In the event of Donald Trump's "Music Town Hall" meeting in Philadelphia suburbs, we can see how Entertainment Has Been Used to Keep Uneducated Persons Ignorant. Two attendees separately had medical issues at...
American-Australian Relational History
Explaining Kamala Harris’ Centrist Politics: extract from Michael Kranish’s ‘Washington Post’ article
Michael Kranish, "These five tumultuous years in Montreal shaped Kamala Harris", The Washington Post, October 13, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT. MONTREAL — Kamala Harris was just starting her freshman year at a high school in Quebec when, as one of her...
Change from the western Anglo-American world
You know that the western Anglo-American world is changing when this is the message from Oral Roberts University, the major site of the culture-history war since the 1970s. The change, though, has to be actualised, demonstrated, in our personal...
It is a Disgrace: Australian Parliament Rejection of the PM’s War and Peace Statement, But that is the Political Undoing the Cognition.
It was disgraceful and uneducated behaviour, in the Australian Parliament Rejection of the PM's War and Peace Statement, but that is the Political undoing the Cognition. No statement is perfect. The Prime Minister's War and Peace Statement could...
Dr Bandy Lee. Subtle Influence of Trumpism on Scholarly Organisations
Something illuminating to add. On The Weekend Show podcast, between 13:12:00 and 22:35:00 Dr Bandy Lee spoke on the subtle effect of Trumpism on scholarly organisations. I have attempted to create a clip but I do not have the technical skills and...
A Letter to Simon: Towards a Conversation Between an Australian Monarchist and an Australian Republican
Dear Simon, Thank you for inviting me to your King's Birthday BBQ! As Donald Horne's key message of The Lucky Country, “Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck.” We, as an Australian Monarchist and an Australian...
The Power Elite and American Wealth on Tuesday 5 November 2024
"Who, after all, runs America? No one runs it altogether, but in so far as any group does, the power elite." C. Wright Mills (1959). The Sociological Imagination, Oxford University Press. p. 31. Mills' The Power Elite thesis (1956) has sustain the...
The Turning of the Tide in American Politics: George Conway Explains
Sarah Longwell and George Conway debrief the presidential debate, applaud Alberto Gonzales's Harris endorsement, and talk trial timelines in DC and New York. The splinter of the most confused will stick with Trump, but among the one-fourth...
2024 USA Culture-History Warfare
Jennifer Ford, the historical society’s executive director, said Butler has seen flashes of political tension before, especially considering the community’s proximity to heavily unionized Pittsburgh. But Ford said she can’t recall another time that was "as outright...