Brian Ross wrote on May 6^th, 2017 at 9:35pm:
How is division amongst the middle class (the most people) healthy for a country Brian?

Frank wrote on May 27^th, 2017 at 10:19am:




Oh, dearie, dearie me.  Move along folks, move along.  Nothing new to see here, just Soren's tired old Islamophobia, all over again.   Tsk, tsk, you'd think he'd learn that he isn't convincing anyone with his endless persecution of Muslims for committing no crimes other than being Muslims.   Really.    

I have an idea, Soren.  How about you start a thread where you don't bash anyone.  Willing to accept the challenge or is it too hard in your hatred?   

Mr Hammer wrote on May 27^th, 2017 at 7:19pm:




Oh, dearie, dearie me.  Move along folks, move along.  Nothing new to see here, just Hammers' tired old Islamophobia, all over again.   Tsk, tsk,   

Frank wrote on May 27^th, 2017 at 9:55pm:


*SIGH*, no prizes for being second, Soren.  Tsk, tsk.   

David Betz, a professor of War Studies at King’s College London, has declared a “high statistical probability” of civil conflict “within one or more of at least a dozen countries” before 2030, after which it is extremely likely that this conflict will “metastasize” to other countries.

Betz describe Western states – including Britain, France and America – as “explosively configured” or as proverbial “powder kegs” or “ticking time-bombs” waiting to go off.

Betz’s comments come from a range of podcasts he has appeared on and are based on a 2023 paper he wrote for Military Strategy Magazine titled Civil War Comes to the West.
https://www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/civil-war-comes-to-the-west/


Instead of the praise that diversity usually receives among elites, Betz views it as a highly destructive phenomenon. As he writes, multiculturalism (or “identity politics”) is a situation “in which people having a particular racial, religious, ethnic, social, or cultural identity tend to promote their own specific interests or concerns without regard to the interests or concerns of any larger political group.”

Multiculturalism, therefore, is not a source of strength but its polar opposite.  “It is this above all that makes civil conflict in the West not merely likely but practically inevitable,” Betz writes.

Nations that have adopted multiculturalism have seen a “collapse of trust”, a “draining of social capital” and an “acceleration of factional polarisation”, Betz adds.

This has been encouraged and “inflected by the introduction of identity politics” as the new social norm and has led to the “shattering of a generation of pre-political loyalties of national populations”.

This is obviously the situation now seen across Europe, North America and Australasia, with “White majorities (trending rapidly toward large minority status in some cases) [which] live alongside multiple smaller minorities”. This also explains the heavy-handed approach Western governments have taken to any form of “White nationalist” or “ethnic particularist” movement, no matter how numerically small.

Yet what has further enflamed tensions is that Anglo-European or “White” majorities are also subject to “a sort of ‘asymmetric multiculturalism’ in which in-group preference, ethnic pride, and group solidarity – notably in voting – are acceptable for all groups except Whites for whom such things are considered to represent supremacist attitudes that are anathematic to social order”.

This has led to a circumstance in which there is a is “a perception that the status quo is invidiously unbalanced, which provides an argument for revolt on the part of the White majority (or large minority) that is rooted in stirring language of justice.”

These are thus the chief causes of what Betz believes is the almost-certain presence of some form of imminent civil war.




About the author:
David Betz is Professor of War in the Modern World in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London where he heads the MA War Studies programme. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. His most recent book, The Guarded Age: Fortification in the 21st Century, is published by Polity (October 2023).

(But you wouldn't read about this in Cockwomble's 'Defence' board....)

“Australian public universities are no longer run for education”, Dr Ciriello said. “They have been taken over by a managerial elite that prioritises profits over academic integrity. Vice-chancellors earn more than the Prime Minister, with 16 of 41 making over $1 million annually”.

“Casualisation has led to rampant wage theft, with universities underpaying staff by over $400 million nationally”.

“Universities have become addicted to international student fees, which account for up to 40% of revenue”, Dr Ciriello said.

Around the same time, the Guardian’s Caitlin Cassidy reported the views of more than a dozen academics who complained that Australian universities have devolved into little more than “degree factories” with “voluntary attendance, online classes, student numbers swelling” and soft marking.

In March 2025, more than 200 ‘old-school’ academics, known as Public Universities Australia, accused universities of “soft marking” and passing poorly performing students, which they claimed is “dumbing down the entire country”.

“Universities … tend to pass and graduate most students irrespective of the level of education actually achieved”, Public Universities Australia said in a scathing submission to the Senate education committee.

“There are manifestly worsening gaps in graduates’ basic knowledge and skills”.

“This is nothing less than a dumbing down of the entire country”.

Last week, University of Canberra law lecturer Andrew Henderson told a federal inquiry into university governance that community-run preschools faced tougher scrutiny than Australia’s public universities.

“It seems remarkable that a group of parents of young children at a small Canberra preschool could be subject to a more detailed [regulatory] regime, backed by criminal offences and provisions making them personally liable, than the council of a multi-million dollar educational institutions with thousands of students”, Henderson wrote.

“That seems even more remarkable considering recent events in Australian university council rooms”.

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/04/lawless-universities-devalue-australia/


Australia is SOLD OUT by the Bbwiyaws, karnals, KangaMongas, duckwits and others.

The Chinese, Indians, Arabs, Africans ALL ride on their moronic multiculti lies.

Frank wrote on Apr 28^th, 2025 at 8:00pm:



Yes - I know all about interviewing engineers for jobs.

It's amazing what they don't know about engineering.
Many failed their interviews because of their poor knowledge.
In some cases it was a bit unfair as the academic syllabus has changed
since the 1980s and 1990s but
it's also true that they were not being taught topics that
are vital to know about for their profession.

It seems to me that the academic standards have slipped.