Patriot Realm

During the early years of World War II, the British Army encountered difficulties in advancing across Europe due to the destruction of infrastructure, particularly bridges, by retreating enemy forces. Existing bridge designs were either too heavy and cumbersome to transport or required extensive time and resources to construct, hindering the progress of the advancing troops and their supporting armoured units, including tanks.

Sir Donald Bailey, a British civil engineer, recognised the need for a more efficient and adaptable bridging solution. He designed the Bailey Bridge to be lightweight, modular, and easily transportable, enabling rapid deployment by a small team of soldiers using minimal equipment.

One of its advantages was its ability to support heavy loads which made it well-suited for accommodating armoured vehicles,tanks which weighed around 30 tons.

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.

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? 

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.

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....