Just as is the case in many countries around the world, Australians are increasingly confused about who is an Aboriginal Australian. Just like who is a woman? Who is a man? What is a lie? What is misspeak? What is Propaganda? What is Misinformation?
So many tough things to deal with these days. But today, I would like to focus on the first issue. What is an Aboriginal Australian? Who is this person that seems so white these days yet is so passionately in touch with the spirits of the elders when they seemingly have a connection with the land and are capable of telepathic communication from the elders ... how is this happening?
An Aboriginal community leader has raised concerns about the apparent increase in non-Aboriginal Australians claiming Indigenous identity.
Read more: Identity Politics is Out of Control
In 1929, Joseph Stalin was hell-bent on getting the farmers to forfeit their rights to own their farms. It was an intentional, man made, planned from the top catastrophe that claimed the lives of between four and ten million people. It was engineered by Joseph Stalin to crush resistance to forced collectivisation of agriculture.
The state would gain ownership of their land and they would end up working for the government.
In order to carry out his plan, he ordered that the grain production regions of Russia and Kazakhstan be the focus of his attention.
Accordingly, a certain percentage of their produce would be funneled to the state. If any farmers resisted they were punished. Why does this sound very sinister to me today on a very deep rooted personal level?
Read more: A Nation that Cannot Feed itself is a Nation in Peril
Today, I want to talk about Laughter. Humour to be exact. Today, we are talking about Irish humour and Acme Sheds. We have just had a few intense days of political and social history and it is time to just take a day off and sit back and reflect.
Here at Patriotrealm we enjoy the company of a bloke calling himself Paddy. He is a bit of an Irish larrikin living down under. In fact, as a result of his jokes, we now have a saying on our blog that, when a joke is particularly funny, it is now known as a " Gladwrapper. " Why? Because you need to wrap your keyboard in glad wrap to protect it from the inevitable gush of tea, coffee, beer, wine, or water that invariably hits as you get to the punchline.
Irish wit is known for being self deprecating and is probably one of the last bastions of humour because the woke wankery can't shut down someone taking the mickey out of themselves.
The following article was published in 1993. Over 30 years ago.
Does the modern bureaucratization of medicine risk a return to the horrors of national socialist medicine?
Today we are concerned about issues such as doctor-assisted suicide, abortion, the use of fetal tissue, genetic screening, birth control and sterilization, health-care rationing and the ethics of medical research on animals and humans.
These subjects are major challenges in both ethics and economics at the end of the twentieth century. But at the beginning of the twentieth century the desire to create a more scientific medical practice and research had already raised the issues of euthanasia, eugenics, and medical experimentation on human subjects.
Read more: Political Health Care - A Scientific and Social Philosophy by a Totalitarian Regime
The Weimar Republic was born out of the ashes of World War I, following Germany's defeat and the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II in November 1918. The new democratic government, named after the city of Weimar where its constitution was drafted, sought to replace the imperial system with a parliamentary democracy.
However, the Republic faced enormous challenges from the outset. The Treaty of Versailles, signed in 1919, placed heavy reparations on Germany and imposed severe territorial losses, fueling national resentment and economic hardship. These conditions created a fertile ground for political extremism, with both the far left and far right vying for control.
It struck me that we are, as countries, are suffering under the horrors of our version of a Versailles Treaty: one where we are prevented from developing our nations due the the restrictions forced upon us by signing up to the Climate Change nonsense....
Until people learn that the same propaganda they see in media, schools, and entertainment today - lying to them and subverting society - they won't know who their true enemies are.
And, the most important thing to remember is that it has been in effect for at least the last 80 years.
In 1944 the Australian politician Arthur Calwell was unhappy that some newspapers were not following wartime censorship restrictions.
Back then as the Minister for Information, he said
All this vaunted freedom of the press on the part of newspaper magnates will not permit views to be published which they do not desire to be published. There is no such thing as freedom of the press, except for those who own and control the newspapers of Australia.
Read more: There is no such thing as freedom of the press, except for those who own and control it
I have had a pretty colourful life one way or another. And it got me thinking. How would the Gazans and others feel if they lived up in the pointy end of Australia? Would they come? So here is my " Welcome to Country " ceremony for all those from other countries who are thinking of making Australia home.
But think twice before you head north for a true blue Aussie ceremony. You might bite off more than you bargained for. Or, someone or something might.
Life out of Australian cities is not for people who cannot deal with the odd oversized lizard or two. It's almost more like " Welcome to the Jungle. "
Read more: Welcome to Country.... to our multicultural refugees, a very big Queensland welcome!
“Some of us may forget that, of all the Allies, it was the Australians who first broke the spell of invincibility of the Japanese Army.”
- Quote from Field Marshall Sir William Slim, Commander of WW2 Commonwealth forces in Burma (and later Governor General of Australia).
And that first fracture in the Japanese Land Forces strength came at Milne Bay in September 1942.
Our boys knew that they had to make sure the Japs didn't get reinforcements in. If that had happened, the outcome of the Second World War may have been completely different.
The allies realised that they needed to take the initiative and subsequently landed Australian troops in the area in June 1942 with the express purpose of building an airfield. US Engineer units, assisted by Australian troops and local Papuan villagers, started building an airstrip, a wharf and the construction of roads.
Read more: On the 27th August 1942 the Japanese were on the doorstep of Australia.......
The Emu War is one of Australia's most curious and bizarre historical events. It took place in late 1932, when a large number of emus, flightless birds native to Australia, caused significant damage to crops in Western Australia.
In response, the Australian government sent a small military force, led by Major G.P.W. Meredith of the Royal Australian Artillery, armed with two Lewis guns and 10,000 rounds of ammunition, to the region in November 1932. The plan was to cull the emus and reduce their numbers to protect the crops.
Curious? I am not surprised. Hell, if if the Australian Army couldn't despatch a few pesky birds then something was very wrong indeed. So let me enlighten you and tell you all about the time that the Australian Army went to war against its coat of arms.... and lost.
Of all the magnificent units and regiments of the Australian Army I doubt if any have a better claim to have been the one that saved Australia than the 39th Infantry Battalion, the first to advance down the Kokoda Track to confront the Japanese.
There are a number of units who could claim this title. The 25th Brigade in the defence of Milne Bay and the Coral Sea Battle. The former was supported by the RAAF. The Coral Sea Battle was a largely American enterprise. The 39th held the Japs at bay alone and unsupported until the 7th Division arrived fresh from the Middle East. For that they get my vote without detracting in any way the efforts and performance of all of our other units, and the Americans, who took on the Japs.
Read more: Those Ragged Bloody Heroes - “We are not a mob. We are the 39th.”
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