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Random Notes - Idle Thoughts
Random Note — Black Lives Matter (some perspective)
There were ninety two people shot, and twelve people murdered in Chicago just last weekend. Where’s their protest march or don’t they matter?
Random Notes — The poisoning of the mind
After watching the events of the last week unravel in the United States and with the understanding that the behaviour and attitudes of national self loathing aren’t just shaped, forged and fashioned in a vacuum but are derived from decades of tenured 1960’s radicals...
China ties: History shows trade can lead to servitude — Henry Ergas, The Australian
The comparisons between Germany in the 1930’s and China’s Belt and Road and the associated, pimp like dependency and debt trap diplomacy waged against smaller states in 2020, as outlined by Henry Ergas are chilling. It’s almost as if China has lifted the set piece...
Random Note —- Communist China
The party can never be criticised, humiliated, embarrassed or held up for incompetence. The Party can never be wrong. And even when it is, it isn’t
Sunday Morning Mental Floss — The Forgotten People
Sunday Morning Mental Floss — The Forgotten People The problem with the Sir Robert Menzies, 1942 “Forgotten People” speech reference, when viewed through the rear vision mirror of 2020, is that we’ve over-corrected to the extent that no one is forgotten at all any...
How Russiagate Began With Obama’s Iran Deal — Who is Michael Flynn and why is he important? — Lee Smith
Trump wasn’t a cause of Spy Gate as it’s become known, he was a casualty of it. Flynn was Obama’s Director of the Defence Intelligence Agency and was appointed to that job in 2012. His demise however stemmed from the taking out of Osama Bin Laden the previous year in 2011.
Random Note — China’s War Room
We can only guess that other states aren’t already in play as part of China’s long term plans on a giant world war two strategy table, being moved around with croupiers rakes and war-gamed from their fluorescent festooned, subterranean and bomb-proof Belt and Road war room.
Random Note — Anzac Day 2020
This ANZAC art reminds me of the metaphor, ‘Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants’, the 12th century expression made popular by Isaac Newton a few centuries later.
Random Note — Political Autobiographies (sorry, strike that) Political Hagiographies
In reality they are just attempts by otherwise unimpressive, second rate political mediocrities to recast their political careers as falling somewhere between Menzies and Churchill.
Random Note — They are all laughing at us
Australia is the worlds largest EXPORTER of liquid natural gas with the largest reserves, and we are about to expand the storage for IMPORTED liquid natural gas to supply NSW and Victoria.