Where is the media outrage that Jewish schools and synagogues in Australia need full time guards and heavy security?

Where is the media outrage that Jewish schools and synagogues in Australia need full time guards and heavy security? By Chris Kenny in The Australian.

Islam has made life difficult for Jews in Australia:

Long before October 7, 2023, and last year’s Bondi Beach massacre, they have had heavy security at their schools and synagogues. Jewish institutions have long been identified as potential targets for Islamist terrorists, so they spend an enormous amount on security. (The school I spoke at last weekend spends $4m a year on security, money that otherwise could help with education.) …

When I am invited to attend or speak at Jewish events the exact location often remains undisclosed until the day it occurs. Significant overseas guests have been known to request their visit not be mentioned until they leave.

Recently I spent three nights at a Jewish hospital recovering from a knee replacement. It was much like any other hospital except for the heavy security gate and armed guard.

Since Bondi, cement traffic barriers have been erected around Jewish schools and synagogues across Sydney’s eastern suburbs. They protect footpaths and pedestrian crossings where Jewish pedestrians might present an easy target for terrorists in cars or trucks. …

If it was any other community, there would be outrage, wouldn’t there?

Imagine the outrage if Catholic schoolchildren faced a terrorist threat that warranted security guards at parish schools. It would be seen as a national crisis and every effort would be made to eliminate the threat rather than merely guard against it.

If Hindu, Greek Orthodox, Sikh or Muslim students faced this threat we would declare a national crisis. Yet this is how Australians who are Jewish are forced to live and the country meekly accepts it — it hardly warrants a mention.

Media? Turns a blind eye:

Do people even know that this is how Australians who are Jewish live? …

The media sure doesn’t tell them. If newspapers or television have covered the barriers and bollards around synagogues and schools, I have not seen it. Why is it not newsworthy? Is it so shameful that we dare not let all Australians know? Or do journalists just figure that’s just the Jews, that’s their issue? …

Islam and the Labor Party:

Terrorist flags, terrorist leaders, hate preachers and chants for death and “intifada” have been tolerated in regular protests that have been joined by Labor figures and praised by Anthony Albanese as “peaceful”. A former Australian of Year and ABC favourite, Grace Tame, screamed “From Gadigal to Gaza, globalise the intifada” with no censure. Protesters took to the sands of Bondi Beach last September chanting for intifada — three months later, intifada arrived just 100m away and took 15 lives. …

Multiculturalism is here:

Violent hatred towards Jews is a central part of radical Islam or Islamist extremism. This ideology stands against everything that makes our nation what it is — freedom, plurality, equality, democracy and liberalism — but it especially despises Jews and Israel.

Yet Islamist extremism is practised openly here and around the world, and it infests and cultivates support in the political left by shape-shifting into Palestinian resistance, fallaciously repackaged as a post-colonial or Indigenous cause. Albanese rarely brings himself to utter the words Islamist extrem­ism.

This is a threat to all Australians and our core values, yet most of the political class is in denial. …

Our country is demonstrably worse now than it was on October 6, 2023. The future for Jewish Australians is less benign and more uncertain than it was — some have left. This is Australia turning its back on a cohort of citizens, on everything we stand for and on our promise….

Islamist extremists aim not only to eradicate Jews and Israel but also the West, democracy, religious freedom, equal rights for women and liberalism. They will impose sharia law where they can, in local government areas in Britain, the US or here; they will indoctrinate children wherever they can.

Australia is only 3.2% Islamic (2021 census), yet already they are effectively kicking out the Jews. What will happen at 10%? 50%?

I don’t suppose Australia’s’ multiculturalism-loving ruling class will apologize to Australia’s Jews and take responsibility for endangering them and wrecking their lives here? Or will they just keep an embarrassed silence and pretend they had nothing to do with it?

Australia is slipping away from the US, but what about WA?

Australia is slipping away from the US, but what about WA? By Celina101.

A strong Australia-America alliance only lasts if Australia stays a Western country. Mass immigration is destroying who we are, while new laws are taking away the right to say so. We don’t have a First Amendment.

If America wants an ally that will actually stand with it against China, it needs an Australia that still shares its people and its freedoms.

Here’s Hugo Lennon:

 

The other Australian states have recently been demanding more of Western Australia’s GST money. They currently take 25% of it, after it was capped in 2018. This is far more the most that has ever been taken from any other state (11%), but is still much less than the most they have ever taken from WA (69%).

So this got some Western Australians thinking. They looked at Alberta, which is soon to have a referendum on whether to leave Canada. And they noted that WA’s defense is mostly really provided by the USA, not by Australia. Hmmm, might it be time to switch federations?

Btw, under the Australian Constitution, states own their own mineral wealth. But smart Federal lawyers ignore this when claiming GST from WA, which is mostly due to mining. (Just like they ignore the part of the constitution that says a State “shall not … make anything but gold and silver coin a legal tender in payment of debts” — section 115.) Some Australian states are more hostile to mining than WA, so if they want more mineral wealth then perhaps they should make it much easier to explore and mine in their territory. Especially looking at you, Victoria.

The relentless demonization of men by lefty white women

The relentless demonization of men by lefty white women.

As Peachy Keenan said recently:

Why are so many women sooo angry? They won. They got everything they wanted. They got everything they wanted. Men have never been doing this badly, and women have never been doing this well. …

Steve McCann at American Thinker:

They will remain angry because they will never succeed in their quixotic quest for “meaning in their lives” based on their belief that happiness lies in “making a difference” by defeating societal demons such as “the patriarchy” or “White Supremacy.”

In their addled thought process, there is no such thing as winning, only identifying new causes to keep this charade alive in perpetuity.

A case in point. About a year ago, out of curiosity, I watched a panel discussion with several feminist professors at a prestigious university. These academics were regaling a naïve and worshipful audience of mostly white women, plus a smattering of black women. The panel insisted that the new “civil rights movement” necessarily encompasses Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), the LGBTQ movement, the plight of immigrants in the United States, the genocide in Gaza, undying support for the Palestinians, and Third Wave Feminism.

These leftists claimed, to raucous applause, that white privilege and resultant oppression required speeding the process to transform American culture and society, all while failing to acknowledge the transformations their movement had already precipitated.

The adoring and reverential expressions on the faces of the young women in the audience were priceless. It was as if they had suddenly discovered meaning and purpose in their apparently guilt-ridden, or cosseted, or rage-filled lives.

They no doubt thought that the prospect of being swept up in a grand crusade of promoting all manner of “civil rights” in a heartless, capitalistic society would bring relevance to their lives.

 

Oh the mockery!

 

What they did not fathom was that they were being manipulated by playing on their emotions and the nation’s history of civil rights movements solely to bring about a socialist one-party oligarchy.

Over the past five decades, participation in protests and demonstrations advocating policies that destroy America’s culture and society has evolved into a full-time white liberal female occupation. Most of these protestors are 50+-year-old white women augmented by a vast number of vacuous, college-educated white women of all age groups who, together with their race-obsessed, college-educated black female counterparts, are mindlessly and, for many, unknowingly destroying American civilization.

Gemma Tognini in The Australian, on the recent Sydney Swans and Scots College scandals:

There’s a high-profile scandal, and an almost immediate rush to make it about all men and all boys. It makes me deeply uncomfortable. …

Surely, Australia, we can hold two competing and important matters in tension? …

No, these situations do not point to the fact that all Australian men are predators in the making or fully formed as such.

I’m a woman and I find that notion insulting and simplistic. …

What happens when they call all men “toxic”?

Constantly pushing a negative stereotype about young men and men in general feeds … the problem. Don’t believe me? Believe the science. … This research showed a measurable impact of negative stereotyping. In one study, hundreds of university students were asked if they were concerned about being seen negatively because of their ethnicities. It found that the more students expected to be or worried about being stereotyped, the likelier they were to miss classes, engage in verbal abuse or vandalise school property.

It’s science, but it’s not rocket science. Conditioning 101, words that become, across time, a self-fulfilling prophecy. You can go and read about it yourselves, there are countless examples.

Truth matters:

The natural next questions are also simple. There are millions of great men and men in the making in this country. Why aren’t we talking about them? Why aren’t we amplifying their stories? Why aren’t we inviting them to lead conversations, creating spaces for their voices to be heard?

One friend, a mother of two young boys, put it this way: Every young boy knows what a bad man looks like, thanks to news headlines. Far fewer can describe a good one. …

I hate the rush to demonise men. I hate how, often, it’s led by women. I hate the stereotyping of men as predators in the making as vehemently I as I loathe the stereotyping of women like me, without children, as cold-hearted, career-focused bitches. All of it is wrong.

But in the here and now it’s the broken record of “all men are bad” that must stop. I think of my brother and my uncles and my nephew and my cousins and my mates, who are all bloody fantastic men. They’re imperfectly wonderful fathers, partners, friends, sons and more. This is the truth you can’t change my mind about, and I know most Australians are with me here.

A feminist and semi-senior bureaucrat once told me she thought only men should pay taxes, because, you know, they are so toxic. And she’s not sexist, oh no.

Chaser:

Ceuta immigrant invasion goes to next stage

Ceuta immigrant invasion goes to next stage. By Basil the Great.

Migrant in Ceuta: “If parents leave a 15- or 16-year-old girl alone, it’s normal for her to be raped. The fault lies with the parents.”

This is what James O’Brien called a wave of humanity. …

Thousands of Spanish citizens turn out to demand the removal of every migrant from Ceuta

People do not want migrants in their city

 

Ceutans have stormed the beaches destroying migrant shacks and tents. They’ve taken over the streets demanding their removal. The people are fighting back.

Groups of local men in Ceuta are patrolling the streets and burning migrant tents, clothes and property

Anything they own is being TORCHED 🔥

The message is clear: INVADERS MUST GET OUT OF CEUTA NOW 🇪🇸

 

 

As we might have guessed. The police are firing rubber bullets at the citizens.  The illegals are being protected by police & shouting allahu akbar at the citizens.

After intense pressure from local residents the Red Cross has been forced to leave Ceuta. They will not be giving aid to illegal migrants any more.

One Nation adds talent and professionalism

One Nation adds talent and professionalism. By Lachlan Leeming in The Australian.

Former NSW trade and investment commissioner Mike Newman is set to be unveiled as One Nation’s state leader … as the party prepares to launch its campaign to up-end the March election [in NSW]. …

The recruitment of Mr Newman is a boon for the party  … with his long professional history set to add a sophisticated edge to One Nation …

An online profile for Mr Newman states he is “a financial industry executive and consultant who worked in Japan for 25 years with large corporate firms, and, for the past three years has worked as the senior trade and investment commissioner, North Asia, at Investment NSW based in Tokyo”.

Although One Nation’s groundswell is largely due to its growing working-class supporter base, Mr Newman’s addition adds serious business acumen to the minor party’s ranks.

Mr Newman also worked as the head of sales for HSBC Securities in Japan, while from 2007 to 2015 he worked as the division director and country head of Macquarie Capital Securities Japan.

Mr Newman was appointed as NSW’s senior trade and investment commissioner to Japan and Korea by former deputy premier and trade minister John Barilaro in the previous Coalition government in 2021. He left the role shortly before it ceased to exist after the Minns government axed the positions in 2024.

Joanne and I know Mike, and think he’s a very capable man with the right goals. If One Nation can attract more experienced and high caliber people like Mike, Barnaby Joyce and Cory Bernardi, then it transforms from a protest party to an alternative government.

However, in the process, it must not lose sight of the ideas and people it represents. Unfortunately, Pauline Hanson seems to be doing this all on her own. Surely this apparent backflip on immigration is some sort of mistake? Nix:

Pauline at the Bush Summit today, explaining One Nation’s new immigration policy:

“So it’s more than 130,000?”

“Correct.”

The original 130,000 visa cap has become +130,000 NOM. NOM has apparently also been redefined to mean permanent residents with a pathway to citizenship, explaining Farley’s “true NOM”.

So: +130,000 net permanent migration, plus a “trust us” number of students, skilled, PALM, etc.

Uh oh. Perhaps we need an anti-immigration party.

Australia’s censorship law 18C: Too weak, too strong, and maybe soon to be found unconstitutional

Australia’s censorship law 18C: Too weak, too strong, and maybe soon to be found unconstitutional. By Paul Kelly in The Australian.

Too weak:

Prro-Palestinian demonstrations demanding the elimination of Israel “From the river to the sea” along with calls to “Globalise the intifada” — encouraging the murders of Jews — are permitted and apparently beyond the reach of our laws. A good and decent society is broken under such inconsistency and hypocrisy. …

Section 18C is a bad law that has many defenders. … Sadly, it is an article of faith for the Labor Party. …

Too strong:

Hanson’s comment that Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi should pack her bags and “piss off back to Pakistan”, while impolite, is deemed to be illegal in Australia. …

The law proscribes race-based speech likely to “offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate”, with its critics saying the bar is set far too low. Former Liberal attorney-general George Brandis branded the provision a “grotesque limitation” on free speech and invoked George Orwell to say it was a device to channel how people thought. …

Former NSW Supreme Court chief justice Jim Spigelman said: “The freedom to offend is an integral component of freedom of speech. There is no right not to be offended. I am not aware of any international human rights instrument, or national anti-discrimination statute in another liberal democracy, that extends to conduct that is merely offensive.” He said “offend” and “insult” impinged on free speech in a way “humiliate” and “intimidate” did not.

Former human rights commissioner Sev Ozdowski said a threshold at “offend” was too low and contributed to distrust. …

But 18C may be be about to be found to be unconstitutional:

After Queen Elizabeth died, Faruqi, in a classic insight into the Greens, said: “I cannot mourn the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples.”

An angry Hanson responded: “Your attitude appalls and disgusts me. When you immigrated to Australia you took every advantage of this country. You took citizenship, bought multiple homes, and a job in parliament. It’s clear you’re not happy, so pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan.”

Having lost two cases in the Federal Court, Hanson said she was going to the High Court to protect free speech. Abbott was supportive. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke was true to form: he played the race card: “If the Liberal Party thinks there should be more racist things they’re allowed to say, tell us what they are.”

But constitutional lawyer Anne Twomey criticised the Federal Court and has raised doubts about the constitutional validity of section 18C, saying the treaty on which it relies, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, does not seem to include the low-level conduct that 18C outlaws. The treaty deals with far more serious offences. Constitutional lawyer Louise Clegg said in The Spectator last month she believed the High Court would invalidate section 18C.

A victory for Hanson would be a remarkable event, securing the victory the Coalition had long unsuccessfully sought. Hanson would become a political heroine. It would be a devastating blow for Labor — being exposed for running repeated campaigns attacking the critics for promoting racism only to finish up humiliated by relying for decades on a provision found to be unconstitutional. …

Not working out the way they hoped, because we have more than one culture now:

Federal Court judge Ian Jackman said the nation’s current crisis over social cohesion and antisemitism should provoke an “intellectual stocktaking” … “It would not have occurred to Australians in the 1990s that other Australians would abuse their freedom of political communication to publicly intimidate and vilify Jews … The idea that that might have taken place on the campus of the University of Sydney for weeks on end was simply unthinkable. Back then, we associated that behaviour with Nazi thugs in the Germany of the 1930s.”

Isn’t 18C just a tool the ruling class selectively enforces to suppress its critics?

Like the Colosseum, the streaming platform and the media feeds are tools of social control

Like the Colosseum, the streaming platform and the media feeds are tools of social control. By Krzysztof Szczawinski.

It is no accident that athletes and singers are being idolized. It is a tool of social control.

Let’s be fair first. Celebrity culture does something real and not entirely negative: it gives young people a path that has the appearance of being accessible. The boy from the poor neighborhood who watches the footballer and thinks — I could do that. The aspiration is genuine, the effort it produces is real, and the meritocracy of the playing field is one of the last functioning meritocracies we have. This is worth acknowledging.

But…

But the real hero of our world is the entrepreneur. The person who sees a problem, builds a solution, risks everything, fails, rebuilds, and produces something that didn’t exist before — something that employs people, solves problems, improves lives.

This is the most consequential human activity available in peacetime. It is also the least celebrated. No stadium. No album. No algorithm promoting it to your feed.

Kids today should have posters of Elon Musk in their rooms. Not because he is perfect — he is not — but because he represents something the footballer and the pop star cannot: the proof that building something extraordinary is no longer the privilege of the connected, the credentialed, or the well-born. A South African immigrant with a physics degree and a maniacal work ethic built the most important rocket company in history, the most consequential social media platform in the world, and the electric vehicle that forced every car manufacturer on earth to change direction. The path is real. The path is open. The path requires everything you have. That is a better poster than any footballer.

The ruling class uses bread and circuses, celebrities and sport, to distract the masses while they get on and rule:

The Roman citizen who once governed the republic received, in compensation, bread and circuses. The crowd’s attention was managed toward the arena and away from what actually mattered. The gladiator was famous, desired, and owned. He had no power. The crowd worshipped him and went home. The emperor decided everything.

 

 

The algorithm is the modern arena management system. It selects for what produces engagement – the immediate, the visceral, the emotionally legible. The footballer’s goal is instantaneous and universally understood. The entrepreneur’s breakthrough is slow, complex, and requires context to appreciate. The algorithm is indifferent to the builder — and indifference, at scale, produces invisibility.

Woke nastiness:

The Frankfurt School completed the mechanism. By attacking the concept of what is worth admiring — declaring that excellence is a power construct, that the hierarchy between the important and the entertaining is itself oppression — it removed the cultural framework that would otherwise orient attention toward what matters. If nothing is genuinely more admirable than anything else, the footballer and the person curing disease are equivalent. And the footballer has better marketing.

In the shadows:

Meanwhile, in the shadows, entrepreneurs and researchers backed by AI are building the actual future. Defeating diseases. Building rockets. Rewriting energy. Quietly. Without a stadium.

The civilization that built the Parthenon, the Sistine Chapel, and the moon landing understood that some things are more important than others – and organized its attention accordingly. The civilization that has forgotten this distinction fills the arena, watches the gladiator, goes home, and calls it culture.

The Colosseum is the ancestor of the streaming platform, an ancient institution of Roman control:

It held fifty thousand people. Admission was free. The shows were funded by the state. The emperors who built and maintained it understood something that every administrator of mass distraction has understood since: the crowd that is entertained is the crowd that is not asking questions. …

[Its] function: the systematic provision of spectacle to a population that was progressively stripped of political power.

The Roman citizen who had once voted in the assemblies, served in the legions, and participated in the governance of the republic now received, in compensation, bread and circuses. …

The thumbs up, thumbs down decision — the crowd’s power over the defeated gladiator’s life — was the Colosseum’s most sophisticated political invention. It gave the crowd the sensation of power without its substance. You could decide whether a man lived — but had no say in taxation, war, grain supply or succession. You had thumbs. The managed democracy — participation without real power — is two thousand years old. …

 

 

When Maximus asks, “Are you not entertained?” he is exposing the mechanism with contempt. The crowd cheers louder. This is not stupidity. It is the rational response of people given no other way to participate.

The Colosseum is the ancestor of

  1. the streaming platform,
  2. the social media feed,
  3. the algorithmic content delivery system, and
  4. the 24-hour news cycle.

Each one provides spectacle calibrated to the crowd’s appetite, substitutes consumption for participation, and generates in the audience the sensation of engagement without the substance of power. The thumbs have migrated from the arena to the screen. The gladiators have become influencers. The emperor has become the algorithm. The bread is delivered by app.

And here we are.

Women hold all top leadership positions in Iceland

Women hold all top leadership positions in Iceland. By Alda Sigmundsdóttir, in Letter from Iceland, in April 2026.

Last week a woman was elected president of the University of Iceland, which means that women now occupy every major public (and private) office in this country.

 

Icelandic PM, Kristrún Frostadóttir

 

We are talking about:

The president
The prime minister
The heads of all three parties that make up the Icelandic government
The mayor of Reykjavík
The heads of the five parties that make up the Reykjavík city council
The bishop
The presidents of all universities in Iceland (seven in total)
The Commissioner of Police
The Director of Public Prosecutions (Attorney General)

Equality at last 🙂 No discrimination going on here.

What Young Men Face Today

What Young Men Face Today. By Crier in the Wilderness.

It recently came to my attention that some of you don’t understand why a large number of young men have become shut-ins, often addicts, without career or romantic prospects. The term used for this now is “NEET.” That is, they are Not in Education, Employment or Training. Men described as NEETS are those who were once simply called slackers, basement-dwellers, and so on. …

The author:

I’m a young man, somewhere between a Millennial and a Gen Z. I’m Christian, had good grades in school, worked hard, and finished college. I was raised well, too. …

I can’t use my degree in a helping profession, which supposedly needed more men, because it went woke. Now, I’m on my fourth career.

I have been passed over for multiple positions because I was a man instead of a woman. The people who passed me over admitted to it.

I finally gave up and started a business, but artificial intelligence and inflation undercut me. Some of those who helped me to establish my business even told me they were hoping to mentor a woman instead. In addition, even some of my customers wanted to work with a female-owned business….

I’m now a skilled tradesman. I live on my own, with no debt and money in the bank… but I have a non-zero chance of dying at work, and overwhelming overtime, which I can’t get out of. For the privilege, I had to be turned away at the door by multiple other trades, because they refused to work with some college boy.

Finding a woman:

By the way, women consider blue collar jobs trashy, no matter how well they pay, so there’s a distinct possibility that I continue to work massive overtime for nothing. They turn me down when I ask them out on dates, and then say there are no good men nowadays.

To put this another way, I gave up my twenties to extreme working hours that didn’t help. I’m now doing the same thing to my thirties. It will be decades before all the progressive hiring managers (usually women) retire or die, so there’s no way out.

My peers have watched me give up everything I enjoy, dramatically lose weight from skipping meals, get sick from overwork, and fall asleep in church, just to escape the NEET lifestyle. I’m not a role model. I’m a dire warning not to try. I almost had to give up writing this essay because I have no time off. …

Women who got out of your neighborhood, using affirmative action scholarships, think they are too good for you. You never confide in your elders because the last time you did it, they said you should just work harder. If you can’t deal with this lifestyle, or don’t get lucky, you end up as a NEET. But it’s still your fault that you’re a loser. …

Affirmative action:

A young man today has come of age in a world that does not care about him. In the wake of the Sexual Revolution and especially affirmative action, men get isolation and discrimination, which is called “rugged individualism,” while women get extra help, which is called “progress.” Men all know the score. Even the TV shows portray all the men as stupid slackers, and we grew up with them!

If you are blue collar, you grew up without any male role models, including a father, and went to work at menial or retail jobs straight out of high school. You either become a NEET, or get a construction job that physically destroys you….

If you are white collar, you grew up without any male role models, except maybe a father, and have student debt. It may have collected interest because of job supply issues in your industry, or because you graduated into the Pandemic layoffs. In addition, companies now announce “ghost jobs,” or fake job listings, in order to keep up appearances. In secret, they are conducting AI-based layoffs and cancelling new positions. You end up underemployed in retail, because a trade might reject you as a job-stealer.

What other people think:

Because of the ghost-jobs, your parents think there’s still work out there, but there isn’t, and may never be….

Women who competed with you for work (and won, with fewer qualifications) think you aren’t good enough for them. … But it’s still your fault that you’re a loser.

If you’re wondering whom your daughters and granddaughters will marry, many won’t. The young men they could have matched with were discriminated against for so long, we can’t all catch up in time. Most young men will think, but never say, that you should worry about us for our own sake… not just because young women are missing out for once.

The older mother episodes:

White collar or blue, it all ends like this: A young man, whether he is a NEET or not, always ends up at an event with some older people. After everyone has had a few, some middle-aged woman decides instead to complain about kids nowadays.

She declares loudly in front of him that young men nowadays are pathetic and disgusting. She lists her single daughter’s many accomplishments in university and then white-collar work. She never mentions how her daughter got women’s scholarships. She forgets that her daughter was raised conservative, and was taught that affirmative action was wrong, then accepted it in five-figure sums.

The young men aren’t good enough for her daughter, she continues, because they can’t get a real job. Of course, her daughter got this young man’s job through affirmative action. The female hiring manager may have rejected that young man’s application to the same position (this happened to me with a girl I just met).

Sometimes, these unhappy mothers put down their cocktail, look you in the eye, and say, in mixed company, “You aren’t good enough for my daughter.”

This has happened to me twice. Do you understand now?

Conclusion:

Society didn’t just passively abandon young men. It actively went out of its way to destroy them, and succeeded.

Brad Wilcox:

You cannot understand this cultural and political moment unless you reckon with how lonely, disconnected, and “demoralized” a very large minority of young men in America have become.

Roughly 4-in-10 young men aged 18-29 feel like failures, report chronic loneliness, are absent from religious, civic, or volunteer life, and lose themselves in digital worlds of porn, gaming, and gambling. This is what the digital revolution has wrought: a generation of young men adrift, disengaged, and drifting–too often bereft of connections to real people and real institutions in the real world.

A reader writes:

Western women appear to have destroyed society from within, because they’ve been allowed to. The last part is extremely important: they’ve been allowed to do this whereas previously they weren’t allowed to feminize society Their political influence was restricted.

Two key parts to this are:

1. Suicidal empathy and one of its consequences: mass third world immigration.

2. An insistence that they be given equality with men, which is code for being given preference over men whenever it suits them (highly-paid office jobs, yes; down coal mines, no).

Babies who grew up with strict sugar limits saw less disease, including cancer, in later years and aged more slowly

Babies who grew up with strict sugar limits saw less disease, including cancer, in later years and aged more slowly. By Peter Dockrill at Science Alert.

Sugar rationing [in the UK] ended abruptly in September 1953, after which average consumption levels quickly doubled.

By focusing on the 1951–1956 period straddling the cut-off, the researchers were able to compare the adult health of babies who spent their first 1,000 days (from conception to the age of two) under sugar rationing with babies who were born directly after and did not experience the limits….

Previous studies have shown the sugar-rationed babies face lower chronic disease risks, along with lower chances of developing Alzheimer’s, and they seem to enjoy better cardiovascular health. …

The new study [shows] the babies who were sugar-rationed for their first 1,000 days were 69 percent less likely to develop liver cancer in their adult lives. They also saw reduced incidence of prostate cancer (52 percent lower), lung cancer (41 percent lower), rectal cancer (40 percent lower), and breast cancer (36 percent lower).

The sugar-rationed babies also tended to show longer telomeres – the caps at the ends of chromosomes that protect our genetic material, which are linked to longevity.

According to the researchers, the telomere length of the sugar-rationed babies equated to about 2.2 years less biological aging, suggesting they aged more slowly throughout their lives, enjoying better overall health than the non-sugar-rationed participants.

Another interesting finding was that the sugar-rationed babies appeared to show persistent dietary habits that lasted into adulthood, compared to their non-rationed peers.

“Rationed cohorts consume less sugar, eat smaller food quantities, and maintain healthier, more diverse diets five decades after the policy ended,” the researchers write in their paper.

Cane sugar, or indeed large amounts of any sugar, is a very recent addition to human diets. Hmmm.

Kids in the rationing period might have been going without more than sugar.

The Handmaid’s Tale was a warning about Islam

The Handmaid’s Tale was a warning about Islam.

The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, published in 1985, set in a totalitarian theocracy that replaced the United States. Following a military coup and a severe environmental crisis that caused widespread infertility, the regime enslaves fertile women, known as Handmaids, to bear children for the ruling elite.

Demonstrators dressing as handmaids are sending a visual warning that women’s rights, particularly reproductive autonomy, are under severe threat and that society risks sliding into a dystopian future where women are reduced to their reproductive capacity. The costume, featuring red cloaks and white bonnets, symbolizes state control over women’s bodies and serves as a stark protest against legislation restricting abortion and other women’s rights

Brendan Gutenschwager:

Demonstrators dressed as handmaids from the series “The Handmaid’s Tale” out near Minneapolis City Hall today

 

 

The obvious riposte, which apparently escapes lefties:

 

 

The irony is incredible.

They dress up as Handmaid’s Tale characters to warn America about Christianity…

Meanwhile, many actual Islamist governments enforce laws controlling women’s dress, marriage, sexuality and public behavior.

Maybe protest the real thing instead of cosplaying the fictional version.

So imagine my surprise and laughter when I discovered this yesterday from Gavin McInnes:

Crazier still: [The Handmaid’s Tale] WAS written about Islam. Atwood was disgusted by what the Muslims were doing to women during the Iranian revolution [in 1979] and she imagined that happening here.

The left dispute the point, naturally, claiming Atwood wrote it about Christianity. But other virtue-signalling lies account for the confusion:

After 9/11 and during the backlash to the Canadian Press’ “War on the Burqa” campaign (around 2006) [Atwood] rescinded her previous statements and claimed it had always been about radical Christianity instead.

So, the Handmaid’s tale is a warning about what would happen if Islam took over America.

Could it happen?

Peggy Flanagan, Lt. Governor of Minnesota, is on the left

 

Big picture:

The approaching debt monster poses a greater threat than global war

The approaching debt monster poses a greater threat than global war. By Alexander Downer in The Australian.

By global standards, Australian debt isn’t alarming. Federal government debt is only 34 per cent of GDP. Mind you, if you add state government debt as well, which amounts to about $650bn, then total government debt in Australia is a more concerning 55 per cent of GDP.

In the US, debt is more than 124 per cent of GDP; in France, 121 per cent; in Britain, about 100 per cent. Even in more fiscally responsible Germany it has blown out to 65 per cent. …

So why do we pay more interest?

In Australia’s case, the benchmark 10-year government bond yield is about 5 per cent. That is the interest rate the Australian government has to pay on its borrowings. The US rate is lower at 4.4 per cent, the British 4.6 per cent and Germany a mere 3.3 per cent.

So there is a problem. Australia needs to set the interest rate at a higher rate than comparable countries.

Indeed, what is noteworthy is that during the past four years, the interest rate on Australian government bonds has risen from 3.5 per cent in August 2022 to 5 per cent today. In other words, lenders want a higher return now because of concerns about growing government debt, the weakness of the Australian dollar and persistent inflation in Australia.

Debt repayment is already overshadowing other areas of expenditure, and it’s only growing. Worse, times have changed and people haven’t twigged yet. In the 40 years from 1982 to 2022 the trend was for decreasing interest rates, so asset prices soared (which boosted the tax take and welfare ballooned). Now we are in the other half of the Kontradieff cycle, and the trend is for rising interest rates until about 2060 or 2070.

The Australian government is spending more than $40bn a year just on servicing its debt. Add to that about $25bn a year being paid by the state and territory governments, and in total Australian governments are spending $68bn a year just financing their debt.

That is more than the federal government spends on defence, more than it spends on education, and is about 64 per cent of federal spending on health.

In the case of Britain, its government spends almost twice as much on servicing debt as it spends on defence. …

Well, yes:

The moral of this story is that all governments, including our own, need to stop spending more than they earn. The populist passion for expanding welfare entitlements and diverting resources into building windmills is slowly strangling our economies. And if debt continues to grow, we could confront a global financial crisis.

Asset prices and welfare are going to shrink in real terms (relative to wages), as interest rates rise, for the next few decades.

Or the paper currency system will blow up altogether in an inflationary storm à la Germany 1922, but surely our ruling class wouldn’t be that irresponsible.

Why are so many women sooo angry? They won.

Why are so many women sooo angry? They won. By Peachy Keenan.

They got everything they wanted. Men have never been doing this badly, and women have never been doing this well.

They make more, they have the majority of jobs, they are the majority of college graduates, they make more money, have much lower rates of suicide, addiction, and alcoholism, and live longer.

They won: they took over all men-only spaces, they took over the Boy Scouts, they ended men’s bathrooms, they can fly fighter planes and be in combat.

Marriage is optional, divorce is no-fault, they win 99% of the custody battles, they can control fertility at will, and they can’t get drafted. We are all living in the female future they promised. …

We abolished or degraded beauty standards, body size standards, judgement, shame, “unwed mothers,” male-dominated workplaces, the male gaze, Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition, Playboy, Men’s Magazines, cheerleaders, supermodels, heteronormativity, and monogamy. Any unwanted touch or glance is prosecutable as rape or assault.

We even made it so inclusive that anyone can be a woman just by declaration. …

Thanks to the miracle of modern medicine, you don’t even have to stay female if you don’t want to! …

The list is endless. Will a list of new demands be published soon?

 

 

Vosine:

It’s a stereotypic female trope to make unreasonable requests in order to test your social dominance. They become very unhappy when you fail the test by actually giving them the unreasonable thing they asked for.