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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsBernie Sanders Gets It — Donald Trump Won Because People Are Tired of Political Correctness — Reason.com
Sanders was explicit: Trump’s criticisms of political correctness spoke to the American people’s legitimate fury toward a political class and media regime that is overly-scripted and beholden to the powerful.
Warren Mundine Gets It — This isn’t racist, Islamophobia or cruel. It’s commonsense — The Daily Telegraph
Warren Mundine — “..Donald Trump’s victory demonstrates the media and commentariat are disconnected from voters. Almost without exception they failed to anticipate the presidential election outcome — and had little influence on it. Their message that Trump was unfit for presidency largely ignored. Australia’s political media and commentariat are also out of touch. Listening to them you’d think Australians are preoccupied with gay marriage, offshore detention, carbon emissions and identity politics. Most are preoccupied with their families, their homes, their jobs, the monthly bills and their kids’ education and job prospects..”
Australians have far too much in common to divide over a treaty — Gary Johns, The Australian
Australians will be going back to the polls in the next 18 months or so, perhaps, maybe, possibly to vote on the Recognition referendum and if some activists get their way, a treaty. Just how a treaty works out of a war time situation or with educated, some highly, city based Aboriginals who have had much of the same opportunity as everyone else, no one has really explained.
Checkout this timelapse video of the construction of Brisbane West Wellcamp Airport.
In a separate post the other day I asked the question as to why it takes government enterprise 10 years or more to build Badgerys Creek airport but only 19 months for private enterprise to build the 2.7 kilometre, 747 capable air strip, aprons and associated infrastructure at Wellcamp west of Toowoomba?
Study: Half of people “remember” events that never happened
The study experimented with implanting fake (but relatively harmless) memories, such as taking a childhood hot-air balloon ride, pulling a prank on a teacher, or causing trouble at a family wedding, into the minds of study participants. Researchers told them about the imaginary events as if they were real, and about 30 percent of participants appeared to “remember” it happening, even elaborating on how it occurred and describing details of what it was like.
Al Gore, Christmas Grinch
Random Note #195,732 — Fake News
What we’re witnessing with all the talk and chatter about Russia hacking the US election is the ultimate in fake news. Fake news talked up like a Goebbels’s lie until the momentum makes the fake, real.
BBC’s big white lie over the birth of polar bear in popular documentary Frozen Planet — Daily Telegraph
There’s nothing new under the sun. There’s been a lot said and written about “fake news” in recent weeks since the US election, but of course it is not a new phenomenon. Fake news has been around forever and is simply repackaged and rebranded what has always been known as propaganda. Climate change and environmentalism more broadly have mastered the art but not so much to avoid the acute observer.
“…At no point are viewers told they were filmed last Christmas in a den underneath a zoo’s polar bear enclosure. The den was fitted with cameras shortly before the birth of the cubs. Only viewers who visited the Frozen Planet website and found a video by the producer Kathryn Jeffs would have found the truth…”
Mark Day: media got it wrong on Turnbull — Andrew Bolt — Herald Sun
"..The day Malcolm Turnbull snatched the leadership from Tony Abbott I wondered how on earth the media could take his boasted talents seriously: Mark Day: media got it wrong on Turnbull
Another Climate Alarmist Admits Real Motive Behind Warming Scare — Investor’s Business Daily
Whoops…Didn’t mean to let this very smelly cat out of the bag. “….So what is the goal of environmental policy? “We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy…” said Edenhofer