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Posted on 21 January 202621 January 2026 by wha01

The Full “truth-telling” 26 page Uluru Statement from the Heart

Posted on 5 August 20235 August 2023 by wha01

Recently, a freedom of information (FOI) request uncovered the full 26 page “Uluru Statement from the Heart,” which goes well beyond the “one A4 pager, read in a few minutes” document to which the Prime Minister, Mr Albanese always refers.

Winston Churchill’s rousing wartime speeches

Posted on 17 January 202317 January 2023 by wha01

we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender

Elizabeth I’s speech at Tilbury – 9 August 1588

Posted on 17 January 202317 January 2023 by wha01

Let tyrants fear. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects

The St. Crispin’s Day speech – Henry V

Posted on 17 January 202317 January 2023 by wha01

If we are mark’d to die, we are enow.
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.

Edmund Burke – Father of Modern Conservatism

Posted on 12 November 202212 November 2022 by wha01

Burke did not oppose liberty; he just had a different view on how it was best realised. Liberty based on centuries of evolution of the common law and social norms was superior to the abstract French Rights of Man.

Communism, Chapter 7: The Long March through the Institutions

Posted on 7 April 20228 April 2022 by wha01

In the 1930s in Italy, an imprisoned Communist, Antonia Gramsci, was writing his “prison papers” opining that the dismantling the key cultural institutions, including the family, was necessary before Communism could take hold. Rudi Dutschke, a German Neo-Marxist in the late 1960s, followed on with this theme declaring that revolution would not succeed by violent over-throw, but by subverting society through “a long march through the institutions of power;” education, media, civil service, and judiciary.

Communism, Chapter 6: The Gulag Archipelago

Posted on 1 April 202216 May 2022 by wha01

Solzhenitsyn’s estimate of death toll across the Soviet Union due to all the atrocities of Lenin and Stalin was of 60 million killed (other estimates put it at at least 20 m).

“Ideology—that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination.”

Communism, Chapter 5: Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge

Posted on 24 March 202216 May 2022 by wha01

It was a thorough reset; money and private property were abolished, cities emptied, families separated, religion forbidden, and rural collectives formed. Books were burned and the wearing of glasses was criminalised.

Communism, Chapter 4: Cultural Revolution

Posted on 15 March 202216 May 2022 by wha01

Groups of young people known as Red Guards struggled against authorities at all levels of society, setting up their own tribunals. It is estimated that 100,000s if not millions died. The Police turned a blind eye to the Red Guard beating bourgeois elements to death. Mao is quoted as saying,
“China is a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.”

Communism, Chapter 3: Stalin’s Terror

Posted on 3 March 202216 May 2022 by wha01

In Chapter 3 of a condensed history of the Terror of Communism, the consequences of concentrating power in one person are examined. After the death of Lenin, a former executioner of the party assumed power, leading to three decades of terror. As one example, in 1932 a terror-famine was unleashed on Ukraine causing 3.5 million deaths.