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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsRandom Note — Rinehart v Netball.
Best expressed, in the case of basketball: “just shut up and dribble”, leave your selective and flexible principles in the locker-room. We’re not interested.
Random Note — Values
The man who compiled the English dictionary, Samuel Johnson once said that “patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel” perhaps that should be revised as “values are the last refuge of the corporation and bureaucracy”
Random Note — Diversity
Thinking more about the comments by the wannabe Pittwater MP Natasha McClaren Jones and others, both in the political and corporate orbit about diversity and what a “wonderfully diverse community” Pittwater is, it occurs to me that this is the language of the...
Jacinda Adern calls for global censorship
Gee, I’m old enough to recall like it was only earlier this week (because it was) that the left and their attack dogs of the media industrial complex, we’re spraying around words like fascist, authoritarian, totalitarian etc as they slandered, smeared, besmirched and...
Macron will think twice about insulting Italy from now on
Whoa, stand back. The woman is on fire. Watch as Italian Prime Minister Giorgio Meloni totally hoses, guts and fillets Emmanuel Macron and France. He won’t be putting his head up for a while….If ever again, for fear of getting it kicked. ...
International Media Conspiracy? All Singing from the same hymnal
Just in case you didn’t think there was an international media conspiracy ---- Just how extensive it is can be gleaned from the fact that each repetition takes only two or three seconds and the entire thing runs for over two minutes. Notice the identical talking...
Random Note — Labor and Nuclear
It strikes me that somewhere in the overall nuclear and energy debate, perhaps we should find room for an apology to the much derided Whitlam government minister for Minerals and Energy, Rex Connor.
Random Note — Energy
If the Liberals were smart, they would be all over nuclear because whichever party gets to nuclear first, as Labor did under Whitlam with healthcare, wins. Eventually. If not in 2025 then 2028.
But whichever, nuclear is the only available and practical off ramp either party has.
Random Note — Biden’s full on Nuremberg and Leni Riefenstahl moment
Biden’s “get off my lawn” primal scream and toys out of the cot, baby food from the high chair on to the floor tantrum, was not so much a speech as it was what psychologists call, an extinction burst.
Random 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.