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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsPyne’s Fatuous Spin On Leaks — The Australian Editorial
China, Russia and other interested parties might not be convinced by Mr Pyne’s snap judgment that the leak, revealed exclusively by Cameron Stewart yesterday, had “no bearing on the Australian government’s future submarine program’’. Should they manage to obtain the documents, other nations will scrutinise them bolt by bolt.
The leak should be a wake-up call for France, Australia and especially the US, which will decide whether it will allow Australia to install its state-of-the-art combat technology in our subs.
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
Congratulations to Paul Kelly for his incisive column (“Plebiscite politics turn dangerous”, 24/8). The homosexual lobby has used the argument that a plebiscite would be hurtful because it would unleash homophobic and bigoted comments from opponents of same-sex...
The Speech — Ronald Reagan, 1964 (two minute highlight)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpVvgNs8tqI This is a two and a half minute highlight from the last 5 minutes of the Ronald Reagan 1964 speech focussing on the fragile atmosphere of the cold war standoff. It is truly powerful stuff
The Speech, A Time For Choosing — National Review
This speech given by Ronald Reagan in September 1964 on behalf of Barry Goldwater in his campaign against Lyndon Johnson who took over from JFK less than 12 months before is regarded in the annals of American political history as "The Speech". In this Australian...
Random Note #196,278 — George Soros and GetUp
It's good to see in recent days and weeks in The Australian and now The Jerusalem Post, the microscope zooming in on the nefarious activities of billionaire George Soros. Discussion about Soros used to be confined to the areas of late night talk radio and the...
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking (a mixed bag)
As one who opposed Gough Whitlam’s 1975 Racial Discrimination Act, I see my fears come true, as Nick Cater indicates in his analysis of this legislative nightmare (“Grievance industry sees bigots everywhere it looks”, 23/8). An immigrant in my early teens, I had...
Our World: Soros’s campaign of global chaos
“…George Soros is evil. Evil and sinister in a Goldfinger, Ernst Blofeld, arch villain kind of way, seeking global control, chaos, subversion and the destruction of nation states for no other reason than because he’s got the money and because he can. Next time you hear or read about or meet someone from GetUp, remember it is the anarchic barrow of George Soros they are pushing. GetUp is one of hundreds of groups funded by and set in train by Soros himself….”
The Oh-So-Easy Habit of Taking Offence — Anthony Dillon — Quadrant
Here’s the test put forward by Anthony Dillon, himself an aboriginal and a commentator and researcher on aboriginal affairs.
FBI uncovers 14,900 more documents in Clinton email probe — Washington Post
“….The FBI’s year-long investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server uncovered 14,900 emails and documents from her time as secretary of state that had not been disclosed by her attorneys, and a federal judge on Monday pressed the State Department to begin...
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
One of the emerging explanations for Australia’s disappointments at Rio is that Kitty Chiller, our chef de mission, isn’t a very good cook. Oleh Butchatsky, Castlecrag, NSW Athletes retire and new ones appear, but some administrators have been around since I was young...