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     Intellectual probity demands a fairer public commentary on icons of the ‘hard right’. The usually reliable Jennifer Oriel defers regrettably to political correctness (‘Red October led us to genocide’, 9/10). No, it’s not admirable that ‘Nazi is a term of derision’ and that ‘Hitler is held up for scorn’ in our educational establishments. A subtler and more nuanced analysis would be more accurate and honest. And if our ‘young people’ learn about ‘the horrors of the Holocaust’, it’s unlikely that they also learn about the current horror of the persecution of Holocaust revisionists.

    Nor should the government of General Franco in Spain be misrepresented as a ‘fascist dictatorship’ (Matthew Campbell, ‘Catalan separatists feed on a history of violence’). Franco was a Catholic Christian patriot and former army officer of exceptional courage and competence. His coup was designed to ensure that his native land would not fall victim to a Leninist-style tyranny such as Russians then languished under.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic

     I have now finished reading the 506 pages of Andrew Fraser’s Dissident Dispatches: An Alt Right Guide to Christian Theology, (Arktos, London, 2017). Obviously enough, there is an enormous amount of material here, and some of it is complex for a simple person like me. The philosophers here will eat it up, but I am sure they will find it a depressing read, because Fraser basically documents the same decay that we see in the universities, in theological colleges. Maybe this out-of-control liberalism is worse, because some of the characters seem to be little more than cultural Marxist Social Justice Warriors, although “wankers” would be a better word for the “W” place. They are the “Communist Party at prayer.”

     Fraser, a retired law professor, and author of the ethno-racial treatise, The WASP Question (Arktos, London, 2011), went to study at a theological college because he thought that the study of Christian theology would aid in his understanding of the ethno-pathology, of White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, not supporting their own group interest, but working, either consciously or unconsciously, to destroy their kind.

     Long-suffering men, don’t get your hopes up over the suggestions of an overhaul of the Family Law Act. This Act was an early politically correct attack upon men and the family, and has brought untold misery to many, the brainchild of Fabian socialist Lionel Murphy.
     The reforms are basically to save money and court time, so that disputes are solved faster: The Australian, September 28, 2017, p. 1. Yes, but so what if the initial basis from which this law starts is flawed?
     No fault divorce, said to be necessary for feminism and all that jazz, has been a disaster. Put reform of this law, on a long list of “things to do after the collapse.”
    Here is what one lawyer, who was on the receiving end of family law thinks about it:
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion/family-court-robs-men-and-demeans-women-by-splitting-property-equally-when-a-marriage-ends/news-story/bebc7e9301d2c37d8a13db55836114c5

     There has been concerns for a number of years now about the decline, if not crash, of fish populations across the world, with one prediction being the end of ocean fish populations by 2050:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1533125/All-seafood-will-run-out-in-2050-say-scientists.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/06/03/the-end-of-fish/?utm_term=.8ee99bf45449

     More recent studies indicate that the end of fish date has shifted much closer, with a University of Washington study finding that populations of older fish have dropped by 72 percent on average, and for some species, such as red snapper, by more than 95 percent. Older fish tend to be veteran reproducers, and have more offspring. Natural News was quite alarmed about this and proclaimed that the collapse of fish populations “may lead to the fall of human civilization”:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-09-28-fish-populations-are-absolutely-collapsing-across-the-oceans-of-the-world.html

     I have written about the issue of the decline of sperm, and of manhood before at this noble site, but now bring an update.

     Researchers from the Hadassah-Hebrew University, H. Levine (et al.), “Temporal Trends in Sperm Count: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis,” Human Reproduction Update, (2017); doi: 10.1093/humupd/dmx022,  conducted a meta-analysis, a type of statistical synthesis of published studies (more complex: simple linear models, meta-regression models, and sensitivity analyses), and found a 59.3 percent decline in total sperm count among men from North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. There was not found to be a statistically significant decline in sperm count in South America or Africa, but much fewer studies have been conducted there which makes the sample of studies therefore unrepresented in this respect.

     We as Christians pray for the souls of all of the departed, especially the most evil ones, in the hope that prior to death they recognise the evil of their ways and repent and accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour.

     Hugh Hefner, who founded the Playboy empire, lived an evil life of sex and debauchery, and contributed to the destruction of the West. He, to the very end, thought that he was a “progressive,” moving the West away from the puritanism of Christianity with his shameful hedonistic lifestyle of sexual indulgence. Hefner said that his proudest achievement was to make premarital sex acceptable. That was the Playboy philosophy, and Hefner actually thought that he was an intellectual, rather than just a mere pornographer:
http://brentdanley.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/theplayboyphilosophy.pdf

     By the time you read this, the results will be known, but they are likely to be negative. Catalan has conducted a “banned” referendum about independence from Spain, and the Spanish government has responded as any despot would do, seizing over 2.5 million ballots, as the Madrid Deep State uses the police to squash the referendum:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4934218/Tractors-roll-Barcelona-ahead-independence-vote.html

     The High Court, surprise, surprise, ruled that the referendum was illegal, even though this essentially begs the question about the “legality” of such a decision, and legal body itself.  As well, the court ordered Google to delete an app which Catalan separatists were using to publicise the referendum. There’s free speech for you!

     Before leaving teaching I clearly saw why students were doing so poorly, especially boys; political correctness and the trendy progressive agenda by Left wing teachers were destroying our youth, particularly by the actions of feminist teachers.

     Now we again have the public angst of wearing the fact that the average Australian student is barely equal to the most disadvantaged of Singapore’s students: The Australia, September 27, 2017, p. 1. In other word’s our students are absolutely hopeless at the basics, maths, reading and science. And, the sacred economy is going to suffer. Yet the corrupt corporate class continues to support trendy progressive issues, even though the longer-term consequences will be contrary to their economic interests. Maybe the great deluded think that immigration will cure all, even apocalypses.

     American football has embraced political correctness big time, with bended knee protests against Trump, and the White people who keep this stupid multiracial sport afloat. For example:
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/09/26/gregg-popovich-white-people-need-to-be-made-uncomfortable/
http://www.breitbart.com/sports/2017/09/26/sports-illustrated-reveals-new-cover-athletes-united-against-president-trump/

“There has to be an uncomfortable element in the discourse for anything to change,” Popovich explained. “Whether it’s the LGBT movement, women’s suffrage, race, it doesn’t matter. People have to be made to feel uncomfortable, and especially white people because we’re comfortable. We still have no clue of what being born white means.”

     John Howard is doing a little to redeem his disgraceful time as prime minister in his No campaign. The latest is a full-page ad in The Weekend Australian, September 30-october 1, 2017, p. 10, which gives a good summary of the threats of a successful Yes vote. Most shocking for democracy, Labor and the Greens will not accept a successful No vote. There are no protections clearly forthcoming on religious freedom, and Howard mentions the disgraceful cases involving section 18 C, of the Racial Discrimination Act, as not engendering much confidence. What a pity he did not do anything about this when he was on watch, but like Abbott, bowed to the ethnic/multicult lobby.

     He notes, following the Safe Schools controversies, that education activists are “ready to introduce classroom material regarding gender issues unacceptable to the mainstream of Australian parents.”
John, this is already occurring and we have not seen anything yet, if they get the Yes vote up.

     The Pope has been at it once again, saying that concern for “cultural identity” does not justify opposition to mass migration:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/09/22/pope-francis-says-concern-for-cultural-identity-doesnt-justify-opposition-to-mass-migration/

“In my constant listening to the particular churches in Europe I have perceived a profound uneasiness in the face of the massive arrival of migrants and refugees,” Francis said. “This uneasiness must be recognized and understood in the light of an historical juncture characterized by an economic crisis that has left deep wounds. This uneasiness has been aggravated, moreover, by the scope and composition of the migrant flows, by a substantial lack of preparedness in the host countries and by frequently inadequate national and community policies.”

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     Kit Carson is surely right (‘Say “yes” to a better Australia’, 1/10) to observe that the postal survey debate has morphed into a culture struggle between an ‘Old Australia’ and a proposed ‘New Australia’. Where he is grievously wrong is in supposing that the ‘progressive Australia’ he favours is an improvement on the old.
     A ‘no’ victory will assist conservatives and non-authoritarian liberals to defend a traditional Australia based on sacred revelation and metaphysical understanding, a nation in which key values are truth, freedom, honour, quality, hierarchy and equity.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic

    According to this paper: Andrew M. Steer, Nicolas Bia, David K. Smith, Paul A. Clarke. Prebiotic synthesis of 2-deoxy-d-ribose from interstellar building blocks promoted by amino esters or amino nitriles. Chem. Commun., 2017; DOI: 10.1039/C7CC06083A, the DNA building blocks for life may have come from outer space in meteor showers:

“Dr Paul Clarke, from the University of York’s Department of Chemistry, said: “The origin of important biological molecules is one of the key fundamental questions in science. The molecules that form the building blocks of DNA had to come from somewhere; either they were present on Earth when it formed or they came from space, hitting earth in a meteor shower.
“Scientists had already shown that there were particular molecules present in space that came to Earth in an ice comet; this made our team at York think about investigating whether they could be used to make one of the building blocks of DNA. If this was possible, then it could mean that a building block of DNA was present before amino acids.”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170914152256.htm

     People, especially girls and women, need to learn to say “NO”!  If people in the West had learnt to say No then we may not have some of the crises which we now face.

     The same sex marriage campaign Yes side, has sent out unsolicited text massages for the Yes side. The messages were sent using a “technology platform,” used by political parties. Obviously enough, all the usual suspects have defended this invasion of privacy. In fact, the electoral use could be in violation of the Privacy Act as well, and it would be good for lawyers to get onto this and see if the law can be used against them.

     Here is an interesting piece which Australian gardeners should read:  “Monsanto caught colluding with EPA in Roundup cancer cover-up”:
http://naturalnews.com/2017-03-23-monsanto-caught-colliding-with-epa-in-roundup-cancer-cover-up.html
Look, on these articles, it is best to play safe journalism and just quote from the source, and then give the standard disclaimer: they said it, not us:

“Monsanto and the EPA have been caught red-handed in the midst of a legal controversy. Unsealed court documents have shown that not only is the EPA severely lacking in the standards department, but that the federal agency colluded with one of the nation’s most menacing companies, Monsanto. And in doing so, the EPA helped to keep Monsanto’s star product, Roundup, on store shelves and safe from being reviewed for its cancer-causing effects.
Court documents show that the EPA declared that Roundup was safe for use without ever testing the entire formulation’s effects, and instead relied on the industry testing done on just the key active ingredient, glyphosate.
As you can see in the graphic below, not only does the EPA not require testing of the actual product in its entirety, Monsanto itself as not conducted any studies on the chronic carcinogenic studies related to Roundup’s formulation. While this alone is certainly more than enough cause for concern — both about Roundup’s safety and the EPA’s apparent lack of integrity — this revelation is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak.
While the EPA contends that glyphosate is safe, the World Health Organization and numerous independent studies on the chemical’s safety seem to disagree. The WHO made tremendous waves when they declared that glyphosate was a probable carcinogen, and several independent investigations of the product’s safety have shown that it’s linked to liver damage, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease, digestive disorders and other ailments.”

     We have been pounding away in these pages about the undermining of the value of free speech in the West. In case readers think that all this this is some personal quirk, I introduced “The Australian” test; if you can find the same sort of argument, no doubt more mildly put, in that globalist newspaper, then you know that we are onto something.

     So, on free speech consider Jennifer Oriel, “Political Correctness is Closing Australian Minds,” The Australian, September 25, 2017, p. 12:

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     Commentary on the recent German elections is being skewed by unjust prejudice against Alternative for Germany (‘Compromise won’t come easy for Angela and her new coalition’, 28/9).  Angela Merkel has not in the past offered a ‘staunch defence of democracy and Western values’; instead she has presided over a regime that trampled over the principle of intellectual freedom.
     Insult terms (‘populist’, ‘xenophobic’, ‘bombast’, ‘ugly rhetoric’) are inappropriate for any party which can win 12/6% of the vote in a nation of the intelligent such as Germany. It is a pity that Merkel cannot form a centre-right alliance with the AFD and the Free Democrats; and one wonders why this obvious strategy is rejected out of hand.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic

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     There may be more to prayer than rationalist critic Ian Robinson understands (28/9). The ‘controlled scientific study’ he relies on may be methodologically inappropriate, hence the old saying that ‘you cannot knit a cake.’
     Most prayers are not petitions. They are vehicles of potential transformation in a person. Tradition tells us that the art of prayer, of entering into touch with a higher level of being, needs to be learned. It is said that to pray a person must feel his nothingness in comparison with the divine. This is why Jesus said: ‘In praying, do not use empty repetitions.’
NJ, Belgrave, Vic

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     Peter Hartcher is right that the legal definition of marriage ‘has not stood since time immemorial’ (‘An Australian tradition we need to remember’, 23/9), but what has remained constant is the nature of marriage itself. Although it is not true of every individual person, in general human beings are monogamous, and rightly so, because that is the best and safest way for children to be successfully raised to maturity. That is what the churches and their biblical doctrine are defending.

     Australia does not have a ‘proud progressive tradition’ in this context. The increased number of divorces and separations, leaving children without one or both parents in the family home, that has occurred in recent years is not progress but retrogression, resulting partly from foolish legislation. Let’s not compound the error.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic

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     Peter van Onselen produces a few furphies himself in his defence of a ‘yes’ decision for the postal survey (‘”No” side offers a masterclass in debating techniques’, 23-24/9). First of all, slippery slopes really do exist. The ‘no’ lobby has produced convincing evidence that an apparently innocuous change to the law could lead to several undesirable results, including compulsory application of ‘radical and gender programs in schools’ and serious attacks on the free speech of traditionalists.
     Secondly, while a comparison of children of same-sex couples to ‘the Stolen Generations’ may be excessive, that does not dispel the argument that children do significantly better with their own biological parents in a firm marriage.
     Thirdly, a ‘yes’ victory may not mean that every ‘yes’ voter endorsed political correctness or Safe Schools, but it will certainly strengthen those trends; so Tony Abbott is right to warn that if people fear them, they should vote ‘no’.
     Finally, same-sex marriage isn’t just about alleged ‘equal rights and freedom’, it’s about giving to one small minority at the expense of other persons, especially children.
NJ, Belgrave, Vic