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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsRandom Note — Peter Van Onselen and the crazy five
Does Peter Van Onselen have to work at making seriously dumb observations or does it come naturally. Turnbull’s infamous five created the direct trail of breadcrumbs to the political, blind back alley, the Liberals find themselves this weekend. — By sun up on Sunday it is more likely than not they will have entered the strange, Gillard-esque world of minority government.
Random Note — The geopolitical Rubik’s Cube of the Middle East
When you cross the Muslim Brotherhood mafia mobsters with the Saudi mafia mobsters you get the worst of both worlds — A Hotel California situation, where “you can check out but you can never leave ”
Death of a dissident: Saudi Arabia and the rise of the mobster state John R Bradley — The Spectator
The fate of Khashoggi has at least provoked global outrage, but it’s for all the wrong reasons. We are told he was a liberal, Saudi progressive voice fighting for freedom and democracy, and a martyr who paid the ultimate price for telling the truth to power. This is not just wrong, but distracts us from understanding what the incident tells us about the internal power dynamics of a kingdom going through an unprecedented period of upheaval. It is also the story of how one man got entangled in a Saudi ruling family that operates like the Mafia. Once you join, it’s for life, and if you try to leave, you become disposable.
Suspicions confirmed — DataGate
The IPCC demands for cash rests on freak data, empty fields, Fahrenheit temps recorded as Celsius, mistakes in longitude and latitude, brutal adjustments and even spelling errors — There are cases of tropical islands recording a monthly average of zero degrees
Random Note — Climate –The greatest hoax, who pulled it off and how
The character central to the fraud was, one, Ben Santer of the Lawrence Livermore Nation Laboratory who singled handedly reversed the Climate science of the entire IPCC report by deleting key statements from the expert approved chapter 8 draft.
Those events never happened, Richard Guilliatt, Weekend Australian Magazine, September 2017
But Imhoff had a more practical reason to doubt his sister’s story: they had shared a bedroom until she was 10, and he had never observed anything untoward. The father she described — a manic figure who prowled the house and beat his sister “black and blue” — bore little resemblance to the sad, sedated figure he remembered from his late teens. His mother was similarly nonplussed, and told her daughter she had no recollection of these events. “I was there,” says Imhoff, “and I know that these allegations against my father could not have happened. But Cathy clearly believed these memories; her explanation for the fact that my mother and I had no recollection was that I was dissociating like her, and my mother’s emotions had been blunted by her war experiences.”mmon for siblings to either be unaware of the abuse of their sibling, not acknowledge it and/or be supportive of the abuser,”
Random Note – Talking Points — No More Mr White Guy — Anne Coulter
They’re incandescent with rage and can barely concealing their self loathing. For years they’ve kept it hidden under a cloak of seemingly mainstream respectability but they can no longer keep it bottled up and have at last stepped out of the closet.
Researcher Uncovers Christine Blasey Ford’s ‘Hidden’ 80’s-Era High School Social Life — The Tennessee Star
Although the many of the names and pages are heavily redacted, what emerges from them is a description of a social scene of faculty and parent approved racism and promiscuity with multiple photos and references to binge drinking and the accompanying joy of not being able to remember any of it.
With all the chaos at the ABC, it does beg the question
They constantly refer to themselves as “most trusted”. Given that we live in a post-truth, postmodern world, the word would seem to have been redefined
And why not — Seem like it’s open season in the swamp
And why not? Two can play this game after all and Trump can play harder than anyone. If they’re going to go back 36 years for Brett Kavanaugh why not 40 years (1978) for Clinton’s very well documented rape allegations and multiple other sexual assaults on other women....