by Jim Ball | Aug 31, 2017 | Aborigines, Blog, History rewriting, Random Notes |
It really takes a special degree of boneheaded ignorance and stupidity to be so ill informed as to basic Australian history. How is it at all possible for someone to be so ill informed as to historical facts on the ground to even get near a seat at the table and be on...
by Jim Ball | Aug 30, 2017 | Alternate Energy, Alternative Energy, Blog, Malcolm Turnbull, Random Notes, Renewable energy |
With Jay Weatherill’s already obsolete tower of power technology and the big battery in SA combined with Turnbull’s Snowy 2.0 whereby it costs more to pump the water up hill than it generates down hill, we have reached peak stupid in the weirdest,...
by Jim Ball | Aug 29, 2017 | Astroturfing, Blog |
My previous post was on the Sharyl Attkisson book The Smear: How shady political operators control what you see, what you think and how you vote and her associated 10 minute Tedx talk on what’s known as astroturfing. The essential thrust was that of contrived,...
by Jim Ball | Aug 29, 2017 | Astroturfing, Blog, Random Notes |
Do you sometimes get the impression that you’re being poked, prodded, pushed, snowed and spun, that something or things don’t add up? That you’re being fed a lie or a line? It could be on a product or a political matter or a social or cultural...
by Jim Ball | Aug 29, 2017 | Bill Shorten, Blog, Border Security/Multiculturalism, Labor Party, Refugees |
An extract from an excellent editorial in today’s Australian. “.. Bill Shorten has dubbed the Coalition “cowardly and cruel” over its latest effort to encourage refugees and asylum-seekers back to Nauru and Manus Island. In other words — even after the...
