In many parts of the world, knife crimes are on the increase. There have been many disturbing attacks, but one attack which was particularly distressful was on a woman in Brooklyn, New York, who had her throat cut by a stranger while she was walking on the street in broad daylight:
https://nypost.com/2017/10/20/slashing-victim-details-terrifying-moment-a-stranger-cut-her-throat/

Here is a good analysis of the situational awareness needed to avoid such attacks:
http://www.activeresponsetraining.net/bad-survival-math-fail-to-recognize-assaultive-behavior-denial-throat-cut

     Once upon a time, rape was a serious crime, punishable by death. Today, especially in Europe, rape is a racial and politically correct construction
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/12/05/swedish-government-ban-websites-list-ethnic-origin-criminal-suspects/
https://www.amren.com/news/2017/12/women-under-islam/
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/12/06/swedish-deputy-no-go-zone-war-zones/

     We even find community service being given for horrendous rapes:
http://www.dailywire.com/news/14812/muslim-sweden-gets-40-hours-community-service-joseph-curl#exit-modal

     The assassination plot on British Prime Minster Theresa May is somewhat ironic, given the controversy generated by her remarks over the Tweets by President Donald Trump about Islamic Terrorists:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/03/donald-trumps-racist-retweets-are-offensive-to-all-of-us

     Have a read of this joint statement:
“We wish to express our profound shock and condemnation of the actions of President Donald Trump in retweeting video messages produced by the extremist far right group, Britain First (Report, 29 November).
The videos are gratuitously offensive to all sections of our communities. They have been produced with the clear intention of sowing hatred and division. Had President Trump tweeted this material in error, he has had ample opportunity to retract it and to apologise. Instead, he has reacted to measured criticism of his actions by the prime minister, Theresa May, and the British government, by attacking them and deepening the offence caused. The president’s actions are also extraordinary and unfathomable, not least because the United States and the United Kingdom have had such long, strong and deeply cordial ties. His actions have been described as unorthodox in some quarters. Most right-thinking people think they are plain offensive.”

     Gay, Jewish and Alt Right, and totally over-the-top- politically incorrect and inflammatory, Milo Yiannopoulos is in Australia, stirring up the local Leftoids:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/milo-yiannopoulos-is-a-threat-to-leaders-of-the-outrage-industry/news-story/708e405625e6ed260c14da57d6db015c
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/why-ignoring-milo-yiannopoulos-didnt-make-him-disappear-20171205-gzz5sa.html

     The antifa protestors were chanting Racist! Racist! Nazi! Blah, Blah, and abused police, and began to fight:
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/protesters-rally-at-milo-yiannopoulos-sydney-event-20171205-gzzfdq.html
http://www.smh.com.au/victoria/violent-clashes-outside-altright-commentator-milo-yiannopoulos-event-in-kensington-20171204-gzymgq.html

     Can you imagine my utter excitement? As readers will know, for well over a decade I have been proposing that the universities be closed down, and the utilitarian practical areas such as medicine, taken up in hospitals, while the Arts are totally abandoned. My critique at this site has been to show how most of the degeneracy which we as traditionalist, Christ-believing people oppose, comes from the universities. And, now, it seems US radical journalist Jim Goad has independently reached the same conclusion in a magnificent hard-hitting article, at the great takimag.com site:
http://takimag.com/article/let_the_colleges_die_jim_goad#axzz4zZz1HLv1
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/15/hbs-professor-half-of-us-colleges-will-be-bankrupt-in-10-to-15-years.html

“At a symposium in May, Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen predicted that “50 percent of the 4,000 colleges and universities in the U.S. will be bankrupt in 10 to 15 years.”

    The following article by Israel Shamir is so politically incorrect, it is steaming, but is based on little discussed events in Saudi Arabia:
http://www.unz.com/ishamir/the-dog-that-didnt-bark-2/
     One wonders how Mr Shamir would conduct an Australian banking inquiry?

to THE AGE
     There is an irony in the behaviour of the Muslim fanatics in Islamic State and al-Qaeda (‘Branded heretics, Sufis face IS wrath’, 27/11). Starting correctly from the premise, endorsed by all the great sacred traditions, that God (‘the Unknowable’) is one, they then make the mistake which they accuse their enemies of making. They treat their particular religious discourse and theology as perfect and inviolate, arguing that therefore they can justifiably attack and kill all those who do not acknowledge it. Thus they themselves commit shirk (the identification of God with contingent phenomena of this world).
     In the Middle Ages hard-line Christians behaved in a similar way.  A major reason why we need adequate protections for religious freedom in Australia is to checkmate religious fanaticism of whatever kind, including atheistic fanaticism. Those who wish to venerate saints and their shrines, a devotion which, properly practised, is not shirk at all, but authentic piety, must be free to do so.
   NJ, Belgrave, Vic

     The New South Wales government has now introduced thought crime laws:

“The NSW upper house has passed a bill which will allow the Attorney General to apply to keep an inmate behind bars beyond the completion of their entire sentence if he thinks they may commit a terrorism-related offence sometime in the future, even if they have never committed or even been suspected of engaging in such as offence before.
The Terrorism (High-Risk Offenders) Bill 2017 – which was introduced to parliament by NSW Attorney General Mark Speakman – gives him the power to make rolling applications to the Supreme Court to extend an inmate’s sentence for up to 3 years at a time, up to the end of their life, regardless of what they were originally sentenced for.”
https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-government-passes-thought-crime-laws/

    Apparently the world’s first head transplant, on corpses, has been conducted, and proclaimed a success:

https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-11-26-twilight-zone-human-head-successfully-transplanted-on-a-corpse.html

     Here is an interesting piece because it is so explicit in its hatred, and makes it clear, that there is a cultural war from the Left (totalitarians-ed) and their controllers against traditionalists:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/11/26/morrissey-id-kill-trump-safety-humanity/

“British musician Morrissey says if given the chance, he’d kill President Donald Trump to ensure the “safety of humanity.”
The 58-year-old former Smiths front-man said in an interview with der Spiegel this week that if he were presented with a button that could instantly kill Trump, he wouldn’t hesitate to press it.
“I would [push it], for the safety of humanity,” Morrissey told the outlet. “It has nothing to do with my personal opinion of his face or his family, but in the interest of humanity I would push.”
The singer also explained that it was the media, who so derided Trump during the 2016 campaign season, that ultimately created Trump, ensured consistent coverage of his campaign, and led to his victory over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.”

to THE AUSTRALIAN
     Paul Williams offers the Jewish community good advice (28/11) in pointing out that ‘the best way to counter anti-Semitism is to encourage free speech.’  By contrast, Henry Herzog makes an ethical error in claiming that there is justification for legally censoring dissident views on the nature of, and extent of, Nazi wrongdoing towards Jews between 1933 and 1945. The current persecution of revisionist historians is a public disgrace which should be brought to an end.
  NJ, Belgrave, Vic

     I am sure that all the Royal watchers out there are as excited as me about a new Royal wedding:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5111813/Prince-Harry-proposes-Meghan-Markle.html

“I knew she was the one from the very first day’: Beaming Prince Harry says he is ‘thrilled’ to announce engagement to Meghan Markle as she proudly shows off a sparkling ring made with Diana’s diamonds and designed by HIM.

     The US chattering class is obsessed with removing Donald Trump. They see him (as an obstacle-ed) on the path to war with North Korea, and ignore the threat that North Korea poses to their selfish lifestyles:
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/how-a-north-korean-electromagnetic-pulse-attack-could-kill-millions-and-turn-america-into-a-post-apocalyptic-wasteland
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/11/30/scarborough_questions_trumps_sanity_if_this_is_not_what_the_25th_amendment_was_drafted_for.html

     The ancients, such as Plato and Aristotle, would immediately have proclaimed the liberal elites as insane, with a social death wish. The old schoolmen surely would have been astonished that a society could have degenerated to such levels. Were there demons, witches and evil spirits working away to produce this, they might ask?  What would we tell them?

     As Alan Jones has Tweeted:
“Labor will win power narrowly in Queensland as a result of the Coalition preferencing Labor over One Nation. The Coalition must have a death wish. More Coalition voters completely angered.”

     This is a spot on observation, which has now been shown to be utterly true. The media were lightening quick off the mark to proclaim that One Nation had done poorly in the Queensland election, even though the facts show that the projected swing was + 12.8 percent, good by any measure, taking 14 percent of the vote:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/so-which-party-does-the-media-say-flopped/news-story/0079b0f93e1711d9e239e2014295eb1b
     One Nation would have returned a much better result if the major parties had not done the usual and put them last:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/nov/27/malcolm-turnbull-says-a-vote-for-one-nation-is-a-vote-for-labor

     Here is the latest in freedom limitation:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-20/new-security-measures-flagged-for-melbournes-cbd/9167326

     Preventative Detention Orders, where a person can be held without charge merely because authorities believe that there is danger of some imminent threat, will be extended from 16-year-olds, way down to 14-year-olds. The children will be held for up to 36 hours, but with an order from the Supreme Court, they can be held longer.

     The rape of British children, reduced to slavery, is said to continue. But running alongside of sex slavery has been the crime gangs using children as young as 12 years as drug mules:
https://pamelageller.com/2017/11/bigger-rotherham-scandals-shakes-london-investigators-find-children-used-drug-mules.html/

“The National Crime Agency described the situation as “out of control” as it has been revealed that there have been more than 700 operations of smuggling Class A drugs out of major cities into regional towns using young people.
According to The Times investigation, one police chief described the situation as “bigger than Rotherham”.

     Here is an interesting article about the question of Western fertility: it is bad, but not as bad as most people think:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2013.00572.x/abstract

“With period fertility having risen in many low-fertility countries, an important emerging question is whether cohort fertility trends are also reversing. We produce new estimates of cohort fertility for 37 developed countries using a new, simple method that avoids the underestimation typical of previous approaches. Consistent with the idea that timing changes were largely responsible for the last decades’ low period fertility, we find that family size has remained considerably higher than the period rates of 1.5 in many “low-fertility” countries, averaging about 1.8 children. Our forecasts suggest that the long-term decline in cohort fertility is flattening or reversing in many world regions previously characterized by low fertility. We document the marked increase of cohort fertility in the English-speaking world and in Scandinavia; signs of an upward reversal in many low-fertility countries, including Japan and Germany; and continued declines in countries such as Taiwan and Portugal. We include in our forecasts estimates of statistical uncertainty and the possible effects of the recent economic recession.”

     First, the same sex marriage result, now this:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/28/elon-musk-cons-south-australia-out-of-50-million/

“Whoever handles Elon Musk’s public relations deserves a medal.
  The slippery snake oil salesman and rent-seeker extraordinaire has been down to South Australia – now reduced, pretty much, to a third world state under its disastrous left-wing administration – and conned the hapless locals out of $50 million to build them an all-but-useless giant battery to make up for the energy they have lost by blowing up their coal-fired power station and relying on wind power instead.
And how are the lickspittle media reporting this outrageous scam?”

to THE AUSTRALIAN
     Promoters of constitutional recognition of our ‘first nations’ habitually ignore the substantial arguments that have been mounted against this project. This is true of the fourteen signatories to the recent full-page advertisement (1/12). There is not a word about the dangerous impact that any such tampering with the constitution would have on our national unity, stability and security, nor about its implicit separatist drive, nor about its inequitable treatment of other Australians, nor about the questionable nature of the authenticity of all those identifying publicly as Aboriginals, nor about the obvious fact that demands for more and more will follow any acquiescence to the Uluru Statement’s proposals.

     Reassurances offered by some of the signatories are worthless and misleading; and Aboriginal welfare, where there are legitimate grounds for it, can be effected without any need for constitutional change. This is the same sort of misguided idealism that half a century ago turned peaceful and prosperous Rhodesia into the nightmare of Zimbabwe.
   NJ, Belgrave, Vic.

     The elites have their knickers in a knot, as the saying goes, because President Trump dared to retweet a so-called “far Right” tweet:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42181073
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/30/europe/donald-trump-theresa-may-twitter-spat/index.html

     Theresa May criticised Trump for probably both the source and the content of the videos. The videos from Britain First, show an Islamist mob pushing a teenage boy off a roof, and then beating him to death. The Left wants Trump banned from multicult Britain. You see, it is a sin to point out these inconvenient multicult truths, and doing so is worse than pushing someone off a roof and beating them to death.  In a less insane age, all of this would have been dismissed as insane.