Pride month? Not in Trump’s USA.

Pride month? Not in Trump’s USA. By The Calvin Coolidge Project.

The Trump Administration has officially declined to issue a proclamation recognizing Pride Month for the second year in a row.

Under Biden, US Embassies around the world flew pride flags:

U.S. Embassy Seoul, 2021

The back-reaction now:

Commenters:

Good. It’s ridiculous to celebrate someone’s sexuality. Especially for a whole month. …

You have to admit, a whole month celebrating a group of people just because of who they’re attracted to sexually seems a bit ridiculous. …

Why do we need to recognize and celebrate, for an entire month, a group whose identification is solely based on who they chose to share a bed with? And to be clear, I have a lot of gay friends who I love dearly. …

There aren’t enough months to designate for everything people do when they pull their pants down. …

I have had Rainbow fatigue for many, many years. …

Well we also don’t have any:

  • White Pride Month
  • American Pride Month
  • Veterans Pride Month
  • Disabled/Handicapped People Month

(Forgive me, Chemo brain has me struggling to remember if any other races besides Black have a Pride Month dedicated to them.)

Etc. etc. All these woke symbols must be wound back some or all. Here in Australia, the welcome-to-country ceremonies need to be wound way back, if only because they are so very boring.

Henry Nowak protests are growing

Henry Nowak protests are growing.

When we started the Wentworth Report in 2016, anti-white violent outrages by immigrants behaving badly (and yes, 90% of terrorism worldwide is by Muslims) were only once a week or so — or at least, as reported on the Web. Few websites reported anything, so as part of our remit to draw attention to things the media choose not to talk about, we ran many of them, or at least the major ones.

But they have become more and more common, overwhelmingly so. Increasingly, many websites or accounts report on them, especially since Elon Musk liberated Twitter/X. There are many per week.

We could fill a much bigger blog reporting solely on such outrages. But there are many other issues that interest us. So, we gradually retreated to just mentioning the very major outrages, then only the more egregious Australian ones. We’ll leave the continuous stream of outrages to other sites.

We haven’t mentioned the Henry Nowak murder in the UK until now, but it has become huge. It’s like George Floyd, only everything is inverted and this time it actually was a murder. A nastier single incident of immigrant and institutional nastiness would be hard to concoct.

 

Murdered on Dec. 3. Kept out of the news until now.

 

It’s all over the web, so look it up if you haven’t seen it. But now it is spilling into the political arena, a turning point that is going to affect policy, so we’ll run some material that we think is interesting.

Protests against the police by white crowds in Southampton are becoming mildly violent after police antagonize the crowd.

 

A crowd is protesting outside the Digwa (the murderer) home:

Protestors demand the police take a knee for Henry Nowak, like they did for George Floyd:

 

Protestors are hunting police and throwing plastic garage bins at them:

 

John Carter on widespread blame:

Every time one of their pets pops off and ends someone, it’s always an “isolated incident”, “mental illness” or “knife crime” or whatever.

Every time one of their pets gets into trouble it’s an indictment of the entire system and justification for the revolution.

If the pet happened to be born locally, he suddenly becomes “one of us”, so it certainly has nothing to do with “immigration”, no.

The truth is Henry Nowak was murdered by a large number of people. Most of them white. Digwa might have wielded the blade, but he had one in the first place because traitor whites in the courts and the legislature gave Sikhs a special carveout when they disarmed everyone else, most especially whites.

Digwa’s family was in the UK because traitor whites in the government let them in.

The traitor whites in the police force defaulted to believing Digwa’s accusation of “racism”, and ignoring Nowak’s plea for help, because they prioritized the ‘race action plan’ above all other considerations, which was implemented and enforced by traitor whites.

The ‘race action plan’ was created because whites had been conditioned to treat racism as worse than absolutely anything, and once again it was traitor whites in journalism, entertainment, academia, and the state who performed this conditioning.

Every single one of them is guilty of Nowak’s death.

That guilt spread out over millions of people doesn’t necessarily come to much individually. But then you add up all of the other whites who have been robbed, raped, beaten, and murdered over the decades, and eventually you come to the conclusion that there is more than enough guilt at the per capita level to justify sending every single one of you to the gallows.

Imagine if a black or Muslim community somewhere in the Western world was rioting at this level. It would be a major scandal. What dastardly white unfairness drove the darlings to protest so?

The major political issue here is that the police took the allegation of racism more seriously than a stabbing, their bullshit diversity training automatically discriminating against the white victim. This two-tier, anti-white policing is the dominant, explosive political issue — again.

The British establishment that wept for Floyd has been conspicuously quiet about Nowak.

 

 

Notice there’s no perfectly manicured signs. No Public sector union banners.

Just unmanufactured genuine outrage at the horrific injustice. The ordinary people have finally had enough.

UPDATE: Here comes the censorship:

 

Nigel Farage (Reform):

I wrote yesterday to the Attorney General, Lord Hermer, requesting a review of the sentence given to the killer, which fell below the recommended minimum for such a sustained, aggressive, murderous assault.

He was jailed for life for a minimum of 21 years. In my view, his crime merits a whole-life tariff.

Above all, however, Britain needs to undergo a broader cultural change.

We must end the anti-white prejudice that has been allowed to fester. We must assert, without apology, that White lives matter too. DEI initiatives and positive discrimination must be scrapped. No ifs, no buts. …

Unfortunately, the Labour Party is simply unable to confront uncomfortable truths about race and diversity. These issues are too deeply ingrained in the party’s institutional culture.

Rupert Lowe (Restore):

We must remove those third world migrants who put their ‘clan’ above all else, including our British rule of law.

If that means entire clans are deported, then that is what must happen. ….

A Labour MP, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, has attacked Restore Britain in Parliament for our push to get the Kirpan [Sikh traditional knife, which Sikhs are allowed to carry in the UK for religious reasons!] banned in public spaces.

Under a Restore Britain Government, all will be equal.

Un-British religious practices will not be tolerated or accepted. …

Halal slaughter, banned. The kirpan, banned, Kosher slaughter, banned. The burqa, banned. All of it, banned.

This is Britain — we do things our way.

Matt Walsh:

There’s never been anything like the Henry Nowak case where the victim is non-white and the assailant is white, and the police respond the way they did. That whole combination of events could really only happen to a white person. The BLM narrative is the exact opposite of reality.

Matt Goodwin:

Henry Nowak’s tragic murder is downstream of anti-white racism. Extend his sentence. Deport the mother. Have a full police inquiry. Root out all woke “DEI” policies that promote minorities while claiming whites are “racist”.

Storming the West — literally

Storming the West — literally. By Geiger Capital.

Spain’s far-left PM Pedro Sanchez gave amnesty and citizenship to 500,000 illegal immigrants, and now hordes of unvetted African men are storming the border.

It looks like a scene from World War Z.

 

Commenters:

He’s solidifying his power. He’s importing his voters. This is the eventuality if leftist get their way. …

These oligarchical leaders are going to push folks so far until the people start pushing back! We are reaching a boiling point in may places around the world as any sense of normalcy has been thrown out the window! …

China would shoot them and their soldiers would know they would never be punished, they know they would be punished if they failed to do their job and shoot them….

Under the Schengen Treaty, they are free to roam to the nearest EU country that offers the best benefits. …

Can you blame them? This idiot was offering permanent residency with huge benefits. Of course this is what is going to happen!

Why the West Is Replacing Its White Population

Why the West Is Replacing Its White Population. By Ricardo Duchesne at The Unz Review.

The Great Replacement is now almost locked in.

This is not because of a grand conspiracy … Nor is it simply the result of excessive “suicidal empathy” or … elites refusing to accept race realism or the critique of the equality thesis.

My thesis is that the large-scale demographic replacement of White European populations is the logical and nearly inevitable outcome of the fusion between

(i) liberal universalism, which delegitimizes ethnic particularism and prohibits state preference for one culture in favor of diversity and value pluralism

(ii) post-Fordist capitalist optimization [Fordism is the old 20th-century industrial system associated with Henry Ford], which demands flexible, low-cost, compliant non-Western labor, expanding global markets, and short-to-medium-term gains.

Together, these two self-reinforcing logics have created a dynamic, high-level equilibrium and path-dependent civilizational trap that is quite effective at delivering GDP growth, opportunities for elite status, rewards for loyalty, and moral validation, yet systematically undermines the long-term demographic and cultural foundations of European societies.

This system exploits the historically peculiar “WEIRD” psychology of Whites (low ethnocentrism, impersonal trust, impartiality) while empowering groups operating on kin-selection and ethnic nepotism …

The West is both a capitalist and a liberal civilization. This economic system and this ideology developed together and are now fused into a single, self-reinforcing system.

In the Fordist phase (roughly 1945–1975), this fusion largely benefited native White populations, delivering broad-based affluence, rising real wages, high homeownership, and stable family-oriented communities within relatively homogeneous nations still anchored by pre-liberal norms.

However, the crisis of Fordism in the 1970s activated a transition to a post-Fordist multicultural and limbic capitalist regime. [Limbic capitalism refers to industries that profit by targeting the brain’s reward, pleasure, craving, and habit systems — the “limbic” parts of the brain — which encourage excessive consumption or addiction: processed food, gambling, alcohol, drugs, pornography, social media, gaming, advertising, etc.]

In this new order, liberalism’s universalistic drive and capitalism’s optimizing logic reinforce each other: the former delegitimizes ethnic particularism and cultural continuity, while the latter demands flexible, low-cost non-Western labor to deal with structural shortages. The system thus favors both diversity as a moral good and certain immigrant personality traits that optimize post-Fordist production.

Yet this regime harbors a deep structural contradiction: it rests upon the historically peculiar “weird” psychology of European peoples, including low ethnocentrism, high impersonal trust, and impartiality, while empowering non-Western groups that operate according to particularistic kin-selection and ethnic nepotism.

The result is a system that is biologically and culturally incompatible with the long-term survival and civilizational creativity of European peoples in their homelands.

Why Asian labor is preferred:

Capitalism will strive to optimize in whatever political setting it is allowed to operate. This may lead some to assume that it has no inherent ethnic preference. There is no question, however, that in the post-Fordist era, liberal capitalism has shown a clear preference both for diversity and for certain cognitive and personality traits that are statistically more common among East Asians (particularly ethnic Chinese) and Indians.

I am not thinking only of its obvious preference for the cheaper labor found in the non-Western world. In so-called large settler nations, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and America, it has also shown a preference for high-tech workers who are “more goal-oriented” in their motives; more focused on pure careerism, repetitive technical tasks, strong compliance, and relatively low political inclinations or intellectual and cultural interests beyond one’s specialization and work requirements.

It views East Asians as exceptionally efficient (“low-friction inputs”) for post-Fordist technical tasks such as coding, algorithm design, lab work, and incremental optimization.

White populations tend to be viewed as less efficient in this narrow respect because they exhibit greater personality differentiation, broader interests, higher openness to experience, and a stronger tendency toward political, philosophical, and societal engagement. While these White traits were historically crucial in driving revolutionary scientific breakthroughs, major innovations, and grand societal projects, they are less optimal for the narrow, high-volume, high-conformity demands of today’s hyperspecialized post-Fordist AI economy.

Liberal capitalism is currently selecting for traits that optimize short-to-medium-term economic returns at the cost of the long-term civilizational creativity of the West and its cultural survival. …

Indian migrants are particularly attractive because they are more compliant and geographically mobile than native Whites with comparable education. Lacking deep community roots or established family ties in the West, they accept irregular and intense schedules more readily. There are no entrenched mortgages, local schools, or unions associated with the importation of fresh Indian migrants. This entails less political or social pushback when companies adjust to new market signals or replace workers with AI.

The cost savings are substantial: firms can hire a senior Indian developer in the US or Canada on work visas for $30,000–$50,000 per year, in contrast to $150,000–$200,000 for a similarly qualified American worker. Their narrow education, total focus on STEM degrees, compliance, and one-dimensional desire for money have made Indians quite useful as employees in limbic capitalist sectors such as social media, e-commerce, gaming, streaming, and AI-driven engagement.

To fix a problem, first understand it and describe it accurately.

Our new aristocracy

Our new aristocracy. By Damien Coates in The Spectator.

Did you know?

A few weeks ago, Senator Dave Sharma used Senate Estimates to question why a government-appointed fuel security coordinator was being paid the equivalent of almost $1 million a year.

Most Australians had probably never heard of the role. Many would struggle to explain what a fuel security coordinator actually does. Yet instinctively, they understood something else: whatever this is, it isn’t ordinary life.

That reaction says something important about modern Australia.

An aristocracy?

For most of history, societies had aristocracies. Kings, nobles and landed elites occupied a world far removed from the people they governed. They enjoyed privileges unavailable to ordinary citizens and exercised influence over institutions that shaped national life.

We like to think we abolished all that. In reality, we may have simply reinvented it.

The old aristocracy wore crowns, inherited titles, and lived in palaces.

The new aristocracy wears lanyards, holds postgraduate qualifications, and works from government departments, regulatory agencies, universities, publicly funded organisations and sprawling bureaucracies. …

Trust is fraying:

What Australians have always distrusted is privilege. Particularly privilege that pretends not to be privilege.

The owner of a successful construction company who earns a fortune rarely attracts much resentment. He built something. He employed people. He took risks. Australians understand that bargain.

But a growing number of people look at modern institutions and see something very different. They see departmental secretaries earning salaries most taxpayers can scarcely imagine. They see agency heads, regulators, university executives, consultants, and publicly funded administrators occupying positions of extraordinary comfort while presiding over outcomes that appear to be getting worse rather than better. [They took no risks.]

  • Housing is less affordable.
  • Infrastructure is under strain.
  • Energy costs are rising.
  • Government is larger than ever.

Yet the managerial class continues to expand.

In Australia, almost one in five workers is now employed directly by government. Around that sits an even larger ecosystem of consultants, regulators, policy advisers, university administrators, NGO executives, and publicly funded professionals. Together, they constitute a class that exercises enormous influence over public life while often remaining insulated from the consequences of the decisions they make. …

 

 

Above it all, insulated by oodles of low-risk taxpayer money:

The people deciding housing policy generally own homes.

The people advocating population growth rarely compete for rental properties in outer suburbs.

The people designing energy policy seldom worry about whether they can afford next month’s power bill.

The people making decisions increasingly inhabit a different Australia from the people living with those decisions. And ordinary Australians know it.

That is why comparisons with the monarchy are more instructive than many realise.

For example, PM Anthony Albanese, who only ever worked for the Labor Party, has had multiple properties:

 

The pretending is particularly irritating:

The British monarchy never pretended to be ordinary. Its legitimacy was built upon distance. Kings did not claim to understand the daily struggles of farmers and labourers. Aristocrats did not pretend they were simply average citizens temporarily entrusted with power.

The divide was obvious.

Modern elites often ask for something far more ambitious. They seek the authority that comes from expertise while simultaneously demanding the trust that comes from relatability.

Increasingly, they enjoy neither.

Politicians tell voters they understand housing stress while owning multiple properties. Bureaucrats explain the necessity of policies whose consequences they rarely experience firsthand. Institutional leaders speak constantly about community while living lives increasingly disconnected from the communities they govern.

The problem is not that elites exist. Every successful society has elites. The problem is that modern elites frequently deny they are elites at all.

They speak the language of equality while occupying positions of extraordinary privilege. They present themselves as representatives of ordinary Australians while inhabiting professional and economic worlds that bear little resemblance to ordinary life. …

Populism is the tell that the elites are failing:

The rise of populist movements, the collapse of confidence in institutions and the growing hostility toward experts are not random developments. They are symptoms of a widening gap between those who exercise authority and those expected to accept it.

Democracies ultimately depend upon legitimacy. Legitimacy depends upon trust. And trust becomes difficult to sustain when large numbers of people conclude that those making decisions no longer understand the country they are governing.

And the recent tax changes didn’t help. The elite keeps swelling, so they need ever more tax income:

We deserve to feel safe in our own country

We deserve to feel safe in our own country. By Bec Freedom.

Last Monday, on the 18th of May, at around 6am, one of our own became a victim of the very thing we are trying to raise awareness about.

She was violently carjacked by machete-wielding African youth in Victoria. @soundstarter had stopped at the laundromat in Keysborough to dry her work jacket on the way to work. She was waiting out the front in her car when she was confronted by an aggressive African man who opened her car door and aggressively attempted to drag her out.

She fought back and tried to push and kick him away while he threw several punches at her face and body. Another African man then approached the altercation armed with a machete. Although she put up a fight, they managed to violently drag her out and took off in her car, which contained all of her belongings-her phone, credit cards, identification, and keys to her home.

Thankfully, onlookers heard the noise and ran over to help her. There were no serious injuries, but due to their aggressive and violent nature, she is quite badly bruised and scratched up.

She has had to change the locks on her house and, thankfully, already had a security and camera system installed. She is understandably still shaken up but wanted her story shared to help raise awareness.

Police reports were filed and her car has now been located. The car wasn’t smashed or set on fire-it was just dumped after they’d had their fun. Her phone and credit cards were also located and had been thrown away, which goes to show these weren’t poor struggling immigrants who attacked for monetary gain.

This was African machete violence and theft committed by two men aged between 16 and 20. Why? Because they can and they know they get away with it due to a weak court system.

This was an opportunistic, violent, and aggressive crime committed by foreigners who prove time and time again that they do not belong here, nor do they deserve a chance at a better life in our country.

We have become so desensitised to these attacks constantly happening, especially in Victoria. We speak about them in our spaces, make posts about them, and see them on the news.

But when it happens to you or someone you know, it’s a scary reminder of just how real this problem actually is. We need to get louder. We need to make more noise, because the reality is that any one of us could be next.

The only thing that will fix this is removing those who do not belong. We need instant deportations of criminal immigrants and the remigration of foreigners.

 

 

It’s happening here too — there is now an Australian Restore movement:

 

Get involved — real life activism

Get involved — real life activism. By Cameron at the National Workers Alliance.

I would like real life activism.

To the influencers who are rage-posting daily, who are monetizing their content while people get angry and frustrated, I know that education and awareness is important …

So stop watching the doom posters and put some time and energy into activism …

Under the current system there is no political solution. …

Every major city has ethnic enclaves, there is sectarian violence, and as social cohesion continues to break down, the separation will continue. White flight is happening.

Here they are protesting against Victorian Premier’s thousand-dollars-a-head event hosted by two MPs representing immigrant-dominated electorates. The Premier slips in a side door and will not answer questions.

Founder and leader of NWA Matt Trihey and a handful of other activists held photos of victims of immigrant crime, including teenager Declan Cutler and doctor Ash Gordon, both killed by African gang members, at the main entrance. …

This private function was $1000 a ticket and was attended by majority foreigners

Jacinta Allen will proudly sell out to foreign investors while ignoring the rising crime

 

It’s not an “insurrection” when the left do it

It’s not an “insurrection” when the left do it.

Major clashes occurred on the weekend between New Jersey police and anti-ICE rioters in Newark. Super physical fights against the police and authorities, by lefties who cannot get their way at the ballot box.

Leftist rioters are attacking the NJ police with rocks, and antifa is throwing flashbangs back at them.

 


Ari Fleischer:

The Democrats do a January 6th every day, every week. Their target is ICE.

J6 was a riot. THIS is in insurrection.

Glenn Reynolds:

This is much more violent than January 6. January 6 was American citizens acting like Americans. This is enemies of America acting like enemies.

Commenters:

I’m looking at hundreds of people that should be in jail for assaulting police. …

How can you throw freaking flashbangs and rocks at police and just walk away with ZERO consequences? …

Why aren’t they being arrested? Trump designated Antifa as a terrorist organization…don’t terrorists usually get arrested? …

How can this happen? It’s New Jersey, that’s how. You arrest them and they’ll be out in 4 hours, no bail and then they’ll take the train back to NYC.

I’ll bet there aren’t undercover FBI agents among the protestors, spurring them on, like on J6.

UPDATE: Antifa Thugs in Portland and Newark, Laying Siege to ICE detention facilities are PAID. By Bitchuneedsoap.

I messaged a group admin asking how my family in NJ could help the Delaney Hall protesters. Within minutes she sent me a supply list and a Venmo donation link.

The supply list wasn’t water bottles. It was P100 respirators (tear gas grade), military-spec impact goggles, welding gloves for picking up hot tear gas canisters, helmets, body armor, and Sudecon chemical decontamination wipes. That’s a military/law enforcement product most people have never heard of.

The Venmo link: @cosechanj. That account belongs to Jenny Garcia. She’s the main organizer of the Delaney Hall protests.

Quoted in the American Prospect, Newsweek, and TIME. Listed as the official press contact.

She is not a volunteer. She is a professional organizer.

Venmo feeds are public. I pulled hers.

Payments labeled “Commissary” (money for detained immigrants to buy food inside the facility). “Commissary / phone accounts fund” (keeping detainees’ phones active). “DSA meeting” (Democratic Socialists of America). “Mutual aid.” “F ICE.” …

So who pays Jenny Garcia? She holds three titles at three organizations.

  1. Detention Watch Network. DC-based. $7.2 million in assets. Ford Foundation funded.
  2. AFSC. Classified as a church. No public donors. Tides Foundation gave them $221K.
  3. Cosecha NJ. The @cosechanj Venmo name. Files two 990s. Reports $0 in salaries. Every year. Every officer. Nobody gets paid.

Foundation money pays Garcia through DWN and AFSC. She organizes under Cosecha’s name. Cosecha claims to pay nobody.

Nick Sortor:

The area around ICE Newark is DEAD SILENT after NJSP FORCED rioters out of the area

Tens of THOUSANDS of dollars worth of supplies are just abandoned outside the facility. It is genuinely mindblowing how much money is poured into riot supplies.

These are not grassroots demonstrators, but bought and paid for by left wing foundations.

The Lies We Are Forced To Live

The Lies We Are Forced To Live. By Logan Lamont in Quadrant.

The greatest dishonesty in modern Western society is no longer individual lying. It is institutional lying. Entire systems now participate in the deliberate suppression of uncomfortable truths.

At the same time, ordinary citizens are expected to remain silent, pretend not to notice, and publicly repeat narratives they often know to be incomplete or false. …

The truth is not avoided because it is untrue. It is avoided because it is politically dangerous….

Trust evaporating:

A society can survive disagreement. It can survive conflict. It can survive political division. What cannot survive indefinitely is the systematic destruction of trust.

Once people conclude that governments, media organisations, universities, and public institutions are deliberately hiding facts from them, the entire moral authority of those institutions begins to collapse. That is exactly what is now happening across much of the Western world.

Example:

Take violent crime. Not crime in the abstract, but the actual violent reality is increasingly confronting ordinary people in many Western cities. Knife attacks. Sexual assaults. Home invasions. Gang violence. Youth intimidation. Public disorder. Riots. Organised criminality. The public sees it. Police deal with it. Courts process it. Governments track it internally. Journalists know the details.

Yet increasingly, key facts surrounding serious crime are hidden, softened, obscured, or selectively omitted if those facts risk producing politically inconvenient conclusions.

  • Why are perpetrator descriptions sometimes vague to the point of absurdity?
  • Why is ethnicity often omitted?
  • Why are migration backgrounds hidden?
  • Why are gang affiliations downplayed?
  • Why do journalists suddenly become cautious when certain demographic realities emerge?
  • And perhaps the biggest question of all: why are these standards applied selectively?

Because modern Western societies have made a political decision that some truths are too dangerous for the public to discuss openly. … The fear is public reaction to honest information.

  • If violent crime disproportionately emerges from certain demographic groups, authorities fear accusations of racism.
  • If immigration patterns correlate with social tension or increased criminality in particular areas, politicians fear backlash against immigration policy.
  • If multiculturalism appears to produce fragmentation rather than cohesion in some communities, entire institutions become desperate to avoid acknowledging it openly.

So instead of confronting reality honestly, they attempt to manage perception.

The West has imported rape culture, literally. Our women are getting raped in unprecedented numbers by immigrants from the third world. We all know it, but to say so it forbidden. What is especially galling is that it is forbidden by the same moral preeners who claim that western culture is a rape culture and all us western men are guilty — and who imported actual rape culture to secure more votes to secure taxpayer funded jobs from leftist governments. Follow the money.

Language becomes sanitised. Riots become “community tensions.” Illegal immigrants become “undocumented migrants.” Ethnic gang violence becomes “youth unrest.” Religious extremism becomes “mental health concerns.” The wording changes because the underlying truth is politically explosive.

But changing language does not change reality. … Reality eventually overwhelms narrative. …

We notice:

The public is not blind. Citizens notice patterns. They notice when journalists emphasise race in one story but hide it in another. They notice when some offenders are endlessly contextualised while others are instantly condemned as symbols of wider social problems. They notice when police descriptions become suspiciously incomplete. They notice when authorities appear more concerned about avoiding accusations of prejudice than protecting ordinary citizens. …

 

You don’t say:

The modern media increasingly behaves less like an institution dedicated to truth and more like a system of narrative management. Facts are filtered through ideological priorities before reaching the public.

Information is not always outright fabricated, but it is carefully curated. Certain realities are amplified. Others are buried. Certain groups are protected from scrutiny while others remain permanently open to criticism. This double standard is one of the most corrosive aspects of modern public life.

We increasingly punish observation itself. Simply noticing patterns can now attract accusations of racism or hatred, even when official statistics, police reports, or court records support those patterns. Citizens are effectively told that acknowledging reality is morally unacceptable if reality conflicts with approved ideological narratives.

The big government crowd suppressed honest discussion. Our response is Trump. Farage (or Lowe), and Hanson:

Facts are not racist. Crime statistics are not racist. Police records are not racist. Court proceedings are not racist. Reality is not racist. The refusal to discuss reality honestly does not eliminate problems. It merely drives discussion underground, where anger hardens into resentment.

Moderate voices disappear because reasonable public debate becomes impossible. Into that vacuum step extremists, conspiracy theorists, and political opportunists willing to say openly what mainstream institutions refuse to address responsibly. Then the same elites who created the silence express horror at rising populism.

Increasingly, honesty carries risk. Careers can be destroyed. Businesses targeted. Reputations ruined. Social ostracism imposed. Not necessarily for lying, but for saying aloud what others privately know to be true. That is not a healthy civilisation. …

Cowards who get their paychecks from big government (perhaps via an NGO)

The most alarming part of all this is that many people now participate willingly in the dishonesty.

  • Journalists know when stories are selectively framed.
  • Politicians know when they are avoiding obvious realities.
  • Bureaucrats know when statistics are being softened.
  • Academics know when research conclusions are politically constrained.

Yet enormous numbers continue participating because the professional consequences of honesty have become severe.

We still get to vote.

Unlike in the old Soviet Union and its satellites, where the big government class and its media were regarded with contempt by most citizens. It could get a lot worse here in the West.

Not all immigrants are the same

Not all immigrants are the same. By Eric S. Raymond.

Castes in India have been maintaining almost perfect endogamy [marriage only to others in the same caste] for thousands of years. About the only significant category of exceptions is that if you have an exceptionally beautiful daughter you might succeed in getting her taken as a concubine by a higher-caste man, so their offspring might jump a rank.

With no significant gene flow between jatis [Hindu castes], divergences in important traits like IQ and time preference not only don’t smooth out, but actually amplify due to genetic drift and differing selective pressures.

Highest-caste Indians have an IQ distribution a lot like Europeans. Low-caste Indians…don’t.

This doesn’t mean all low-caste Indians are stupid; Gaussian distributions don’t work that way. It does mean that importing 10,000 low-caste Indians has very different implications for the host society then importing 10,000 Brahmins.

Segue to the recent news stories about American families getting killed by illiterate Indian truck drivers doing crazy stupid things on the roadways. Those truck drivers are not Brahmins.

This is a recent phenomenon because, until one of our political parties decided to import the entire Third World for vote-farming purposes, we were cream-skimming India. Now we’re not, and this makes a serious difference.

Take note, Canberra.

A commenter makes a wider point:

India’s castes crash into America’s delusions of equality with confusing and devastating results.

The next step is to realize that America did the “cream skimming” thing to Europe at its founding. America has always been exceptional and in defiance of regression to the mean.

 

Australia’s house prices to fall by most in 40 years

Australia’s house prices to fall by most in 40 years. By Robert Gotliebsen in The Australian.

Treasury Secretary Jenny Wilkinson’s plan to “change the distribution of home ownership” requires reducing the price of dwellings, led by Australia’s largest dwelling market, Sydney.

A large number of recent buyers could soon owe more on their dwelling than it is worth — so called negative equity.

Victoria:

In Melbourne, the state government version of Canberra’s “change the distribution of home ownership” program used property taxes to slash swelling values. It worked and achieved a 20 to 30 per cent slump in the value of dwellings priced between $1.5m and $10m.

There was a substantially smaller fall in property prices outside that range. Melburnians are now bracing for the impact of the Jim Chalmers/Wilkinson dose of “change the distribution of home ownership” taxes — a potential double dose.

Sydney:

Sydney’s largest apartment developer, Harry Triguboff, says “people are scared”. Triguboff said unit prices had already dropped 3 or 4 per cent this year.

But he now warns that the extent of the market slowdown is “understated”. Those people who are claiming prices will only drop 3 or 4 per cent are only saying that “because they are scared to go broke”. “They know very well prices will drop a lot more,” he says.

Australia:

Investment analysts MacroBusiness have been warning about high Australian consumer debt and high dwelling prices for some time, but after the budget they rang their warning bell much louder, stating that “we are bracing for the biggest housing correction in at least 40 years”. …

Impacts include:

A looming fall in dwelling transactions and prices will slash state government revenue via stamp duty. NSW Premier Chris Minns has made an early revenue decline estimate of $5bn. Victorian revenue will be devastated. …

Among the other secondary victims will be the 300,000 Australians who were encouraged by the government to use a government guarantee covering 15 per cent of the debt in order to borrow 95 per cent of peak dwelling prices. They had better not lose their jobs because they are in negative equity.

Politics:

There is no doubt Chalmers and Wilkinson are engaged in a massive social engineering project. Had they kept their attack to only one of the major measures, the impact would have been manageable.

But attacking capital gains, negative gearing and trusts in the same budget represented an unprecedented blow to parts of middle- and lower-income Australia.

We have a left-wing government and public service which together saw a unique opportunity to advance their combined agenda, given the division in opposition ranks.

Given the triple dose of untruths resulting from false election promises, they might be in for a nasty surprise — Pauline Hanson as prime minister.

Prediction about the future is hard, so don’t take the magnitude of the falls as gospel. In any case, they will be offset or disguised by growing inflation.

Yes, housing prices must fall. But the falls should be grandfathered in, perhaps leaving house prices flat while letting inflation do its work. Simply stopping (or reversing) mass migration from the third world would lower rents and house prices nicely.

One Nation surges ahead of Labor: Poll

One Nation surges ahead of Labor: Poll. By Phillip Coorey in The Financial Review.

One Nation has surged past Labor to become Australia’s most popular political party …

The latest The Australian Financial Review/Redbridge Group/Accent Research poll reveals primary support for One Nation has jumped four percentage points to 31 per cent since the pre-budget poll a month ago, while Labor’s primary vote fell three points to 28 per cent.

 

 

Redbridge director Tony Barry:

“The downstream effects of the budget and another interest rate rise is Labor have lost more vote share, but the Coalition aren’t the beneficiaries on a primary vote basis,” he said.

“With almost two-thirds of the electorate now saying Australia is heading in the wrong direction, that pervasive negative mood sentiment is fuelling more anti-establishment support and a view among a growing cohort of voters that the answer lies outside established norms and major parties.”

Meanwhile, Pauline Hanson said on Sky News this weekend that she is up to the job of leading the country.

Liberals want to work with One Nation:

Liberal MP Garth Hamilton: ““She has one of the highest profiles of politicians in Australia. Please come back and work with us.” …

Opposition energy spokesman Dan Tehan has not ruled out working with One Nation – or working under a One Nation prime ministership. …

“My view has always been that all of the parties in the centre-right need to work together if we are going to be able to defeat the Labor Party,

Tony Abbott:

Mr Abbott said it was “humiliating” that “the Prime Minister can’t do a public event without standing in front of three flags, not the one national flag that represents us all, and can’t open his mouth without suggesting that some Australians are more worthy of acknowledgement than others”.

“I just think this is wrong, I think it’s got to change,” he told ABC RN.

“Australia belongs to all of us, not just to some of us. And if you’re starting a speech, I think you should acknowledge everyone.”

Humiliating and divisive

How a relentless progressive orthodoxy is politicising life and crushing debate in Australia

How a relentless progressive orthodoxy is politicising life and crushing debate in Australia. By Greg Sheridan in The Australian.

Welcome to Australia, the nation Labor rigged. Not just Labor, but the progressive left establishment across society has established a state ideology, a system of orthodox beliefs (more unrelenting than medieval Christianity), which is increasingly imposed across all walks of life. The tendency is towards a one-party state, even if different party labels are preserved.

The Albanese/Chalmers budget is a giant step towards creating a southern hemisphere European welfare state. This relies on ultimately ruinous levels and types of welfare.

It greatly exaggerates the power of the state in all spheres of life, and tends to crony capitalism and corporate state structures. It brings a vast machinery of political orthodoxy — progressive ideology — which it’s increasingly difficult to be free of.

In a democracy the state is meant to be, as far as possible, politically neutral. In Australia, institutions that should be neutral have been politicised, while fresh institutions have been created for political purposes. Governments spend billions of dollars to coerce Australians into seeing reality through a leftist, progressivist lens, then enforcing them to live their lives accordingly. …

Ever bigger government now funds one side of every political debate:

Governments have established a vast forest of wealthy organisations designed to propagate a progressivist left worldview.

The Australian Human Rights Commission is a prime example. With a few exceptions it takes a progressivist/left view of human rights. It has very little to say in defence of free speech. Before the Bondi terror attacks it had little to say about antisemitism. But a Critical Theory and ideological view of the alleged fundamental injustice of Australia permeates its work. Thus this week we had the absurdity of the Sex Discrimination Commissioner expressing concern that transgender women could be discriminated against on the basis of potential pregnancy. …

Australian Human Rights Commission president Hugh De Kretser claims the fundamental injustice of British settlement in Australia has never been addressed, and advocates treaties with Aboriginal groups as a way of improving the human rights of Aboriginal Australians. A classical view of human rights would emphasise universal citizenship, with race having no part in official civic life. Why should the government fund the propagation of only one side, the left/progressivist side, of this issue?

The government funds the Environment Defenders Office to litigate against development projects. This involves enhancing, magnifying, helping political campaigns against these developments. Those who believe in development get no such government money.

Super and the unions have become another center of big government/leftist power:

The Australian superannuation industry has acquired vast financial power. As a result it also has political power. …

Compulsory super in Australia is really a form of tax. Many super funds have union officials on their boards. Super funds shouldn’t campaign politically about the treatment of super funds. These funds have also become part of the progressivist consensus in industry and investment.

Governments funnel huge amounts of money to trade unions. Unions now represent just 9 per cent of the private sector workforce, yet they’ve never been richer or more powerful. Government money is given to them for training and many other purposes. …

Universities:

University research grants are often enough mocked for their absurdity — anti-racist dentistry, drag shows for scientists, etc. But this nuttiness is a sideshow. It’s the deep, pervasive, overwhelming orthodoxy throughout publicly funded universities, with exceptions, that is simultaneously intellectually stultifying, corrosive in its exaggerated hostility to Western traditions, and ultimately undemocratic.

An autocracy doesn’t need an opposition ready to take over the reins of government, obviously. The opposition is just ceremonial, if it is allowed to exist at all.

There are thousands of other examples. The Albanese government, perhaps the most profligate in Australian history, found one area where it could economise. It cut staffing levels for the opposition.

In nearly 50 years of journalism, I can never remember House of Reps question time, the only part of parliament regularly broadcast to a large TV audience, being so rigged against giving the opposition any chance to make a point effectively, or meaningfully contest ideas and policies.

Totalitarianism is where government asserts total control over the lives of its citizens, regulating nearly every aspect of public and private behavior through coercion, repression, and propaganda. It is characterized by a single-party rule, the suppression of all opposition, and the enforcement of an official ideology that permeates education, media, and morality.

Clearly that is the direction in which Australia is currently headed.

Australia is one of the oldest continuous democracies in the world, but this relentless left/progressive orthodoxy is inherently authoritarian. It politicises normal areas of life such as school education, while ruling many normal views out of order for actual political discussion.

The best study of such tendencies remains George Orwell’s 1984. Big Brother determines the thoughts of its citizens. Subtlety and nuance are crushed. The only permitted opinions are double plus good, or double plus bad. This reflects the simplistic binaries that always underlie left/progressive orthodoxy, notwithstanding its pompous jargon and blather. For the left, the world is simplistically divided between oppressor and oppressed, hate-filled reactionary and enlightened progressive.

The author said “authoritarianism,” but technically “totalitarianism” fits the bill better, though we aren’t fully there yet. Perhaps it is fairer to say we are heading in an increasingly totalitarian direction, led by an authoritarian government. Obviously we still have many freedoms, but not as many as five years ago, or 20 years ago, let alone 80 years ago.