Age and alcohol must be effecting my memory, since I thought that I wrote on the following topic, and have a déjà vu sense about it, but the Google search engine did not turn up anything, so given that is from an IT giant, it must be the truth, I guess … Anyway, here is a good article slamming the universities and suggesting that they be stripped of public funding:
  https://www.spectator.com.au/2018/07/lathams-law-105/

“Higher education has deteriorated so badly, so quickly we are now involved in a civilisational struggle to bring it back into the mainstream of society. This is critical work, requiring a new approach to university funding and staffing. Institutions that abandon the Australian values of freedom, pluralism and meritocracy can no longer expect to be funded by the Australian taxpayer. To earn the gift of public money they need to serve the public interest. The evidence suggests universities now serve themselves, having been colonised by mutant strains of left-wing activism. How can the scale of the takeover be measured? Fortunately there’s a ready reckoner: the essays published daily on the Conversation website, billed by Australia’s university sector as ‘unlocking the knowledge of researchers and academics to (solve) society’s biggest problems.’ I’ve read this material for the first three weeks of July, a total of 122 items, reflecting the priorities of the nation’s scholars. What type of issues are they interested in? By far the largest category is environmental advocacy, with 27 articles or one-quarter of the total.

     After waiting for 30 minutes in a line at the bank to get out my pension, with crippling heartburn, or is it heart disease (?), I was well in the mood for this article, which tells us that banks are an oligopoly that exploit customers:
  https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/03/banking-industry-found-to-be-an-oligopoly-that-exploits-its-customers

“Australia’s banking system has become so concentrated its major banks can pass on costs and set prices to boost profits without fear of losing market share, through every stage of the economic cycle, the Productivity Commission has found. The “four pillars” policy, which has underpinned Australia’s banking system since the 1990s, and which was designed to prevent mergers between the four biggest banks to maintain competition, has likely contributed to the problem, with evidence showing it is now preventing competition. The reality of Australia’s “oligopolistic banking system” means the biggest banks are now regularly exploiting the inertia of existing customers, maintaining their market position with persistently opaque pricing, conflicted advice and remuneration arrangements, and a lack of easily accessible information that induces their customers to maintain loyalty to unsuitable products. They are also overwhelming the population with a proliferation of thousands of similar financial products that are impossible to sift through. Those are some of the damning conclusions in a report on the competitiveness of the financial system by the Productivity Commission (PC), released on Friday. The treasurer, Scott Morrison, has welcomed the report, saying he will consider which recommendations to adopt after consulting widely, and after the banking royal commission has wrapped up.”

     The Dark Lords of IT are working their way down the list, knocking off sites that upset the globalist agenda. It was only a matter of time before the full-on Alex Jones copped it, and now he has been booted off almost everything. Naturally, conservatives have been outraged by this, as they should. But, really, it is surely just another volley in the cultural war. It would be utterly amazing if the “reptiles” did not censor the internet, including the sites that developed that meme. I can see the days of the internet as numbered. In the short term alternative media should be used, but eventually the Deep State will shut them down too. We will have to go back to the pre-internet days. Hopefully, enough material will have been got out by then that it may not matter too much.
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/06/apple-facebook-spotify-remove-alex-jones-content/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4bcef103fb41 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eujugOy3QZ0
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-08-06-the-internet-dark-ages-descends-upon-us-facebook-google-spotify-twitter-all-conspire-to-outlaw-conservative-speech-with-no-due-process.html 
  https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/08/06/facebook-blocks-congressional-candidate-elizabeth-hengs-video-ad-about-communist-crimes/ 
  https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/08/06/gary-cohn-warns-facebook-bigger-threat-than-banks-before-great-recession/ 
  https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/08/06/brent-bozell-censoring-infowars-not-just-a-slippery-slope-its-a-dangerous-cliff/
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-07-24-online-censorship-is-a-war-against-human-knowledge-civilization.html

     Once the ban on free speech is in place, then the agenda will be to attack any dissidents, by freezing them out of society, as suggested by Brittany Pettibone in these Tweets, not yet suppressed:

     Contrary to the happy world of the Australian globalist, who has worked for decades to make Australia a “part of Asia,” when Asia goes to war, Australia will be inevitably pulled in, being a “part of Asia.”
  https://amp.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/a-major-new-war-is-looming-and-this-one-sits-worryingly-close-to-home/news-story/c7df5e33026348beb5ed54afd6cb706c

“A MAJOR new war is looming — and this one sits worryingly close to home. Asia is at risk of descending into a region-wide crisis with global implications, a leading expert in Asia-Pacific affairs has warned. Dr Brendan Taylor, Associate Professor at ANU Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, argues Asia is at a dangerous crossroads in his new book The Four Flashpoints: How Asia Goes to War. Dr Taylor argues there are four key “flashpoints” — politically unstable areas with the potential to erupt into sudden conflict — and all are situated within the continent. “The risk of major war in Asia is much greater today than most individuals assume,” he warns. “All it would take is an accidental clash between the wrong two militaries, at the wrong place or the wrong time, and a highly dangerous escalation could occur. Asia has been lucky so far that it hasn’t.”

     This article says that it is time for the US and Europe to face the politics of cultural displacement:
  https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/30/its-time-for-the-united-states-and-europe-to-face-the-politics-of-cultural-displacement/

“The U.S. electorate is perhaps more polarized today over the definition of American identity and the value of diversity than at any time in recent memory. There are, of course, many drivers of this divide, including economic anxiety about globalization, wage stagnation, and career displacement, along with a perceived loss of community values due to continuing immigration and a fear of immigrant crime and foreign terrorism, often driven by exaggerated claims about the threat. The result is that for many Americans, demographic change and immigration pose a direct challenge to established concepts of identity and pre-existing social hierarchies. While economic concerns are real, they are often a byproduct of an overarching narrative that explains economic success or failure as being tied to industries, cultural norms, and a way of life that perhaps died out some time ago. Whether the narratives are about trade protection for steel and aluminum, preserving the coal industry, or protecting U.S. workers from low-cost labor around the world, the resonating theme is about preventing dynamic societal change. Unfortunately for those seeking to stop the march of time, demographic change is coming quickly.

     Readers who may feel that the message from Europe about the failure of multiculturalism is not relevant for Australia, need to consider this article:
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4258692/The-shocking-secret-plan-Muslim-state-Australia.html

“Muslim Imam Shaikh Mohammad Tawhidi has warned that an independent state within Australia is the agenda of radicals, according to an upcoming interview on Today Tonight. The Muslim leader, who has openly spoken out against ISIS and extremists, is interviewed on Seven's Today Tonight and claimed radicals would 'create a country within your country'. 'The agenda is to create a country within your country,' Imam Tawhidi told Today Tonight.”

     Why has she taken so long to get moving on this? Still, beggars can’t be choosers. Pauline Hanson, whom I have not heard much from lately, has called for Australians to be given a vote on the immigration intake, by moving a Notice of Motion  for a plebiscite at the next general election on Australia’s immigration levels, the Plebiscite (Future Migration Level) Bill 2018:
  https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/08/pauline-hanson-give-australians-vote-immigration-intake/

The Notice says:

     Alex Jones has been the latest victim in the IT giants attack on free speech, but he has come out swinging. First, he claims to have got 5.6 million new subscribers from the free press generated by the censorship of every internet system you can think of, including his email service. That does not just happen by accident, but requires the whole gang to coordinate things:
  https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/08/08/alex-jones-claims-5-6-million-new-infowars-subscribers-since-big-tech-blacklisting/

     It is good to see, however, that Jones is going old school with a grass roots campaign:
  https://www.infowars.com/forbidden-information-infowars-launches-grassroots-guerrilla-campaign/

     As anyone would know, I am not one to judge a culture, but I was surprised to read that a “crucifixion” was carried out in Saudi Arabia. I thought that that was an ancient Roman custom, that had since disappeared:
  https://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/08/08/saudi-arabia-crucifies-myanmar-man-convicted-of-murder/

“Saudi Arabia says it executed and crucified a man from Myanmar convicted of killing a woman and carrying out other crimes. The state-run Saudi Press Agency reported on the execution Wednesday, saying it was carried out in the Muslim holy city of Mecca. It said Elias Abulkalaam Jamaleddeen and entered a Myanmar woman’s home firing a gun and then stabbed her to death. He was convicted of robbing her home and another, attempted rape, and stealing firearms and ammunition. The report said his conviction was upheld by the courts and his execution was endorsed by King Salman.”

To The Age          Catherine McGregor asks for the impossible ("PM must push Indigenous treaty", 10/8). She wants "a treaty, a makarrata" between Australians identifying as Aboriginal and the rest of us, which will not "undermine the sovereignty of the Australian nation" when that is exactly what such acts would do. She seems unable to accept that the "original custodians" are no longer with us, only those descended from them (in part or wholly). Today's Aboriginals must be seen as firstly Australians, having no more rights and privileges than any other Australians. Thus no "constitutional recognition" would be appropriate or just. As for Aboriginal culture, it is already widely recognised and honoured, along with the story of British pioneering and settlement. There is, in 2018, no fiction in Australia's self-presentation as a successful nation in which citizens generally and in most contexts have a "fair go".
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

To The Australian          Stephen Fitzpatrick refers to "the flowering movement for indigenous constitutional recognition" ("Speed bumps on the road to reconciliation", 11-12/8), but my belief is that it is shrivelling. As the advocates of such recognition writhe and twist in their efforts to find a road to the power they seek, more and more ordinary Australians are becoming aware that the whole project is a scam that endangers our national unity and social security, while being grossly inequitable to other Australians (the huge majority). Petrol has been thrown on the fire by the threat (what else is it?) by academic Mick Dodson ("Dark vibes with a realistic edge") that Peter Cotton's new novel Dead Heat "may well turn out to be prophetic" with its picture of Aboriginal armed struggle (with outside help) against the rest of us. That has really given the game away! It would be good to see this threat roundly condemned by our political and intellectual leaders.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     Thanks for this item from a German friend, who lives in fear. It looks like the next big thing in Euro-White dispossession is to give up one’s home:
  https://sputniknews.com/europe/201808061066991376-migrant-germans-homes-money/

“The influx of refugees from the Middle East in 2015 has resulted in significant friction in many European countries, as citizens increasingly express their displeasure at the need to spend tax money on migrants, as well as concern over security issues. This has led to growing support for right-wing parties across Europe, including Austria. Aras Bacho, a Syrian refugee living in Austria, has suggested in an open letter published in the daily newspaper OE24 that ordinary Austrians and Germans should participate in the integration process of migrants. According to him, integration requires "both sides to work," meaning that Germans and Austrians should take refugees into their homes, as well as to live and go out with them.

The world just got crazier and more inhuman. I would not be creative enough to construct such a story:
  https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/09/fda-contracting-for-fresh-aborted-baby-tissue-to-engineer-humanized-mice/

“The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has contracted with Advanced Bioscience Resource (ABR) –  a biomedical company referred for federal criminal investigation – to provide “fresh” aborted baby tissue to engineer humanized mice for drug experimentation. A new report from CNSNews.com quotes an FDA notice dated June 13 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees the FDA:
The Government intends to solicit and negotiate directly with Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR) Inc. and no solicitation will be issued. The objective is to acquire Tissue for Humanized Mice. ABR is the only company that can provide the human fetal tissue needed to continue the ongoing research being led by the FDA. Fresh human tissues are required for implantation into severely immune-compromised mice to create chimeric animals that have a human immune system. This human immune system allows us to test biological drug products for safety and efficacy. According to the Congressional Research Service, “Fetal tissue used in research is obtained from elective abortions.”

     This article needs to come with a graphic warning for gentle readers, but the issue should be discussed because it shows how insane the modern university has become, and that is now one of my main threads. An academic published a paper in a “scholarly’ journal about the culture of dog rape, by other dogs in parks, and she enaged in a personal examination of 10,000 sucxh incidents. That seems absurd. Doing the maths, I estimate that the recording would have taken about 500 or more hours, which is possible, but implausible. Now, it seems, even the identity of this academic is under question:
  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1475346?journalCode=cgpc20&
  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1507885 
  https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11199

“The publishers and editors of the viral academic article on “rape culture” in Portland dog parks admitted Monday that the author may have breached the publishing agreement by misleading them about her credentials.
Helen Wilson submitted her study—“Human Reactions to rape culture and queer performativity at Urban dog parks in Portland, Oregon”—to Gender, Place, and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography in 2017, claiming to editors that she held a doctorate in Feminist Studies. "To date, [Helen Wilson] has not responded to our request to provide appropriate documentation confirming their identity."

     As Whites become minorities across the West, the new agenda is to bash them, first culturally, then physically as is now the agenda in south Africa. A helpful article explains this, following on from the controversy over The New York Times, supporting an Asian journalist, who made anti-White racist internet comments:
  https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/08/07/the-atlantic-explains-why-sarah-jeongs-brand-of-white-bashing-is-on-the-rise/

“To state the obvious, Jeong is hardly alone in colorfully expressing anti-white sentiment, and it is this broader phenomenon I find most interesting. Honestly, I’ve been around this sort of talk, most of it at least half-joking, for most of my life. (Years ago, I even affectionately parodied it.) The people I’ve heard archly denounce whites have for the most part been upwardly-mobile people who’ve proven pretty adept at navigating elite, predominantly white spaces. A lot of them have been whites who pride themselves on their diverse social circles and their enlightened views, and who indulge in their own half-ironic white-bashing to underscore that it is their achieved identity as intelligent, worldly people that counts most, not their ascribed identity as being of recognizably European descent.

     We are used to outrage, but sometimes it does get overwhelming and I have to go outside and scream … until the neighbours call the police!
  https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/09/ny-art-gallery-features-exhibit-depicting-daniels-virgin-mary/

“Catholic League President Bill Donohue said Wednesday that a photographic exhibit featuring porn stars such as Stormy Daniels posing as the Virgin Mary constitutes “the latest artistic assault on Christianity.” The exhibit of the work of Nika Nesgoda, which Donahue called an “expression of hate” for Christians, goes on display Thursday at an art gallery called the Spur in the Long Island town of Southampton. For her photographs, Ms. Nesgoda dressed adult film actresses in the costumes of old master paintings of the Virgin Mary, according to the East Hampton Star, which praised the “striking visuals” of her artwork. “The rich and famous will have the opportunity of seeing Nesgoda’s masterpiece, ‘Virgin.’ It is a doctored photographic exhibit featuring porn stars such as Stormy Daniels posing as the Virgin Mary,” Donahue laments. Whereas taking potshots at Christianity shows little courage and even less imagination, Ms. Nesgoda could be truly avant-garde and innovative, Donahue suggests, by playing with Islamic imagery rather than Christian iconography."

     The insane campaign by the manic establishment to link Russia to stealing the election from “crooked” Hillary,  as Trump put it, by exposing her “crooked” deeds, which apparently she has carte blanche to have done, has gone into overdrive, being essentially institutionalised in Left wing culture.
  https://www.rt.com/usa/435575-facebook-infowars-censorship/

“Under tremendous pressure from politicians and mainstream media, Facebook and other social networks have turned to purging content, viewpoints and even users that the powers-that-be have declared objectionable.
Still angry over the 2016 US presidential election, Democrats blame social media for giving President Donald Trump and his supporters a voice and claim the likes of Facebook and Twitter have served as platforms for “Russians” to “influence”US public opinion – against Hillary Clinton, that is. Repeatedly told to sort out the “Russians,” Facebook, Twitter and Google have turned to throttling posts, suspending and even banning some users. First it was the “suspected Russian” accounts, based among other things on whether they were posting in Cyrillic. Then they demonetized, throttled and flagged accounts of Trump supporters such as Diamond and Silk. Last week, Facebook, Google, Spotify and several other platforms deleted the accounts of Alex Jones and InfoWars. Who is next? “If people flag them as potential hoaxes, we send those to fact-checkers. And if those fact-checkers say that it is probably false, then we will significantly reduce the distribution of that content,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Recode, which advocated simply kicking such people off the platform.”

To The Age          Nicole Hemmer seems to nurse a lot of hatred for what she calls "white nationalism" ("Hate: to put up or shut up?", 13/8). She stereotypes it as hate-mongering, the purveying of odious ideas, crude anti-Semitism or racism, neo-Nazism, authoritarianism and hostility to democracy. A number of truths seem to be lost in this tirade. Firstly, that it is normal and not wicked for people to prefer association with their own folk. Secondly, that there is much dangerous hostility being shown around the world to white people generally and to their Western European culture and civilization. Thirdly that, inevitably, white people are banding together in many nations to protect their integrity as a people and to defend themselves from mistreatment by other groups. Defined in that way, "white power" is not an evil, any more than "black power" or "Jewish power" are. What is important in the global village is for all the ethnic communities to balance their will-to-survive with respect for that same quality in others. Some "white nationalists" clearly go too far, but others, like Kevin McDonald, do not.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

To The Australian          Brendan O'Neill asks: "How can we convince the owners of social media to permit the freest speech possible?" ("We just outsourced censorship to Silicon Valley", 13/8) The answer relates to an old custom concerning public rights of way. Traditional rights of passage had to be maintained by people periodically walking the relevant tracks. We need more individuals speaking out in public forums in defence of free speech and especially free speech for currently shunned persons and groups. At the moment too much is being left to too few in Australia.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

     Free speech is now being censored like never before, in the lead up to the global elites making their final genocidal attack upon us. This shut down, once considered the rabbling’s of the lunar right fringe dwellers, is now mainstream. You can be censored not only from the internet, but by not being able to host public meetings, as the police raise cost issues and shut you down, for after all, they serve and protect (their masters):
  https://www.spectator.com.au/2018/08/free-speech-now-comes-with-security-costs/
  https://www.spectator.com.au/2018/06/decline-and-fall/ 
  https://www.spectator.com.au/2018/08/free-speech-on-campus-comes-cost-free-for-pirate-pete-lefties/

“University campuses are supposed to be places of robust debate, places where a contest of ideas can be held with enthusiasm and energy without fear of being condemned, punished and attacked merely for expressing a thought. Sadly there is a growing gulf between what universities should be and what they are. With student politics, and even senior academia, dominated by left-wing beliefs, it is increasingly hard for conservative voices to make themselves heard, leave alone be respected. The Australian Republican Movement took advantage of their relationships with left-wing academics and the equally left-leaning or just jellybacked university administrators at the University of Sydney and received free use of three venues at the university to the value of $5,000, including its Great Hall.