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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsKnavish Stupidity of the First Degree — Peter Smith, Quadrant
Madness prevails. Cheered on by green zealots, governments have accepted as settled a tenuous scientific theory, based almost entirely on black-box model predictions which have been seriously astray. If that is not enough, cheered on by carpetbaggers and snake-oil merchants, intermittent, unreliable, ineffective and cripplingly costly renewal power has been foisted on working-class populations scared into compliance. On the flimsiest basis, the world has been turned upside down. Power bills have soared. Our governments and politicians have shown themselves to be as susceptible to superstition as those in bygone ages who sought the future in the entrails of animals. And then there are those in the broader community who simply accept any old rope handed down from authority. Give them the Little Red Book and they would have been fodder for Mao…”
South Australia’s power prices to be highest in world — The Australian
As of July 1, next week, South Australia will have the world’s highest electricity prices. Not only the highest but also the world’s most unreliable. This is the stuff of Rome burning. And the political class are so pleased with their work, as they go about vandalising the economy.
Of course, the irony in this is mind blowing when you consider that in the pursuit of low co2 emissions, or in this case NO co2 emissions, it is South Australia that is sitting on one of the world’s largest uranium deposits and that we are all too happy to mine and export for others to use, but not use ourselves. There’s something morally corrupt and morally perverse in Australia’s position. It’s not so much that Australia, the lucky country, is running out of luck, but is in fact trashing that luck and our heritage.
The vicious, savage and ugly feral Marxists are on the move and on the march
“..The vicious attacks are designed not just punish the 74 year old tennis legend for opposing same sex marriage but to warn off anyone else who disagrees with them..” Dan Flynn from Australian Christian Lobby, says the aim of the savage demonstration was to destroys Courts reputation and intimidate anyone else into silence who believes in traditional marriage.
The ABC at it again
The ABC was at it again in this weeks Science Show: Has ‘denying’ won? telling a whopper that is quite easily debunked and discredited. Listening to RN’s Science Show at midday and it was a Climate Change/Warmsters wet dream.The ABC’s go to guy and all round climate pet, Andy Pittman was specifically asked about the belief in the mid 70’s in a coming ice age. He was then asked whether Time Magazine ran a cover page to that effect at the time.
He categorically said no. But then he jumped the shark and went further and said that it was a climate denier conspiracy.
You can hear him here if you can be bothered at around the 13:50 mark. In fact they didn’t just run one front cover, they ran three.
In 1973, 1977 and again in 1979. This one is from 1973
For the record Newsweek also ran a cover “The Cooling World” in April 1975.
London’s Muslim Mayor, Sadiq Khan
Camille Paglia Blames Dems for Destroying Journalism — ‘It Is Going to Take Decades to Recover’
I posted last week on Camille Paglia, a rusted on Democrat and doyen of the arty luvvies of the left. Here’s more as she continues to bag out her own side and the media.
“…Paglia called what she said the Democratic Party had done to journalism “absolutely grotesque” and warned it would take decades to recover. “It’s obscene,” she said. “It’s outrageous, OK? It shows that the Democrats are nothing now but words and fantasy and hallucination and Hollywood. There’s no journalism left. What’s happened to The New York Times? What’s happened to the major networks? It’s an outrage…”
Random Note #189,393 — Autism in the classroom
Although she might have mangled her message Pauline Hanson has a point with respect to those on the disruptive end of the autism spectrum in the classroom, but again, right on cue, the noisy outrage industry goes into full flight with the usual moral posturing, preening and virtue signalling rather than deal with the points Hanson raised. Their high-minded offence taking, indignation and fury does not constitute an argument or debate
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking — The Australian
“..Phobias are irrational fears. Given the sectarian tensions, cultural friction and constant terrorism that Islam has brought to the West, fearing lslam is completely rational. Thus there is no such thing as Islamophobia. The term is used to shut down debate. Mormonism is subject to criticism yet there is no discussion of Mormonphobia..” Adele Homburg, Elsternwick, Vic
“..Would it be fair to say Allah has so far neither showed greatness nor willingness despite billions of prayers by Muslims. Are there any Muslims prepared to face this fact and ask why? Why do they feel safe only when they land in infidel countries where the idea of Allah and Islam are not very popular? Could it be that atheists are right..” Alex Mulla, Highgate, SA
Random Note #198,583 — Education funding
Education, like so many other of the “our children and our children’s children” type issues have become an emotional political wedge.
Many particularly, but not exclusively, on the Green/Teachers Union/Left, see everything through the prism of the old social class struggle. Bosses vs workers. Capitalism vs socialism. It’s all about money. To these simple, feeble, minds money will solve all the problems.
In education we know, after decades of bitter experience, for that not to be the case but they continue on undaunted. Just put more money on the table and that will fix the problem/s.
As Oscar Wilde mused in another context, “they know the price of everything but the value of nothing.”
Random Note #195,431 — Even zero emissions from Australia would mean zero difference in the world temperature.
Charles Mackay in his mid 19th century book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds could well have been writing about the climate catastrophists and the political class in Australia in 2017.
Hear and see it for yourself from Australia’s Chief Scientist, Alan Finkel in Senate Estimates.
We could totally shut down Australia and our non-participation in the world economy would make no difference to the climate.
Our preening and posturing political class are simply in the business of big noting and prostrating themselves before the UN and strutting their moral vanity on the world stage.
Senator: In Australia, we emit, less than 1.3% of the world emissions.
Chief Scientist Finkel: About that.
Senator: If we reduce the worlds carbon emissions by 1.3%, what impact would that have on the changing climate of the world?
Chief Scientist Finkel: Virtually nothing.