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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsRandom Note — Life Under Labor
With the polls tightening and indicating a Labor victory and while the attention span drifts over the summer break ahead of the federal election in the first few months of next year, we need to project into 2022 and beyond under a Labor government and anticipate...
Random Note — The ABC and the definition of insanity
Not sure if it’s apocryphal but the often repeated Einstein definition of insanity in doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, is exactly what has been happening for decades with the ABC.
Random Note — Ita’s pretzel logic and circular reasoning
Apart from the sheer effrontery and unmitigated gall, it takes a special kind of chutzpah, pretzel logic and twisted, circular reasoning for Ita Buttrose to accuse the government of “political interference” over a simple call for accountability in establishing a...
Random Note — Conservatives are sleepy and have no idea
Almost a hundred years before Andrew Breitbart made his observation that “politics is downstream of culture”, Italian communist, Antonio Gramsci understood the significance of culture when he further developed the Karl Marx concept of cultural hegemony and the idea...
Random Note — Education
As well as rigour and greater parental involvement Tony Abbott should have included in his list a more critical focus on curriculum versus pedagogy. That is, what is taught versus how it’s taught. It’s a very fine distinction, understood by many to mean the same...
The tactics promoted by Obama in common with the Nazis– American Thinker
It’s only when you see these 7 bullet points set together, side by side, that you realise just how stark the similarities really are
Random Note — Xi
You don’t need to be Nostradamus to foresee the outcome depicted in Spooners cartoon. Xi is messing with the heads of the West playing three dimensional chess while they play checkers and is simply not going to play their game and commit to anything, if at all, until...
Random Note — tweaking and tampering democracy
The idea that we shouldn’t tamper, tweak or update the democratic or voting system or the constitution for that matter, because it was developed by some supposedly very wise men 120 years ago and is Jurassic park like, suspended in aspic or fossilised amber, is driven I suspect by emotion and sentiment more than anything else and it’s a hard habit to let go.
Random Note — The Compelled Speech And Thought Control Of The Transgender Tyrants
We are now in the very dangerous area where FREE speech has been supplanted by COMPELLED speech. And it’s not just compelled speech though, it’s compelled BELIEF because it’s not only compelling you what to think and therefore say and how to say it, but compelling you what to believe and to believe things you don’t believe and believe things that simply are not true.
Random Note — Net Zero, Nuclear and the Liberals
Nothing better underscores the politics and fear mongering of climate rather than the solutions of climate, than the resistance to nuclear energy. It’s the tell as to what it’s all about.