The Global Stupidity Crisis

It often seems that the world has gone mad. Or at least that we are going through a Global Stupidity Crisis.

Every day now I see something that makes me shake my head and think, "how much worse will it get?"

We live in an era when Leftists, Technocrats and others yet to be named are trying their damndest to destroy society as we know it.

We're now told there are literally dozens of genders, not the two identified by human biology. We don't know whether our animal friends feel the same eg, does a cow wake up one morning and think, "I feel like a bull in cow's clothing"? Probably not.

Animals aren't that stupid. Only humans can use their superior intellect to arrive at such conclusions.

We are told our communication and language has to change. Before talking to someone, we should ask them how they would like us to identify them. Will we refer to them as he, she, it, or fuck knows what else?

Movements like Black Lives Matter has been overtaken by Marxists trying to disrupt the capitalist, free enterprise system and install totalitarian socialism, pushing the United Nations One World Agenda.

Statues of historical figures are now obscene and need to be pulled down so that we can hide our history, good or bad. If we can't see reminders of it, it won't offend us.

Being Caucasian (white) is now offensive and in the US people, either afraid or low in intellect acknowledge white supremacy that doesn't exist while blacks and part-blacks (presumably part white), demand white people give up their houses and property for the poor black underdogs of society.

No mention of the many white people who are poor and disadvantaged for reasons mostly to do with their own lack of ambition or willingness to educate themselves. Or those of us who got off our arses and worked in full-time jobs while studying of an evening to get ahead.

If you're a heterosexual, you can't play the part of a homosexual in movies - it's some sort of appropriation. Tom Cruise at 5' 7" won't be able to play Jack Reacher who was apparently much taller. We can't have people pretending to be anything other than duplicates of what they are. For fucks sake.

In everything we do, we have to ensure diversity and inclusion prevail, even if it means hiring underperformers, provided their diversity is sufficient to ensure organisations meet diversity targets.

Yes, it's a crazy world we live in and it seems to be getting crazier by the week.

Fortunately, I'll be gone sometime within the next 20 years so I hopefully won't see the very worst of it, or will be too drugged up in palliative care to give a rat's arse what's happening.

For those of you who are young enough to expect to be around in 40 or 50 years, I hope you can take control of the situation and return it to some form of normalcy.

Robin

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The Slow Demise of Western Civilization

As I look about, I reflect on the Australia I once knew. Growing up in the 60s, marrying in the 70s and retiring in mid-2000s, I can't help but feel that we Baby Boomers have lived in the best times Australia will ever know.

Earlier on, we had a White Australia Policy which meant that as a kid, I grew up with Australian born children, some of whose parents were immigrants from Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom. Asian and black people, apart from our own indigenous, were rarely seen, although in some parts of Australia Asians were more common because of their links to gold mining and pearling in which they had been occupied for two or three generations. There was a handful of Afghanis here and there, those who had helped build Australia's telegraph line from Adelaide to Darwin using camels to cart loads of food, water and equipment.

When I commenced work in a welding workshop on an isolated mine site, many of my workmates were immigrants from European countries. We shared common values and those who were born in non-English speaking countries had learned varying degrees of functional English. They fitted in well and we all got along together; I was fascinated by stories of their homelands, families and experiences. I helped my Danish friend learn English and he taught me a few words in Danish. I learned a little Greek, and Italian, now long forgotten.

Fortunately, good taste prevailed and between 1949 and 1973 the White Australia Policy was downgraded and eventually disappeared. Large numbers of Asian refugees and immigrants came to Australia after the Vietnam War and since then we've taken in people from most countries on the planet.

Even before World War II we imported Europeans, many of whom were victims of religious violence and these people have helped make Australia what it is today. The Barossa Valley in South Australia is a perfect example where Scottish and German immigrants turned barren land into one of Australia's most productive wine production regions in three or four generations. 

The push towards multiculturalism, based on the erroneous belief that all cultures are equal, became government policy in the 70s and we are stuck with it. We perhaps would have been better served by a multiethnicity policy and recognised that importing large numbers of moslems was not going to serve Australia's interests. But the horse has bolted and we've begun to pay the price, not learning from our European friends whose countries are suffering badly under too much immigration from moslem majority countries.

In this mix is the push by anarchists and leftist "progressives" who are doing everything they can to get rid of our Western democratic values and destroy our societies. Although they have benefitted from our safe, stable societies, they despise us and everything we stand for.

Why Australian politicians ceded sovereignty to the United Nations (UN) by adopting Refugee Charters, the Lima Declaration (1975), and other unhelpful agendas like Agenda 21 is anyone's guess. These should have all been taken to the Australian electorate first.

Well funded and well organised agencies of the UN and others have propagated a fake global warming crisis intended to distribute wealth from countries that work to countries that don't. Being too weak to disengage ourselves from the UN push, we've created large swathes of ugly wind turbines that cost more to produce and run than they will ever produce in baseload electricity. We've destroyed highly proficient coal-fired power plants and replaced them with systems that work only when the wind blows or the sun shines. And to make all this happen, we've increased the price of electricity to the highest in the world and used taxpayers' money to pay people to do it.

When it became clear that global warming wasn't happening at the alarming rate forecast, the conversation changed quickly to climate change. Although the climate is the average of weather and changes frequently as it has done for billions of years, the weak of intellect see each weekly change as proof of global warming. "The end of the world is nigh", they say as they down their coffee latte and scoff their muffins. The truth lies elsewhere and is evident in this graph:

Since 1979 the earth's lower atmosphere temperature has gone up and down and in June 2020 showed an increase of 0.43 degrees Celsius.

The climate is cyclical, not linear and a half-degree increase in temperature isn't going to kill anyone.

With the global warming hoax came a great opportunity for people to make wads of cash building and selling wind turbines, solar panels for industry and private use, all subsidised by ... yes, you guessed it, taxpaying Australians.

Closely associated with the climate alarmism is the relatively new activity of "deplatforming". If you have a different view to that of the climate alarmists, they don't want to hear it. Not only that, they don't want anyone else to hear it, so trying to find a venue to rent to run a seminar, discussion group etc, is now difficult for anyone with a different view.

If you do find one, the chances are that a large group of ugly anarchists, Leftists and parasites will try to block the entrance, assault you as you enter or leave, and even enter the hall and make a noise so you can't hear what they don't want you to hear.

"Eliminating courses on Western civilization ranks as one of the many radical changes in the American university over the last few decades. Symbolically, the shift began in January 1987, when Jesse Jackson led Stanford University students who, in a farcical demonstration with deep implications, shouted "Hey-hey, ho-ho, Western culture's got to go." HREF

Leftist platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook will delete your entry or ban you if you dare publish something that doesn't agree with their propaganda. But publish something about killing whites and the chances are, it will remain viewable.

The second rate media entity, The Guardian refuses to publish any opinion on climate change that doesn't agree with its own. No room for reasoned debate here.

Freedom of speech, once the cornerstone of Western civilisation, is now becoming less free.

We've been through the so-called marriage equality struggle where a small number of homosexuals and academics told us we have to allow homosexuals to marry rather than simply having an agreement that treats each other equally. I didn't have a problem with that except for the fact that their unions are called marriages. Such is life, in a democracy, we have to accept what a majority wants.

Whether a majority wants primary school-aged children to be taught about masturbation and that gender isn't real, you can choose to be either male, female, or something else, is another matter. While sensible sex education is valuable and possibly appropriate to be taught in school along with information about relationships, the non-binary, anti-scientific topics pushed by Leftists isn't appropriate.

We also have pedophiles trying to get pedophilia accepted as normal. It possibly is for some people as there are many sexual deviations, however, the problem is that it involves children. Children too young to understand the consequences of their actions and at law not able to consent. No other sexual deviation is illegal in Australia except for beastiality - you can even practise necrophilia provided you don't kill the person involved to practice it. I'm not quite sure how they'd consent.

All signs of our changing times as we rush like lemmings towards the new utopian One World Global Order.

University students now have "safe spaces" where they can go if they feel threatened by - who knows what, perhaps the need to study. We all have "trigger warnings" lest we see, hear or read something we find offensive, distasteful, or simply what we don't want to see, hear or read. For Christs's sake; nothing seems to protect me from seeing Uber adverts with Magda Szubanski unless I'm lucky enough to be on a toilet break.

If you're black, you can't play a role or a voice-over of a white person and vice-versa. It's unpopular to be white because we're all supremacists. Halle Berry, that stunning part-black lady abandoned a film role-playing the part of a lesbian - that's a role for lesbians, not stunning heterosexual women.

Next week will we have men with moustaches playing men with moustaches; will 5'7" Tom Cruise still be playing much taller Jack Reacher? Will someone fat be allowed to play someone thin. It's all-important stuff in a world where thousands die from hunger every week.

One woman suggests that white people are a genetic defect and sub-human, forgetting that we've been responsible for building functional societies that have progressed in most fields of human endeavour. Profess to like something white and you'll be the recipient of hate mail and derision.

A black death brought us unhinged violence, destruction of property and shop owners livelihoods, looting, murder, rape and other ugly events that had nothing to do with any death but was simply used as a catalyst to misbehave.

Now a post mortem has found the death wasn't caused by police, but an underlying illness.

The cancel culture mob has returned with a vengeance destroying statues of historical figures that are no longer passe' with the minority of mindless morons they represent. Even graves of our young, brave soldiers who sacrificed their lives to allow us to live in freedom have been damaged, spray painted and otherwise vandalised.

School curricula are being changed to reflect dishonest views of history and science and universities are rolling out graduates indoctrinated into the ways of the Marxists from whom they have learned. All part of Agenda 21.

In the US there are now calls to defund the police and have no police altogether. Random assaults against white people out on their own are all too frequent and anti-semitism is rampant. Blacks kill more of their own than anybody else. If the Leftist morons run riot while they have police forces, imagine what they'll do without.

The West is going to the dogs in a handbasket. China, on the other hand, is heading towards being the leading power. Is it any wonder why?

Have I missed anything? I'm sure I have and if so, perhaps you could comment and tell me about it. I've run out of steam for today.

Robin

How to Detect Fake News

Anyone who reads the news media knows that much of what is posted is intentionally fake, intended to align our views with views of others and their agendas, or fake because the authors are incompetent or stupid.

We seem to have reached a new era of fake news. The article here, suggests how you might detect fake news. Worth a read!

Robin

HREF: https://www.nexusnewsfeed.com/article/wake-up-world/nine-ways-to-discern-fake-news-from-real-news/

Barossa Valley's Chocolate Company - a Great Attraction

Who doesn't like chocolate?

I'm sure everyone likes chocolate, I know I do but I purposely avoid it most of the time.

Despite so-called "scientific" reports suggesting chocolate is good for us, it is chock-full of calories and a challenge for some of us watching our calorific intake.

If you're one of those lucky people who can eat whatever you want, or young enough for the rot not to have set in, you'd be able to pig out here. There's certainly plenty of variety.

Although the Barossa Valley Chocolate Company is only a few kilometres from where I live, I've driven by numerous times but never visited. Today on my daily walk, I thought I'd walk in and take a look now that businesses are returning to normal.

The Chocolate Company has a wine-tasting centre that was closed and a restaurant that had the government proscribed maxima of attendees, so I couldn't buy the flat white coffee I'd intended to. Next time.

I took a few photographs of the nicely decorated and laid out areas inside. The different colour scheme for various types of chocolate is visually attractive as you can see from the photos.

I don't know where one would start here, there are so many choices.

There are also small packages for gifts set up to make the task easier eg, one gift has a mug filled with chocolate options.

I think a good strategy for buying chocolate would be to visit the cafe first and buy lunch. After lunch when you are no longer hungry, then go look at the chocolate.

That way, there's less of a chance you'll overdo the chocolate purchasing and blow your budget.

One of my favourite chocolate recipes - that includes peanut butter (I love both) I got from Chocolate Covered Katie (Doesn't the name say something?)

Love chocolate? Visit the Chocolate University Online.

Robin

PS: What's your favourite chocolate? You don have one don't you?