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Wind Turbines — Dr Mariana Alves Periera with Alan Jones

Dr Mariana Alves Periera is not new to this. She’s been researching wind turbines for 30 years, long before they became a political issue as part of the alternative energy debate. Warmsters and climate catastrophists ought to sit down, shut up and listen. You might actually learn something because on this issue the science really is settled. Dr Mariana Alves Periera talks with Alan Jones.

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Don’t undermine the West, celebrate it: Kevin Donnelly, Daily Telegraph

During the ’60s students on American campuses chanted “Hey-hey, ho-ho, Western Civ has got to go!’’ Many of the cultural left, instead of defending the very culture that ensures their freedom, argue the West is inherently destructive, inequitable and unjust. Marxists argue capitalism is based on greed; ecowarriors that our lifestyle is destroying the environment; and feminists that society is misogynist and patriarchal.

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You Say You Want a Reformation — Merve Bendle, Quadrant

Islam remains constitutionally unable to embrace the open society that the West enjoys. Instead Islamists and other devotees of ultra-reactionary Saudi-backed Salafi fundamentalism are vigorously seeking to reassert this medieval theological irrationalism throughout the Muslim world. They are never going to yield to calls for reform. Nor is there any likelihood that the backward-looking Muslim diaspora exploiting the welfare states of the West will rise to the challenge, contest this obscurantism, and modernize Islam, perhaps transforming it into something akin to liberal Christianity by capitulating abjectly to secular consumerism, political correctness, Green-Left ideology, and becoming a Uniting Church of Islam.

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