Eyewash

I returned a little while ago from a visit to the retinal specialist, and the news about my eye remains good. The doctor says my condition (wet macular degeneration) has stabilized, and I don’t have to get any more injections into my eyeball for the time being. Absent any symptoms of new vascular growth, I just have to go in every two months so that he can, well, eyeball me.

This is welcome news, and not just because I no longer have to endure the needle: a standard scan and a quick checkup are significantly less expensive. So things are looking up.

Since dilated pupils were the only aftereffect of today’s ordeal, I took the opportunity to do major grocery-shopping while I was in town, which kept me out late. That’s why posting has been light. Actually, if you exclude Dymphna’s work, it has been non-existent.

There will be a news feed in a little while, however. And normal programming will resume tomorrow.

21 thoughts on “Eyewash

  1. Alas, I’ve just finished a bottle of Australian Shiraz, but raise my glass to you retrospectively!

  2. Baron Bodissey even with his ophthalmological condition can see far more clearly about the problem of Islam than can the Western mainstream with its 20/20 myopia.

  3. Mark Steyn’s just outed himself as a shill for the race baiters on Ferguson. Did anyone catch his terrible article?

  4. Dear moderators:
    I came across a useful article which should be read by every westerner and must be taught in schools for its frightfulness and education value. It diagnoses the western fatal disease. Is it in public domain? Here it is.

    It’s the same wretched thing down under
    December 14, 2005

    There is no doubt that Australia’s worsening civil disorder, in which Muslims and indigenous Aussies have been fighting pitched battles now for days, has been caused in part by white racists. However, the widespread spin that has been placed on this disorder, that it has been caused by white racists and that what it reveals is that, under its veneer of multiculturalism, Australia is a fundamentally racist society positively heaving with people with despicable views who have been itching to have a pop at blameless Lebanese Muslims, is very wide of the mark. For it appears that the current unrest was sparked by Lebanese Muslim attacks on two indigenous lifeguards, and that this was only the tip of an iceberg of aggression by this minority which – thanks to the censorship imposed by multiculturalism – has gone all but unreported.
    An important article by Tim Priest, a retired Australian Police detective, reveals three deeply alarming developments in Australian society: 1) the extent of the aggression and violence by these gangs, 2) the extent of Australia’s denial of this phenomenon, and 3) the extent to which this denial has prevented the police from addressing and controlling it. These gangs were involved in heroin smuggling, extortion, armed robbery, gun running, organised factory and warehouse break-ins and large-scale car theft and conversion. They were extremely violent. But a loss of professional nerve in the Australian police led to a mindset that was more concerned with avoiding hostility by ethnic minorities than tackling crime (identical to the situation in Britain). Confronting even the most minor of misdemeanours in Muslim areas tended to provoke a terrifyingly violent response – to which the police response was abject surrender:
    In the minds of the local population, the police were cowards and the message was, Lebs rule the streets. For a number of days, nothing was done to rectify this total breakdown of law and order. To the senior police in the area, it was more important to give the impression that local ethnic relations were never better…By avoiding confrontations with these thugs, the police gave away the streets in many of these areas in south-western Sydney. By putting in place inexperienced senior police who had never copped the odd punch in the mouth or broken nose in the line of duty, the police force hung the community and the local police out to dry…In hundreds upon hundreds of incidents police have backed down to Middle Eastern thugs and taken no action and allowed incidents to go unpunished. Again I stress the unbelievable influence that local politicians and religious leaders played in covering up the real state of play in the south-west.
    The result has been an explosive amount of crime and extreme violence by gangs of Middle Eastern origin, with many racially motivated attacks by such gangs who target people simply because they are Australian. Priest comments:

    I wonder whether the inventors of the racial hatred laws introduced during the golden years of multiculturalism ever took into account that we, the silent majority, would be the target of racial violence and hatred. I don’t remember any charges being laid in conjunction with the gang rapes of south-western Sydney in 2001, where race was clearly an issue and race was used to humiliate the victims. But then, unbelievably, a publicly-funded document produced by the Anti-Discrimination Board called “The Race for Headlines” was circulated, and it sought not only to cover up race as a motive for the rapes, but to criticise any accurate media reporting on this matter as racially biased. It worries many operational police that organisations like the Anti-Discrimination Board, the Privacy Council and the Civil Liberties Council have become unaccountable and push agendas that don’t represent the values that this great country was built on.
    Many of you would have heard of the horrific problems in France with the outbreak of unprecedented crimes amongst an estimated five million Muslim immigrants. Middle Eastern males now make up 45,000 of the 90,000 inmates in French prisons. There are no-go areas in Paris for police and citizens alike. The rule of law has broken down so badly that when police went to one of these areas recently to round up three Islamic terrorists, they went in armoured vehicles, with heavy weaponry and over 1000 armed officers, just to arrest a few suspects. Why did it need such numbers? Because the threat of terrorist reprisal was minimal compared to the anticipated revolt by thousands of Middle Eastern and North African residents who have no respect for the rule of law in France and consider intrusions by police and authority a declaration of war.
    The problems in Paris in Muslim communities are being replicated here in Sydney at an alarming rate. Paris has seen an explosion of rapes committed by Middle Eastern males on French women in the past fifteen years. The rapes are almost identical to those in Sydney. They are not only committed for sexual gratification but also with deep racial undertones along with threats of violence and retribution. What is more alarming is the identical reaction by some sections of the media and criminologists in France of downplaying the significance of race as an issue and even ganging up on those people who try to draw attention to the widening gulf between Middle Eastern youth and the rest of French society. That is what we are seeing here. The usual suspects come out of their institutions and libraries to downplay and even cover up the growing problem of Middle Eastern crime. Why? My opinion, for what it’s worth, is that these same social engineers have attempted to redefine our society. They have experimented with all manner of institutions, from prisons to mental institutions and recently to policing.
    An insightful – and, in the current Stalinist climate, brave – article by Janet Albrechtsen in The Australian also gets it:

    Recognising human nature means that multiculturalism, though a fine sentiment, can only work if we unite behind a core set of values. Unfortunately though, that policy has become a licence for rampant cultural relativism. We are loath to criticise any aspects of cultures (except our own) for fear of sounding terribly judgmental and unfashionably unmulticultural. Instead, culture is talked about only as an excuse for abhorrent behaviour so that the offender becomes the victim. Last week, a convicted gang rapist claimed he assaulted a 14-year-old girl because she was not wearing traditional Muslim dress and he thought she was promiscuous. Pointing to cultural differences, the 27-year-old Pakistani-born man said: ‘I believed at the time I committed this offence that she had no right to say no. I believed I’m not doing anything wrong.’ A month ago his lawyer told the court his client was a ‘cultural time bomb’. If this view, that culture can be used as an excuse, represents the views of even a subset of Muslim youth, then we have a problem. If we are not talking openly about egregious aspects of some cultures (except as an excuse), we have only ended up with a bigger problem. And, to date, we have not been talking. Multiculturalism has been synonymous with a rights agenda – addressing minority grievances – rather than a framework for talking about responsibilities. The violence that has been brewing in Cronulla, culminating in the disgraceful rampages in recent days, is a pointer that if we’re serious about social cohesion, it’s time we all demonstrated social responsibility.
    As in Britain, the white racists in Australia appear to be exploiting a situation which has been allowed to get completely out of hand. Racists are parasites who attach themselves to a decaying organism and feed off it. But the organism wouldn’t attract them if it wasn’t already decaying. Britain, France, Australia, Sweden – variations of the same phenomenon are happening all over the western world. Aggression and denial, creating a spiral of ever-worsening aggression, all because of a paralysis in acknowledging, let alone dealing with, the true nature of what we are all facing.
    Posted by Melanie Phillips at December 14, 2005

    Why in the west normal, reasonable and alert people who are aware of muslim invasion are considered bad?

    • As in Britain, the white racists in Australia appear to be exploiting a situation which has been allowed to get completely out of hand. Racists are parasites who attach themselves to a decaying organism and feed off it.

      Ah, white racists in Britain. Who would those be, Ms. Philips?

      Racists are parasites? And as a front rank talking head, madam, what are YOU, precisely? You feed off bad news and the bad news is just your particular slant, manufactured for your audience, all safely sequestered with you in safe enclaves.

      Those Brits who are angered by the deliberate suppression of English values – a suppression upheld in part by your writings – would not be “racists” were they not confronted daily with the multiculti nightmare set in place by treasonous politicians who have prospered at the expense of their fellows.

      Do the children of your friends have to wear kevlar vests to primary school? If they did have to do so, would that color the perceptions of your friends and their children??

      As they say on Twitter: #Shameless

      • I suspect that by “white racists”, Melanie Phillips means those who have contempt for their own culture, but perhaps I’m being over charitable.

        • You are being charitable. She meant the EDL and as you know we support the attempts Tommy Robinson made to get the underclass organized against England’s takedown. He got sent to prison for a violation committed by most of those who run for office. #Shameful

          • Rereading Ms Phillips’ article I believe you’re right. However, without vilifying the EDL, she has a legitimate point that not dealing with the problems caused by incompatible immigrants can led to greater resentment, from the original host community and from other recent arrivals who are willing to play by our rules.

  5. Some more educational eye-opening articles:
    Volume XLVIII Number 1 – January-February 2004

    The Rise of Middle Eastern Crime in Australia
    Tim Priest

    Category: Society

    I BELIEVE that the rise of Middle Eastern organised crime in Sydney will have an impact on society unlike anything we have ever seen.
    In the early 1980s, as a young detective I was attached to the Drug Squad at the old CIB. I remember executing a search warrant at Croydon, where we found nearly a pound of heroin. I know that now sounds very familiar; however, what set this heroin apart was that it was Beaker Valley Heroin, markedly different from any heroin I had seen. Number Four heroin from the golden triangle of South-East Asia is nearly always off-white, almost pure diamorphine. This heroin was almost brown.
    But more remarkable were the occupants of the house. They were very recent arrivals from Lebanon, and from the moment we entered the premises, we wrestled and fought with the male occupants, were abused and spat at by the women and children, and our search took five times longer because of the impediments placed before us by the occupants, including the women hiding heroin in baby nappies and on themselves and refusing to be searched by policewomen because of religious beliefs. We had never encountered these problems before.
    As was the case in those days, we arrested every adult and teenager who had hampered our search. When it came to court, they were represented by Legal Aid, of course, who claimed that these people were innocent of the minor charges of public disorder and hindering police, because they were recent arrivals from a country where people have an historical hatred towards police, and that they also had poor communications skills and that the police had not executed the warrant in a manner that was acceptable to the Muslim occupants.
    The magistrate, well known to police as one who convicted fewer than one in ten offenders brought before him during his term at Burwood local court, threw the matter out, siding with the occupants and condemning the police. I remember thinking, thank heavens we don’t run into many Lebanese drug dealers.
    In 1994 I was stationed at Redfern. A well known Lebanese family who lived not far from the old Redfern Police Academy were terrorising the locals with random assaults, drug dealing, robberies and violent anti-social behaviour. When some young police from Redfern told me about them, curiosity got the better of me and I asked them to show me the street they lived in. Despite the misgivings of the young police, I eventually saw this family and the presence they had in the immediate area. As we drove away in our marked police car, a half-brick bounced on the roof of the vehicle. The driver kept going.
    I said, “What are you doing, they’ve just hit the car with a house brick!”
    The young constable said, “Oh, they always do that when we drive past.”
    The police were either too scared or too lazy to do anything about it. The damage bill on police cars became costly and these street terrorists grew stronger and the police became purely defensive. You see, the Police Royal Commission was about to start and the police retreated inside themselves knowing that the judicial system considered them easy targets. The police did not want to get hurt or attract Internal Affairs complaints.
    Call me stupid, call me a dinosaur, but I made sure that day that at least one person in the group that threw the brick was arrested. I began by approaching the group just as that magistrate had lectured me and the other police involved in the Croydon search warrant. I simply asked who threw the brick. I was greeted with abuse and threats. I then reverted to the old ways of policing. I grabbed the nearest male and convinced him that it was he who had thrown the brick. His brave mates did nothing. By the time we arrived at the police station, this young fool had become compliant, apologetic and so afraid that he kept crying.
    You may not agree with what I did, but I paraded this goose around the police station for all the young police to see what they had become frightened of. For some months after that, police routinely rounded up the family whenever it was warranted.
    However, some years later, with a change of Police Commander and the advent of duty officers under Peter Ryan, the family got back on top and within months had murdered a young Australian man who had wandered into their area drunk. They had set up a caravan where they sold drugs twenty-four hours a day. They tied up half the police station with Internal Affairs complaints ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, but under Peter Ryan, these complaints were always treated seriously.
    In effect, this family had taken control of Redfern.

    [extensive text redacted; PLEASE provide a link rather than paste this much text!]

      • Then do not post it in the comments.

        You can often find a link by taking a small, unusual grouping of words – I paraded this goose around the police station and do a search on that phrase. You’ll find your misplaced site.

  6. I remember reading some of the above, I believe it was Melanie Phillips article. White racists indeed! Perhaps the author should have given a bit more thought to that epithet, ‘white racists’ if she had, she would then have appreciated that those she labelled as racists were only reacting to what Australian authorities were not doing for them, protecting them from the real racists!

  7. Could always be worse, I visited the opticians last wk & they’re charging me £588 ($977) for new varifocals. Total rip-off but what can you do.

    • Yes, indeed. The new glasses will be tested for soon. I think they will be about half of what you paid but he’ll have to get two pairs.

      Benjamin Franklin would have gladly paid a high price for varifocaled spectacles. And having new expensive glasses are NOT worse than macular degeneration…

      …it is miraculous to me that MD can now be treated and stopped from doing further damage. About 5 years ago, it would have meant sure blindness. Thank God for the researchers who produced varifocaled glasses and those who found that an anti-cancer substance also worked with MD.

      Let’s hope the ruination of our economies by the crony capitalists and oligarchs doesn’t obliterate research.

    • Ah, Murad…you need comment training, sir.

      You go from leaving huge clots of text with no link to leaving links with no text, or even a hint as to the subject of your link. Most folks won’t click on links, Murad. There is already too much to read.

      Therefore, I suggest a tertium quid between either pasting in huge amounts of text or merely dropping in a link. That third thing I suggest is this:

      (1) a link
      (2) a snip of text:

      —————————————-
      http://australian-news.net/articles/view.php?id=110

      The rise of Middle Eastern crime in Australia

      […]
      …Former NSW detective Tim Priest was one of the front-line cops who lead the war against crime in the drug-ridden streets of Cabramatta. Yet he found himself waging his biggest battle not against the drug gangs but against the very organisation he worked for. Eventually, he could stand it no longer and spoke out about the politics and bureaucratic bungling, chronic lack of resources and crazy policy decisions that seem endemic to the New South Wales Police Service. For this, he was labelled a ‘whistleblower’ and ultimately railroaded out of the force.

      Then Tim Priest says:

      “I believe that the rise of Middle Eastern organised crime in Sydney will have an impact on society unlike anything we have ever seen…”

      That’s enough to pique a reader to follow the link to read about Mr. Priest’s experience. And we need more solid information about Australia’s dilemma, so it provides a service for all.

  8. Ah, Murad…you need comment training, sir. You go from leaving huge clots of text with no link to leaving links with no text, or event a hint as to the subject of your link. Most folks won’t click on links, Murad. There is already too much to read.

    Therefore, I suggest a tertium quid between either pasting in huge amounts of text or merely dropping in a link. That third thing I’d like you to do is this:

    (1) a link
    (2) a snip of text:

    The rise of Middle Eastern crime in Australia

    […]
    …Former NSW detective Tim Priest was one of the front-line cops who lead the war against crime in the drug-ridden streets of Cabramatta. Yet he found himself waging his biggest battle not against the drug gangs but against the very organisation he worked for. Eventually, he could stand it no longer and spoke out about the politics and bureaucratic bungling, chronic lack of resources and crazy policy decisions that seem endemic to the New South Wales Police Service. For this, he was labelled a ‘whistleblower’ and ultimately railroaded out of the force.

    Then Tim Priest says:

    “I believe that the rise of Middle Eastern organised crime in Sydney will have an impact on society unlike anything we have ever seen…”

    That’s enough to pique a reader to follow the link to read about Mr. Priest’s experience. And we need more solid information about Australia’s dilemma, so it provides a service for all.

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