Cultural Vignettes: Footnotes to Recent Articles By James Reed

     The amazing world of the internet allows speedy communication. Sometimes you may click on an article, read it, and find, after finishing it, that things have moved on and an update has been posted. On-line journalism has a frantic, if not manic pace, but it is suicidal and ultimately destructive, imploding on itself. News drowns news, and in the end, one is too numbed to know what to think. Backache and eye-burn-out are part of the game.

     But, given that, here is my update on writings that supplement things which you have read here. First, Charlottesville, if it has not bored you yet, has obtained symbolic meaning for the American right:
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2017/08/19/feelings-and-thoughts-on-charlottesville/
Apparently the antifa “is a major gift to the right”:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/noam-chomsky-antifa-is-a-major-gift-to-the-right/article/2631786

      Europe has just got over the Barcelona terrorist attack, and is getting ready for the next serve. But, for many, Muslim migration means that it is all over, as this article: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10748/europe-muslims-demography, says:

“Europe is committing demographic suicide, systematically depopulating itself in what British historian Niall Ferguson has called “the greatest sustained reduction in European population since the Black Death in the fourteenth century’”, as George Weigel recently noted.
Europe’s Muslims appear to be dreaming of filling this vacuum. The Archbishop of Strasbourg, Luc Ravel, nominated by Pope Francis in February, recently declared that “Muslim believers know very well that their fertility is such today, that they call it ... the Great Replacement. They tell you in a very calm, very positive way: ‘One day all this, all this will be ours’ ...”.
A new report by the Italian think tank Centro Machiavelli just revealed that if current trends continue, by 2065 first- and second-generation immigrants will exceed 22 million persons, or more than 40% of Italy’s total population. In Germany, as well, 36% of children under the age of five are being born to immigrant parents. In 13 of the 28 EU member countries, more people died than were born last year; without migration, the populations of Germany and Italy are expected to decline by 18% and 16%, respectively.
The impact of demographic free-fall is most visible in what was once called the “new Europe”, the countries of the former Soviet bloc such as Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, to distinguish these from the so called “old Europe”, France and Germany. Those Eastern countries are now the ones most exposed to the “depopulation bomb”, the devastating collapse in birth rate that the current-events analyst and author Mark Steyn has called “the biggest issue of our time”.
The New York Times asked why, “despite shrinking population, Eastern Europe resists accepting migrants”. The shrinking demography is precisely the reason they fear being replaced by migrants. In addition, much of Eastern Europe has already experienced being occupied by Muslims for hundreds of years under the Ottoman Empire, and are all too well aware what would be in store for them were they to come there again. Aging countries fear the antipathetic values sure to appear if there were a replacement by the current young foreign population.
“There are two distinct views in Europe today to consider [regarding the decline and aging of the population]”, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán recently said. “One of these is held by those who want to address Europe’s demographic problems through immigration. And there is another view, held by Central Europe – and, within it, Hungary. Our view is that we must solve our demographic problems by relying on our own resources and mobilising our own reserves, and – let us acknowledge it – by renewing ourselves spiritually”. Orbán just warned against a “Muslimized Europe”. According to him, “the question of the upcoming decades is whether Europe will continue to belong to Europeans”.

     The European Left, though, will not see this glorious day, having long ago disappeared. But, they do not care; mission accomplished.
See further:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/cambridge-student-groups-race-hate-all-white-people-are-racist/news-story/3875d4fd5a783af4d7addd2da1932c1e;
http://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/leo-mckinstry/15991/How-the-Government-has-declared-war-on-white-English-people
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/20/why-there-are-no-nazi-statues-in-germany-215510
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpm6LlHHIqo
http://newsfortoday.org/black-lives-matter-leader-demands-10-things-white-people/
http://www.activistmom.com/blog/professor-dismantle-white/
https://newspunch.com/antifa-riots-november-trump/

     All that from just one’s day digging in the rubbish tip of the net. Talk about sore backs!

     Apart from all this apocalypse, Bill Shorten is set to hold a national vote on the Republic, with “an Australian head of state”… my god, what else would it be in a Republic? The catch is that the vote for the Republic comes first, then they tell us how the head of state is elected. Wow, just, wow:
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2017/07/28/shorten-pledges-republic-vote-if-elected.html

     Remember, every storm cloud has a silver lining, unless the whole damned sky is full of grey.