US Civil War 2.0 Has Already Started

US Civil War 2.0 Has Already Started. By Brandon Smith.

Activists are funded by a massive shell game of NGOs hidden behind other NGOs. They are coordinated by hidden online discord servers. They receive their orders and share information in the field through encrypted Signal chats. They are trained in agitation and disruption by anonymous online meet-ups run by covert activist coordinators. They have engaged in violent attacks on ICE agents on hundreds if not thousands of occasions and few of them are ever prosecuted. This is not the behavior of a grassroots protest movement, this is the behavior of an army of covert operatives with special protections.

It’s important to understand that the “protests” are actually a highly coordinated guerrilla campaign. These are not sincere citizens exercising their civil rights. For now their stated motivation is to stop deportations of illegal migrants, but this is just an excuse for their insurgency.

If ICE stopped operations tomorrow, the paid activists would simply fabricate another rationale for tearing the country apart. Placating them will accomplish nothing.

 

 

They are hostile combatants trying to assert dominance and grow their numbers through posturing. Their goal is the destruction of the western world. …

The clear solution would be for the government to shut down hostile NGOs, however, these institutions are protected by corporate personhood and have the same constitutional rights as individual citizens. The process of investigating them and prosecuting them takes time — time we don’t have.

Even if Trump utilized the Insurrection Act and deployed the military, there are not enough troops to lock down more than a handful of US cities. Those people hoping that martial law will resolve the issue are kidding themselves. By extension, leftists stand to gain greater support: Martial law would represent proof to the rest of the world that the administration is indeed “fascist.”

The course of the war will not depend on government intervention, so don’t hold your breath waiting for effective enforcement. The reality is, most activist arrests end with them right back out on the street anyway. Their support apparatus has to be permanently removed, or THEY have to be permanently removed from the equation.

Everything will be decided by regular conservatives. If they organize in large numbers, if they create a funding apparatus to move people and supplies around the country quickly, and if they form proper leadership and training guidelines, then there might be a chance for peace simply by presenting a formidable deterrent. If not, at least the means to put down the insurgency will be available.

If conservatives stay at home and refuse to protect any piece of territory beyond their front gate, they will lose everything. It’s inevitable. The side that wants to win will always have an edge over the side that “just wants to be left alone.”

Protests will continue to spread to other cities using the same model we have seen recently in Minneapolis. NGOs will try to provoke more activist deaths at the hands of federal agents. The more the activists go unchecked by the general public the more emboldened they will become and the more their numbers will grow in the assumption that they are the majority.

In the event that the protests are stalled but the organizations are not crushed, activists will revert to assassinations and Weather Underground-style terror attacks until they demoralize the populace and gather strength again. The bottom line? If the political left is not made to truly FEAR consequences, they will not stop until they get their own Red Terror purge.

The end result is not going to be “balkanization.” That idea might have worked during the pandemic, but at this stage it’s far too late for a national divorce. The leftists will never allow conservatives to live in peace in red states. Letting blue cities rule over entire states of mostly red counties would only legitimize progressive extremists and hurt the conservative cause. This fight is for the entire country, not pieces of it.

It’s also not going to be a war of “factions”. This is prepper SHTF theory nonsense. The lines could not be more defined. The “false left/right paradigm” is a dead remnant of the Ron Paul era. It no longer exists, at least not where the bottom of the pyramid is concerned. The vast majority of progressives and Democrats are onboard with woke extremism. They’re onboard with the purge. They are loyal soldiers of globalism. Unity with them means enslavement.

Leftists, globalists and their allies are not going to discern between MAGA, libertarians and centrists. They will ultimately treat everyone as an enemy worthy of elimination. …

In the end, the fate of the US and western civilization stands on the precarious shoulders of a conservative movement that has the means to fight, but not necessarily the will. They are forever waiting for the perfect Hollywood scenario in which they can defend themselves in good conscience in a fair fight where they are the clear and undeniable “good guy.” They are forever waiting for the perfect moment to rise up — a moment that will never come.

The left are fairly inept at real physical stuff so could be expected to lose a civil war among whites fairly easily. But, for decades the left has been disarming the right (gun bans) and importing an army (third world immigrants).

Thousands and thousands of them. All marching into Spain from Africa. And the Spanish Government is now giving them the right to stay.

 

Play Civil War Games, Win Civil War Prizes

Play Civil War Games, Win Civil War Prizes. By Robert Spencer in PJ Media.

President Donald Trump has just made it clear that he is not going to tolerate any more of this low-grade but escalating insurrection.

“I have instructed Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem,” Trump wrote on Saturday afternoon, “that under no circumstances are we going to participate in various poorly run Democrat Cities with regard to their Protests and/or Riots unless, and until, they ask us for help.”

This apparently means that Trump intends to deny the Democrats what they want most: Trump sending the National Guard to restore order in cities where leftist leaders are using the lack of order as a political weapon, and are salivating at the chance of being able to claim that they’re holding the line for “our democracy” against the fascist Trump and his jackbooted thugs.

That doesn’t mean, however, that Trump is going to leave those cities to drown in the mayhem that leftist leaders are encouraging in order to protect the Democrats’ voter base. He continued: “We will, however, guard, and very powerfully so, any and all Federal Buildings that are being attacked by these highly paid Lunatics, Agitators, and Insurrectionists.”

Yes, that’s right: leftists are in favor of insurrectionists now, because the present insurrection, as opposed to the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection theatre, is real, and being ginned up on their side.

Trump added a pointed warning for future Renee Goods and Alex Prettis: “Please be aware that I have instructed ICE and/or Border Patrol to be very forceful in this protection of Federal Government Property. There will be no spitting in the faces of our Officers, there will be no punching or kicking the headlights of our cars, and there will be no rock or brick throwing at our vehicles, or at our Patriot Warriors. If there is, those people will suffer an equal, or more, consequence.”

It’s likely that if he follows through on that, he would find that doing so was wildly popular. The American people have had quite enough of these rabid ideologues interfering with law enforcement operations on behalf of criminals.

At the same time, the president reminded insurrectionist city leaders of the responsibilities they swore to uphold: “In the meantime, by copy of this Statement, I am informing Local Governments, as I did in Los Angeles when they were rioting at the end of the Biden Term, that you must protect your own State and Local Property. In addition, it is your obligation to also protect our Federal Property, Buildings, Parks, and everything else. We are there to protect Federal Property, only as a back up, in that it is Local and State Responsibility to do so.”

This could be the most important part of Trump’s statement, for it is going out to numerous local officials who have not only been ignoring that responsibility, but actively contravening it for their own short-sighted political ends. In reminding them of which side they are supposed to be on, Trump is once again raising the specter of consequences. Play civil war games, win civil war prizes. …

Think it will have much effect? Nah:

The Democrats will stop at nothing to preserve their illegal voter base.

The left need their army of third worlders to win the upcoming civil war.

To join the upper echelons of the global political class, they must have kompromat on you

To join the upper echelons of the global political class, they must have kompromat on you. By Mark Steyn.

It was my former colleague James Delingpole who first told me that the people who really run the world possessed kompromat on everybody else, and you weren’t allowed to advance into the upper echelons of the global political class unless they had something on you. …

That seems to be as good an explanation as any as to how we wound up with the likes of Biden, Macron, Trudeau, Johnson, etc.

One notes, inter alia, that, with respect to the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, last week was also the week that the fifth twink dropped. Why every Ukrainian “male model” on the books of Mayfair agencies wants to incinerate Keir Starmer is an interesting question, although evidently not to Fleet Street’s investigative reporters.

Still, Sir Keir’s appetite for Slav lovelies is far from an outlier. Apparently, being the bloke who gave the world Windows 98 doesn’t pull the birds like it used to, so even Bill Gates required assistance from Mr Epstein. We learn from the emails that Bill picked up an “STD” from one of his “Russian girls” and so was anxious to acquire discreetly some antibiotics he could surreptitiously adminster to his wife Melinda just in case she came down with a dose of something. … One begins to understand why the self-appointed Chief Medical Officer to every government on the planet is so anxious to vaccinate the entire globe – a necessary precaution if one is partial to widely travelled “Russian girls”. …

 

 

Among the documents are reports of “an orgy with Tony Blair” — not a phrase I would have thought the English language would ever have need for.

But, if you’re wondering why the British political class are so indifferent to the gang-raped working-class girls of every town up and down England, well, it’s clear from a cursory glance at the Epstein files that our rulers are relaxed about the way of the world: under the new class system, there are those who are pleasured and those who do the pleasuring. …

Jeffrey Epstein’s principal skill appears to have been an ability to identify those in proximity to power with certain vulnerabilities. That is a spook’s talent. The reason to invite them — presidents and prime ministers, royal dukes and crown princesses, ambassadors and vaccination crusaders — to a private island is because presumably it’s wired up the wazoo. It would seem obvious that his life was one big honey-trap operation for an intelligence service: because of the contemptuous references to “goyim” in his emails, the presumption is that it’s Mossad; but it could just as easily be Putin’s lads. …

So perhaps the most disturbing thing would be if it were not an intelligence operation — that, from the Clintons in Chappaqua to the Glücksburgs in Oslo, from the Gates-funded World Health Organisation to Starmer-funded Ukrainian rent-boys, this is just how a depraved and degenerate fin de civilisation ruling class carries on, and whaddaya gonna do about it? The perverts will only be replaced by other perverts.

 

What do you think of Birmingham Cathedral. It’s sh*t, but it’s a nice place to smoke weed.

What do you think of Birmingham Cathedral. It’s sh*t, but it’s a nice place to smoke weed. By Christian Heiens III.

When I visited Birmingham in December 2023, it was like this everywhere.

Third World migrants loitering around, drinking, smoking, and essentially living in the ruins of a civilization they had no part in building and have no respect for.

They know it too. They know they don’t belong there, but they remain anyway because no one has ever told them to leave.

They’re taking advantage of a liberal worldview espoused by the English people who believe their values are the universal default of humanity.

But the ironic tragedy of English liberalism is that it isn’t humanity’s default at all. It’s a particular expression of a specific group of people.

And you can take one look at Birmingham today, with its 40% English population, and see what happens when you divorce liberalism from its particularist origins.

The people whom the British government has imported by the millions over the last 30 years do not share this worldview. They do not see themselves as English. They have no loyalty to England’s history, culture, traditions, or inheritance. They will desecrate centuries-old monuments and cathedrals because they do not see these things as theirs.

And they never will.

 

 

Commenters:

Same thing at the Sacré Cœur in Paris. All black Africans smoking weed and tossing beer bottles onto the ground as they shatter to hooting and hollering. …

This is who open borders leftists defend worldwide, from Birmingham to Minneapolis. This cancer of an ideology must be ripped from power and destroyed if the West wants to survive.

Btw, in 1997, Britain’s economy was larger than China and India combined

‘White liberal feminists are full of sh*t’

‘White liberal feminists are full of sh*t’. By Bridget Phetasy at Spiked.

How do you get rid of illegal immigrants that are now embedded in your country? That’s not a question I have any idea how to answer.

Minneapolis is known as a ‘sanctuary city’, where local law enforcement is not cooperating with federal law enforcement. Instead of arresting foreign criminals and handing them over to ICE, police are often allowing them to enter back into the communities. This then forces ICE into situations that are objectively horrible to witness. …

There are reasons to compare anti-ICE activism with the protests surrounding BLM, because in many respects it’s a revolt of liberal white women. They act as if they truly believe they are fighting the Gestapo, or a force akin to the Iranian regime, just like they did in 2020. During the George Floyd riots, people were throwing water bottles at cops and spitting on them. They were getting away with it. The permission structure allowing them to insert themselves into proceedings has already been established. …

I think most normal people look at these aggressively anti-ICE, liberal white women and think, what are you doing? How entitled do you have to be to think that by muscling your way into this situation, you aren’t in danger?

If you really believe that you’re up against a similar force to the SS, you would assume that you might get killed every time you interact with them. At the very least, you would be wary of some very harsh consequences. But these women don’t see it like that. They will provoke law enforcement in ways that make you question which reality it is they believe. I don’t think there were many people going around provoking Hitler’s thugs back in the 1930s. …

I don’t like the idea of a ‘paper’s please’ state. But then, how do we figure out who’s here legally and who’s not? I guess liberals are fundamentally cool with the fact that tens of millions of people, some of them already criminals, have been allowed to come into America. We also shouldn’t forget that the same liberal media now calling ICE the Gestapo were basically fine with the force when it was operating under Obama. …

There is the feeling of very justified anger from the parents of those who have been hurt or killed by dangerous illegal immigrants. They watch the marches for Renée Good, and they know those same people would have never marched for their child.

They know that the compassion is inauthentic. Why do they care about this case, but not about the young girl who was raped and murdered and thrown over a bridge? Because in reality, it has nothing to do with empathy. It just has to do with your politics. …

I’d say the thing that pushed me out of the left more than anything else was realising how colossally full of shit Western feminists are.

They don’t care about the plight of Iranian women any more than they care about that of Israeli women on 7 October, or women who are murdered by illegal immigrants, or working-class girls in the UK who were systematically gang raped. Most probably haven’t even heard of the ‘grooming gangs’. If they have, they’ll chalk it up to anti-immigration right-wing conspiracy theories. They demand video proof of Jewish women being raped and murdered by people who have openly bragged about raping and murdering them.

Instead of focussing on situations of actual female oppression, a lot of women in the West are preoccupied with ridiculous initiatives like keeping biological men in female sports.

In Western society, we have ascended to the freest place that you can be as a woman. Why don’t we put some energy into liberating other women throughout the world who don’t have a voice like we do? Why don’t we help the women who are living under an actual patriarchy, rather than the one that you made up in your head?

Chaser, by MaryCate Delvey:

This young man [in the MAGA hat] trying not to laugh has me rolling 😂

 

Wish you could upgrade your software?

Wish you could upgrade your software? From InLucysHead.

A young woman who submitted a tech support message presumably did it as a joke. Then she got a reply that was way too good to keep to herself.

The query:

Dear Tech Support,

Last year, I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slowdown in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewellery applications and intimacy, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.

In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed undesirable programs such as: NBA 5.0, NFL 3.0 and Golf 4.1

Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and House Cleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system.

Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.

What can I do?

Signed, Desperate

The response:

Dear Desperate,

First, keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an operating system.

Please enter command: I thought you loved me.html and try to download Tears 6.2. Do not forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update.

If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewellery 2.0 and Flowers 3.5.

However, remember, overuse of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0, or Beer 6.1.

Please note that Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will download the Farting and Snoring Loudly Beta version.

Whatever you do, DO NOT, under any circumstances, install Mother-In-Law 1.0 as it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources.

In addition, please do not attempt to reinstall the Boyfriend 5.0 program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.

In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly.

You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance.

We recommend Cooking 3.0.

Good Luck!

Tech Support

Joanne thought it was hilarious. Can’t imagine why.

Pretty lies

Pretty lies. Well, some of the funnier ones.

The Story of Alex Pretti, read by Elizabeth Warren (by MAZE):

 

Even his scrubs photo was improved to make him more handsome:

 

Democrat senator uses fake image of Pretti shooting featuring headless agent. By Joseph MacKinnon at Blaze Media.

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin (D) gave a speech Wednesday on the Senate floor …

When discussing Pretti’s demise, Durbin relied on a large visual aid — a supposed photograph of the incident.

 

 

However the Democratic senator appears to have overlooked glaring indications that the image was significantly doctored. For starters, one of the federal agents depicted in the image appears to be missing his head.

“I’m going to show a photo of that scene, which is graphic, but I’m afraid is necessary to appreciate the horror of the moment,” Durbin said as he set the image for all to see on an easel. “This photo shows the last second before the ICE agent killed Alex Pretti on the streets of Minneapolis.”

After citing the image as evidence that it was “obvious” Pretti had made “no effort to resist” — a claim contradicted by footage taken from multiple vantages — and emphasizing that “the photo tells the story,” Durbin criticized the Trump administration for encouraging skepticism about the initial narrative surrounding the shooting. …

Durbin was evidently not the only liberal duped by the image.

In fact, it went viral on multiple social media platforms, including X, where it netted tens of millions of impressions and was shared widely. Even retired Gen. Raymond Thomas III, the former commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, and MSNBC legal analyst Jill Wine-Banks appear to have been fooled by it.

Sad to see the way utter lies are seized upon to press a narrative. Happens every time (e.g. the three BLM incidents).

“Photo tells the story”. No, fake news.

 

It’s effective propaganda, because we are so used to seeing-is-believing. I find it hard to get the fake photo out of my head. Here’s what actually happened:

Immigration updates

Immigration updates. First, the facts in Australia

Craig Kelly:

By the next election, [Albanese will] have gifted himself up to a million fresh new Labor voters. Game. Rigged.

Australia has one chance to rid itself of this rotten to the core Albanese regime at the next election. If we fail, it’s goodnight Australia.

 

 

And from the US (by Auron MacIntyre):

May I humbly suggest that if sending Haitians to Haiti is a death sentence because it’s full of Haitians then bring Haitians here is a death sentence for our country.

In reply to Rep. Laura Gillen (D): “Sending Haitians to Haiti is a death sentence”

Spain gives half a million migrants legal status to ‘defeat the far-Right’ [Update]

Spain gives half a million migrants legal status to ‘defeat the far-Right’ [Updated, thrice] By Kieran Kelly in The Telegraph.

Spain has started to legalise 500,000 undocumented migrants and give them the immediate right to work in a move “to fight against the advance of the far-Right”.

Madrid officially began the process on Tuesday after a last-minute deal between the ruling Socialist party and the Left-wing Podemos party …

A government spokesman said: “We not only intend to remain a beacon, but I want to believe that we will be a seed and a germ to fight against the advance of this far-Right wave that is trying to gain ground, and against which we will do everything in our power to stop it.”

Todemos said the legislation would help dismantle “institutional racism that only fuels exploitation and racist hatred”, while the government cast the move as a political challenge to the Right-wing Vox party, which has been steadily rising in the polls. …

The government hailed it as a “historic day for our country”.

“We are strengthening a migration model based on human rights, integration, coexistence and compatibility with economic growth and social cohesion,” said Ms Saiz, the migration and inclusion minister.

Goodbye Spain. You were conquered by the Muslims in 711, and not completely liberated from Islamic rule until 1492 when Granada fell to the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella. Now, you are being again being conquered from the South. Perhaps you will be saved by another civil war, but it looks grim if you vote in leftist governments.

Immigration. Is there any other issue of comparable importance?

UPDATE: Boasting of replacement. By Drew Pavlou and Jose Gefaell.

Leftist Spanish MEP: “I hope for ‘replacement theory,’ I hope we can sweep this country of fascists and racists with immigrants.”

You see this more and more now. France’s far-left leader Melenchon also boasts that he wants replacement.

 

This is a literal transcription of her words:

⛔️ I want to ask migrants and people of color to please not leave us alone with so many fascists.
⛔️ And of course we want them to vote, of course we do!
⛔️ We’ve gotten papers, regularization now!
⛔️ And now we’re going for citizenship or to change the law so they can vote, of course!!!
⛔️ Hopefully, replacement theory, hopefully we can sweep this country of fascists and racists with migrants, with working people!
⛔️ Of course I want there to be replacement!!!
⛔️ Replacement of fascists, replacement of racists, replacement of freeloaders, and let’s do it with the working people of this country, whatever their skin color, whether they’re Chinese, Black, Brown, with all the working people of this country!

If this isn’t a hate crime, it’s pretty close. Of course, if someone on the right made a similar statement, calling for “Sweeping leftists out of Spain,” they would surely be prosecuted.

Eva Vlaardingerbroek:

This woman, who is calling for the replacement of White people, is married to a White man and has three White children.

This level of betrayal not just of your own people, but your own children, can only be qualified as extreme pathology or pure evil —or both.

Up to the fourth and final stage :

 

Rebecca V. Proud American:

I think this proves they don’t care about immigrants. They view immigrants as obedient little pets who will give them more power.

And the money that flows from controlling government — think USAID and NGOs.

Green is Islam:

 

Is this happening in the West? First the Jews, then the other whites?

 

At the very least, the left is anti-nationalist:

 

UPDATE 2: Tomorrow’s Spaniards.

Thousands of migrants have rushed towards the Pakistan embassy in Spain.

This is following Pedro Sánchez’s announcement that Spain is ready to accept 1 million illegal migrants.

 

Germany:

hat-tip Stephen Neil, David Archibald

Australia divided

Australia divided. By Chris Kenny in The Australian.

In my lifetime I have not seen more division, or a greater lack of social cohesion. Many of us wonder what national values or symbols our country can unite around. …

The “Invasion Day” rallies were infused with pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli aspects, a bizarre concoction of grievances that saw chants about “always was, always is Aboriginal land” interspersed with chants for “intifada” and the elimination of Israel. …

Authorities seem to have no trouble arresting alleged extreme right antisemites (and nor should they) but they seem very timid when it comes to arresting Islamist hate preachers or those demanding intifada.

This is particularly disturbing given we have seen the human cost of a globalised intifada at Bondi. There is a sense of a two-tiered justice system, which undermines public faith and further threatens cohesion. …

One and free??

Just five years ago, in response to claims that referring to our country as “young and free” insulted Indigenous Australians, then prime minister Scott Morrison officially changed the second line of our national anthem to “for we are one and free”. …

One and free? Ask the parents who send their children to Jewish schools to spend their days behind razor wire and armed guards.

One and free? Ask the families who gathered in Hyde Park last Monday to celebrate Australia Day only to be abused by a man in a T-shirt showing an Indigenous flag modified to include the clenched fist of a black power salute. “I hope the white genocide does happen,” he said, “because you guys are c. ts, f. k your flag, f. k this genocidal country.”

On the same day in Melbourne a young woman with a small Australian flag responded to taunts by saying, “I can be proud of my country.” A man wearing a keffiyeh shouted that this country is “funding a genocide” in Palestine.

“What about all the Indigenous people that are still dying in custody?” he shouted. “What about the fact that this country is built on stolen land? You don’t give a f. k? What does that mean? You’re a f. king piece of shit racist, good thing you’re standing in the shade because I know that you’re so white you don’t belong here, you’re European, this is Indigenous land, you’ll f. king burn.” ..

The left’s identity politics and cancel culture, their refusal to debate or face facts, are mostly responsible.

When grievance and identity trump all, even the facts seldom matter, as the abusive protester in Melbourne articulated — if you do not see the systemic injustice that he does, then you are less than human, you are ripe for hatred.

We see this absolutism in so many debates. Protesters still yell for Indigenous land rights decades after the Mabo decision and resultant legislation have delivered rights so powerful that 45 per cent of the continent is under native title administration.

So what is it that the protesters want, all of Australia ceded? …

The incompetence crisis due to DEI, discrimination against “oppressors”, promotion and hiring based on ideology, and declining IQs generally has hollowed out our governments:

Many voters have become highly sceptical of government following the Covid pandemic overreach, the refusal to call a royal commission, and the clear double standards where authorities were heavy-handed in enforcing intrusive laws and shutting down vaccine mandate protests in ways they never countenance for an anti-Israel or anti-Australia Day protests.

When voters are told repeatedly by both sides of politics for many years that renewable energy is the cheapest form of energy while electricity prices rise to record levels and the renewables rollout creates enormous pain for regional communities, it does not build trust.

I noticed a Sydney public transport bus this week sporting the ­signage, “This is a zero emissions bus” — a blatant lie given this ­machine is about 20 tonnes of metal and plastics fuelled by electricity that often comes from coal-fired generation. …

Now, when bushfires or floods destroy homes and lives, we regularly endure the grotesque and inane spectacle of climate alarmists pretending Australian policies have worsened the impact, even as volunteers risk their lives in the aftermath. Such heartless nonsense should be argued out of the conversation but too many unthinkingly amplify it. …

The lies and arrogance:

Howard sees climate change as a dividing line. “There is a lot of extravagant language being used about climate change,” he said, “but I think more and more people, and I’m one of them, are starting to wonder why we are giving away natural advantages that providence gave us, for diminishing returns? …

The hard left maintains its climate catastrophism, but [former PM John] Howard is right — increasingly mainstream and regional Australians see only lies and the infliction of pain for no discernible gain. Yet protest groups such as Extinction Rebellion feel sufficiently emboldened to blockade train lines and disrupt coal ports, preventing companies and workers from going about their lawful business. They also feel no compunction about blocking traffic across the Sydney Harbour Bridge and elsewhere, creating enormous inconvenience for tens of thousands of fellow citizens. …

And over the past five years the Brittany Higgins case and the #MeToo campaign stretched credulity, eroded faith in authorities, and ended careers long before the truth began to come out. …

This week, when Morrison made a timely and thoughtful contribution to the debate about tackling Islamist extremism, he was denigrated by the National Imams Council as reckless and Islamophobic. And Labor’s Anne Aly [who happens to be a Muslim] accused him of using the Bondi massacre to sow discourse (she meant discord).

Following America:

This is the Americanisation of our political debate, the descent into personal attacks. It is amplified by a postmodern disdain for objective fact – “your truth” being all that matters; and as with most detrimental aspects of public debate, it is worsened and coarsened through social media.

It is daunting to contemplate where all this is heading.

National unity is gone:

The entire country got behind Australia II in 1983, when every landlubber professed some knowledge of winged keels and spinnakers. And perhaps the high point of national cohesion and self-regard came in 2000 when the Sydney Olympics were spectacularly efficient, entertaining and friendly.

There’s been so much immigration since 1983 or even 2000. We are literally a different country now. Albo brings in half a million every year from the third world — good for Albanese and his mates, bad for us.

Imagine if Australia followed America, by electing Pauline Hanson as Prime Minister. Not as smart an effective as Donald Trump, but she represents the views and interests of most Australians much better than our current New Class rulers.

Prime Minister Pauline Hanson? The New Class would go berserk. Claim she was a Chinese agent! Rig the next election! Make up legal cases to get her thrown in jail! Try to assassinate her! Twice! Hitler! Fascist! Etc. etc, we all know the playbook now.

Xi’s Lapdogs

Xi’s Lapdogs. By David Archibald.

The last time Xi was in trouble politically, Albanese went off and spent a week in China, doing nothing.

I thought at the time that the Chicoms had summoned Albanese to make Xi look important. The Chinese love it when foreign leaders come to Beijing to kowtow.

Xi is in big trouble at the moment and Starmer announces a visit at short notice. Coincidence? I think not.

Society punishes one form of Jew hate while applauding another

Society punishes one form of Jew hate while applauding another. By Brendan O’Neill in The Australian.

What an idiot Brandan Koschel is. “Jews are the greatest enemy to this nation,” he told the mob at the March for Australia in Sydney on Monday. And now he finds himself behind bars, suspected of publicly inciting hatred.

 

Brandan Koschel punished

 

Doesn’t he know you’re meant to say “Zionist”, not “Jew”? That if you really want to let rip against Those People, then the Z-word is your safest bet?

You can rage and splutter all day long about how Zionists are the enemy of Australia — of the entire West, in fact — and the police won’t lay a finger on you. You can say Zionists are a stain on humanity and no prison cell will await you.

You can call Zionists “terrorists”, a “cancer” and “genocidal maniacs” and, far from being banged up, you’ll win a hearty round of applause at every Guardianista soiree in the land.

The very people who said “That’s a bit much” about Koschel’s comment on Jews would say “Well said, sir” if he’d used the Z-word instead.

 

Academic Randa-Abdel-Fattah rewarded (by the Adelaide Book Festival)

 

The arrest of Koschel has really brought home the hypocrisy and futility of speech-punishing laws.

For here we have the state making an example of a man with poisonous beliefs while doing precisely nothing to challenge the sneakier antisemitism that runs riot among the activist class, in digital spaces and even in institutions. …

We all know who the Z-word refers to – Jews who support the existence of a Jewish homeland. Which is the vast majority of them. Polls consistently find that close to 80 per cent of Aussie Jews identify as Zionists. …

Same-same:

To some of us, these two camps, both the vulgar Jew-baiters and the myopic Zio-bashers, are two cheeks of the same arse.

I’m continually struck by the commonalities between hard right-wingers who bemoan Jews and soppy leftists who bemoan the Jewish state. …

The furious anti-Zionism of “respectable society” is a wily, coded version of the hatred that festers on the far right.

The Z-word gives the activist class a get-out-of-jail card.  … It really does get them out of jail. So where Koschel gets locked up for saying Jews are the enemy of civilisation, his better-educated compatriots are free to say Zionists are the enemy of civilisation. Everyone with a functioning moral compass knows they mean the same thing.

Vague laws and selective enforcement negate the rule of law and allow class warfare to flourish.

Ukraine And The Gamification Of Combat: Market Replaces Centralized Control

Ukraine And The Gamification Of Combat: Market Replaces Centralized Control. By Tamat Jacoby at Forbes.

 

The tall, bearded officer, code-named Prickly — like all Ukrainian fighters, he uses a call sign to protect his identity and his family from wartime retaliation — is proud as a peacock of what he has done in six months at the helm of his frontline drone unit. In an interview with me, Prickly gave some of the credit to Kyiv’s new “e-point” system, called the Army of Drones Bonus.

“We’ve improved our performance by a factor of 10,” Prickly said. “We know that thanks to the drone points system, which measures how many men we kill and how much equipment we destroy.”

After more than three and a half years of fighting, drones have transformed the battlefield in Ukraine. Every operation depends on uncrewed platforms, either to carry out the mission or protect soldiers. Units work with an increasingly varied drone arsenal — large and small devices, powered by rotors and fixed wings, guided by radio waves and fiber optic cables. Kyiv and Moscow are locked in a deadly technology race, constantly competing to counter the other side’s latest developments, and things change so fast that an wounded fighter returning to the front after just a few months away can no longer recognize his unit’s tactics. Estimates suggest that unmanned aerial vehicles are responsible for up to 80% of battlefield casualties. …

The top brass in Kyiv struggle to keep up with this innovation — both the new technology and its use on a highly decentralized battlefield. Drone production is scattered and diverse, with the Ukrainian drone company DroneUA estimating that as many as 700 companies and 500 suppliers are now churning out UAVs of every description. …

The armed forces also strive to take advantage of decentralization, harnessing it to drive innovation and effectiveness on the battlefield. That’s where the point system comes in — allowing fighters to bypass the bureaucracy in Kyiv and buy weapons directly from manufacturers.

Frontline commander Prickly said that drone pilots save video clips of the damage they do — whether destroying machinery or killing Russian soldiers. The unit prepares a daily montage and sends it to the Ministry of Defense, where experts comb over the footage to confirm the unit’s claims and confer points for verified destruction.

The allocation changes regularly, but as of June 2025, Business Insider reported that destroying a tank was worth eight points. A multiple launch rocket system counted for 10. Killing a regular Russian soldier earned 12 points. Wounding a drone pilot was valued at 15 and eliminating him netted 25.

In the final step, the payoff, units use the points they’ve earned to purchase equipment — drones, drone jamming devices, ammunition, and other goods — on Brave1 Market, an online shopping platform not unlike Amazon.

Drones change everything. Wait until they are controlled by AI, or miniaturized to the size of insects for espionage.

The Russians have about caught up in terms of numbers and quality of drones. But Russia has always relied soley on centralized controls. So, it will be interesting to see if they make the leap to the decentralized, market-based gamification system pioneered by the Ukrainians.