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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsAn Aussie Moonscape, with fences, Greg Bearup — The Australian
This is as shocking as it is unnecessary. Not just the intensity of the drought, we’ve had them before, but because for as far back as I can remember, plans like the pre WW2, Bradfield scheme from 1938 for North Qld and in NSW, the 1980’s Beale plan for the mid north coast. But as we have come expect the inertia of an indolent, gormless, plodding political class, Liberal and Labor, state and federal has seen both plans come to nothing and rural and regional Australia come to this.
Random Note — Reflections on The Holocaust Museum, Jerusalem
After visiting the Holocaust Museum just outside Jerusalem last week, as part of a 12 day sojourn, there’s an iconic image that is haunting and seared into my brain. I stood looking at it for a while and eventually moved on but I felt the need to revisit it and so...
Random Note — Words and Mueller
It’s a classic case of the maxim of Lavrentie Beria, Stalin’s head of secret police, ‘show me the man and I’ll show you the crime’. That is, give me a name and I’ll fit him up with a crime regardless.
Saturdays Election — Referendum on Nuclear Power
If Saturday’s election was a referendum on climate change and everything that hangs off that, like renewables and the cost of energy, then the corollary is that it was also a referendum on nuclear power.
Random Note — Mark Levin goes feral as he cuts loose on Robert Mueller
Time was when the traditional newspapers, radio and television (the MSM) were the gatekeepers of information. If they didn’t publish or broadcast it, it didn’t happen. It was, literally, a non-event. But then along came cable television, the internet, bloggers, streaming and podcasts and the MSM are suddenly no longer the gatekeepers they once were.
Random Note — Trump, Mueller, collusion and obstruction.
To quote one tweet from August 2016 on the public record between two of the partisan players from the FBI: “..The White House is running this..”
Random Note — The Climate Hoax
The DEBATE on climate Change is a hoax on a number of levels. The word debate is in caps for a good reason. 1...It’s a hoax in the sense that the idea of climate change as it has been and continues to be, debated, propagandised and promoted as a recent phenomenon is a...
Random Note – Hadley, 7:30 and the saga of locker room radio
Watching the moving piece about the residual scars, mental harm, and quite obvious associated PTSD caused to Andrew Moore, Chris Bowen, Jesse Perez and others on 7.30 at the hands of Ray Hadley with his workplace, Vesuvian like eruptions, bullying, intimidation and...
Random Note — Richard Di Natale and The Greens — ‘Never let A Serious Crisis Go To Waste’
Di Natale unplugged, in a stream of vile and vomitous consciousness and hatred, predictably practised the art of Freudian and Jungian projection
The problems with conservatives
You have to give credit where credits due. The left including Labor, GetUp, the unions and of course their media wing, the ABC and Fairfax, (9) and The Guardian play a brilliant ground game. They’ve got the strategy and tactics and the manpower on the street. They are...