PEACE REDEFINED

Dennis Prager is a perspicacious debater and quite unafraid of how he is perceived by the world's press which makes him very courageous as well. This small extract from his latest article exposes the lie of the 'Israeli conflict' for what it is:

Israel, it ought to be recalled, is the only country in the world targeted for annihilation. That has been true from the day it was proclaimed as a state in 1948 until today. It was true before Israel was forced to conquer East Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank, where the Palestinians (outside of Jordan) live. It was true before there was a single Jewish settlement on the West Bank. It was true after three Israeli prime ministers -- Yitzhak Rabin, Ehud Barak, and Ehud Olmert -- agreed to give up virtually all of Gaza and the West Bank to Palestinians to set up a Palestinian state. It was true after Israel gave every inch of Gaza to the Palestinians.

All of which proves that when Palestinian spokesmen say they want peace, they do not mean peace with Israel. They mean peace without Israel.

This is a related, concise, and excellent debate from the heart of academia:

https://www.facebook.com/StepUpforIsrael/videos/vb.223294577713389/988534447856061/?type=2&theater

ECHO'S OF DAYS PAST

For those who stand amazed at the rank hypocrisy, the vile tantrums and the potty-mouthed denunciations of Tony Abbott...read this excerpt by the historian Paul Johnson concerning the conspicuous animus directed against Margaret Thatcher during her term in office.

http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/6281/full

The essential difference was that for the first two terms at least, her colleagues supported her against all the evil, unlike Tony's and to their eternal shame.

Unfortunately over the preceding years these 'fifth columnists' have gained more power and influence in Western society due to the success of Gramsci's 'long march' and much of what went on as a sort of fringe rebellion in Britain during Thatcher's years is now mainstream...a hint as to why our civilisation is in such strife!

I have little doubt that some of my left-leaning friends still bridle at her name. So be it!
I for one believe that she was the last bulwark against civilisational collapse and managed to push back the apocalypse a decade or two for the UK.

Unfortunately those who succeeded her did not learn from her courage or her morality, instead they learned how not to 'poke the bear'. Politicians have learned that in order to be 'liked' they must toe the line of the minority activists, they learned that popularity (and therefore keeping your job) means adapting to populist trends and giving the eternal needy what they want, when they want it and in the exact form that they want it regardless of the greater majority who pay the bills. That is until civilisational collapse reaches full term, the you-know-what-hits-the-fan and it is too late to do anything about it.

I am still hopeful of the fourth man in the furnace. Daniel 3:25

SELF CHOKING SYNDROME

Merv Bendle on the future of Australia if Victoria is any gauge...it concerns the walking out of 40 muslim students during the national anthem:

"It’s not surprising that this attack was mounted in this fashion. Firstly, it occurred in Victoria, which has slipped in four decades from being the jewel in the Liberal crown to the jewel in the pommel of the sword of the barbarians, led by a Socialist Left government beholden to the unions and other corrupt bodies, and where the population has become accustomed to comprehensive statist intervention and social engineering. Secondly, it was at a primary school, where the crucial early years of socialisation are undertaken and the future worldview of children is shaped. Progressivists know it’s vital to undermine any developing sense of national identity at this early age. Thirdly, the attack involves teachers who are taught in the most politically radical faculties in the country, supported by the most extreme unions, and endowed with a fierce anti-Western animus, along with a deep sense of ideological purity and moral self-righteousness."

AS IN AMERICA

Ditto the Greens in Australia and an increasingly larger slice of the new Green-lite party; Labor:

"....the Democrats are no longer a working-to-middle-class party but an alliance of ultra-rich capitalists with liberal social views, middle-class progressives, and public sector unions with a membership tilted towards low-paid immigrants."

HOT STUFF!

Reading an article such as this [http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/why-i-call-my-son-he-against-my-better-judgement-a6710851.html] because it was part of another story I was interested in and because it was so 'out there' that I felt compelled to read it; left me with a feeling of hopelessness for our current 'civilisation'.

In light of the atrocities being committed by ignorant savages in the middle east, the slave trafficking of more than 27 million young souls, the huge increases in suicide, drug abuses, mental breakdowns, and depression in our societies; the unreflective narcissism and unblemished pig-ignorance of this article was like a blow in the face.

Such folk and their potty-mouthed, militant, shills are being given unprecedented access to the ruling elite (many of whom share their peculiar bondages) which in turn affects government processes and outcomes resulting in unprecedented social engineering on a scale never before imagined outside of Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World' (now) prophetic utterances.

As our world auto-indoctrinates itself through deconstruction, political correctness, and the various guises of self delusion thrown up by the Post modern psycho-babble establishment, so we move 
purposefully onwards, lemming-like, towards our rose-coloured, socially engineered demise, until as so aptly put by Mike Tyson: "we get punched in the face".

By then it will be too late.............Like Shadrack & Co we are headed for the furnace.

But be of good cheer, there is the 'fourth man'.

THE MATRIX REINTERPRETED

Malcolm Muggeridge, a famous journalist at the time, wrote these words in 1966:

“Some future historian, I suppose, will one day survey this curious time with the ironic detachment of a Gibbon[i]. He is to be envied. What a rare harvest awaits him! – always of course, assuming that we do not, in obedience to the death wish which seems to possess us, destroy ourselves and all our records. Even if the records survive they will, in any case, be difficult to make out. Such a vast accumulation of lies and slanted information! Such contradictory conclusions and conflicting evidence! How will it ever be disentangled? A recent newspaper correspondent in Moscow was asked by a wide-eyed visiting leftist, when Stalin’s purges were in full swing, how far the court proceedings were to be believed. Everything was true, he replied, except the facts. It might be our epitaph. Never have so many facts been accumulated; never have such an ingenious and efficacious means of propagating them far and wide been devised, but only to weave a great web of deception. 

The Dark Ages were noontide compared to our light.”[emphasis mine]

Remember this was before ‘Post Modernism’ and its deconstruction of ‘truth’, facts, and objectivity.

How much more must this be ‘true’ today? The Matrix of today is not technological it is philosophical.

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[i] The Historian not the primate.

SUBVERSIVE EDUCATION

The ruling elite who have gained power over the past few years appear to be increasingly, and acquiescently wedded to ideologies that not too long ago used to called treasonous:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/424860/New-York-City-Honors-Communist-Monster-Ethel-Rosenberg?target=author&tid=903320

Why are we, the ordinary people, the large 'silent majority' allowing such subversive doctrines to be openly disseminated and promoted by the new polysexual 'chatterati?'

I accept that it has something to do with what the late, great, Francis Schaeffer called; 'the drive towards personal peace and prosperity', but it has increasingly become much more than that alone.

I would contend that we have been seduced by our educational authorities (experts?) to not think critically about issues, but to follow the 'expert opinion' of our 'betters'(the experts?). And I would also posit that it has not only been the curricula of our primary, secondary and tertiary educations that are the culprits (though they do share some of the blame), but to echo Marshall Mcluhan's pithy educational mantra: 'the message is the medium', a significant portion of the blame can be laid at the feet of the actual educational systems.

I did not begin home-schooling out of an ideological conviction, it was a purely practical response to our circumstances at the time. However, the more I pursue it, the more convinced I am that home-schooling is the best way to educate and civilize a child. Anecdotal references would be that we have sent two children through the school system and are home-schooling our third.

One of the first questions I have to field when I mention that I homeschool is: "how well is your child socialised?"....generally meaning: "does home-schooling deprive the child of other children's acceptance/enjoyment/company etc". It is instructive that this is always the first question that is thrown at me. (I wonder if it is the same for others...I do believe I shall indulge in a small poll in the future!)

Whilst my early response used to that I would point out how school was originally intended as a place of learning rather than socialising, I would then defend our decision with the fact that we are fortunate to have a number of children in our neighbourhood that my son is friendly with, plus that he has made some good friends at church and within the sports clubs that he participates in. In other words my response would be defensive..............I have changed my response.

I now counter with the fact that schools were indeed intended to be places of education but that the original intent was so much more than that; that the early systems were also intended to train the children for participation in the factories, mills and workhouses of the industrial revolution. That both sociological statistics and anecdotal reference indicate that bringing children up together in a 'closed system' adds power to such issues as bullying, peer pressure, conforming to the groups 'accepted' norms, shaming, dislocation of loyalties, distrust of authority outside the peer group, rebellion against those who would seek to control or dissipate the impact of the peer group etc, etc......all of which were articulated brilliantly in William Golding's book Lord of the Flies. Here is another authors view of what takes place on 'educational' campus's all over the West:

Everyone will conform to the predetermined mindset of the school – a mindset determined by the loudest and most fascist minority groups – and no dissent will be permitted. ‘We are not here to teach you how to think, but what to think.’ Welcome to modern education in the West.

This is commonplace now, not just in Australia, but throughout the once free West. I have now documented heaps of these cases where faith, freedom and family are all under attack as our PC schools act as thought police, banning any recalcitrants from offering a differing spin from the party line.

Meredith wrote that the concept of political correctness is not about “promoting respect for others” but is “rapidly being turned into a weapon of intolerance to silence those whose views or actions don’t chime with a liberal-fascist agenda”.

“This isn’t about protecting the vulnerable and the marginalised. It’s not about ‘duty of care’. In fact, it’s censorship masquerading as enlightenment. If in doubt, ban it: that’s the prevailing credo”, she commented.  [B.M. 8.10.15]