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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...
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking — Tuesday Dec 5
Greg Sheridan’s article about Donald Trump accepting a phone call from the President of Taiwan was very interesting (“The right call on Taiwan trumps Obama”, 5/12). Trump’s decision to accept the call may be his way of sending a message to the Chinese and...
Random 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…”