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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsRandom Note — Ukraine
I like Paul Kelly’s observations but sometimes I get the impression that the commentariat, the cognoscenti and the political class inside the beltway are to close to the action, down in the weeds. They’re focusing on the individual pixels, not the big picture and need...
Random Note — Chris Bowen, Nuclear and Perspective
In this entire nuclear debate, as it is, and Bowen’s infantile insistence that to get nuclear up and running in 10 years is fanciful, he needs to be reminded that in 1962, JFK said that the United States "𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐚𝐥, 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞...
Random Note — George Galloway
All of this, every single bit of it, is on the political class in the West of the last 50 years. Hiding under the umbrella of tolerance, (their get out of jail free euphemism for their own milquetoast pusillanimity, lack of courage, conviction and determination, they...
Second Class: How the elites betrayed America’s working men and women
Batya Ungar Sargon is from the left and is the opinion editor of Newsweek and has written extensively for the major dailies. Her new book, Second Class: How the elites betrayed America's working men and women is the subject of this interview with Steve Bannon. She...
Random Note — Whiteness
And notice too how it’s usually deployed and weaponised by people with an entitlement mindset and a distorted world view of their own strutting self importance and who see no other reason for their inadequacy, jealousy, rage and failure other than through the prism of colour.
Random Note – Another one of those must listen interviews
Just as the ABC thinks of the entity as THEIR ABC, this is the same. Democracy is the domain of the institutions and the elites. It is THEIR democracy and the people are just an inconvenience and in the way so the concept has to be and is being redefined, rebadged and rebranded.
Random Note – Dante’s Inferno, Circles of Hell and The Democrats world of pain.
If viewed through the prism of Dante’s Inferno, the Democrats are straddled somewhere between the circles of limbo, violence, fraud and treachery and hopefully, about to get totally incinerated.
Random Note — Always Whinging, Always Will Be
Why not just get on with your miserable lives and stop trying to blame your narrow, pathetic existence and circumstances on everything and everyone else.
Random Note — Woolworths wokery and their inhouse indigenous advisory voice
Woolworths (no longer Woolies so much as Wokies) decided not to sell Oz Day merch after advice from their very own, in-house 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩. Or if you like, their very own 𝐢𝐧-𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞
Random Note — Elon Musk, Ben Shapiro, George Orwell and William Shakespeare walk into a pub.
Listening to the the Ben Shapiro Elon Musk interview earlier this morning and Musk’s comments about how the DEI doctrine was like something from a George Orwell book, it suddenly occurred to me that an earlier author, William Shakespeare in another context, was onto...