“It is fundamentally a good thing to be tolerant and civilized. But in order for civilization to work, barbarism must be constantly kept at bay. In the state of nature tolerance is repaid with death. Hence, it is the duty of the King’s Justice to keep totalitarian influences in check in order to preserve the luxury of civility. You need a fund of safety in order to afford to be decent. Run out of safety and you run out of civility…”      source

Surely one of the finest writers in the English language today: AA Gill on the Battle of Towton..”the bloodbath that changed the course of our history”
‘…Walk in the margin of the corn as it is ruffled by the blustering wind. Above, the thick mauve, mordant clouds curdle and thud like bruises, bowling patches of sunlight across the rise and fall of the land. In the distance is a single stunted tree, flattened by the south wind. It marks the corner of this sombre, elegiac place…’
(A few quiet beers on Anzac day naturally leads to mulling over why we fight, why we always answer the call to arms, what makes us the killing animal. And what life would be without conflict and a pride in our fighting forbears, those ancient ancestors who shaped us.)
UPDATE: link now works.

When top level people look down,  they see only shit-heads;
When the bottom level people look up, they see only ass-holes.
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Thanks Medusa for this.

‘New Zealanders’ exodus to Australia continued in March as more kiwis look across the Tasman for a better quality of life, even as the so-called ‘lucky country’ looks vulnerable to an economic slowdown.
Some 5,000 departures in the month of March left – a net loss across the Tasman of 3,928 last month, according to Statistics New Zealand. That took the annual net loss to a record 39,456, with 53,237 departures in the year ended March 31. That’s continued a trend of record annual outflows to Australia since November 2011, the department said…’

Who was vilified for advising his kids not to stop at the scene of an accident…
‘Robbers Fake Accident, Attack Woman’

‘Gaia’ scientist James Lovelock, “before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable“. I was ‘alarmist’ about climate change

‘A leading earthquake scientist has warned that the planet could be cracking up after a series of massive quakes in just 48 hours. Expert Gheorghe Marmureanu – from Romania’s National Institute of Earth Physics – says 39 quakes had hit the globe within two days. “There is no doubt that something is seriously wrong. There have been too many strong earthquakes,” said Marmureanu.      (croatiantimes.com)   Thanks to Remus for the item.
Real-time ‘quake map (and much more) HERE

‘The identity of the man accused of stabbing 95-year-old war veteran Albert Chant in the head in an attack that severed an artery and nerve has been revealed.
Chant’s neighbour, Jacob Komene, 20, has been charged with entering a building with intent to commit a crime while armed with a knife, and wounding Chant with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. He was also charged with breaching his release conditions…’

‘..It’s getting to where a normal robbery may just be a racial attack gone bad. More? Recently, near Chicago, a black man on parole stabbed a 13 year old white girl to death in her own home, stole her phone and sent text messages to the victims’ mother taunting her about killing her daughter. And in Detroit, black men bound a white man and woman and burned them funeral-pyre style. In Tulsa, black men robbed a young white woman and her boyfriend, then killed them both. Also in Tulsa, a black man raped and beat to death an 85-year-old white woman and critically injured her 90-year-old husband during a home invasion. Reverse the races and there wouldn’t be enough hoodies in the world to supply the demand…’
More HERE
A coming race war? You’d better hope so, because nothing else will fix this.