A number of papers in the Quadrant Special Edition, August 2023, critique the idea of sacred sites, and especially the anthropology that Aboriginal tribes lived on the same land for 50,000 (it has reached 60,000 + now) years with a continuity of sacred knowledge being passed down for tens of thousands of years making this the “oldest living culture,” and therefore highly special. Hence, special treatment must be given in deference. Only a slight reflection in epistemology, the theory of the justification of knowledge claims, should give pause to this. How could this possibly be known, merely from the archaeological records which exist? The time period of 60,00 years is vast, and debates exist about what humans were doing at that time, as well as archaic human subspecies such as the Neanderthals.  Do we really know that in that time other human groups did not co-occupy this land mass?  

Peter Purcell, “The Ruse of Tradition,” shows that there has been evolution and changes even within contemporary times. As he says, what is known about the past conflicts with the romantic Leftist notions founding the Voice: “Highly romanticised and poorly informed views about traditional Aboriginal culture now prevail among the general public, including many Aboriginal Australians of mixed heritage. In most descriptions, Aboriginal culture is barely recognisable as anything resembling its traditional pre-contact forms, even allowing for normal cultural evolution. The realities of the pre-colonial Aboriginal past, with all its hardship and violence, the revenge killings and infanticide, the sexual abuse and sorcery, have been replaced with visions of a noble and idyllic society, free of the avarice and inequality deemed characteristic of contemporary capitalist Australian society. All ills are said to have been learned from the “invaders”, without whom Eden would not have been lost. These views have become the popular wisdom, are ubiquitous in the media, and are now taught as fact in schools. This pessimistic view of Australia’s founding AngloCeltic cultural heritage has been developing and deepening since the 1960s. Suffice to say here that this intellectual drift—demise might be a better term—involves a loss of faith in Western culture, religion and technology, and a turning back to nature, even a worshipping of it: what historian Geoffrey Blainey called the Great Seesaw. The idolising of nature and “native” cultures has deep roots in the Western psyche: unhappy urban intellectuals hate the “city” and bemoan the ruination of man’s inherent nobility by Western civilisation. Aboriginal people, especially those in more remote settlements, are seen to be closer to nature, with a culture that is socialistic in its sharing and caring. In this paradisial perspective, it is only a return to country and the reclaiming of culture, in the imagination if not in reality, that will restore a natural nobility to urban Aborigines and ensure a life free of burden or want. This, of course, is the age-old urban intellectual fantasy— flight from the despoiling city to the forests of his origins will restore man’s soul—but the fantasy is now pervasively spread through the broader community. Nowadays, of course, the flight is metaphorical, seeking lift from a constitutionally enshrined Voice, but with Treaty, Reconciliation and Reparation in the wings.”

This is the position of Salvatore Babones in “Democracy, Liberal Authoritarianism and the Voice,” Quadrant Special Digital Edition, August 2023. After a long argument about political theory and Trump, he says some very useful things for activists opposing the Voice as the Voice is supposed to, by definition, give a “voice” to indigenous people who at present do not have a “voice,” but  will not, being merely a road show for the elites:

https://quadrant.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Quadrant-202308-Aug-Online-PEindex-4-1.pdf

Keith Windschuttle in “Hiding the Voice’s Content from Voters,” Quadrant Special digital Edition, August 2023, is required reading for those wanting to know the now less than hidden agendas behind the Voice. Windschuttle has been a strong and early critic of the voice and the neo-Marxism behind the Aboriginality movement of the Left, seeing it as leading to the breakup of Australia, as detailed in his book of that name, The Break-up of Australia (Quadrant Books, 2016).  

In his paper he notes that the key document is the 2017, the Uluru Statement from the Heart which defined the Voice as a proposal to change the Australian Constitution. The Council was clear that this was a stepping stone to a treaty, as the document states:

PM Albo, who sees the Voice as the defining moment of his prime ministership, I would guess, is playing it cool on the issue of a treaty. But, as noted by Nick Cater, “The Vision of the Anointed,” Quadrant Special Digital Edition, August 2023, the treaty will be just the start. There is in fact no limit to the demands that will be made, for the world is not enough Orbis non sufficit:

https://quadrant.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Quadrant-202308-Aug-Online-PEindex-4-1.pdf  

“The Bumper Sticker Resistance,” by Joanna Hacckett, Quadrant Special Digital Edition, August 2023, gives some statistics that will be useful in replying to people you know from the Yes side, or at present undecided, who think not enough is being done of indigenous communities. In fact, massive amounts of monies are spent, but it does not go where it should because of usual problems of bureaucracy and posh jobs for city fellas, over where the real need is, in the bush communities:

https://quadrant.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Quadrant-202308-Aug-Online-PEindex-4-1.pdf  

We believe that it is a logical implication of the indigenous cultural heritage Acts, that they will effectively obliterate private property rights, and this will all be coming with the Voice. Consider, if one needs a cultural assessment to be able to dig sand from one’s property, and to have an overlord supervise every shovel full of sand dug, then how can one be said to have any right in one’s land, as traditionally understood? “Sky News host Peta Credlin says the national Cultural Heritage Act will “obliterate” private property rights which will especially affect farmers. “One of the key policies the Voice will no doubt push for if it gets up, assuming it isn’t done before then as threatened by the Environment Minister, Tanya Plibersek, and that’s a national Cultural Heritage Act … that will obliterate private property rights, particularly for our farmers,” Ms Credlin said.”

https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/peta-credlin/potential-national-cultural-heritage-act-will-obliterate-private-property-rights/video/633b645397d909c70cb3eda09bcce446

The Western Australian Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2021, came into operation on July 1, 2023, and is already showing that it has teeth, if not fangs. One farmer wants to extract building sand from his property in North Dandalup, but the extraction area may be close to a historical indigenous camping ground. S, in accordance with the Act, he needs a cultural heritage assessment which could cost anything from $ 30,000 to $ 100, 000, all to be paid by the individual landowner. And, to top it off, it is also possible that a cultural representative may need to be present to examine every handful of sand take; which in effect makes the project impossible to do.

Wisely, a protest at the Western Australian parliament is planned for  next Tuesday (8 August, 2023), with farmers putting demands, including that freehold property rights extinguish any cultural heritage claim. This must be done. but, there is no chance of defeating the run of such woke laws unless the Voice is decisively defeated. The state laws show where this all will go.

Here is a sample, at state level of the sort of proposals that the Voice would get up and running if successful, only multiple it for every state, many times worse. The agreement, the “expanded settlement package” was signed by Victorian Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes with the indigenous Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, Wergaia and Jupagulk (WJJWJ) Peoples in October 2022, and covers ten council districts, about half the size of Tasmania. The councils claim that they were not included in the negotiations, but were only told of the implications last month. While the claims are “aspirational,” rather than legal, the government claims, we know that the neo-Marxist ideology of anti-racism and white guilt, also behind the Voice, will mean that demands are most likely to not be unmet. All roads, bridges, and public structures could be renamed with indigenous names, waterways co-managed, and veto power will be given to the indigenous groups over many activities. According to one councillor, “The land council has to be consulted on everything and you’ve got to pay for that consultation … We don’t know [how much it will cost]. They might say it’s 20 bucks an hour, they might say it’s 1000 bucks an hour. We don’t know.” Why not $ 1 million per hour?

This has happened now, just under state legislative power. Just imagine what would be done with a change in the constitution, backed by the woke courts? The Voice must not just be defeated, but thrashed.

As detailed in the mainstream report below, AI is making rapid advances into medicine, with the potential to replace doctors to some degree. Now as a fierce critic of the medical profession, in many ways I do not mind this, if the AI is not totally biased towards Big Pharma, which no doubt it would be. But if there are diagnostic systems that are freer in “thought” maybe this is not all bad.

This one is for viewing; a concerned person has assembled a series of videos of horrid crimes occurring throughout Melbourne, captured on film. It is not for the faint-hearted. And, while the Covid state was big on pepper spraying little old grandmothers trying to get some exercise during the Covid lockdown tyranny, we are not seeing much action dealing with this epidemic of crime and home invasions. Now, why is that if law and order is their big thing?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvZFnfegfCL/

All this has been said by Covid mandate critics online, but it is interesting to observe that the same points are now appearing in scholarly journals. David Bell in a recent edition of the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, puts the case that Covid pandemic preparedness laid the road to the creation of international fascism! As he says in a key paragraph: “The COVID-19 response, intended for a virus that overwhelmingly targeted the elderly, ignored norms of epidemic management and human rights to institute a regime of suppression, censorship, and coercion reminiscent of the power systems and governance that were previously condemned. Without pausing to examine the costs, the public health industry is developing international instruments and processes that will entrench these destructive practices in international law. Public health, presented as a series of health emergencies, is being used once again to facilitate a fascist approach to societal management.” This drive to technocratic control will be pushed to the final level if the World Health Organization pandemic treaty becomes international law, next year. Health decisions will be taken away from the nation state and power given to this globalist New World Order entity. It is one of he most important globalist strategies to defeat, for otherwise we may all be vaccinated at gun point with the latest genetic toxins of Big Pharma.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajes.12531

This is useful; we have seen in recent times that the UN has moved from the idea of global warming to “global boiling,” capitalising on the fear produced by heatwaves in the northern hemisphere, such heatwaves not being new by any means.

However, Professor Jim Skea, the newly elected head of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the key organisation pushing this climate doomsday stuff has said, that a 1.5 C rise in global temperatures relative to the pre-industrialised era did not pose an existential threat to humanity: “Climate change activists consistently warning of a doomsday in the near future are harming efforts to tackle the current situation … If you constantly communicate the message that we are all doomed to extinction, then that paralyses people and prevents them from taking the necessary steps to get a grip on climate change.” This flies in the face of present ideologies. One wonders if he was given the memos before taking up the post, and if he will be put back into line quick smart? Still, a quote we can use to great effect.

Michael P Senger, attorney and author of Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World, has written a piece where he makes the thought-provoking proposal that all the agendas of the Covid plandemic, “the masks, the slogans, the symbols, the lies, the sudden inversion of long-cherished norms and values, the mindless acceptance of information from nefarious sources like the World Health Organization and China,” fit a common theme. Why didn’t security organisations across the West step in and stop these violations of fundamental human rights? The reason is that much of the Covid tyranny came from the security organisations themselves in the first place. 

Thus, the US security organisations took the idea of social lockdowns from communist China’s response to SARS during 2003, and as detailed below, all aspects of Covid mandate policies can be traced to the intelligence organisations, rather than health authorities, who came second in command. The evidence is detailed below, but the significance can be stated. Why would these agencies push this agenda? The answer is that being part of the Deep State, they have their own agenda, one that is not necessarily at variance with communist China, so they were free to pick and choose policies to push. None of these policies involved preserving traditional liberal values, such as medical autonomy and liberty. And, while not discussed below, the transhuman agenda dovetails perfectly well with the technocratic militarism pursued by these organisations: “there’s a degree of truth to the critical notion that, by virtue of their secrecy and their longstanding ethos of realpolitik, the western intelligence community may have a somewhat totalitarian culture all on their own, notwithstanding the influence of the CCP. This longstanding culture of justifying the use of force and propaganda abroad may have blinded western intelligence leaders to the illiberalism of the policies their agencies were deploying in response to COVID; thus, what we witnessed during COVID may have been the result of the CIA and its counterparts turning their awesome powers of manipulation against their own people, however unwittingly.

Many commentators have remarked upon the trend, perhaps with the only exception being the latest woke anti-male Barbie movie, that Hollywood has been for around a decade been following a Leftist woke agenda, pushing feminism and transgenderism in films, such as Captain Marvel, the various versions of Star Wars, through to the final Indiana Jones movie, Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, likely to be one of the biggest flops in Hollywood history. Outside of film, we have the example of Bud Light jumping on the trans bandwagon with influencer, Dylan Mulvaney promoting what was once a popular beer. As with the films, sales crashed.

Most conservative commentators are rejoicing that this shows the failure of he woke agenda, and that business sense and profits will ultimately prevail. But I wonder if there is something deeper here; that the globalists are backing this push and are as the major shareholders, no longer concerned too much about losing billions, as they already have the world; what they want is to bring down Western civilisation. It is thus a movement of spite and nihilism. If so, expect much more of this stuff.

The drive is on by the globalist elite to ban fossil fuels in the West; a movement against the use of gas stoves and heaters in both Australia and the US being the latest example. But there are intellectuals pushing back against this and the unsubstantiated climate change hysterics paradigm.

For example, Alex Epstein in his book, Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas—Not Less (2022), puts the case that the so-called climate crisis is vastly exaggerated, but it is still an ideology accepted by the elites, as it serves political purposes. However, as detailed in his book, the movement to so-called renewable energy will not lift people in the Third World out of poverty, as fossil fuels have already aided, but will lock them into deeper poverty: “Fossil fuels are a uniquely cost-effective source of energy. Cost-effective energy is essential to human flourishing. Billions of people are suffering and dying for lack of cost-effective energy.” At present the Green energy initiatives have created spiralling inflation in energy prices, which in turn is impacting upon all aspects of the global economy, at least as far as the West and Third World are concerned.

I do not think much of former prime minister John Howard, banning the interesting guns, and advancing like no other PM, the Asianisation of Australia. But at least he is saying a few useful things now on the Voice, as Australia faces possible dissolution and ultimate breakup – I am not the only one to say this, and Keith Windschuttle put the case in his book, The Break-Up of Australia.

Howard can be quoted by No activists as saying that this is nothing more than constitutional experimentation: “The question that the [Labor] government has to answer is why are they putting the millions of Australians who care about the future of Aboriginal people through the misery of an election campaign where they’re being asked to endorse something that hasn’t been explained?”

Dr Robert Malone has received an advanced pre-print of presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr’s forthcoming book, The Wuhan Cover-up: How US Health Officials Conspired with the Chinese Military to Hide the Origins of COVID-19, which will be released by Skyhorse on September 12, 2023. For some odd reason I was not considered important enough to be given an advanced copy for review at Alor.org blog. Or, perhaps my copy is still in the post, just delayed because of, well, the Covid plandemic 2.0 is said to be starting over? In any case Dr Robert Malone has a copy of the book, has read it and offers the review, extracted below. The plot is simply that the US off-loaded its gain-of-function coronavirus bioweapons research to the CCP Wuhan Institute of virology, and by either accident, or the CCP could not resist, the bug got released, and the rest is history. Actually, it is still on-going, in terms of vax injuries, and the possibility of Covid plandemic 2.0, with rising Covid infections in the US, despite the vax, or because of it:

Senator Ralph Babet of the United Australian Party has introduced a Bill to parliament, the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (Vaccine Indemnity) Bill 2023, with the aim of ending the vaccine indemnity schemes that exist in Australia, which gives a legal outer to liabilities for vaccine injuries. According to the Senator: “The potential liability doesn’t end with Covid-19 vaccines. According to the 2023-24 budget, indemnity has also been granted in advance to a manufacturer of a smallpox/monkeypox vaccine and a particular manufacturer of Covid-19 pandemic and pre-pandemic influenza vaccines.” So, here are big interests and money at stake here.

In the US, the story goes that President Reagan had met with leaders of Big Pharma when this issue was raised in the US and Reagan asked why such an indemnity was needed. The vaxxers said because the amount of vaccine injuries would cripple their profits and they could not produce the vaccines. I think we will find the same forces coming into play here as Big Pharma will oppose most strongly the new Bill, and it has a stranglehold upon parliament; see if I am right on this one. But, it is worth trying, for the record.

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) are being relentlessly assembled by the globalist financial elite, seemingly with the total agreement of the Labor and Liberal parties of Australia. These currencies are supposed to deal with existing problems in the present system, and no doubt we can be sure the globalists are planning some further difficulties down the track, as part of their Marxist dialectics, to create a problem, then via a synthesis supply the “solution” that they want. Across the world the same agenda is being played out, as in the UK for example: “The de facto head of His Majesty’s Treasury announced this week that the Bank of England has begun consultations on implementing a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) that could usher in the globalist vision of a cashless society in which all transactions are traceable by the government.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt revealed that, as a part of his ‘Edinburgh Reforms’ of Britain’s financial services, the Bank of England will begin consultations on the design of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) which would act as a digital version of the pound sterling.”

At a time when the climate change agenda is being pushed by the globalists for de-industrialisation of the West, with Green energy somehow supposedly supplying enough energy to keep people alive, it is timely to see the notion of Green energy being allegedly more environmentally friendly than fossil fuels, being taken apart. Take solar panels for example.

Climate critic Michael Shellenberger has critiqued the Green notion that solar panels do not produce carbon emissions. In fact, research by the group Environmental Progress, cited by Shellenberger, has found that solar panels produced in China produce three times the carbon emissions that the UN says they do. The environmental costs are hidden by China’s production methods: “But the majority of experts consulted by Environmental Progress agree that China’s competitive advantage did not lie in an innovative new technological process, but rather in the very same factors the country has always used to outcompete the West: cheap coal-fired energy, mass government subsidies for strategic industries, and human labor operating in poor working conditions.