NZ: When ideologies collide

So the New Zealanders have accepted their opportunity to show the world just how virtuous they are, from the Prime Minister to the local biker gangs, all are united in their displays of piety and compassion.

Wonderful news, but when one crazy goes on a killing spree, why does nobody ask why, anymore?

Tragedies like the Christchurch massacre are thankfully rare, yet the media immediately jump onto the 'white supremacist' bandwagon, as though there is some well thought out and defined movement driving the perpetrators, yet their actual reasoning is never examined nor their fears addressed.

Interestingly, while the 'white supremacist' tag is used for attention grabbing headlines, but the articles tend to more accurately write about 'white nationalist', as these people are usually not the spreaders of supremacist ideologies, but reacting to fears in an increasingly hostile environment, where all the world's ills are the fault of white privilege, and every free thinking person is a racist ideologue, little wonder that they resort to violence as the only voice that will be 'listened' to.

The terrible irony is that these attacks receive so much attention because they are so rare, yet islamist attacks against civilians and particularly Christians, have become so common, that they barely make the footnotes in our daily news reports.

Coming only weeks after the murder of 20 worshipers in a catholic cathedral in the Philippines, it is difficult not to contrast the different coverage, and if those numbers aren't enough, the more recent 120 killed in Nigeria were also notable by their seeming irrelevance to our 4th Estate.

When Turkey's Erdogan showed video footage to encourage support for his islamist ideologies, did the Western media bother itself? Apart from a little tut tutting, not much.

Ignoring the Global Jihad ensures that these incidents continue in frequency and intensity, and gives all the motivation and justification that some will use to plan and carry out equally violent acts in response.

Hiding bad news does not make it go away, and pretending that only white people do bad things is a sure way to ensure that increasing numbers of white people will continue to do bad things.

EU: Not so silly, anymore.

Last minute packing for the family vacation, I am reminded of when this was called the Silly Season, as parliaments went into recess, schools closed and business slowed to a crawl, there was little news worthy of the title, and the media scrabbled for something to fill their allotted slots.

Photos of polar bears being furnished with ice to cool off during the less frequent heat waves, was the sort of image we came to expect, and were not even surprised if traffic caused by the occasional cat rescue from high in some central London tree made it to the 6 o'clock news.

How far away those days seem now.

Even the Olympic sports are struggling to maintain centre stage, with Zika and the drug fiasco and rioting in Rio. It appears that Brasilians haven't taken too kindly to their recent coup, not unlike Turkey and Ukraine.

We have major wars in Yemen and Syria, with 'lesser' conflicts in Libya and Iraq, but the bloody list continues, radiating out from the Arabian incubator through Africa, Asia and Europe.

In addition to being one of the front lines for islamic jihad, Europe also has multiple forest fires, some started deliberately, but no use seeking a motive there, because we will never trust the answer anyway...

Ah well, best get back to the suitcase.

EU: Merkel's madness

So the deal is (almost) done.

Our leaders continue to placate the islamic state of Turkey with promises, deals and more money, but this is not enough; it seems, now we have joined them in their preparations for ethnically cleansing Kurdistan of it's Kurdish population.

In coordination with their allies in the other islamic state of daesh (or whatever this week's name is for the Religion of War) the Turks are making ready to move into the Eastern provinces under their control, utilising the distraction of this year's 'Summer Terrorist Offensive', currently intended to be Euro 2016 in France,  but no doubt, if our security forces can keep a lid on that event, the islamic murderers will find another.

So what's the big deal?

Visa free access to the EU, that's the big deal.

There are over 14 million Kurds under Turkish control, or should that be occupation? And while the world may not permit another genocide on the scale of that committed on Armenian Christians, Visa free travel will allow thousands or even millions of displaced Kurds to escape (or be driven) into Europe, but will they ever want or be allowed, to return?

Thus it continues, Turkey murders with impunity, and the German chancellor descends further into insanity, dragging the rest of Europe down via the fevered dementia of the latest Reich's leader.

Which century are we living in?