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Mater’s Musings #54: “You’re the voice, try to understand it”
Just as Hitler looked to American segregation for inspiration… This is of course not our German model republic, but the American Union where one endeavors to consult reason at least partially. The American Union, by principally refusing immigration to elements with poor health, and even simply excluding certain races from naturalization, acknowledges by slow beginnings…
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Guest Post: thefrollickingmole – The New Year Zero Zealots
In 1966 the execrable Mao gifted the word the cultural revolution, this was great for the “West” as it retarded Chinese industry by decades ensuring for at least 30 years China remained a near basket case. It kicked off with the denouncement of the “4 olds” Old Ideas Old Culture Old Customs Old Habits I’d…
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Meme of the Day #52
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Guest Post: Speedbox – Electric vehicles redux
Every now and then I peak above the parapet and regale Cats with news from the EV front. As a year has passed since the last update, I have girded my loins and offer the following for your information. The major manufacturers have released assorted production comments in the past few months: Toyota – investment…
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Open Thread – Weekend 30 July 2022
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The other half of the rainbow
Over the last few months Sydney has been drenched in rain, yet last week the rain stopped, and a blue sky broke through after days of dismal and gloomy grey, and I observed from my Sydney office the appearance of a beautiful rainbow in the sky. I looked at the rainbow with awe and was…
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Open Thread – Tue 26 July 2022
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Open Thread – Weekend 23 July 2022
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Just where will the Left go next? Be afraid
In June 2010 I had an article published in Quadrant magazine; “The Trumping Factor”. I went back to it because I remembered writing about how those on the left and the right divide more or less uniformly and predictably across numbers of seemingly unconnected issues. To wit: “One of the mysteries of life is that…
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Were they that bad? #6 – Access to Soldier Settlement Schemes
Firstly, lets’s dispense with the fallacy that Aboriginals were prevented from enlisting in WW1 and onwards. “Exempt” from compulsory training and service is not the same as “prevented”. I’ve already dealt with this myth here. As for the claim about being denied access to soldier settlement schemes, perhaps Libraries Tasmania (and other interested parties) should…