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Follow The Money
One final thing on Dastyari. The entire episode could be encapsulated in the quote from Deep-throat hiding in the shadows in the underground carpark as featured in the movie about Watergate, All The Presidents Men. "Follow the Money"
Random Note #187,642 — Dastyari relationship problem solved
Like many people and political junkies, I have been wracking my brain over the last week trying to understand and get my head around the type of relaxed and comfortable relationship Sam Dastyari must have had with his Chinese patrons that he could just flick pass his...
Again the wisdom of Richo reverberates and speaks. This time re Sam Sock Puppet, “..Sooner or later the mob work you out..”
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking If one reads certain repetitive evidence given under oath to the trade union royal commission, Sam Dastyari had the perfect reason for believing he had a right to send an account to someone he correctly believed would pay for a...
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking (part 2)
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking (part 2) Chinese are reportedly unhappy giving money to politicians and not getting the outcomes they want. They shouldn’t take it personally. We Australian taxpayers also pay politicians huge sums and we don’t get the outcomes...
AND Don’t Say You Guys. Sound Familiar? Campuses Cautiously Train Freshmen Against Subtle Insults — New York Times
Don’t ask an Asian student you don’t know for help on your math homework or randomly ask a black student if he plays basketball. Both questions make assumptions based on stereotypes. And don’t say “you guys.”
Life Is Lived Forward And Learnt Backwards — Dead To History — Quadrant
We must be careful to not project modern ideas, which simply did not exist at the time, onto history. The speed of human progress has led to an extraordinarily rapid change in cultural understandings, political values and scientific theories.
Safe Schools Are Not New — Kevin Jennings’ twisted terminology — Troy Silva — American Thinker
Jennings boasted in a 1995 speech entitled “Winning the Culture War” that he “tilted” the 1990 Massachusetts report with use of the term “safe” in order to put opponents of pro-homosexual curriculum in that state “on the defensive”. His national template, used over and over in hundreds of districts and thousands of schools across the country, is to fabricate an epidemic of bullying and violence to homosexuals in schools, in part by citing bogus census or other statistics where classes of people are conflated to come-up with artificially high numbers of incidents of sexual-orientation-based “bullying”, “harassment” or violence.
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking Sam Dastyari and Bill Shorten ignore the basic truth. It’s not the dollar amount that is the essence of the matter. It is that he made, as a federal shadow minister, a statement which unconditionally supported China in its...
Sex Varies Like The Weather — The Australian
Hey kids, What did you ;learn at school today?
We’re not in Kansas anymore Toto..(meanwhile Australia continues to slide on the international scale in the basics)