pulpit

Scott Morrison made three foolish and arrogant assumptions this week when he tried to push his controversial religious discrimination legislation through parliament.

As a result, he failed in the mission and emerged from Wednesday's all-night sitting with his authority diminished.

With time almost out before the election, this legislation — which he claimed was "very important" — has reached a dead end.

war

In the early 1990s, Karl Weick and Karlene Roberts conducted extremely influential field research to understand why, on the flight decks of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers where there were “a million accidents waiting to happen,” almost none of them did. The answers they provided set the stage for a groundswell of research into what came to be known as high-reliability organizations (HROs).

media

Australia has a deteriorating global corruption ranking — and the mainstream media is ignoring it entirely.

You won’t read about it in the mainstream Australian media. The story is missing from The Age and Sydney Morning Herald and a Google search reveals no coverage in any mainstream Australian media.

foreign policy

The US would not accept Russian influence on its borders 60 years ago. The West needs to give Russia the same security as it expects for itself.

Joe Biden says Russia is likely to invade Ukraine whereas Vladimir Putin says he is not planning to do so but will not rule it out if Ukraine joins NATO. Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky keeps pressing Biden for membership, including during his visit to the White House last September. Three months earlier the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told senators that “we support Ukraine membership in NATO.”

BY Percy Allan

love

The tennis player’s story was distorted by the [Western] media. But we won’t hear any apologies from the blame-China brigade.

I am not a media expert, but from the beginning it was clear (as I wrote on this site) that Western media were up to their usual China-bashing distortions with their claims that the Chinese champion tennis player Peng Shuai was forced to disappear after allegedly revealing she had been sexually assaulted by a top Chinese official.

By Gregory Clark

We now discover that Peng is not only alive and well but denies she was sexually assaulted by any Chinese official.

bumb...

We have already mentioned "geoengineering" on this site to deal with the warming planet. And for no small reason, we've come to the conclusion that it's a stupid idea. Not only stupid but it's dangerous like throwing a few icebergs in hell to annoy Mr Devil. But some scientists still push for "studying the feasability of throwing a blanket" on the planet, like we use one when the chips are on fire in the frying pan. Here, "we can smell the colour of money". In the 12 November 2021 issue of SCIENCE, Edward A. Parson, a fellow with a million more qualifications than Gus-in-the-Spectrum-Guy, tells us without a hint of irony:

apology

Australia's political leaders have formally apologised to all those who have experienced sexual harassment, sexual assault or bullying while working in federal parliament.

fascism

During one of numerous tense exchanges, legendary US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles asked Indian Prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, "Are you for or against America?"

Nehru replied: "Yes".

It is likely an apocryphal story from another time — the 1950s and in the midst of the Cold War — but it carries a lesson for today as the world enters Cold War 2.0 and tries to contain growing Chinese power.

meow...

We are fed the news, whether we want it or not... It comes to us daily like an assault on our good will... Everyone else is bad and we're good. Yes we need to know what's what. But "the news" does not do this. "The news" in the West is an orchestration for a CIA score, under the baton of an old decrepit kook who has never understood anything... Apparently, if I trust my feeble source, Old Joe said something like:

“Why in God’s name don’t we teach history in history classes? A black man invented the light bulb. not a white guy named Edison. Okay? There’s so much. Did anybody know?”

molecules

One can only be amazed at the 3D rendering (2D on these images) of complex molecules such as proteins and DNA. Presently one can see these amazing atom-precise representations of the spikes of Covid-19. This precision is mostly obtained through crystallography.

And computers. 

Crystallography provides specific exclusive patterns of molecules (crystallised) that are now processed by computers. Before such, it took many days and weeks to compute the structures that had been studied. As well super X-ray machines that would kill you in an instant are used.

The whole thing started with Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen who discovered the x-rays. His first image showed that these rays could penetrate through matter.

assassin bug

The essential point of assassination is the death of the subject. A human being may be killed in many ways but sureness is often overlooked by those who may be emotionally unstrung by the seriousness of this act they intend to commit.

jericho

Many brilliant minds of the Enlightenment and thereafter were Jewish. They were so, not in the religious sense, but in analytical curiosity and political adventurism. One could ask why so. The clever Arabs, including their mathematicians, had congealed their sense of invention into a major belief, Islam, that arrested much investigation of reality.

Most of the Muslim world is still caught in this warped view of things, despite some bright minds amongst Muslim Arabs, they are constrained/restrained by a strong unavoidable belief in Allah, imposed by the state through fear of physical punishment or death… The Christians had leaped ahead with some hubris and wars in order to maintain control, but they lacked the extra flair to make things work, beyond a few philosophical neuroses. The Jews came to help.

somo

Supporters of Peter Dutton in his failed 2018 tilt at the Liberal leadership believe he is the government’s only hope of saving the furniture at the looming election.

A common view is that “Dutts”, as they call him, could save seats in his home state of Queensland and help stem the bleeding to the right on issues of vaccine mandates and religious freedom elsewhere.

The view has support outside the parliamentary Liberal Party.

One of Australia’s leading conservative commentators, Andrew Bolt, used his popular News Corp column on Monday to urge: “Peter Dutton, get ready to lead”.

Bolt wrote the Prime Minister Scott Morrison “looks finished and is now making a fool of himself to get some love”.

fooling

In Australia we like to believe that the US Pacific Fleet saved us from Japanese attack in 1942-1944, but that is only partly true.

According to Japanese war history expert, Moteki Hiromichi, it is also true that but for a mistake in Japan’s wartime strategy the US Pacific Fleet would not been there or needed to save us.

And we have to thank China for forcing Japan into making that mistaken change in strategy.

By Gregory Clark

Moteki is the acting chairman of Japan’s doggedly revanchist Society for Dissemination of Historical Fact.

table

Crucial personal talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron have begun in Moscow on Monday evening, with the latter suggesting they work out a solution that “helps to avoid war” in Europe.

The high-profile Kremlin negotiations have centered on the ongoing standoff between Moscow and the West over Ukraine.

In his opening speech, Macron said he was seeking to find a solution mutually beneficial for all of Europe, stressing that at stake was not just the security of Ukraine itself, but that of the continent as a whole.

Read more:

https://www.rt.com/russia/548586-macron-putin-talks-war-ukraine/

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