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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsRandom Note — Cultural Marxism
When we understand that the basic thrust of Marxism is the total destruction of everything that has gone before, Frank Furedi’s column makes so much sense. The short story is, they are coming for the classics. What he describes with example after example, is nothing...
Mental Floss — Bookmaking
Apart from the names, can anyone tell me or identify the difference between a bookmaker and an insurance company. Both are betting on an outcome of something happening or not happening and frame their odds accordingly. A horse in a race for example has its odds framed...
Random Note — The Biden, Harris, Clinton three step.
Hillary Clinton was making noises again earlier this week about how she’s not finished with politics. What was she really saying? Let me have a go at deconstructing her kite flying. Keeping in mind Biden’s flailing performance and failing mental acuity and his...
China and the Looming Warfare over Taiwan, Quadrant Magazine, April 2021
Worth reading the entire essay but the cut and paste below gives the general flavour. Taiwan with only 24 million people would not necessarily be the pushover China thinks. READ ON “….It is hard to believe that the Japanese High Command is not saying to the Chinese...
Random Note — White Privilege
Listening to a podcast last week and again I was subjected to the mindless, clueless, rehearsed talking points and the associated fawning apology for “white privilege”. I say cluelessly because it is quite clear that the white privilege incantation is the end product...
Random Note — Bill Leak
An extract from Chris Mitchell’s column in today’s Australian, October 11, 2021 about the new biography on cartoonist Bill Leak. I specifically like the Barry Humphries line in the introduction about comedians these days as, “unfunny comedians who merely ‘identify’ as...
Random Note — 2020 US Election
Just remember:- “…The same media and talking heads who told and reassured everyone, (without evidence, to use their language, and at the same time dismissing our of hand a mountain of available evidence by way of 500+ affidavits signed under penalty of perjury and...
Random Note — The Dominic Perrottet pile on
The quality of much that passes for journalism in 2021 is as described by American talk legend, Rush Limbaugh who coined the phrase “the drive by media”, always cruising and hooning up and down Main Street like some 50’s louts, thugs and lairs, looking to pick a fight
Random Note — Bob Carr and nuclear power
Seriously, Bob Carr? “Nobody’s really interested in the nuclear option” Perhaps the reason there has been no interest in developing a nuclear energy industry in Australia is because there’s been a ban on it since 1998 and since at least the 1970’s, it’s been...
Random Note — Keating, Rudd and Turnbull
All three were and still are, tinned eared with a dorky and goofy awkwardness and inability to read the room and connect with ordinary Australians.