Happy Seventh Birthday Upon Hope!

I've had my best year yet on the blog, which is always a nice thing to be able to say. July was my worst month with only 2,998 visitors, but the next was my best with 5910 visitors. Over the year I have averaged 4,200 a month. Something happened in July to blogger, before that time I routinely got hundreds on each post, but from the start of July I rarely got over one hundred. Not sure what happened but even though each post was down, overall I got increased numbers. I have written some quite good pieces and from July to December I was on fire. I tried to write each day but in reality it was more like 2 out of every 3 days.  Then In January I really needed some help so I asked for people to support me on Subscribestar. For nearly the entire first month not a single person thought I was worth supporting, not even for a dollar a month. Now I have two supporters who each have pledged $10 a month, thats $120 a year. Now that's a serious commitment.....Thank you!

I have to admit that the lack of support nearly killed the blog. I really had to struggle to write. People don't have unlimited money, unfortunately I really do understand that. but the total lack of interest was a real kick in the guts. Particularly as the amount of material I produce keeps increasing.

This article will be the 160th article I have written in the past twelve months. I have organised the second Melbourne Traditionalists Conference which was a great success. Along with David Hiscox, the editor of XYZ, I have started doing podcasts on YouTube and this year I have been putting up older articles as well. So each day something goes up, even though we do the podcast each Monday. David Hiscox has also been putting articles of mine up on XYZ, in fact he puts up about 2/3rd's of everything I write. Which I must say has been a good boost to the ego, as has been his support. I think the recent increase in numbers, particularly from Australia, is in no small part due to that support. Thank you David!

And the Melbourne Traditionalists has had regular meetings and continues to grow. 

I have had 242, 586 visitors to this blog over the past seven years.
2013 15,000 visitors
2014 20,000 visitors
2015 30,000 visitors
2016 38,000 visitors
2017 44,000 visitors
2018 43,000 visitors
2019 52,000 visitors

My most clicked on article is still What do Traditional Conservatives believe? which has been clicked on 6507 times. My least read article is Parenting, there's an app for that which has been clicked on only 47 times.

My visitors fall into three categories Americans who make up around 40%, Australians who make up around 15% and the rest of the world who make up the remaining 45%. In the last month the number of Americans who have come to my site reached 100,000.

Below are the top 10 articles that have been clicked on with the number of visitors each has received.

6507 What do Traditional Conservatives believe?

3791 Free-trade Versus Protectionism

3487 Why don't the poor marry?

3314 Why do Conservatives believe in different social classes?

2455 Feminism, why we are not Feminists

2404 What is more important, the past, the present or the future?

2248 The balanced society

2170 Housewives, good for the economy and society

2153 The problems of Monarchy

1397 Multiculturalism, the conclusion

The list will be different to the list on the left as I believe that they are weighted towards more recent clicks.

Here is the "Referring URL's" and "Referring Sites".

Referring URLs

Entry	Pageviews
http://www.google.com	8404
https://www.google.com/	5168
https://www.google.com.au/	1697
http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/	1171
http://m.facebook.com	916
http://anotherpoliticallyincorrectblog.blogspot.com.au/	884
http://athriftyhomemaker.blogspot.com/	784
https://t.co/	752
http://anotherpoliticallyincorrectblog.blogspot.com/	739
https://www.google.co.uk/	693

Referring Sites

Entry	Pageviews
www.google.com	15984
uponhopeblog.blogspot.com	2506
www.google.com.au	2407
athriftyhomemaker.blogspot.com	2188
www.thinkinghousewife.com	2108
t.co	1696
m.facebook.com	1654
www.bing.com	1479
www.google.co.uk	1164
anotherpoliticallyincorrectblog.blogspot.com	1116

Search Keywords

Entry	Pageviews
site:blogspot.com small business language:en	321
site:blogspot.com can i make money from youtube? language:en	116
site:blogspot.com african farms language:en	104
site:blogspot.com society language:en	99
site:blogspot.com can i make money from youtube language:en	83
site:blogspot.com maternity leave language:en	83
uponhopeblog.blogspot.com	60
upon hope	48
the thinking housewife	33
free trade vs protectionism	32

Here is the list of where and how many people have been to this site over the past seven years.

Entry	Pageviews
United States	101703
Australia	38181
Russia	16871
United Kingdom	8930
France	6658
Germany	5971
Canada	4328
Ukraine	4214
Unknown Region	3330
Netherlands	2839

The only change is the Netherlands is back and Indonesia has left.

Thank you for reading the blog and I hope that thing keep heading upwards!

Mark Moncrieff


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The Eighty-Fourth Month

The past month has been better than the month before but I don't trust the numbers. I have had this issue in the past and I put it aside. Really I have to as I don't have many of those data points to go on. This month one of my posts was getting a lot of interest, however it was a link to one of the podcasts. It had over 800 clicks but the podcast on YouTube had about 80 views, it simply didn't add up. I was so concerned about it that I deleted the post and up it up again here.

I have had quite a busy month with everything going much slower than I would like but they are moving. So I guess I should be grateful for small mercies.

In February I had 4,307 visitors, between the 11th February and the 11th March I have had 5,974. My best day was the 6th March when I had 762 visitors and my worst was the 1st March when I had 68 visitors. I simply do not know if I should trust that high number as I don't know where it came from, and no particular article was clicked on so what attracted them to the site?

A number I do believe is my Australian numbers, I'm very happy to have had over a thousand visit in a month!

February-March

Entry	Pageviews
United States	3483
Australia	1097
Germany	202
France	170
United Kingdom	136
Canada	118
Ukraine	81
Unknown Region	65
Argentina	59
Russia	49

January-Februay

Entry	Pageviews
United States	1165
Australia	786
Russia	184
Ukraine	146
Germany	91
Canada	82
France	77
United Kingdom	77
Argentina	74
Unknown Region	67

The United States, Australia, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Canada are all up.

Unknown Region is basically the same.

The Ukraine, Argentina and Russia are all down.

I have also had visitors from the following countries: Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Greece, Estonia, Turkmenistan, Turkey, U.A.E., India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Cote d' Ivore, Nigeria, Kenya, Namibia, New Zealand, Mexico, Antigua & Barbuda, Brazil, Colombia, Chile.

Thank you for visiting and I hope to see you again soon.

Mark Moncrieff

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In this episode we talk about conversations I had at my brothers wedding. How our ideas are becoming mainstreamed, the recycling disgrace and the teaching scam.

David Hiscox: https://www.xyz.net.au/

Length: 32 minutes

Click on the link and enjoy!
Episode Thirty Two


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When Owning Guns Is A Crime, Only Criminals Will Own Guns (Victorian Edition)

Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Chris O'Neill with PORT police.CREDIT:JASON SOUTH
December 2019

Back in 1996 the Australian Federal Government decided that there would be a compulsory gun byback program. Gun laws were also made much stricter. The gun lobby argued that when owning a gun is a crime then only criminals would have guns. The Government said that the community had nothing to fear as the Police would have guns and they would protect us.

In 2019 in the state of Victoria there were 52 shooting, 14 of them fatal. In a state were the vast majority of people do not own or have access to a gun in any way shape or form. So who's doing the shooting and why isn't getting shot more fatal?

The answer is drug dealers shooting other drug dealers when deals go wrong. They deliberately shoot to wound in most cases.  Most of the fatal shootings are deliberate murder, not incidental.

However Australia is an island Continent, so you have to wonder how are they getting the guns and how is it that the government can't do more to stop them? More questions than answers it seems.

 More than 14 hardened criminals are being found in possession of firearms each week as the state grapples with a rising gun culture that has led to twice as many Victorians shot dead in 2019.

The Age-gun violence grips Melbourne

So not only has banning guns not ended gun crime but it has also meant that the police have become more militarized.  In December 2019 Victoria Police bought 300 rifles and will train 700 police to use them. If disarming the population has been so successful then why do they need rifles?

Then again why do they need body armour?

 

Or camouflage or to hide their faces?



My guess is that the multicultural paradise isn't quite working.

Uniforms get darker and more threatening in colour and tone. Body armour for even the most mundane of tasks outside of the station. Low slung guns as if they are in a Western movie. RoboCop was not a training movie.


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