Republicans win -

 Why was the result such a surprise to those who like to think of themselves as" intellectual and progressives"; 
Are the people fickle and was the main reason the cost of living?
Yes but it's also about unconvincing chatter and scare campaigns by those who have NO Life experience and no practical science engagement to know why their biggest worry ( Global warming) changed to something that tries to take all ( Climate change ) means nothing but Ur saying nothing  - completely unprovable ( CO2 role in air temp )

Soon it will not be safe (scientifically) for anyone to safely talk about CO2 even though twits like Bowen and Greens may think they will. 

SUMMARY 
Because the comfortable elites (cheque in the mail every fortnight) have stopped listening and still run stupid and no longer relevant old Marxist prejudices and HYPOCRISY about whose rich and whose poor and why .

The right and left divide is the lefts myth that has been exploded TODAY .
The democrats and Leftists have nothing to say and their incompetence and distraction by the Greens and old rich class hate comes to the fore.  

Today's result in the USA is IMO a welcome victory for higher productivity and less sentimentality. A victory for hardworking people ( eg Regional )and less support for comfortable dependants . (eg Cities )

But such basic and responsible wins are hard to get because the ignorant idealists effectively hold power and force vote seeking nonsense TALK and PROMISES by big party leaders. ( eg less than 1% of population are farmers )

We in Australia need to note one reason why most Western Democracies are vulnerable to weird thinking idealism--- One vote one value seems fair . but makes popular chatter and the voice of the dependants the deciding factor.

Having said all that there is always a risk that poor and powerless will suffer if another rich group now get comfortable. We have some tough eco issues that require hard edges discomfort and real precision in decision. As a regional person who knows how much the public purse chasers get, I suggest anyone who gets a regular cheque ( incl from shares ) recognize who really are the poor. Time to rid ourselves of old prejudices about poor workers /unionists and the terrible nature of big business owners when they are shareholders with regular income . SOME MORE SOBER STUFF just in case you think I am far right , I am with SOLZ in saying that The West still does NOT YET have the courage and is too comfortable to properly look after its children. The Speech That Cost Solzhenitsyn Everything | Harvard Commencement Address 1978 (youtube.com) POSITIVES This new team will have the chance to not follow the idealists in their ignorant doctrines and scare campaigns that are anti science,

Danger of all dangers

Neitzsche said the danger of all dangers is that the herd mentality of those who cannot bring themselves to say what success is,  will continue to pull down those who do.

The public service and those who are dependent on them are nearly a majority. 
Should we trust them? Are we getting a good return for all that taxing? 
Young people in Australia are , since 2008 ( when there was no Commonwealth debt )  bearing our debt to the tune of $15000 per person) , Hidden behind that growing lack of productivity are lack of careers in science.
What a terrible legacy we leave to our children.   

Do the Government need more things to fail in?  

The majority are not always right and when civilization is under threat ( a complex matter of truth) the comfortable collective may not be willing to face why we got here and how and where we should move to .
The risk of the sheep jumping at shadows ( from all sides) is exacerbated in our era by screen addiction adding to the insecurity and mad jumping around of the desperate and dying old media machines. 
Our taxes are more than ever lost to last causes ( Something a range of thinking scientists and observers Above named Whitehead Ellul noted 


As an ecosystem resilience advisor, I have a lot to add to the completely unstable assertions about conservation imperatives from all sides , but such matters require precision and a willingness to listen , not to the many wannabes , but those competent to prosecute sustainability ONLY. Another time and place.    

Trump or no ? 
There are things I don't like about Trump but his team of supporters have competence on their side . The incumbents have only decades of incompetence driving them still.
The greatest evil is done in the name of the best intention and only the positivity that comes from precision in decision will help us all in the West move forward. 
 

Some examples  

Dr. Phil Just Risked It All With a Surprising Speech in Support of Donald Trump

He basically just called the Democratic Party a bunch of bullies because they ruin people's careers and shame them to oblivion if they dare support Donald Trump. Now, he's giving the bully party a big middle finger and throwing his support for Trump. “I'm not here just to stand up for Donald J. Trump. Lord knows he doesn't need me to stand up for him. He's tough as an old army boot. He's got lots of enemies, different groups that are scared. And between them, they have impeached him, indicted him, raided him, railroaded him, shot him, and sued him. And where is he? He is still standing. He just keeps on because he loves this country, too.”

Something very empty and reactionary in the Labor leadership ?

 Queensland election 26th October 2024

Steven Miles didn't win but he still makes out his free lunch idea will create a great leap forward in education. Sure works a treat sometimes with some people. Daniel Andrews will always be fighting the image of his term as fear driven and his contribution as more about ruling by law rather than by education, Respect for me and what I know and not the minds of them who voted to trust me. 
What is going on inside their heads "I don't trust you cause , perhaps I don't trust myself? "

How can anyone trust those who condemn and attack another leaders character , unless they have 
nothing else to say . Miles ( like Bowen ) tries to talk empty budget in the opposition but the emptiness was closer to home. Miles couldn't bring himself to honor achievement ( past ) and made the pathetic attempt to tick something unfulfilled , unframed and full of mystery of his own that he says he WOULD HAVE done in the future.

How can a leader whose going out , not focus on substance ( of his term and by all parties) unless he is unsure of that substance.


Nietzsche said the danger of all dangers is that the herd mentality of those who cannot bring themselves to say what success is, will continue to pull down those who do.

If not Economics , certainly Ecology

 This post is inspired by  A press Club discussion headed by Colin Barnett and Saul Eslake. Well done to both of them and Laura and The Press Club  for hosting .


Their thoughtful recommendations to set GST transfers in some sort of concrete appears very grounded.

Especially when you look at the idiotic hoop jumping most small taxpayers and empires of bureaus create. If young people are to contribute to this great country, they must not think their houses are the key to prosperity as we seem to. 
Saul's gibes (banning timber harvesting )  and Colins counter jibe (no pokies in WA) aside,  the  issue of funding  health and  education need the independence ( to create true resilience education instead of half baked education at our bereft universities )   

The key point is , while both the guests know a lot about economic realities and prosperity and in Colins case ---real empire building ambitions  few sitting in seats have any idea how to make all the Talk of the BIGGER PICTURE in ECOLOGY  happen.

It's about real risk  EDUCATION and not the token and guilt ridden obfuscation (and fear of complex natural forces)  of the media simples stories. 


ECONOMISTS  don't know everything  and cooperation and risk taking without too much government education and science in practice ( with ALL environment  questions ) is the key-----ECOLOGY 

Why no thinking Australian should support the minorities who currently control the agendas . 

While the ignorant and arrogant Greens and wannabes control our electoral system, our politicians will talk to their childish halfbaked rubbish and spend money to try and control things like hot air. 

Who is the idiot here ? The city or the country? The progressives or the practical ?

Are the people of Australia really racist ?  I would say with Jacinta clearly not , but others will keep wondering  The real people  have just rejected  letting any one culture ,voice or race  have an unequal voice and they were right to do so . Why progressives let themsleves be conned by 65000 years of history is clear -- they didn't study it or culture properly but relied on some shallow form of naturally led blessing .
The future is with science and sound practice informed by culture , not the other way around.  

Last night the people rejected a man who thought he was doing the right thing to honor a wonderful woman who was doing the right thing .
Lets hope this woman continues to inspire us and the world and resist the nonsense of good intentions  being forced into our already overloaded listening system.  
As Jacinta said , This is indeed a great country and we as a people are pleased that our democracy is practically supportive ( and not theoretical) of an equal voice for all .

 I hope free people everywhere  will rejoice with us . 

Progressives will take a while to absorb the referendum result . They need to look closely at why their faith in culturally constructed truths is really moribund and inadequate for our kids future . 

They may never realize the fact that the elites insisted on a change in the listening system which was a result of them NOT listening and a faith in the mythical magic idea of change in laws to make men better . This last attitude was for a time in Western history left in the dark past and hopefully will go back there.
The changes proposed by the government were as shallow as shit and the people rejected them . 

The boy used words "we ,they "+ made it all sound like what he decided was about the will+generosity of the people. But really, it was all about him. Legacy of just another man who can't see how he justifies great evil in the name of the best intention.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE , and its causes goes unreported on OUR ABC

 Presumably because it's not PC to say so ........ even on the ABC   (see in particular the claims of Jacinta Price and those who have observed major causal elements inside aboriginal communities where traditional culture is observed -- as far back as 1880; see below ) 

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE  goes UNREPORTED  and totally MISUNDERSTOOD 

Today is the day of the referendum and "progressives' all around the country cannot believe that their fellow Australians can be so racist ( or at least appear to be )
This false perception goes to the heart of the angst and blind sidedness of our generation . Progressives, having largely proven to prove nothing, are not sure about our culture,  but we switch channels and say  we think 60000 years might have taught the first people's something .

Fair enough , but to vote for a constitutional change means our forebears got something wrong  which is where our ABC could have been helpful..
Not everything is wrong .
Where was the constitution wrong? No.  It seems to me the clause removed in 67 was a neccesary adjustment and the idea of institutional 'non recognition"  was a misunderstanding and   a category error. not a helpful one but one that simply happens as Boswick found , becuase you can't actually locate all the aboriginal people and the decision had been made to try ( right or not) to protect them .( before even 1850 when only handfuls of europeans set up little towns like Colac Warnambool and Port Fairy  ( Boswick's most detailed account of numbers , agriculture,  and conflict in 1857. My impression from Boswicks very comapssionate reporting is that just then ,as now, we steel and wheel merchants didn't really know how to help the first peoples, who were just overwhelmed by the cultural differences .   

So this lie has become a bigger one in the hands of those who want more power and opportunity to promote their own righteousness. Sure there is hurt injustice and plain takeover but what human community is free of those injustices ,even from our own ? I can make a list only 3 recent generations long . Are we ever going to forgive as we have been taught to do for our own good, even though we can't always forget ?????
Like children, the country follows the child Whitlam,  Andrews, Turnbull and Albo into solving a problem that wasn't there but was an action, maybe m  built on a mix of real care and also despair and some guilt.( still not OUR guilt as some post or pre Christians would have it !!!!) 
All that doesn't mean the children presume to have answers, and that the quick fix of a bit of law and statute (constitutional) is really going to help things.

The West's best answer to injustice heaped upon one has always been counterintuitive ( not revengeful as our bodies tempt us ): Overcome evil with good. 



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If we ever do rewrite the constitution , which might not be a bad thing. 
we could do what Washington and others did and said in the USA
"Under God we are all equal and in this land it is incumbent on the government to prove it so before the law . "
We wouldn't be , as Albo the god like master of ceremonies TODAY be singling out one race for special privileges and him for special note as Pa. 
A real progress historian scientist  would go sifting the good from the bad ; the sustainable from the unsustainable . no such attempt by our publicly funded truth seeking journos . That is bad .

 

1. The ABC could have asked or just reported Bonwick  - yes the first peoples were counted even in 1857 

Next question 

1. Can we learn anything about land use . yes we can and yes we can be very critical of industarail methods and eco thinking which was wrong for land use here .Bruce Pascoe and Bill Gammage  butchered the prospects of a proper scinetific review - still needed .

No we must support ALL cultures as Niebuhr called for it ----- to be subject to revision , The closer scrutiny not just of time, but genuine independant scientific , philosophic and historical scrutiny  - sustainability 

1. Were the first peoples harsh in their treatment of each other and were they stuck? 
   like some moderns  whose in faith in Nature , which in the dark of the days night gave them, as it does now us , as excuse to be brutal ( read White again on children and mothers ) 

The ABC 's failure to properly follow up on Jacintas Price's point that if The VOICE of some tribes is listened to, the domestic violence on remote women and children can be expected to increase.  ( read J,. Smiths  account  of  Booandik Tribe 1880 ) 

note  her detailed descriptions of aboriginal marriage practice and the common suicide of mothers and killing of babies . pages 4-7
If culture is worshiped again then cruel nature will again rule because men will use it as a licence . 

Time for the ABC to properly and fiercely study how domestic violence can be so easily prosecuted by men who get their own way with women --  Add this to an honest account of the history of modern west and their menfolk as well . 

The West's best answer to injustice heaped upon one has always been counterintuitive ( not revengeful as our bodies tempt us): Overcome evil with good. 

 Apart from the intro and this ending, this note was posted before the result was known (extra note made 8pm 14th Oct)  

Aside added 28th Oct 2023

While the beaten wife may not get a technical quick fix to domestic violence by the above complex truth ,( overcoming evil with good )  (that is by SIMPLY allowing her partner to beat her --thats not a thoughtful response to a man ouuta control)  we all have to bear in marriage and family the assaults and insults from our partners who don't always understand or agree with us .It makes us all angry from time to time and IMO we must all face the complex truth about anger being both helpful AND dangerous.  

As Western law and culture clearly indicates if you are going to PREVENT and TREAT violence ( and deal with anger for example -  an adrenalin response?)  you have to accept that VERBAL ASSAULT is as bad as PHYSICAL assault . Sometime I know as someone who has worked with unhappy alcoholics,  that the only preventative defence you often have  is to run away . Noradrenaline too works that way  by allowing time , distance and some return to reason to play  their part.in the face of the wild emotional dangers from anger and adrenalin  

Unreliable POSITION and NEWS reporting IS WORSE THAN PARTY POLITICS .

Our ABC used to be good at lots of things .
Its now at its worst in areas where it thinks it is good at ; where self righteousness has taken over  from thorough examination.  Where it thinks its doing science but its doing no such thing.
The windows are closed on so many areas " ABC is closing comments on this item ' is all over their Netspace and is very indicative . They identify fear so often but allow the fearless to be broadcast too seldom . Such re 

Areas where ABC esp ABCTV  now fails badly
NEWS
There are a few of my old friends clinging to the ship, but not many. The mood is one of " we really don't know wwho to trust anymore ". The trouble is the ABC know how how to be nice and have the budget to fact check and remodel the background at a moments notice . What's missing is the unpredictable world outside the closet
Limpets are gradually dropping off and there is no glue or incentive to bring them back.
The glue of respect for really listening that we treasured  in early 3LO presenters has largely gone .   
The time when the ABC just reported what happened and what the participants and observers said has long gone too.
Reporters add adjectives and commentary so when you listen you never quite know WHO you are listening too .
The Eldership at the ABC is, like the peer review of their practical non-science, missing  .
It should ALL be culled .
Time the public knew that our ABC have been run for decades by inexperienced  reactionaries  who should have passed the baton on to someone who has some real knowledge, confession and experience.
Phillip Adams being in hiding for years, but unlike the others,  is so thick skinned he thinks he has something to add to his never ending opening and closing of doors on VOICES. 
The ABC has cultivated the sickening greeting on departure " Moving on: they say when the guest starts telling us something new" .  
The Australian by contrast makes a good read -- this weekend. 
 

The proposed changes to the Australian constitution ( THE VOICE ) on October 14th will fail

 For lots of reasons which show in particular that you cannot get agreement without telling those who sign up exactly what they are committing to. Only a wooly-headed leader could allow the committee to get what it wanted without taking it to the public - What should have happened is like happened to the 30 pager in 1901 with years of consultation over ' the words " .

A bigger rat has never been sighted.
The biggest surprise on the week B4 is the Yes campaign's revelation of their poor understanding of how people think and how to treat their minds and hearts with respect. 
This is what ALBO did today 6th October when he carelessly dismissed the right of religious ( esp Christian) group members to not agree with their leaders,
This is not a dictatorship yet. 
If only the Church and State could control those pesky rebels known as Jesus people .2000 years of history of a radicalism that,while somewhat predictable in some ways ,  is far less predictable politically and much more fearless than any power broker could imagine if there is conflict between what the books say and any Institution says.  

Our Prime Minister and the media made a totally false and foolish claim today. They said " all churches"  support the VOICE changes to the Constitution. Neither a church or a State can dictate what a believer believes.  

Read this State cancelled radio broadcast made in 1933 ( 6 years before WW 2 started )

https://www.stmichaelsarlington.org/uploads/files/1933-radio-addressdocx_142.pdf





The paradox for a believer is that all this unbeliever focus on more power and more voice  ignores the reality that man's power is always limited ( even a tyrant 0 and is dependent on God letting such persons have it for a while , Far more powerful to let your VOICE be heard by your Saviour and Creator and Redeemer .