Melbourne Britfest 2018

One of the major reasons I haven't been posting more!

But don't blame it, instead if your in Melbourne this Saturday support it!

This Saturday, 10am-4pm at the Moonee Ponds Bowling Club at 776 Mount Alexander Road, Moonee Ponds (in Queens Park).

Entry is Free!




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The Third Month

How To Fight Back

Today I had a friend send me an email about how he, an Australian living in Australia, was welcomed to his own country multiple times in one day and how he and his colleagues had to watch a pro-refugee documentary. No where can we escape the politization of our lives. On the internet I keep hearing people complain that the West is lost, that Britain is lost, that Sweden is lost, that insert random country is lost. It's not enough to simply complain you also have to fight and far too many people complain when that breath should be used for fighting.

Here are some ideas that normal people can use to fight back.

Jobs
I've already written about helping our own, if you have the power to hire someone then hire one of your own. Look after your own people, it's not rocket science. You don't need to be blatant about it, in fact it will be easier for everyone if you simply do it without any fanfare. Simply look for reasons that support your decision, instead of looking for reasons to not hire that person.

Money
Put your money where your loyalties lay. Support companies that support you and don't support those who don't. In general support smaller companies over bigger ones. Support companies that are run by your own and that hire your own. And don't support companies that don't hire your own. Today it is very hard to do this, but not impossible. In other words just because it cannot be done at all times does not mean that it can never be done. I know a Leftist who only buys Australian made, I know a Liberal who will one day be a Traditionalist who never buys palm oil products. It's possible.

Oppose new buildings
All new buildings, sadly, now support more immigration. There are many groups opposed to high rise apartments or who support heritage protections or who want to protect green spaces. Many of these groups are horribly Leftist, but sometimes the Left does good by accident. Here is a classic case of that, if you want to fight for our people but you still want to be invited to cocktail parties here's the way to do it.

Tell people how you feel
Are you sick of immigration? political correctness? homosexual marriage? global warming? trangender issues? Does anyone apart from you know that? You don't have to give people an hour long lecture, you can simply scoff every time you hear the lastest news story. One of the great issues that I have seen my entire life is that people on our side stay silent. If we spoke up more then others would feel less intimidated. We would not feel so alone. It is a bizarre thing but nearly every Conservative feels like they are the only sane person left in the world. But we are not alone, so why does it feel as if we are? Because people won't speak up....and we should.

Donate to causes
Can't speak up because that would put your job at risk? Have you donated money to any cause you support? I would encourage everyone on our side to donate money to people, organisations or causes that are on our side. They don't need to be perfect, they don't need to believe 100% of the things that you believe. Big or small try to help if you can.

Join causes
Don't just sit at home lamenting the fall of the West, do something to stop it. Join cultural groups that keep alive Western traditions. Join local issue groups. Join the Melbourne Traditionalists or some other such group. But don't sit home, get out there and join causes.

Create your own group
Myself and Mark Richardson created the Melbourne Traditionalists, just two men. Thats all it takes, if you want to Set up a Conservative group heres how.

Write letters
Write letters to the editor, newspapers still print them, write to politicians, write to Government departments, write to companies, write to organisations, write to Government bodies. Let them know that there is opposition to what they want. It doesn't have to be big, even a half page letter is good.

I haven't done everything on this list, but I have done quite a few. My point is that complaining is only good up to a point, defeatism is never welcome. If you have breath left to complain then you need to be doing more. Of course protect your job, of course protect your reputation, of course be sensible. But don't leave the fight to others do some fighting of your own.

This list is not exhaustive by any means, if you have any further ideas please put them below.

Don't give up hope, fight back!

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The Sixty-First Month

A good month for my top two countries, everyone else seems to be on holiday or something. I only have three countries above 100, France went over 100 and is now back below that number. However I am very pleased with the visitors I am getting from the United States and Australia!

I hope to be more regular with my posting, I am currently working on a cultural festival to be held on the 21st April. Once that is over I hope to get back to a more regular bases.

My best day was the 15th March when I had 509 visitors, I'm suspicious of this number as no one country had really big numbers. My worst day was the 21st March when I had 37 visitors. In the last month I have had 3, 487 visitors.

March-April

Entry	Pageviews
United States	1650
Australia	832
Poland	108
France	92
United Kingdom	87
Brazil	74
Canada	48
Germany	35
Spain	35
Russia	31

February - March

Entry	Pageviews
United States	1152
Australia	571
Russia	518
United Kingdom	246
France	54
Canada	48
Brazil	44
Spain	33
Ukraine	29
Germany	27

As you can see the United States is 498 visitors better this month over last month. Australia is 250 visitors up. Poland is also good. France, Brazil, Germany and Spain are up.

Canada is exactly the same. 

The United Kingdom and Russia are both way down. 

I have also had visitors from the following countries: Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Italy, Spain, Czech Republic, Greece, Romania, Ukraine, Estonia, U.A.E., Kuwait, India, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Belize, Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina, 

I hope you all visit again soon.

Mark Moncrieff

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The Problem of South African Immigration

Recently South Africa's Parliament has said that it will begin confiscating farms from White farmers. This has attracted quite a bit of attention outside of South Africa and quite a bit of condemnation. It is clearly a rejection of the peace that was achieved at the expense of Apartheid. The murders and attacks on White farmers have been a scandal for decades, it is easy to forget that Apartheid ended a quarter of a century ago. We have already seen the failure that is Zimbabwe and now South Africa's government seems hell bent on repeating that mistake.

However everyone seems to have jumped to a conclusion that is not necessarily obvious. That just like in Zimbabwe, the Whites of South Africa will simply leave. Maybe thats true, maybe they will all leave or be forced out. It's no secret what will become of South Africa if that should come to pass. But it's not the most obvious outcome. In fact that, apart from mass murder, is the extreme answer. 

I want White South Africans to remain in South Africa, I do not want South Africa's heritage to vanish from the Earth. And that will be what happens if Whites leave. All of their history will slowly fade away. It will not survive, neither Boer nor English. I do not want that.

Of course the people matter, the murders are intolerable, the rapes, assaults, robbery are all wrong and the worst part of it all is the injustice. South Africa's Whites are not the only Whites to suffer injustice at the hands of their own government, but currently they have it the worst. I must admit that I find myself conflicted. On the one hand I understand and sympathise with the idea that Whites should be safe and if they cannot be safe in South Africa then they should immigrate. However I also don't want Australia to have any immigration. In regards to South Africans I have some particular issues.

The Afrikaners are republicans, you might meet the odd one or two who isn't. But realistically why would I want a republican people to come here and tip the balance away from our Monarchy? I do not see any benefit in republicanism and I do not see them becoming Monarchists. It's a bad fit.

The other White group in South Africa are the English, so called because their primary language is English even if they aren't, although most are ethnically English. Are they Monarchists? I don't see much sign of it, but the real problem with this group is that so many are SJW's, Social Justice Warriors. The sad truth is that we already have our own population of SJW's and we really don't need another countries. You can see this in the United States, where people get sick of living in Democratic run areas so they move to Republican ones. However they then set about turning their new home into the place that they just left.

The third problem is that once the Whites are gone that isn't the end. It will be an endless procession of South African immigrants. Asian, Coloured and Black, all refugees in as much danger as the Whites were. If we had any common sense we would not allow such a thing to occur......we all know common sense is gone. So we will import a problem we never had and never wanted, and a problem that the Whites came here to avoid.

The only way for this to work is for the Whites to stay in South Africa. Maybe it's time for sanctions again, maybe it's time for sanctioning the South African leadership, maybe it's time to start preparing for civil war, maybe it's time to create a separate White South Africa. Immigration is not the only option.

Thoughts?

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Don't Let the Left Frame the Argument

How often do we allow this?

You don't even need to be that well read to see those on our side reacting to the Left framing an argument. The Left are the masters of this, they do not use logic to attain their goals instead they use rhetoric.  This is what my dictionary, the Heineman Australian Dictionary (1976) has to say:

Rhetoric (say retta-rik) noun
the art of using words persuasively in speech and writing.
Usage: 'ignore his pompous rhetoric' (= insincere or artificial words).

Here it gives the official definition and the popular definition, both are important. If the Left can fight with facts then they will as it's easy. Although you must always watch out for half-truths, even when both sides are trying to argue fairly it can be quite easy to allow half-truths into an argument. If you are going to fight using facts make sure you know them, getting them wrong, even once, can destroy your credibility.

The Left however like to argue using "Targetting", "Misdirection", "Slander" and "Consensus".

Targetting
The speaker is the target, they never address concerns or provide a counter-argument, instead they attack the speaker. Instead of being able to engage in a productive debate the Left will try at every point to stop any debate from happening. First they try to "deplatform" the speaker. You've heard it all before "this person is a Fascist, (racist, reactionary, etc.) so they cannot be allowed to speak". This idea goes all the way back to Germany in the 1920's. The original Nazi brownshirts were created to stop the Communists from violently breaking up their meetings. The Communist group was called Antifa, which is shorthand for Anti-Fascist, a name that has been revived to carry out the exact same task today. I have personally seen this in Melbourne and last year we all saw it in Charlottesville. 

Secondly they target the individual, they try to get the speaker expelled from school or fired from their job. They make it personal, upsetting you and your family. They try to embarrass you and your family. How often have we seen people who are rising leaders on our side disappear? Thats because the Left targets people.

On the Right we rarely target people, we rarely try to deplatform people or groups and worst of all we rarely give support and sympathy to those attacked by the Left. We need to do much much better.

To defeat targetting we need to built networks of our own so that we can dish out anything the Left does. The Leftist is rarely brave for long.

Misdirection
The Left are really brilliant with this, a topic will come up and they will move the conversation to an entirely new topic. They will ensure that the new topic is the only topic anyone wants to talk about. It works very much like the old reporters question, "have you stopped beating your wife?" If you answer yes it means that you once did beat her, if you reply no it means that you continue to beat your wife. It's a dishonest question and it's purpose isn't to get an honest answer, it's purpose is to put the speaker into a position where every answer they give works against them. As I said before the Left is brilliant at this.

The speaker raises an issue, the Left wants to know how this affects cats. If the speaker answers that they love cats, then that is turned into a personal perversion. If the speaker hates cats then that is because they hate everyone. If the speaker refuses to speak then they are afraid of addressing the most important question, which is cats. They don't care about cats, what they care about is stopping the speaker from speaking. Moving the topic away from what the speaker wants to talk about and onto something else, anything else.

To defeat misdirection stay focused and disciplined. Keep on course and march to your own drum beat, do not let them make you march to theirs. Decide your topic and stick to it, do not deviate and do not get into a debate with them. Do not allow them to misdirect you.

Slander
When a Leftist calls you a Racist it is no different to when you were 7 years old and you were told you had boy or girl germs. It is slander and it is designed to segregate you socially from those around you. Every word they call you is slander, they do not call you names because that is an accurate description of your beliefs or your behavour. Even if it is accurate, it is entirely incidental. The purpose is always to separate you from the rest of the herd so that you can be culled.

Return slander for slander, if you are a racist for defending your own people and country, what is someone who does not do that called? They are Traitors. Call them that, or strongly imply it. Ask them why you are not allowed to defend yourself and your family? And remember that sticks and stones may break your bones but words from treasonous Leftists can never be true.

Consensus
This one you see often, climate change or immigration are good ones, "everyone agrees about this issue". They openly lie to achieve their goals, it doesn't matter whether it's popular or unpopular they will always say the same thing, that a consensus exists which you are foolish and evil for opposing. Leftists repeat these lies so often that they really believe them, thats why it's sounds so convincing.

Remember, if you are disagreeing then the consensus isn't as popular as they have stated. Point that out to everyone.

What to do about it
If your alone with a Leftist, let them know how little you think of them and their argument.

If someone else is there, only argue for their benefit, you might convince a neutral party, but you will never convince the Leftist so don't try.

The Left lies and cheats, they never fight fair, they have no honour. Never forget these things, far to often we do forget and give the Left the benefit of the doubt, don't.

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Why Do Women Test Men?

Both men and women were once children and mostly we leave our childish nature behind as we grow. However both sexes continue to have a portion of their childish nature.

For men it is our love of toys, games and competitions. We love sport, gambling and our hobbies and toys. Now some men might take exception to that. But any tool that we do not need for our job is in reality a toy, cameras, guns, if you own a boat and your not a professional fisherman than it's a toy. Hardly any man does not have a love of these things and for women it is inexplicable, frustrating and intriguing. Women often cannot work out why men spend so much time, money and effort on things that don't have any benefit. Although this also shows men creativity and romanticism. Because believing that you can have the definitive collection of Albanian stamps is form of romance.

Women are much more practical and therefore correspondingly unromantic. But the thing that women carry over from childhood is testing limits. Children start off very small and entirely dependent. But by the time that child reaches adulthood, they should be able to operate mostly independently. Children get from being totally dependent to mostly independent by pushing limits, physically, emotionally and intelligently. Anyone who has experience with children will be familiar with this, the seemingly constant need to say no, to correct behavour, to stop yourself from automatically saying no. Parenting is a hard job and this constant testing is one of the reasons for that.

But women never stop testing, they are very good at making quick character judgments and so they use this skill. And women never tell you that you are being tested, just to be even more confusing women are so used to testing they are not always aware that they are testing. So what are women testing for?

They are testing to see if a man fails, they don't want him to fail but they need to know if he will. To give an example, a man approaches a women he doesn't know, at some point in the conversation she will stop talking and look down. It is a test to see what the man will do next, many men fail this test because they assume that she isn't as interested as he first thought. But she wants to know if he is a leader, will he take control of the situation or will he not know what to do? To most men this seems unfair, it would be easier if she didn't test him or if he knew he was being tested, but that is part of the test. A man who complains or trys to find out if he has passed has automatically failed.

Women want a man who knows himself, who is capable of leading and who doesn't want her to lead. The truth is that women don't want to lead, but they don't want to be bossed around either. So they continue to test men over and over again, even when it fails to serve any purpose, even when it is actively harmful. It is not uncommon for a women to test a man without even consciously knowing it, but she will know when he has passed or failed.

Let me give you an example. It is no secret that women like to both talk and to complain.  Most of the time it is simply about communicating what she thinks or feels. However sometimes she will slip in a test. You have been saving to buy a rare Albanian stamp and she complains about you spending money on something so stupid. You ask yourself if maybe she's right. Here's the test, is there a real reason to spend the money on something else? Is your house going to be foreclosed on? Is there a medical problem that needs addressing? Is your Mother going to thrown out of her aged care facility because you haven't paid the bill? In other words is there a real world problem that could be fixed by that money instead of buying that Albanian stamp? If there isn't and you instead don't buy the Albanian stamp and spend it on something she wants, holiday, kitchen extension, a pony etc. Many men would think that they passed the test, but they didn't.

There are two tests and both are testing your leadership, or to put it more bluntly whether you or your wife has your balls.

Test 1: There is a real world problem that could be solved by not buying the Albanian stamp.
You pass if you didn't buy the Albanian stamp, a real leader does not put himself first but instead looks after those he is responsible for.

Test 2: There is no real world problem that can be solved by not buying the Albanian stamp.
You pass if you buy the Albanian stamp, a women will not respect a man who gives up on his passion. It shows that he is weak, doesn't know or trust himself and if he can give up that passion what is to stop him from giving up his passion for his wife or family.

Women test because they are insecure, they need that constant reassurance that her man is strong enough to protect and support her. She experiences strong emotions raging inside of her and that scares her. She is continually questioning herself and she extends that to the man in her life. She needs to know that he can cope with her emotions. It is why women think they want men to be more emotional but hate it when they are.

This continuous testing puts an undue strain upon men and relationships. It is not that women test men, it is not that men do not know that they are being tested, it is that it can be done so often that a man has no choice but to fail. That disappoints women and they then make sure that men are disappointed. The more that both men and women know about testing I think the better it will be for both sexes.

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Why Isn't There More White Advocacy

When Whites are victims of crimes or discrimination, we often wonder why isn't there some group who looks out for White interests. Why is it that other ethnic or religious groups have interest groups devoted to their interests, but Whites do not.

First of all lets look at why other ethnic, racial and religious groups can look after their own. They feel that they are outsiders, that they need to look out for each other as they cannot fully trust those outside of their own group. They show group loyalty and they wonder whats wrong with Whites, why don't Whites show loyalty to other Whites?

But Whites do not think of themselves, in most places, as outsiders. Western Civilization was built by Whites and currently that civilization is dominate. Within White countries the Institutions that exist were built by White people. They were also built for White people. Leftists call this White privilege and it is also why those who are not White always feel as if they are outsiders. But Whites do not feel that they are outsiders.

So when there is a problem they feel that they should be able to use the Institutions that Whites built to look after their interests. Most Whites still think that that is true. That the Institutions that their ancestors built still have their best interests at heart. But anyone who has been paying attention knows that this is not true. Multiculturalism, Mass Immigration, No-Fault Divorce, Gender Equality, The Homosexual Agenda are all designed to push Western Civilization over the edge. To create a world without race or sex, a world in truth without humans. But this is insane, it certainly sounds insane and the truth is that most people do not want to know the truth about the world they live in. The truth is too scary, and their right it is scary. 

For most Whites they can ignore the truth most of the time because most of the time the truth doesn't affect them. Or if it does there are other options, I don't like my new neighbours so I move, I don't like what they are teaching at the local school so I find another, I don't like my new co-workers so I get another job. Bit by bit those options are running out. To be honest it can be hard to understand both the big and the small picture, whats happening to both yourself and your country. 

White advocacy isn't about saying I am White and proud, it is about looking after the small interests of White people. Helping them find jobs, housing, sticking up for them when attacked, looking out for each other. We thought that as we built the Institutions that they would be loyal to us, but the truth is that we have been betrayed. They do not serve us or our interests. 

In the future we need to rebuild Institutions, and to do that we need to start rebuilding White communities, White families. Build contacts and help others, do as much as you can without hurting yourself. Lets start to rebuilt and reclaim our Civilization!

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