Environmentalism and the
Decline of the West
In most developed nations a large majority of the population now dwell in cities and only a minority toil to produce the goods and services which support us all. For many urbanites in particular the environment has acquired a romantic, somewhat sacred, status.
Though themselves voracious consumers, they are removed from the production that supplies their demands.
Those who provide their needs tend to be seen as greedy exploiters and defilers of nature.
Even more ironically, their own lifestyle has virtually annihilated the natural world in a small portion of the environment and that is where they choose to live.
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Ron Merkel
on protecting free speech
(in 1994)
Keith Windschuttle introduces a 1994 Quadrant article by Ron Merkel:
When a barrister makes a political argument in court that is opposed to views he once publicly wrote about the very same legislation, he has obviously jumped a fairly big fence. When a judge accepts such a dodgy case without demure, as Bromberg apparently did, justice is not being seen to be done.
Ron Merkel:
There must be grave doubt about such significant law reform occurring on a basis that is not demonstrated to have stemmed from a need based on harm caused by previous public acts of racial vilification.
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How Anti-Zionism Seduced the Intellectual Left
Can one be an anti-Zionist without being an anti-Semite?
The Zionist movement never commanded a Jewish majority until after the Second World War. Clearly, Jews themselves, not to speak of non-Jews, could and did adopt anti-Zionist positions without any concomitant anti-Semitic overtones.
It may seem strange to think of any Jew being anti-Semitic but under certain circumstances, the oppressiveness, continuity and pervasiveness of anti-Semitism can propel some of its victims to seek a way out by associating with and internalising the views of their persecutors.
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QED
Peter Smith
Selling austerity
Why did the imperative of a nation living within its means become unfashionable and even unsellable? Welcome to the murky world of dodgy economics and its practitioners. More...
On sale now!!
Contents here...
Don’t hold your breath
Anita Heiss will be at the Sydney Writers’ Festival today. Will Anne Summers ask her to explain this?
John Muscat
Progressive Women’s Immunity
Gillard hasn’t been victimised because she is a woman; she has been protected because she is a progressive woman. More...
Michael Connor
Can we check that?
From a 1/32 Cherokee in the USA to a 1/64th Aborigine in Australia. It may be a debate they won’t let us have, but can we check the claims? More...
Michael Smith is back!!
Must hear radio interview. The man who started the Thomson affair. He also asked Gillard questions about her colourful past, until he was taken off the air. Listen here...
Geoffrey Luck
J’accuse
The disgraceful scenes of an elected member sitting for months mute - belittled and humiliated yet smugly complacent – reflect sadly the decline of moral values in the community. More...
United Breaks Guitars –
and now there’s a book
Philippa Martyr
The Thomson twins
At the weekend, Craig Thomson claimed that he has been set up. Here are some suggestions which he might like to pursue as possible explanations. More...
Bolt Report online now
The latest editition of The Bolt Report , Sunday 13 May, is now online. The link is here…
James Allan
Declaration of Lack of Independence
“Indeed we hold these truths to be self-evident. That all independents will vote with the Labor Government come what may.” More...
Christopher Akehurst
Aussies abroad
“I got food-poisoning and there wasn't an Aussie doctor anywhere. Stuff France. I couldn't wait to get back to St Kilda.” More...
Victor Davis Hanson
Chameleon Nation
Something that started out as a supposedly noble lie, that to atone for past bias we must be judged by the color of our skin rather than the content of our character, has become utterly ignoble and beneath us. More...
Peter Smith
Hostage to fortune
We are on the cusp of enormous new entitlement spending programs on dental and disability schemes without any substantial offsetting spending cuts. More...
What’s On
24 May: Campion College seminar: ‘The Religious Origins of Modern Science?’: Toongabbi.
Details here...
Blog Hunter
Tony “tax grows mining pie” Jones
NSW Supreme Court celebrates terrorism
Race fiddler correction hidden
MPs code of conduct? Don’t fib
Consequences of the Islamophobia witch-hunt
Don't worry Tony, say you're from Iran.
(Image: ALP)
Doomed Planet
Death threat emails?
Cleaned of their email clutter these are the released climate threat emails. Here...
Doomed Planet archives
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Tony Thomas
Gun-play or warmist beat-up?
Our gun-man, “Percy” (not his real name), was among the 2300 subjects painstakingly screened and sampled for this exercise, and Percy made the final cut to isolate 35 sceptics. More...
Tony Thomas
'Death threat' fictions
A year ago alleged death threats against warmist climatologists at the Australian National University became a media sensation. The story was a mammoth beat-up, promulgated and/or swallowed by the science community. More...
Tim Blair
Thank God for Delingpole
Killing the Earth is blessedly graph-free, as arts graduate Delingpole correctly realises that global warming is overwhelmingly a political issue. And also a rich target for jokes. More...
Tony Thomas
Delingpole the Destroyer
Delingpole: “In Britain we understand that going back to the Romans, one lot has taken over from another, no big deal. In Australia there’s a uni module: ‘Feeling guilty about traditional owners.’” More...