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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsWhooping should be banned because it excludes deaf people — Telegraph
From the “We’re not in Kansas anymore Toto” files “… Students who whoop, cheer and clap should face “consequences” because they are excluding deaf people, delegates at the National Union of Students conference said…”
Random Note #177,953 — Populism
I find it Interesting how the left derides and rails against what they call, populism. Funny thing is that what they interpret as populism, most people, who think beyond the cliche would understand that what we’re talking about is the popular will or the will of the majority of the people. Otherwise expressed as democracy. So next time you hear the sneering, condescending squeals and the putdowns of “populism” just remember what they’re really sneering and squealing about is the inconvenience of democracy.
Read of the week — The global elites are headed for a fall and they don’t even know it — Damon Linker
Sure, populism’s a nuisance. But we’re keeping it at bay. We just need to stay the course, fiddle around the edges a little bit, and certainly not give an inch to the racists and xenophobes who keep making trouble. We know how the world works, and we can handle the necessary fine tuning of the meritocracy. We got this.”
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
And yet in this controversy, our national broadcaster finds it impossible to state a clear position. We lack respect for our forebears and we steal from those who will succeed us. In my view, we are becoming a self-centred and selfish generation.
Saudi Arabia sentences atheist to death for video renouncing Islam — Daily Mail
Saudi Arabia has sentenced an atheist to death for uploading a video in which he renounced Islam and the Prophet Mohammed. The man has been identified locally as Ahmad Al Shamri who is in his 20s and from the town of Hafar al-Batin. Saudi authorities first picked him up in 2014 after he uploaded the video showing men and women dancing which led to him being charged with atheism and blasphemy
See and hear it for yourself — Women May be forced to wear headscarves
The president of Austria has raised quite a few eyebrows after stating that there may come a day when all women are asked to wear headscarves out of solidarity, citing discrimination faced by Muslims in the country..”
Random Note #203,652 — The (Non) Gas Crisis
The one thing the gas crisis underscores is a major flaw that lies at the heart of our Federation. It’s the State governments that should be in the frame on this and it’s beyond absurd that the Federal government should be expected to solve a gas “crisis” the states have created with their immature, ill-founded and ideological objection and ban on opening up new gas fields? With enough gas reserves to fuel Australia for 200 years, there is no gas crisis or shortage of gas as such, just a shortage of will to get it out of the ground.
Random Note #186,943 — Victorian schools adopt ‘anti-privilege’ feminist clubs — Rebecca Urban, The Australian
Meanwhile, in the cultures wars from the grievance and misery industries. Like Safe Schools, this is ugly Marxist stuff coming out of The People’s Republic of Victoria designed to fragment and divide along gender and identity lines.
“..Schoolyard “feminist collectives” are springing up across the country as young women are presented with a grim picture of gender equality by a new wave of education programs that place “white, male privilege” and “hegemonic masculinity” at the root of family violence…”
Lib Guru — Liberal Government Hates Their Own Constituents
This is blow touch to the belly stuff AND laser accurate. Written by a former SA and Qld Liberal Party State Director, no less. “…The Turnbull government is at war with the people. This is a government which hates their own constituents. The Liberal Party has lost touch with what it stands for and will be decimated unless it changes tack. Across the next electoral cycle the Liberals will lose power federally and in every state with the exception, perhaps, of Tasmania…”
Shell does what the ABC should–Shell quietly rids itself of its Yassmin problem
Word is that while Shell was happy for her to take an initial 12 months leave-without-pay to work at the ABC (read: develop Brand Yassmin), company policy meant it had to refuse her request to extend it. A decision which many execs in the company are now looking at as a blessing in disguise.