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Open Thread – Weekend 15 Oct 2022
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Weekend Reading #8
Kurt Hofer at The American Conservative reflects on his attendance at the Restoring the Nation conference and on the fortunes of the New Right. Over at UnHerd, Thomas Fazi considers whether Germany and thereby Europe itself is also a target of the economic warfare that has broken out since the Russo-Ukrainian War began. Niccolo Soldo,…
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Mater’s Musings #60: Progressive Politics…in a Nutshell
“Come now, he says, pressing a little with his hands. I’m interested in your opinion. You’re intelligent enough, you must have an opinion. About what? I say. What we’ve done, he says. How things have worked out. I hold myself very still. I try to empty my mind. I think about the sky, at night,…
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
We are constantly wondering about the inability of centre-right parties, particularly the Liberal and National parties here in Australia, of accurately reflecting their constituency in their policies and representing them during their terms in power. I don’t want to speculate why this is the case but the following two figures from the US and UK…
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Open Thread – Tues 11 Oct 2022
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Post-Christianity, and then what?
A Christian minister condemns same-sex sex and abortion as being sinful. Cue outrage. Bigoted and hateful says the supposed Catholic Premier of Victoria. “I send my kids to Catholic schools. My faith is important to me. It guides me every day…It also guides me in my sense of what is right and what is wrong,…
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Meme of the Day #59
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Open Thread – Weekend 8 Oct 2022
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Weekend Reading #7
IM-1776‘s Mark Granza talks to Steve Bannon about the populist uprising in Italy, Trump, the GAE and more. Darren Beattie at Revolver News dives deeper into the FBI’s Jan 6 pipe bomb hoax. Big Serge looks at recent events in the Russo-Ukrainian War from a Clausewitzian lens. What is behind the uprising in Iran and…
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Guest Post: Dr. Faustus – Abide with Me
The Energy Security Board (ESB) is a member of the alphabet constellation of Australian electricity regulators and managers with their hands on the National Electricity Market (NEM). The ESB is tasked to report annually to government on the health of the NEM and ‘progress’ against the objectives of the Strategic Energy Plan. The Strategic Energy…