50 micrograms per cubic litre in a 24 hour period, but 92 percent of the world’s population live in areas where this air quality is not met:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs313/en/
to THE AUSTRALIAN
There are indeed great benefits to be gained from membership of ‘a rich social and cultural identity’ and, like Simon Haines (‘From slaves to senators, we’re all human’, 9/11), I’m proud and grateful to be part of the civilization of Western Europe. His richly referenced meditation on the relevance to us all of Terence and his famous inclusive statement about human nature does honour to our tradition.
However, there is also a place for political activity based on race, gender, class and power. I cherish my British ethnicity (sometimes against ‘anti-racists’); I am ready to defend manhood against over-the-top feminism; I am comfortable being a middle class person by both inheritance and my own efforts; and I actively seek to extend my power (letters to the editor, for example) in reasonable ways. Variety is the spice of life and too much cosmopolitanism can be enervating to the spirit.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic.
to THE AGE
Who are these ‘Ngunnawal elders’ who are ‘asserting their ownership’ over land in Canberra’s parliamentary triangle (‘Talks fail over Indigenous activists’ occupation of eatery’, 9/11)? I question their authenticity as well as their claim and behaviour, especially when their spokesperson bears two European names.
The Aboriginal people lost control of this continent long ago and nothing can be done to reverse that historic change. Today’s descendants of those tribes must accept that reality. The huge folly of the ‘constitutional recognition’ campaign, now exposed for all to see, has alerted most Australians to the danger of separatist movements. We need to defend our nation and the full force of the law should be brought to bear on these public nuisances in our capital.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic
to THE AGE
Magnanimity towards a loser is an important aspect of our cultural tradition. That is why, if the postal survey results in a clear yes for same-sex marriage, the Government should move cautiously and judiciously in framing enabling legislation.
This is not a situation of ‘those who opposed change seeking to be the authors of a bill for change’ (‘”Blizzard” of changes likely for bill’, 10/11), but of reasonable requests for adequate and fair protections for dissidents being incorporated as part of the bill. It is not a matter of further attempts to ‘delay the inevitable’, but of respecting the substantial number of no voters.
Waleed Ali is misleading (‘When yes means yes but’) in suggesting that the no campaign has ‘lost’ on its key themes of ‘protections for parents, freedom of speech and religious freedom.’ It is more likely that the yes campaign has won on what was perceived as fairness to same-sex couples. Thus these key themes should be weighed carefully by those framing legislation.
Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic
Whilst the following is aimed at America, it applies equally well in Australia. Our politicians have succumbed to the temptations of evil Power and are dragging us along with them!
Whose fault is that? It is the voting public of Australia! We must be accountable for how we vote and this means taking responsibility for the results and not blaming politicians or political parties.
to THE AUSTRALIAN
Dyson Heydon rightly states (‘Faith’s implacable enemies’, 4-5/11) that religion ‘looks for windows into another world.’ He is on less safe ground in claiming that Jesus ‘taught that all human beings were equal before God, and all could enter the kingdom of God.’ Much of the Gospel teaching asserts that the way to the kingdom is difficult and that few are able to find it. This accords with the wisdom of the other great sacred traditions, all of which differentiate between the life of piety (open to all people) and the way of gnosis or attainment (obtainable only by a few).
Why is it important to keep before human communities an awareness that there is a mysterious ‘other world’ of which saints and sages bear strange witness? It seems that from that world flows an ineffable quality - truth - which cannot be summed up or defined in any words or logical propositions, but which is essential for the continual renewing of society and the political order. Old-fashioned Christianity, such as Heydon expounds, has been steadily losing its power to open those windows. Damning the intolerance of atheistic elites is easy but does not confront the profound challenge Christianity faces to recover from its many past mistakes.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic
to THE AGE
There are good arguments both for and against allowing people to climb Uluru (Letters 4/11). The practice of making pilgrimage to sacred mountains and climbing them is found all around the world; but such must not be confused with mere tourist sight-seeing. On the other hand, there are also traditions of sacred places which are taboo or not to be approached by ordinary folk - such as the Holy of Holies (only entered by the high priest) or the Kaaba (only entered by Muslims). These places act as physical testimonies of the divine mystery.
In the present case, abiding by the wishes of the current owners or guardians of Uluru may be one good way of affording recognition of our ‘first peoples’, their culture and history, which does not inequitably jeopardise the rights and welfare of others. We can still walk around it and honour its beauty and sanctity from ground level. It can be at the same time both an Aboriginal sacred place and a shrine for all.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic
to SUNDAY AGE
The Government is right to have rejected the Uluru Statement from the Heart’s recommendation for a constitutionally enshrined ‘indigenous Voice to Parliament’ (‘Coalition contempt for our first peoples’, 5/11). The proposal is fundamentally inequitable and endangers the integrity of the nation.
A distinction needs to be made between ‘the Aboriginal people’ (meaning those of the past, the present and the future) and living Australians who have some or whole Aboriginal ancestry. No one has dispossessed anyone in the latter group; nor are they the only indigenous Australians. As for the dispossession of ‘the Aboriginal people’, it is a fact of history that no-one can undo in any way. No one living today can justifiably be blamed for it.
There is widespread goodwill towards contemporary Aboriginals, and Aboriginal culture and history are rightly recognized and celebrated throughout the land. Thus reconciliation needs no tampering with the Constitution.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic
Snoop Dogg album cover:
https://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2017/11/snoop-dogg-jokes-about-death-of-trump-incurs-ire-of-number-maga/
continues his meme of a dead Trump. It is all rather amazing since Obama sent the secret service to hound down even kids making jokes about his assassination, but here it is openly celebrated as a commercial enterprise:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_threats_against_Barack_Obama
It just goes to show how cucked the “Rump” presidency is. I imagine that each day he survives without being impeached must be crossed of his calendar as a victory. As Trump would say: “Sad.”
