The issue of unemployment arising from the rise of the machines has concerned us at this site, but it is not the only matter of worry. Advances in AI threaten to make humans as a species redundant:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-12/self-driving-cars-will-cause-riots-street-meet-americas-first-anti-automation 
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/02/13/a-i-expert-artificial-intelligence-will-be-billions-of-times-smarter-than-humans/

“Ian Pearson, a futurist and A.I. expert, recently stated that artificial intelligence will be “billion of times” smarter than humans and people may need to somehow merge with computers to survive. CNBC reports that speaking on a panel organized by CNBC at the World Government Summit in Dubai, Ian Pearson of Futurizon commented on the issues that may arise around artificial intelligence. “The fact is that AI can go further than humans, it could be billions of times smarter than humans at this point,” said Pearson. “So we really do need to make sure that we have some means of keeping up.” Pearson continued, “The way to protect against that is to link that AI to your brain so you have the same IQ… as the computer. I don’t actually think it’s safe, just like Elon Musk… to develop these superhuman computers until we have a direct link to the human brain… and then don’t get way ahead.”

     It all happens in the Socialist Republic of California:

  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/02/13/gavin-newsom-jeff-sessions-outright-racist-praising-anglo-american-legal-traditions/ 
  http://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/02/13/popovich-live-racist-country/ 

     California Lieutenant Governor and gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom has called Attorney General Jeff Sessions an “outright racist”  for saying that sheriffs are a “critical part of the Anglo-American heritage of law enforcement.” “Reminder that our Attorney General is an outright racist who wants us all to acknowledge ‘Anglo-American heritage,’” tweeted Newsom. This is a god example of the mania of anti-white racism, which now has become so crazed, so deranged, that any positive comments about traditional culture and people is hit with the magic “racist” ray gun. How can this not lead to a sticky end?

To THE AGE          Some of us see the government’s response to the Uluru Statement from the Heart very differently to the way in which Waleed Aly views it (‘Such a sorry way to behave’, 16/2). We are sceptical that the advisory body that issued it (which was formed by invitation only) was really adequately representative. Secondly, we believe that the ‘formal apology a decade ago’ was also unrepresentative and in fact a piece of gesture politics having no mandate from the Australian people as a whole.

     Thirdly, it is disappointing to learn that the prime minister has announced a new inquiry into constitutional recognition. Public discussion in the last two decades has more than adequately established that any such recognition is against the interests of national unity and fundamentally inequitable. That is why no referendum proposal favouring it will succeed. Finally, ‘Indigenous perspectives’ are already being widely heard and acted upon at all levels of government anyway.
  NJ, Belgrave, Vic

To THE AUSTRALIAN          There could hardly be a more brilliant and succinct summary of our national political culture than that provided by F. X. Geraghty (16/2). So how can we induce a return to the practice of principle rather than self-indulgence? How can we halt the ‘inroads of the Nanny State’ by reforming the wishy-washy Liberal Party and frustrating the hidden authoritarianism of the left?

     Only by religion, and that means a major rethinking of our Christian sacred tradition, the basis of our culture and civilization. The voices of the universalists (like Alvin Kuhn and Tom Harpur) and perennialists (like Aldous Huxley and Rene Guenon) need to be listened to. An ‘orthodox’ theology based upon the misinterpretation long ago of ancient initiatory documents needs to be superannuated. It’s a tough call for many devoted Christians, but it’s the only way.
  NJ, Belgrave, Vic

     Here is a clear example of why the immigration agenda is pushed so hard by the capitalist class: it’s the money, honey:
  http://www.breitbart.com/2018-elections/2018/02/13/ceos-congress-import-more-cheap-labor/ 

“Companies are facing pressure to raise wages, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is threatening to punish legislators who deny amnesty for roughly 3.5 million ‘dreamer’ illegals and ‘Temporary Protected Status’ migrants.
The threat was delivered via letter as Senators prepare to vote on Democratic-drafted amnesties and on GOP-drafted plans to cut the supply of immigrant chain-migration labor after 2028. The Chamber’s February 13 letter was titled “Key Vote Alert!,” and it said, underlined and in bold, that: The Chamber may include votes on, or in relation to, to amendments addressing these priorities in our annual How They Voted scorecard.

     I keep a keen eye on the US university system re political correctness and anti-white racism because as my father always said, Australia is about five years behind the US. Nowadays I think the five years figure has dropped to a couple of years. Dad never talked about Canada, but recently they have overtaken even the US in the politically correct madness stakes. So, now we need to keep an eye on both decaying multicult “nations,” who think that they are “too white” (that is, there are still some whites alive):
  http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/02/04/canadian-public-broadcaster-claims-quebec-public-sector-employees-white/  

     On campuses in Australia we now have the full-on white privilege guilt trip hosed down student’s throats even in Psychology statistics courses, and in the ARTs/Social Sciences/Humanities, every opportunity to push this propaganda is made. However, in employment, there is still the illusion of fair employment in Australian universities, although it is well known that women and minorities are given preference.

     While the gangs who now rule the country that was once Sweden freely toss around hand grenades like baseballs:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grenade_attacks_in_Sweden 
  http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/01/14/swedish-police-officer-hand-grenades-easy-find/ 
  https://qz.com/886244/open-borders-and-vintage-balkan-hand-grenades-are-being-blamed-for-a-crime-wave-in-sweden/

which is now accepted as part of the new exciting cultural ethno-diversity, the US Army is dropping hand grenade competency as part of its graduation requirement:
  https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/army-basic-training-drop-hand-grenade-competency-graduation-requirement#utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cns&utm_campaign=b-ArmyTrainingDropsHandGrenadeRequirement

     New World Order superman George Soros is pushing for thought control like never before:
  http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/02/16/soros-calls-eu-regulate-social-media-fight-populism/

“Billionaire open-borders activist George Soros has demanded the European Union (EU) regulate social media because voters’ minds are being controlled and “manipulated”. He claimed the size of social media firms made them a “public menace” and argued they had led people to vote against globalist causes, including electing President Donald J. Trump, in an article for The Guardian published Thursday. The speculator, who runs one of the largest campaigning groups in the world and is noted for his interference in foreign politics and elections, said ultimately unregulated social media threatened democracy and the “integrity of elections”.

     When it was announced that there was scientific research indicating that ancient Egyptians were more closely genetically related to Europeans than black Africans, the mainstream media, did not raise a murmur and let the story die quickly in one media cycle:
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ancient-egyptians-europeans-related-claims-a7763866.html 

     However, the claim that ancient Britons were black skinned and blue eyed excited their politically correct interests and was given maximum exposure, especially with the Black Panther movie being released. As I noted in a previous article, this movie was relentlessly promoted by the establishment, with seemingly sanctions for bad reviews:
  http://www.libtards.news/2018-02-15-woman-refuses-to-see-black-panther-movie-for-fear-of-sucking-the-black-joy-out-of-the-theater.html 
  https://www.amren.com/commentary/2018/02/wakanda-new-black-homeland/
  https://www.amren.com/news/2018/02/hakuna-wakanda/ 
  http://www.vdare.com/articles/black-panther-will-be-a-hit-but-will-blacks-side-with-the-villain-killmonger

     Everyday is another battle of words against lunar liberals. For example:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-02-17-left-wing-journalist-says-abortion-is-the-answer-to-school-shooters.html 

“Following the shooting Rebecca Griffin, a Left-wing kookwho’s been a model, TV presenter, and sports reporter, decided she’d leave her decency and conscience in a box for the day and made a nasty, manipulative statement regarding the shootings…in making the case for abortion (Cruz was reportedly adopted as a child). “Woman puts baby up for adoption, he grows up to be a violent young man who will spend the rest of his life in prison for a mass murder. Tell me more about how abortions are wrong,” she wrote.

     Britain is fast becoming a sharia society, not only by immigration numbers, but by cultural changes:
  http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/02/17/london-sharia-fashion-show-islamic-clothing-burn-hijabs-iran/ 

“London Modest Fashion Week will “celebrate” Britain’s growing sharia-compliant fashion industry — less than two weeks after women living under Islamic fundamentalist regimes risked imprisonment when they burnt their hijabs on No Hijab Day.

     The thought of doing yoga, breath-taking stretches and the like, makes my joints ache, but not so much as political correctness about yoga:
  https://nypost.com/2018/01/29/people-who-practice-yoga-contribute-to-white-supremacy-professor-claims/ 

“White people who do a downward-facing dog are contributing to a “system of power, privilege, and oppression,” according to a Michigan State University professor. Shreena Gandhi, a religious studies professor at Michigan State, claims in an article she recently co-authored that Americans who practice yoga are contributing to white supremacy and promote the “yoga industrial complex.”

     I have heard that saying, of my title, many years ago, but remembered it whilst reading:
  https://survivalblog.com/discipline-critical-piece-emergency-preparations-j-d/

     It is apparently an old Icelandic saying, but is relevant today, as it was in the time of the Vikings. And, don’t be nervous, that is a Christian site. The above article, while addressed to survival situations is relevant to much of modern life, because we are increasingly moving into that sort of situation with rising unemployment and crime.

     Paul Kelly comments astutely on the current problems of traditionalists here (‘Bricks are falling from the conservative fortress’, 21/2), but does not penetrate to the true fault lines. One is the failure of our religious leaders to realise that a major reform of Christian sacred tradition must be undertaken. The decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphics and the coming together of all sacred traditions in our ‘global village’ have made this essential. A complete rethinking of the nature of Jesus and the authority of the Bible is required.

     A second major fault line has been the capitulation of too many Australians with leadership capacity to the various inroads on the principle of free speech. The firmest possible defence of intellectual freedom without reservation is also an essential for any restoration of conservative authority based on wisdom. Political bravery of the curate’s egg kind will not get us out of the mess; and the younger generations will not go out to battle while the trumpets give an uncertain sound.
  NJ, Belgrave, Vic

     If one reads the outputs of the Western multicult immigration industry, then it immediately strikes one that immigration is the solution to all of the world’s problems. That means that refugees must all go to the West, rather than solve their own problems in their own lands, as the West did in its own developmental stage. There is bounty to share with all, and nonsense like that.

     Fortunately, not all believe that immigration can solve all of the sufferings of the world:
  https://wentworthreport.com/2017/02/08/reality-check-immigration-can-never-be-an-effective-way-to-deal-with-the-suffering-people-of-the-world/

     It is not too difficult to come up with a list of the many rights which past Australians enjoyed, but which have been taken away from us by the political class to serve their New World Order masters. Everyone has their personal  list, but at the top must be the destruction of the Federal system by the High Court of Australia, and the centralisation of power in Canberra. This drive for centralism began immediately with the High Court’s opening, and has continued to the present day, making the states completely dependent upon Canberra. Thus, Feds were easily able to force all states into the 1996 gun grab by using the financial threat. However, the Founding Fathers never intended for the states to be politically gutted in this way. As one of the leading law papers has said about this:

“Our contention in this paper will be that Australia’s High Court, in deciding federal distribution of powers cases over the last century, culminating in the recent Work Choices case, has created an end product that looks not unlike one of Herbert’s misleading cases, although of course the High Court’s intentions have been something other than simply the reader’s amusement. Such a contention, we readily acknowledge, will come as no surprise to those familiar with the constitutional jurisprudence of the superior courts of other countries. The Australian High Court has been by no means unique in its ability, over time, to interpret the Constitution in a manner widely at variance with the intentions and expectations of its founders.

     The new marvel Black Panther movie, with a largely all-Back cast, has been given a 100 percent rating by critics (now dropping to 99 percent), making it the greatest movie ever produced in human cimematic history – according to the politically correct:
  https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/black_panther_2018/

     After all, if critics of the movie can be depicted as “racist,’” well, how can one lose:
  https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Alt-Right-Trolls-Try-to-Tank-Black-Panther-Score-on-Rotten-Tomatoes-20180202-0003.html 

     There is a story on the net about a guy who is attempting to refute the round earth hypothesis, and hopefully confirm the flat earth hypothesis, by flying up into the air, over 1,000 feet in his homemade rocket ship, then parachuting to the ground. It is not clear why he can’t climb a mountain to more safely do the same, but no news service would be interested. No doubt they are hoping he will kill himself. Even if one has doubts about all received media and science, probably one should accept that the earth is not a disc. Such a hypothesis is inconsistent with observed gravitational effects, and movement of the sun over the surface of the earth is not consistent with the earth being a disc (shadow measurements).

     The Bible does not require it either. The existence of flat-earthers though, is not something to be alarmed about, but rather a matter to rejoice. Although some may be motivated by a misguided view that the Bible requires it, most of these fine people are revolting against big science, which they see as corrupted by corporate interests. If these people start on the flat earth  hypothesis today, cutting their teeth, then maybe tomorrow they will be ready to take on the really meaty stuff., like climate change and 9/11, or the banking/financial sytem.

     The so-called Demographic Transition Theory, has been accepted as a matter of faith by warm-hearted, if not, bleeding heart liberals. Give massive quantities of foreign aid to countries like Africa, and their population growth rate will approximate that of the West:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition

     Economic development causes a fertility decline. But, applied to the West, the “theory” ignores a range of other variables which are probably more important, such as feminism, women’s liberation ideology, and general cultural decadence produced by the creation of a consumer society. Correlation does not prove causality. The “theory” seems to be refuted by the case of Africa, where despite masses of foreign aid, and so-called “development,” fertility rates continue to climb, so that over one third of all people on Earth will be African by 2100:
  https://qz.com/1099546/population-growth-africans-will-be-a-third-of-all-people-on-earth-by-2100/ 
  https://qz.com/1016790/more-than-half-of-the-worlds-population-growth-will-be-in-africa-by-2050/

     This is one which everybody who is nervous about mobile phones, and like me, never has it on, or on them, should watch. Apparently, even in “airplane mode” the phone can still track you, or collect data about your whereabouts:
  http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/02/07/google-tracking-you-tucker-carlsons-report-silicon-valley-surveillance-capitalism

     This got me thinking about what other little tricks have been placed in the backdoor of the technologies that we have been told are irreplaceable for modern life. But, I bet they would have a job tracking John Steele, out in the scrub, in a cammo  (not “commo”) tent, probably disguised from satellites by tree cover, with himself probably covered in mud to reduce heat signatures, like Arnie in this famous movie:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktVqsBgOvBI