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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsRandom Note — Ca$hing in on climate
In a case of “show me the money,” if you were ever in any doubt that climate is not about the cash, and lots of it, this should totally disabuse you of that notion. Note how the delegations of Guinea and Congo are in inverse proportion to their respective populations.
read moreRandom Note — Klimate Kidz On Strike
One hundred years on, you are being used as Vladimir Lenin’s useful idiots. And from the 1960’s, Mao Tse Tungs Red Guards. As the nineteenth century scientist Thomas Huxley once observed: scepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
read moreRandom Note — co2 and perspective
When the kids get back to school after their big day out, goofing off and on strike on Friday, as an exercise in perspective and so they can get their heads around what they were on strike over with regards to anthropogenic Co2 and Australia’s contribution, try...
read moreThe PNG Gravy Train — Spectator
As PNG is our nearest neighbour (in fact only five kilometres from the most northern part of Australia, Boigu Island) this does raise some very serious and interesting questions and it’s difficult not to conclude that PNG is simply Zimbabwe and South Africa with all the same, attendant economic and social problems and dysfunction right on our own doorstep in the South West Pacific, yet it NEVER makes the news.
“…It’s easy to understand why these failed states like PNG and others in the SW Pacific would find the lure of debt trap diplomacy offered by China so attractive.Foisting a Westminster-style system onto a subsistence economy where the four million people spoke over seven hundred languages was never going to work well. The population is now eight million and still increasing and it is hard to see how things can improve without a bit more honesty from political leaders within and without the country…”
read moreRandom Note — Weasel word of the year
In this age of offence taking for the most innocent social infraction, inappropriate, has become the Swiss Army Knife, the Wily Coyote, all purpose, ACME catch all, accusatory, linguistic tool of our time to be deployed on all and any occasion whether it’s fit for purpose or not and you can’t think of anything else
read moreRandom Note — Latham and Hanson — In politics as in life, it is all about the timing.
Latham hasn’t changed, Labor has. It’s quite apparent that Latham is the one that has remained true to Labor values and the neophytes and parvenus like Chris Bowen et al with their trendy inner city values are now the the LINOs. (Labor In Name Only)
read moreRandom Note — Turnbull’s demise. A primer for the slow learners
Just a reminder for the slow learners at the back of the class as to why Turnbull is no longer PM. For starters, in a ongoing display of his appalling lack of political judgement, his inability to read the room and in an act of dopey, MALadroit and ham-fisted political self harm, Turnbull called the initial spill himself.
read moreArmistice Day — Pozie by Sara Storer and John Williamson
Today is the 11 of the 11th, Armistice Day. This is the song that I think best captures the essence, the mood and the spirit of an often forgotten element of war.— The aftermath of all wars in fact for those on the front line and that lives for decades after the guns...
read moreRandom Note — The truth is….
The corollary of destroying or reworking the basic and fundamental concept of truth is of course that without such a thing as truth, there can be no such thing as a lie. And that is exactly what this is all about.
read moreTaken For Granted, Phillipa Martyr — Quadrant Online
A rather longish essay on academic research grants (or boondoggles). You may want to scroll down a bit and go straight to the meat and potatoes to see how you tax dollars are being sprayed around on the obscure
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