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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsRandom Note 169,562 — Turnbull and his pyrrhic ABCC victory
The passing of the ABCC legislation is something of a hollow victory for the Turnbull government as the Derryn Hinch, inspired master stroke amendment, delaying the implementation of the serious application of its intent to existing workplace agreements until the end...
We Don’t Need No Edukayshun: Teach ‘em Green, Raise ‘em Stupid — Quadrant Online
Green/Left lobby Cool Australia, backed by Labor’s teacher unions and Bendigo Bank, is achieving massive success in brainwashing school students about the inhumanity of the federal government’s asylum-seeker policies, the evils of capitalism, and our imminent climate peril. The Cool Australia’s teaching templates are now being used by 52,540 teachers in 6,676 primary and high schools (71% of total schools).
Maurice Strong, Climate Crook — Quadrant
I’m reposting this from 12 months ago at the time of the death of Maurice Strong. There must be a special place in hell for people like this. Strong as the god father of climate change right from the beginning, was in the mould of George Soros. A sinister and evil socialist capitalist. Go figure. A regular James Bond type villain with billions….Although not featured in this piece one of his most famous quotes from a 1992 interview was
“…In order to save the planet, isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?
Coercive conformity — Giles Auty, The Spectator
Many people quietly wonder and not so quietly ask. What the hell happened? How did we get here? Only when you follow the bread crumbs can you begin to understand and begin to wind and walk it back.
“…Half a century ago takes us back to 1966, which bisects two significant dates: the effective start-up of ‘political correctness’ at the University of California in 1964 and the so-called ‘student’ riots in Paris in 1968. Sentimentalists who look back on both events as ‘revolutionary’ do us a disservice, however, for in no time at all the counterculture’s demand for total freedom metamorphosed into an ambition for total political control…”
The Opposite of Right — American Thinker.
The best thing you’ll read all day. And tomorrow and the next day too. Everything becomes clear: “..If we pass enough laws everyone will obey. If we take enough money from the rich, the poor will cease to exist. If we erase boundaries and ignore the differences between nations, there will be no more war. If we pretend that sinful behaviour isn’t a choice we make, then we’ve eradicated sin..”
Fidel Castro’s legacy of murder and repression whitewashed by the Left — Janet Albrechtsen — The Australian
When the ABC examines the topic of its bias, it attempts to reframe the debate to be more generally about media bias; this is nonsense. Only the ABC is required to be unbiased and show a multiplicity of views.
The ABC pretends to be representative of a variety of views but uses fake morality to censor views with which it disagrees.
Barely a month ago, the ABC was keen to air Amnesty International’s latest report into the island of Nauru. But Aunty’s go-to-group and its latest report into another island, Cuba, was not mentioned when Castro died
The Left — Hoist on their own petard (again)
Random Note — Idle Thought #197,651 m– False News
The left wants to decide what is news. That is, real news as opposed to "false news" which is actually old news, (otherwise known as propaganda) and try and ban the proliferation and dissemination of this old, new news, false news. Two things on this. ... 1. Into...
Why is the left lauding Fidel? — American Thinker
So what did he and his revolution really accomplish? How different is Cuba of Castro from Cuba of Fulgencio Batista? Batista’s gang was replaced by the Castros and their gang. Batista secret service was replaced by Fidel’s thugs. Rich landowners were replaced by party apparatchiks.
The West’s Foes, Foreign & Domestic — Kevin Donnelly, Quadrant
Instead of acknowledging the strengths and benefits of a heritage dating back to ancient Greece and Rome, the Left rails against a culture it denigrates as eurocentric, misogynist, imperialistic, racist and rapaciously self-serving. Is it any wonder common cause has been made with Islam? “(the Left’s) carping negativity continues to thrive. Using neo-Marxist categories of exploitation and oppression to find ‘victims’ of their own country’s mendacity, as a device to whip it – so Australia becomes racist, cruel to refugees, misogynist, homophobic and increasingly riven by inequality. The tropes endure, with Islam the current exploited and oppressed repository of virtue.” And the school curriculum is also being subverted by the cultural-left.