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Tired of Killing – Mont Brehain, October, 1918. The price of victory was paid with the lives of many very gallant officers, N.C.O.s and men whose loss in the closing stages of the war – perhaps in our last battle all regret. So wrote the philosophical war diarist of the 24th Australian Infantry Battalion, 6th…

So in other words, they really don’t know what it might do more than 6-8 weeks post the jab being forced on you. But don’t worry. If something truly untoward happens to you, there’s a team of specialists who’ll investigate and do their damnedest to blur the cause with all manner of other explanations and…

C. S Lewis: Talking about Bicycles If someone is complaining, it makes a good deal of difference whether they are complaining because they have never been Enchanted by the thing, or if they are complaining because they have been Disenchanted. [Suppose] you read an author in whom love is treated as lust and all war…

Saw an interesting graph in the Daily Telegraph (UK) the other day which purported to breakdown cumulative CO2 emissions since 1750 by country. How accurate this is, I don’t know? Assume it’s in the ballpark. Anyway liked the graph thought I’d share. The UK had all the emissions in the early years having kicked off…

At the end of the second day of a module designed to teach the kids about The Great War (obviously designed to coincide with Remembrance Day), my son poses to me the following question just before dinner: “Dad, why did Aboriginals play such a big part in World War 1, and why were they treated…

Kerry and Biden, the gift to China that just keeps giving. Xie said Beijing and Washington would work together on emissions reductions, and share technology and expertise on clean energy, decarbonisation and electrification to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. In 2020, according to The Guardian, the FBI identified Chinese technology theft as the biggest…

Protect Children – Do Not Allow Them to Medically Transition (Natural Selections) In our lineage, we have had two sexes, with endocrinological systems that regulate our form, function, and development, for hundreds of millions of years. It is a system that is both ancient and complex. But hormones are now being pushed by doctors and…

Watching the efforts of various state governments in dealing with Covid has, on this day especially, brought this to mind: The conscription issue in Australia. The Covid question at the moment centres on the question of what rights we individually have to refuse the experimental and often dangerous vaxxines that are now being made almost…