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Wednesday 31st October 2018


G’day #Name#,

Here is a sampling of all that crossed my digital desk over the last week.

Walking Past The Cemetary

Modern Acronyms

Ecological_Victory

Service Dog PSA

Global banking stocks are crashing hard

Suspend Arms Sales to Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia

What Does School Teach Children?

Synonym Rolls

Mexico’s 2017 Tehuantepec quake suggests a new worry

Facism And Racism Are Curable

Another Life Wasted On Drugs And Alcohol

It Fits

I Love Doing This

Imagination Creates Reality

The Passage Of Time

Magpie Kangaroo And Vegemite

Is the Western World Too Insane to Be Worth Saving?

It Is Like A Western Movie: A Showdown Is In The Making

Your Problem Is You Are Paying Attention

You Must Be This Tall

’Break up the banks’, Australians tell the Royal Commission

Frack Off Origin

CO2 Not Responsible For Global Warming

I hope you get something from my newsletter this week!

Cheers!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Walking Past The Cemetary
 
Walking Past The Cemetary
 
 
 

This one sort of creeps up on you!

 
 
 
 
Modern Acronyms
 
Modern Acronyms
 
 
 

OMG FYI ICYMI LOL PPL BTW AMA but TBH IDK IRL IDC TGIF. IMO GG, IKR. JK BRB THX SMH Bff. ILY

 
 
 
 
Ecological_Victory
 
Ecological_Victory
 
 
 

Some good news on the Amazon!

 
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Service Dog PSA
 
Service Dog PSA
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Global banking stocks are crashing hard
 
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There is not a reason at all to suspect that the timing of this coincides with the US mid-term elections.

 
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Suspend Arms Sales to Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
 
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This will do more for the starving Yemeni children than one dead journalist but hey, let's stop the flow of arms.

 
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What Does School Teach Children?
 
What Does School Teach Children?
 
 
 

Hats off to the home schooling mums!

 
 
 
 
Synonym Rolls
 
Synonym Rolls
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Mexico's 2017 Tehuantepec quake suggests a new worry
 
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Last September’s magnitude 8.2 Tehuantepec earthquake happened deep, rupturing both mantle and crust, on the landward side of major subduction zone in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico’s far south coast.

Initially, it was believed the earthquake was related to a seismic gap, occurring where the Cocos ocean plate is being overridden by a continental plate, in an area that had not had a quake of such magnitude since 1787. Subduction zone megaquakes generally occur near the top of where plates converge.

The epicenter, however, was 46 kilometers (28 miles) deep in the Cocos plate, well under the overriding plate and where existing earthquake modeling had said it shouldn’t happen, a 13-member research team reported Oct. 1 in the journal Nature Geoscience after an analysis of data from multiple sources.

 
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Facism And Racism Are Curable
 
Facism And Racism Are Curable
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Another Life Wasted On Drugs And Alcohol
 
Another Life Wasted On Drugs And Alcohol
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
It Fits
 
It Fits
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
I Love Doing This
 
I Love Doing This
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Imagination Creates Reality
 
Imagination Creates Reality
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
The Passage Of Time
 
The Passage Of Time
 
 
 

GREAT thing to do with your kids!

 
 
 
 
Magpie Kangaroo And Vegemite
 
Magpie Kangaroo And Vegemite
 
 
 

Is this the most Australian photo of all time

 
 
 
 
Is the Western World Too Insane to Be Worth Saving?
 
 
 
 

According to news reports NBC has cancelled Megyn Kelly’s program for making “insensitive comments” while participating in a panel discussion on the appropriateness of blackface in Halloween costumes. Here is what she said: “Truly, you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface for Halloween or a black person who put on whiteface for Halloween. When I was a kid, that was okay as long as you were dressing up as like a character.” She added, “I don’t know how that got racist on Halloween.” https://www.rt.com/usa/442267-megyn-kelly-nbc-blackface-fired/

It is beyond understanding what is offensive about what she said. She stated that it had become a no-no for the black and white races to impersonate one another even in fun and she didn’t know why. I don’t either. Do you? It makes no sense.

We seem to have reached a point where any statement can be claimed by a member of a “victim group” to be offensive. Saying anything has become risky.

It doesn’t just happen to celebrities with multi-million dollar incomes like Megyn Kelly. It happens to everyone. For example, Joshua Sutcliffe, a young math teacher in Oxfordshire, England, accidently included a “transgender student,” who apparently is female but identifies as a male, when he congratulated his class with the words “well done girls.” The female who identifies as a male but doesn’t look like one, unbeknownst to the teacher regarded herself as a male and complained about his “female-gendered words.” The school suspended him for “misgendering” a student. https://www.rt.com/uk/409760-teacher-trans-girls-christian/

Who gave the tiny group of people, who until recently were almost universally regarded as oddballs outside the domain of everyday life, the right to ruin the careers and lives of people who use the ordinary language that we all grew up with? Who gave these people power over the way the rest of us speak? Why should they have this power? it makes no sense whatsoever. It is evidence of a culture that has lost all respect for truth and all confidence it itself.

Megyn Kelly had no intention to offend anyone and neither did the math teacher. He was giving a compliment. Yet retribution falls on their heads as if they had committed some major felony when they have done nothing whatsoever but speak honestly.

I have written about how science itself is being destroyed by Identity Politics, especially by radical feminist professors who are unwilling to accept the scientific fact that there are biological differences between males and females. You can find the articles on my website.

In the Unz Review Lance Welton in his article, “It’s Official: Even Hard Science Entering New Dark Age,” reports that radical feminists have come up with terms such as “scientific racism” and “scientific sexism” and use the terms to have peer-reviewed published papers deleted from scientific publications. One can only wonder why editors of scientific publications allow emotional and ignorant feminists to censure science exactly as it was censured by the Catholic Church during the era of controversy whether the sun orbited the earth or the earth orbited the sun. The obvious conclusion is that science has lost confidence in itself and is willing to submit to rule by Identity Politics.

Welton provides several examples of science ruled by emotion. Professor Alessandro Strumia, a physicist associated with the world’s largest particle accelerator, has been suspended from his important work. Alessandro said, truthfully, that physics was “built by men” and that today men are being discriminated against in physics education and appointments, because of the push to have an equal number of male and female physicists. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/cern-scientist-suspended-sexism-alessandro-stumia-large-hadron-collider-a8564366.html

I know for a fact that both of Alessandro’s statements are absolutely correct. But being absolutely correct is what dooms you in Identity Politics. The last thing a “victimized person” intent on demonizing a white male cares about is truth.

Welton also reports the case of American mathematician Ted Hill, who investigated the “Genetic Male Variability Hypothesis,” which is that males are over-represented at the extremes of high and low IQ. In other words, males are disproportionally the smartest and the dumbest.

Feminists lost it. The findings violated their ideology, which has no basis in any known science, that the genders are equally bright and equally dumb.

Hill’s paper was peer-reviewed and pubished by one journal and then taken down under feminist pressure. It was then peer-reviewed and published in another journal and then taken down. http://www.unz.com/article/its-official-even-hard-science-entering-new-dark-age/

Scientists working in the field of human genetics are finding that it is not permissible for them to publish their findings that there are genetic race differences in intelligence and other human attributes.

The only conclusion that a sane and rational person can come to is that the Western World is insane. Western science is collapsing under the ideological pressure of Identity Politics.

So why do the Russians want to join the West? Is Russia intent on being part of the collapse of scientific civilization?

Will the Russian government ever realize that their “partners” in the West are insane beyond the meaning of the word?

 
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It Is Like A Western Movie: A Showdown Is In The Making
 
 
 
 

It has taken the US military/security complex 31 years to get rid of President Reagan’s last nuclear disarmament achievement—the INF Treaty that President Reagan and Soviet President Gorbachev achieved in 1987.

The Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was ratified by the US Senate on May 27, 1988 and became effective a few days later on June 1. Behind the scenes, I had some role in this, and as I remember what the treaty achieved was to make Europe safe from nuclear attack by Soviet short and intermediate range missiles, and to make the Soviet Union safe from US attack from short and intermediate range US nuclear missiles in Europe. By restricting nuclear weapons to ICBMs, which allowed some warning time, thus guaranteeing retaliation and non-use of nucular weapons, the INF Treaty was regarded as reducing the risk of an American first-strike on Russia and a Russian first-strike on Europe, strikes that could be delivered by low-flying cruise missiles with next to zero warning time.

When President Reagan appointed me to a secret Presidential committee with subpoena power over the CIA, he told the members of the secret committee that his aim was to bring the Cold War to an end, with the result that, in his words, “those God-awful nuclear weapons would be dismantled.” President Reagan, unlike the crazed neoconservatives, who he fired and prosecuted, saw no point in nuclear war that would destroy all life on earth. The INF Treaty was the beginning, in Reagan’s mind, of the elimination of nuclear weapons from military arsenals. The INF Treaty was chosen as the first start because it did not substantially threaten the budget of the US military/security complex, and actually increased the security of the Soviet military. In other words, it was something that Reagan and Gorbachev could get past their own military establishments. Reagan hoped that as trust built, more nuclear disarmament would proceed.

Now that President Reagan’s remaining achievement has been destroyed, what are the consequences of the Trump administration’s concession to the profits of the US military/security complex?

There are many, none good.

The massive US military/security complex profits will increase as more increasingly scarce American resources flow into the production of intermediate range missiles in order to counter “the Russian threat.” The Republicans will want to pay for this by cutting Social Security and Medicare. I am unsure that the Democrats would be any different.

The Zionist neoconservatives now have their hope rekindled of re-establishing American and Israeli hegemony with an undetected first strike nuclear cruise missile attack on Russia.

More pressure will be on Putin’s government from Alexei Kudrin, the Jewish Lobby, and the billionaire oligarchs put in place by Washington and Israel during the Yeltsin years when Russia was degraded to an American vassal state. These Russian traitors are so powerful that Putin has to tolerate them. With neoconized Washington doing everything it can possibly do to damage the Russian economy and to draw Russian resources off from economic and infrastructure needs to military spending, Kudrin and the Western-supported elements of the Russian media will, with their demands to accommodate Washington, encourage Washington to put yet more pressure on Russia with the intention of forcing Russia into a vassal status with the Germans, British, French, and the rest of Europe, along with Canada, Australia, and Japan.

The Russian government, by its meek response to extraordinary provocations, continues to encourage more provocations, as the provocations cost the US and its vassals nothing. The Russian government’s toleration of traitors, such as Kudrin, does not convince Western peoples that Russia is an open, free speech society. Instead, they believe Kudrin, not Putin. Americans believe that Putin is a thug who stole $50 billion and is one of the world’s richest men. I heard this yesterday from my own cousin. The Western media never paints a correct picture of life in Russia. The only achievement of the Russian government’s non-confrontational response to the West and toleration of treason within its own government is to convince Washington that Putin can be overthrown, just like the pro-Russian president of Ukraine and the presidents of Honduras, Brazil, Argentina.

In the 20th century Americans, or that small percentage that is sentient, were influenced by dystopic novels such as Kafka’s The Trial, Orwell’s 1984, and Huxley’s Brave New World. We identified these novels with life in the Soviet Union, and we feared being conquered and subjectged to such life. It was a long time before I realized that the “Soviet threat” was a hoax, like Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction,” like “Iranian nukes,” like “Assad’s use of chemical weapons,” like . . . you can provide the examples.

The vast majority of the peoples in the world have no idea what is happening. They are trying to find or to keep jobs, to provide housing and food, to find the money for a mortgage or car or credit card payment in the US, and in much of the world water to drink and a bit of food to eat. They are stressed out. They have no energy to confront bad news or to figure out what is happening. They are abandoned by governments everywhere. Outside of Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, where is there a government that represents the people?

Even in Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, and North Korea, are there governments that actually believe in themselves instead of in Western propaganda?

 
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Your Problem Is You Are Paying Attention
 
Your Problem Is You Are Paying Attention
 
 
 

If this applies to you, take a walk until you feel better!

 
 
 
 
You Must Be This Tall
 
You Must Be This Tall
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
‘Break up the banks’, Australians tell the Royal Commission
 
 
 
 

The public and experts made more than 1,000 submissions to the Interim Report of the Financial Services Royal Commission by the 5:00 PM 26 October deadline. Many if not most of the submissions urged Commissioner Kenneth Hayne to recommend a structural separation of Australia’s banks.

In his interim report Commissioner Hayne cited the US Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which until 1999 separated commercial banks with deposits from speculative investment banking, to show that the option of structural separation of the banks is not “novel”. He bookended his report with two crucial questions:

“What can be done to prevent the conduct happening again?” “Is structural change in the industry necessary?”

The submissions reflected what many Australians are coming to realise, that structural change is necessary to prevent the conduct happening again.

Numerous distinguished banking experts emphasised the need for structural separation in their submissions:

Former ANZ director and chairman of Woolworths and the Herald and Weekly Times John Dahlsen wrote: “Structural change is needed … complexity makes change even more difficult. There is a powerful argument that simplicity alone will help performance and transparency. … I believe retail banking and related activities should be separated out from financial services and insurance, leaving non-retail bank activity, say commercial, in a separate entity. Guaranteed deposits would only be available to the retail bank.”

Digital Finance Analytics Principal Martin North, an expert in British and Australian banking, recommended: “The large players are too big to fail and too complex to manage, and need to be broken apart. A modern Glass-Steagall separation would achieve this, and is proven to reduce risk, and drive better customer outcomes and right-size our finance sector.” He elaborated: “In addition, there are significant risks from their operations in derivatives, and in an integrated environment, costs, risks and profits are cross linked. Given the size of the derivatives sector (significantly larger than before the GFC), the systemic risks are significant. To counter this, we advocate the implementation of a modern Glass-Steagall separation, where the high-risk speculative activities are separated from the normal lending, payment and deposit functions within banking. This would have the added benefit of reducing the potential risks of a bank deposit bail-in in a time of crisis.”

Dr Wilson Sy, the former Principal Researcher at the bank regulator APRA (Australian Prudential Regulation Authority), wrote: “The financial services industry should be structurally separated into traditional commercial banking and investment banking. Traditional commercial banking should protect the normal functions of the economy with simple products and activities: payments, deposits, home and business lending. Investment banking should provide services for financial innovation, venture capital formation, trading of securities and other complex products and activities. ASIC and APRA would then be regulating different sets of financial institutions for distinctly different economic purposes.”

Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, himself a former banker, released the Australian Greens’ submission, which calls for “Structural separation of financial institutions—break-up the banks”. The submission elaborates: “It is simply too difficult for legislators and regulators to identify, and act to prevent, all of the opportunities that arise within integrated institutions to do something other than act in the best interests of consumers, be it by subtly but consistently directing existing customers towards in-house products, or by exploiting the loyalty and inertia of customers with excessive fees and charges. The profit motive is simply too strong and structural separation is necessary to curb its worst excesses.”

The Citizens Electoral Council’s submission stated that the only answer to Commissioner Hayne’s questions is “the full structural separation of commercial deposit-taking banks from all other financial services, including investment banking, financial advice, wealth management, stock broking, superannuation, and insurance.”

The royal commission can only do so much—tell cross-benchers to lead Parliament on banking reform

The ball is now in Commissioner Hayne’s court as to whether he recommends Glass-Steagall in his final report; be assured, however, that the banks will be lobbying him against it, and there are indications that the discredited regulators such as the RBA are also pressuring him against structural change.

Yet even if Hayne does recommend structural separation, there is no guarantee his recommendations will be implemented. Governments ignore royal commission recommendations all the time, and the fact is that both the Liberals and Labor receive big donations from the banks, which will be trying to convince them it’s not necessary. This underscores the fact that Glass-Steagall will only be achieved if the Australian people demand it of their elected representatives.

The good news is the major parties are at their weakest right now. With the election of Kerryn Phelps in the Wentworth by-election, independents and minor parties now hold the balance of power in both the House of Representatives and Senate. In the House, four of the six cross-benchers have expressed support for banking separation. In the Senate, almost all cross-benchers, including the Greens, Centre Alliance and independents, and Nationals Senator Barry O’Sullivan who crossed the floor, voted for Pauline Hanson’s 18 October Notice of Motion to break up the banks (only Justice Party Senator Derryn Hinch and Liberal Democrat Senator David Leyonhjelm voted with the major parties against it).

The cross-bench MPs should use their balance of power to insist the major parties commit to banking reform, especially a full, Glass-Steagall structural separation. Legislation is already in Parliament: the Banking System Reform (Separation of Banks) Bill 2018, introduced by Bob Katter and Andrew Wilkie into the House of Representatives on 25 June. Contact the cross-bench to ask them to insist the major parties allow a debate and vote on this bill. They need to know they have the public’s support for doing this. Only unrelenting, maximum pressure from the public will outweigh the lobbying power of the banks over Parliament.

Call or email these cross-bench MPs:

Adam Bandt, Member for Melbourne, Australian Greens. Supports separation.
Ph: (03) 9417 0759
Email: Adam.Bandt.MP@aph.gov.au

Cathy McGowan, Member for Indi, Independent. Support unknown.
Wangaratta Ph: (03) 5721 7077
Wodonga Ph: (02) 6024 6284
Email: Cathy.McGowan.MP@aph.gov.au

Hon. Bob Katter, Member for Kennedy, Katter’s Australian Party. Leading supporter of banking separation; thank Bob for leading on this issue and ask him to prioritise it in his negotiations.
Innisfail Ph: (07) 4061 6066
Mt Isa Ph: (07) 4743 3534
Email: Bob.Katter.MP@aph.gov.au

Rebekha Sharkie, Member for Mayo, Centre Alliance. Supports separation.
Ph: (08) 8398 5566
Email: Rebekha.Sharkie.MP@aph.gov.au

Andrew Wilkie, Member for Denison, Independent. Supports separation.
Ph: (03) 6234 5255
Email: Andrew.Wilkie.MP@aph.gov.au

* Dr Kerryn Phelps’ parliamentary contacts details are not yet available.

From our friends at the CEC.

 
 
 
 
Frack Off Origin
 
Frack Off Origin
 
 
 

A group of Traditional Owners travelled 3,000 kilometres from the NT to Sydney to speak out against Origin Energy’s fracking plans at the company’s AGM. For some, this was their first trip outside the Territory, and even their first trip on a plane.

Traditional Owners did this because they are extremely worried about Origin’s fracking plans. Now that the NT Government has lifted its moratorium on fracking, shale gas exploration seems imminent. But instead of backing down, Traditional Owners had some tough asks for Origin Chairman Gordon Cairns. And they got him to come clean.

It became clear at the AGM that Origin has failed to reveal the scale and risks of its shale gas field proposal. Now that we have this admission, we need to mobilise to stop Origin, and give Traditional Owners the final say on what happens to their land.

 
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Scientific Studies Confirm: Rising CO2 Levels ARE NOT Responsible For Climate Change
 
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Though most of the world blames the fossil fuel industry for the increase in CO2, the fact is more than half of greenhouse gas emissions are coming from the animal agricultural industry.

When you have these studies, plus 97% of peer-reviewed climate science papers agreeing that humans are causing global warming, it is next to impossible to logically disagree. You would seem foolish to go against thousands of scientists.

They are, however, wrong. They are promoting an agenda.

Note: This article is not written to support what the fossil fuel or animal agriculture industry are doing to the planet. They are absolutely reeking havoc, death, and devastation, and they must be stopped.

The purpose of this article is to explore the truth behind what is happening to our planet, and what is causing it.

 
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Until next time,
dream big dreams,
plan out how to achieve them,
be continually executing your plans,
enlist people to your causes,
travel and/or read widely, preferably both,
all the while observing what you observe
rather than thinking what you are told to think,
think well of your fellow man,
take time to help your fellow man,
he sorely needs it and it will help you too,
eat food that is good for your body,
exercise your body,
take time to destress,
and do the important things
that make a difference -
they are rarely the urgent ones!

Tom

 
 

Most of the content herein has been copied from someone else. Especially the images. My goodness some people are talented at creating aesthetics! The small bits that are of my creation are Copyright 2014-2018 © by Tom Grimshaw - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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