Like the concerned locals of Britain and, increasingly, of Europe, who every day must confront a new world not of their making, many Australians also feel something fundamental has changed. To put that sentiment in a few words,  ‘We have lost our country’
…The strangers come, and they remain strangers to us.  Unlike old fashioned incoming citizens, these twenty-first century arrivals are merely “based” in Australia. They carry Australian passports, but what else of their country’s heritage and culture is valued by them? Likewise our homegrown globalist millennials.  Yes, we have lost our country, just like the concerned Britons described by Murray, but to put it in such words is to tell only half a truth. Fact is, if we  have not ourselves given our country away, we have allowed our political and cultural masters to do so for us…’

A powerful piece in Quadrant

‘The New Zealand leg of Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux’s speaking tour has been denied the use of an Auckland Council auditorium, the city’s red-raggin’ mayor admiring his media profile while thundering about ‘hate speech’. This same parish-pump potentate raises no objection to Hezbollah.
….Where was his aversion to bona fide extremism when he allowed a pro-Hezbollah demonstration on a council site last month? Where was it when Fidel Castro was patting him on the back? Where was it when he met and literally held hands with infamous terrorist leader Yasser Arafat? So much for the hard line against anyone accused of “stirring up ethnic or religious tensions”. He’s even been accused of flying the Viet Cong (communist) flag from the Auckland cenotaph back in the day. No one violated his free speech rights when he threw paint and spat at veterans returning from Vietnam.
He insists, “The right to free speech does not mean the right to be provided with an @AklCouncil platform for that speech.”
Yes it does. It absolutely does. So does the New Zealand Human Rights Act which protects against discrimination based on political views.’

via Quadrant

of the Woodpile Report.

It’s been 95F+ and 80%+ humidity here for the last two months.

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/07/12/heat-waves-brains-slower-study/

I’m taking this as an excuse and running with it 

Trump Pardons Oregon Ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond-

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-pardons-oregon-ranchers-whose-case-led-refuge-145552833.html

“Dwight Hammond, 76, and his son, Steven, 49, were convicted in 2012 for setting a fire that spread onto public grazing land.

The two were initially sentenced to less than the legal minimum five-year prison sentence for their crimes, but a federal judge in 2016 ordered the pair returned to serve the full five years, after the father had spent three months in prison and the son one year, according to 2012 court documents.

The order to return to prison inspired the refuge occupation. The White House in a statement on Tuesday called the order to return the two to prison “unjust.” As of 2018, Dwight had served approximately three years in prison and Steven had served four, according to the White House.”

Not my first pick-

AP-

The part that worries me-

“The 53-year-old Kavanaugh is a longtime fixture of the Republican establishment. He has been a judge on the federal appeals court in Washington since 2006. He also was a key aide to Kenneth Starr during the investigation of President Bill Clinton. Kavanaugh also worked in the White House during George W. Bush’s presidency.

Britain,Europe’s latest vassal state,or Britain leaping on the ash heap of history?Either way,the will of the people be damned,full speed astern!

DailyMail-

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Nope.
And Oscar Kightley is an ignorant fool.