On 20th February The Australian published a substantial news report under the headline: ‘Australia “top pick for hate preachers”’. We learned that two Jews, Dvir Abramovich, chairman of the Anti-Defamation Commission, and Josh Burns, the preselected Labor candidate for the Melbourne seat of Macnamara, had appealed to Immigration Minister David Coleman to ban British writer David Icke from entry into Australia. Icke is a voluminous writer in the ‘alternative history’ field, some of whose work I looked at many years ago and decided was significantly unreliable. He struck me as comparable to that other extraordinary but deluded man, L. Ron Hubbard. I carry no flag for Icke’s work. His proposed tour was titled ‘Everything you need to know’, which suggests self-inflation.

     However, The Australian began its report by labelling him a ‘Holocaust denier.’ It stated that he has campaigned to have ‘Holocaust denial’ taught in schools, that he claims that the Rothschild family are among the leaders of an ‘Illuminati’ that runs the world, that he believes that ‘a small Jewish clique’ helped cause various disasters including both the world wars, the Bolshevik revolution, the global financial crisis in 2008 and the September 11 attacks. He may not be entirely wrong in all of that; and these are topics which may require open discussion if we are to make some sense of contemporary politics, national and international. The fact that an unreliable egoist holds forth on them does not justify excluding them or him from our public forums. The scare campaign started by Burns and Abramovich looks to contain gross exaggeration; and a Jewish demand to curtail criticism of Jews appears to be special pleading.

     Diamonds are useful in industry, for example in drill bits, but their main use is in jewellery. It is well known that the diamond market is a social construct; there are so many diamonds in the world, that if there really was a free market, the price would crash. Thus, quantities are carefully controlled to keep up the illusion, and the price. But Chinese artificial diamonds may change all of that:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-02-19-chinas-man-made-diamonds-are-chemically-identical-to-the-real-thing.html

“The billion dollar business of diamonds is feeling threatened, not because of millennials who are under-spending on them or simply skipping them altogether, but because of the proliferation of synthetic or fake diamonds. Yes, you read that right: diamonds are now being faked to the level that the so-called synthetic ones are downright indistinguishable from actual, natural ones. And this has caused De Beers to quake in their proverbial boots. De Beers is an international corporation that specializes in diamond exploration, and they practically own the entire diamond industry. Now that synthetic diamonds are coming up as real, viable alternatives to their natural counterparts, they’ve begun performing certain counter-measures. The majority of the world’s synthetic diamonds originate from China, according to a report, and they were originally meant to be used in certain industrial purposes such as oil drilling. This is due to their inherent hardness as a material. But now, even though they have only been spreading mainly in China, De Beers believes that they pose a clear threat to the global diamond market as a whole. To counteract this problem, the company has reportedly invested tens of millions of dollars on methods to identify the synthetic versions of diamonds and prevent them from further spreading.

     This story is from Natural news.com, and is about how a celebrity, no doubt well meaning and in good faith, promoted a self-help guru, who later down the track turned out to be, not what he seemed on first glance.
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-02-17-true-story-of-how-oprah-winfrey-helped-promote-a-mass-rapist-who-ran-a-child-slave-farm.html  
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-02-07-spiritual-guru-of-brazil-ran-sex-slave-farm-sold-off-human-babies.html

“Back in 2010, talk show guru Oprah Winfrey dedicated an entire episode of her show to a self-professing “faith healer” with whom she claims she had a “blissful” encounter. But as we recently reported, this “faith healer” has since been exposed as a serial rapist who had actually been operating a massive child “sex slave farm” and “birth factory” behind his religious facade. At the time, Oprah was convinced that Joao Teixeira de Faria, more popularly known as “John of God,” was the real deal. She contends that she almost fainted upon first meeting him, as his presence was apparently too much for her to handle, causing her to feel “an overwhelming sense of peace.””

     To lose weight and get that blood pressure down, the fish and vegetables diet strikes me as the best. It is palaeo, and Mediterranean combined, dropping the heavy grains   and pasta and carbo-laden stuff like that. Simply fish and a plethora of high anti-oxidant rich vegetables.
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-02-19-compound-found-in-veggie-and-fish-promotes-heart-health.html

“A Polish study advises people with hypertension to eat a lot more fish and vegetables. Both types of food contain trimethylamine oxide (TMAO), a natural compound that supports the healthy functions of the heart.
Trimethylamine oxide is metabolized by the liver. It is synthesized from trimethylamine, which is produced by the action of beneficial bacteria in the gut. People who are at risk for heart diseases often display high levels of trimethylamine oxide in their blood. But the exact process that increases plasma TMAO is vague. The effect of the compound on the circulatory system is also uncertain. Some studies reported that trimethylamine oxide appears to harm the circulatory system. A 2014 rat model by the Medical University of Warsaw (WUM) found that the hypertensive effects of a vasoconstrictor lasted much longer in healthy rats that experienced a 10,000 percent increase in blood TMAO during the course of two weeks. However, researchers also found that TMAO plasma levels significantly increased after eating fish and vegetables. These foods are neutral or even beneficial to the cardiovascular system. TMAO also protects deep-sea fish from the harmful effects of immense water pressure. Finally, it acts as a protein stabilizer.”

     Over in Austria, women who are non-Muslims are wearing the hijab, and it is not primarily to celebrate diversity:
  https://sputniknews.com/europe/201902151072448678-austria-girls-hijabs-harassment/

“According to Doctor Marcus Franz, who used to serve as a lawmaker in the National Council, there are “problem zones” in the country’s capital where local girls are being forced to hide that they are Austrian. Former member of the Austrian National Council, Doctor Marcus Franz, stated in an interview to broadcaster oe24.TV that he knew fathers in Vienna’s "problem areas" who give their daughters hijabs in order not to let them be recognised as Austrians and protect them from harassment. He cited witnesses from his personal acquaintances in the 15th district of the Austrian capital. The man pointed to “permanent micro-aggression". He said girls are dressing differently than people in Austria are used to because of an “unhealthy aggressive attitude”. “Girls, young women as well as older women are simply afraid. You can observe this among people, you can see it plain and simple when you work in a social profession — as I do. And one should make a clear distinction between those who are new and those who have already been with us for a long time", he stated. Since 2015, Europe has been facing a migration crisis, with scores of refugees arriving from conflict-torn countries and crime rates being increasingly linked to the drastic influx of migrants all across the continent, particularly in Germany, France, Belgium, and even the comparatively well-off Austria. According to a Crime and Safety report by the United States Department of State, Austria is targeted by largely foreign criminals, with 64 percent of drug-related offences being carried out by criminals who are born abroad.”

     With shutdowns of sites dealing with anything critical of vaccinations, we had better get a few “shots” in before all goes black, forever. Hence, the document below may be of interest, detailing how the Informed Consent Action Network and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sued the US government and won on a vaccine safety issue. It was disclosed from the action that Health and Human Services had not filed any vaccine safety reports in over 30 years!  So, how can any banning of internet criticism of vaccination be made, justifiably, when all of the data is not in?
  https://www.aimintegrativemedicine.com/aim-integrative-medicine-blog/why-kennedy-sued-the-government-over-vaccine-safety-won

“In May 2017, ICAN Founder, Del Bigtree, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.. as well as other parties concerned about vaccine safety were selected by the White House to conduct a meeting with the Counselor to the Secretary of HHS, the heads of the National Institute of Health, NIH, the Center for Disease Control, CDC, and Food and the Drug Administration, FDA. Del Bigtree and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. suspected that HHS was not fulfilling its critical vaccine safety obligations as required by Congress in The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. "The 1986 Act granted unprecedented, economic immunity to pharmaceutical companies for injuries caused by their products and eviscerated economic incentive for them to manufacture safe vaccine products or improve the safety of existing vaccine products. Congress therefore charged the Secretary of HHS with the explicit responsibility to assure vaccine safety. Hence, since 1986, HHS has had the primary and virtually sole responsibility to make and assure improvements in the licensing, manufacturing, adverse reaction reporting, research, safety and efficacy testing of vaccines in order to reduce the risk of adverse vaccine reactions. In order to assure HHS meets its vaccine safety obligations, Congress required as part of the 1986 Act that the Secretary of HHS submit a biennial reports to Congress detailing the improvements in vaccine safety made by HHS in the preceding two years."

     This is very interesting, and bring together two of my great interests in life: Vikings and reindeer, and the eternal battle between them. It seems that the reindeer, having got tired of being speared by Vikings, got together with their reindeer mathematicians and came up with this strategy to defeat the tough axe-wielding guys, with the helmets with no horns, carrying big spears:
  https://www.livescience.com/64778-vikings-reindeer-cyclone.html?utm_source=ls-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20190215-ls

“Vikings hunting reindeer in Norway were once confounded by "reindeer cyclones"; a threatened herd would literally run circles around the fierce hunters, making it nearly impossible to target a single animal. Filmmakers recently captured incredible aerial footage of one of these reindeer cyclones, which aired Feb. 13 on PBS in the documentary Wild Way of the Vikings, a program about Vikings and the wilderness they inhabited around A.D. 1000. One of the documentary's most striking scenes shows a re-enactment of a Viking hunt interspersed with real footage of reindeer herds. Reindeer were important to the Vikings for their meat, hides, antlers and bones, according to the film. Vikings hunting reindeer in Norway were once confounded by "reindeer cyclones"; a threatened herd would literally run circles around the fierce hunters, making it nearly impossible to target a single animal. Filmmakers recently captured incredible aerial footage of one of these reindeer cyclones, which aired Feb. 13 on PBS in the documentary Wild Way of the Vikings, a program about Vikings and the wilderness they inhabited around A.D. 1000.

     Trump, among his infinity of mistakes wants to have America’s largest immigration intake. This will destroy American jobs, all in the name of furthering the evil agenda of the globalists:
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/13/trumps-hint-to-increase-legal-immigration-automation-dooms-american-workers/

“President Trump’s hint that he will increase legal immigration levels and a pending automation doomsday that lawmakers have yet to regulate threatens millions of America’s working and middle class workers. This week, Trump reiterated for the third time in a few weeks that he believes the U.S. should be increasing already historic levels of legal immigration — where more than 1.2 million legal immigrants are admitted every year at the expense of American taxpayers who are forced to subsidize the scheme through depressed wages and fewer job prospects. Trump has suggested that the country does not have enough Americans to fill high-paying jobs in sectors like the automotive industry. Nonetheless, Bureau of Labor Statistics data tell a different story, one that is nowhere near a so-called “labor shortage,” as the business lobby has continued to falsely claim. There are at least 13 million working-age Americans who are either unemployed, not in the labor force but want a job, or who are working part-time jobs but want a good-paying full-time job.Immigration Reform Law Insititute (IRLI) Executive Director Dale Wilcox told Breitbart News that increasing legal immigration levels would subject those 13 million Americans to more foreign competition against mostly low-skilled workers. Wilcox said:

     All individualists need to think seriously about whether there can be too much of a good thing. After all, sure there are cases of a lone individual taking a stand against the hordes, such as Horatius Cocles on the bridge, and the even more impressive Viking at Stamford Bridge:
  http://www.badassoftheweek.com/stamfordbridge.html

But, in general, biologists see humans as social organism, not solitary, and group cooperation is a defining quality. And that does not mean communism, it just means association. Otherwise, go hunt the sabre tooth tiger on your own! This, creates a problem, where a people like Western Europeans confront, via mass migration people who will cooperate together, and some with even a hive mind! Hence, the following story.
  https://www.takimag.com/article/love-is-now-a-hate-crime/

     What does a socialist, bankrupt politically correct utopia look like? Like California. And, most people want to leave it, just as they do other failed socialist experiments:
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/14/majority-of-california-residents-want-to-leave-poll/

“A new poll reveals that 53% of California residents are considering leaving the Golden State because of the high cost of living. The “Trust Barometer” poll, by Edelman Intelligence, was conducted January 4-20 among 1,500 California residents, with a margin of error of 2.5%. A special oversample of 400 tech workers in the San Francisco Bay Area was also conducted, with a margin of error of 4.8%. The results are sobering. Nearly two-thirds, 62%, of respondents said they believed the best days of California were in the past.”

     “The lady doth protest too much, methinks”: Hamlet Act III, Scene II. The remarks, now named by psychologists as the “Streisand effect,” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect , occur when denying something obvious leads to a confirmation of its existence. An example of this occurred last year in former FBI director, James Comey’s calm that there was no Deep State at all!
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/23/james-comey-theres-no-deep-state/

“In testimony, former FBI Director James Comey exclaimed “there’s no deep state” before going on to suggest that workers risk their jobs by “speaking out” –purportedly against President Donald Trump. During testimony before the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees last week, Comey was asked by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) for suggestions on how the nation should get back “on track” after the “storm” it is currently weathering – a clear reference to Trump’s presidency. Comey responded by launching into mini-speech about the resilience of America, while insisting there is no “deep state” and urging people to speak out:

     The media thrives on disasters – floods, cyclones, heat waves, droughts and fires - each one “the worst Evaaaah” (evaah since the last one). Each report of catastrophe is usually followed by a religious chant about “man-made global warming”. Pretending we can change the climate by waging a war on carbon dioxide is foolish and dangerous nonsense. But what we do need, urgently, is to weather-proof our essential infrastructure. When cyclones, floods, droughts and bushfires strike we need disaster-proof helipads, rail links, roads, bridges, water and electricity supply. Not one solar farm or wind turbine will survive a severe cyclone, and in wild, cloudy weather they will produce zero power. And giant batteries are just a short-term energy crutch, not a source of reliable energy. We cannot change the climate no matter what we spend. But we must adapt and prepare for the inevitable cyclones, floods, droughts and bushfires. There will always be one that challenges past records.

  Three things are needed:

• To prevent catastrophic bushfires, we need to remove excess fuel with frequent small controlled fires.
• To reduce the severity of droughts and floods, we need more dams and weirs.
• And for everything, we need the continuous reliable electricity that comes from coal, gas or nuclear.

     With gun banning in full swing, the question arises for countries like the United States, that do not have registration, what will the grassroots officials like police do when it comes to the crunch, and guns must be seized?
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-24/over-one-million-us-gun-owners-refuse-obey-ban

“This month, citizens were given a December 11 deadline on their new ban on standard capacity magazines. The law effectively turned one million law abiding gun owners into criminals, literally overnight if they failed to turn in the magazines. Somehow, New Jersey lawmakers thought insane individuals who want to carry out mass shootings would be lining up to turn in their 15 round magazines as anyone caught with one of these banned magazines is now committing a fourth-degree felony. However, even the law-abiding citizens are choosing to disobey—and that’s a good thing. According to Ammoland.com, who says they spoke with multiple police departments throughout the state, no one has turned in their magazines.

     It was only a matter of time, given all of the other censorship adventures, but now Facebook turns its attention to censoring anti-vaxx comments. Not a stone must be left unturned:
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6708375/Facebook-start-removing-anti-vaxx-posts.html

“Facebook is considering taking action against harmful and misleading content posted by 'anti-vaccination' activists on the social network. Democrat US Congressman Adam Schiff had written to Facebook, as well as Google, asking them to address the issue of 'anti-vaxx' content on the platform. In its response to Schiff, Facebook wrote that it is looking into removing misinforming content about vaccinations from recommendations to its users and to 'demote' it in searches on its platform. In a letter to t Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Google's CEO Sundar Pichai, Schiff wrote: 'As a Member of Congress who is deeply concerned about declining vaccination rates, I am requesting additional information on the steps that you currently take to provide medically accurate information on vaccinations to your users, and to encourage you to consider additional steps you can take to address this growing problem. In a statement released in response to Schiff, Facebook said it is 'exploring additional measures to best combat the problem,' according to Bloomberg.”

     I will not comment on claims made in a new book that 80 percent of the Vatican are gay.
  https://nypost.com/2019/02/14/80-percent-of-priests-in-the-vatican-are-gay-new-book/ 
  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/opinion/vatican-gay-priests.html
  https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/02/16/vatican-defrocks-theodore-mccarrick-over-homosexual-abuse/

     I was surprised by this, as I thought that the figure was closer to 100 percent; my mistake. Anyway, that has nothing to do with the Pope’s claim, that we must love migrants, just love them with all our hearts and souls, because … well, who knows:
  https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2019/02/16/pope-francis-urges-christians-overcome-fear-migrants/

     There obviously needs to be some big racist incidents, involving KKK, MAGA hats and nooses to turn the vast rusting wheels of the entire white guilt industry. But, sometimes this all comes unstuck:
  https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/02/16/report-chicago-police-believe-jussie-smollett-paid-two-men-to-stage-attack/

“The Chicago Police Department believe Empire actor Jussie Smollett staged an attack on himself last month, according to a report. “Chicago Police believe Jussie Smollett paid two men to orchestrate the assault. The sources tell CNN that the two men are now cooperating fully with law enforcement,” tweeted CNN crime and justice reporter Shimon Prokupecz Saturday evening. Earlier Saturday, Fox 32 Chicago’s Rafer Weigel, citing several police sources, reported Abimbola “Abel” and Olabinjo “Ola” Osundairo — the two Nigerian brothers arrested and later questioned by police about the alleged incident — purchased the rope found around the actor’s neck the night of the alleged attack at an ACE hardware store. CBS Chicago’s Charlie De Mar reports at least one of the brothers bought the rope at Craft Beaver hardware store the weekend of January 25th. The rope was purchased at the direction of Smollett, De Mar, citing sources, added.”

     Practical meteorologists, with huge computers and real atmospheric data, cannot tell us what a cyclone will do over the next three days, or whether it will rain next weekend, or when the next El Nino will form? But academics, with failed computer models based on crazy climate theories and speculative projections, assure us that they can forecast global temperature, decades ahead, to an accuracy of 0.10C. Who are they kidding?

To The Age        The "bizarre claims" of English controversialist David Icke are unlikely to gain much support in our land ("Ban on conspiracy theorist Icke", 21/2), and the last minute cancellation of his visa is hardly "a defining moment for who we are as a nation", as Dver Abramovitch has claimed. However, some of Icke's reported views, which clearly offend a powerful lobby, deserve open discussion. It is a pity that, as with the treatment of David Irving in the 1990s, our government has sacrificed the principle of free speech to placate that lobby.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

To The Australian        I wonder if Rod Steed realizes, while he applauds the cancellation of an entry visa to Australia for controversialist David Icke (22/2), that he is dancing on the grave of free speech. The last minute refusal is not a "defining moment for who we are as a nation" as Dver Abramovich stated ("Jewish genocide denier's visa axed", 21/2), but follows on from the mistreatment of historian David Irving in the 1990's. Both cases regrettably display a federal government abandoning principle in order to please a financially powerful lobby.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     US Democrats are falling over themselves in the race for US national suicide, and now we not only have opposition to building Trump’s wall, but to any barriers at all:
  https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/14/beto-orourke-tear-down-existing-border-walls/

“Rising Democratic star Beto O’Rourke of Texas said Thursday that not only does he oppose President Trump’s border wall but he would rip out existing walls along the U.S.-Mexico border. Mr. O’Rourke had been publicly asked by freshman Rep. Dan Crenshaw, Texas Republican, that if border walls are immoral or dangerous, why let the existing ones stand. MSNBC host Chris Hayes repeated the question to him Thursday. “Yes, absolutely. I’d take the wall down,” said the former U.S. representative from El Paso, Texas, who is widely seen as a possible 2020 presidential hopeful.”