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. 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. 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:

 

Ghost Font, the anti-AI font. Go take a look.

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. 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. 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. 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.

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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.

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.

🚨NEWS: Villagers in Piddington are holding a referendum to leave the UK

This comes after they were told over a thousand migrants will be living near them soon outnumbering them by at least 3 to 1

They know how dangerous these illegals are pic.twitter.com/WVIftN5FFZ

— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) July 25, 2026

 

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.

🚨POLICE DESTROY BODY CAM FOOTAGE

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…

— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) July 24, 2026

 

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

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.

“The people who know nothing know everything”. By Nachum Kaplan.

Foreword by Daniel Clarke-Serret:

What is so special about the piece is how it is written. Far more than a mere polemic or an academic thesis, it is a bona fide work of literature … It speaks of argument in a world of slogans. It promotes truth in a world of ignorance. It elevates fact in a world of fiction. And it does so with a humour, humanity and exasperation that AI would never be capable of. It is Nachum Kaplan’s authentic voice, and the voice of all those that despair along with him.

Put simply, it’s a masterpiece deserving of a prize that the luvvies will never give him — and it’s a powerful testament to the continuing force of the writer to preserve our humanity.

Read the whole thing, but here’s the set up:

I knew the evening was in trouble when the hostess described the table as “a safe space for difficult conversations.”

Nothing good has ever followed such words.

A safe space for difficult conversations is usually a space in which everyone is free to express precisely the same opinion, provided they do so using slightly different therapeutic vocabulary. Disagreement is welcome in the way vegetarians are welcome at a barbecue: theoretically, warmly, and without any intention of accommodating them.

The dinner was being held in an immaculate apartment overlooking the city. The furniture was Scandinavian, the lighting was flattering, and the books had been arranged not alphabetically but morally. Edward Said sat beside Frantz Fanon. Judith Butler leaned against a large volume on decolonising architecture. There were several books about Israel, none by Israelis, historians, military analysts, Arabic speakers, Hebrew speakers, or anyone who had recently burdened themselves with the region’s chronology.

The apartment belonged to Oliver and Beatrice, who had invited 12 people for what they called “an evening of food, friendship and necessary conversation.”

I had been included, I later realised, as the necessary conversation; the one in need of “education.”

Beatrice greeted me at the door with the expression of a person welcoming a recently rehabilitated extremist.

“We’re so glad you came,” she said, touching my arm. “We were worried you might feel uncomfortable.”

“I’ve been to family weddings,” I replied. “I’ll survive.”

The other guests had already assembled around a huge island bench. They held champagne flutes and spoke in low, solemn tones about suffering in places they would never visit.

There was Julian, an international lawyer who specialised in commercial leases but had recently developed strong views on the laws of armed conflict. Nadia worked in branding and referred to herself as a storyteller. Marcus was a documentary producer whose documentaries had never been produced. Eleanor taught postcolonial literature and had perfected the academic art of converting adjectives into accusations. Simon was in finance and considered himself politically courageous because he had once criticised capitalism at Davos.

There was also Theo, a surgeon, who knew nothing about Israel but knew it with clinical confidence.

I was introduced around the room.

“This is our pro-Israel friend,” Beatrice announced.

I gently corrected her that I was not pro-Israel but an actual Israeli, which caused a murmur.

It was a curious introduction. Nobody else was introduced by the country they were expected to defend. There was no “This is our pro-France friend” or “Meet our controversial supporter of New Zealand.”

Apparently, Israel was no longer a country. It was a personality disorder, and not a borderline one.

“How brave of you to come,” Eleanor said.

“Why?”

“Well,” she replied, glancing around the room, “I suspect you may be in the minority.”

“Minorities are sacred,” I said. “I’m sure I’ll be protected.”

The first course was served on plates that looked handmade because they had been expensively manufactured to resemble imperfection. It was some kind of compressed beetroot construction accompanied by a smear of something apologetic.

Oliver raised his glass.

“To honest conversation.”

Everyone echoed him.

I should have left then.

For the first 10 minutes, the conversation was restrained. We discussed schools, property prices, artificial intelligence and whether the city had lost its soul. Then Nadia placed her fork carefully beside her plate and sighed.

“I just don’t understand how anyone can still defend Israel.”

There it was.

Not raised, exactly. Released.

The room grew quiet. Heads turned towards me with the benign anticipation of people waiting for a laboratory animal to perform a familiar trick.

“What is it that you don’t understand?” I asked.

“All of it,” she said.

This was at least honest.

“The occupation. The apartheid. The genocide. The colonialism.”

Four accusations, delivered with the rhythmic confidence of a wine list.

“Those are different claims,” I said.

“Are they?”

“Yes. Words retain separate meanings even when discussing Israel.” …

And then it starts.

Here’s the ending and the aftermath:

I placed my napkin on the table.

“But before I go, let us clarify what happened here. You invited one pro-Israel guest into a room of people who share the same politics and called it dialogue. You introduced me by my position, then treated me as morally suspect for holding it. You recited accusations you could not define, cited history you did not know, invoked laws you could not explain and became offended whenever asked for evidence.”

Nobody spoke.

“You are not courageous dissenters. You are the local branch office of an international consensus assembled from newspaper headlines, dinner-party fashion and the intoxicating pleasure of condemning Jews for surviving incorrectly.”

“That is outrageous,” Beatrice said.

“No. Outrageous was Theo suggesting Jewish trauma produces aggression while sitting beneath a painting his family probably bought from a refugee.”

Theo looked towards the painting.

I had no idea where it came from, but by then accuracy had become less important to everyone, so I decided to participate.

Simon stood as well.

“You’re becoming hysterical.”

“Hysterical? I am the calmest person here. I am merely no longer cushioning the information for people who consider contradiction a hate crime.”

“You are proving every stereotype about pro-Israel people,” Nadia said.

“You mean Jews? Which stereotype? That we eventually lose patience after being lectured by people who discovered the Middle East six months ago?”

“You’re impossible.”

“No. I’m inconvenient. There is a difference.”

I picked up my jacket.

The room watched me with the shocked resentment of aristocrats who had just discovered the footman could read.

At the door, Oliver made one final attempt at magnanimity.

“I’m sorry you didn’t feel heard.”

“I was heard perfectly well. That is why everyone is upset.”

“We may simply have to agree to disagree.”

“No. You may have to agree to read.”

He folded his arms.

“Do you genuinely believe you’re the only person here who understands the issue?”

“No,” I said. “I believe I’m the only person here who has made the vulgar effort.”

Beatrice opened the door.

The conversation, she said, had become unsafe.

I thanked her for the meal.

Outside, the night air was cool and gloriously free of moral vocabulary. I walked home reflecting on the strange burden of being pro-Israel in polite society.

One is expected to arrive with evidence, history, nuance, empathy, military expertise, legal precision and a detailed alternative strategy for every available course of action.

The other side need only arrive with adjectives. Colonial. Genocidal. Apartheid. Brutal.

Each word is placed on the table like a royal flush. No definitions required. No chronology necessary. No awareness of competing claims. The accusation itself is treated as evidence, while any response is proof of callousness.

The ignorance would be less irritating if it were accompanied by humility. Yet ignorance among the educated rarely travels alone. It brings status, vocabulary and the confidence of belonging to a moral majority. Its possessors do not merely lack knowledge. They regard knowledge as faintly disreputable, particularly when it interferes with the emotional clarity of their conclusions.

By the following morning, I had received three messages.

Beatrice said she was “holding space” for me but needed time to process my aggression.

Nadia said she hoped I would one day reconnect with my compassion.

Julian sent an article from a newspaper columnist who had never visited Israel.

Islam’s desires now part of Australian politics. By Lachlan Leeming in The Australian.

The Muslim Vote political movement has declared it will target seats in Labor’s western Sydney heartland at the coming NSW election, with the group aiming to capitalise on fury within the ­Islamic community at Premier Chris Minns, stemming from Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s Australian visit earlier this year. …

Sheik Wesam Charkawi, the group’s convener, .. said announcements would soon be made on which nominees will be supported in the NSW elections, adding that frustration within the Islamic community at Mr Minns, stemming from his strident support of the Jewish community and related protest laws had galvanised the group’s efforts to take on Labor.

He claimed the NSW Labor Premier was “willing to advocate forcefully for one community while showing no regards for advocates of justice and fairness”.

“Without question, Chris Minns has come to be regarded as the most aggressive and openly partisan premier,” he said.

So it begins in the formal political arena. Islam’s desires must be accommodated by our political leaders — Muslim preachers now have significant political power in Australia. The Islamic population of Australia is 3.2% (2021 census), but will only grow under current demographic trends and immigration policies.

How long before parts of Australia get Sharia law? Before Arabic becomes an alternate national language? At what point will Australia’s current ruling class (soon to be deposed by Islam, ahem) realize that multiculturalism was a dreadful mistake for people who are culturally or ethnically whites? France may be majority Islamic or ethnically Arabic by 2060; currently 25% of French teenagers identify as Muslim.

A reader comments:

I can hardly bear to read it.

The Christian West has known all about this distinct, dangerous political system/ideology that it’s impossible to get along with for 1,400 years

It’s nothing new.

So how on earth has this been allowed to happen?

Straits of Hormuz update. By Richard Fernandez.

Iran’s missile attack volume was substantially higher in March 2026 than in July 2026 going from as many as hundreds per day then to mere dozens now. It’s retaliatory power, while still existent, has clearly diminished.

Since the war restarted in early July 2026, the United States has not used “exquisite” high-end weapons (heavy standoff cruise missiles, stealth bombers, or hypersonics) at anything approaching the scale or intensity of the initial campaign in late February–March 2026. Nor has it required the augmentation of a parallel campaign by Israel. It appears to have greater dominance than in March. This probably means a far greater weight of delivery. …

The strait of Hormuz situation:

The strait of Hormuz situation: pic.twitter.com/ATZEpLSnJc

— Martin Eye In The Sky (@Eye13Sky) July 24, 2026

 

From reading the media one gets the impression that the US is inflicting so much damage on Iran that Washington is in danger of punching itself out.

The IR [Iraqian Regime] for its part is showing that it can keep absorbing destruction while still laughing, which must be demoralizing to Trump.

Yet while the IR merely laughs at the blows it is exciting the pity of the entire civilized world, who are disgusted at the meting out of such a one sided beating, warning that the worse the thrashings the greater the reparation which must eventually be paid.

Commenters:

When there is no reasonable way defeat can be logically avoided the losing party can make losing so catastrophic the victor will dread to win. Imperial Japan pursued this strategy in WW2, reasoning that it could force the allies to negotiate with the military — otherwise millions would die in an invasion.

Ironically as the sinking paradox becomes the only choice left it increases the power of the hardliners.

Iran can’t be reasonable because there is no reasonable way the IR wins. …

The US has hardly touched Iran. Barely touched. WWII style strategic bombing would destroy 80% of Iran’s electrical grid, water supply and oil infrastructure in 72 hours. Yes, 72 hours. Tehran would be dark — no power — no water to fight fires, no food.

The Odyssey And The Tiresome Woke War Against White Culture. By Brandon Smith.

The Odyssey film is a clear salvo aimed directly at conservatives and western history. It is a multicultural travesty, a joke of a movie filled with historical inaccuracies and based on a deconstructionist translation written by a feminist academic from Oxford (Emily Wilson). The movie explicitly undermines the heroism of the story and makes Odysseus a broken man, suffering from “trauma” and PTSD over his regrets of the war and his “colonist” behavior. …

The globalists pulled out all the stops with The Odyssey:

Why is it okay to diminish or denigrate white culture while worshiping every other culture? Furthermore, if white culture doesn’t exist, why are woke minority groups constantly trying to hijack white history and accomplishments?

I want to explore this issue a little more deeply, mostly because of the endless targeting of western civilization through the leftist deconstruction of our most popular figures and mythologies. This time, the Hollywood elites have chosen Homer’s The Odyssey, an ancient Greek classic deeply rooted in western history (white history), as their victim.

Hollywood has pulled out ALL the stops for this movie and I suspect it’s because they are desperate. They are desperate for a woke win. They’ve had hundreds of failures both in film and television in the past few years and it’s starting to look like “Get Woke, Go Broke” is becoming the dominant force in popular discourse. The leftists can’t stand it.

In response, Hollywood has stacked the deck — They brought in Christopher Nolan, one of the only directors left in the industry who still has a built-in audience of simps who will go see his movies regardless of their quality. The distributors have focused on IMAX ticket sales for a wealthier clientele, artificially inflating the overall box office take.

The media has been running non-stop interference, promoting the movie heavily months in advance. Evidence also suggests that Rotten Tomatoes is once again rigging the audience score for this film by rejecting most negative reviews (they have done this with multiple woke tent pole movies over the years).

Hilariously, journalists are already declaring The Odyssey “proof” that “Get Woke, Go Broke” is a fallacy. As I write this, the movie hasn’t made a dime in profit yet. What I find most interesting, however, is that these activist journalists are actually using the phrase “Get Woke, Go Broke” in their vernacular. It’s an indirect admission of their agenda.

They are specifically citing our movement as their enemy and declaring us “defeated” because The Odyssey is projected to make money. By default, they are admitting that we are a threat to them, and that The Odyssey is a woke project designed to “silence us.” But why does this matter?

The modern left doesn’t believe in truth, only power (they call this “critical theory”):

It’s important to understand that leftists think like children. They believe that having a “majority” is the same as being right; having a majority to them is the same as having power. If the Odyssey is a box office success, they think this proves that they are the dominant political movement.

They don’t care if their supposed majority is actually astroturf; if they can fool the public into thinking the political left has a social mandate, this will win them control over the culture. In other words, they’re trying to manufacture a consensus.

Denigrating whites and their culture:

The deconstruction of Odysseus reminds me of what Kathleen Kennedy and friends at Disney did to Luke Skywalker in “The Last Jedi”. They took a brilliant, courageous and moral man and turned him into a shattered, crusty and nihilistic little bitch — completely the opposite of his original character. This was not a mistake, this was quite deliberate.

White people are not allowed to have bold, wise and confident heroes. We’re supposed to regret our history and our accomplishments. We’re not supposed to celebrate such things, because that might inspire us to be bold, wise and confident today.

The race swapped cast of The Odyssey featuring black actors, Hispanics, Asians, and other people (including a transgender Ellen Page playing a male Greek warrior) who would never have populated Homer’s era is the common angle of attack for woke Hollywood, but it’s not the only attack. If a main protagonist is white, as is the case in Nolan’s film, he must be torn down and made weak. He must be portrayed as shamed and desperate for redemption, which, of course, he will only receive by embracing progressive ideals.

The last thing Hollywood wants is to portray a white hero who is unapologetic for his actions and values. …

Their “Racism” shield:

The minority actors are primarily a shield from criticism. If anyone complains about African or Hispanic or Asian actors in a Greek epic, the media can pull the “racism” card and dismiss the issue outright. They assert that we merely hate seeing minorities in movies.

But it’s not minorities in movies that we have a problem with; it’s the injection of woke propaganda. This is the real crime. If Christopher Nolan made a film based on the African “Epic of Liyongo” from the 9th Century and he replaced the Swahili characters with white actors in a bid to hijack African history, the left wing would lose their collective minds and scream “cultural appropriation.” The double standard is obvious. …

Reality:

At the time The Odyssey was created, the Mediterranean was overwhelmingly Caucasian according to genetic records. This includes North Africa, which was majority Caucasian and largely “white” by modern standards. It should be noted that Sub-Saharan Africans did not exist in any notable quantity in North Africa or the Mediterranean until many centuries later because travel across the deserts of central Africa prevented their migration north for thousands of years. …

Numerous images from the ancient Greeks and Macedonians, including pottery, murals and other surviving art, depict people of fair skin, often with blue eyes, and in some cases blonde hair, etc. In other words, they were white – Varying shades of white, but still white.

Simply pointing out this historical and scientific fact will immediately trigger the woke mob and their academic allies. You will be inundated with a flurry of exceptions and some tiresome mental gymnastics about why the people of these early civilizations were not really “white”. Remember, “white culture doesn’t exist”, only other cultures exist.

Far too many critics and historical conspiracy nuts actually think the demographics of North Africa and the Mediterranean in the time of Homer were the same as the demographics of North Africa and the Mediterranean today. They don’t know anything about the great migration shifts of the Middle Ages or the invasion of the Muslims. No meaningful discussion can be had with these people because their point of reference is built on pure ignorance.

The globalist end-game:

Beyond that, there is another subset of dishonest people (woke leftists) who see it as their duty to undermine white history and rewrite as if it never existed. They often cater to the inferiority complexes of minority groups by asserting that white history is actually THEIR history. White people just “stole” accomplishments from other civilizations and replaced them over time.

This is part of the narrative that motivates the discourse over Christopher Nolan’s dismal film version of The Odyssey. It is a woke treatise, a magic talisman designed to brown-wash and feminize yet another piece of western heritage. It’s part of a greater agenda to make white people forget who we are, or at the very least, make us ashamed of who we are.

The end game? Like I said, it’s about the multicultural takeover of the western world. Everything stems from this scheme.

Hollywood’s woke reboots are rooted in it. The mass immigration policies of leftist governments drive the agenda forward. The deconstruction of our history in public schools and colleges is designed to indoctrinate children so they never learn the truth.

Until one day, we look around, and everything that makes us who we are is gone, from meritocracy to republicanism, from Christianity to critical thinking, from innovation to entrepreneurship, from individual liberty to free markets, from property to responsibility, and yes, colonialism (the act of improving third world hellholes where people are incapable of improving their own surroundings so they don’t turn into pillagers trying to invade our countries).

All of it replaced with a socialist purgatory in which everyone is equally pathetic, hopeless and useless.

Communist nirvana coming up. The globalists expect they will be in charge in this neofeudal future, and the white deplorables will be their serfs.