A POX ON THE 'PRIVILEGE' MEME

This could be misconstrued but I think the author provides a compelling theory at the very least:

"South American countries could become wealthy if they followed the time-honoured way. This has been proven repeatedly. Small, accountable governments, low taxes, stable currency and strong property rights. That is how the USA (and Canada) became wealthy.

What Latinos should stop doing is blaming America for their problems. They shouldn’t expect the right to move to the USA en-masse and automatically be granted full citizenship rights. US citizens would never be entitled to those rights in Latin America.

In 1450, before Columbus made his epic journey, almost everyone thought the world was flat (not true! this is an unfortunate anti-christian myth promulgated in the late 19th century and not acceded to by most historians today, a fact which gives me pause as to the veracity of the rest of this authors work, but I once again encourage research rather than ignorance and the rest of his theory passes the smell test for me, if scoring somewhat high on hyperbole[mike m]). South America was rife with human sacrifice, North American Indians killed and scalped their rivals and the other kind of Indians were torching widows on their husbands' funeral pyres.

Slavery was the norm throughout Africa and the Islamic empire. Head shrinking and cannibalism were common in the East Indies.
Fast forward to 1950 and all these things had been abolished. People had televisions, radios, fridges, washing machines, cars, jet aeroplanes, antibiotics, anaesthetics, flush toilets and too many other things to name.

We had democracy, human rights, free speech, the rule of law, habeas corpus, the separation of powers and the separation of church and state.
Now perhaps I’m showing my ignorance here, but I can’t think of a single innovation, either social or technological, which happened during that five-hundred-year period that didn’t originate from white European nations or their offshoots.

I don’t want to claim credit for that fact at all mind you, because I wasn’t even born by 1950. By the same token however, I don’t see why I should throw myself into a fit of self-flagellation over every evil deed that has ever been committed by a white man.
I also don’t see why I should throw open the borders of my country to compensate the billions of people who have failed to create viable societies in their own nations. Neither do I see why I have an obligation to become an ethnic minority in every single country on the planet.

I also don’t see why I should throw open the borders of my country to compensate the billions of people who have failed to create viable societies in their own nations. Neither do I see why I have an obligation to become an ethnic minority in every single country on the planet.

In fact, I have come to believe that I have an obligation to my descendants to ensure that they inherit a nation which is for the most part, ethnically and culturally homogenous. I believe that is important because these type of nations have proven to be the most peaceful and prosperous.

[Harry Richardson]

PETA FOR PRIME MINISTER

Larry Pickering puts forward an interesting candidate for a future (near?) Prime Minister....Peta Credlin! I absolutely agree and would throw my vote behind her immediately.

http://pickeringpost.com/story/libs-better-find-a-new-pm-or-prepare-to-cop-shorten/6650

SOROS VS. TRUMP

Make of this posting what you will, my natural scepticism always looms to the fore when reading such potentially scandalous stuff. But that nagging urge to self-censor is what political correctness and its fairy godmother 'conspiracy theory' have done to us... a tool quite well documented in Orwell's 'now 'factional' novel 1984;  

Although the social media displays of ideological opposition by leftist minions are very real for them, it’s not really why Trump has faced such stiff opposition before and after the election. Trump is a marked man because he is not a retail politician owned by a segment of the oligarchy who really run the show. He’s his own man. To the true shadow elite, this is completely unacceptable.

What makes Trump so hated by the oligarchic elite who use social engineering to direct political processes around the world is that no-one owns him. He is not a stooge for the Koch brothers, Soros, the New York banksters or some shady billionaire Mohammed. He cannot be blackmailed like a usual puppet politician, and he has made it clear that he wants to change the political paradigm by draining the swamp in Washington.

The oligarchs love the swamp. They are the alligators that rule the swamp. What Trump is proposing to do is not just an insult. Should Trump succeed in draining the swamp and laying bare the creatures who have thrived in it for all to see, the oligarchs can expect pitchforks outside their gated compounds the next day.

While many billionaires, banking interests and corporate entities pay to play the game of oligarchic puppet master, none can rival the organisational machinery and ideological zeal of George Soros. And while Hillary has pimped herself out to just about every guy with a private jet, her main John has been and will remain Soros.

There is a mountain of evidence linking Clinton and Soros, including the information contained in the Podesta emails. Soros was Clinton’s chief donor, giving $25 million to Clinton’s campaign for president. Chelsea and Marc Mezvinsky were even married in Soros’ mansion. It’s a close bond.

What is becoming clear due to brave investigative work by journalists such as Wayne Madsen and leaked documents being analysed by the centipedes on reddit and 4chan, is that Soros does far more than just donate money. It has been known for years now that Soros runs his own tax-exempt organisations that he uses to destabilise nations, foment revolutions and install politicians he owns. The scale and magnitude of Soros’ operations, however, are only recently becoming clear.

and.....

What makes Soros so scandalous and his exposure to the public so important, however, is the revelation that Soros is a hardcore leftist. He’s a fanatical Cultural Marxist. He’s a globalist whose central vision is the destruction of the Western nation-state. He has written repeatedly that the existence of the United States is the greatest impediment to human freedom on the planet, and only funds politicians who will advance socialism and globalism in the West. He has also been agitating for war with Russia for years.

THE FUTURE BECKONS

An erudite comment by D C Alan:

The Play-Doh generation might not have the mettle to slog it out on the Western Front, but that doesn't mean that they are not ready and willing to fight. These are exactly the types who get motivated to savage mob violence very quickly and easily, which is the ultimate goal of the Left's infantilization of the culture. (Steyn: "The scale of solipsistic compliant ignorance is totalitarian -- and terrifying, in that it will inevitably be exploited for catastrophic and evil ends." July 31, 2015)

PIN SHARP

Mark Steyn excoriates the new (left-wing) American 'symbol of solidarity', the safety pin...now used to...err...trumpet ones significant moral superiority...yet more virtue signalling by the comrades:

Strangely enough, all these people swaggering about insouciantly demonizing millions of their fellow citizens as haters and Satanists profess to feeling "scared" and "unsafe" from the terror all around. Fortunately, in the midst of their fears they've found a marketing opportunity:

Days after Donald Trump was named president-elect, Americans are spreading a message of unity with a simple symbol: a silver safety pin.
And what "message of unity" could be simpler than that one in every two Americans is a violent hater-racist-misogynist-homophobe-Islamophobe-transphobe Satan fridge-magnet?

and....................

Like almost every other schoolhouse in America, my own kids' principal sent out a morning-after email blast bemoaning the way elections are determined "not by reasoning but by emotions". Somewhat oddly for a chap draping himself in the banner of reason, he then blathered on about hope and love and the power of love to triumph over hate with more hope so that love wins, etc. And he seemed not to notice that, having bemoaned the way elections are decided by emotion, he'd discussed this one entirely in terms of his feelings. To return to Churchill, the schoolmaster's object was to substitute emotional exhibitionism for argument.

And what of the "reasoning" behind the exhibitionism? There is something grim and trivializing about snowflakes with safety-pins. Are they truly feeling "unsafe" in their safe space? If so, the safety-pin will come in handy for holding their recyclable diapers on. As I said to Howie Carr last week, these delicate blooms are professing to be traumatized because, after years of civics class, they had no idea America wasn't a one-party state and that once every few years a fellow with a different opinion gets to win. If we indulge this, what silver-pin decorative brooches are left for the 60 per cent of the planet without free elections?

MM + PP = PC

Australia needs a moral, intelligent, perspicacious, strong man (or woman...see me being pc) who can resist the slings and arrows of mendacious media hacks and the back stabbing of pusillanimous politicians, we need someone who is unlike those Peter Smith describes:

"Most leaders of the centre-Right in the Western democracies appear to be the prisoners of their own anxieties: the fear of proscription by the self-appointed guardians of self-righteousness; the fear of humiliation for failure to flatter those who parade their status as victims; and the fear of oblivion for simply ignoring the clamour to do something when there is nothing useful to be done. The watchword of many a conservative statesman used to be masterly inactivity; now it is miserly depravity. There seems no place for the old-fashioned conservative who steers a steady course, is frugal and firm yet decent and honest; who, rather than pick people’s pockets, leaves their money to fructify there—in short, the John Howards of this world."

PYGMY GIANTS

Could this become the clarion call for the conservative voice in Australia against the 'elites' who have 'ruled' over us for too long:

It is a ruling class of pygmies who walk on stilts and call themselves giants. They are not giants and the moment the rest of us realize this, the long con is over.