The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove

In this episode we discuss:

• BOM
• The Budget
• Yanis
• Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion dollars
• The UK cabinet
• Infiltrate, Impact, Impel
• Victorian Election
• Dan will sponsor the netballers
• Video of Biden singing ‘Baby Shark’ is a deepfake
• Chinese Dementia
• The Chinese Consulate in London
• The Very Rich Guy Foundation
• Michelle Landry
• Oil and Gas Revenue
• Essential Report
• Is Electricity Pricing Running Out of Gas?

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In this episode we discuss:

• Black Death and Crohn’s
• Truss to Rishi Sunak
• The lead up to the resignation
• How UK see it
• How Aussies see it
• How Germans see it
• Things that didn’t age well
• Britain's Conservative Party is collapsing on itself
• Netballers and Hancock Mining
• Why there are no winners off the court in netball saga
• The Statement
• Just tax Gina
• Michael Jones
• Consistency
• Bilibili
• Lydia Thorpe
• Queensland Christian school principal asked students if they knew unmarried teacher lived with boyfriend
• What’s wrong with America ep 360
• Child labour
• Trump and USS John McCain
• Sanctions
• Face Slapping
• How to decide whom to train as RAF fighter pilots

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In this episode we discuss two books:

• How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil
• Less is More by Jason Hickel

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In this episode we discuss:

• General principles of discrimination
• Sometimes discrimination is fair.
• Some jobs have character requirements.
• CEOs and Professional Footballers are in jobs with character requirements
• Tricky part – Thorburn didn’t state stuff openly like Falou.
• How Does this apply to Religious Schools?
• So, circumstances matter when drawing the line.
• The Right of a group to foster an ethos
• Recap
• Twitter takes
• Michael Bradley
• Julia
• Anthony Segaert – Pro Thorburn
• Andrew Thorburn’s CV, here are a few career highlights:
• The West Australian
• Kiri Jervis
• Bolt on Dan Andrews and Marxism
• Scottish Rent Freeze
• Inflation Anomalies
• Think tanks
• Patrons
• China – Am I soft?
• As soft as Jimmy Carter
• Pew surveys
• Learning to hate China
• America
• Biden has two words
• Republican Rap
• China passes the united States in life expectancy
• Body Blown Up
• Climate Change
• Harpers Index

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In this episode we discuss:

• Follow up on previous topics
• Personal Impact
• The Liberal Party Split
• Religions have a track record of splitting political parties
• Perceptions on the future for Humanity
• Russia Ukraine Nord Stream
• Pipeline sabotage – Who Dunnit?
• Professor Jeffrey Sachs on Fox
• Poland
• They can make up any outrageous story and get away with it
• Russia Generally
• UK Budget and Politics
• The Left View
• The View from the Right
• From Crikey
• Poms will sleepwalk – compare with Italians
• Liz Truss – Who is she?
• TV Interviews
• From a colleague
• From John Monbiot
• Believes in Trickle Down economics
• Yanis on Thatcher and Trickle Down
• UK and Truss
• King Charles III and COP27
• The Polls
• Brazil
• From Vox
• From NPR
• From Consortium News
• Glenn Greenwald on Cabo Daciolo
• Japan

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In this episode we discuss:

Episode 356

• AU Dominionism
• Ousted Liberal Party MP Cathrine Burnett-Wake condemns extremists in politics
• Victorian Liberal Party branch stacking claims as Pentecostal church 'infiltrates' branches
• Australians must not ignore the Religious Right’s global warnings
• SA Liberals
• Fiona Patten
• Crystal Ball
• Smoking ceremonies
• RI Opposition is Marxist
• Crikey – Maybe don’t donate?
• Steve Price was cancelled
• Hurricanes and Cyclones
• Politicians UK
• Politicians AU
• Federal ICAC looks good
• Please Drop Aukus
• Jason Clare
• Angus Taylor
• Senator Hume
• Men’s Shed
• Positive Patriotism Perhaps
• UAP Deregistered
• Profits Vs Wages
• Latest data is out
• Ross Gittens
• Alan Austin
• Stiglitz was in Australia

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In this episode, we look at the funeral and the lead-up and what these tell us about our society.

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I don't know about you, but I've been hearing and seeing in the mainstream media lots of references to Cultural Marxism. And when I see this expression, it always seems to be used in a derogatory sense. The people who use it are often trying to dismiss an idea or a movement by calling it Cultural Marxism. They say it without defining Cultural Marxism and without explaining how the circumstances they are observing somehow fit into their definition and they seem to me to be resorting to the expression Cultural Marxism as a way of shutting down debate. If they can paint something as Cultural Marxism then it's something to do with Karl Marx which is therefore something to do with the gulags in communist Russia and therefore must be bad.

So I spent some time looking at what Marx actually said which in summary was about the class war between the workers and the people who own the means of production and it was about economic issues and the way capitalism works and how ultimately it must fail when the workers revolt.

As you will hear in this podcast, Cultural Marxism really has nothing to do with that. In the podcast I'll try to explain what Cultural Marxism is and where it is derived from so that when you next hear it you will be better informed and have more information so that you can properly assess the merits of the argument that proposes to use the term Cultural Marxism.

In this episode we discuss:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:07 Witch Hunts

00:10:52 Fran Bailey

00:14:00 Murdoch and Crikey

00:21:40 Long Covid

00:23:55 Labor's Climate Credentials

00:26:26 Shaq

00:29:45 Stage 3 Tax Cuts

00:39:36 Student Loans

00:49:48 Electricity and Privatisation

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In this episode we discuss:

• Crikey Defamation Threat
• Morrison Ministries Follow Up
• Porter – Cash
• John Howard
• Barnaby Joyce
• Will anything save the Governor General?
• Meanwhile Everyone Loves Albo
• Solar briefly overtakes coal in Australia as number one source of power nationally
• Want to watch the National Energy Market?
• Nuclear Update – It’s not reliable
• Anglican Schism
• Japanese Day Care Nappies
• Property Investors

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