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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsBarack 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.”
The Boat People of Bethlehem — Quadrant
Not to put too finer point on it if you want to join the dots and understand and grasp the central problem with our immigration system and unbridled multiculturalism, just remember one single word that will focus your mind and get your attention — Bollards
“..Is it part of a duplicitous plan to undo our civilisation and culture? Christianity being used to destroy Christendom. Personally, as an Anglican, I find it difficult to accept the free-thinking that now appears to characterise the utterances of Archbishops of Canterbury. Let’s be clear. Some people whose values have messed up their own villages want to live in our prosperous and harmonious villages. They want to bring with them the same values responsible for creating the mess from which they are attempting to escape. They want to impose those values on us…”
Progressivism As A Mental Illness — American Thinker
Dr. Rossiter’s studies may be condensed to the proposition that modern, progressivism is a form of mental illness, characterized by the failure of such individuals to grow up emotionally and thus remain in a perpetual infantile state. Their behaviour is that of “Spoiled Brats.”
Lorde (part 2) Despite rumours to the contrary, not so much informed as clueless and uninformed
The moral preening, grandstanding and intellectual pretentiousness of being widely read and informed continues. “I pride myself on being an informed young citizen,” she said.
Cut and Paste in today’s Australian takes up the story —-
Beware China’s Grand Strategy, Jason Thomas — The Australian
Yesterday I suggested that there’s no need for any kind of air, sea or land invasion when our very own political class are happy to sell our heritage out from underneath us with absolutely no idea as to the long game being played by China. “..China’s investment in a range of strategically located foreign ports (think Darwin) around the world is more than smart supply-chain management. These investments create enormous leverage for China in the domestic and foreign policy interests of the countries that sold these ports to China. The effect of this positioning can be subtly played out in votes at the UN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum, the World Trade Organisation and a range of other multilateral bodies. When former US president Barack Obama failed to enforce his “red line” against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons against civilians, this sent the message to other nations that they could expand regional hegemonic claims without repercussions..”
A remember when, sentimental journey
This is something of a “remember when” sentimental journey for baby boomers. Life in any town Australia in the late 40's and early 1950’s. The Australian Christmas under the summer sun. Life before the multiculti nanny state. No hi viz. No helmets. No Safe Schools. No...
Random Note — Naughty or nice, a Christmas message from an annoyed and angry Santa
As Ronald Reagan observed: “Government is not the solution to the problem, government is the problem.”
Random Note — Sugar tax must be across the board not just on soft drink
We’ve seen how government initiatives unravel with the Rob Sitch, Utopia inspired Return and Earn recycling scheme in NSW. Or the NBN. Why do you think that governments are capable of tackling obesity? I don’t think anything reveals or reflect the sclerotic, flabby or lazy thinking of the likes of the Obesity Policy Coalition so much as the resort to the predictable default position, of all QANGO’S, NGO’s and society’s busy bodies, as the tax option. It will do absolutely nothing to solve the problem of obesity unless its draconian, across the board on ALL processed food and soft drink comparable to the tax on cigarettes.
Random Note — The Liberals
It is becoming more and more apparent with each passing day that Turnbull is terminal and that the Libs are simply whistling past the cemetery, trying to forestall the inevitable.