Not all bad things from the law come from deliberate attempts to do evil. Sometimes there are situations of genuine harm, but politicians react by firing off more laws, when most often the problems are complex social problems that will not be solved just by further red tape. Here is an example:
  https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/bosses-in-frame-for-workers-suicides-in-victoria/news-story/c8a3f4edf0263fe60221341c680d3be6?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=TodaySHeadlines

“Negligent bosses could face up to 20 years in jail or multi-million-dollar fines over the suicide of their employees under workplace manslaughter laws proposed by the Victorian government. Under the tough new laws, an employer could be held liable if a worker committed suicide as a result of sustained workplace bullying and the employer, aware of the abuse, did not take action to reasonably guard against or respond to the conduct.
The new workplace manslaughter offence, if legislated, will apply to all workplace fatalities, including those resulting from mental as well as physical injuries. Victorian Attorney-General Jill Hennessy said an employer could face liability for a suicide where an employee's mental health had been “brutalised” at work, and the employer had rejected the worker's requests for assistance. She said the criminal standard of negligence would have to be met and causation established. “The standard is very high because the penalty is very high,” she said, adding the offence would not be easy to prove. Under the proposed legislation, a suicide found to be a direct result of negligent workplace practices and policies that substantially contribute to the death could constitute workplace manslaughter. Victorian Trades Hall Council secretary Luke Hilakari said 30 workers died each year in Victoria at work and tens of thousands were injured annually. “As long as every worker comes home from work, no boss needs to be jailed,’’ he said. “Until that happens, maybe there does need to be some bosses who go to jail and that will be the lesson.”

     The Labor Party was taken over by the socialist Left pretty early in the scheme of things, once being the white man’s party, helping to build the white Australia policy, a policy that today China and Japan have the yellow equivalent of, and prosper with. Even though many Aussies died fighting the Nazis, they supported the white Australia policy, wanting a homogeneous homeland, and by contemporary Left standards, are racists. But multiculturalism was implemented in the 1947 post WW II immigration programme by Arthur C., then this quickly morphed into Asianisation, and now, the equally trendy, part of China thesis. Along the way, we went from sensible reforms about women’s rights, to crazy reforms that have helped destroy the family. Imagine what the Australians of 1901 would think about abortion on demand, transgenderism etc. etc. Manhood, the sort that built the country is under attack, and missing out of action. I would have liked the elites to have had the balls to have come out with all of this back in 1901 and then it would have been interesting to see how things would have gone. Anyway, the following remarks are  interesting, although I would go much further than the sentiments expressed:
  https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/its-time-for-labor-to-become-a-broad-church/news-story/55f60f7fa17419215ace829b738b1413

“Over a generation, the Labor Party has been transformed by its embrace of progressive ideology. It is now a fusion of middle-class, tertiary-educated, progressive ideologues and old-fashioned social democrats tied to a union movement devoid of industrial power. The problem for Labor is that progressive ideology is electoral poison. Its purpose is to subvert the values of nation and society and elevate those of group identity and individual self-realisation or narcissism. This is not the Labor way. While it is becoming the gospel of elites in the education, media and corporate world, it is the source of profound distrust among many “forgotten” or “quiet” Australians. How else to interpret the irrefutable voting statistics? The more progressive Labor gets, the more its primary vote sinks. This is the reality confronting Labor. Progressivism works for single-issue causes and the infiltration of institutions. But it hasn’t worked for a Labor Party that needs half the two-party-preferred vote in a country becoming more culturally fragmented.

     This is a very upsetting item, that shows that Australia is not immune from the sickness and degeneracy that is gripping the rest of the West, especially Sweden. This brutal, shocking murder puts Australia in a terrible light, internationally.
  https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/aiia-maasarwes-killer-codey-herrmann-to-learn-his-fate/news-story/ca5ef154e25b206dfe7a0792f3762ad8?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=TodaySHeadlines

“The devastated father of Aiia Maasarwe says the government should do more to protect women after the international student’s killer was sentenced to a minimum term of 30 years. Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth said Codey Herrmann, 21, “showed utter contempt” for the dignity of Maasarwe when he raped and murdered her in the northern Melbourne suburb of Bundoora in January this year. Saeed Maasarwe, the father of the slain 21-year-old student, issued a message to the Australian government after Herrmann was sentenced to 36 years with a 30 year non-parole period at Victoria’s Supreme Court on Tuesday. “[I’m] sending a message to the Australian government … and all the departments,” he said through tears. “I wish and I hope they will care more for the people [so] they can go back home to their families safe.” Aiia Maasarwe was heading home after attending a comedy night with friends when Herrmann attacked her as she got off a tram near La Trobe university where she was studying. As she spoke to her Israeli-based sister Ruba on the phone, Herrmann beat her four times with a metal pole before dragging her behind a garden bed and raping her. He inflicted at least nine more blows to her head, fracturing her skull, before coating her with WD-40 and setting her alight.”

     Well, whites living without being replaced by minorities are just downright boring, so every white space must be filled:
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/31/ny-times-refugees-needed-to-fill-void-of-cultural-diversity-in-white-towns/

“More refugees must be resettled across the United States to fill a “void of cultural diversity” in towns that are made up of a majority of white Americans, a New York Times report states. As President Trump is set to lower refugee admissions for the third year, keeping his 2016 campaign promise to significantly reform the program after almost four decades, the New York Times published a report this week detailing how Congolese refugees already living in the U.S. are looking to bring their foreign relatives to the country through the refugee resettlement program. Those who support expanding refugee resettlement, the New York Times reports, say doing so is necessary for bringing “cultural diversity” to majority-white American towns like Missoula, Montana, which is more than 89 percent white and three percent Hispanic.
The New York Times reports:

     Having bombed at philosophy at university, in a low-ranking US asylum, I, with the lack of wisdom of youth, decided to study sociology. I soon found that the sociology of the 1980s was just various forms of Marxism warmed up. Later, postmodernism and a whole range of crazy French philosophy, from people like Derrida, soaked into the discipline, which now is beyond any chance of reform. These articles give some overview of the basics, but I think the situation is much worse, with every politically correct idea you can imagine radiating from this discipline. There is simply no opposition to this in the discipline at all, complete intellectual totalitarianism.
  https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2019/10/31/sociology-as-religion-part-1/
  https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2019/11/01/sociology-as-religion-part-2/

     So crazy has contemporary sociology become that a trio of academics, mainly from other disciplines, such as philosophy, set out to write a series of “hoax” papers on subjects such as dog rape in parks, and the “conceptual penis.” We need not go into fine detail here, but these papers all got published in postmodern sociology journals, but were later exposed as “hoaxes.” The big issue for the academics was the ethics of submitting such papers, but the real issue for people in the real world, is that the papers got accepted, and thus are examples of the sort of nonsense that sociology engages in; are the papers really “hoaxes,” when the entire discipline lacks any sort of objectivity, and anything politically correct, goes? But sociology is nonsense with a point, because the goal is always to further the culture of critique, deconstruction and thrashing of  … us, we the white deplorables who are destroyed at taxpayers’ expense.
  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/arts/academic-journals-hoax.html
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair
  https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/phl_fac/29/
  https://www.zerohedge.com/political/red-army-mediocrities-our-soviet-style-university-system

     How best to describe the states of the modern West, which like some zombie-infection works to destroy everything that traditional society fought, bled and died to create? Dissent Right figure Greg Johnson has been arrested attending the Scandza Forum conference on human biodiversity, presumably for being a “terrorist,” even though perhaps no-one from the Dissent Right has fallen over themselves to reject the violence option:
  https://www.counter-currents.com/2019/11/greg-johnson-arrested-in-norway-for-thoughtcrime/

“Greg Johnson was scheduled to speak at the Scandza Forum conference in Oslo, Norway today. Over the last few days, the Norwegian antifa were on a social media campaign against Scandza and Greg in particular, claiming that he supports terrorism and was therefore a threat — ludicrous given Greg’s many diatribes against terrorism. Regardless, word about this apparently got to the Norwegian authorities, and he was arrested this morning before the conference on national security grounds. The police said that Greg was being deported, but he’s been held incommunicado since then, so we don’t know where he is now. Undoubtedly they will simply detain him until they can get him on a flight out of the country. This is the same routine that Jared Taylor and other thought criminals have been through before. The conference itself is proceeding and none of the other speakers or attendees were detained. Below is a statement that Greg wrote in connection with the accusations against him before his arrest.

     I sometimes feel sorry for young climate change princess Greta. You see, she has a good heart, although it is in the wrong place, but seems to be falling apart, as would anyone that age thrust up into the spotlight of insane climate politics:
  https://www.zerohedge.com/political/greta-thunberg-appeals-help-after-traveling-halfway-around-world-wrong-way

“Autistic environmentalist Greta Thunberg has appealed for help after traveling halfway around the world "the wrong way" because the United Nations moved its global climate meeting from Chile to Spain. "As #COP25 has officially been moved from Santiago to Madrid I'll need some help," tweeted Thunberg, "Now I need to find a way to cross the Atlantic in November... If anyone could help me find transport I would be so grateful." Thunberg then appeared to acknowledge her truly first world problem, tweeting "This of course no problem. People are suffering all around the world, and I’m fine whatever I do and wherever I am."”    

     Life in the post-apocalypse of America is certainly entertaining, and nobody can claim to be bored. Terrified?  Yes, terrified, but never bored. Consider:
  https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/mexican-catholics-defend-churches-against-pro-abortion-feminists-shouting-viva-cristo-rey

“Groups of pro-abortion feminists in Mexico City, Guadalajara, and several other Mexican cities rampaged through the streets on Sunday in a pro-abortion “march” last Saturday that included attempts to set churches and government buildings on fire, spray-painting of graffiti, vandalism, and attacks on bystanders, including reporters. However, in Guadalajara and Mexico City, Catholics responded to the call to line up in front of their churches to protect them from the vandalism that churches have suffered in previous marches by feminists. The Catholics held banners of Our Lady of Guadalupe and chanted “Viva Cristo Rey,” in imitation of the Cristeros, who defended the Catholic faith from government oppression in the 1920s. In Guadalajara, hundreds of Catholics lined up around the city’s cathedral to protect it from the marchers, and no damage was inflicted on the building, despite the fact that the marchers’ rout took them directly next to the building. In Mexico City, the women tried to set fire to both the gates of the city’s cathedral and the national Chamber of Commerce building. They spray-painted graffiti on sculptures on the Paseo de la Reforma (the city’s main avenue), as well as on the national Government Palace, on walls of businesses, parts of the subway, and on sidewalks.  They chanted, “Abortion yes, abortion no, that is something I decide!” and held signs demanding “legal, safe, and free abortion.”

     In the UK, as is now well-known to all outside the UK, thousands of white children were groomed, raped and forced into prostitution at the point of a gun, some children being raped by up to 500 men. The authorities turned a blind eye to this for years, because well … racism … Now, if you are white male you can go to gaol for even touches to a female, because your non-sexual touches will be constructed as sexual assault:
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7557947/Shy-awkward-student-19-faces-JAIL-sex-assault-conviction.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailUK

“A 'shy and awkward' student is facing jail after he touched a teenager 'in an attempt to befriend her.' Jamie Griffiths, 19, Googled 'how to make a friend' then came into contact with the 17-year-old during two attempts to engage her in conversation. The victim burst into tears during the second encounter and went to police with her mother, claiming Griffiths 'would have touched her breast had she not moved away'. She claimed her school work suffered as a result of the contact, leaving her unable to sit her mock exams and apply to Oxford University. Griffiths, who lives with his parents and now studies at Durham University, denied two charges of sexual assault, claiming he was 'shy, anxious and awkward'. He said he had 'clumsily' approached the girl in an attempt 'to make a friend but the words didn't come out.' Griffiths was convicted at Manchester Magistrates' Court and will be sentenced later this month. The offence carries a maximum sentence of ten years jail if dealt with at a crown court and he faces being ordered to sign the Sex Offender Register.

     Here is a view that Australian universities are unAustralian, with academics not only being totalitarian, but only loyal to their new class, and increasingly globalist elite:
  https://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/creeping-university-cringe-fails-australia/news-story/762ee3f9b87d8db0bc9cc071113df22e?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=TodaySHeadlines

“The nation’s top universities are “not interested in promoting the study of things Australian” and are “failing in their responsibilities as national institutions”, leading academics and historians have warned. Greg Melleuish, a professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Wollongong, has told a parliamentary inquiry that universities are “primarily international in their loyalties” and are becoming “highly authoritarian”. Dr Melleuish’s view was supported on Friday by one of Australia’s leading historians, Stuart Macintyre, a former dean of the Faculty of Arts at Melbourne University, who told The Weekend Australian that universities should “pay some regard to their national responsibilities”. And Flinders University English professor Robert Phiddian said international scholarship was ranked more highly than local scholarship. The role played by the higher education sector in framing Australian identity and democracy will be examined by a Senate inquiry. The committee’s deputy chair, Amanda Stoker, warned that identity politics and postmodernism had “shamed” ordinary people into abandoning the political centre ground. She said there was merit to the argument that “academic disdain” for Australian culture and identity had contributed to minimising the study of Australian history and resulted in a diminished sense of national pride within the university sector.

     I have been writing about the Chinese communist government’s human rights violations against the Uyghurs, and the relative lack of interest about this in the public debates about China worship. But, for interest, who are the Uyghurs? Here are some extracts from a recent vDare article telling us. Turns out that the Uyghurs, are predominantly white, which explains why the Left will just let them burn, just as the ethnic cleansing of the Yazidis by ISIS, to “smash their blond bloodline,” was never of any interest to the Left of the West:
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2724658/Were-not-leaving-Yazidis-refusing-come-mountain-300-women-stolen-ISIS-impregnated-smash-blond-bloodline.html 
  https://vdare.com/articles/does-the-west-have-a-genetic-interest-in-supporting-china-s-uyghurs?scroll_to_paragraph=9

“There’s an old stereotype that “all Chinese people look the same.” However, what people really mean is that Han Chinese people, who make up 91% of the population of the People’s Republic of China, look the same. There are also 55 officially-recognized ethnic minorities in China. And then there are ethnic minorities whom the Chinese government refuses to recognize. This is usually because they are Turkic peoples who are genetically very different from the Han and don’t like being ruled by them. One of these unrecognized ethnic minorities: 11.3 million-strong Muslim “Uyghur.” They have effectively been in rebellion against Han occupation for centuries. And, genetically, they are, to a great extent, white. … The Uyghur, known until the 1930s simply as the Turki, have repeatedly risen up against their East Asian Han overlords, inevitable because they are genetically and culturally very different from the Han. It has been demonstrated that the more genetically different two ethnic groups are, the more likely they are fight against each other [see Ethnic Conflicts, by Tatu Vanhanen]. Essentially, there has been continuous unrest in the Northwest province of Xinjiang, where the China’s Uyghur mainly live, since 1931. This province, once overwhelmingly Uyghur, is now only 45% Uyghur—and 40% Han. Its capital city, Urumqi, is now 75% Han and only 12.8% Uyghur.

     Thanks to Lou for emailing me this little item to keep my already exploding blood pressure high. The globalists are dead worried about a fall in global growth and all that. But, why worry, since they already have infinite wealth created at the gentle stoke of computer keys through the magic of credit creation, so they will always have plenty of baked beans in the cupboard, to flavour the smoked salmon and caviar.
  https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/imf-forecasts-global-growth-at-decade-low/news-story/1594642ff4b03b5b54656cfd9eaf1a73

     Here is the global foundation, pondering how bright the future for globalism will be:
  http://globalfoundation.org.au/co-operative-globalisation-conversations-with-two-of-australias-finest/

     Wow, mainstream, I think, criticism of Einstein, not the usual dreary stuff about quantum mechanics, but for getting an equation wrong. Very interesting. I just wish I understood it and could tell you about it in summary, but have a look anyway:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va5T2KcYiOw

     There are plenty of articles out there in internet land, indicating that Hillary Clinton is getting ready for her second run against Donald Trump. The degenerate libtards have never recovered from the Trump victory, and many are still saying that Hillary actually won. Yet, if the Red Queen does intend to run, is she mentally fit to do so? There was the weird head shaking during the last election, like she was some sort of defective toy scaring children, but the media has censored that now, or she is better, or she has the right meds. But, what about this?
  https://nypost.com/2019/10/20/hillary-clintons-sad-sick-conspiracy-theories/
  https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/tulsi-gabbard-hillary-clinton-video-feud/

“In her efforts to rationalize her 2016 loss, Hillary Clinton has gone full cuckoo. Vladimir Putin not only robbed her, he’s positioning his “assets” to do it again. Doing a podcast with David Plouffe, a former adviser to President Barack Obama, she insisted that Putin is “grooming” a Democrat for a third-party run next year. “I’m not making any predictions, but I think they’ve got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate. She’s the favorite of the Russians,” Clinton raved. She plainly meant Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, as Plouffe said. Never mind that Gabbard ruled out any third-party bid on CNN in August — or that she’s a veteran who put her life on the line for this country. This follows last week’s New York Times story hinting at the same conspiracy theory, which cited at least two former Clinton aides and which Gabbard slammed onstage at last week’s debate. The former secretary of state (who once proudly offered Putin a giant “reset” button) also tarred 2016 Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein as yet another Russian tool, who might elbow out Gabbard. “That’s assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which, she might not ’cause she’s also a Russian asset.” Clinton said. “She’s a Russian asset, totally. They know they can’t win without a third-party candidate.” The thought that Americans wouldn’t dare run a third-party candidate on their own — as they’ve done for decades — because it might re-elect President Trump is nowhere on Clinton’s radar screen. In short, she’s doubling down on the actual reason why she lost: her palpable contempt for most Americans.”

     First, forget worrying about the boats, the real problem has always been asylum seekers coming in by plane:
  https://www.sbs.com.au/news/nearly-100-000-asylum-seekers-have-arrived-by-plane-to-australia-in-the-past-five-years

“More than 95,000 asylum seekers have arrived in Australia by plane over the past five years triggering fears over exploitation and slavery. New figures have revealed about 80 people per day since the start of July have claimed protection after landing at an Australian airport. But the Morrison government has defended its border protection policies, saying the number of arrivals actually dropped last year, compared to the previous one. The figures were disclosed in answers to Questions on Notice from Labor’s spokesperson for Home Affairs and Immigration Kristina Keneally. “There’s nothing wrong with claiming asylum. It’s an important right,” Senator Keneally said. “However, in 90 per cent of these particular cases, the individuals are not legitimate refugees and are often being trafficked to Australia for the explicit purpose of being exploited.” Labor is warning Australia is on track to post a new annual record for asylum seeker arrivals by air. It said 4,037 aeroplane arrivals have made a claim for protection between 1 July 2019 and 19 August 2019. But Immigration Minister David Coleman said that based on the same period last year, the figures were actually down for the number of arrivals seeking asylum. "We won’t be taking any advice from Labor, whose mismanagement of our border was an absolute disgrace," he said.”

     No motive yet found? How hard are they looking?
  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/269784

“A 23-year-old Syrian armed with a knife on Friday ran into a Berlin synagogue, and was arrested at the entrance. According to eyewitnesses, the Syrian yelled "Allahu akhbar" and anti-Israel statements. The synagogue's two guards immediately drew their weapons, and a colleague requested police reinforcements, En24.news reported Saturday. Police arriving at the scene sprayed pepper gas in the would-be stabber's face, the site added. En24.news quoted a police spokeswoman who said: "We are investigating in all directions." The suspect's apartment was searched, and electronics and documents were confiscated, but the suspect was ultimately released Saturday morning. "So far the man has not appeared in the police [records]," the spokeswoman said. "He was also released. Grounds for detention are not available." She said no political motive was immediately recognizable, but state security is investigating the case.”

To The Australian     Troy Bramston blames the wrong person for the Brexit crisis in the UK ("Britain is in chaos and Cameron is to blame", 15/10). Most to blame are members of the political elites who lied repeatedly to the British people from 1962 on as to what joining a common market would mean and then, in later stages, about what political union in "Europe" would mean. Britain's entry into the EU was a con job, pure and simple. Now these elites are trashing democracy by refusing to honour the clear decision of the 2016 referendum. That meant leave fully, and Bramston fudges the issue by unnecessarily asking whether it included departure from both "the economic and political institutions". Of course it did. Nor were the millions who voted to Leave under any moral obligation to define how this would be achieved. Ireland got out of Great Britain fairly quickly last century. Such exits can be managed successfully and they were entitled to trust that their Parliament would organise theirs efficiently. The greatest matter at stake is the political freedom of the individual. There should be much more public analysis and discussion of the Orwellian behaviour of the EU towards the principle of free speech.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     A lady billionaire has a few harsh things to say about feminism from a liberated rich woman position:
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7544389/Billionaire-matchmaker-Anna-Bey-reveals-NEVER-pays-man-shouldnt-either.html

“Billionaire matchmaker Anna Bey teaches women how to date rich men and create sophisticated impressions in upscale social circles. The London-based etiquette expert, 33, explained why she never pays for a man on a date under any circumstance, saying that women already shoulder the burden of raising children and running the household. The Swedish-born founder of the School of Affluence also pointed out that women spend significant sums on maintaining their appearance, and expressed a wish for society to return to traditional gender roles. Viewers flocked to the comment section in support of Ms Bey's controversial views, with the vast majority echoing her criticism of modern feminism. Ms Bey began by explaining her stance on feminism and her belief that it no longer serves the needs of women. 'I am a traditional feminist who believes that the man has a role, and is not currently fulfilling his role in society,' she in her latest YouTube tutorial. 'I believe that feminism has started to take a direction that is no longer beneficial for women. 'Society is spoiling men - so what's happening now is instead of men [taking weight off] the shoulders of women, women are now offloading men.'

     Forget about car bombs explosions and all things going boom in Sweden. The real present danger are new gangs, especially the Nigerian mafia, which is taking over the place as the new war lords of this post-apocalyptic landscape, or if you prefer, some sort of vast game reserve out of the Predator movies.
  https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/10/sweden-19-car-fires-and-explosion-rock-stockholm-suburb/
  https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/10/03/swedish-police-warn-brutal-nigerian-mafia-gaining-foothold-stockholm/

“Stockholm police have warned of the growing influence of the “Black Ax”, a Nigerian criminal gang connected to drug trafficking and prostitution involving illegal migrants. The Black Ax is said to be an international group which operates in several southern European countries. Fifteen members of the group were arrested this week in Gothenburg in connection to drug trafficking cases, Sveriges Radio reports. Earlier this week, Gothenburg police arrested 15 drug smugglers connected to an international cocaine and heroin smuggling ring, finding 115 million Swedish kronor’s ($11,647,775/£9,467,375) worth of drugs. Swedish customs say they seized approximately 300lbs of narcotics in total, including 110lbs of heroin. Prosecutor Anna Svedin noted that the network was based in the Netherlands and said: “Some of the defendants have links to Black Ax, but not all.” Lennart Karlsson, intervention manager at the Klara area in Stockholm, said that police have noted an increased presence of the Nigerian mafia in recent years. Mr Karlsson said: “The really heavy establishment has been over the last five years.”

     Good news! Good news! The UN is getting cash strapped, as all parasitic institutions come to be:
  https://www.technocracy.news/un-running-out-of-cash-pleads-for-money/

“The United Nations is running a deficit of $230 million, Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned on Monday, and may run out of money by the end of October unless world governments immediately meet their financial obligations. U.S. taxpayers would most likely be hardest hit by any immediate cash injection into the global organization. The United States is by far the U.N.’s biggest financial contributor, providing 22 percent of its operating budget and funding 28 percent of peacekeeping missions, which currently cost $8 billion annually. The next two major contributors are Germany and the U.K. In a letter intended for the 37,000 employees at the U.N. secretariat and obtained by AFP, Guterres said unspecified, “additional stop-gap measures” would have to be taken to ensure salaries and entitilements are met. These might include holding less meetings and cutting back on travel and associated entitlements. “Member States have paid only 70 per cent of the total amount needed for our regular budget operations in 2019. This translates into a cash shortage of $230 million at the end of September. We run the risk of depleting our backup liquidity reserves by the end of the month,” he wrote. Donald Trump has long pushed for reform of the U.N. and just last week warned the “future does not belong to globalists” in a warning to the organization’s leaders: In December 2017 Nikki Haley, the then United States Ambassador to the organization, announced the federal government had reduced its contribution to the U.N.’s annual budget by $285 million, as Breitbart News reported.