Category Archives: Absurdity of Woke

Vaccines Grown in Lettuce? Rep. Massie Asks House to Bar FDA, USDA From Funding Transgenic Edible Vaccines

The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed an amendment to the agricultural appropriations bill that prohibits funding for human and animal vaccines grown in genetically engineered plants. Lioness of Judah Ministry 30 Sept 2023 By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. September 27, 2023 The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed an amendment to the agriculturalContinue reading “Vaccines Grown in Lettuce? Rep. Massie Asks House to Bar FDA, USDA From Funding Transgenic Edible Vaccines”

QED

Dan Andrews, Political Crossdresser Simon P. Kennedy What would you say if I told you that Dan Andrews’, affable Premier of the self-proclaimed ‘Education State’, is leading the most radical government Victoria has ever seen? It might come as a surprise to some, but that is the reality Victorians are now facing. In a recentContinue reading “QED”

Wokeism complicates the raising of kids

Nick Hossack Flat White Getty Images Nick Hossack 20 September 2023 4:30 AM One of the dilemmas raising children in an era when Wokeism dominates every institution is whether to bluntly express your opinions on various topics or, instead, hedge and sanitise so they don’t regurgitate your views in full and, in doing so, renderContinue reading “Wokeism complicates the raising of kids”

Blue Energy’s Galilee dreams dashed by state government

Business Blue Energy’s goal to commercialise a potentially large gas resource in the Galilee Basin has been rejected by the State Government. Print article Blue lodged nine applications for a Potential Commercial Area with the Government in 2018 as a result of gas discoveries which found a contingent resource of 838 petajoules. “Blue believes itContinue reading “Blue Energy’s Galilee dreams dashed by state government”

Voice Special Edition

Locking Us Out of Our National Parks Marc Hendrickx Marc Hendrickx is a geologist who blogs at righttoclimb.blogspot.com. The first part of this article appeared in Quadrant in June 2019. The second part is an edited version of the speech he gave on January 14 this year at a community rally in Murwillumbah devoted toContinue reading “Voice Special Edition”

The Philistine

Snow Sorta-White and her Non-Dwarf Shark-Jumpers Salvatore Babones Disney has jumped the shark, and our entire culture has jumped along with it. The expression “to jump the shark” is an American entertainment idiom used to denote the point of creative bankruptcy that occurs when a successful television or movie series exhausts the potentialities of itsContinue reading “The Philistine”

Decarbonise the planet, are they mad?

John Gideon Hartnett Flat White Getty Images John Gideon Hartnett 19 September 2023 2:00 AM The lunatic scheme to sequestrate carbon dioxide (CO2) several kilometres underground has been initiated by government programs, including Australia, with taxpayer money. It is called Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). The purpose is to make sure that carbon dioxide injected intoContinue reading “Decarbonise the planet, are they mad?”

The decline of the West: America’s Pacific cities face a bleak future

Joel Kotkin (Credit: Adobe) Joel Kotkin 17 September 2023 5:40 PM As recently as the early Nineties, when the great cities of the Midwest and East Coast were careening toward what seemed like an inevitable downturn, the urban agglomerations along the Pacific coast offered a demonstrably brighter urban future. From San Diego to the PugetContinue reading “The decline of the West: America’s Pacific cities face a bleak future”

Empty shelves, desolate minds: Canada’s ‘equity book-weeding’

Flat White Pexels Flat White 16 September 2023 10:10 PM At least in previous centuries a trail of smoke loitered in the air after the censors were done burning books. The smell of information dying could not be escaped, nor could the haze be hidden. In the digital era, information is deleted and edited byContinue reading “Empty shelves, desolate minds: Canada’s ‘equity book-weeding’”

It’s time (to cancel Gough)!

Let’s put the woke lens on Labor’s heroes Alan Tudge Features Australia Getty Images Alan Tudge 16 September 2023 9:00 AM Cancel culture is about to get interesting and happening right here on Australian campuses. Get your popcorn and tune in! But be warned: the first episode – the cancelling of Alfred Deakin through theContinue reading “It’s time (to cancel Gough)!”

Are university campus sexual assault statistics inflated?

Bettina Arndt Flat White Pexels Bettina Arndt 13 September 2023 4:30 AM In recent weeks, our proud Teal Independents have been busy showing their feminist credentials by supporting student activists seeking to force universities ‘to do more’ about sexual assault on campus. ‘All of us women who have attended tertiary facilities in Australia know someoneContinue reading “Are university campus sexual assault statistics inflated?”

Flogging a dead horse

Bella d’Abrera Café Culture [Getty Images] Bella d’Abrera 11 September 2023 6:00 PM It is an interesting, if not depressing exercise to look at what the notoriously woke Victorian Association for the Teaching of English (VATE) is recommending that young adults read. The YA Book Stack podcast, hosted by VATE’s Education Officer, Emma Jenkins isContinue reading “Flogging a dead horse”

Do the police think ‘lesbian’ is a term of abuse?

Julie Burchill World (Photo: iStock) Julie Burchill 14 August 2023 10:43 PM Reading that a 16-year-old autistic girl had been dragged from her home by seven cops after reportedly saying a female officer looked like ‘a lesbian like nana’, I had to check that we weren’t back in the 1970s of my girlhood when ‘lezzer’Continue reading “Do the police think ‘lesbian’ is a term of abuse?”

End the Net Zero nightmare

  · Rafe Champion The Spectator Australia 6 September 2023 Matthew Warren knows as much about the energy industry as anyone and his book Blackout (2019) is a very good overview of the system. In the Financial Review on the weekend, he called for a contest of ideas and not a rigid central plan becauseContinue reading “End the Net Zero nightmare”

Aussie Life

Aussie life Tony Letford [Getty Images] Tony Letford 2 September 2023 9:00 AM Six years ago the ABC posted an article online about William Crowther, a prominent 19th-century Tasmanian politician, a statue of whom had stood in a Hobart park for 133 years. From that time, the statue’s fate was probably sealed, (‘Tasmania’s difficult history:Continue reading “Aussie Life”

Heston Russell trial: ABC journalists defamed former commando to protect their egos, court told

Federal court hears closing submissions in defamation case brought by Russell against the public broadcaster Australian Associated PressTue 29 Aug 2023 15.07 AESTLast modified on Tue 29 Aug 2023 15.09 AEST Heston Russell, pictured outside the federal court, denies the allegations in two ABC articles and is suing for damages, saying his reputation was ruinedContinue reading “Heston Russell trial: ABC journalists defamed former commando to protect their egos, court told”

Cancel Mozart

Ian Plimer Flat White Getty Images Ian Plimer 3 April 2023 4:00 AM Why should we stop at cancelling the world’s greatest explorer, Captain James Cook, and the greatest playwright, William Shakespeare? Why not the world’s greatest composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? In his operas, his acceptance of slavery, racism, white privilege, authority, misogyny, anti-Islam, wife-bashing,Continue reading “Cancel Mozart”