The Journal
Current Affairs
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Green Scare Campaigns Harm the Environment
People in South Australia know the whole “we must have marine parks to save our fisheries from those greedy stupid fishermen” story is nonsense. But they are terribly concerned about the Great Barrier Reef and logging…
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Why Israel Deserves Western Support
I have been gobsmacked by suggestions from some people that there is some sort of moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas (the idea that they are both as bad as each other), or even worse, that…
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The New Sudetenland
For Putin and many Russians, the US is still Russia’s primary rival in global politics. The projection of Russian power to the Mediterranean and Northern Africa depends on the Black Sea Fleet. The Black Sea Fleet…
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Thief Complains About Complainers
I got an email this afternoon from alleged CFS/Eurosoft scammer David O’Neil. This is what he wrote: Dear Sirs, RE; DAVID O’NEIL – POSTINGS REGARDING EUROSOFT I refer to the above and advise that several postings…
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Encomium
This is a new short story set in the Warhammer 40k universe. May be on Amazon soon, depending if I can get copyright issues relating to the Warhammer universe sorted out. In the meantime, enjoy! The…
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Memory
I have been a fan of Professor Elizabeth Loftus’ work for many years, so I am pleased to see her getting a hearing in the press at last. From the Australian ABC news site: When an…
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Why Does the Mainstream Media Protect Muslim Terrorists?
I am glad the muslim terrorist attack in Nairobi was so widely reported, even though the real horror of what happened was underplayed – the torture and mutilation of children, for example. Perhaps this signals a…
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Climate Debate Confusion
There seems to be a large dose of confusion in some circles as to what the climate change debate is really about. Firstly, no one doubts that climate change is happening. The climate is in constant…
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Dishonest or Incompetent ..?
Emma Alberici and Julian Burnside must have read the same strategy book, one in which distorting your opponents’ views and values is perfectly acceptable. What Tony Abbott actually said: The last thing anyone should want is…
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Papal Form Guide
My latest for Quadrant Online: One of the most interesting phenomena of the last weeks has been the enthusiasm with which media pundits who have previously expressed the opinion that the Church is dying and irrelevant…
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The Evil of the Anti-Vax Quacks
One of four. Andrew Wakefield and the faked link between MMR vaccinations and autism. Andrew Wakefield is one of the heroes of the anti-vaccination crusaders. In 1998 prestigious British medical journal The Lancet published a paper…
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Twitter and Facebook Campaigns
Ninety per-cent of Facebook and Twitter causes are based on false information, bigotry or both. From scare stories about preservatives in food, to stories of dogs being hooked alive and used as shark bait, to stories…
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He’ll Need a Bigger Gun
The White House has acknowledged the skeet shooting photo of President Barack Obama released on photo sharing site Flickr was faked. They have now released the original shot, taken at Area 52, the secret elephant hunting reserve…
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Don’t Like Eating Dolphins? Don’t Eat One.
Green activists are once again turning Japan’s annual dolphin hunt to their financial advantage, deep-sixing facts in favour of fund-raising propaganda. Sure, the slaughter at Taiji Cove is not for the squeamish, but neither is any…
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Global Warming
A slightly updated version of my now five years old general introduction to global warming: Profits of Doom – the Truth About Global Warming
