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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsRandom Note — Labor and Nuclear
It strikes me that somewhere in the overall nuclear and energy debate, perhaps we should find room for an apology to the much derided Whitlam government minister for Minerals and Energy, Rex Connor.
Random Note — Energy
If the Liberals were smart, they would be all over nuclear because whichever party gets to nuclear first, as Labor did under Whitlam with healthcare, wins. Eventually. If not in 2025 then 2028.
But whichever, nuclear is the only available and practical off ramp either party has.
Random Note — Biden’s full on Nuremberg and Leni Riefenstahl moment
Biden’s “get off my lawn” primal scream and toys out of the cot, baby food from the high chair on to the floor tantrum, was not so much a speech as it was what psychologists call, an extinction burst.
Random Note — Opinion polls and fact checks
Opinion polls and polling are to opinions and intentions what fact checkers are to facts. They are both political tools and instruments designed to subtly nudge and frame thinking, forge and drive overarching narratives and boost confidence or demoralise and discourage, depending on whose polling for whom.
Wokism defined
Definition:— “…Wokism is an ideology that says all inequality, past present and future is defined only by oppression and not by other extraneous factors like incompetence, indolence, stupidity or simply bad choices. You have more money than I do, it’s...
Random Note — Nuclear What thinking Australians Are Thinking
Random Note — Nuclear What thinking Australians Are Thinking:— Like many once revered organisations the CSIRO has been undermined by activists. It started with the homogenisation of historical temperature records going back a hundred years. Temperature...
Random Note — The Voice
If Australia is going to go down the path of honesty, truth telling, treaties and transparency with respect of the indigenous voice to parliament, it’s not a good look and first step to suggest we should buy into the concept without knowing the detail and exactly...
Nuclear is the cheaper option
A Nuclear power station is expensive to established but amortised over its expected lifetime of 60 years or so, which is more than 3 times that of wind or solar installations, it is by far the cheaper option. From the International Energy Agency 2020 report, no less....
“I told you so”. Macarthur called it 70 years ago — American Thinker
How prescient was General Douglas MacArthur 70 years ago? He foresaw all of this but as usual, the experts knew best and so here we are. “…In his memoirs, MacArthur called the Truman administration's decision to withhold aid from the Nationalists in China...
Postmodernism: Understanding the roots of Woke — American Thinker .
While all this woke nonsense and linguistic gibberish may make it sound like the people uttering these ridiculous words had a stroke, rest assured, these words are being used not by accident, or not just to be sensitive to the “feelings” of others, but to, quite literally, erase reality itself. It is Marxism dressed up as “free thinking.