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Maybe things aren’t (really) falling apart ?!?
Our side is too quick to celebrate the odd battle won. The enemy is infinitely resilient; unflaggingly indefatigable; obsessively single-minded; never asleep forever awake. The referendum victory against the mass of federal and state governments, giant corporates, sporting codes, churches, celebrities and assorted elites, was indeed singular. To borrow from Paul Keating it might be…
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Rafe’s Roundup Feb 3
Australians for Science & Freedom] Free Speech Union of Australia Quadrant The Energy Realists IPA Net Zero Aust Spectator Jo Nova Centre for Independent Studies Conservative Vagabond The Monarchists The Free Press Bettina Arndt Menzies Research Centre The Sydney Institute IPA Mannkal Taxpayers Alexandra Marshall ` Australian Inst for Progress The Conservative Party CPAC
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Rabz’ Radio Show February 2024 – Twenty First Century Tunes 2001–2020
Cats, the first two decades of this century saw the release of some magnificent tunes and albums. The first decade featured much electronica and dance music including the many Ministry of Sound compilations which always take me back to long gone legendary venues like Soho in the Cross, which was best attended on a Saturday…
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Global energy mix
Fascinating chart to show that intermittent energy is not making any difference to the energy mix. As Mark Mills told us, 20 years, 5 or 10 trillion dollars and the needle has barely moved.
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Nasty Projects in Play
Please distribute to your network those sections which may be relevant. Regards, Bob King Project amendments are proceeding without referral back for submissions, e.g. Liverpool Range Wind Farm – SSD-6696-Mod-1 EXH-67001459, increased tip height to 215m, increased vegetation clearing, but reduced turbines from 267 to 185. Battery projects and enlargement are also being approved without consultation. There has…
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Open Thread – Weekend 3 Feb 2024
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Gaza Postmodern
One of the first declarations of intent was reported from an unnamed official. The unnamed defense official told Israel’s Channel 13 that the Palestinian territory, home to more than 2 million residents, would be reduced to rubble. “Gaza will eventually turn into a city of tents. There will be no buildings.” There have been plenty…
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Open Thread – Wed 31 Jan 2024
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Open Thread – Mon 29 Jan 2024
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Misery Ahead
Pretence of knowledge is a phrase coined by Friedrich Hayek to describe the psychological predilection of those who believe they know enough to plan a path to economic plenty and who inevitably produce economic and social misery. John Maynard Keynes a contemporary of Hayek illustrates the mindset. A few years after The Road to Serfdom…