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Open Thread – Tues 16 May 2023
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Rafe’s Roundup 15 May
Drop in and see what the usual suspects are up to CIS The Energy Realists The Conservative Vagabond Jo Nova The Monarachists Quadrant on line The Free Press IPA Climate and energy program The Sydney Institute Mannkal Menzies Research Centre Taxpayers Alexandra Marshall Advance Australia Australian Inst for Progress Bettina Arndt REMEMBERING JOHN HYDE. His…
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God Save The King
Until last evening, I hadn’t seen The King’s Speech with Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth and company. Usually watch some shoot-‘em up over a red wine or three. Good movie. I enjoyed it. Whether the dialogue between the King and Lionel Logue is remotely close to the truth I doubt, but the substance of the plotline…
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Open Thread – Weekend 13 May 2023
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The Censorship Industrial Complex
An important post by Jo Nova on the Censorship Industrial Complex, an echo of the Military Industrial Complex that grew up after WW2 and an advanced form of the Climate Industrial Complex that spread fake news and started to get serious about censoring dissident voices. A COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS To simplify the message that…
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Chat GPT review of Popper’s OSE
Question. Write a 2000 word review of The Open Soceity and Its Enemies by Karl Popper The money quote. He warns that any attempt to suppress intellectual freedom, whether through censorship or propaganda, will inevitably lead to the suppression of all other freedoms, and ultimately to the destruction of the open society itself. Karl Popper’s…
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Harry and Meghan
From the outset I will acknowledge that most Cats couldn’t care less about the truculent and petulant behaviour of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle. Conversely, many Cats will acknowledge with gratitude, and perhaps awe, the unswerving devotion to duty and service displayed by the late Queen Elizabeth II. King Charles has some mighty…
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Open Thread – Tues 8 May 2023
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Bring back the dandy
Generally dandys don’t get a very good press but a conservative hippy has come to their defence. This prompts a memory of Sir Roderick Murchison, a great entrepreneur of science. This is a review of a book about his life and work, in a collection of papers on the theme Making Science Pay. The main…
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When you can’t believe what you read
Read a left-wing tendentious article yesterday (6 May) in the Weekend Australian (page 13) from a Hugh Tomlinson in London. All about the so-called Proud Boys and their Trumpian plot to storm the US Capitol buildings. Here’s a short extract One protester was shot dead and hundreds injured, including more than 150 police officers. One officer…