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Random Note — Are We There Yet? When is enough, enough?
No doubt the government is boxed in, in a damned if they do and damned if they don’t situation but we are getting to the point where the community is becoming mollycoddled, infantilised and confused.
Random Note — The Dark Arts of Economic Bullshit
We’ve seen it all and heard it all over several decades and given the expert and political class the benefit of the doubt that they knew what they were doing. They didn’t and at last they’ve been exposed as the dumb, unimpressive charlatans and snake-oil operators they are.
Random Notes, Mental floss and idle thoughts – What’s News?
It would be an interesting exercise in the middle of the Corona crisis if one media outlet carried nothing at all about the Coronavirus. Absolutely nothing. What would fill their bulletins? Other ‘normal’ news must be happening as it does on any given day, but with...
Random Note — The Coronavirus and the anti vaxers
Up until now these people have been regarded as odd. As Byron Bay type holdouts. Something of a curiosity and held up to all manner of public ridicule and derision as tin foil hat conspiracy whackos.
Random note — Society and cultural breakdown
It’s impossible not to agree with Greg Sheridan’s overall thesis, but much of the problem he identifies with Western society and culture stems from leadership in recent decades that time and again has proven itself to be both dishonest, incompetent and incurious....
Random 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.