A philosophical cataract removal is needed.

We desperately need to unshackle ourselves from the mad deep green ideology's that bind this nation  in chains of steel and are bringing it to its knees commercially.
http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2013/05/this-forest-peace-deal-is-anything-but

I support conservation and caring for the planet and have always done so in practical as well as philosophical ways. Often we and many others have quietly gone about the business of environmental stewardship, yet the activists, the professional noise-makers are the ones who have infiltrated and established power blocks within the main-stream-media over the past 40 years and now have the influence to manipulate the debate; with the result that we are drowning in their ideological claptrap. This tiny minority has seized effective power.

Martin Durkin writes eloquently (if not disturbingly) of the deep green roots within the Nazi party and how this totalitarian strain still reaches through the Green ideology today. http://www.martindurkin.com/blogs/nazi-greens-inconvenient-history

Australia's Greens have been infiltrated by ideology's foreign to its founding spirit (even one of the founders of Greenpeace understands this and resigned as a consequence: http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2011/02/19/a-review-of-confessions-of-a-greenpeace-dropout-by-patrick-moore/)
...and these worldviews are being used to drive wedges into our society. read Antonia Gramsci's vision of neo-Marxism and you will see what I mean.

Let us be done with these divisive war mongers for that ultimately is what they are. Division causes conflict not peace. Calling themselves peace makers is like calling Hitler a kindly grandfather.

I implore well meaning but naive people to not be taken in by the illusion of  'peace-loving, tree hugging, community oriented lovers of humanity' that is sold to the public via the 'useful idiots' of the fourth estate. read the Green manifesto, read Gramsci, read the Fabian manifesto and you will see that the divisive, tribal ideologies that drive the Greens and the socialist arm of the Labor party are destined to create an environment of anarchy, divisiveness and tribal warfare that makes the country unstable, violent and ripe for a totalitarian future, because as Francis Schaeffer said; people will give up everything to preserve their personal peace and prosperity, even their freedoms.

UPDATE
The problem with these extreme ideological positions is that when they are exposed for what they actually are, the damage that is done to the true, original position such as for example in the case of conservation; that there is indeed a need for strong leadership to prevent rampant materialism and greed from ruining the natural environment,...makes most people react with extreme aversion to all aspects of environementalism thus causing evil to triumph in both instances. A case of heads I win tails you lose!

Slippery dip morals

It has long been argued that the homosexual activists pursuing the 'equal rights' marriage agenda are not interested in true equality at all. It is about power, the power to change society and in particular "Christian values'. These activists are ideologically opposed to the age-old definition of the 'nuclear family', their desire is to deconstruct (Western) society  by destroying bourgeoisie behaviour and then build a new Utopian culture in their image. Many of the foremost activists have made statements to that effect on numerous occasions.

What has also been said (and vociferously shouted down by the pro-homosexual lobby), is that this change of societal values will not stop at legalizing homosexual marriage but will extend to the multiple marriage partner agreements (Islam/Sharia), the weakening (abolishment) of sexual laws in general and even to bestiality...shock horror!!!! A member of the opposition Parliament lost his position when he suggested that this might indeed be an inevitable conclusion but just listen to the statements by 'eminent' philosopher Peter Singer or read his writings and you will find that he advocates for all sorts of perversions.

Read this article to see how the paedophiles are now getting into the game: http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2013/05/10/time-for-equal-love-with-children/

"This is for your good!"

This is an excerpt from an article about municipal madness in Britain but could easily be descriptive of almost any council in Australia. The madness that has taken hold of the bureaucratic drones that live to populate town and city councils has become blight on all who seek to live with minimum 'Big Brother' interference.

Time was, too, that most parish councillors saw themselves as servants, not masters, of their community.

Today, the majority of those who work in every level of ‘public service’ seem to regard the public, at best, as an inconvenience and, at worst, as the enemy.

OK, admittedly the Jobsworth mentality has always been with us, but the ubiquitous urge on the part of so-called ‘public servants’ to bully and punish their fellow citizens has never been more prevalent.

There are few things more totalitarian than the often career stunted, power obsessed, moralistic (whose 'morals' are probably relativistic in the first place) wowser who somehow is elected to a position that few aspire to but then believes that it is his/her duty to impose the latest politically correct fads on all within her/his municipal jurisdiction.
Fads which are all-to-often communicated as being for the unfortunate recipients 'well-being'.

UPDATE
In Australia we see the 'Human Rights Commission' (LoL) perpetrating more pain on the unsuspecting population and indeed seeking for new ways in which to do this:

In 2001, for instance, Equal Opportunity Commission Victoria’s chairman admitted: “I am not aware of any conclusive evidence that suggests that discrimination is increasing.”

But instead of celebrating a good job well done, the EOCV decided it needed to find more customers…

It pushed the then Labor Government to pass absurdly wide new laws against racial and religious vilification that would define even more Australians as racists and bigots.

It worked brilliantly, catching people you’d never have dreamed would be hauled before the thought police.

They included a Salvation Army prison chaplain who handed biblical literature to a sex offender who was a witch, two Christian pastors who’d made their congregation laugh by accurately quoting passages from the Koran urging jihad, and a humble Herald Sun columnist who had outraged a One Nation supporter by praising Asian students generally for their study ethic — a comment that apparently “demeaned” Anglo Saxons.

Sure, the complaints in each case were eventually dismissed, but at what cost? What worry?

Our federal race commissioners have lusted for the same solution.
One, Zita Antonias, admitted a decade ago that complaints of racism had fallen by more than a third, but we couldn’t possibly be that nice: “The figures are incongruent with anecdotal evidence.”

Tom Calma, who succeeded her, was so frustrated at being unable to prove we had many (white) Australian racists that he asked the Rudd government to boost the supply by changing the law, so that people accused of being racists now had to prove they were not, a reversal of the burden of proof that makes us all racists until we can show otherwise.
 

 Shameful and disturbing that we, the Australian population have allowed the bureaucratic 'hitlers' of this world to so dominate the national conversation.

What to think?

The real tragedy of this unfortunate communique which was sent to my email address is that as far as my reading of the three books of Islam and assorted research goes; it appears to be true.
If one calls himself a good Muslim then these strictures do apply and it is all rather disconcerting.
I resist the PC tolerance brigade's attempts to manipulate my thinking into such criticism being somehow 'racist' (an inaccuracy of definition to begin with) and I hold to the idea of loving all people with an agape love irrespective of race, creed or disposition, but the fact is that we are called to be as wise as serpents whilst striving to be a gentle as doves.

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CAN MUSLIMS BE GOOD AMERICANS????? [or Australians?]

Maybe this is why our American Muslims are so quiet and not speaking out about any atrocities.

Can a good Muslim be a good American?

This question was forwarded to a friend who worked in Saudi Arabia for 20 years. The following is his reply:

Theologically - no. Because his allegiance is to Allah, The moon god of Arabia .

Religiously - no. Because no other religion is accepted by His Allah except Islam. (Quran,2:256)(Koran)

Scripturally - no. Because his allegiance is to the five Pillars of Islam and the Quran.

Geographically - no. Because his allegiance is to Mecca , to which he turns in prayer five times a day.

Socially - no. Because his allegiance to Islam forbids him to make friends with Christians or Jews.

Politically - no. Because he must submit to the mullahs (spiritual leaders), who teach annihilation of Israel and destruction of America , the great Satan.

Domestically - no. Because he is instructed to marry four Women and beat and scourge his wife when she disobeys him. (Quran 4:34)

Intellectually - no. Because he cannot accept the American Constitution since it is based on Biblical principles and he believes the Bible to be corrupt.

Philosophically - no. Because Islam, Muhammad, and the Quran does not allow freedom of religion and expression. Democracy and Islam cannot co-exist. Every Muslim

government is either dictatorial or autocratic.

Spiritually - no. Because when we declare 'one nation under God,' The Christian's God is loving and kind, while Allah is NEVER referred to as Heavenly father, nor is he ever called love in the Quran's 99 excellent names.

Therefore, perhaps we should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country. They obviously cannot be both 'good' Muslims and 'good' Americans. Call it what you wish it's still the truth. You had better believe it. The more who understand this, the better it will be for our country and our future.

Footnote: The Muslims have said they will destroy us from within. SO FREEDOM IS NOT FREE.

Turn or burn

When activists and their tame scientists use 'scientific statistics' to scare people into doing what they (the activists) want, it is nothing less than political manipulation. http://jennifermarohasy.com/2013/05/the-great-barrier-reef-have-we-really-lost-half-of-it-part-1-water-quality/
These 'snake-oil sale persons' establish themselves on top of the moral pyramid (by implication) and then speak down to the rest of us that if we do not listen to their dictates then we are all going to die.
Turn or burn; sounds quite fundamentalist doesn't it?
The truly distressing result of all of this manipulation, lying, cheating and narcissism is that the 'ordinary' (see powerless) person begins to trust no-one.
Scientists have been proven mendacious time and time again lying and manipulating to further their careers or too prove some activist theory and thus science itself ceases to be an argument. Philosophers argue that there is no truth and everything is up for interpretation. Politicians are worse than lawyers even though in the labor party most are both, and no-one believes anything any politician says.
What does all of this lead to?
Chaos, destabilisation, anarchy.
When a morally relativistic judiciary hand out slaps on wrists to the most callous of criminals it means that soon the afore mentioned 'ordinary' people will start taking the law into their own hands as they did in South Africa as a result of the politicisation of the police force.
That led to terrible things...if you are old and knowledgeable enough you might remember the 'necklace' a demonic system of 'justice' if ever there was one.
The question that looms large is; are the coalition any better than the current lot or have all sold out to expediency and the will to power?
Only time will tell, but one thing is for sure, they can't be any worse...if Australia is to survive.

Nuts in a shell.

Here is the left-wing ideology summed up in a nutshell:

As someone of the Left, you apparently assume this monoculture is so normal as to be beyond ideology. You apparently comfort yourself with the fond belief that the rest of us don’t notice how your ideological leanings and assumptions – whether on global warming or the benign nature of government controls on free speech - actually do inform your work. Indeed, you may even assume as Marr famously did - that to be “soft Left” is the “natural” position for a journalist, and thus conclude that to allow a conservative in the door is to betray journalism itself. This might lead you to pooh-pooh critics as just ideologues themselves. Unlike you, of course.
 

Well put sir!

A newly despised minority.

I have published parts of this before and spoken on it many times but I believe it to be so important that I shall post it once more. Christians be aware of what is happening.

Michael Snyder American Dream  April 8, 2013

Are evangelical Christians rapidly becoming one of the most hated minorities in America? Once upon a time such a notion would have been unthinkable, but these days things are changing dramatically. All over the United States, evangelical Christians are being called “extremists” and evangelical Christian organizations are being labeled as “hate groups”. In fact, as I will detail later on in this article, a U.S. Army Reserve training presentation recently specifically identified evangelical Christians as “religious extremists”. This should be extremely chilling for all evangelical Christians out there, because as history has shown us over and over again, when you want to persecute a particular group of people the first step is always to demonize them. And that is exactly what is being done to evangelical Christians today. Just look at how evangelical Christians are being portrayed on television and in the movies. Just look at how much hate is being spewed at Christians on the Internet. The Southern Poverty Law Center and the ACLU, both of which are considered to be among the most prominent “civil rights” organizations in the United States, are seemingly obsessed with attacking evangelical Christians. It has become trendy to bash Christians, and that is a very frightening thing. After they have finished demonizing evangelical Christians, what will the next step be?

A U.S. Army Reserve equal opportunity training presentation entitled “Extremism and Extremist Organizations” actually included “Evangelical Christianity” as an example of “Religious Extremism” in a list that also included al-Qaeda, Hamas and the Ku Klux Klan. You can find a copy of the entire presentation right here.

Is this how evangelical Christians will be treated in the future? Will evangelical Christians be treated like members of the Ku Klux Klan or like members of al-Qaeda?

The following is how a Christian Post article described this chilling report…

A U.S. Army Reserve Equal Opportunity training brief describes “Evangelical Christianity” and “Catholicism” as examples of “religious extremism,” according to the Archdiocese for the Military Services and the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, who shared a copy of the documents with The Christian Post.

“The number of hate groups, extremists and anti‐govt organizations in the U.S. has continued to grow over the past three years, according to reports by the Southern Poverty Law Center. They increased to 1,018 in 2011, up from 1,002 in 2010 and 602 in 2000,” reads the first page of the slide presentation labeled “Extremism & Extremist Organizations.”

Listed alongside “extremist” groups and organizations like the Klu Klux Klan and al-Qaida, the U.S. Army slideshow has “Evangelical Christianity” as the first bullet, followed by the Muslim Brotherhood, Ultra-Orthodox Judaism and farther down on the slide, Catholicism.