Immigration is out of hand

Immigration is out of hand. By Nigel Farage, the most popular political leader in Britain at the moment. In The Telegraph.

It appears Sir Jim Ratcliffe kicked up something of a hornet’s nest this week. The Ineos tycoon gave an interview in which he announced Britain has been “colonised” by migrants.

No sooner had Sir Jim’s remarks been broadcast than the Downing Street outrage machine cranked into overdrive. Sir Keir Starmer responded by saying Britain was “a proud, tolerant and diverse country” and called on Sir Jim to apologise. A Downing Street spokesperson claimed the comments “play into the hands of those who want to divide our country”.

Well, frankly, I don’t care if Sir Keir and his dwindling band of acolytes inside the No 10 bunker found Ratcliffe’s comments difficult to stomach.

Because like millions of ordinary Britons I immediately recognised what Ratcliffe was talking about.

Yes, the use of the word “colonised” was a controversial choice. Sir Jim has since admitted as much.

But the essence of what he was saying was undeniable. With so many millions people now on welfare, we cannot continue to turn to migrant labour.

You hardly need to be a sociologist to see that over the past two decades, net migration in this country has been allowed to run to totally unsustainable levels.

Towns and cities have been transformed within the space of a single generation. Communities have changed beyond recognition.

Our urban areas now carry street signs in foreign languages alongside English. On the London Underground, Transport for London has installed bilingual signs in specific areas.

People can see the pressures in their communities. They can feel the pace of change — and not in a healthy way.

Public services — GP surgeries, schools, housing — are now straining at the seams. Wages at the lower end of the labour market have been suppressed. …

Significant areas in our towns and cities have changed into something completely different from what they were. And it’s all making us poorer.

The political class told us mass immigration was economically essential. They told us it would be modest and controlled. They told us it would not fundamentally alter the character of the nation. …

Just like Australia:

This crumbling Labour Government, turning ever further to the Left, will carry on burying their heads in the sand over the issue. Anyone who questions immigration will be denounced as racist or “far-Right”.

Meanwhile the Tories, who have been noticeably quiet over Ratcliffe’s comments, will do everything they can to avoid discussing migration numbers.

They know it’s a problem their disastrous period in office helped exacerbate. In voters’ minds, the 4.8 million immigrants who arrived during the so-called “Boriswave” of 2021-24 will neither be forgiven nor forgotten.

The legacy media in Australia have been reporting the leadership tussle in the Liberal Party entirely as a horse race, without ever mentioning that it is really about policy. Because then they would have to mention the policy issue, which they desperately want to avoid. Meanwhile, One Nation is streaking up in the polls, like Farage’s party in the UK. The number one issue on the One Nation ballot booth fliers at the last election? Stop mass immigration.

The globalists don’t want to talk about it.

Amelia:

“It’s not happening.”

“But if it was happening it would be a good thing.”

“OK, it is happening, but now it’s too late for you to do anything about it.”

Enough.

Stefan Molyneux:

My whole life, everyone told me that Ayn Rand’s villains were too evil and cartoonish.

Even she didn’t envision rape gangs targeting 10% of little White girls — or a government that colluded and covered it up.

John Cleese: “Madness”.

 

UPDATE: New Liberal leader Angus Taylor seems to have got it, where Sussan Ley did not:

Angus Taylor has unveiled an “Australia first” policy strategy that combines an immigration crackdown on people who “hate Australia” with an emphasis on economic liberalism that “invests in Australians”.

The newly appointed Opposition Leader and his deputy Jane Hume pledged to “fight the worst Labor government in Australian history” and to restore the “Australian dream”. …

Mr Taylor said the key challenges the nation faced were home ownership, cost of living, migration, and the aftermath of the antisemitic Bondi terrorist attack driven by Islamic extremism....

He said the nation must once again “unapologetically defend Australian values”.

On migration, he said that if someone seeking to come to Australia “doesn’t subscribe to our core beliefs, the door must be shut” and that the intake had been too high.

“We don’t want bad immigration,” he said.

“It’s been too high, the numbers, and the standards have been too low and that must change.”

He said most immigrants knew that the right to come to Australia was “one of the greatest gifts a human being could ever have received in history”.

“But if people want to come to this country who don’t believe in democracy, don’t believe in the rule of law and don’t believe in our basic freedoms, that is a problem and it is unacceptable,” he said.

“The truth is that some people do not want to change in order to fit with our core values, and those core values are pretty simple, they’re pretty fundamental and they have stood the test of time for a great nation.”

At last, some non-fringe opposition to the globalists. The lefties and media will all call him “racist,” so brace for impact. (“Racist”? What, the left, who were in favor of the Voice, are claiming a monopoly on being allowed to be racist?) Migration front and center.

Oh, and:

“Australia needs an energy policy that is based on common sense, not Labor’s net-zero ideology.

“We will get rid of Labor’s bad carbon taxes on the family vehicle, on manufacturing and food in this country and, of course, on electricity.

The suicide of the West by empathy

The suicide of the West by empathy. By Peter St Onge.

The left is weaponizing Western tolerance — ironically using deeply intolerant third worlders — to attack the load-bearing walls of Civilization.

From free speech and religious pluralism to property rights and high-trust communities.

If we don’t fight this, the light will go out on everything Westerners hold dear — left and right. …

 

 

Stefan Molyneux:

Like it or not

It is a simple, brutal fact

Cultures that listen to their women are being displaced by cultures that ignore their women.

 

Peter St Onge again:

If nothing’s done, in a couple decades Europe will be South Africa.

 

 

Commenters:

To our European friends. To our American friends. To our Australian friends. To our Asian friends.

Africa, is NOT compatible with modern civilized society. Learn from us. Do not repeat our mistakes. Safeguard your homes, your cultures and the future of your children. Please. …

To build a great society you need the following traits: high in industriousness, high in conscientiousness, capability of long-term planning and thinking, and high trust. Without these, the “everything not bolted to the floor is up for grabs” becomes the rule of the day.

 

 

There are zones within the capital where emergency services will not go. Their vehicles are captured and the personnel are murdered. The vehicles are stripped to the bone. The white government made living there possible. …

“Kill the boer, the farmer
”

 

Trump Just Ended the EPA’s Climate Power Grab, and the Left Is Losing It

Trump Just Ended the EPA’s Climate Power Grab, and the Left Is Losing It. By Matt Margolis at PJ Media.

President Donald Trump just delivered a knockout punch to Obama-era climate hysteria, and the bureaucrats are having a total meltdown.

On Thursday, the Trump administration finalized rules repealing the EPA’s endangerment finding — that dubious 2009 determination claiming six greenhouse gases threaten human health under the Clean Air Act. …

The endangerment finding was the entire foundation for the EPA’s power grab over climate policy under the Barack Obama regime. It allowed unelected bureaucrats to impose crushing regulations on the oil and gas industry, power plants, and vehicles, all without Congress ever voting to grant them that authority. Essentially, it let EPA staffers reshape the entire American economy based on a single “finding” they issued themselves.

Trump’s repeal also axes those vehicle emission rules, since they all stem from the same flawed finding. …

Eye-rolling time:

Naturally, the left is freaking out. The New York Times report on the repeal came with the loaded headline “Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change.”

Can you hear me rolling my eyes? …

Climate groups will sue. I’m sure they’re shopping some Obama or Biden-nominated judge right now. Media outlets will wail about the end of the world. …

Who should be in charge — elected officials or bureaucrats?

Legal experts expect Trump’s EPA to argue that the Clean Air Act simply doesn’t give bureaucrats the power to regulate climate pollution — not that climate science itself is wrong. …

Even if you buy into climate alarmism, the question remains: who gets to make policy about it? Elected representatives in Congress, or unaccountable agency officials? …

Trump just reminded Washington of something it desperately needed to hear: agencies don’t get to legislate, no matter how righteous they think their cause is.

Peter Jennings:

I’ve been working in Republican politics for 26 years. Every Republican I’ve ever worked for said they were going to shrink the government. Trump’s the only one that ever did it.

 

Elites wrong again. Turns out, when you deport 500,000 people and 2 million more voluntarily go home, Americans line up for the jobs and are paid more!

Elites wrong again. Turns out, when you deport 500,000 people and 2 million more voluntarily go home, Americans line up for the jobs and are paid more! By Batya Ungar-Sargon.

The left were creating a class of serfs:

When Biden’s DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was hauled before the Senate, he routinely bemoaned the lack of cheap labor plaguing poor American corporations….

Of course, what he means is employers striving to find people to fill jobs for those wages. Hence the need for illegal labor. With Mayorkas’ help, Biden sought to fill the endless, rapacious need that corporate America has for cheap labor that undercuts a living wage for American workers. Together, they effectively colluded with the cartels to import a surf caste of 10-15 million.

Do votes still count?

Trump was elected to reverse all that — not just the chaos of the open border and the dangers presented by illegal criminals, but to reverse the Democrats whole economic paradigm in which you ship good jobs to China and import people enslaved to cartels to do the jobs remaining here. Trump’s theory of the case was that if we deport the illegals and impose tariffs, American corporations would have to hire Americans and build stuff here.

Of course, the elites laughed and laughed. They predicted economic ruin. You can’t bring jobs back! You can’t sustain an economy while paying Americans a living wage!

Turns out, they were wrong! …

Latest jobs report:

January’s jobs report is out, and it’s pretty much all good news: The U.S. economy added 130,000 jobs in January, and the unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent. …

Turns out, when you deport 500,000 people and 2 million more voluntarily go home, Americans line up for the jobs they were doing — and companies have to pay them more, because a tight labor market is always good for workers.

Turns out, when you impose tariffs, corporations do a funny thing: They build factories here at home. They reshore supply chains. They make things in America. Manufacturing jobs are up by 5,000 in the new January report.

That’s what this jobs report represents: Trump’s theory of the case was right.

As E.J. Antoni pointed out on Twitter, throughout Trump’s first year in office, the employment of native-born Americans grew by nearly 1 million, while the number of foreign born workers employed fell by nearly 100,000.

The average American’s weekly paycheck shrunk by 4 percent under Biden—but fully half of that has been recovered in just the first year of Trump’s second term, surging 2 percent.

The even better news is that this job growth in January came from full-time jobs, with just 5 percent coming from part-time work. It means Americans are entering the workforce in good jobs with solid pay and benefits, not precarious gig work.

The education system has fallen

The education system has fallen. By Lozzy B.

European settlement and White Aussie history has been removed from Education until grade 3 and 4 where it is only briefly mentioned.

Australian History children is now focused on Aboriginal and Immigrant history.

White Australians are mentioned as colonisers and oppressors. …

It was BOTH Labor and the Liberals that approved this ANTIWHITE School curriculum. They are both the same.

Commenters:

We are witnessing the largest gaslighting campaign in history, where both parties are trying to convince us that “Australia has always been multicultural”.

Thats a lie. Before 1971 we were a 99 percent monocultural Anglo nation. …

Straight out of the Marxist playbook, erase history if it doesn’t suit your narrative. …

James Watt discovered electricity. Watt was British. Electricity is thus racist and part of colonial history. The use of electricity should immediately cease.

 

hat-tip Stephen Neil

Melbourne is lost

Melbourne is lost. By Alexandra Marshall:

When Labor finally renames Melbourne ‘Naarm’ there’ll be nothing of that city left.

Not a single shred of its heritage. They’ll tear down all the buildings. Demolish all the statues. Rename all the streets. The complete and total erasure of our ancestors’ achievements.

Having removed the fingerprints of history — the grievance activists can lie and pretend ‘they’ built their fictional city.

Craig Kelly:

When someone is arrested and taken away for waving the Australian flag — and that waving the Australian flag could “provoke protesters” — it’s over. It’s too late. Migration policies and woke leftists have destroyed Melbourne.

 

 

Alexandra Marshall:

18,000 names on the terror watchlist. Almost all of them for Islamic terror.

And Labor won’t touch a single protester despite immediately violating their new hate speech laws.

Shows you that Wong and Albo did it all for show. They’ll never lay a finger on radical Islam. …

The Australian government enforces HUGE FINES on ordinary citizens for minor infractions.

And NO PUNISHMENT AT ALL for Islamic radicals and terrorists. They just ‘watch them’. They just ‘manage them’ when they riot on the street.

Imagine if drivers were put on a ‘watch list’ for traffic infringements instead of being fined. Or a ‘watch list’ for murder. Or a ‘watch list’ for machete wars. Oh… Wait. I forgot about Melbourne.

When you see 100,000 pro-Palestine protesters on the street shouting for an Intifada — you’re not sitting there thinking:

“Look at all those Aussies.”

Those mobs look NOTHING LIKE the crowds that amass in celebration of Australia Day or to commemorate Anzac Day.

No amount of gaslighting from the government can change the reality people see with their own eyes.

Commenters:

Worse, they probably get priority medical car, better treatment in the cells and in the courts – all because of the scrutiny placed on them. Every cop, nurse and doctor will know that these groups will complain purely to pour more fuel on the fire.

Ordinary Australians don’t get that privilege. The activsts derives special treatment precisely because of their willingness to exploit anything and everything.

Australians who don’t participate in that movement; either directly or indirectly, lose out. The bad actors get rewarded – there’s extreme moral hazard in that.

And that’s before you get to the stage where certain medical staff are saying they would kill you or let you die because of your complexion or ethnicity.

Something Big Is Happening in AI

Something Big Is Happening in AI. By Matt Shumer.

I’ve spent six years building an AI startup and investing in the space. I live in this world. And I’m writing this for the people in my life who don’t…

I keep giving them the polite version. The cocktail-party version. Because the honest version sounds like I’ve lost my mind. And for a while, I told myself that was a good enough reason to keep what’s truly happening to myself. But the gap between what I’ve been saying and what is actually happening has gotten far too big. The people I care about deserve to hear what is coming, even if it sounds crazy. …

Here’s the thing nobody outside of tech quite understands yet: the reason so many people in the industry are sounding the alarm right now is because this already happened to us. We’re not making predictions. We’re telling you what already occurred in our own jobs, and warning you that you’re next.

The pace of change is speeding up:

For years, AI had been improving steadily. Big jumps here and there, but each big jump was spaced out enough that you could absorb them as they came. Then in 2025, new techniques for building these models unlocked a much faster pace of progress. And then it got even faster. And then faster again.

Each new model wasn’t just better than the last… it was better by a wider margin, and the time between new model releases was shorter. I was using AI more and more, going back and forth with it less and less, watching it handle things I used to think required my expertise.

Then, on February 5th, two major AI labs released new models on the same day: GPT-5.3 Codex from OpenAI, and Opus 4.6 from Anthropic (the makers of Claude, one of the main competitors to ChatGPT). And something clicked. Not like a light switch… more like the moment you realize the water has been rising around you and is now at your chest.

I am no longer needed for the actual technical work of my job. I describe what I want built, in plain English, and it just… appears. Not a rough draft I need to fix. The finished thing. I tell the AI what I want, walk away from my computer for four hours, and come back to find the work done. Done well, done better than I would have done it myself, with no corrections needed. A couple of months ago, I was going back and forth with the AI, guiding it, making edits. Now I just describe the outcome and leave.

Let me give you an example so you can understand what this actually looks like in practice. I’ll tell the AI: “I want to build this app. Here’s what it should do, here’s roughly what it should look like. Figure out the user flow, the design, all of it.” And it does. It writes tens of thousands of lines of code. Then, and this is the part that would have been unthinkable a year ago, it opens the app itself. It clicks through the buttons. It tests the features. It uses the app the way a person would. If it doesn’t like how something looks or feels, it goes back and changes it, on its own. It iterates, like a developer would, fixing and refining until it’s satisfied. Only once it has decided the app meets its own standards does it come back to me and say: “It’s ready for you to test.” And when I test it, it’s usually perfect. …

But it was the model that was released last week (GPT-5.3 Codex) that shook me the most. It wasn’t just executing my instructions. It was making intelligent decisions. It had something that felt, for the first time, like judgment. Like taste. The inexplicable sense of knowing what the right call is that people always said AI would never have. This model has it, or something close enough that the distinction is starting not to matter. …

 

Old news … so last year

 

Why this matters to you:

The AI labs made a deliberate choice. They focused on making AI great at writing code first… because building AI requires a lot of code. If AI can write that code, it can help build the next version of itself. A smarter version, which writes better code, which builds an even smarter version. Making AI great at coding was the strategy that unlocks everything else. That’s why they did it first. My job started changing before yours not because they were targeting software engineers… it was just a side effect of where they chose to aim first.

They’ve now done it. And they’re moving on to everything else.

The experience that tech workers have had over the past year, of watching AI go from “helpful tool” to “does my job better than I do”, is the experience everyone else is about to have. Law, finance, medicine, accounting, consulting, writing, design, analysis, customer service. Not in ten years. The people building these systems say one to five years. Some say less. And given what I’ve seen in just the last couple of months, I think “less” is more likely.

Very rapid progress:

“But I tried AI and it wasn’t that good”

I hear this constantly. I understand it, because it used to be true.

If you tried ChatGPT in 2023 or early 2024 and thought “this makes stuff up” or “this isn’t that impressive”, you were right. Those early versions were genuinely limited. They hallucinated. They confidently said things that were nonsense.

That was two years ago. In AI time, that is ancient history.

The models available today are unrecognizable from what existed even six months ago. …

Part of the problem is that most people are using the free version of AI tools. The free version is over a year behind what paying users have access to. Judging AI based on free-tier ChatGPT is like evaluating the state of smartphones by using a flip phone. The people paying for the best tools, and actually using them daily for real work, know what’s coming. …

Smarter than most everybody:

Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic … has said that AI models “substantially smarter than almost all humans at almost all tasks” are on track for 2026 or 2027.

Let that land for a second. If AI is smarter than most PhDs, do you really think it can’t do most office jobs?

Think about what that means for your work.

[He] has publicly predicted that AI will eliminate 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs within one to five years. And many people in the industry think he’s being conservative. …

Almost all knowledge work is being affected:

This is different from every previous wave of automation, and I need you to understand why. AI isn’t replacing one specific skill. It’s a general substitute for cognitive work. It gets better at everything simultaneously. When factories automated, a displaced worker could retrain as an office worker. When the internet disrupted retail, workers moved into logistics or services. But AI doesn’t leave a convenient gap to move into. Whatever you retrain for, it’s improving at that too. …

Nothing that can be done on a computer is safe in the medium term. If your job happens on a screen (if the core of what you do is reading, writing, analyzing, deciding, communicating through a keyboard) then AI is coming for significant parts of it. The timeline isn’t “someday.” It’s already started.

Great. An AI can take over this blog.

Imagine if AI knew about the next big breakthrough in physics, but humans didn’t. As if Ai knew about nukes, but people didn’t.

We non-whites are the majority now. We can take over the USA. It’s already being said.

We non-whites are the majority now. We can take over the USA. It’s already being said. By SightBringer.

Democrat in the Texas House of Representatives, Gene Wu (D), “Non-whites share the same oppressor and we are the majority now. We can take over this country.”

What this really is, beneath all social framing, is a signal that the American operating system is entering the tribal-logic phase of terminal democracy.

The republic only functioned as long as the founding myth — individual liberty under law, mediated through neutral institutions — remained stronger than the underlying coalition math. That myth has lost coherence. When myth fails, power becomes arithmetic. Whoever commands the largest coalition feels entitled to remake the chassis.

This quote surfaced a hidden attractor: the shift from persuasion to possession. Not “convince the country,” but “take the country.” That word choice marks a rupture in subconscious legitimacy. Once a population begins to see itself as a rightful successor rather than a participant in shared rule, regime inertia accelerates toward fracture or replacement.

 

Third world mass immigration was always unpopular, yet it happened in a democracy — and is now bringing about fundamental change that will end the democracy (at least as we know it)

 

This moment also signals that identity is eclipsing ideology. The old left-right axis is dissolving under the weight of deeper ancestral alignments. The brainstem has come online. Tribes are counting, consolidating, and preparing to claim. And once the map of who is “us” and who is “them” gets drawn in numbers rather than norms, no institution can reverse it with words.

The frame of liberal democracy has no defense once majoritarian self-awareness flips into manifest destiny logic. What used to be a debate becomes a countdown.

Not yet civil war.

But post-consent politics has already begun.

Individualism is giving way to tribal politics in the upcoming age of stupidity.

Japan Fights Back Against Muslim Migration

Japan Fights Back Against Muslim Migration. By Daniel Greenfield at Front Page.

A few months before his assassination, Charlie Kirk visited Japan and warned that mass migration was seeking to “replace and eradicate Japan by bringing in Indonesians, by bringing in Arabs, by bringing in Muslims”.

With over 100 mosques and over 400,000 Muslims already occupying Japan, even though 95% of Japanese voters oppose Muslim mass migration, a political explosion was bound to occur.

Now, Japanese voters have delivered a striking defeat to the forces of mass migration with a stunning win for Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, whom the media has already taken to describing as a ‘Trumpian’ figure for opposing mass migration …

 

Resounding victory for the nationalists

 

In Kawaguchi City, where so many Turkish Muslims now live on welfare that a Turkish candidate announced a run for mayor last year on a platform of “multiculturalism”, another conservative candidate candidate, Yuriko Okamura won with record turnout on a platform of cracking down on foreigners after statistics showed Muslims were 1,000% more likely to commit crimes than the native Japanese population. The media however blamed ‘misinformation’ and claimed that Kawaguchi was the central point for the spread of anti-Muslim xenophobia across Japan. …

95% of Japanese voters oppose Muslim mass migration, 60% describe Muslims as “radical”, “aggressive” or “backwards” and 62% view them as a “security risk”. The Japanese Left found itself on the wrong side of a debate about setting a cap on mass migration to the country and had no other response except to lecture the majority about its “xenophobia” and “intolerance”.

While Japan has traditionally been highly restrictionist when it came to immigration, its poor birth rate (the average birth rate is 1.15 babies per woman and there were less than 690,000 births in 2024) has forced it to rely more and more on foreign labor. And much of that foreign labor, as Charlie Kirk described, is coming out of Indonesia and other Islamic supremacist countries. …

The Islamic call to ‘prayer’ and the damnation of infidels (according to Islamic law, most Japanese are ‘pagans’ and can be killed or raped out of hand) now echoes from ‘mega-mosques’ like the Tokyo Mosque with its massive towers and domes where over 5,000 Muslim migrants show up. And this was quickly followed by other demands, for fundamental changes to the Japanese diet, which is extremely ‘non-Halal’ and for Muslim burial plots inside Japan, as well as other ways in which Japan was expected to accommodate Islam.

To many Japanese people, the over 100 mosques occupying parts of their land (up from a dozen a generation ago), the Islamic schools for a growing population of Muslim youth and the expanding demands to change the nature of Japan signal that the Muslim workers are not coming to the country temporarily, but they mean to stay. Over 50,000 Muslims have already obtained permanent resident status and that number appears likely to increase dramatically. …

What the globalists want:

Last year the ‘Aomori Declaration’ was issued by Japan’s National Governors’ Association.. The ultimate goal was to transform Japan into a “multicultural community” in which the Japanese would be slowly edged out by foreign migrants in the name of “integration” and “multiculturalism.”

These people will scream at you that you’re a moral leper, for years, right up to the millisecond they realize, ‘Gee, that’s actually right.’

These people will scream at you that you’re a moral leper, for years, right up to the millisecond they realize, ‘Gee, that’s actually right.’

An admission by leftie Jill Filipovic:

One of the things I’ve really changed my mind on is public order enforcement. I think a lot of liberals (like me) assumed people do things like turnstile-jumping were poor or just kids, but it seems like actually, a small number of people just do a lot of antisocial shit.

Coddled Affluent Professional:

These people will scream at you that you’re a moral leper, for years, decades even, right up to the millisecond they realize, ‘Gee, that’s actually right,’ at which point the belief instantaneously becomes reasonable to have.

Commenters:

I love how it’s always “I’ve changed my mind.” It’s never “I was wrong and my behavior was terrible.” …

Never an admission of the untold damage that they’ve done to the national fabric before coming around to the truth. …

And the funniest part is that they can go through this process innumerable times, but it won’t stop them from morally grandstanding on whichever liberal opinions they have remaining

Bo Winegrad:

Very difficult for egalitarians to accept that some humans are innately impulsive, manipulative, callous, violent. Criminals often are not innocent victims of society; they are wicked and were born that way. Civilization must protect itself from barbarism.

Very difficult for white middle class Westerners — especially those who went to university — to accept that people are not all the same, that rest of the world is not like WIERD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) people, that much of behavior is genetic (so importing people does not make them like us), and that most of the rest of the world are not empathetic to strangers and did not develop high trust societies.

We are the strange, successful minority.

Kendric Tonn:

You’ll miss the American, who deals sharply but cheats no one, who is tougher than the thugs and cleverer than the tricksters, who says “I can do it” when others shrug, and who respects learning but is suspicious of those claiming to be learned, when the last one dies.

Australian elites are eroding Australian values

Australian elites are eroding Australian values. By David Pearl, in The Australian.

Let’s consider the shocking and unexpected rise of antisemitism in this country since the slaughter of 1200 Jews by Hamas on October 7, 2023.

While this form of hatred has always been with us, before that day it was no more than a niche, underground phenomenon. You could find it in a handful of mosques in western Sydney, the odd elite university lecture theatre, and among local neo-Nazis, but virtually nowhere else.

Yet today, antisemitism has been mainstreamed and even glorified under the guise of hostility to Israel and Zionists.

Elite promotion of antisemitism:

Why? Because our local elites have looked the other way, and in some cases even promoted it, with our elite university vice-chancellors the worst culprits and few top people in corporate, public service or cultural circles bothering to speak up (until Bondi shamed a small number of them into action).

Nor has there been any leadership shown by our law enforcement officials and political leaders, with NSW Premier Chris Minns an honourable exception.

The pro-Palestinian demonstrations:

When I look at footage of the pro-Palestinian rallies, I don’t see any Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese or African faces. Nor do I see tradies or other working-class Australians.

Aside from the usual contingent of Muslim radicals, the vast majority appear to be white, upper-middle class university students – our future progressive elite. 

Our elites obviously hate us and our society:

The pernicious influence of local elites extends well beyond the rise of antisemitism.

For decades now, they have been peddling an imported, hateful progressive ideology that has eaten away at the foundations of our social cohesion and cultural inheritance. Our patriotism. Our sense of community. And our distinctive Australian creedal values.

They have assaulted the distinctive brand of Australian patriotism that emerged after World War 1 – less demonstrative and historically obsessed than that of Americans; less triumphalist than the British version. Instead, they teach our children that our history is shameful and something to apologise for.

They have undermined our sense of being a single, cohesive community — ethnically, racially and economically diverse, but all of us at heart Australians — by dividing us into a rigid hierarchy of identity groups with conflicting outlooks, ambitions and interests. ..

They sneer at and seek to undermine what I call the Australian creed – our instinctive egalitarianism and mateship, our love of freedom, our tolerance of difference, our respect for merit and character, and our healthy suspicion of authority.

In the interests of social justice, they tell us we must sacrifice our political freedoms; including the freedom of speech, the idea of equality before the law and (with the voice) equal democratic rights.

They started with feminism, then copied that success into forming many other identity groups. Now they are even importing new, incompatible identity groups, and they have abandoned assimilation.

Classic liberalism and individual responsibility is almost dead now. Our elites have returned us to the long tradition of tribal polics and groups. What a big step backward.

The big political achievement of the last few centuries, first in Britain then in Europe and North America, was to hold the individual above the group, to break away from tribal polics. This enabled the modern world. And now our midwit nincompoops are throwing it away.

Deeply frustrated at throwing away a beautiful country

Deeply frustrated at throwing away a beautiful country. By Alexandra Marshall.

For 200 years, our nation accelerated forward into one of the most extraordinary nations.

Then assimilation was replaced by mass migration and multiculturalism.

And now we are fighting — desperately — just to claw back the nation we had 30 years.

We’re not just going backwards, we’re being dragged towards a terrifying, foreign culture that treats women like property and freedom as a sin.

It is truly terrifying to watch your culture collapse to the applause of deranged activists.

And:

More than anything, I just want this barbaric foreign Middle Eastern politics OUT OF OUR COUNTRY AND OFF OUR STREETS.

Why do we have to put up with this?

Commenters:

The terrifying thing to me is that once it goes in our countries, it will never come back, and there is no place to run to….

I want the Australia back I grew up in. No one voted for this.

Our high-trust society is evaporating. So foreseeable, so foreseen. But no, the lefties wouldn’t listen, because facts are secondary to money, power, and appearing virtuous.

The demonstrators who don’t give a damn about rule of law

The demonstrators who don’t give a damn about rule of law. By Mick Keelty, former Australian Federal Police commissioner.

On December 20, 2023, Anthony Albanese delivered an address at the Sydney Town Hall … George Street was closed by the NSW Police Force while about 500 demonstrators did their best to drown out the Prime Minister’s address. …

It was clear that many had attended the demonstration not knowing what it was about. Some were climate activists from Extinction Rebellion, some were there to protest against the war in Gaza and others had come just to take part. …

Demonstrating to hurt people, rather than for a policy:

In Melbourne we witnessed something never before seen at any of the demonstrations I have experienced in almost 40 years of policing.

Demonstrations at the National Gallery of Victoria in July last year featured placards bearing the name of a prominent Jewish family and the chanting of their name in an attempt by demonstrators to eliminate any link between Jewish community philanthropy and the arts. To me, this was a watershed moment.

I had seen these demonstrations evolve into a lynch-mob mentality with a total misunderstanding of their purpose.

There was no longer a pro-Palestinian objective. Instead the protests had evolved to become “let’s attack any Jewish connection to our city of Melbourne, including our art gallery”.

Should have nipped them in the bud:

On Monday night in Sydney, we witnessed something that should not go unnoticed. I am not speaking about the footage of the police responding to demonstrators in the crowd.

I am referring to the fact that since 2023 we have allowed these demonstrations to go unchecked as the numbers and the impact grew.

When people join in great numbers with a common purpose, the group dynamics are almost impossible to manage. …

The law doesn’t apply to middle and upper class lefties, or to Muslims (notice that they were the only groups at the demonstrations). The justice system is administered by middle and upper class lefties, and Muslims are their mascots of the day — so the virtuous can distinguish themselves from normies, and run normy noses in it:

To the demonstrators the rule of law has become irrelevant. Negotiations on routes for demonstrations are ignored and seen as a sign of weakness by the organisers. …

 

 Reminder: it’s against the law to touch, obstruct, disobey and resist police who are exercising their lawful duty.

 

While the footage of a police officer punching a demonstrator is unfamiliar — and highly distressing — to most Australians, let’s not lose sight of how we got here. …

We won’t be able to arrest our way out of this situation. I cannot imagine how any police force will be able to manage a crowd of thousands chanting “From the river to the sea”. …

We should not lose sight of the fact that the footage from that demonstration in Sydney is precisely what Hamas and Hezbollah want to see.

That circuit-breaker must come from the national cabinet and it needs to happen soon.