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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsRandom Note — Terror-Porn
With the live streaming on Facebook from the terrorists own body mounted GoPro and then via YouTube, we are in need of a new set of words to describe such a grotesque, malicious, satanic and obscene phenomenon. I’m not sure what they are, but for now at least, “terror-porn” will have to suffice.
Random Note — Not the BOM but there are similarities
It’s an admission that they have “simplified a real process that they don’t fully understand in the first place” and accept no responsibility.
Culture of Denial — Louis Nowra, The Australian, 2007 (For the education, edification and illumination of Yumi Stynes)
What disturbed me even more was that the most common sight in the hospital was Aboriginal women and girls with severe injuries suffered during domestic violence. Some of their faces looked as though an incompetent butcher had conducted plastic surgery with a hammer and saw. The fear in their eyes reminded me of dogs whipped into cringing submission.
Random Note — ALP resists policies that may help end the poverty cycle (The Cashless Welfare Card) — Jennifer Oriel, The Australian
In their cosseted and cloistered academic, inner city bubble, where principle overrides people, its a case of out of sight, out of mind. For their own base political purposes they are determined to keep their mendicant, drug and alcohol addicted, welfare recipient, Labor/Green voting, client base down, sedated and on the hook.
Random Note — We have an NBN but whats required now is an NWN
With the NWN there will no need for the rough, back of the envelope draft either as the planning was done decades ago by Jack Beale and John Bradfield and sits in the bottom draw. Australia doesn’t lack water, it lacks will.
Random Note — Tony Abbott and Alice Thompson’s scrambled stream of consciousness
Take a look around Alice Thompson — Where you don’t have competing ideas in the market place of democracy you end up as Venezuela. Or North Korea.
America: The New Socialist Frontier — The Hill (Where goes America, goes the rest of the West)
From the Democrats’ perspective, President Donald J. Trump is a disrupter of what had been a smooth transition to the bright socialist future. In a concerted effort to denigrate the President and paralyse executive authority, they are branding him a racist and blatantly subvert every program on his agenda.
The Madness of Crowds and What Lies Ahead, Jim Daws — American Thinker
In his 1841 book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Scottish journalist Charles Mackay chronicled the history of the phenomena we now see gripping the Resistance movement to the Trump presidency. Writing on national delusions, moral panics, economic bubbles, and herd behaviour, Mackay observed, “We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.”
Free market capitalism at risk as discontent is exploited — Maurice Newman, The Australian
For decades government, trade unions, and crony capitalists have actively colluded to create an effective mutually reinforcing cartel resulting in economic power being concentrated in fewer hands. To outsiders, democracy no longer means government of the people and by the people but is seen as a means of the self-aggrandisement and advancement of elites.
Random Note — Richo and the generously superannuated and over indulged political class elites
The best (or worst) optics and example of the problem came just last weekend when, with the United States in government shut down and 800,000 workers going unpaid, the Democrats took themselves off to Puerto Rico in the Bahamas flying in a private jet (consider the co2 emissions) for a weekend junket of poolside partying at the expense of lobbiests for Amazon and Google et al.