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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsRandom Note — The Lucky Country is running out of luck
In his book The Lucky Country, Donald Horne wrote that: ‘...Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and although it’s ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack...
Random Note — The Great Leveller
The woke, corporate, Lear Jet elites and the Davos darlings like the newly arrived, preening and strutting parvenu, Michael Cannon-Brookes of Atlassian and others, delight in lecturing the rest of us from the rarefied atmosphere of their HQ boardroom about how we...
Random Note — The Treason Trials, The Lima Agreement and The Coronavirus
The Lima Agreement was from time to time, a radio talk-back topic on more nights than I care to remember. Everyone knew that we had been sold out and we knew by whom but had no idea what to do about it. The Coronavirus has taken care of that. It was the Whitlam...
The statement “We had to destroy the village to save it” is looking and feeling rather familiar
The necessity for world leaders to deliberately collapse the world economy combined with all the associated chaos, dysfunction and damage in order to stop the spread of the Coronavirus, reminds me of the statement made famous by a US Army officer to Associated Press...
Random Note — Our Soft Underbelly (and everything else) Exposed
Our financial advisers and planners always suggest that we diversify our portfolio. This same expert and political class combined with unaccountable bodies like FIRB have done the exact opposite.
Random Note — Fake News
What you see depends on where you stand — CS Lewis
Random Note — Never Let A Serious Crisis Go To Waste
Never let a serious crisis go to waste
Random Note — Trotsky
“..You may not be interested in politics but politics is interested in you..”
Random Note — The Chinese Wuhan Virus
This diabolical problem was caused by the Chinese communist regime just as Chernobyl was caused by the Russian Communist regime and the cover-up in both instances was from the exact same playbook. They own it.
Random Note — The Coronavirus Crisis and Oil and Fuel Supplies
If you don’t have access to it when you need it there is absolutely nothing remotely strategic about the strategic oil reserves it all.