Patriot Realm

"...one of Cate’s closest friends – a man she’d played rugby with – is the ex Prime Minister, Tony Abbott. “I knew I’d have to tell him,” she says, “because our friendship is one of the oldest, most continuous friendships of my life.”

"And what did Mr Abbott say? “I got the most loving response,” says Cate,  “He said, ‘Look, it changes nothing.’ Then he said, ‘What’s your preferred name now?’  

Tony Abbott is a good man. 

Trump is being pilloried by his enemies for downplaying the danger of Covid. Unlike many of the rumours and falsehoods hatched to discredit President Trump, this one I believe. Why? Because fostering Hope in times of Fear of the unknown is what great Leaders do.

As the great Sir Winston Churchill said “ War is a game played with a smiling face, but do you think there is laughter in my heart? 

Throughout the second World War, it was essential to keep spirits up, to foster hope and the hope that there would be a morning after – following night after night of despair and fear.

Does the COVID-19 crisis support Neil deGrasse Tyson's call for "Rationalia," a world in which "science" reigns supreme? Here's how C.S. Lewis would have answered.

“You don't need a mask.”

“Everyone needs to wear a mask.”

“Asymptomatic spreaders are the real problem.”

“No wait, it doesn't look like asymptomatic carriers are spreading it.”

“Coronavirus will spread at protests... unless they're protests over the death of George Floyd.”

Solar energy is very dilute, so solar collectors usually cover huge areas of flat arable land, stealing farmland, starving wild herbs and grasses of sunlight and creating “Solar Deserts”.

That is what a liitle five year old girl said.   Isn't that sad   and now I see two older ladies being harrassed by Police in Melbourne.    Their crime sitting on a park bench together.   What a State of affairs.   When I watched the video I was shocked at 5 Police confronting two hardened criminals having some fresh air.;And then to see one of those Officers snatch the phone from one of ladies.   Thank goodness I do not live in Victoria.

So said Peter Lalor in 1854 at the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat. The current catastrophic oppression of civil liberties in Victoria has little to do with the Virus but more to do with the takeover of the People and their Government by the Chinese Communist Party.  

What have we done? We have allowed our guns to be taken from us and turned us into a nation of compliant jellies.

So often, I read comments from people in Australia who say “ who cares about what is happening in America? We need to focus on what is happening here, not in the USA. “

But, given that what is happening here is because China wants America toppled, we should very interested.

And very alarmed.