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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsRandom 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.
The Left — Matt Walsh
The left. A great description by Matt Walsh -- “..Arguing with the left is like trying to win a wrestling match against a very large slug. The difficulty is not that your opponent is strong and vigorous but that he’s slippery and slimey and difficult to get a grip on....
China V Taiwan
Check out this comparison vis a vis China and Taiwan. It should chill to the bone and unless Taiwan has a secret weapon any conflict could be over in 24 hours or less. Are we paying attention yet?
Random Note — “If you’re going to take Vienna, take Vienna”.
“If you’re going to take Vienna, take Vienna”.