2014 recap: Capt Fanell warns about rise of China

Captain James Fanell gave a blunt and scary assessment of the rise of China's Navy, and was subsequently reassigned within the Navy. Sinophobia is now a thoughtcrime just like Islamophobia.


File under: the art of war.

2014 recap: Catherine Engelbrecht's testimony on IRS targeting

Looking back at important moments of 2014, there's not many more inspirational speeches than Catherine Engelbrecht's testimony at House of Representatives hearing on IRS targeting.


File under: no retreat, no surrender.

Why the chocolate shop?

Over at The Thinking Housewife there is discussion of the motives for choosing the Lindt chocolate shop to take hostages.

It seems clear to me why he chose this location, because it can literally by seen from the offices of Channel 7 television directly across the mall. The cameras of the morning shows would still be running at that time.

I recall Islamic State giving instructions to "lone wolf" jihadists to (a) make sure there is video and (b) make it known that it's an attack by Islamic State sympathisers (hence the perp's demand for an Islamic State flag in exchange for releasing some hostages).

The whole country is sick to the stomach right now. This is the first successful attack on home soil (other plots have been thwarted).

Here is the worst photo I've seen, because it demonstrates our intellectual bankruptcy regarding Islam.

LIVE FEED: Sydney cafe under siege by gunman with Islamic flag

It's Sydney, Australia. And it's a black shahada flag ("There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is his messenger."), not an ISIS flag (but hey, what's the difference?). Gunman holding 13 hostages. Channel 7 building is opposite, ensuring maximum media coverage (just like ISIS instructed them).


Channel 7 (which is opposite the cafe) live feed is here:
https://twitter.com/Y7News/status/544269209929138176

Prime Minister Tony Abbott says "There is no known motivation at this time".

Oh really? Try reading the Koran.

Islam in one paragraph (John Quincy Adams)

File under: perpetual war.

Sweden: A Paradise Lost to Multiculti Chaos

A brilliant speech by Kent Ekeroth of the Sweden Democrats party.


File under: "exciting" Sweden.

Music break (sort of)

This song is interesting for two reasons (a) it's a beautiful song about a soldier counting down the days until they return home but (b) it's also implicitly a haunting song about the utter intellectual bankruptcy of a Western world that refuses to study the Islamic religion and what it actually teaches (hint: The Taliban, Al Qaeda and ISIS are pure Islam).

You can't deny the other side don't wanna die anymore than we do.

What I'm trying to say is: don't they pray to the same god that we do?

I'm not fighting for justice, I'm not fighting for freedom

I am just fighting for my life, another day in this world here

I just do what I've been told, we're just the gravel on the road

And only the lucky ones come home

On the day after tomorrow.

Er, no they don't pray to the same god, that's precisely the point. Their god loves death more than life. Their god promises them virgins in heaven if they die fighting to expand Islam. Their god's prophet beheaded a whole Jewish tribe, and many other atrocities. As Wafa Sultan's book suggests, it's A God Who Hates.

File under: Western lobotomy.

The Power of Community Building :: Bart Campolo

Probably the key problem facing the West is the triumph of individualism at the expense of acting strategically and cohesively in the interests of our group. Diverse immigration, and making China rich with our trade, are suicidal from the perspective of our group. Such policies arise because we are no longer acting rationally in our group's interest.

The answer to that problem lies in rebuilding communities where we can all belong to something, and start acting cohesively and intelligently in our own interests again.

The West might be too culturally fractured to come back together as one mono-culture, so we might be a collection of different subgroups, who respect and coordinate with each other.

I don't know who Bart Campolo is, or what his politics are. (He was an evangelical preacher, and is now non-religious). We can assume his politics are left-liberal-lunatic as usual. But that's not the point of this video. It's about the importance of community building in attracting and retaining lifelong followers to your movement.

He's talking from a non-religious perspective, but is not too irreverent. It should be of interest to anyone concerned about rebuilding community and thereby rebuilding the West. It's a very good talk.


File under: outreach.

Beheading plot in Sydney, Australia, ordered by ISIS

... the biggest counter-terrorism operation in Australia's history.

15 people have been detained in Sydney and Brisbane and one man has been charged with planning a terrorist attack on Australian soil.

Police allege he was ordered to behead random people in public. The order came from Mohammad Ali Baryalei ... the most senior Australian member of Islamic State in Syria and Iraq...

The horrific details of the plot alleged by police were revealed when Omarjan Azari appeared in court today, accused of planning a terrorist attack.

Police say they had Azari under surveillance since May this year, but had to act after intercepting a phone call two days ago, which they say was between Azari and a senior Australian militant in the Middle East who was exhorting him to kidnap and execute a random selection of people in public.

File under: archetypes.

Mohammedan, not Muslim

Another great video by Dr. Bill Warner. By using the terms Mohammedan instead of Muslim, and Mohammedism instead of Islam, it puts the spotlight onto the character of Mohammed, the warlord. There are 90 verses in the Koran which say that Mohammed is the perfect role model, for all Muslims, for all time. To understand Islam, you need to understand Mohammed. Islam is the worship of Allah, and the imitation of Mohammed, but primarily the imitation of Mohammed.


Bill Warner, The Life of Mohammed:

In Medina, Mohammed sat all day long beside his 12-year-old wife while they watched as the heads of 800 Jews were removed by sword. Their heads were cut off because they had said that Mohammed was not the prophet of Allah. Muslims view these deaths as necessary because denying Mohammed’s prophet-hood was an offense against Islam, and beheading is the accepted method of punishment, sanctioned by Allah.

File under: archetypes.

Via GatesOfVienna.

An immigrant surge en route to a Third World USA

Wesley Pruden, An immigrant surge en route to a Third World USA:

This is the ‘fundamental transformation’ Obama promised.

Maybe we’ve been conned. There’s a growing recognition that Barack Obama is an incompetent poser, working out of his depth...

Everything he touches becomes a bloody mess ... Iraq, Syria, Egypt ... Russia ...

The “humanitarian crisis” on the southern border is the most persuasive evidence of all that America is adrift in a sea of incompetence...


However, this may be ascribing to incompetence what is better explained by conspiracy. Mr. Obama promised in 2008 that he intended to transform America, and he is well on his way. Anyone who looked closely at the man and the influences that shaped who he would become risked being called a racist ...

The ruins of American foreign policy are not likely to catch the attention of a culture drunk on the entertainment of the trivial... But everybody begins to notice when the chaos comes close, ... under the weight of a tsunami of illegal immigration...


“Either we’re going to enforce our laws and remain strong, economically or otherwise, or we ignore the rule of law and go to being a Third World country,” Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Republican, told Fox News...

No one knows this better than Barack Obama. Making the United States over into a Third World country is exactly what this president is about. He is of the Third World... He and his Chicago cohort of potheads ... entertained themselves with fantasies of how they would one day transform the land of the free and the home of the brave into a nation worthy of taking its rightful place among the nations of the Third World.


Mr. Obama sounds like that captain who can’t make sense of the navigation charts, but it may be an act. He understands navigation very well. He talks of deporting the illegal children, of appointing hundreds of immigration judges and opening a vast new network of “detention facilities.” ...

But he has no intention of deporting more than a few token illegals...

Of course, once the transformation of America is complete, and there’s not much difference between Indiana and El Salvador, ... the invasions will cease... Nobody will want to come here, because it will be no better than the miserable places they would leave behind. We have seen the Obama future, and it doesn’t work.

Via Bill Gertz.

File under: La Raza (The Race).

Algerians occupy the streets of France

Marine Le Pen has said that riotous celebrations in France of Algeria's triumph in a World Cup match are proof of failing immigration policies.

Soccer riots, or demographic takeover? More at GalliaWatch via ThinkingHousewife.




















File under: le failure.

Music break

Time for another break from blogging (well, far more tweeting than blogging).

Another set of songs here. Mostly folk and Gaelic, as usual.

The first song is worth watching, it's a group of school kids singing a well-known pop song, but in Irish Gaelic. It looks like the Irish are doing well at promoting Gaelic language.

Mark Durie on Islam’s role in Boko Haram kidnappings

Dr Mark Durie (via FrontPageMag) explains the role of Islamic doctrine, and the example of Mohammed, in inspiring and sanctioning the kidnapping of the 200 Nigerian schoolgirls.

In describing the denial of Islam's role in terrorism, Durie uses an analogy of being blindfolded while someone is trying to beat you up. He says that Western intellectuals and media would rather be beaten to death than take off their blindfold and think critically about Islam. He says we are theologically illiterate.


File under: suicidal blindness.

Physicist analyses Islamic doctrine - Dr. Bill Warner (Video)

Dr Bill Warner (physicist) explains his books, which are a rational/statistical study of Islamic doctrine e.g.

• There are 90 verses in the Koran which say that Muslims are to imitate the "prophet" Mohammed. He is the perfect role model, for all Muslims, for all time.
• Mohammed committed an act of violence on the average of every 6 weeks for the last 9 years of his life.

• The Islamic texts contain more Jew hatred (9%) than Mein Kampf (7%).
• The majority of Islamic texts are not devoted to inner character development, but are about how to treat non-Muslims.
• 80% of Mohammed's biography is devoted to war and harm to kafirs (non-Muslims) e.g.
• "In Medina, Mohammed sat all day long beside his 12-year-old wife while they watched as the heads of 800 Jews were removed by sword. Their heads were cut off because they had said that Mohammed was not the prophet of Allah."
• 30% of Islamic texts are devoted to jihad (violence for the spread of Islam).

File under: Islam by the numbers.

A nation's attempt to survive isn't racism - Diana West

One year after the passing of Lawrence Auster, Diana West does a good job of echoing his sentiments that: "When it comes to immigration and national survival, race is the supreme issue, the issue on which all others hang", although West couches her argument more in cultural than racial terms.

Diana West, A Nation's Attempt to Survive Isn't Racism:

It may surprise some Americans to learn that almost one-quarter of the people living in Switzerland are foreigners. Even so, just over 50 percent voted last month to cap immigration, which, unchecked, could leave indigenous Swiss a minority in 50 years. Newsweek’s headline over the story was typical: “Switzerland’s Sudden Fear of Immigrants.”

... But was it really “fear of immigrants” – read: “racism” – that drove sufficient numbers of Swiss to the polls to check their own demographic extinction as a recognizable culture and nation-state? Or was it a nearly anachronistic instinct to survive as a recognizable culture and nation-state?

I see it as the instinct to survive – and applaud the Swiss for deciding to limit the influx of Europeans, Slavs, Muslims, Africans and others, whose demographic waves are otherwise sure to transform indigenous Swiss culture into a global multiculture. I also envy them for mustering this basic vital sign, this narrow-edged popular will to control their own borders. It is something that has all but flat-lined in America, where capping immigration – let alone halting it to attempt some measure of assimilation and economic resuscitation – is not even a part of the political debate.

Why isn’t it? In the U.S., the foreign-born population is now estimated to be around 13 percent, and it’s rising every year. This poses truly existential problems, particularly since the concept of “melting” into American culture was junked long ago – along with “American” culture. Meanwhile, that overall percentage, a little more than one in 10, masks the greater density and impact of foreign-born populations in the states and cities where immigrants and illegal aliens congregate.

Take California, a state where waves of mainly Mexican arrivals (legal and illegal) have turned the population 38 percent Hispanic/Latino. In Los Angeles County, the figure jumps to 48 percent. The next largest ethnic group is non-Hispanic white: 27 percent – almost down to one in four. In 1960, not long before I was born in L.A., non-Hispanic whites were 82 percent of the county. What we are looking at is population replacement – and it has taken place well inside the span of one lifetime.

Such population replacement is under way everywhere non-assimilable blocs become entrenched – with or without “amnesty.” But We, the People, have never voted for it. It just happens, forced or enabled from above. It could be that a majority of us want to disappear in a global multiculture – or, in the case of states like California, into an enclave-pocked Mexican monoculture. But that’s not why we have borders and immigration laws. Tragically, we also have a political class and presidents who lawlessly refuse to enforce these laws, making a mockery of our borders, not to mention the democratic process. This makes a mockery of our nationhood, too. It looks like a means to an end – the end of that nationhood...

What happened? If we consider the typical reaction to the recent Swiss vote – denigration of a nation’s survival instinct as a primitive expression of fear and racism – we will recognize the mechanism of our own demise: silence and retreat in the face of endless recrimination and grievance-mongering. What a way to lose a country.

And what a way to lose a world – the “Western” world, where this same pattern repeats almost everywhere. The demographics of The Hague, Netherlands, for example, are not too dissimilar from those in California...

Is it “fear” and “scaremongering” to point this out? Is it “racism” to oppose the demographic obliteration of a nation clearly under way? ... This past week has seen yet another public hate campaign by this establishment to smear, demonize and thus neutralize the one Dutch party that opposes the nation’s suicide – the Party for Freedom led by Geert Wilders.

I’ve written more on these events at my blog, www.dianawest.net. For now, it’s worth noting that the Dutch are lucky. With the steadfast and brilliant Wilders leading a popular movement, at least they have a chance to survive.

Geert Wilders is under attack for recently calling for "fewer Moroccans". Here he is defending those views that others "dare not mention":


File under: truly existential problems.

How to rebuild manufacturing - Ralph Gomory

Professor Ralph Gomory explains the basic problems with free trade:

• The trade deficit is permanent under free trade.
• Hence the US economy cannot recover under free trade.
• It's a mercantilist world (strategic trade) not a free trade world.
• Hence the USA should adopt a mercantilist approach and protect key industries by tariffs, or provide tax incentives to stop offshoring, or use import certificates to balance trade.
• Global corporations are doing okay but not most of America.
• We must refocus the economy on serving "we the people", not just corporations.

(It's not just incentives/mercantilism that cause offshoring, cheap wages is the biggest factor, but at least Gomory acknowledges the permanent nature of the trade deficit, and the need to think outside of free trade for solutions).


Ralph Gomory, On Manufacturing and Innovation

... many still proclaim that free trade benefits everyone and point as proof to lower prices for the imported Asian products. But lower prices are not low if you lose your job to get them, and the mutual gains predicted by free trade theory do not in fact materialize in a world where the well thought-out subsidies and controls of foreign governments create persistent trade deficits for our country.

We are allowing much of manufacturing, the great innovation engine that turns ideas into reality, to vanish quietly from our shores. Our global corporations may be benefitting from this; most Americans are not.

It is time for the steady wasting away of manufacturing, and the consequences of that wasting away, to become a matter for national debate, and to remain a matter for national debate, until the problem is resolved. Action is needed, and strong actions should be considered with a full understanding of the enormous importance of what is really happening.

Ralph Gomory, Jobs, Trade, and Mercantilism - Part I - Facing Reality

Our nation's continuing massive trade deficits are destroying important sectors of American industry and eliminating desperately needed jobs; yet balancing trade is not even on our government's agenda. This is happening because we are not facing reality, the reality that we are not living in a free trade world but that we are dealing with countries that practice mercantilism.

If we continue to turn a blind eye to this reality, we will become a poor nation.

File under: facing reality.

Death By China - Greg Autry - C-SPAN Video

Greg Autry talks about his book Death by China. Important points are:

1 - The US economy cannot recover under free-trade with a permanent trade deficit.
2 - Our trade is financing the rise of an aggressive Chinese military.

In this second video Autry speaks (starting at 5:50) at a Cyber Warfare Hearing.


Here's a clip from the C-SPAN Video on the trade deficit.


File under: Chinese goods are not cheap.

In defence of natural society - David Hamilton

Firstly, while this is a great article, I'm not too familiar with the website this article comes from, so don't presume that I agree with everything written on there.

Secondly, I have a minor quibble with the terminology, which takes aim at "rationalists", "intellectualism", "theorising" and "the Enlightenment". See my comment below.

David Hamilton, The Loss of Reality:

There is a distinction between natural and artificial societies. Natural societies grow organically within a group of people with a shared ancestry. This is why patriotism is natural – it grows from emotional relationships and does not need a theory or ideological underpinning. There is more to human nature than reason and the act of bonding with your people and territory is a process of feeling, instinct, intuition and other human qualities.

I live in England so I will use England as my exemplar. England has been a nation since the time of Alfred the Great, and it is an emotional, organic growth, not an intellectual agreement. Intellectual nationalism came from the Enlightenment and, like other forms of thinking derived from the Enlightenment, is theory to be applied to men and women, that is, forced on people. It is a mistake for The New Right to adopt rationalist theorising in imitation of Marxist thinkers...

The Progressive way of thinking that stems from the Enlightenment marginalizes traditional systems in favour of a way of thinking that disdains the past and looks forward to a future perfection. Progressives think that we are ineluctably destined for the brotherhood of man – an obvious Utopia! This is no more than an irrational superstition, and any examination of the world around them would show that the opposite is happening. They think human nature is malleable and can be re-fashioned to fit into their ideology and future utopia.

A formal ideology is written down like a "How to" book, which tells people how to think and behave. Ideology grew out of the Enlightenment as a secular replacement for religion with a programme of correct thinking and behaving, and with intolerance for deviation. The rulers changed from an aristocratic class, based on blood and land, to a secular elite defined by their ability to think and say the right things – in other words an "Ideological Caste."

Ideological thinking starts with first principles and requires underpinnings to support or justify beliefs. Conservatism by contrast is a view of the world that grows out of our emotional bonds with our families and expands outwards through neighbourhood and community to the nation. It emanates out to Europe and the Anglosphere, though weaker. For example, we feel for the South African Boers in these days of their genocide. It is stronger at home, and a parent who wishes other children to do better than their own is perverse...

BRAINWASHING

We are being dehumanised and made a non-people. We must abandon this inculcated niceness, this apologetic approach and assert ourselves. We need to give our people a sense of their collective worth for the common good, and succeeding generations need to be built up to inherit the responsibility for our life and culture....

Government from Brussels, economic control by global corporations, and Afro-Asian colonization is part of the progressives’ new dream for an ideal future, but in practice it disinherits our children of community and association with their own kind, which we are duty bound to preserve for them...

A WORLD VIEW TO UNITE US

How do we counter the dominant ideology? ... We ... need to consider what gives life meaning, and this leads to the idea that ... a nation means a group of racially linked people with whom we belong by emotional attachments. I openly admit to being a racialist because I believe in racial differences between people, but do not hate other peoples and do not accept the Marxist pejorative term "racist." ...

We have a responsibility for our kin and a duty to them. We have a duty to pass on what we have inherited to our children, as they, in turn, will have a duty to their children...

The attitude of those who control public life is to transfer power away from their own people and disinherit their descendants for the benefit of rival communities. We are morally obliged to put our people first, as we do with our families, even when foreigners are more in need of help. Supporting outsiders against our own people is morally wrong.

We have natural bonds with our families, a responsibility for them and a duty to them ...

Simple people say, "So what? It doesn't matter if different people take over!" This shows a failure to understand human nature. They think it will be painless, like handing the baton on in a relay race, but examples from history like the Norman Conquest, show the oppression the conquered have to endure; other countries like South Africa and Zimbabwe show what will befall our children if the evil elites are not countered.

The ideology of multi-racialism was a righteous reaction to the opening of the camps and the watchword was, "It must never happen again." This has come full circle and now the Jews are being persecuted in France, Sweden and elsewhere by imported Muslims...

Unlike the rational ideologies that have been manifold since the Enlightenment, our views derive from an emotional and instinctive relationship with our people and our territory. It is more profound than rationalising an ideology to be learnt from a book because it grows from natural, human instinct and emotion.

To give favourable treatment to aliens over our own people is morally wrong. A nation’s manners, morals, religions, political institutions, and social structures, are inherited from its ancestors and our loyalties begin with affection within families and this emanates outward to neighbourhood and nation. We belong to our kin, above strangers.

Look at data from the Office of National Statistics ... then look at your children and ask yourselves: "Am I betraying my children? Where will they live and work?"

While this is a great article, I don't think it's accurate to set up a dichotomy between reason and emotion. Yes, to some extent, liberal ideology takes more thought than the natural emotional bonds of kinship. So it's fair enough to be critical of liberal ideology. But primarily the conflict is between different moral foundations, not between reason and emotion.

Are we against rationality, intellectualism, enlightenment, and theorising? Of course not. To be against knowledge is to be irrational.

The conflict is between different moral foundations, or desires, as Jonathan Haidt explains. Liberals value care and fairness highly. Conservatives value loyalty and kinship. Or something like that.

But moral foundations are primarily matters of the heart, not concepts of the mind. So the dichotomy should be between the different emotional value sets of liberals and conservatives, or between ideology (with an implied emotional value set) and natural emotion, but not between reason and emotion.

But it's just a minor quibble. Great article.

File under: being dehumanised.

Charlotte Dawson revisited

I rarely check my blog stats because there's usually nothing much to see. But recently there was a spike on a blog entry from 2012 about Australian celebrity Charlotte Dawson being subjected to racist abuse from a twitter user.

Sadly, this week Charlotte Dawson seemingly took her own life due to a long battle with depression.

Chinese military exercise close to Australian waters!

RAAF scrambles plane to observe Chinese naval exercise

Australia scrambled an air force surveillance plane earlier this month to monitor an unannounced Chinese military exercise that took the emerging superpower's ships closer to Australian territory than ever before.

In what observers say is a significant strategic development, China carried out combat simulations at the beginning of the month between Christmas Island and Indonesia in an apparent flexing of its growing naval muscle.

China had not announced the exercise.

RAAF monitored Chinese military exercise in waters between Christmas Island and Indonesia

The RAAF monitored an unprecedented and unannounced exercise involving three Chinese warships in international waters to the north of Australia, it has emerged.

The unusual naval exercise late last week is considered to have been a deliberate and provocative move by the Chinese that will send a clear message to the region.

For the first time, the Chinese navy sent warships sailing through the Sunda Strait between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra.

File under: Chinese goods are not cheap.

Twitter restored

Probably too many Mary Kissel re-tweets in one day, or something.

Anyway, my account has now been restored:

https://twitter.com/ideologeeblog

Toyota quits: The killing of Australia’s car manufacturing

So Toyota has now followed Ford and Holden in closing down their Australian car manufacturing, leading to 30,000 - 50,000 job losses throughout the industry, killing it stone dead.

The high Australian dollar gets a lot of the blame, but only mining gets blamed for that. Nobody mentions foreigners buying up properties, and foreign students paying for their education, they also raise the dollar.

But regardless of the dollar, some manufacturing should be protected to keep manufacturing skills in the country. Skills useful for national security, and to spin off into new manufacturing sectors. It's madness just to let it die. Some industries need to be protected. It's that simple.


And what does prime minister Tony Abbott have to say? Simply that it's his job to ensure there's more jobs in the economy being created than being lost. Australia is a balance sheet, not a society, to Tony Abbott. The end justifies the means. But he never mentions where these mythical new jobs are coming from. That's because they don't exist.


Tony Abbott, like Kevin Rudd, is another ideological wrecking ball. Only this time we've swung from the transnational open-borders Kevin Rudd to the anarchistic free-trader Tony Abbott.

Free trade is an ideology for lazy thinkers. Idiots who are comforted by blind lazy adherence to a mindless ideology.

Sure, we can save a few thousand dollars on the price of a car, or a few dollars on a can of food. But what happens when we can't compete in anything other than some mining and farming?

File under: R.I.P. Free Trade.

(h/t: @AustProtParty)

Six men gang rape girl, 14 - Sydney

Six men gang rape girl, 14, in Sydney:

A teenage girl has been sexually assaulted by a gang of men in Sydney's west ...

In an attack police believe was unprovoked and random, the 14-year-old girl was initially assaulted by one man in Doonside before his friends joined on Saturday night ...

The men are all described as being of African appearance and aged in their late teens to early 20s.

File under: time for some lurching.

I haz tweet

Twitter seems to be a good way of sharing information quickly, so I'm giving it a go:

https://twitter.com/ideologeeblog

This blog will continue as usual, to highlight the important things.

There are lots of news items that I don't have time to blog about, so hopefully twitter will be useful for sharing those.

UPDATE: my account is suspended already. I have no idea why. Wow, so much for that idea.

UPDATE 2: account is now restored, after appeal.

Anti-white message across Old Parliament House - taxpayer funded

Recently on Australia Day, several historical sites were vandalised with anti-white messages. Now, we have a similar thing, only this time it's taxpayer funded.

Try and keep your mouth closed, if you can. These pictures, which say "austracism" and "this foul deed shall smell above the earth" are blazoned across Old Parliament House which is now the Museum of Australian Democracy. Andrew Bolt has the story.

File under: the Aboriginal tent embassy has moved in.

Video - Australian Navy tows back asylum seekers

There are plenty of reasons to be critical of Australia's new "conservative" government, but credit where it's due, they have begun to secure our border.

Since 2007 when Kevin Rudd softened our border security, there's been a steady stream of boats, and nothing but refugees on ABC News, 24/7. Now, the boat arrivals are slowing down.

At last some sanity is being restored by Tony Abbott. The sight of the Navy towing these country shoppers back from whence they came (in a modern lifeboat) is a refreshing dose of sanity. Well done, Tony Abbott. (Don't worry, I'll go back to criticising his demented free-trade and foreign ownership policies soon).




The 2nd video has no sound.

File under: enough is enough.

China begins wool empire in Australia

China begins its wool empire down under:

IN a $37 million move, one of China's biggest textile manufacturing companies has snapped up two of Victoria's most prized pastoral properties in the fine merino heartland of the Western District.

The deal, shrouded in secrecy and confidentiality clauses, is the first step by the Zhejiang RIFA Holding Group towards establishing an elite merino sheep and fine wool empire in Australia.

File under: "conservative" leader Tony Abbott seen nodding with approval.

Coca-Cola destroys America The Beautiful

I never liked Coca-Cola as a kid, and now there's even more reason not to like it after this nauseating pro-diversity ad, set to the tune of America the Beautiful, in different languages. Hold onto your stomach. Coke really does "rot your gut".

File under: merchants have no country.

(Via Conservative Heritage Times)

Diversity threatens Australian identity - Gary Johns

Former Labor politician Gary Johns questions the wisdom of diversity.

Gary Johns, Migration control an important tool of national social policy:

SAVING one refugee is humane: saving one million refugees is almost certainly not. Large numbers of refugees, or migrants not carefully chosen, can change the nature of the host country, to its detriment. If Australia were to consist of a mix of Iraqs, Irans, Afghanistans, Syrias, Somalias, it would no longer be Australia.

Refugee advocates can never summon the courage to answer the question of how many is too many. Instead, they hide behind the particular instance, always ignoring the big picture. Governments, on behalf of all Australians, cannot ignore the big picture...

Permanently rising cultural diversity runs the risk of undermining mutual regard.

File under: rhetorical questions.

(via Andrew Bolt)

Confucius Institutes threaten academic freedom

Helle Dale, China’s Confucius Institutes Could Threaten Academic Freedom:

Confucius Institutes, seeded with funding from the Chinese government for the purpose of teaching Chinese language and culture are sprouting at an alarming rate on university campuses, including here in the United States. Wherever the People’s Republic of China establishes a presence, academic freedom is soon compromised. Concerns have been raised from the United States, to Britain, Sweden and Vietnam that inviting in Confucius Institutes also means inviting in Chinese soft power pressure.

File under: "no comment".

Australia Day 2014

Jim's Ride and Jessica's Theme from The Man from Snowy River.

Iranian held in Anzac Bridge rape case, Sydney

Iranian held in Anzac Bridge rape case:

AN IRANIAN national has been refused bail after being charged with the violent rape of a teenage girl on the Anzac Bridge on Thursday.

Amir Mohebbifar was arrested shortly after the 19-year-old girl was sexually assaulted just after 2.30am...

... it took close to three hours to track down a Persian interpreter...

Will senator Sarah Hanson-Young cry for the alleged victim, as readily as she cries for refugees? Not likely.

File under: enrichment.