Could Melbourne become an Australian Detroit?

Could Melbourne become an Australian Detroit? By Robert Gottliebsen in The Australian.

The new Premier, Ben Carroll, is talented and in theory he could save the state, but his party has structured its strategies and policies to foster corruption and crime. Simply announcing a Royal Commission is a PR stunt. …

ALP politicians did not receive cash, but they saw $15bn stolen from the Victorian population by union officials and organised crime and they did nothing about it. Worse, they set up structures to perpetuate crime and corruption. …

According to the opinion polls, a huge number of Victorians, led by staunch ALP supporters, now fully understand the government’s key role in Victoria’s corruption plus the out-of-control crime. They now plan to vote against the ALP, which is why Carroll became premier. …

Goodbye Victoria:

If Victorian voters re-elect a corrupt, crime-fostering government, then a large number of employing enterprises will leave the state. The credit rating agencies will then almost certainly force some form of administration on the state, and a returned ALP government will be forced into huge government staff and service cuts. …

Many of Victoria’s large and smaller enterprises can’t operate a head office in a corrupt state, so are making plans to leave. The job and skill losses will be monumental….

Almost certainly the new premier must stop the employment-reducing, compulsory working-from-home nonsense which makes the state impossible to operate in. ….

Crime!!

Victoria is lucky. It has an honest police commissioner, Mike Bush, who knows exactly what is required to slash Victorian crime. He needs a non-corrupt government prepared to tackle the billions of dollars being injected into crime via building sites and illegal cigarettes. The state can turn off the building site money tap. The cigarette money tap requires Commonwealth action.

The “Mike Bush remedy” for crime will almost certainly require a massive change in Victoria’s court system and its “woke” judges and magistrates, many of whom are in desperate need of “retirement”. Cities like Chicago and New York have been infested by crime in the same way as Melbourne and have implemented harsh penalty policies (after one chance) to remove it. It will be nasty, but is essential. Victorians are sick of crime and the failure of the government to tackle the totally broken legal system.

Energy:

The Victorian boom years were based on gas and brown coal. The brown coal reserves are still there, and there looks to be more gas offshore plus the huge gas reserves under the coal. Technology now makes it possible to efficiently extract crude oil out of Victoria’s brown coal and therefore economically underpin Australia’s need for local diesel and aviation fuel. [I think David Archibald has mentioned coal-to-liquids about a million times on this website.]

Deep underneath our brown coal are massive reserves of gas dissolved in water and we need to quickly and inexpensively test whether that water will flow to the surface with its gas. Victoria can use the Latrobe Valley gas, with gas already discovered in the rest of Victoria and likely to be found in Bass Strait, to become a massive gas province, including an increase in gas-powered electricity generation to help in data centres. Eventually nuclear will be required.

Renewables mess:

The current renewables project around Australia is in complete chaos and we are looking at a trillion-dollar outlay which will skyrocket power prices. The federal government is concealing the horrendous costs and the “rort” deals it has done. …

Remember the Commonwealth government is keeping secret the real costs because of the disaster they reveal.

Bureaucracy and DEI:

The toughest task is Victoria’s debt and fixing a non-functional public service. …

Efficiency in the public service is made impossible by the creation of an Aboriginal parliament-style body in the treaty. The treaty needs to be rewritten.

Imagine if Melbourne became Australia’s Detroit. Detroit used to be an exemplar city that hummed with industry and wealth, until the 1960s.

I am not a racist. I am a culturalist.

I am not a racist. I am a culturalist. By John Cleese.

I see I am being ritually insulted for my support of this man [Rupert Lowe of the Restore Party].

The uneducated call me a racist.

I am not a racist.

I am a culturalist.

I believe that some cultures are better than others.

I prefer cultures to do not advocate stoning, pederasty, wife beating, female genital mutilation, and beheading opponents.

Call me old-fashioned…

Restore Australia:

John Cleese is a patriot 🫡

He is currently engaged in the battle of trying to wake up as many NPC liberals as possible before the third world & Islamic takeover of the UK.

A naughty van in Berlin

A naughty van in Berlin. By Douglas Murray in The Free Press.

By now it’s all starting to sound like a bad joke. An Islamist terrorist drives a van into a Berlin Pride parade, killing one person and injuring dozens more. And how is it reported? Much of the media went with the usual formulation: that the attacker might as well have been a self-automated vehicle. …

[THis] is best understood as the “naughty van” phenomenon. If a van or car is driven into a crowd by an Islamist, you can swiftly tell who the culprit is because the vehicle will be talked about as though it suddenly took on a life of its own and began a rampage.

The naughty van, after it crashed into a tree

 

The reality is even more repetitive. The perpetrator of Saturday’s attack was a 21-year-old called Abdul Ballout. Born in Germany, of Lebanese parentage, last year he reportedly went to Lebanon to try to get to Syria in order to join ISIS. Arrested in Lebanon, he served three months in prison for a range of offenses including incitement to religious and sectarian conflict.

On returning to Germany he was convicted of preparing a serious act of violence and endangering the state, among other charges, and was sentenced to less than two years in prison. However the court seems to have released him, and he was put into a course of “deradicalization.” He apparently went to two meetings. His third meeting with the Berlin-based Violence Prevention Network was meant to take place Monday.

The left hoped it was a white Christian man, and yet again are disappointed:

At this point, everyone in Europe knows which positions to assume. The organizers of the Pride parade gave a press conference in which they admitted that they had hoped the perpetrator had been a white Christian man. …

Across the political landscape and mainstream media in Europe, you can hear the same pining for a more politically convenient reality. …

Assimilation into white culture is flagrantly not happening for one particular group:

Beginning with Germany’s Gastarbeiter [guest worker] program in the 1950s, it was just presumed that the migrants — including from Muslim countries — would either leave after a time or settle and become as European as anyone else.

Of course, neither of these things happened. And it took until the 2010s for Europe’s leaders even to admit that nothing to do with postwar migration had gone according to plan. But by then Europe was faced with a problem it had no answer for: How do you integrate a community that doesn’t want to integrate? How do you stop people from hating the society that has welcomed them? …

The ideology runs strongly on the left, it does:

For those of us who have covered this story for years, none of it is shocking.

It is to be expected that Islamist terrorists will want to attack Christmas markets, pop concerts, Pride parades, and much more. It is to be expected that the media and many politicians will continue to try to put off the day that they actually acknowledge the problem that is facing them.

But what remains a marvel to some of us is that the moment of “waking up” never really comes. To put it another way, some people are so keen to remain in their delusion that they will deny the truth even as the weaponized vehicle accelerates toward them.

In the aftermath of Saturday’s attack, late in the evening, a reporter for the German broadcaster NTV told viewers watching live that “The queer community naturally feels threatened, above all, by right-wing forces.” By that stage in the day the perpetrator’s identity was known. His motives could be easily guessed at. But somehow it doesn’t fit to say that the queer community feels threatened by Islamists.

Globalist left and your wokie supporters: you broke it, you fix it.

(Fixing it will be ugly and involve hurting innocents. Let the globalist left wear the ignominy. If we do it, they will carp on forever about how superior and nicer they are.)

UPDATE:

Japan is watching its temples burn

Japan is watching its temples burn. By the Scientific Department of Fire Risk Heritage.

In the first five months of 2026, nine major shrines and temples were lost to fire across Japan — including the 573-year-old Daihoji Temple national treasure and Reikado Hall, which housed Japan’s sacred Eternal Flame burned continuously for 1,200 years.

These losses are deeply significant for Japan’s cultural heritage.

However, they occur within the context of one of the world’s most comprehensive heritage fire protection programs: following the 2019 Shuri Castle fire, Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs launched a ¥13 billion ($82.3 million) initiative to upgrade fire safety at 107 priority sites, with 64 sites (60%) already completed as of early 2026.

While most 2026 fire causes remain under investigation, the incidents underscore the ongoing challenges of protecting wooden heritage structures and the importance of continued investment in fire prevention, international cooperation, and knowledge sharing among fire safety professionals.

Nine temples already in 2026. Unlucky! Coincidence? Look around…

Lozzy B:

Buildings that survived wars, earthquakes, and typhoons for centuries — gone in a single morning each.

One was 573 years old, founded before Columbus sailed. It burned for nine hours. Twenty fire engines couldn’t save it.

Another had stood for 300 years.

Another housed a sacred flame kept burning since the year 806.

And the comments on every single fire story are saying the same thing:

“This is exactly what happened to the churches in Europe.”

Hundreds of churches across France, Germany, and the UK burned in a single year. Officials called them accidents.

Locals called it a pattern nobody wanted to name: ISLAM

Wake up, wokies on the left. You broke it, you fix it.

Fauci kept a diary, it’s now online, and it proves he was a publicity-obsessed liar

Fauci kept a diary, it’s now online, and it proves he was a publicity-obsessed liar.

Diary on the Internet, by The Free Press:

Back when both the public health establishment and the mainstream media hung on Fauci’s every word, Republican Senator Rand Paul was one of the few in a position of power willing to criticize him — going so far as to say that Fauci should “go to prison” for “his dishonesty” in dismissing the lab leak theory. Paul has long been convinced that the virus did indeed result from a lab leak, a position that is no longer viewed as heresy but is taken seriously by a number of officials in the intelligence community. And he has never stopped trying to get to the bottom of it. Paul has subpoenaed Fauci to testify at a hearing his committee is holding on Wednesday. Fireworks are guaranteed.

Over the weekend, Paul struck the first blow. In advance of the hearing, he released the contents of a diary Fauci kept during the crisis, all 1,141 pages.

Trump was onto Fauci and Debra Birx by April 2020:

The fatality rate of covid in 2020 started at 14% in Italy and 3% in Australia, but quickly dropped to around 0.5%. The death rate from influenza varies (new strains cause more deaths, e.g. the Spanish flu), but is generally around 0.05%. The omicron variant of covid came along in 2022, when Australia opened up, and it was much less dangerous than earlier variants. It’s fatality rate was about the same as the ‘flu, at about 0.05%, a tenth of previous variants. Before omicron, covid was definitely more dangerous than the flu (at least in the short term — long term effects on our immune systems are still unclear).

Some right wing fools tried to claim the pre-omicon variants of covid weren’t any worse than the ‘flu. This was patent nonsense, which just made them look like non-credible in the eyes of most of the population. (File that under “how to so spectacularly not persuade people that you wonder if it is deliberate sabotage,” along with most crazy climate skeptic theories, e.g. chemtrails.)

The all-important fatality rates, by KanekoaTheGreat:

Fauci’s diary says he privately put COVID’s fatality rate at 0.2-0.3%. Under oath weeks later, he told Congress it was 10x the flu. The timeline:

Feb 8, 2020 (private diary): case fatality rate “more like 0.2-0.3%.”

March 10 (Hannity): “The mortality for this is about 2-2.5%. It’s probably lower than that, closer to 1%. But even if it’s 1%, it’s 10x more lethal than the seasonal flu.”

March 11 (Congress, under oath): “The stated fatality rate of this overall… is about 3%. If you count all the cases of asymptomatic infection, that probably brings the mortality down to 1%, which means it’s 10x more deadly than the seasonal flu.”

March 27 (Daily Show): “The mortality of this is about 10x the flu. It’s at least 1%.”

He wrote 0.2-0.3% in his journal — then told the public, over and over, a number 3 to 5 times higher.

He loved the limelight. The Free Press again:

[The dairy] also paints a picture of a mainstream media complicit in passing along Fauci’s untruths, with nary a skeptical note.

Fauci meticulously documents his own rising fame in the early months of the pandemic, and in doing so, he reveals why he believed himself to be beyond reproach. He notes that Julia Roberts and Stephen Curry wanted to shake his hand. People applauded him when he walked into a restaurant. Important people wanted his advice. Here is a typical entry, this one from March 1, 2020:

“Got call at home this a.m. (Sunday) from Governor Andrew Cuomo (NY) asking advice [on] how he should handle the COVID-19 situation in NYC. Had long conversation in which he stressed a few times how much his father (and mother) loved me and used to tell Chris and Andrew how much they respected me and how proud they were that I was an Italian-American.” …

No matter what was going on with the pandemic — no matter how many people were dying — Fauci kept close track of the interviews he granted. Sometimes there were a dozen in a single day. His diary conveys his obsession with his press profile — and his belief that he could get away with saying anything and the media would buy it.

The controversy over the origin of the virus is one example that stands out in the diary. In public, Fauci consistently dismissed the lab leak theory, even mocking it at one point as a “circular argument.” …

Why the media never challenged him, and how power works nowadays:

Given that so many of Fauci’s pronouncements were not backed up by anything that resembled scientific evidence, why was the mainstream media so eager to serve as his stenographer instead of digging into his claims the way journalists are supposed to? Why did they accept Fauci’s word as gospel?

The answer would appear to be found in one especially telling entry: “Chris [Fauci’s wife] and I went to a book party for our friend Ruth Marcus (Washington Post columnist), for her book Supreme Ambition about Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Party at the home of David and Katherine Bradley. . . . Elegant home. Super A-list at party: Senator Mark Warner, Kellyanne Conway, Andrea Mitchell, David Ignatius, David Frum, Zeke Emanuel, etc., etc. Rafe Sagalyn is Ruth’s agent and was there.”

Fauci was rubbing elbows with the crème de la crème of Washington media. They saw the world in the same way, celebrating a book that skewers a conservative justice. They were, all of them, friends. Like everyone else in the establishment, they thought Fauci was a hero. And which of them was going to knock him off his pedestal? …

And don’t forget President Joe Biden, who granted Fauci a preemptive, blanket pardon as one of his last acts in office. Fauci might otherwise have been investigated for possible perjury in any of his many appearances before Congress. Instead, the president formally placed him above the law and foreclosed any possibility of setting his record straight in the courtroom.

A little justice? Hans Mahncke:

So what happens now? When does accountability begin?

Fauci is due to testify publicly on Wednesday, and we already know what to expect. He will be evasive, slippery, and endlessly snakey, using every verbal trick available to avoid responsibility. But for the love of God, someone must confront him with the cold, hard reality of what he did.

Please do not make it a shouting match and please do not use any theatrics. Just say it plainly.

You, Anthony Fauci, outsourced extremely dangerous and reckless experiments that were banned in the United States to the Wuhan lab. You funded that work. You supplied advanced Western biotechnology and expertise. You empowered the scientists who carried it out. They then used that knowledge to create the virus that caused a global catastrophe and killed millions of people.

He can deny it. He can dodge. He can hide behind definitions and bureaucratic language. But someone must finally say it to his face, in public, and put the truth on the record.

 

Islamists persuade Muslims not to assimilate in the West by creating Islamophobia with terrorist atrocities

Islamists persuade Muslims not to assimilate in the West by creating Islamophobia with terrorist atrocities. By Grégoire Canlorbe at The Gatestone Institute.

One of the great successes of Islamist movements appears to have been to convince much of the third generation of Muslim families to break with assimilation.

Many of that generation were beginning to become more integrated than their parents or grandparents. They had begun to adopt some codes of European societies: freedom of individuals, freedom of movement, separation between religion and politics, sometimes even emotional and sexual freedom. You could see young Muslim women dating Christians, atheists, or non-Muslims.

For a number of years, though, you can see a retreat, particularly during conversations on “Islamophobia.” Islamists, often with the support — or complacency — of many on the “left,” have managed to instill in many Muslims a mentality of mistrust, sometimes verging on paranoia, leading them to believe that they are surrounded by enemies — that the non-Muslim society is fundamentally hostile to them, and that they must therefore not join it.

In what turned out to be a bestseller in France, The Strategy of Intimidation, I explained that by launching barbaric jihadist attacks — such as Bataclan, Charlie Hebdo, London, Madrid, Barcelona, Brussels, Berlin, or the July 14 Nice attacks — radical Islamists in fact aim to induce hostility toward Muslims and provoke a clash between Muslims and non-Muslims, to motivate Muslims to separate from their non-Muslim environment and de-assimilate.

This strategy has been most effective. Islamic terrorism produces criticism of Islamism. The Islamists then say that the criticism is proof that they are victims of Islamophobia. Young people who were assimilated, or at least interested, are encouraged to withdraw voluntarily into an isolated Islamic community. This community then functions as a counter-society against Western society, which is perceived as harmful, decadent, “Islamophobic,” or “racist.” In this framework, withdrawal — whether it involves a veil, marrying only within one’s religion, Muslim clothing excluded by non-Muslims from everyday life, or abstention from some democratic activities — is then presented as a condition of survival in the face of a small minority community supposedly being oppressed by a large majority.

There is now a discourse in these Muslim communities that suggests it might be best if they separated themselves from the rest of society. The separation is being presented as a demand for protection, a right to difference, or even a right to reparations in the face of the supposedly “racist” attitude of Western society.

The discourse presents Western society as diabolically secular, anti-religious, perverse, Islamophobic, and, of course, Zionist. In this narrative, Christians are often described as the accomplices of Jews or Zionists — a view that further reinforces the hostility toward the host society and the wish to separate from it.

Violence by a few determined fanatics has kept Islam from evolving for 1400 years. It continues, but our left and ruling class have no idea. They still think Muslim immigrants will assimilate and become culturally white — while keeping their own cuisine and quaint dress sense, of course.

Meet the populist left

Meet the populist left. By Greg Sheridan in The Australian.

Surely the most under-reported story in Western politics today is the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America [DSA] and their incredible success in Democratic primaries, getting extrem­ist candidates up at the expense of mainstream Democrats. …

The DSA itself is not purely communist but it is extremely left. However, structurally it’s a coalition and several members of its ruling soviet, I mean committee, are self-declared communists, members in good standing of communist organisations.

The communist label is not a Trump slander, it’s self-description. Hasan Piker, an influencer and social media star central figure in the far left’s surge among Democrats, recently declared that communist dictator Mao Zedong, who was responsible for the death by state famine and slaughter of tens of millions of innocent Chinese, “one of the great leaders of this world”.

It’s a tragedy of the political illiteracy of our age that communism’s staggering crimes against humanity are now little known. They hardly figure in school or university education. …

The DSA is associated with left-wing senator Bernie Sanders and also radical New York mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Candidates the DSA has backed have won primary after primary in the Democratic Party.

Manifesto:

The DSA is conscious that while it’s having great success, especially via social media, it’s also generating opposition. So it recently published a manifesto to show how warm and cuddly it is. But this is the most radical document to have mainstream political influence in America in decades.

It calls for an end to capitalism. It wants the abolition of the presidency and the Supreme Court, with a new executive to be chosen by an elected congress. It wants a 32-hour work week with full pay and benefits, universal free housing, nationalisation and permanent state control of all the biggest corporations, an end to all student debt as part of an end to all debt, and an end to US sanctions on Iran, Cuba and Venezuela.

It wants ultimately to abolish the police and defund the military. And of course it has the usual stuff about climate change, demonising Israel and demonising America itself. …

Populist fringe, appealing mainly to university educated but downwardly mobile youngsters who cannot afford a house or children:

The far-left populists clearly want to ape many of Trump’s tactics: a concentration on social media, the absolute demonising of their opponents, a reliance on conspiracy theories, talking directly to voters — in this case often the young, which mainstream media has difficulty reaching — promising impossible benefits etc.

They don’t want to convert the middle. They want to anger and energise a base. …

They are tugging the Democrats to the crazy end of left:

Of course, the fact that Democrat politicians embrace the DSA rhetoric and enjoy its support doesn’t mean they will try to implement its grotesque platform.

But they will trend in that direction. The DSA told Mamdani not to increase the size of the New York police force and he complied. …

The DSA is already exerting a big and destructive influence on the Democrat mainstream. It is concerned with Gaza, climate change, identity politics, LGBTQI, inclusion.

Sounds something like the ALP national conference.

Understanding the current left, by ZeroHedge:

Fox News has begun publishing explainers to educate its audience about the emerging far left, while Trump administration officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, have declared war on the radical left and foreign subversion networks linked to Cuba, China and elsewhere …

To help map its many layers, Karlyn Borysenko, who describes herself as an anti-communist analyst, published an easy-to-understand infographic:

 

Australia is slipping badly against the US, Europe, and even the UK in GDP per capita

Australia is slipping badly against the US, Europe, and even the UK in GDP per capita. By Alexander Downer in The Australian.

Then:

Through the first decade of this century, Australia’s economy was seen globally as an outstanding example of success.

From the mid-1980s until the mid-2000s, we deregulated our economy, scrapped tariff protection, privatised government enterprises, reformed the tax system, paid off all government debt and ran budget surpluses.

By 2010, Australia’s per capita GDP was slightly above that of the US. We were fractionally richer than the Americans. We were some 20 per cent richer than the countries in the eurozone, and around 30 per cent richer than the UK. What is alarming is to see how we have done relative to those countries over the past 15 years.

Now:

Let’s start with the US. We have gone from being slightly richer than the US to our per capita GDP being just over 70 per cent of America’s. … America’s economy has performed much better than Australia’s over the last 20 years.

In 2010, Australia was approximately 20 per cent richer than the eurozone countries on a per capita basis. By 2025 it was only 9 per cent richer. So, for all the talk of slow growth in Europe and its lack of economic dynamism and entrepreneurship — which is by the way completely justified — Australia has been performing less well than the eurozone.

But surely, you’re thinking, we would have done much better than the UK. We’re always being told that the UK’s economy is broken, that it is in permanent crisis, that it was devastated by Brexit and that immigration has plunged the country into penury. Well, don’t be too hasty in drawing that conclusion. In 2010, we were approximately 30 per cent richer per capita than the UK, but now that gap has been reduced to around 13 per cent.

The crime:

Australia is richly endowed with resources and energy; there is no excuse for its weak economic performance. We have also benefited substantially from the economic rise of China and, more broadly, the Indo-Pacific region. Despite all of that, we are performing less well than America, Europe and the UK. Yet 20 years ago, we were admired for our outstanding economic performance….

Socialism and climate religion:

There are two key, if not sole, factors.

The first was the reaction to the global financial crisis, which led to a loss of confidence by the establishment, as well as the general public, in the liberal market….

This model has been replaced with a social democratic model, which involves huge increases in unprofitable public investment and a rapid expansion of the welfare state. …

Secondly, the overall obsession by the political class with climate policies has been crippling for Australia. Not only has there been eye-watering amounts of public money pumped into the so-called energy transition, but by establishing a dual system of renewables and conventional fossil fuel electricity generation, there has been a pronounced decline in productivity in the energy sector and a commensurate substantial increase in electricity prices. According to the Productivity Commission, investment in electricity generation since 2001-02 has grown by 126 per cent, and output has grown by 14 per cent, so it’s hardly surprising there has been an astronomical increase in electricity prices.

The single reason boils down to the takeover of Australia’s leadership by the current ruling class — bureaucratic, university indoctrinated, and woke. They don’t have experience in private industry, and they didn’t do due diligence on the carbon dioxide theory of global warming (even though it was pointed out to them it was much exaggerated and essentially bogus). They have had taxpayer-funded everything all their lives, and cannot imagine why anyone would want anything else. They don’t trust the private market, or their fellow Australians. In fact, they want to replace both.

The new Australian Labor Party, not like the 1980s

The new Australian Labor Party, not like the 1980s. By Nick Cater in The Australian.

Fattening workers’ pay packets was once core business for the Labor Party. Not anymore. On Thursday, delegates to Labor’s triennial national conference turned a blind eye to four years of stagnating living standards, higher taxes and punishing inflation to give Anthony Albanese’s economic policy a big tick.

Then they got on to the big stuff: gas, gambling and Gaza, the hot-button issues among progressives who are the outright owners of today’s ALP. The PM has settled the identity crisis that dogged the party for half a century. Under Albanese, Labor is now unambiguously and irrevocably the party of the “long hairs”, as Jack Lang once disparagingly called the intellectuals on the fringes of the party, “dreamers … the sons of wealthy parents … overtaken by ‘misty idealism’ ”.

Since Lang’s day, the divide between the graduate and non-graduate classes has become the dominant fault line in cultural and political life. Under Albanese, Labor has plonked itself firmly on the side of the tertiary-educated elite in opposition to the socially conservative values of working-class people.

Having abandoned its former mission as the workers’ party, Labor is now free to cast itself off into the stratosphere, dealing with things much more important than the cost of living, soaring energy prices or record immigration.

It is a very different party to the one led by Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, who understood that Labor could achieve nothing without a strong economy. …

Hello?

The 60-40 divide on the voice referendum is, however, a reminder that the non-graduate class holds a clear majority.

A notional referendum question on, say, the size of the migration intake, support for net zero or the linking of the word Islamism to terrorism would produce a verdict equally as convincing.

Paul Keating was taught well by the boffins at Treasury when he was treasurer. Apart from that period of his career, Keating pretty much lived up to  his reputation as “Captain Wacko.”

Scary Gold Story

Scary Gold Story. By Milan Adams.

Central banks do not purchase gold at market prices because they are speculating; they purchase because they know something the broader public still refuses to accept: the current debt-based monetary model is approaching a terminal inflection point where restructuring will be imposed by force majeure rather than democratic consensus.

Data regarding global debt published by the Institute of International Finance reveals that the global debt-to-GDP ratio has surpassed 336%, and sovereign debt service now consumes over 19% of fiscal revenues in developed economies. In this context, gold and silver are no longer mere speculative instruments but become the only real measures of relative value that have survived millennia of failed monetary experiments. …

Central bank digital currency projects are advancing in over 135 jurisdictions simultaneously, and the architecture of these systems includes mechanisms for programmed currency expiration, holding caps, and geographical usage restrictions. …

History demonstrates unequivocally that when precious metals enter phases of accelerated price discovery, physical access becomes impossible at the retail level, and derivative instruments become mere uncovered promises that evaporate during crisis. Those who hold physical now hold the real option; those who delay hold only the illusory hope that the current system will survive indefinitely.

Looking ahead toward 2030, three vectors converge toward a financial singularity that will redefine property in the civilizational sense of the word.

  • The first vector is the geopolitical shift of economic gravity toward Eurasia, which is accumulating metals at accelerated rhythm while deactivating dependence on the US dollar.
  • The second vector is the demographic collapse of Western consumption, which reduces the available fiscal base for sustaining sovereign debts and forces direct monetization of deficits.
  • The third vector, the least discussed but most dangerous, is the fragmentation of global financial infrastructure into incompatible monetary blocs, each attempting to secure real resources before the others.

In this tableau, gold and silver are no longer luxury goods or diversification instruments but become elements of systemic survival for those who understand that fiat money is a temporary convention, not natural law.

Serf or lord?

Those who act now, before prices reflect complete market dislocation, will hold a structural advantage impossible to recover later. Those who wait for social validation or media confirmation will discover that programmable digital currencies offer no exit when the system imposes capital controls and virtual expatriation taxes upon captive economies. The choice is not between gold and equities, or between silver and bonds; the choice is between real property and voluntary subordination.

It’s happening in slow motion, so hardly anybody notices. But don’t say you weren’t warned 🙂

Machete gang attacks in Melbourne and Perth

Machete gang attacks in Melbourne and Perth. By Visegrad 24.

Monday, July 20, 2026, 3:20pm, Cranbourne North, Melbourne:

A 15-year-old Alkira Secondary College student has undergone emergency surgery after being stabbed and slashed in the neck, back, arms and hands by Middle Eastern thugs who attacked him with machetes at Sabel Reserve Playground in Melbourne, Australia.

Police say the teenager had just left school and was with two friends when three males, aged approximately 16–20, began calling out and taunting the group before chasing him into the park.

Detective Inspector Mark Patrick said the suspects let out what he described as “a war cry” intended to intimidate the victims before launching “an extremely violent attack”, repeatedly striking the boy with their weapons.

More

 

Mum of teen slashed by African machete gang reveals cops refused to help. By The Noticer.

A mother of a Perth teenager who was slashed by machete-wielding African thugs outside a house party has revealed police refused to help her bleeding son at the scene.

Horrific footage of the attack on Lucas Jeisman, 17, in the suburb of Mindarie on Good Friday showed several hooded thugs armed with long blades hacking and slashing him while others kicked and stomped on him as he lay on the ground.

Lucas was hospitalised for two days at Joondalup Health Campus, needed stitches for deep cuts to both legs, suffered facial bruising and scratches, and has now been diagnosed with PTSD.

But his “absolutely gutted” mother Leisa told The Karl Stefanovic Show that police refused to call an ambulance after he approached them at the scene despite being soaked with blood, and forced him and another injured friend to leave the area instead. …

She also revealed that all of the attackers were Sudanese except for one, and said police only charged the African teens after she put pressure on them.

“They were Sudanese, all Sudanese boys and there was one White boy, the White boy was arrested within days of this happening,” she said.

“I had to fight with the police every day, I was fighting with them every day to do something. Lucas knows these boys. He went to school with them. He knows their names. There’s a video of the attack. Why are you not making arrests?”

Random snapshots from the UK

Random snapshots from the UK.

Reform UK candidates campaigning for Nigel Farage:

 

Villagers in Piddington are holding a referendum to leave the UK.

This comes after they were told over a thousand migrants [all undocumented military age males] will be living near them soon, outnumbering them by at least 3 to 1.

They know how dangerous these illegals are.

 

Policing is so unpopular, invasive, and unfair that the police refuse to allow recordings:

This incident from last year saw two Police Officers investigate a child for social media posts.

Well guess what! they’ve “lost” everything.

  • Pocket Notebooks – DISAPPEARED
  • Bodycam Footage – LOST PROBABLY DELETED

They’ve even REFUSED to give the officers names for ‘data protection’

They even said to the child’s mother “Can you turn your camera off, you can have my bodycam footage afterwards” hoping there would be no record of this incident.

 

She just won the “British Citizen Award For Empowering Young Women”

Albanese and Burnham, living in the ’70s

Albanese and Burnham, living in the ’70s. By Greg Sheridan in The Australian.

 

Both Burnham and Albanese are committed to left-wing economic and social policies that replicate the 1970s, the last era of catastrophic Anglophone social democratic failure. Both men bizarrely idealise the 70s. It’s perverse, as though a 12-year-old boy chose cabbage and brussels sprouts for a birthday treat.

Burnham thinks all Britain’s mistakes began with Margaret Thatcher in 1979. Albanese (who has devoted his life to “fighting Tories”) and his ministers take inspiration from the disastrous 70s Whitlam government while determinedly becoming the complete opposite of the successful 80s Hawke government, which they never reference.

London is so “exciting” now — like the third world!

Norway and Denmark have successfully controlled illegal immigration. They are placid, co-operative societies. The worst you could say is they’re perhaps a bit dull. …

But, but, but — unlike London, Copenhagen and Oslo are clean, safe, friendly, affordable even. Public transport is cheap, accessible and easy. There’s not much anti-social behaviour. In days of walking we never felt the slightest tension. Unlike London, people didn’t talk constantly of knife crime or having their mobile phones snatched.

Mass immigration has overwhelmed Britain’s NHS. But it’s not just the health system in crisis. Government generally doesn’t work any more. Neither does much else. One in four working-age Brits officially suffers a disability. A million 18 to 24-year-olds are involved in neither education, employment nor training.

The British state has never been bigger or more inefficient. Taxation represents nearly 39 per cent of GDP, higher than at any time since World War II. Just like Australia, seemingly everyone in the government sector works from home, which means they don’t work much at all. An English friend needs a minor update on his passport and has been told this could take six months and cannot be accelerated. …

The unsentimental markets think Britain, and Burnham, a bad bet and charge it more to borrow money than any other advanced country.

Just like Australia, Britain has a dismal productivity record. Like Albanese, Burnham’s predecessor, Keir Starmer, heavily re-regulated industrial relations and empowered trade unions. Both nations follow net-zero obsessions resulting in both having among the world’s highest energy prices. Manufacturing flees both nations. Labour, in neither London nor Canberra, does anything to free up the supply side of the economy.

There are a whole lot of things Burnham wants to do. They all involve spending money he hasn’t got. Reprising Albanese, none of Burnham’s initiatives will accelerate economic growth. …

Indicating how pandering to activists and extremists will go, Burnham made just one foreign policy statement. Ukraine? Russia? Iran? China? No, in a country awash with antisemitism fuelled in part by hate-filled anti-Israel demonstrations, Burnham apologised that Labour had been too soft on Israel, not strong enough for Palestine. Social cohesion is even worse in Britain than Australia.

The 1970s was our leaders’ happy time:

In the 70s Britain was a bad joke, needing an IMF bailout, crippled by strikes, the sick man of Europe. That’s Burnham’s happy time, Labour’s happy time.

In Australia, Whitlam’s government was so disastrous more Australians left the country than migrants came in. Whitlam was rejected, twice, in landslide election losses. But in Labor myth Whitlam is the perfect leader.

Thatcher’s election led to 18 years of Conservative rule. Brits became wealthier, many more owned their homes, London became the global financial centre, the UK had a powerful military and was central in defeating communism. For Burnham, this Thatcherism was all bad.

Australia and Britain today embody the crisis of social democracy. Burnham and Albanese are left-wing leaders of antique vintage, as though their respective electorates somehow mistakenly bought a Morris Minor or FJ Holden as the new family car. Their economic policies are impoverishing, building structural obstacles to growth. Social policy is woke, foreign policy often fatuous. Only in the vapours of Labor myth is the view today Olympian. For those forced to live in the real world, the outlook is bleak.

Sigh. It will take Farage/Lowe and Hanson to begin to break the stranglehold of our entitled, bureaucratic, stupid ruling class. And if Trump 1 is anything to go by, they won’t be enough at first.

A reader comments:

It isn’t only Albanese and Burnham who’re living in the past.

The boomers I know almost all appear to have a mental model of things that’s 30 years old.

They don’t appear to understand what’s been done to their world in that time, nor do they appear to understand the implications for them and their families.