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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsTrump’s Shit Hole comments, long overdue….But not enough — American Thinker
The list of countries inheriting bountiful resources, both natural, and human capital along with effective governance models is led by Venezuela and Zimbabwe. Frittering it away is a post-colonial art form, actually a pernicious disease infecting most of sub-Sahara Africa and Central and South America. Nations freed from “colonial European white oppression” – despite being given all the tools to develop economic independence; political stability; sustainable resource development; enlightened parliamentary democratic governance; and efficient and useful bureaucracies to perpetuate safe, secure, industrious, self-sufficient lifestyles with access to clean water, hospitals, and education, not to mention a literate and educated electorate – couldn’t find failure fast enough.
Random Note — Shithole countries
It’s a beautiful thing to watch the feral fulmination of the media over Donald Trump’s comments when he correctly described dysfunctional, corrupt and failed states as “shit hole countries.“
Random Note — Scare campaigns
If Labor intends to continue with an expanded version of their Mediscare campaign, road tested with robocalls at the last election, into other areas of social policy, perhaps the coalition should commit to and take ownership of a similar scare campaign.
Random Note — International Carbon Trading
First, create a villain, (co2) and then develop a scheme to commoditise and monetise the villain on the high minded, moral pretext that you are saving the planet. The comparison with the tulip trade is closer to the mark than we may think because the Dutch described tulip contract trading as “windhandel” (literally “wind trade”), because no bulbs actually changed hands and was simply trading in thin air. Sound familiar? It is exactly the same with the carbon trade. Nothing changes hands, it is another smoke and mirrors boondoggle which in this case, literally, trades in thin air or thin co2.
African youth violence the outcome of failed diversity policies — Jennifer Oriel, The Australian
The seething, dark underbelly of Multiculturalism is being further exposed as just another taxpayer funded politically correct boondoggle. Another exercise in pc virtue signalling.
“..It takes a long time for ideologues to concede error. One would have thought a mob of African males invading a home and punching a woman in the face might make multiculturalists repent. Perhaps a mob of African males attacking teens on the street might stir Melbourne’s green-left to unmitigated sympathy — for the victims. Rather than stopping gangs punching women, police and children, PC elites are busy discussing terminology. They’re concerned about the term “gang”. Apparently it’s causing the yoof to invade homes, beat up women and children. We are advised to use the term “networked offending”. The PC elites can’t concede their multicultural program is a failed social experiment because it means defunding a big state industry..”
The Cancer of Gesture Politics, Chris Kenny— The Weekend Australian
What Kenny points to is the trend by the political class and the Lear Jet elites to virtue signal. That is, being seen to be high minded and doing good deeds when in fact doing little or nothing or even bad and in many instances, creating a problem where none existed or making a bad situation worse. (think energy reliability, availability and affordability) and all at great expense to the taxpayer. Education and addressing aboriginal disadvantage are two more areas of public policy exploited by gestures.
A lot of talk, a lot of gesturing a lot of workshopping and consulting, a lot of expense but no results. The results of their whims and gestures are unimportant. The outcomes simply don’t matter as it is about being seen to gesture and about displaying deference and servility. It is what has come to be known as “gesture politics.” It’s about saying or doing or projecting the image that “I’m a good person” and if you don’t agree you are by definition a bad person.
Cut and Paste — A Wolff in wolf’s clothing: Trump tell-all book cannot be trusted
A bucket of cold water for the never Trumpsters and the media ululating and in rapturous orgasm over the Michael Wolff book, Fire and Fury on the Trump White House. This is seriously Fake News
From Fridays Cut & Paste in the Oz.
Random Note — The Liberal Leadership –This is our country they’re messing with
The lack of judgement of the party room and it’s failure or it’s inability or just plain stupidity and determination to admit the problem, to read the room as it were as well as the social and political cues, is about to take the nation (and the Liberal Party) over the cliff. It’s time the leader of the Liberal Party was taken out of the hands of the party room and elected by party members, as it’s quite apparent that the radar of judgement of those in the hermetically sealed party room bubble is awry and spinning wildly out of whack with middle Australia.
Barack Obama to become Donald Trump’s agitator-in-chief? — Melanie Phillips
I originally posted this in January 2017 and reading it once more against the backdrop of the unhinged intolerant behaviour of the campus radicals and the likes of Antifa and Black Lives Matter in the US over the last 12 months it is even more cogent with greater currency and coherence. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve mentioned Obama and Hillary in the same sentence as Saul Alinsky. In fact HRC wrote her final year thesis at Wellesley College on Alinsky and was the only one afforded the opportunity to read the manuscript of Rules for Radicals before it was published.
In a letter to The Boston Globe in 2008, his son, L David Alinsky, said that every element of his father’s teaching had been present at that year’s Democratic convention: ” … the crowd’s chanting of key phrases and names, the action on the spot of texting and phoning to show instant support and commitment to jump into the political battle, the rallying selections of music, the setting of the agenda by the power people”. Two months later an Alinskyite radical, Barack Obama, was elected president of the United States..”
Exposed — The anatomy of a fake tweet aimed at Fox — American Thinker
It’s like the “Big Lie” – the propaganda technique made infamous by Nazis Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels in World War II – on steroids, thanks to the advances in technology and communications. One of these insidious Big Lies has landed in my Twitter notifications scores of times in recent months. Because it alleges that it is the result of a court case, it has a patina of credibility. It took me about 30 seconds to locate an analysis of this Twitter claim by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Politifact’s Punditfact. The fake Twitter meme about Fox News began in 2014 initially on Facebook, and Punditfact thoroughly investigated it later in 2014 and labeled it “false.”