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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsThe Arrogant and Inviolate ABC — Geoffrey Luck, Quadrant Online
Ethics and its constraints are rarely front and centre in deliberations within the ABC. Reporters blatantly obscure the truth, distort by selection or emphasis, and add their own commentary, often with a sneer. Prestigious current affairs programmes devoted principally to sensationalism defame individuals and industries on the basis of old film or material supplied by outside partisan groups and presented out of context. Australia has reached the stage where news from its national broadcaster is no longer trustworthy. It is now thirty-seven years since the Dix Report on the ABC. It’s time for another root-and-branch investigation of this billion-dollar elephant before it goes further out of control and does more damage to the villagers who own it and the unvarnished, un-slanted truth they pay for and are entitled to hear
The Democrats’ Defence of the Indefensible — American Thinker
The most confounding aspect of the response to “the memo” is the Left’s hysteria over its release to the public. For days their adherents have been ranting and raving about the “national security” dangers, the damage it will do to “the investigation.” Now that we have read the memo, it is clear there are no national security issues. That was a lie, a feint. The Democrats know very well that the swells at the FBI, DOJ, DNC, NSA, State, and the Clinton campaign contrived to sabotage the Trump candidacy and after the election to submarine his presidency.
A Brief History of the Fake News Media — American Thinker
Eventually, I realized that the Western media were even more insidious than the Soviet controlled news outfits. Many Russians knew that Pravda and Izvestia were propaganda arms of the Politburo and discounted their stories as rubbish; many Westerners, on the other hand, are readily deceived.
Hillary’s ‘Sure’ Victory Explains Most Everything
Talk about conspiracy — And to think that they nearly pulled it off.
So cock sure were they of a Hillary win which would have seen the myriad crimes and misdemeanours quietly laid to rest as if they had never happened. That is why, 12 months on its become a knockdown drag out battle for survival. Forget about Democrat credability, that’s long since shredded. An interesting read from Victor Davis Hanson that draws all the threads together.
This is a reality check of staggering stats and facts from Cory Bernardis’s column in the Weekend Australian — Debt addiction taking its toll —
Today marks the 10th anniversary of Kevin Rudd’s infamous $42 billion stimulus package. It was a dark day in Australia’s history when the economic surplus that the Howard government had prudently built up over 11 years was scandalously frittered away.
Random Note — The Memo
So it seems transparency and the disinfectant of sunlight is ok as long as it’s only exposing the other side. With a motto like “Democracy Dies In The Darkness” its ironic that the Washington Post been running dead on this for no other reason that to keep its readers in the dark. On the release of The Memo, Kimberly Strassell of the Wall Street Journal remarked:
“..I’ve been in journalism all my life and I have never, ever seen the press corps fight so hard against transparency..”
Random Note — Australia Day demonstrations.
It seems to many that there’s a culture of self indulgent navel gazing and victimhood at work in all of this while many, much more recent arrivals from a multiplicity of backgrounds and cultures, barely able to speak English in many cases, just get on with it and avail themselves of the same free health care, education and opportunity that’s equally available to aboriginal Australians.
Some perspective and context on “shit hole countries” — What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa: Trump Is Right — American Thinker
Three weeks after college, I flew to Senegal, West Africa, to run a community center in a rural town. Life was placid, with no danger, except to your health. That danger was considerable, because it was, in the words of the Peace Corps doctor, “a fecalized environment. In plain English: s— is everywhere. People defecate on the open ground, and the feces is blown with the dust – onto you, your clothes, your food, the water. He warned us the first day of training: do not even touch water. Human feces carries parasites that bore through your skin and cause organ failure. Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that a few decades later, liberals would be pushing the lie that Western civilization is no better than a third-world country. Or would teach two generations of our kids that loving your own culture and wanting to preserve it are racism.
Shallow Reality in America — American Thinker
If there is a single problem with our lives today, it is the breathtaking shallowness of modern life. We seem infatuated with grade-school gossip and a breathless yearning for “stuff,” as if the latest gadgetry or a fatter bank account could make anything real in our lives better. We seem to believe in nothing but this gossip and these gadgets. This infantile fixation stretches across political party and ideology.
People will be doing serious jail time — The Obama Administrations ‘Brazen Plot to Exonerate Hillary Clinton’ starting to seep out
For political junkies this wont be anything new except that it pulls all the threads together into a rich tapestry of corruption. There’s no doubt that there’s been a major crime committed in the US, not by Trump, and that there has been major collusion, again not by Trump, but by the Clintons, the DNC and the FBI. It was never supposed to come out because it would all fade away and die when the Trump campaign foundered and Clinton won. But that’s not what happened of course which left the major players scrambling to cover up. Too late!!!