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A short and sweet pithy missive in todays Australian. "..Energy crisis? No country with uranium reserves such as ours has the right to complain of an energy crisis. The only obstacle to developing a nuclear power industry is ignorance.." Graham Hood, Melbourne,...
West proves not all cultures are equal — Jennifer Oriel — The Australian
For the past 40 years, Western immigration policy has been based on multicultural ideology. Its consequence is clear: Islamism has become a Western condition. Successive governments have diluted Western values to the point where they are no longer taught in schools. The result is a population unschooled in the genius of our civilisation whose youth cannot understand why it is worth defending. Multicultural ideology must give way to a renaissance of Western civilisation in which Australian exceptionalism is celebrated and Islamism is sent packing ——-There were few Anzacs left to see what the West has become. I suppose that’s a kind of mercy. We have dishonoured the millions of soldiers who laid down their lives in the 20th century fighting for our freedom and the future of Western civilisation. We should hang our heads in shame for letting the Anzac legacy come to this. We are the descendants of the world’s most enlightened civilisation. It is our turn to fight for its future.
The next level video games are more addictive than ever. This is what happens when kids can’t turn them off — Washington Post
Before you shell out hundreds of dollars for your kids Christmas, you MUST read this. This is what happens when kids can’t turn them off.
“…..It was around that time when a relative gave Byrne and his brother an Xbox. Gaming was deemed a privilege Byrne would lose if he misbehaved. But that structure soon proved hard to implement. “He was relentless about asking when he could play — it was a continuous negotiation,” Robin said. The routine grew exhausting, she added, and sometimes she and Terrence caved in to Byrne’s demands. “The games were his refuge.” The pattern worsened after Byrne entered middle school.
“In seventh grade the downward spiral began, after having maintained High Honour Roll for one quarter, I was given a laptop. This is when my addiction to screens began.” Byrne wrote these words years later as part of a reflective essay assignment while he was away at the wilderness therapy program….”
Black Lives Don’t Matter — Tanya Rosecky, Quadrant
The putrid double standards and hypocrisy lifts the wall paper. “..Traversing the same lines, when a recent article about Fitzroy Crossing described devastating incidents of child neglect, that scandal passed with little attention, yet Bill Leak continues to be branded a racist more than three months after he drew his infamous cartoon. The cartoon was neither racist nor did it involve stereotyping, despite what his critics would have us believe..
Labor spending was a blow to economy after GFC, says report — The Australian
Tell us something we don’t know….AND we’re still borrowing $100 million A DAY to prop up this fiction.
“..A damning Treasury-commissioned independent review of the former Labor government’s unprecedented spending response to the global financial crisis has found it was a “misconceived” waste of money, fundamentally weakened Australia’s economy, almost destroyed parts of the manufacturing sector and inflicted more long-term harm than good..”
Trump: Japanese mogul pledges $50 billion US investment
Hey, Democrats. See you and raise you. AND Trump hasn't even been inaugurated yet. Trump: Japanese mogul pledges $50 billion US investment
FDR’s Pearl Harbor Infamy speech, as Obama would deliver it today — American Thinker
I originally posted this 12 months ago on the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbour. A brilliant piss take on Obama, and like minded politically correct types such as Canada's Trudeau, not wishing to cause offence to those that attack them. A similar piece could...
The right call on Taiwan trumps Barack Obama: Greg Sheridan — The Australian
Trumps not so veiled message is pretty simple, pretty straight forward “There’s a new sheriff in town and I’ll talk to whom I damn well please” — He’s off to a good start and not even inaugurated yet.
“….The pro-Beijing hysterics who see the Trump conversation as the end of civilisation should reflect on what they are really saying. It is, apparently, perfectly OK for Beijing to militarise a vast swath of the South China Sea, to use military force to occupy atolls over which it has no serious historical claim, to construct artificial islands to host military landing strips, to increase its military spending by more than 10 per cent annually for two decades and, of course, to ruthlessly suppress all dissent at home. But for Trump to take a congratulatory phone call from the democratically elected president of Taiwan, who came to office in a clean, fair and peaceful ballot, and who has no aggressive intentions towards anybody — that apparently is the crime of the ages….”
Random Note #196,852 — Triple A Credit Downgrade
Thinking about the “when” rather than “if” prospect of the international credit agencies like S&P, Moody’s and Fitch et al turning down the wick on Australia’s triple A credit rating, it occurs to me that these agencies are the same credit agencies that rated...
Random Note #178,749 — John Key resignation
Reading a lot about the resignation of New Zealand PM John Key and how he steered NZ successfully over the last 8 years. What seems to be forgotten or ignored is that New Zealand doesn't have a delicately poised senate to negotiate and navigate. Therein lies the...