As a lover of all things alcoholic, and a hater of the false religion of climate change, I was shocked to read (I am always shocked while reading), that climate change is set to cause a rise in the price of beer. How is this even possible?  https://www.9news.com.au/2018/10/16/20/26/beer-prices-set-to-soar-as-climate-warms-scientists-warn

“Beer drinkers face soaring prices for their favourite schooner due to the effects of climate change, scientists have warned. Global warming is likely to cause a major drop in global yields of barley – a vital ingredient for brewers. Research predicts heatwaves and droughts could cause a fall in barley yields of up to 17 percent across the leading grain-producing regions of Australia, Asia, Europe and the US. This would trigger a spike in the price of beer, according to the study published in Nature Plants.”

     The new code of conduct for nurses is simple: be sorry for being white, roll on the floor, cry, beg for mercy, and maybe even resign the job:  http://crazzfiles.com/sorry-for-being-white-australia-nurses-have-a-new-shocking-code-of-conduct/    https://www.conservatives.org.au/sorry_for_being_white    https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-privilege-for-white-coats-1522451475

“The contentious new code telling nurses to say, "sorry" for being white when treating indigenous patients has even been slammed by nurses themselves. The controversial change to the code, which came into effect on the first of March, was brought to public attention in January this year by Australian Conservatives' leader Cory Bernardi. Channel 7's Today Tonight reports, this is the latest in a string of politically correct changes for the health industry. But this one has lead to calls for the nursing board boss to resign and even some aboriginal leaders have described it as potentially damaging. Senator Bernardi said, "What we've got is a bunch of do-gooders, who think that this is actually going to help people where in reality it's only dividing society." "It only takes a single complain from a patient to say, 'you didn't acknowledge your white privilege, I felt culturally under threat or subsumed by you,' and the nurse can find themselves hauled before the tribunal and subject to a code of conduct complaint."

     Look Uncle Len, poverty is no joking matter, because there are now too many of us:  https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/16/more-than-three-million-australians-living-in-poverty-acoss-report-reveals?CMP=soc_567

“Poverty has become a consistent feature of Australian life, with millions still living below the breadline despite 27 years of uninterrupted economic growth, the Australian Council of Social Service says. A vital circuit-breaker is needed, including a complete overhaul of Australia’s employment services, a commitment to “full employment” and a guarantee of at least two days a week of early childhood care – highly subsidised for people on low incomes – and education for every child. A new report, Poverty in Australia 2018, has been released to coincide with Anti-Poverty Week. It shows there are just over three million people (13.2%) living below the relative poverty line, including 739,000 children (17.3% of children). The relative poverty line is considered to be 50% of median household disposable income. In Australia, the poverty line is defined as a single adult living on less than $433 a week, or $909 for a couple with two children, before housing costs. The figures refer to 2015-16, the most recent year for which data is available. One in eight adults and more than one in six children are living in poverty, and many of those are living in “deep poverty” – a staggering $135 per week below the poverty line on average.”

     Truly amazing stuff: sensible feminist Camille Paglia says that the sort of feminism based upon destroying men, which is the foul brew spewed from our universities, is poisonous to culture and could bring down civilisation on its own.  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/13/camille-paglia-feminism-based-on-destroying-men-is-absolute-poison-to-culture/   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb2JEX8DYYE

“The feminist icon – who prefers the original brand of feminism that won women the right to vote and raised up heroines such as Katharine Hepburn, Amelia Earhart, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh – said the more recent second wave of feminism is “an absolute poison that has spread worldwide.” Paglia said the original feminists “admired what men had done – there was no male-bashing – as became systemic to second-wave feminism.” The brand of feminism recreated by Betty Friedan in the 1960s, Paglia said, is now based on “denigrating men” and “defining men as oppressors and tyrants through history.” “It is an absolute lie,” she said, “an extrapolation of neuroticism on the part of these fanatics.” The author of Sexual Personae, Paglia added the “snowflake generation” is also a result of social media, “where people feel they have so many friends and they want a sense that reality is comforting them and cushioning them and so on.”

     I have not been following the killing of that journalist that Trump spoke about, but I did read that Trump was concerned about keeping business relationships with the Saudis, for the dollar is all-sacred. It is interesting to read about how the journalists was butchered though:   https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-17/they-cut-him-while-he-was-still-alive-grisly-details-saudi-journalists-killing   https://www.wsj.com/articles/pompeo-seeks-answers-amid-crisis-over-missing-saudi-journalist-1539690270

“Saudi operatives beat, drugged, killed and dismembered a dissident Saudi journalist in the presence of the kingdom’s top diplomat in Istanbul, Turkish officials said Tuesday, as Washington urged Riyadh to provide answers.President Trump cautioned that Saudi Arabia should be considered innocent until proven guilty. His secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, on a visit to the kingdom, said Saudi leaders had “strongly denied” involvement and were conducting “a serious and credible investigation.” The disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, a former royal insider, has strained U.S.-Saudi ties and sparked international outrage. He was last seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago. Saudi Arabia has denied any role in his disappearance. Mr. Trump has put Saudi Arabia and its crown prince at the center of a Middle East policy aimed at challenging Iran, Riyadh’s main rival in the region, brokering an end to the Palestinian-Israeli crisis and countering extremism. Mr. Trump chose Saudi Arabia as the site of his first overseas presidential trip. The U.S. leader has emphasized the importance for U.S. jobs of the Saudi’s purchasing of billions of dollars of U.S. military hardware.”

     Former Vice President Joe Biden is leader of the pack of racing dogs, for the prospective 2020 Democratic candidates, according to a recent poll from CNN. This poll found that 33 percent of Democrats and independents who leaned Democrats, thought that he would be the best bunny to take on President Trump. If so, Biden will be continuing the tradition set by the Clintons:   https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/14/cnn-poll-biden-leads-field-2020-democratic-hopefuls/

“If Biden decides to run, he may have to answer to explosive revelations that he and his son Hunter struck a $1.5 billion deal with the Chinese government-backed Bank of China just ten days after the vice president and his son returned from a trip to China aboard Air Force Two. Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer, in his book Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends, detailed how Biden may have helped Hunter secure the $1.5 billion deal with a China-based investment firm that had ties to a Chinese atomic energy company indicted for “nuclear power conspiracy against the United States.” “The FBI arrests and charges senior officials in this company with stealing nuclear secrets in the United States. Specifically, they’re trying to get access to something called the AP-1000 nuclear reactor that is very similar to the ones that we put on U.S. submarines,” Schweizer wrote. “So again, you have the son of the vice president, a close aide to the secretary of state who are investing in a company that is trying to steal nuclear secrets in the United States. It’s a stunning story, and here’s the thing: none of this is required to be disclosed because they’ve figured out a way to get around these disclosure laws,” Schweizer continued.

     Before today, I had not even heard of NPC, until I read that the twit Twitter had banned them. Nowadays, suppression is going so fast that they’re banning things we don’t even know exist:  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/us/politics/npc-twitter-ban.html

“NPC means “nonplayable character” or “nonplayer character.” It’s a term, borrowed from the world of video games, for a character that is controlled by the computer rather than by a player. An NPC often advances the game’s plot by saying scripted lines, or assisting the playable characters in some way.”

To The Australian        Matthew Lesh has provided a fine defence of the crucial importance to our justice system of the presumption of innocence ("Sexual assault too serious a crime for a campus verdict", 19/10). The universities of Sydney and Tasmania need to pull back from their proposals for home patch arbitration of rape assault charges on the basis of a balance of probabilities. Behind these proposals, as behind so many wild and woolly campaigns by radicals, lies a prejudiced and intolerant mindset that has intensified in recent decades. Where did this obtuse stubbornness come from? The answer is probably twofold: the loss of strength of the high quality intellectual traditions of Christianity (as opposed to relatively mindless forms of populist Protestantism) and the appalling rapidity of so much of modern life, which does not provide time for deep consideration of the implications of change of policy.     Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

To The Age            There is some truth in your editorial claim that "the historical ties to England are no longer the focus of our national identity" ("No reason to delay republic debate", 19/10), but they remain the most important aspect of the foundation of our political order. Australia will be wise to continue to honour them, and that means no republic. The warm welcome given to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex strongly suggests that most Australians do not see Her Majesty the Queen and the Royal Family as "foreigners". They are much more intimately a part of us than that term states. Most important of all is the fact that monarchy is inherently a superior form of government to republicanism. It makes more sense, therefore, to work long-term for a totally independent Australian throne.  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     Everybody seems to be reading Breitbart.com, so here I go to see what I can find on my treasure hunt. For today, there is this gem, where the big rich Koch brothers, who champion unlimited immigration to the US, for all of the reasons our own elites and chatterers do, want migrants even if they go onto welfare! That is a new frontier because migrants are supposed to be all IT experts and rocket scientists, set to pay for boomer pensions:  https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2018/10/14/billionaire-koch-brothers-trump-wrong-morally-right-import-foreign-welfare-dependents/

“Through the Koch brothers’ network of organizations—which have campaigned for Democrats’ open borders policies this election cycle—which include the pro-mass immigration LIBRE Initiative and the economic libertarianism group Freedom Partners, the billionaire donors are opposing Trump’s reform to the legal immigration system. Freedom Partners Executive Vice President Nathan Nascimento said in a statement that allowing mass migration of welfare-dependent foreign nationals into the U.S. is “morally right,” calling Trump’s reform “the wrong approach.” “We should always welcome people who desire to come here and contribute because is it both morally right and their efforts benefit our nation, economy, and taxpayers,” Nascimento said. Nascimento also said the U.S. must continue bringing more than 1.5 million immigrants to the country every year because there are not enough American workers willing to do blue-collar jobs, though economic data does not back up the so-called “labor shortage” claims made by the big business lobby and Chamber of Commerce.

     I thought New Zealand was like say, Ireland, with abortion on demand, but, no. Anyway, the move is on to end New Zealand’s abortion ban, because, as always, it violate human rights, or some fiddle sticks like that:   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/08/new-zealands-degrading-abortion-ban-breaches-human-rights-say-activists?CMP=soc_567

“An abortion advocacy group in New Zealand has laid a discrimination complaint alleging New Zealand’s strict abortion laws breach the human rights of pregnant people, and subject them to “ritual humiliation”. As experts prepare to hand down a major review into the country’s controversial abortion laws later this month, ALRANZ Abortion Rights Aotearoa has teamed up with five women who have experienced difficulties and emotional pain in accessing abortions in bringing their complaint to the country’s human rights commission. Under New Zealand law, abortion is a crime and legal only in cases of incest, “mental subnormality” or foetal abnormality, or where the physical or mental health of the mother would be seriously impacted by having a child. Other factors that may be taken into consideration but are not grounds in themselves include “sexual violation” and “extremes of age”. The joint complaint alleges that pregnant women suffer “demonstrably worse treatment than other people seeking health care” when accessing abortions, and experience “hurt feelings, loss of dignity, and cruel, degrading, and disproportionately severe treatment”. Terry Bellamak, national president of ALRANZ is awaiting the findings of a Law Commission review of the laws.”

     Hillary Clinton has called for an end of “civility” when dealing with her opponents, the deplorables, White Americans, and the antifa have been happy to oblige, as the recent riot in Portland shows. Police opened fire with less-than-lethal rounds. The Right Wing Christian groups (e.g. Patriot Prayer) and others, as well as the opposing antifa, used bare fists and batons to thump each other:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=nSQrM3R-0HA    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-14/violence-breaks-out-portland-streets-antifa-clashes-patriot-prayer

     It has been said that both parties had a smacking good time, and each group went home to mend cuts, tend to bruises, and lick wounded prides, getting ready for round 2.

     “Forced labour,” as defined by the International Labor Organization, is “all work or service which is exacted from any person under the threat of a penalty and for which the person has not offered himself or herself voluntarily.”  https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/forced-labour/definition/lang--en/index.htm

     Forced labour though is precisely what the Liberal government is now forcing on the unemployed, under the guise of helping the farmers:  https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/dole-bludgers-must-work-on-struggling-farms-or-risk-benefits/ar-BBOiXF5?li=AAgfYrC&ocid=mailsignout

     The TPP has had a zombie existence since President Trump crushed the original plan under foot like crushing the head of a serpent. But, the evil globalist elites never give up in their eternal quest to destroy everything of value and sink the nation state, our heritage and future. However, while the program has crept on, it has had its setbacks, such as a blow delivered by the otherwise weak Centre Alliance:  https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/foreign-affairs/labor-under-pressure-to-kill-transpacific-partnership/news-story/f77a55523fc814ebdb780580dc9aca47  https://centrealliance.org.au/media/media/no-deal-centre-alliance-to-reject-tpp-11-enabling-legislation/

“While Centre Alliance supports open and fair trade, the party will not be supporting TPP-11 enabling legislation," said Trade spokesperson Senator Rex Patrick. "The deal that has been negotiated by the Government is, on balance, bad for Australia." Recently released modelling commissioned by Australian industry heavyweights shows that the deal would result in, at best, a 0.5% increase to GDP by 2030. This figure must be tempered by the fact that the Productivity Commission has found that predictions for growth and jobs from Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have rarely been delivered because the economic models employed exaggerate the benefits, ignores many of the costs and assume away unemployment effects. The modelling shows Australia's grain exports would not change at all under the deal and all other agriculture could decline. It also shows that durable manufacturing, a key sector of interest to Centre Alliance, would actually shrink under TPP-11.

To The Age        If Adrienne Stone really believes that "unorthodox ideas should be welcomed and offensive ideas must be tolerated" in universities ("Free speech vital to universities", 16/10), then she should not be asserting that "anti-vaxxers, Holocaust deniers, flat earthers and others" should be denied a platform there. Dismissing these or any other positions as "nonsense" that "blatantly disregards" so-called established evidence is too risky and might turn out to be ignorantly prejudiced, as Galileo's case and others in history show. Stone's choice of these three categories is also questionable. There's not much sign of flat earth promotion around the world, but there's a large amount of what looks like carefully researched and argued material by Holocaust revisionists.  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     With all of us here getting older by the second, we need all the chemical help we can get. Enter fisetin, a chemical found in fruit and vegetables. No, I never heard of it before either.  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181002114024.htm   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396418303736?via%3Dihub

“Previous research published earlier this year in Nature Medicine involving University of Minnesota Medical School faculty Paul D. Robbins and Laura J. Niedernhofer and Mayo Clinic investigators James L. Kirkland and Tamara Tchkonia, showed it was possible to reduce the burden of damaged cells, termed senescent cells, and extend lifespan and improve health, even when treatment was initiated late in life. They now have shown that treatment of aged mice with the natural product Fisetin, found in many fruits and vegetables, also has significant positive effects on health and lifespan. As people age, they accumulate damaged cells. When the cells get to a certain level of damage they go through an aging process of their own, called cellular senescence. The cells also release inflammatory factors that tell the immune system to clear those damaged cells. A younger person's immune system is healthy and is able to clear the damaged cells. But as people age, they aren't cleared as effectively. Thus they begin to accumulate, cause low level inflammation and release enzymes that can degrade the tissue. Robbins and fellow researchers found a natural product, called Fisetin, reduces the level of these damaged cells in the body. They found this by treating mice towards the end of life with this compound and see improvement in health and lifespan. The paper, "Fisetin is a senotherapeutic that extends health and lifespan," was recently published in EBioMedicine.”

     Steven Pinker is riding the waves of greatness as the latest leading thinker. No doubt in time he will be replaced by another, for academia is today much like popular music charts. Anyway, he has a new book supposedly defending Enlightenment values, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, (Viking, New York, 2018). While all of that sounds good, and we would expect a sustained critique of political correctness on the university campus, what we find instead is that Pinker defines basically Trump as the greatest threat to Enlightenment values! Yes, not postmodernism, which explicitly undermines scientific rationality, or radical Islam, but nationalists! Does he have an agenda you may ask?  https://www.counter-currents.com/2018/03/steven-pinkers-anti-enlightenment-attack-on-white-identitarians/

     I would quote a slab of text from the Counter-currents.com site, but every time you cut and paste from them you get a block of black which is not helpful for the promotion of ideas. However, in summary … wait … a kind computer geek suggested going to print mode to overcome the block, and here is the text, straight from author Ricardo Duchesne, who is far better and more coherent that the Peterson guy, and has taken him apart, anyway:

     The Danish Immigration and Integration Minister has taken a stand against the mass immigration swamping EU program:  https://gellerreport.com/2018/10/denmark-refuses-eu-migrant-quota.html/

“The Venstre party politician said that Denmark would not be opening the country’s borders to asylum seekers, saying: “Although we have gained significantly better control over the influx, we are still in the position that we are struggling to integrate the many refugees who have come to Denmark in recent years.” “Despite the fact that more refugees have come to work, there are still too many who do not support themselves. This applies especially to women, where too few contribute. That is why I have decided that Denmark should not take quota refugees in 2018,” Støjberg added, according to Jyllands-Posten. The statement comes after the Danish government passed legislation allowing the immigration minister to set the number of asylum seekers that would be welcomed into the country each year.

     China, engaging in brainwashing? Taking out people’s brains, giving them a scrub over, then putting them back in squeaky clean skulls? Surely not!  https://www.theepochtimes.com/brainwashing-centres-in-china-targeted-by-australian-senator_2655692.html

“Australian Conservatives Senator Cory Bernardi put forward two motions to federal Parliament tightly linked to strained Australian-China relations, on Aug 15. The first motion, which was rejected, called for a review of the Department for Education and Training’s engagement with Chinese Communist Party-administered Confucius Institutes. The successful second motion, while avoiding direct reference to China, targeted political re-education internment camps, which have become a hallmark of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) oppression. In the course of ostensibly delivering Chinese language and culture education, Confucius Institutes have come under scrutiny for, among other things, impinging on Australian academic freedom. Over 1,500 Confucius Classrooms and Confucius Institutes are hosted by primary and secondary schools and universities throughout the world. Bernardi’s motion noted that Australia has the third largest number of such institutions, after the United States and the United Kingdom. The setting up of Confucius Institutes involves forming a partnership between a Chinese university, a foreign university, and Hanban—the Office of Chinese Language Council International, which is an arm of the CCP’s Ministry of Education.”

     Human sperm is going to be as scarce as hen’s teeth in the future. (I just thought about this and realised that hens don’t have teeth.)  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6249825/The-male-fertility-crisis-continues-Quality-sperm-plummets.html

“Sperm count is plummeting - meaning an increasing number of men may need IVF if they hope to conceive, new research shows. Researchers in the US and Spain analyzed semen samples from two major fertility centers between 2002 and 2017. The number of men in their cohort went up seven-fold, from 8,000 to 60,000 in that time, with an increasing number diagnosed with oligospermia, a type of male infertility. What's more, among those men with fertility issues, an increasing number have a sperm count so low they have a higher risk of needing IVF to conceive, while the number of men with a 'normal' sperm count dropped. Lead researchers Dr Ashley Tiegs, who is presenting the findings at a reproductive medicine conference on Monday, told DailyMail.com the drop in sperm quality is possibly driven by environmental factors like smoking, stress, obesity, and exposures to chemicals in plastics.