CYKIAE (Christ You Know It Ain't Easy): Recent Episodes
Paul Fordyce
I think I’m probably right in assuming that most of you have heard of the Big Bang. It says that first there was nothing and then it exploded and became our universe. But have you heard of the Big Life Explosions. They happened mainly in the Cambrian period - 542 to 488.3 million years ago. But they also happened in other periods as well. When they happened winged insects, birds, flowering plants, mammals, and many other groups appeared suddenly in the fossil records. The sudden appearance of these new life forms had no connection to previously existing life forms. In other words this life wasn’t there one moment, and then it was. Did it arrive through Darwin’s process of evolution? There’s absolutely no evidence to support that theory about how these life forms appeared. Darwin knew that his theory had a serious problem here. What did he do to accommodate this in his Theory to stop it falling to pieces?
Tag words: Big Bang Theory; Charles Darwin; The Origin of Species; Jonathon Wells; Zombie Science; Cambrian explosion; Theory of Evolution; Stephen Meyer; Return of the God Hypothesis; Darwin's Doubt; Signature in the Cell; Eugene Koonin; biological big bang; John Lennox; God’s Undertaker; Niles Eldredge; Colin Patterson; Archaeopteryx; James Valentine; Douglas Erwin; Paul Chien; God; Communism; Marxist ideology; punctuated equilibria; punctuated equilibrium; Nazism; Richard Weikart; Darwinian Racism; Walter Gross; Lamarckism;
Darwin was exactly like Einstein – only not in the good way that turned out for him. I’ll tell you about that later in this programme.
Tag words: Charles Darwin; The Origin of Species; Cambrian Explosion Albert Einstein; theory of relativity; Richard Dawkins; evolution; Stephen Myer; The Return of the God Hypothesis; DNA; RNA; John Lennox; God’s Undertaker; Pierre Grasse; Michael Behe; genetic homeostasis; E. coli; Colin Patterson; Cambrian Explosion; Tree of Life; Jonathon Wells; Zombie Science; Alister McGrath; The Twilight of Atheism;
DARWIN WROTE IN THE FIRST EDITION OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES that North American black bears had been seen "swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water." What did this have to do with the subject of his book? "Even in so extreme a case as this," Darwin continued, "if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."
Critics poked fun at this, and Darwin removed it from later editions, but he defended it privately. "The bear case has been well laughed at, and disingenuously distorted by some into my saying that a bear could be converted into a whale," he wrote in an 1860 letter. "As it offended persons, I struck it out in the second edition; but I still maintain that there is no especial difficulty in a bear's mouth being enlarged to any degree useful to its changing habits, — no more difficulty than man has found in increasing the crop of the pigeon, by continued selection, until it is literally as big as the whole rest of the body.”
So wrote Jonathon Wells in his book Zombie Science. But Darwin’s Theory of Evolution had problems. Problems that he knew and worried about from day one and they were as big as a whale. In fact the first and biggest , most threatening problem to his Theory of Evolution that he knew about was as big as a Blue Whale – or a 200 ton aquatic American black bear.
Tag words: Charles Darwin; On the Origin of Species; Jonathon Wells; Zombie Science; Stephen Meyer; Return of the God Hypothesis; Neo-Darwinism; the modern synthesis; Richard Dawkins; The God Delusion; Bishop Samuel Wilberforce; Thomas Henry Huxley; Daniel Boorstin; The Discoverers; Alister McGrath; The Twilight of Atheism; John Lennox; God’s Undertaker;
Now I’m about to enter into a discussion of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. I’ll be putting material that doesn’t agree with that theory, and that’s very brave of me. Maybe insanely brave. Maybe mad.
John Lennox, in his book, God’s Undertaker explained why recounting this story:
A leading Chinese palaeontologist Jun-Yuan Chen ran into this problem when visiting the USA in 1999. His work on the remarkable discoveries in Chengjiang of strange fossil creatures led him to question the orthodox evolutionary line. In true scholarly fashion he mentioned his criticisms in his lectures but they elicited very little response. This lack of reaction surprised him and so he eventually asked one of his hosts what was wrong. He was told that scientists in the USA did not like to hear such criticism of evolution. To this he gave the delightful reply that it seemed to him that the difference between the USA and China was: 'In China we can criticize Darwin, but not the government; in America you can criticize the government, but not Darwin.'
This is in line with the view in England also it would seem from my last programme, when I quoted Richard Dawkins saying that anyone who claims not to believe in evolution that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but he said he didn’t wish to consider that possibility.
The first great fall of man, that we know about, happened with Adam and Eve. Man was expelled from paradise, the Garden of Eden. Paradise was lost.
But then thousands of years later, in 1859, the world, looked at from the point of view of the British Empire, was living in another golden age, perhaps in a new Garden of Eden, as if we’d somehow managed to find our way back into Eden. But then, perhaps even more startling, a new revelation was unveiled to us when the scales fell from our eyes. God didn’t create man, man created God. Freud revealed this staggering truth to us. As we all know today, Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, in his 1859 published book, The Origin of the Species, killed the very idea of God. At least that’s what we’re told, or was that just fake news. So let’s look closely at Mr Darwin and his contribution that lead to the cover story on Time magazine of 22 October 1965 asking, Is God Dead?
Tag words: Adam and Eve; Garden of Eden; Charles Darwin; Theory of Evolution; The Origin of the Species; God; Is God Dead; New Atheists; Richard Dawkins; Genesis; William Whewell; natural philosophers; John Ray; Carolus Linnaeus; Daniel Solander; Captain Cook; Sir Joseph Banks; HMS Beagle; Georges-Louis Leclerc; Comte de Buffon; James Ussher; Archbishop Ussher; Daniel Boorstin The Discoverers; God of the Gaps; Sir Isaac Newton; the Creation;
Carl Sagan was probably the best known scientist in the West in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1980 his 13 part series, Cosmos, aired and was a spectacular hit. In the very opening of the series he told his audience this:
So according to Carl Sagan, the cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be. To elaborate he meant that the universe was made only from things in our universe -- matter and energy. Explicitly he was saying that there is no God. That was not a statement of the finding of science, made by him as a scientist, it was a statement of Carl Sagan’s personal belief.
But then just a year later Francis Crick, one of the discoverer’s of DNA, the famous double helix, an atheist, said something quite disturbing, well for an atheist that is:
"An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going."
Stephen Meyer’s book, The Return of the God Hypothesis, published in 2021, may have delivered the final death blow to the popularist atheism that Carl Sagan had opened his Cosmos series with. Today all the science seems to be going against any belief that there’s no Creator outside the universe. But more than that, the fall of atheism, if that’s what we’re witnessing, taken to its logical conclusion, spells the end of the West’s self loathing and weird ideologies that are based on the view that the Bible is not the truth and a return to societies based on Judaeo Christian values – which Tom Holland in his book Dominion, said was and is the reason for the success of the West – or more precisely societies that are governed in accordance with God’s laws and ethics as revealed in the Bible. For the West, and the world, I believe, this will come as a great liberation. This series will explore all of those issues and their ramifications.
Tag words: Carl Sagan; Cosmos; Francis Crick; DNA; double helix; atheist; Stephen Meyer; The Return of the God Hypothesis; Tom Holland; Dominion; Bible; John Lennox; Big Bang Theory; Fred Hoyle; Charles Darwin; The Origin of the Species; Geraint Lewis; Luke Barnes; A Fortunate Universe; Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation; anthropic coincidences; Goldilocks universe; Genesis 2:7; Richard Dawkins; The Greatest Show on Earth; Dr Stephen Iacoboni; The Undying Soul;
A great thinker said that the the medieval mind was broader than ours because they believed that the ultimate realities were outside place and time and that man could commune with them through mystical experience and after the death of the body. Who was it that said that?
Tag words: Dr Frankl; Man’s Search for Meaning; Nazi Death camps; the no-future generation; give-up-it is; depression; aggression; addiction; the existential vacuum; logotherapy; Harold S Kushner; When Bad Things Happen to Good People; Dr Iacoboni; The Undying Soul; Henry Bamford Parkes; The Divine Order; Telos;
In his book, 12 Rules for Life, Jordan Peterson wrote:
So why not call this a book of "guidelines," a far more relaxed, user-friendly and less rigid sounding term than "rules"?
Because these really are rules. And the foremost rule is that you must take responsibility for your own life. Period.
One might think that a generation that has heard endlessly, from their more ideological teachers, about the rights, rights, rights that belong to them, would object to being told that they would do better to focus instead on taking responsibility. Yet this generation, many of whom were raised in small families by hyper-protective parents, on soft-surface playgrounds, and then taught in universities with "safe spaces" where they don't have to hear things they don't want to—schooled to be risk-averse—has among it, now, millions who feel stultified by this underestimation of their potential resilience and who have embraced Jordan's message that each individual has ultimate responsibility to bear; that if one wants to live a full life, one first sets one's own house in order; and only then can one sensibly aim to take on bigger responsibilities. The extent of this reaction has often moved both of us to the brink of tears.
Sometimes these rules are demanding. They require you to undertake an incremental process that over time will stretch you to a new limit. That requires, as I've said, venturing into the unknown. Stretching yourself beyond the boundaries of your current self requires carefully choosing and then pursuing ideals: ideals that are up there, above you, superior to you—and that you can't always be sure you will reach.
Life is not always easy, not always in your control. How would this generation have coped in the Nazi Death Camps. Dr Frankl answered that question – because he had just done exactly that.
Tag words: Jordan Peterson; 12 Rules for Life; safe spaces; responsibility; life; Dr Frankl; Man’s Search for Meaning; Nazis; meaning of life; Rainer Marie Wilkie; SS; death camps; gas chambers; Auschwitz; Lord's Prayer; Shema Yisrael; victimhood; oppressed; tragic optimism; logotherapy;
Oppressors and oppressed. Victims and victimhoodr. Dr Viktor Frankl showed that there was an easy way any victim could escape their victimhood.
Tag words: Oppressors and oppressed; Victims; victimhood; Dr Viktor Frankl; Man’s Search for Meaning; Auschwitz; Sigmund Freud; Alfred Adler; Darwin; Theory of Evolution; Dr Iacoboni; the mass murderer of Steinhof; Lubianka prison; Freedom; Responsibility; Arthur Miller; Incident at Vichy; Nazis; Frederick Nietzsche; Twilight of the Idols;
Dr Frankl, now liberated from the death camps, wrote in his book Man’s Search for Meaning: We came to meadows full of flowers. We saw and realized that they were there, but we had no feelings about them. The prisoners of the Nazi death camps had been gutted. Would they ever feel again?
Tag words: Dr Frankl; Man’s Search for Meaning; Nazi death camps; God; Dr Iacoboni; The Undying Soul; St Paul; 2 Timothy 2; 2 Timothy 3; soul; Third Reich; depersonalization; Psalm 118:5; fear God;
Can you escape your death? Not the last one, of course, no one can escape that one, but can you escape an early death? Viktor Frankl did – by sheer chance and in this part I’m going to tell you how he managed that.
Tag words: Viktor Frankl; Man’s Search for Meaning; Nazi death camps; Auschwitz; Death in Teheran; Hitler; Thousand Year Reich; Türkheim; God; soul; Red Cross; Dr Iacoboni; The Undying Soul; acute leukemia; Wolves;
What’s the one thing that you wouldn’t expect to find in the Nazi death camps?
Tag words: Nazi death camps; Dr Iacoboni; The Undying Soul; acute leukemia; the Lord; God; Dr Frankl; Man’s Search for Meaning; Türkheim Concentration Camp; Dachau; Cannibalism;
Dr Frankl, Dr Iacoboni and Carter would have definitely related to the lyrics of the Bee Gees “Stayin’ Alive”:
Life goin' nowhere
Somebody help me
Somebody help me, yeah
Life goin' nowhere
Somebody help me, yeah
I'm stayin' alive
But would they? Would they stay alive?
Tag words: Dr Frankl; Man’s Search for Meaning; brutality; SS; Nazi Death Camp; Dr Iacoboni; Reverend Billy Graham; atheist; God; omnipotent; free will; bargain with God; death;
Death, in the form of cancer, had invaded Maria’s body – but she wasn’t afraid. Why not? Who would win – Maria or death? So many before, in her position, had been carried off by the Grim Reaper. Over 50 years before, in Hitler’s ever diminishing Greater German Reich, for Jews, death could come at any time from any one of many places or people in the Nazi death camps, or they could, instead, take their own lives – but these men didn’t choose that path after one man gave them the gift of revealing to them their reason why they had to live.
Tag words: Death; cancer; Grim Reaper; Greater German Reich; Hitler; Dr Iacoboni; The Undying Soul; acute leukemia; God; Auschwitz; Dr Frankl; Man’s Search for Meaning; Harold Kushner; group therapy; meaning;
There is the other side. Crossing over to the other side. To Dr Viktor Frankl it meant one thing – betrayal. To Dr Stephen Iacoboni it meant something else, something divine. Let’s dive deep into these two very different experiences.
Tag words: Crossing over to the other side; Dr Viktor Frankl; The Meaning of Life; Capos; Dr Stephen Iacoboni; The Undying Soul; Nazis; SS; gas chambers; Jews; botulism; lung cancer; chemotherapy; radiation; Carl Jung;
In 1981 Harold Kushner wrote a book called When Bad Things Happen to Good People. In this part of the programme I’ll provide the answer to the question Why?
Tag words: Harold Kushner; When Bad Things Happen to Good People; MD Anderson; Dr Iacoboni; The Undying Soul; Psalm 121; Lake Pend Oreille; Jackson Browne; For a Dancer; God; multiple myeloma; Dr Frankl; The Meaning of Life; Wagner-Jauregg; Dennis Prager; Alan Dershowitz; Holocaust; Auschwitz; Treblinka;
What was it that some people in the Nazi death camps had, that others didn’t, which helped them survive life there better than others?
Tag words: Nazi death camps; Viktor Frankl; Auschwitz; anti-semitism; Bergen-Belsen; Dr Stephen Iacoboni; The Undying Soul; Walla Walla Washington; Pavel; Chernobyl nuclear meltdown;
Chernobyl. That’s a name to send a chill up your spine. The worst nuclear disaster in history. It happened on 26 April 1968 in Ukraine. Let me tell you how an American oncologist got involved with a man whose life was taken away in the literal fallout from that disaster – and, more importantly the way in which it changed Dr Iacoboni’s life.
Tag words: Chernobyl; oncologist; Dr Iacoboni; The Undying Soul; leukemia; Soviet Union; pavel; Christian; Dr Frankl; The Meaning of Life; undernourished; religion;
In this part of the series I’m going to tell you the story of a man who fell off an abyss, while another man watched helplessly. There’s another story that I have to tell too, of third man who was in serious danger of falling off an abyss. That man was going to have to be able to save himself because no one else would.
Tag words: Auschwitz; Dr Frankl; The Meaning of Life; apathy; Dr Iacoboni; The Undying Soul;oncologist; cancer; David Bentley-Hart; Atheist Delusions; non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; religious faith;
Dr Frankl gave the most breathtaking observation on humankind. What we are like. What we are capable of. I promise you, read it and you’ll never forget it. Better still, let me read it to you.
Tag words: Dr Viktor Frankl; The Meaning of Life; Dr Stephen Iacoboni; Telos; God; Catholic faith; Supertramp; Logical Song; MD Anderson Cancer Center; Nazis; Jews; Shema Yisrael; Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Hear O Israel; Auschwitz; Lords Prayer; Harold Kushner; When Bad Things Happen to Good People; Textbooks tell lies; suicide; Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; normal behavior;
I’m continuing with my series of programmes about how you can achieve what I think is the good goal spelled out by Jordan Peterson in Rule 5 of his book “12 Rules for Life” - don’t let your children do anything that will make you dislike them.
But some people think that a parent discipling their child is destroying their unique individuality, their creativity, that discipline represses them. But are they right?
And what does this have to do with the Feminist Movement?
Tag words: Discipline; Feminist Movement; Jordan Peterson; 12 Rules for Life; John Lennon; Yoko Ono; God; children; Christians; Saint Paul; Christianity; Galatians 3:28; Women’s Christian Temperance Union; Bill Bryson; The Body – A Guide for Occupants; Charles Darwin; Richard Dawkins; brain; Alfred Wallace; male brain; amygdala; child liberation; Parents; friendless child; Proverbs 22:6; Proverbs 19:18;
Now here’s a saying that you might not have heard for a long time. “Spare the rod and spoil the child”. Maybe some of you have never heard it. The full version of it is in the Book of Proverbs in the Bible, 13:24 and it reads “Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.”
With people like John Lennon saying that we need child liberation after women’s liberation, many people today will undoubtedly say that he was right and the Bible was wrong.
Jordan Peterson, in his book “12 Rules for Life” said that we shouldn’t let our children do anything that will make us dislike them. He’s talking about letting our children misbehave. He follows up on that theme up in his book: “Beyond Order – 12 More Rules for Life”. Basically what he’s saying is that if you spare the rod, if you don’t discipline your children, you will be a major contributor to potentially ruining the entire lives of your children, which would be a very serious outcome. I note here that God agrees with Jordan Peterson, who has basically filched God’s thousands of years old teaching from the Bible.
A common reaction to parents who use physical discipline on their children is to call it abuse. It can be, if its done to excess. It’s clearly abuse not to guide your young children to behaviour that will give them the best life that it possibly can have by refusing to discipline them. Anything done to excess, at either end of the spectrum is wrong. But you can’t wipe out just one end of the spectrum and leave the other. Both ends need to be removed. If you watch any nature programme you’ll see lions giving their young a good slap when it’s needed. They know what to do. They don’t murder their offspring, but they pull them into line. If you’re a modern pagan, then you think that you descended from an ape, but if you don’t physically discipline them when needed, like videos you’ll see of gorillas doing to their young, then you’re still missing the essential point.
So how does Jordan Peterson explain his ideas about discipline?
Tag words: Discipline; Spare the rod and spoil the child; John Lennon; Jordan Peterson; 12 Rules for Life; Beyond Order – 12 More Rules for Life; creativity; freedom; child abuse; free spirit; aggressiveness; adolescence; free thinking; independence; morality; the Bible; the Ten Commandments; God; Matthew Parris; Christian missionaries; Galatians 3:28; St Paul; Sunday school;
This series is about two men. Both had death at their side as a constant companion. But both somehow discovered the meaning, the purpose of life. One is Dr Viktor Frankl – a holocaust survivor. The other is Dr Stephen Iacoboni, a cancer specialist, an oncologist. Two amazing stories.
Tag words: Dr Viktor Frankl; The Meaning of Life; Dr Stephen Iacoboni; The Undying Soul; oncologist; oncologist; Jordan Peterson; 12 Rules for Life; fear of death; Nazi Germany; Sigmund Freud; Rothschild Hospital; Catholic; the Bible; Christian; Bertrand Russell; Jacques Monod; atheist; The Brothers Karamazov; Dostoevsky; National Socialist; Nazis; Ten Commandments;
Just one page, torn from a book and hidden, changed Dr Frankl’s life – what could be written on a page that would have such an effect?
Tag words: Dr Viktor Frankl; Dr Stephen Iacoboni; The Undying Soul; MD Anderson; Leslie; Catholic; Nietzsche; God is dead; Science; progressive left; Auschwitz; Zyklon B;
Do you go to the left? Or do you go to the right? Disturbingly in Latin the word for left is sinister. Sinister‘s defined as suggesting or threatening harm or evil. Causing or intending harm or evil; wicked. Portending misfortune or disaster, ominous. The choice of whether you go left or right isn’t always in your hands. Viktor Frankl went to the right – where he was told to go by the kind SS man – I’m just kidding of course. Stephen Iacoboni went to the left – politically that is. Did he have a choice when he did that? It turned out that the choice that the SS man made for Viktor Frankl was a good one. The choice that Stephen Iacoboni made for himself, especially because he was about to become an oncologist, dealing with patients with cancer, who very frequently were going to die, was a bad one.
Tag words: Sinister; Viktor Frankl; The Meaning of Life; Stephen Iacoboni; The Undying Soul; Nazi death camps; Auschwitz; SS; World War II; MD Anderson Cancer Centre; Science;
In my last programme I spoke about Holocaust survivor, Viktor Frankl, his book “The Meaning of Life”, and the Holocaust. Talking about the Holocaust, as if everyone knew what I was talking about, was a big call because a lot of people today don’t know what the Holocaust was. Who caused the Holocaust – was it the Jews like many younger people think? Let me briefly tell you about how the Holocaust came to be known to the world from the end of World War II until today.
Tag words: Viktor Frankl; The Meaning of Life; Holocaust; World War II; Nazis; Rudolf Hoess; Auschwitz; Malcom Gladwell; The Revenge of the Tipping Point; Nazi death camps; Steven Spielberg; Shoa; Vietnam War; The Deer Hunter; Apocalypse Now; The Odd Angry Shot; Wansee Conference; Reinhard Heydrich; Anne Frank; The Final Solution; the Nazi atrocities; Holocaust: The Story of the Family Weiss; Meryl Streep; Steven Spielberg; Schindler’s List; Mauthausen concentration camp; Amon Goeth; Ralph Fiennes; Schindler’s List; The Big Bang Theory; Herbert Schlosser; The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression; Jordan Peterson; Exodus; the Bible; Satan;
Happiness is … discipline. Limitations. The most important limitations are the ones that we know to put on ourselves because they’re going to make us fit into the world without unnecessary conflicts that are bad for us in lots of ways. And being disciplined in ourselves will actually make our lives better. But there are also limitations that are put on us from the outside. Most importantly from our parents and especially in the years when we’re very young and need to be steered in the right direction.
For children discipline is one of the most important parts of growing up. Without you, as a parent, giving your child the right discipline, there’s sadly a really good chance that your child will suffer at school and in every social inter-action it has, and when they grow up they will not only fail to realised their full potential but may have serious mental health issues. And all of that will be down to you to a great extent – the good stuff and the bad stuff.
So let me explain what I mean and how it works.
As Jordan Peterson says, don’t let your children do anything that will make you dislike them.
Tag words: Discipline; Happiness; Limitations; parents; Jordan Peterson; 12 Rules for Life; brothers; sisters; step-brothers; step-sisters; mother; father; biological parents; Sleeping Beauty; Malificent; Aurora; Christening; Prince Charming; Prince Philip; Queen Elizabeth II; The Bible; Hebrews 12:5-11;
I’m doing programmes talking about how to achieve the result that Jordan Peterson, in Rule 5 of his book, “12 Rules for Life”, calls “Do Not Let Your Children Do Anything that Makes You Dislike Them.” I think that’s a great goal that all parents should all aim for.
Before we pass the buck to the children, saying it’s all their fault that they’re behaving so badly, we need to admit that the behaviour of our children begins and is very largely based on the sort of everyday life they live with what I’d call parents, or what are more politically correctly called caregivers, which dehumanises everyone.
Let me illustrate by starting to talk about this problem with an almost very useful article by the legendary American Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. The article is called “Preventing Child Maltreatment Through the Promotion of Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships between Children and Caregivers”. So there’s that word again.
Now the article is supposed to be giving advice that, amongst other things, should produce the result that your children won’t do anything that makes you dislike them. But even before you get past the title, you’ve hit the first problem with the solution that they come up with. And it’s almost a good solution. But the fatal problem is in the title. So I’ll talk about that.
Tag words: Discipline; Jordan Peterson; 12 Rules for Life; children; co-habiting parents; married parents; maltreatment of children; step-families; step father; Incest; role models; reform institutions; swinging sixties; married family; Christian;
During the flooding in northern New South Wales in early 2022, one victim interviewed on national television said how disgraceful it was that neighbours with small boats, had had to help other neighbours who were in difficulties, even danger, from the flood waters. He asked the rhetorical question, “where is the Army?”. He blamed Scott Morrison for this.
And I thought to myself, isn’t that what neighbours are supposed to do for each other? So today with youth crime going out of control, the popular call is for the government to do something. But we all can do something about that problem too I think, once we get understand why we have the problem. So let me tell you what I think is the cause of the problem.
Tag words: Discipline; Swinging 60s; Peter Pan; J.M. Barrie; Neverland; the Lost Boys; Children; family; break up; single mothers; Divorce; divorced families; biological family; biological parents; father; broken home; freedom; independence;
These programmes are all about children. How you as a parent, can give them the best possible whole of life. Because what you give them, or don’t give them, is the foundations for their whole life, giving them the chance at having the happiest life possible – or the opposite.
They’re definitely going to be more than capable of mucking up their lives for themselves, especially when they get older, but the chances of that happening can be reduced by you during the years that they are living with you and having their lives shaped by being with you, watching how you live your life, ideally living with both of their biological parents in a home, and having those parents love their children enough to be actively involved in shaping the lives of those children, importantly including disciplining and training their children when they need it. As Jordan Peterson said “Don’t let your children do anything that makes you dislike them”.
So let’s look more closely at what happens in families where this ideal of having both biological parents living with the child, isn’t happening.
Tag words; Children; parent; Christian marriage; Proverbs 18:22; The Bible; Jesus; Matthew 19:4-6; 1 Corinthians 7:4; one parent families; poverty; two biological parents; sexual abuse; step-father; step-mother; Swinging 60s;
Youth crime. It’s a big issue today. Why is there so much? Up here in Cairns, people have talked about punishing the parents for the crimes committed by their children. There’s something in that. Some fairness. But it’s not really a good idea. Because the real culprit is our society and the way we’ve let it develop. The model that we’ve brought in over the last 60 odd years from the Swinging Sixties, well, it’s slowly but surely runing our society into the ground – and we’re all being punished for that – just look at the youth crime. It hurts everyone. The kids, and the victims of the kids and the pain goes throughout the whole society.
Families are the foundations of our society – nothing there has changed or can change if we want a good strong, happy, society. But we seem to be really trying to destroy families. You know that cartoon, a man sitting on a tree branch high up. He’s sawing it off where it joins the tree trunk. When he saws through enough he’s going to fall to the ground. And if we damage our families enough we’re all going to be in a total mess.
So we need to look back at what makes relationships work and last, to have well adjusted children brought into the world to end youth crime, along with a whole lot else that’s going wrong today.
As Jordan Peterson said, your goal as a parent should be not to allow your children to do anything that makes you dislike them.
The thing that you’re most going to need, to be a successful parent, is a time machine. You might think that that’s ridiculous, but you actually have one, you just don’t know it, so I’m going to tell you about your time machine and it’s time to start using it.
Tag words: Youth crime; Swinging Sixties; Families; Jordan Peterson; 12 Rules for Life; living together; married; biological parents; Adoption; children; parents; broken homes; divorce; Christian marriage; stepfamilies; single mums; Single motherhood;
There’s a great title to one of the rules in Jordan Peterson’s book “12 Rules for Life” - “Do Not Let Your Children Do Anything that Makes You Dislike Them”.
The chapter’s about discipline, training and encouragement of our children, especially by parents, to eventually make better adults of them. In a lot of ways discipline is a topic that’s unpopular today. Marriage, and the children of that marriage, and how they turn out are the very foundations of a strong, prosperous and happy society – now and when those children grow up.
Even the monster Joseph Stalin recognised that when he came to power in Russia. He abruptly got rid of the no-fault divorce laws that the Bolsheviks had brought in after the Russian Revolution succeeded and they were took control of the country. Well these same people today, the people of the pagan left, with the same failed ideas as the Bolsheviks - no fault divorce laws, are the ones who also figure that children shouldn’t be disciplined physically – even at all. A good hard slap, amongst other ways, despite their so-called modern thinking against it, is in fact just one of the tools that parents have and need recourse to at the appropriate time when bringing up their children.
The people who are totally against slapping, no exceptions, are mostly the same people who don’t believe that our universe was created by God. Don’t believe that they were created by God. If you ask them, they’ll tell you that you that you evolved from an ape. That there is no God. Well it seems to me, following their logic, if you evolved from an ape, then you are just a jumped up animal. If that’s the case then, when you watch a nature show with a lioness or a lion with their cubs. There’s always some slapping going on. Some discipline.
Ironically these people who tell you that you evolved from an ape imagine that, somehow, you are infinitely more advanced than the animals that you evolved from. Doesn’t that mean is that you’re in fact a special creation – in fact just like the Bible tells us but without God. Special but absolutely, and impossibly, random.
So let’s see what part discipline in bringing up our children plays.
Discipline; Jordan Peterson; 12 Rules for Life; Joseph Stalin; Bolsheviks; Russian Revolution; no-fault divorce; God; Christians; Dr Louann Brizendine MD; The Female Brain; The Female Brain; MIS hormone; Ten Commandments; Jesus; Sermon on the Mount; Jean-Jaques Rousseau; Geoffrey Blainey; marriage; How to Manage Your Slaves; Tacitus; Pedanius Secundus; Suetonius; The Lives of the Twelve Caesars; David Bentley-Hart; Atheist Delusions;
It’s a public holiday. Last night you went to bed relaxed, looking forward to another quiet day of the Passover holiday. But did that ever turn into a train wreck. Tomorrow was going to be the most extraordinary day of your life. The kind of day that made you wish you’d never been born. And it began at an indecent time – the absolute crack of dawn. This was the day that a Roman soldier and public servant of no great importance, Pontius Pilate, became one of the most famous men in history.
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Why shouldn’t a person born male have transgender surgery before the age of 18? Ask Dr Hilary Cass – or better still stay listening.
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If you go through the process of gender transitioning, from a male to a female, or the other way around, when do you stop being a biological male or female?
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Many experts all around the world tells us that kids as young as 3 are mature enough to make decisions about whether they want to transition to the sex opposite their birth sex – which is not possible anyway. A good way to test the level of maturity of teenagers, who of course are much older than 3, is to look at a few of the top recent TikTok challenges. After you’ve heard what they are – you tell me if these people have achieved the mature minds that you normally have to be in your mid-20s to be able to make whole of life decisions. Here they are:
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To do her Report into the operation of gender dysphoria clinics thoroughly, and to get to the bottom of issues such as why children / young people are presenting with gender confusion – and how their treatments worked for them – especially in the long term, Dr Cass needed the co-operation of National Health Service Gender Identity Development Service and its clinics. They said no. Why?
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If only we’d listened to Susan Evans, a clinical nurse, about puberty blockers back in 2004 none of the disaster that has been visited on many children and young people would never have happened.
You don’t know who she is? Well it’s time for me to plug that gap in your knowledge.
Tag words: Susan Evans; puberty blockers; John Anderson; Helen Joyce; Cass Review; Dr Hilary Cass; Keira Bell; Tavistock; masculinising/feminising drugs; gender dysphoria; suicide; gender transition; detransition; retransition; mental illness; alexithymia; interoception;
True or false – sex is assigned at birth.
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With the tsunami of children self-identifying as transgender, the medical profession has enthusiastically plunged into the dark, knowing nothing of the impacts of the use, particularly long term of puberty blockers/. That’s because no one’s done the research. Anyway what harm can that do besides a few severe and often irreversible side effects, including impairing the cognitive development of the brain, decreasing bone strength, damaging cardiovascular health, and causing infertility – other than that they’re terrific.
Tag words: Transgender; puberty blockers; The Gender Revolution; Patricia Weerakoon; vaginoplasty; Dr Cass; Cass Review; smartphone; gender dysphoria; Steve Jobs; suicide;
There’s been scientific research into the treatments used to investigate gender dysphoria, like puberty blockers, feminising drugs, masculinising drugs and how good do you think that research is:
Excellent;
Good;
Average;
Below Average; or
Piss poor
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Did you know that they’ve developed incredibly potent drugs that they use to chemically castrate violent sex offenders. They won’t be getting up to any more sexually offending after that. But you know what else those drugs are good for. They’re also good to use on your own children. It’s an unbelievably interesting story. Then again maybe your reaction is just horror!
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What was it that the father of the atomic bomb, Robert Oppenheimer, said that should have been listened to before the Western world allowed their children’s bodies to be mutilated and ravaged with transgender surgery and drugs?
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In this programme I’m going to talk about fap. You heard right! Was that a gasp I heard? And rightly so – the only decent reaction to fap.
But before I talk about fap though, I have to finish talking about choking, what young boys know that women like.
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Young man, I’ve got something to say. Sex with girls. You know what they like! You know what really turns them on. Being slapped and being choked. And more of the same. Don’t believe me – let me show you the science.
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Why aren’t there any transgender people older than their mid-20s? The reasons are simple and obvious. If you haven’t already figured it out, here they are.
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The internet is a major factor in the gender fluid plague that is spreading through the young adolescents and children in our English speaking Western societies, of Australia, America, England, New Zealand and Canada.
So let’s see what’s the role of the 15,000 videos about gender fluidity on the internet play in the startling finding by the US Center for Disease Control in October 2024, on, amongst other things, gender dysphoria – that is confusion about what gender you are. In this report it found that 3.3% of US high school students identify as transgender and another 2.2% are questioning their gender identity.
Wow!
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In just the past few years, since the smartphone was introduced in 2007 then apps/social media (in July 2008) and finally front facing “selfie” cameras (in June 2010) we’ve witnessed a collapse in young people’s mental health, especially among pre-teen and adolescent girls.
Remarkably and contrary to biology – that is these are mental illnesses - they’re now showing significant numbers of girls claiming to be suffering from a mainly male disease, Tourette’s Syndrome, the rare, and dubious condition (amongst many medical practitioners) known as Dissociative Identity Disorder (multiple personalities), and finally today gender dysphoria, something that used to only present itself in very small numbers of middle aged men before the arrival of the smartphone. See I told you that Steve Jobs caused gender dysphoria!
Jonathon Haidt, in his book The Anxious Generation timidly approaches this hot potato topic of gender dysphoria. The Marxist woke generation preaches tolerance but only practices hatred and intolerance so you have to be careful what you say about this fashionable, and woke approved condition.
This is what he says:
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I told you in the last part that TikTok caused Tourettes Syndrome – uncontrolled swearing and physical ticks. But there are other rare diseases that people are getting from TikTok, YouTube and Instagram as well.
One is what used to be the rare disease that was popularly known as multiple personality disorder – now it has the more modern name of Dissociative Identity Disorder. This disorder was, perhaps, most famously portrayed by actress Joanne Woodward in her Oscar winning performance in the 1957 movie, The Three Faces of Eve.
The Internet Movie DataBase, IMDB, in its trivia section on the movie has this fascinating entry:
According to the DVD commentary by Aubrey Solomon, "When the real Eve signed the contract for the movie, the studio had her sign three separate contracts under each of her personalities, so that they would be covered from any possible legal action. In fact, when she signed the contract, they actually had her go into the personalities, and the signatures were all different on the contracts."
So today I’m going down this new, weird, rabbit hole to talk about the emergence of another extremely rare disease caused by social media. As I told you in the last part, these social media induced diseases are called sociogenic diseases – that is they are spread by social media and not biologically which is what happens when someone really has such a disease.
Another spin off from the 1957 movie, The Three Faces of Eve happened in 1980 when the British rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees recorded a song they’d written called "Christine." It was a song based on the same case of multiple personality that had been dramatized in "The Three Faces of Eve". The 'B' Side of the single was called "Eve White/Eve Black", two other songs from the movie and Eve’s other personalities.
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Girls today, in ever increasing numbers, staggering numbers, are suddenly suffering from incredibly rare disorders, including disorders that, historically, mainly males have suffered. One such illness is Tourette’s. Tourette’s can, apparently, be contracted from TikTok. I think that perhaps gender dysphoria might also be contracted, at least as its sources, from smartphones. That’s why I said at the beginning of this series that Steve Jobs had caused gender dysphoria. Why? How? What the hell am I talking about.
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In this programme I’m going to be talking about cluster bombs used by and against teenage girls. What’s a cluster bomb
According to Tia Goldberg of Associated Press, cluster bombs are weapons that open in the air, releasing submunitions, or “bomblets,” that are dispersed over a large area, intended to wreak destruction on multiple targets at once. Cluster bombs can be delivered by planes, artillery and missiles, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Beyond the initial harm caused by the munitions upon impact, bomblets have a high rate of failure to explode, up to 40% in some recent conflicts, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
That leaves swaths of land dotted with bomblets that could explode. Return to normal life in those areas becomes hazardous, particularly in heavily populated areas. Some formerly war-torn countries spend years trying to clear unexploded cluster bomblets.
It turns out that our teenagers who live in the cities and suburbs of our peaceful Western democracies either regularly use or are victims of unique hi-tech cluster bombs that are targeted at them.
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This series is about gender dysphoria. But I need to take you on a tour so that you’ll understand how it came about, particularly in the case of young girls.
In Part 3 of this Series I talked about the terrifying lie that the gender dysphoria industry tells to parents to force them, where the laws of the land don’t, into agreeing to allow their precious child to have its body completely destroyed by the drugs and surgeries that sex-change brings with it, by telling them to agree or else with this king hit of a lie: "Do you want a dead son or a living daughter?" (or vice versa).
Before that very lucrative industry started many young girls were already feeling that suicide was a better than option than living. Jonathon Haidt, in his book The Anxious Generation writes:
Once again, the transition to phone-based life in the early 2010s upended girls' relationships and lives. Puberty was already a fraught time of transition, with heightened need for a few close friends. Then social media came along to make the transition harder by making relational aggression so much easier and status competition so much more pervasive and public. Many suicides by adolescent girls have been directly linked to bullying and shaming facilitated by social media platforms, including platforms such as Ask.fm and NGL (Not Gonna Lie), which were designed explicitly to encourage users to anonymously broadcast their thoughts about other people.
In this programme I’m going to be looking into this. Remember that in Part 14 of this series I quoted another passage from Jonathon Haidt’s book where he said:
For depressed or ostracized teens, physical death offers the end of pain, whereas social death is a living hell.
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If you want young people to thrive in life - at home, in school and in the workplace – you want them to be in what Jonathon Haidt calls discover mode. Children can be set to discover mode by living in the real world. They can never be set to discover mode living online. Jonathan Haidt says that people, especially children, in discover mode have a mindset that scans for opportunities, are like kids in a candy shop, excitedly exploring the world around them, they think for themselves, they want to be allowed to grow to independence, not to stay as children dependent on others .
Contrasted to this, life for kids in defend mode isn’t a happy story. They’re constantly expecting and looking for dangers. They have, what Haidt calls, a scarcity mindset, they cling to their team, their parents, their teachers. They want, they need, to be kept safe. They suffer from anxiety which can develop to become a cognitive behavioural problem. Cognitive behaviour leads to catastrophising, overgeneralising and black and white thinking. People who are suffering from anxiety disorders and depression, often have these distorted thinking patterns bring about uncomfortable physical symptoms, which then bring on feelings of fear and worry, and that might trigger more anxious thinking, perpetuating what becomes a vicious cycle.
This extreme dysfunction was most dramatically on show around 2015 and the following years when the Gen Z children got to university. Suddenly these problems manifested themselves with the Gen Z’ers, no longer in the protective environment of school, getting their first taste of independence, were unable to cope in the real world. They needed a whole lot of things that they couldn’t live without, and a whole bunch of new words came into the language - safe spaces, trigger warnings. Often speakers who were coming to speak on the campus were “cancelled”, another new thing with these kids, because the speakers were going to speak on topics that were outside the very small comfort zones of these Gen Z kids. What had been taught at school as part of modern political indoctrination of what they were told to think and unquestioningly believe.
Being in universities exacerbated their problems in many respects – from the academic staff to their fellow students.
Tag words: Jonathon Haidt; The Anxious Generation; Cognitive behaviour; Gen Z; safe space; trigger warnings; cancel culture; antifragile; defend mode; Ellen Sandseter; Leif Kennair; discover mode; defend mode; embodied;
In March 2022 Australia lost one of its great parliamentarians, we don’t really have any of those that we can afford to lose. Senator Kimberley Kitching died at the young age of 52. She was an extremely intelligent woman. She stood up for Western civilisation when our modern establishment berates it. But as powerful as she was, as intelligent as she was, it seems that she was hounded to her death by the 3 women of the Labor left who had big scores to settle with her. Not least of which was the fact that she had tipped off then Liberal Minister, Linda Reynolds, of their intended weaponisation against her of the allegations of rape by Brittany Higgins that would soon go public, including the claim that Linda Reynolds had hushed the story up. The 3 women named by Kimberley Kitchings as being involved in hounding here were Penny Wong, Katy Gallagher and Kristina Keneally. She called them the Mean Girls – inspired by the movie of the same name.
The result of their hounding of her would seem to have been her death. Not in the sense of murder, but in the sense of the stress that females are so gifted in inflicting on other females, especially, men too. When a mature, and intellectually gifted woman like Kimberley Kitching is driven to her death by sisterly bullying, what chance does a young girl who hasn’t yet reached her full mental maturity, have when confronted with social media and the harpies that will descend on one of their number to bring her down en masse through the lethal use of social media?
This is the story of what Jonathon Haidt calls relational aggression from women which has, in a big part, led to the tsunami of mental health problems suffered by girls through social media sites, especially Instagram.
Tag words: Kimberley Kitching; Linda Reynolds; Penny Wong; Katy Gallagher; Kristina Keneally; Mean Girls; Jonathon Haidt; The Anxious Generation; bullying; cyberbullying; Taylor Lorenz; Instagram; Frances Haugen; Meta whistleblower; Tristan Harris; discover mode; behavioural activation system; defend mode; behavioural inhibition system;
There’s a girl hell – and it has a name - socially prescribed perfectionism. It’s reach isfar and wide. It can be tied in with the much talked about condition known as gender dysphoria. I’ll talk about this in more detail in a later programme.
Instagram’s the best social media platform to use to send girls to this hell.
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In the song Jealousy, Jealousy, Olivia Rodrigo nails the problems that teen/adolescent girls have in container loads, since Gen Z took off from the real world and joined the cyber world. The problems were always there but its much, much worse in their cyber off-world.
I kinda wanna throw my phone across the room
'Cause all I see are girls too good to be trueWith paper-white teeth and perfect bodies
Wish I didn't care
Comparison is killin' me slowly
I think too much
'Bout kids who don't know me
I'm so sick of myself
I'd rather be,
Anyone else
There are four reasons why she feels that way. Here’s the first:
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How can you be the best you can possibly be? Detect prestige and then copy it, better still learn from that prestige and improve on it. Animals do it. Humans do it.
But then this amazing God given tool for making us the best we possibly can be has, for many, ground to a stunning halt, been derailed, all because of Steve Jobs’ iPhone and the disastrous tsunami of social media, video games, and pornography that came as an inevitable part of it.
Let me explain.
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The smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation.
Now that’s provocative. What does it mean?
In his book, The Anxious Generation, Jonathon Haidt tells us when the internet changed into the harmful thing it has become today.
A transformational shift in the nature of social media happened in the years around 2010 that made it more harmful to young people. In the early years of Facebook, Myspace, and Friendster (all founded between 2002 and 2004), we called these services social networking systems because they were primarily about connecting individuals, such as long-lost high school friends or fans of a particular musician. But around 2010 there was a series of innovations that fundamentally changed these services.
What were they? What happened?
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On 28 September 2021, The Wall Street Journal published an article, Facebook’s Effort to Attract Preteens Goes Beyond Instagram Kids, Documents Show, which was based on information taken from leaked documents obtained by former Facebook employee and whistleblower, Frances Haugen. Her identity wasn’t disclosed in the article. It was disclosed just a few weeks later by her, on Sunday 3 October 2021, just before she was going to appear before a US Senate enquiry where she was to give evidence of what she alleged was the harmful nature of the way Facebook was conducting tis business in relation to teenagers and adolescents.
One of the photos that she had taken, a screenshot from one of Facebook’s internal presentations was particularly enlightening. It was from one of tens of thousands of pages of internal Facebook research that Frances had taken with her when she left.
That photograph’s reproduced in Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Anxious Generation. It’s of a young woman at the centre of the picture with a dotted circle that surrounding her, with three bubbles to either side of her, and one above, with the one of the following words in each bubble: “Novelty”, “Reward” and “Emotion”. The caption to the image says:
Teens' decisions and behavior are mainly driven by emotion, the intrigue of novelty and reward. While these all seem positive, they make teens very vulnerable at the elevated levels they operate on. Especially in the absence of a mature frontal cortex to help impose limits on the indulgence in these.
This is a great acknowledgement that the social media companies, well certainly Facebook, are aware that children at this stage of their development have not fully developed and should not be exploited.
But in what Jonathon Haidt, in his book The Anxious Generation calls the “Race to the Bottom”, it’s an absolute imperative for it and all of the large social media companies, to come for your kids, because if they don’t the other ones will. Today I’m looking into what this imperative for social media companies – to get more users – even users that shouldn’t be using the internet because of their age means for you and for your children.
Tag words: The Wall Street Journal; Frances Haugen; Facebook; Jonathan Haidt; The Anxious Generation; TikTok; Snapchat; Instagram; Valleywag; Ryan Tate; Steve Jobs; Adam Mosseri; JoJo Siwa; Guillaume Chaslot; David Anderson; OnlyFans;
For businesses that earn their money from selling advertising on the internet, social media, video games and pornography, and from businesses advertising on those platforms that are three imperatives:
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Get more users;
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Get users to spend more time using the app; and
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Get users to post and engage with more content, which attracts other users to the platform.
So how are these goals achieved, and what are the tricks, mainly exploiting scientifically discovered human vulnerabilities? Besides tricks, the awesome power those companies have over politicians is seeing all sorts of concessions being made to them, being facilitated by legislation that doesn’t cramp their style.
Tag words: social media; video games; pornography; human vulnerabilities; Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act; COPPA; Democrat Edward Markey; Instagram; Facebook; Mark Zuckerberg; Jonathon Haidt; The Anxious Generation;
Tristan Harris knew what harm the internet could do to people. I’m sure he could have guessed Alexis Spence’s story because she was an outstanding example of what uncontrolled use of the internet could do to adults, with children being infinitely more vulnerable still.
Alexis Spence was born on Long Island, New York, in 2002. She got her first iPad for Christmas in 2012, when she was 10. At first she used it for Webkinz. Webkinz was a soft toy manufacturer selling a line of stuffed toy animals, along with an electronic game that let children play with a virtual version of their stuffed animal. In 2013, when she was in fifth grade, some of the kids teased her for playing such a childish game. She should be on Instagram they said.
Her parents were very sensibly careful about letting their daughter onto the internet without controls and limitations. She and her brother had to use their screens in the living room – never the bedroom. Alexis’ parents checked her iPad regularly, to see what apps she had. Instagram was banned.
By this age what Alexis’ peers said mattered, was more important than what her parents said. The kids knew how to gey around what parents wanted. She secretly opened an Instagram account herself. She ticked the useless box that confirmed she was 13, which she wasn’t/. She was 11. by stating that she was 13, even though she was 11. She downloaded the app, used it for a while, and then deleted it so her parents wouldn't see it. Then the other kids under 13, taught her, how to hide the app on her home screen under a calculator icon. Now she didn’t have to delete Instagram every day. Her parents eventually found that she had an Instagram account. They began to monitor it and to set restrictions, Alexis made secondary accounts where she could post without their knowledge. What could go wrong? I’ll tell you at the end of this programme.
Tag words: Tristan Harris; Alexis Spence; Google; A Call to Minimize Distraction and Respect Users' Attention; the Center for Humane Technology; email apnea; Android; Gmail; Google Search engine; Jonathon Haidt; The Anxious Generation;
Jonathon Haidt, in his book The Anxious Generation tells this chilling story:
One morning, on a family trip to Vermont in 2016, my six-year-old daughter was playing a video game on my iPad. She called out to me: "Daddy, can you take the iPad away from me? I'm trying to take my eyes off it but I can't." My daughter was in the grip of a variable-ratio reinforcement schedule administered by the game designers, which is the most powerful way to take control of an animal’s behavior short of implanting electrodes in its brain.
At the end of my last programme I talked about psychologist Edward Thorndike putting hungry cats into "puzzle boxes."
Later on in his book Jonathon Haidt returned to the disturbing experience his daughter had experienced with her game, saying:
When my daughter found herself powerless to lift her eyes up from my iPad, what exactly was going on in her brain? Thorndike didn't know about neurotransmitters, but he correctly guessed that the repetition of small pleasures played a big role in laying down those new paths in the brain. Now we know that when an action is followed by a good outcome (such as gaining food, or relieving pain, or just achieving a goal), certain brain circuits involved with learning release a bit of dopamine — the neurotransmitter most centrally involved in feelings of pleasure and pain. The release of dopamine feels good; we register it in our consciousness. But it’s not a passive reward that satisfies us and reduces our craving. Rather, dopamine circuits are centrally involved in wanting, as in "that felt great, I want more!" When you eat a potato chip, you get a small hit of dopamine, which is why you then want the second one even more than you wanted the first one.
In my next few programmes I’m going to be talking about how the companies supplying the social media, video games and pornography have studied how to exploit us and how they have made ruthless use of that knowledge with little or no attempt by governments to restrain them.
Tag words: Jonathon Haidt; The Anxious Generation; variable-ratio reinforcement schedule; social media; emails; video games; pornography; Tristan Harris; God; Google; the Center for Humane Technology; Steve Jobs; gmail; Facebook; Bad Forecasting; Intermittent variable rewards; slot machines; Pinterest; Twitter;
Beginning 2010, smartphones and social media began the systematic destruction of the tail end of the millennials, a significant part of Gen Z, Generation Alpha and ongoing generations. Smartphone technology made it possible, and apps developed in a child brain killing way, thanks to unscrupulous social media companies and app developers. You have to ask do the people at those companies have their own children when you learn something like this.
This is what happened next, particularly with the social media sites, which, in order to make the mega bucks that they do, exploited scientifically discovered vulnerabilities in human psychology. They’re consciously exploiting those vulnerabilities to get our children hooked. If you don’t believe me, here’s what Sean Parker, the first president of Facebook, said in a 2017 interview:
I, Mark Zuckerberg, Kevin Systrom (cofounder of Instagram), and others understood this consciously. And we did it anyway. God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains.
Which was followed by an implied, if not stated, but who cares as long as the money keeps rolling in. No wonder Mark Zuckerberg kept his children off Facebook.
How did we get to this – from the launch of the iPhone in 2007 to today when we have the social media companies offering advertisers dirty deeds done dirt cheap.
Tag words: Smartphones; social media; millennials; Gen Z; Generation Alpha; apps; Sean Parker; Facebook; Mark Zuckerberg; Kevin Systrom; Instagram; iPhone; Steve Jobs; app providers; free-to-use; advertising-based; Samsung; Android operating system; Apple; iPhone 4; front-facing camera; selfies;Jonathon Haidt; The Anxious Generation; human psychology; Chinese Communist Party; social media; Meta; TikTok; Snap; Dr Hilary Cass; gender dysphoria; Patricia Weerakoon; The Gender Revolution; teen brain; synapses; neuroplasticity; social brain; Edward Thorndike
Jonathon Haidt, in his book, The Anxious Generation says:
When Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone in June 2007, he described it as "a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and breakthrough internet communication device." The first iteration of the iPhone was quite simple by today’s standards, and I have no reason to believe it was harmful to mental health. I bought one in 2008 and found it to be a remarkable digital Swiss Army knife, full of tools I could call on when I needed them. It even had a flashlight! It was not designed to be addictive or to monopolize my attention.
This soon changed with the introduction of software development kits, which allowed third-party apps to be downloaded onto mobile devices. This revolutionary move culminated in the launch of the App Store by Apple in July 2008, starting with 500 apps available. Google followed suit with the Android Market in October 2008, which was rebranded and expanded into Google Play in 2012. By September 2008, the Apple App Store had grown to hold more than 3,000 apps, and by 2013 it had more than 1 million. The Google Play store grew right alongside Apple, reaching 1 million apps in 2013.
This is the story of Pandora’s box.
Tag words: Jonathon Haidt; The Anxious Generation; Steve Jobs; iPhone; iPod; Android; Google Play; App Store; Apple; Tim Cook; Andy Hertzfeld; Bill Atkinson; Steve Wozniak; Walter Isaacson; Palo Alto; Microsoft; Steve Ballmer; Nokia; ROKR phone; Art Levinson; Phil Schiller; iTunes Store; AOL; CompuServe; Prodigy; World Wide Web; Ryan Tate; Valleywag; Bob Dylan;
On 9th January 2007, Steve Jobs did what was his most epic launch of what was to be a world changing new product – the iPhone. Just 62 years earlier, the Americans had dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those bombs had killed a mere 105,000 Japanese. The new product that Steve Jobs had launched that day, and that was soon emulated as the Android phone, proved to be much more lethal. To date, and continuing, those smartphones, leaving suicides to one side but including them in the total toll, have destroyed the lives of a significant portion of Gen Z, particularly those born in the Anglosphere (English speaking countries). That is children born after 1996 and up to 2010, as well as some of the millennials (children born after 1980 up to and including 1995) and it's destined to continue to wreak similar damage in Generation Alpha – children born after 2010. It’s easily within our power to stop that – but so far we, as a society, haven’t done much about that.
One of the outcomes of this destruction is what’s called medically, gender dysphoria, children who say that they’re confused about their sex. Children who say that they’ve been born into the wrong body – the opposite of their birth gender. This series is going to be looking particularly at that issue, but in this and the next few programmes, we’re going to join that consummate designer and salesman, Steve Jobs, on the very day that he let this genie out of the bottle and I’ll tell you the incredible story of how he got there.
Tag words: Steve Jobs; iPhone; atomic bombs; Gen Z; Walter Isaacson; Mike Markkula; The Apple Marketing Philosophy; empathy; focus; Impute; iPod; iPad; Apple computers; Nokia; Motorola; Palm; Blackberry; Ed Zander; RAZR; ROKR; Wired magazine; Hamlet; William Shakespeare; Microsoft; Bill Gates; Melinda Gates; stylus; tablet; Jony Ive; MacBook Pro; FingerWorks; John Elias; Wayne Westerman; multi-touch;
In this programme, I’ll finish my interview with Patricia Weerakoon, a retired sexologist who has now written a number of books on the issue of gender dysphoria, and then round up the programme by looking at the chilling threat often made to parents of children who say they want to transition that if they don’t go along with it there is a serious risk that their child will commit suicide. Is that for real?
Former Australian Deputy Prime Minister, John Anderson, did a brilliant interview with Helen Joyce. She was Britain Editor at The Economist, where she worked for over 15 years. Then she joined the gender-critical campaign group “Sex Matters” as a director. She’s the author of Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality. She had this to say on that disturbing argument which alleges that there are youth suicides by children said to be suffering from gender dysphoria who weren’t allowed to be put on the path to gender transition by administering puberty blockers.
I’ll return to this very important issue later in this programme. But now I’ll finish the interview with Patricia Weerakoon.
Tag words: Gender dysphoria; Patricia Weerakoon; Helen Joyce; Sex Matters; Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality; youth suicides; puberty blockers; Bell Curve; LGBT Community; transgender; lesbians, transwomen; Intersex; God; after-life; Cass Review; Dr Hilary Cass; The Gender Revolution; transgender ideology; Transgender ideologues; The Lancet; as Alison Clayton; Robert Oppenheimer; Apple; Steve Jobs;
Today I continue with the interview with Patricia Weerakoon, expert in the science of sex. Today she’ll discuss with us the effects of masculinising and feminising drugs, including quite severe medical implications and homeostasis. How successful is what is called sex change surgery? How do artificial vaginas work. Young children regretting the changes they have had – the so-called de-transitioners. Immature children being allowed to make major life altering surgeries. Do you know your gender identity from the time you can start talking. Are children more likely to commit suicide if they are not allowed to change their sex? Is gender the only issue, or are there other medical and social issues that may be more important than the confusion over gender? What is the impact of social media on children in relation to gender dysphoria? Is it related to social clusters or what medically is known as social contagion? What does Tourette Syndrome have to do with this.
Tag words: masculinising hormones; feminising hormones; serious adverse medical impacts; homeostasis; sex change surgery; lifetime medical problems; dilating artificial vagina; no way back; pain; gender identity; suicide, comorbidities; ADHD; pornography; social clusters; social contagion; anorexia; bulimia; Tourette syndrome; gender dysphoria
There’s a lot of talk about modern medical science being able to change the biological sex of any person to the opposite sex. We’ve come to expect amazing things from our scientists, so is this true or just exaggeration. What’s driving all this.
This is the start of a detailed series on this topic. I’m going to start by interviewing an expert on this topic, Patricia Weerakoon.
Tag words: assigned sex; sex changing; biological sex; gender; transexual clinic; gender identity; gender soul; transgender ideology; puberty; hit the pause button; precocious puberty; puberty blockers; cross sex hormones; secondary sexual characteristics; uterus, ovaries, penis, testes; sperm, testosterone; brain changes; adolescence;
Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, testified at a House hearing on climate change along with other youth leaders about the cataclysmic climate and the irrefutable proof that it was actually happening. She had this to say about trusting in the science on climate change:
Many of the people who tell us that the Great Barrier Reef is dying are people without any belief in God. They don’t believe that God exists. They don’t believe what the Bible tells us about how we should live and what is happening and what is going to happen.
So they ignore the Bible which tells us God’s will, but they’ll believe anything that someone says if they call themselves scientists. The scientists that the climate alarmists believe about our Great Barrier Reef is that it is dying. It’s on the verge of becoming a coral grave yard.
But how can you believe, without question, what a scientist or a whole gaggle of scientists tell us when the most credible scientists don’t have that unquestioning belief in scientists.
One of the greatest scientists of the 20th Century, Robert J Oppenheimer, speaking on behalf of the leading scientists of his day said:
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.
So when people who aren’t scientists, like Greta Thunberg, tells us that we have to trust the science, we can’t trust that. Unless we know more about who the scientists she’s telling us to trust, and how they reached the view that they did, then we at least should be asking for more detail. We’re talking about spending trillions of dollars that could be usefully spent on other things – helping the homeless, finding a cure for cancer for example. So spending trillions of dollars on saving the Great Barrier Reef from climate change – shouldn’t the people who are spending your money, remember governments don’t have any money, governments take yours, be absolutely sure about the science. Shouldn’t they be sure that the Reef really needs saving?
Another leading scientist said that there is:
“… currently a crisis of confidence in … science reflecting an unprecedented level of doubt among practitioners about the reliability of research findings. …”.
He said that what many scientists are telling us is science today is “worse than fairy tales; with fairy tales the reader is at least aware that the work is fictional.”
What I am about to tell you will, or should, scare the pants off you.
Tag words: GBR; Great Barrier Reef; Peter Ridd; Reef Heresy; Greta Thunberg; Boeing Dreamliner; Florian Prinz; Marcia Angell; The Lancet; Carlos M Duarte; Reconsidering Ocean Calamities; Dr Paul Haristy; Piers Larcombe; Richard Horton; Christopher Hughes; London School of Economics; James Cook University; JCU;
Plastics in the seas. What harm are they doing? Here’s one you mightn’t have thought of thanks to the research work done by Swedish girl, Oona Lönnstedt. Her findings were published in the prestigious science journal called … well “Science” obviously.
The BBC captured her findings in this story published on 2 June 2016:
“Young fish become hooked on eating plastic in the seas in the same way that teenagers prefer unhealthy fast food, Swedish researchers have said. Their study, reported in Science, found exposure to high concentrations of polystyrene makes perch larvae favour the particles over more natural foods. As a result of exposure to plastic, the young perch are smaller, slower and more susceptible to predators.”
Oona Lönnstedt was hot scientific property after this and other international triumphs. A report that she did on Lionfish was published in another prestigious magazine, “Biology Letters”. That magazine is put out there by The Royal Society – founded by the great Sir Isaac Newton. The first scientific body established in the world.
By 2016 Oona had published a number of ground-breaking reports showing the disastrous impact of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef, coupled with the effects of coral fish eating micro plastics.
Basically all of her findings were that coral fish, affected by micro plastics, coupled with high concentrations of carbon dioxide, had their normal behaviour, that had kept them alive for thousands of years before now, altered so that they behaved in a way that would increase their chances of being killed by other prey. Apparently eating plastic made these fish smaller (they didn’t grow because plastic isn’t nourishing apparently) and fearless a deadly combination. They were better going with their biological wiring of being cautious and timid. But climate change buggered that up.
As the gold miners on the Californian goldfields in the late 1840s, used to say, “there’s gold in them thar hills”. A scientist who produces material that confirms that the world is suffering from the impacts of catastrophic climate change will find no trouble at all in getting funding grants, as well as fortune and glory for the university that has her on their team. Oona was truly the golden girl.
As soon as she had finished her PhD at James Cook University, Uppsala University in Stockholm, the oldest university in Sweden, founded in 1477, lured her back to work with them. And that’s where this story gets interesting.
Tag words: GBR; Great Barrier Reef; Peter Ridd; Reef Heresy; Oona Lönnstedt; catastrophic climate change; James Cook University; JCU; Uppsala University; Lionfish; Dr Timothy Clark; Stephen Hawking; World Heritage Committee; UNESCO; Replicability in Psychological Science: A Crisis of Confidence; H Pashler; EJ Wagenmakers; Replication Crisis; fairyatles; Scientist Michael Guillen;
Did you know that the sunscreen you use when you go into the water to look at the Great Barrier Reef, will kill the reef?
In 2018 Hawaii became the first place in the world to ban certain sunscreens. The law came into effect on 1 January 2021.
Forensic ecotoxicologist, Craig Downs, tells us that when sunscreen washes off your body and into the ocean the chemicals can cause “bleaching, deformities, DNA damage and death in coral”. He says that sunscreen pollution can impact not just coral, but potentially all of the organisms on the reef. That is tragic.
So how much sunscreen lotion that you have slip, slop, slapped on, will cause those horrific Great Barrier Reef killing outcomes? Peter Ridd, in his book “Reef Heresy”, says that you would need 2,000 tonnes of sunscreen each week in somewhere like Kaneohe Bay, a tiny bay in Hawaii, to cause that damage. That’s the equivalent to squeezing completely empty, 20,000 tubes of sunscreen each week into that bay. How long does your tube of sunscreen last you? How long does it take you to squeeze your sunscreen tube empty? The Great Barrier Reef is 2,000 kilometres long and the Great Barrier Reef lagoon is completely flushed out every two weeks. You are going to need vastly more sunscreen each week into the Great Barrier Reef, to have any effect. The levels of sunscreen in the water needed to cause damage to the Great Barrier Reef – is never going to happen unless everyone from China comes to the Great Barrier Reef, and on the same day, they all slap on a lot of sunscreen and they all jump into the water at the same time.
On the other hand, if you’re in the sun, on a hot day on the Great Barrier Reef off Cairns, then if you don’t have sunscreen you’ll burn within 10 minutes. It seems from the scientists that just one blisteringly bad sunburn increases your risks of getting a melanoma, which could well be fatal by 50%. They’re bad odds.
So you have to do the math. Is it better to run a very real, very high risk of getting bad sunburn, and possibly developing a fatal skin cancer, or use sunscreen with no real chance at all of having any impact on the Great Barrier Reef. With the constant and massive flushing of the Great Barrier Reef lagoon your sunscreen is not going to do anything.
But coal – the arch villain. I’ll bet it will cause some real damage to the reef. Let’s have a look.
Tag words: GBR; Great Barrier Reef; sunscreens; Forensic ecotoxicologist; Craig Downs; coal; Professor Terry Hughes; Australian Research Council Centre for Excellence for Coral Reef Studies; Hays Point terminal; coal dust; Peter Ridd; Reef Heresy; CSIRO; Australian Institute of Marine Science; UNESCO World Heritage Committee; Gina Rinehart; Robert Oppenheimer; overfishing; fishing industry; Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority; Mediocre Fringing Reefs; John 8:44;
In June 2021 the World Heritage Committee, convened under the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), issued a draft report on the Great Barrier Reef, which found that Australia has not done enough to protect the world’s largest coral reef system from the impacts of climate change.
It said that the Great Barrier Reef continues to deteriorate and has suffered significant coral bleaching over the past five years.
“The Plan requires stronger and clearer commitments, in particular towards urgently countering the effects of climate change, but also towards accelerating water quality improvement and land management measures,” the report continued.
“The widespread effects of the consecutive coral bleaching events further add to the significant concerns regarding the future of the property.”
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting was hosted by China in July 2021.
The last World Heritage Committee meeting came within a hair’s breadth of listing the Great Barrier Reef as being ‘in danger’.
Norway, supported by China at the meeting, criticised Australia’s Reef 2050 plan to save the Reef from climate change – so let’s find out the current status of the Reef. This sounds very serious – very serious indeed.
Tag words: GBR; Great Barrier Reef; World heritage Committee; UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; UNESCO; mass coral bleaching event; Peter Ridd; Reef Heresy; El Nino; zooxanthellae; coral; staghorns; Professor Terry Hughes; ARC Centre for Excellence for Coral Reef Studies; JCU campus; Mediocre Fringing Reefs; cyclone; Australian Institute of Marine Science; Belts and Roads Initiative;
Fertilisers from farms along the coast next to the Great Barrier Reef. What can I say. Sigh!
Well the World Wildlife Federation had this to say:
“Following the widespread destruction of trees for intensive agriculture, streams that once remained clear following rain now carry sediment and fertiliser pollution out to Reef waters.
…. On 5 September 2018, hours after heavy rain, conservationists filmed water flowing off a cane farm into a drain which leads to a tributary of Cattle Creek.
Tests revealed the water coming off the cane farm had almost nine times the recommended levels of nitrogen.
Nitrogen levels in Cattle Creek were three times above environmentally safe levels and the Creek was a muddy mess with sediment levels at least one-and-a-half times water quality thresholds.
Following more rain on 13 October 2018 nearby Clairview Creek was choked with sediment. A photograph from 2008 shows that Clairview Creek used to remain clear after rain.
Sediment and fertiliser runoff from farms is one of the greatest threats to the Great Barrier Reef.
Currently intensive agricultural development does not get assessed to ensure pollution is controlled.”
“We need stronger laws. No-one should be allowed to pollute the Reef,” said WWF-Australia spokesperson Sean Hoobin.
“The hundreds of millions invested in Reef water quality is being wasted without effective Reef pollution laws,” he said.”
Well this state of affairs would be shocking for our Great Barrier Reef if all of the claims are true. The question is, are they? In this programme, I’m going to talk a lot of manure.
Tag words: GBR; Great Barrier Reef; Fertilisers; World Wildlife Foundation; WWF; Journal of Geophysical Research; S Choukroun; Peter Ridd; Great Barrier Reef lagoon; Michael Shellenberger; Apocalypse Never; nitrogen pollution; Mary River; J Udy; Reef Heresy; John 1:3; John 8:44; environmental activists; Søren Kierkegaard; Baal; Hosea 4:6;
I hate to be a Jeremiah (I’m guessing you don’t know what I mean by that – right). Well Jeremiah was a prophet of God in the Old Testament. He had some news for the Jewish state known as Judah, that had Jerusalem as its capital. They had been worshipping idols and God was pissed. They were going to be punished and God was going to use the ruler of the Babylonians, Nebuchadnezzar, to punish them. Whenever he opened his mouth it was bad news. Just like me.
So I’ll be as gentle as I can but the bad news is that the farmers are killing the Great Barrier Reef. That’s what the World Wildlife Fund is telling us.
The World Wildlife Fund says that Eastern Australia is one of the most dangerous deforestation fronts in the world today. Globally, it says, 177 million square kilometres of forest are lost each year. That’s the equivalent, apparently, to losing 50 football fields every minute. Staggering. WWF says that Australia ranks with the Amazon, Borneo, the Congo Basin and other threatened tropical regions as the countries most devastating their forests.
WWF tells us that tree-clearing has a major impact on the health of soil and water. Without trees to anchor soil, erosion can happen and sweep our precious soils into rivers, choking and polluting our waterways. The WWF tells us that in Australia this run off is threatening the health and resilience, and even the very survival of the Great Barrier Reef.
I’m going to dig into this story a little more closely now to find out just how critical the health of the Reef is because of our irresponsible farmers.
Tag words: GBR; Great Barrier Reef; Jeremiah; prophet of God; Old Testament; Babylonians; Nebuchadnezzar; World Wildlife Fund; WWF; Peter Ridd; Reef Heresy; Piers Larcombe; Ken Woolfe; Marine Geophysical Laboratory; Mediocre Fringing Reefs; climate change; Cyclone Yasi; Coral Sea; Trinity Bay; Brodie J Fabricius; John 9:6; pool of Siloam; One Green Planet; Matthew 6:5-6; Governor Phillip; Botany Bay; Australian Institute of Marine Science;
Up until December 1941 Cairns was a sleepy outpost far to the North of Australia on the Pacific Ocean, with the Great Barrier Reef just offshore.
After the whipping the Japanese gave all of the European powers at the beginning of the war in the Pacific, Australia became the essential, unsinkable, aircraft carrier for the United States to continue the war against Japan – and Cairns was now on the frontline.
The Americans set up facilities in Cairns for PT Patrol boats, submarines and escort vessels. Cairns also provided essential bases for storing supplies and equipment needed to keep the fighting forces advancing in the Pacific against the perimeter of the Japanese Empire supplied. Many hospitals were also built – especially up on the Atherton Tablelands.
To enable Cairns port to be able to take the American escort vessels Trinity Inlet had to be dredged so that ships would have a 6.7 metres deep channel to allow for the draught of these larger vessels. This enabled warships to move up the Inlet and be out of sight of any Japanese air attacks.
The spoil from the dredging was taken a little way off shore and dumped. No one complained then about the Great Barrier Reef being killed because of the dredging. But then that wasn’t something people gave any thought to in those days. In the age before the invention of scuba equipment, people didn’t really go under water.
It’s a very different story today. But should we be complaining now about dredging? After all, don’t you want to see those giant cruise ships moored in the heart of Cairns? Or would that mean you supported killing the reef?
Tag words: GBR; Great Barrier Reef; Cairns; PT Patrol boats; ABC; Australian Broadcasting Commission; Four Corners; dredging; spoil; Climate activists; Believing is Seeing; Michael Guillen; dark matter; Faith; atheists; Peter Ridd; Reef Heresy; Barrow Island; Mediocre Fringing Reef; Parthenium weed;
The World Wildlife Fund’s 2018 report on the Great Barrier Reef told us the shocking story of how run off from our farms, going into the rivers, is fuelling the breeding of the crown of thorns starfish, causing population explosions that will destroy the reef.
Critical in minimising the damage from the Crown of Thorns starfish, the Report tells us, is improving the reef water quality by minimising the nutrient rich run-off from agriculture. The Report says that science has established a clear link between nutrient enrichment of reef waters from run-offs from farms, with an increased likelihood of developing massive Crown of Thorns starfish outbreaks. The leading expert on this is cited in the report as Brodie J Fabricius. I’ll come back to his import research a few times in this programme.
The Great Barrier Reef is such an amazing gift from God, and God has told us that we’re the custodians of the earth to keep it and preserve it – so it sounds like we need to be doing a lot more. Now I’m going to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about the reef and the crown of thorns starfish.
Tag words: GBR; Great Barrier Reef; Crown of Thorns Starfish; World Wildlife Fund; WWF; God; Triton shell; Great Barrier Reef Marine Park; Moses; Leviticus 16:8; scapegoat; Geologists; Stephen Hawking; Swains Reef; Environmental activist; Jesus; John 14:6; John 8:32; truth; rubber vine;
In this programme, and over the next programmes, I’m going to be looking at the extreme danger that our Great Barrier Reef is in.
Sir David Attenborough tells:
Peter Ridd, a marine geophysicist, and lover of the Great Barrier Reef gives us this useful description of the Great Barrier Reef – something not easy to get your head around - in his book “Reef Heresy” he says what everyone says, I’ve never heard anyone express a different opinion, and explains what the Great Barrier Reef is:
“The Great Barrier Reef is for me the most special and awe-inspiring natural environment and habitat in the world. …The Great Barrier Reef as one ecosystem, comprises nearly 3,000 individual reefs stretching for 2,000 kilometres. It is visible from outer space.”
But Greenpeace, on their website give us this warning:
“The Great Barrier Reef is a living thing - precious and fragile. In 2016, warming oceans caused the worst coral bleaching event in history on the Great Barrier Reef and almost a quarter of the Reef’s coral died.”
So let’s start by telling you how fragile coral reefs are – it’ll help give us a good understanding of how endangered our precious reef is.
Tag words: GBR; Great Barrier Reef; Sir David Attenborough; Peter Ridd; Reef Heresy; Greenpeace; Global warming; bikini atoll; Marshall Islands; Stanford University; Louis Réard; Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Bikini Yellow Polka Dot Bikini; Brian Hyland; Great Pyramids; Science; Christianity; CP Snow;
Did you know that if everyone ate a vegan diet, which excludes meat, eggs and dairy products, land-based carbon emissions could be cut by 70% by 2050 that’s the good news from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). That good news was published in their 2019 report called “Food Security”.
Did you also know that you could easily stop eating living things and be healthier because of it?
These and other truths are going to be explored in this programme. And I’m going to share more than a few secrets with you. So stay tuned.
Tag words: Meat; IPCC; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Food Security; Stefano Mancuso; The Incredible Journey of Plants; PETA; vegan; vegetarian; protein; human brain; low density energy; Vitamin B12 deficiencies; Apocalypse Never; Michael Shellenberger; Nina Teicholz; The Big Fat Surpise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet; Gary Taubes; Good Calories, Bad Calories; Obesity; diabetes; metabolic syndrome; George Orwell;
I don’t scuba dive. So I don’t speak from personal experience, but I understand that diving off Costa Rica is really something.
In the summer of 2015, then PhD student Christine Figgener, was out diving as part of her marine biology studies. She was in a boat, scraping parasites off a marine turtle’s back when she noticed something stuck up it’s nose. She could see that the turtle was in distress from it and she decided to pull it out. Luckily for posterity, she got out her video ready to record this intervention, and one of her colleagues grabbed a pair of pliers and started pulling after she said she was ready to shoot.
Whatever it was it was really stuck up this turtle’s nose. Blood started to dribble from the turtle’s nose. They all agreed that it had to be some sort of parasitic worm. Maybe it had even burrowed into the brain of this poor turtle. Pulling it out could kill the turtle. Leaving it in would kill it anyway – so the only way to go was to keep going.
A bit of whatever it was broke off. They discussed how hard they should keep pulling. They could kill the turtle by their kindness – but then ultimately that looked like the only outcome if they didn’t try. Finally one of the crew picked up the bit that had broken off, he put in his mouth and bit on it, ewwww. “It’s plastic” he said.
Christine pipes up: “Is it a straw? Don’t tell me it’s a freaking straw because in Germany we have those with a black stripe. So this is the reason we do not need plastic straws.”
They got back to the job of trying to get that straw out of the turtle’s nose. It took eight minutes in all. Finally there was a suction sound as the guy on the pliers pulled out the last piece of the plastic straw from out of the turtle’s nose.
When Catherine got home that night she uploaded the video onto YouTube. Two days later the video has had millions of views. By 2021 the video has had over 126 million views.
Soon after the release of the video, inspired by its obvious message, the city of Seattle announced a ban on plastic straws. In 2020 Starbucks followed suit. Then American Airlines, then the city of San Francisco. This tsunami aimed at sweeping away plastic straws has continued to swell and sweep the world ever since.
On 11 April 2018 Cairns Regional Council, with the mighty Great Barrier Reef just off their shore, and at the prompting of a then 10 year old local girl, Molly Steer, set itself the goal of removing all plastic straws and single-use plastics and supporting local businesses that followed suit.
I’ll tell you more about Molly and her very impassioned plea in a Ted talk presentation in October 2017, that she did in Cairns when she was just nine years old and in Grade 4 at school.
If you’re old enough to remember the 1967 movie “The Graduate” with Dustin Hoffman, you might remember this scene at a party put on by the Robinson family, and a nicer family you could not ask to meet.
Dustin Hoffman’s character has just graduated, I guess that’s why the movie was called “The Graduate”. So what to do now with his life. One of his father’s friends offers him some good, if baffling, career advice.
Back in those days plastics seemed to have a future. Is that still the case today?
Tag words: Christine Figgener; Cairns Regional Council; Great Barrier Reef; Molly Steer; Dustin Hoffman; The Graduate; A Plastic Ocean; Straw No More; Banning straws; plastic straws; Made To Stick; United Nations Environment Programme; Collin Ward; micro-plastic; Renewable energy; Malcolm Gladwell; Talking to Strangers; Jordan Peterson; Beyond Order; Elena Struthers-Gardner; God
Everybody loves dinosaurs. Well they do! You name one person that doesn’t. So it was with great sadness that dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago. Or was it? Have you ever seen Jurassic Park – Lost World. A Tyranosaurus Rex ends up in the suburbs from Jurassic Park. A T-Rex going around your neighbourhood would not be a good look. Your dog’s chain hanging out of its mouth after it had been swallowed. Or what about that lawyer eaten by the T-Rex while he was on the toilet in the first Jurassic Park movie. OK – maybe that’s not a good example. Who cares if a lawyer gets eaten!
So 65 million years ago, this massive asteroid hit the earth, sending up a massive dust cloud that blotted out the sun, leading to the extinction of all of the dinosaurs. Well a lot of them anyway.
But that’s just one theory isn’t it.
Today scientists, like Piet Hut, Walter Alvarez, and Eugene Shoemaker have a new theory. They don’t believe it was just one massive asteroid that took out all of the dinosaurs in one hit. They say it was a billion comets hitting the earth between 95 and 38 million years ago that did it.
So what really happened to the dinosaurs is just a guess. A scientific guess. Looking at other things about the geology of the planet that we believe today, with what we think we know, is the truth. But just like the theory of dinosaur extinction, what we “know” about geology today, might change tomorrow with new theories.
Any way, if you go to the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and end up wandering into the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda you’ll see a plaque with this grim warning which reads:
“Five major world wide extinction events have struck biodiversity since the origin of complex animal life some 535 million years ago. Global climate changes and other causes, probably including collisions between Earth and extra-terrestrial objects, were responsible for the mass extinctions of the past. Right now, we are in the midst of the Sixth Extinction, this time caused solely by humanity’s transformation of the ecological landscape.”
Hell that is terrifying. So let’s have a look at how life on earth is already disappearing because of climate change. Don’t change stations or turn me off, because this is one hell of a story and, as always, I’m going to tell you a whole lot of new stuff that you have never heard before that you are really going to want to know.
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It was a grim call to action. Extinction Rebellion was going to be holding a rally at 180 The Strand, London, United Kingdom on 15 February 2020. The reason – to demand the end of London Fashion Week – so that life on earth could continue.
The clothing industry alone, Extinction Rebellion said, accounts for 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions – that’s almost equal to the total emissions of the EU. The climate impact of the industry is predicted to increase by a shocking 49% by 2030.
Fashion is a wasteful industry with less than 1% of clothing recycled into new clothing.
80% of the garment workers are women, of whom many work long exhausting hours for less than half of a living wage.
The call to action said “We ask the industry to join us in using its power of persuasion to tackle the climate and ecological crisis in a meaningful and just way.”
It seems that for the first time, the world is on the eve of destruction, which is why I guess the Barry McGuire song, “The Eve of Destruction” was released for this fashion week protest. Let me tell you the truth about sweatshops and what they are doing to the world.
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In the spring of 2013 something absolutely incredible happened. A solar powered plane, called “Solar Impulse”, flew across the United States. “Air & Space” magazine was positively glowing at this accomplishment, which it said, was “proving that unfuelled, clean flight is possible. Who needs fuel when the sun can keep you afloat.”
What seemed to be a technological triumph said pretty well everything that there is to say about solar energy. Solar suffers from chronic energy poverty. It can never deliver enough. The plane’s wingspan was about 63.4m, around the same massive length as a Boeing 747 passenger liner.
While the Boeing Jumbo jet could carry 500 people at 1,000 kph, Solar Impulse could carry 1 person and fly at less than 100 kilometres an hour. That’s why it took two months to complete the trip across America. Hardly a breakthrough that anyone had been waiting for.
So what’s the real story about solar? Is it going to save the planet?
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I quote:
“The battle to feed all of humanity is over. … hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate. … no changes in behaviour or technology can save us unless we can achieve control over the size of the human population. The birth rate must be brought into balance with the death rate or mankind will breed itself into oblivion.”
From Paul Ehrlich’s “The Population Bomb”.
I’m pretty sure I actually heard Paul Erhlich say that at one of the meetings he held when he was visiting Sydney.
I was pretty shaken up. Today the world’s population is nearly 7.8 billion people. When I was born in 1950 it was about 2.5 billion. So it’s trebled since then.
In the article published in the journal “Science” by biologist Garrett Hardin of the University of California, he argued that environmental collapse was inevitable because of uncontrolled breeding, and that the only way to avoid the tragedy was “mutual coercion”, in which everybody agreed to similar sacrifices.
So it seems that we’re all doomed to extinction just like Greta Thunberg has warned us from, amongst other things, our booming population. Scary stuff – but I like talking about scary stuff so you know the truth. The Truth will make you free.
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I don’t know about you, but I just look at those Extinction Rebellion people wearing those red Medieval looking clothes, with their faces painted white and am totally turned off by them.
I thought the idea of a major ecological catastrophe was just rubbish. I don’t any more and in this programme I’m going to tell you why.
Tag words: Extinction Rebellion; insect extinction; wind farms; McKinsey; Woody Allen;
The world was rivetted over 5 episodes of the 2019 HBO mini-series “Chernobyl” – about the nuclear plant disaster at Chernobyl in the Ukraine in April 1986.
What you saw was pretty horrific stuff – here are some of the most dramatic grabs from the series.
The nuclear accident at Chernobyl wasn’t the first time that there had been an accident at a nuclear plant. In 1979 America had the Three Mile Island accident. More recently, on 11 March 2011, after Japan was hit by a mighty Tsunami, a 15 metre high wave, Fukushima happened. Electricity was cut to the Fukushima Daiichi’s nuclear plant. It’s back up diesel generator had been drowned and now it failed. The steady flow of cooling water over the hot uranium fuel inside three reactor cores stopped flowing. Within hours, uranium fuel rods overheated and melted. This triggered the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
Increasing legislation to make nuclear plants safer, has meant wildly escalating costs. Higher and higher subsidies are needed to make nuclear plants commercially viable. Nuclear has now become the most expensive way to generate electricity in the world. Many advanced Western countries are walking away from nuclear power – Germany being a leading example. Has it’s time come?
Greenpeace announced that 93,000 people would die as a result of the Chernobyl disaster. With other related illnesses, it said, the actual death toll was likely to be 200,000. Greenpeace said that several million people still live in contaminated areas.
If this is true there’s absolutely, definitely, positively, no room for nuclear power in our world today. How many people have died or become seriously ill from these shocking nuclear accidents? You deserve to know the truth.
Tag words: HBO mini-series “Chernobyl”; Three Mile Island accident; Fukushima Daiichi’s nuclear plant; Greenpeace; Thyroid cancer; death toll from all of these nuclear accidents; weapons grade uranium; uranium; Nuclear waste; Banquiao hydroelectric dam; watts of electricity per square metre; wind turbines; solar panels; life; Utopia; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; Greta Thunberg; David Pesonen; Machiavelli; Sierra Club; Diablo Canyon nuclear plant; Anti-nuclear groups; Kerry Emanuel; Massachussetts Institute of Technology; MIT; Adam Smith; The Wealth of Nations; Adam Smith, “The Wealth of Nations; Pontius Pilate; Passover; What is truth;
Everyone gets excited about the dinosaurs. Their size, their power, the incredible bodies they have. But dinosaurs are nothing compared to the mighty Blue Whale. If you won’t believe me, then you’ll probably believe . David tell them about the Blue Whale -
Let me top what David Attenborough just told you – yes that is possible. A baby Blue Whale gains 4.5kg an hour after birth.
What a fantastic job’s been done by Greenpeace to save the whales – and I’m going to tell you the true story and that will amaze you.
Tag words: Greenpeace; whales; dinosaurs; Blue Whale; David Attenborough; Vlastny; Walter Kronkite; CBS Evening News; Samuel Kier; Whaling; Petroleum; baleen; whale oil; fish oil; Apocalypse Never; Michael Shellenberger; The Bible;
Science tells us that for a child to have the best life that it can, it’s essential that it has both biological parents in its everyday life. If you’re a person who thinks you don’t matter, you’re wrong. To a child born with your egg or your sperm, inside the woman whose egg it is, then you’re one of the two human beings of the 8 billion people on this planet, that matter to that child more than any other human being possibly can. No matter how much wealth those other people have, no matter how intellectually brilliant they are. No matter how wonderful the environment that they live in is. In the life of that child you are, without question, totally and utterly irreplaceable.
As Jim Morrison tells us, this is the end. So I’ll finish up on the issue of surrogates and egg and sperm donations and do a summary wrapping up the past 43 parts of this important series.
biological parents; Katy Faust; Stacy Manning; Them Before Us; adoptees; biological mother;surrogacy; surrogate; Adoption;
It turns out that the medical problems with getting a child through a surrogacy, begin with the petri dish when the lab is fertilising an egg for implantation into the surrogate’s womb, and the medical problems caused by this process may continue for the rest of the surrogate’s and child’s life. This, on top of all of the other problems that have been covered in earlier programmes. Let me tell you about the medical problems.
Tag words: Surrogacy; surrogate; distress; preterm birth; low birth weight babies; maternal gestational diabetes; hypertension; placenta previa; IVF; fetal growth restriction; ART; Assisted Reproductive Technologies; monozygotic twinning; large offspring syndrome; stillbirths; breathing problems; heart problems; brain hemorrhage; temperature control problems; gastrointestinal problems; weakened immune systems; cognitive disabilities; intellectual disabilities;
Is a surrogate a sex worker? You might think that saying that is pretty far out there? Maybe it’s not. Let’s explore it a little.
Tag words: surrogate; sex worker; fetus; Big Pharma; Reduction; grief; trauma; DNR, D & E; Dilation and Evacuation; Katy Faust; Stacy Manning; Them Before Us; Louise Perry; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; sociosexuality; prostitution; prostitutes; Sohrab Ahmari; The Unbroken Thread; Andrea Dworkin; Renate Klein; Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation;
Why do men and women freeze their eggs and sperm? Why do they freeze embryos? What happens to children that emerge whenever, who are the product of frozen eggs, sperm and embryos, assuming they’re not just used for scientific experiments or put in the nearest garbage can.Tag words: frozen eggs; frozen sperm; frozen embryos; IVF programme; surrogate mother; Katy Faust; Stacy Manning; Them Before Us; Genealogical bewilderment; primal wound; Frankenstein; Jordan Peterson; Beyond Order; 12 Rules for Life;
Using a third party surrogate means the child that is going to be implanted in that surrogate, is going to be robbed of one or both biological parents – if the process goes full term –resulting in a birth, that will be the beginning of a life, however long, which we know will be destructively damaging for that child in most cases.
Then there are more complications if a third party surrogate’s being used, you’re hiring her womb. Then you’re entering into a situation where the embryo is the equivalent for the surrogate, to having an organ transplant. A foreign body’s going to be inserted into her. That results in all sorts of things happening, including danger to the health of the surrogate, but I guess who cares as long as the prospective baby’s OK. Right? Let’s look at the issues that you might not think about.
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How do the humans that have been made from eggs and/or sperm that have been bought and sold, planted inside the womb of a woman who has rented it for 91/2 months, while it gestates, feel about themselves?
Better still, did you hear the true story about the surrogate who got pregnant to her husband AFTER she’d been impregnated with her customer’s fertilised embryo, and the agency that had hired her were about to sell her baby – after all they were renting her womb – all the fruits of her womb were legally theirs – weren’t they. So, could they sell her child? I’ll tell you about that later in this programme.
Tag words: Surrogacy; surrogate; Renate Klein; Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation; Katy Faust;Stacy Manning; Them Before Us; genetic mother; social mother; birth mother; Institute for American Values; My Daddy's Name Is Donor; Alana Newman; Anonymous Us Project; ART; Assisted Reproductive Technology;
Something magical happens between the mother carrying her baby in her womb and the baby. If you’re using a surrogate, that means what happens is an enormous tragedy for the baby, the surrogate and the ultimate parents of the baby. Let me introduce you to the nightmare.
Tag words: Surrogate; surrogacy; ChatGPT; Nick Cave; the Bible; UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; Katy Faust; Stacy Manning; Them Before Us; Big Fertility; genealogical bewilderment; Primal wound; social mother; genetic mother; birth mother;
It’s urgent for our governments to immediately ban the use of surrogate mothers in every situation – with one exception.Surrogacy inevitably results in terrible, life long, human suffering. If we are the caring society that we spend all of the time loudly announcing to anyone whether they’re willing to listen or not, then surrogacy has to be almost entirely abolished.Tag words: Surrogacy; surrogate; Louise Perry; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; Dr. Louann Brizendine; The Female Brain; pregnancy; fetus; placenta; mother; pregnant mother; progesterone; cortisol;
Katy Faust and Stacy Manning’s book Them Before Us isn’t just a clever name. It’s the very real problem of today’s me world. Where a homosexual couple want to adopt a child when one or neither parent is biologically related thanks to sperm and egg donors.A story posted in Geelong Advertiser, romantically on Valentine’s Day, 14 February headlined with ‘Childless’ man discovers he actually has 37 children. This story, of Mr Ellenstein’s money making project of selling his sperm when he was young, screams the lack of humanity that comes from the process of creating children who will live with parents, neither or both of them being biologically related to the child. Scientific studies have shown how disastrous this is for the child.Tag words: Katy Faust; Stacy Manning; Them Before Us; homosexual couple; same-sex couple; LGBT; Dr Sarantakos; Dr Schumm; Robert Spitzer; missing parent; Big Fertility; donor; Transitioning; Help 4 Families;
Scientific studies by pro-LGBT activist scientists characteristically take a very small, hand selected sample, of parents, and ask them what their children think about having homosexual parents. That is a joke of course. Depending on how the study is conducted, asking dependent children, living at home with, and entirely dependent on, their homosexual parents, also has problems in getting honest answers from the kids. Adult children of homosexual parents, who are no longer dependent on their parents, offer a better prospect of finding out how the children fared with homosexual parents. Also providing a site where children of homosexual families can anonymously post how they feel is a good way from them to express their feelings and hear what other children in that situation feel – so you don’t feel as if there’s something wrong with you.
So what did Katy Faust report in her book Them Before Us on these things?
Tag words: Katy Faust; Them Before Us; LGBT; same-sex marriage; homosexual marriage; biological mother; biological father; biological parents;
Katy Faust and Stacy Manning’s book, Them Before Us, looks at the question of homosexual parents and the many and detailed studies of children from those families as well. The homosexual family model has a core fatal flaw as they conclude when the say The problem with same-sex parenting, as previously noted, isn't the gay parent; it's the missing parent.In this century, for the first time in the history of humanity, homosexual marriage was made legal. More than that, rapidly the law gave two adults of the same sex the right to adopt children or to bring children into existence using third party donor sperm or eggs.In GK Chesterton’s story, that I recounted from Louise Perry’s book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, in Part 7 of this series, he taught us that we shouldn’t knock down fences before knowing why the fence was there – and when you knew why, you could make an informed decision about whether that purpose meant that it either should be knocked down or it should not be knocked down. But, as the recent science now clearly, and unequivocally tells us, allowing homosexual people to be put into a parental relationship with children through artificial means is totally and unforgivably wrong.Tag words: Katy Faust; Stacy Manning; Them Before Us; GK Chesterton; Louise Perry; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; Robert Spitzer; Andrew Kulikovsky; Obergefell v Hodges; Paul Sullins; Mark Regenerus; Melissa S. Kearney; The Two-Parent Advantage; marriage equality; same-sex parents; homosexual parents;
In 2 of the most important cases in America, two judges made findings which they said were the science. Judge Vaughan Walker found children didn’t suffer because they had homosexual parents instead of heterosexual. Judge Kennedy found that homosexuality was immutable - unchangeable – always was always will be queer.But were they right?Tag words: Perry v. Schwarzennegger; Judge Vaughan Walker; Obergefell v Hodges; Judge Kennedy; LGBTIQ+; Big Fertility; Dutch Paradox; Sanjay Aggarwal; Rene Gerrets; Proverbs 3:5; conversion therapy; homosexual parents; same-sex parents; heterosexual parents;
Is it just me or do you find this confusing too?One of the leading bodies fighting for the legalisation of homosexual marriage was the body called Australian Marriage Equality. One of the things that apparently kicked off the homosexual marriage campaign was the amendment of the Marriage Act by the Howard government, supported by the Latham Labor opposition, that specified that marriage was between one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others.On 15 November 2017, Benedict Brook, at news.com.au, posted an article entitled Inside the Yes campaign: The strategy to deliver same sex marriage to Australia. It was posted on the final day for voting in the same sex marriage referendum. He interviewed Tiernan Brady, the head of the Equality Campaign, who told him that the No campaign was putting out misinformation, using that modern word that wasn’t used back then, but you’ll understand what I’m getting at better, raising, what he said were other consequences that would come from legalising same sex marriage and they weren’t talking about marriage itself – but that was the focus of the Yes campaign. But was the No campaign really trying to distract us or were they pointing us to the floodgates that have now very clearly been opened as a result of the successful Yes campaign.In an article on the ABC News, entitled Howard Years to headbutts by Riley Stuart, posted on 16 November 2017, the day after the referendum, it perhaps unintentionally told a different story to the one that Tiernan Brady was telling.I think most insightfully, or honestly, because the Yes vote had won when she was interviewed, Geraldine, elected as one of the inaugural co-convenors of the Australian Marriage Equality campaign, told Riley Stuart that:It was always my view, and it was always Rodney's view, that if you go after marriage, you get everything else.She wasn’t wrong. Gender fluidity, transexuals, gender change. Just think.In this programme I’m continuing to look at Dr Schumm’s investigation into whether Dr Sarantakos’ findings about the consequences of homosexual marriage for children were scientifically correct. And when I look at what Dr Schumm found, I’m finding that what the homosexual community calls marriage is not the same thing that the heterosexual community calls marriage. Having read all of that, it seems to me that the referendum was like two ships passing in the night. What heterosexual people thought they were voting for wasn’t what they were voting for, while homosexual people got exactly what they wanted – everything. Tell me what you think after you’ve heard this programme?Tag words: Tiernan Brady; Equality Campaign; Geraldine; Family Law Act; Associate Professor Sarantakos; Dr Walter Schumm; same-sex marriage; monogamy; polyamorous;
What are the differences between homosexual parents and heterosexual parents that might lead to different outcomes for children? Here’s some of the scientific research – and it’s not good for the kids!Tag words: Jordan Peterson; 12 Rules for Life; Melissa Kearney; The Two Parent Advantage; Dr Sarantakos; Dr Schumm; Katy Faust; Them Before Us; discipline; self-control; self-regulation;
In my last programme I told you about the finding of Judge Vaughan Walker in Perry v. [I’ll be back] Schwarzennegger.He made this finding, but he couldn’t have been much wronger – my word, if he had tried:Children raised by gay or lesbian parents are as likely as children raised by heterosexual parents to be healthy, successful and well-adjusted. The research supporting this conclusion is accepted beyondserious debate in the field of developmental psychology.The truth was revealed by Australian, Dr Sotirios Sarantakos, Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Charles Sturt University, and affirmed by Dr Walter R Schumm, Professor of Family Studies, Kansas State University when Dr Sarantakos’ findings, unsurprisingly, came under heavy fire from scientists who were pro the LGBT agenda. His findings were then reviewed by Dr Schumm, a scientist who applied scientific methods, not political agenda, to determine the truth.Don’t oppose their facts with your opinions, as the expressions goes. Or as Jesus said in John 8:32, the truth will set you free.In this programme I’m going to dig down into Dr Schumm’s findings on Dr Sarantakos’ findings.Tag words: Dr Sotirios Sarantakos; Dr Walter R Schumm; John 8:32; academic performance; sexual orientation; drug and alcohol abuse;
In the last programme I looked at some of the research into whether children with homosexual parents were in a worse position than children with heterosexual partners. The answer was that the science that made findings that there was no difference, was deeply flawed and driven by the LGBTQI+ movement political agenda to find that there was no difference.In this programme I’m going to be looking at the issue from the other side of the fence, aided enormously by the thorough investigation into the science by an Australian scientist applying the correct scientific method and avoiding the danger of bias, whose findings were verified later by an American scientist, who confirmed that there is, in fact, a serious downside to having homosexual parents.Tag words: Dr Sotirios Sarantakos; Dr Schumm; Andrew Kulikovsky; Dr Sotirios Sarantakos LGBTQI+; Obergefell Case; Pavan Case; Perry v Schwarzennegger; same-sex marriage; marriage; same-sex parents; heterosexual parents;
The totally ignored constituency in the question of homosexual marriage is children. Should couples in homosexual marriages continue to have the right to adopt children, or get children through egg or sperm donation, or through surrogates. This has always assumed to be OK but is that what the scientific studies are showing. It hasn’t been something that has received any consideration by the government especially given how successful the LGBTIQ+ community has been at pushing their agenda and silencing everyone else. In reality children are the ones with the greatest stake in that question, and we really need to look at it because the only people that can stand up for them are the adults. That’s what I’m going to do now, look at their plight and what should be done about it.The question, whether same sex couples should be allowed to adopt or get children through sperm or egg donation, or not, is an important one. It has to be decided on the basis of what gives the best result for children. Not whether the homosexual couples would really, really like to have a child or children of their own, but whether allowing them to do that is more likely than not going to cause harm to the child.Tag words: Katy Faust; Them Before Us; Andrew Kulikovsky; Wokeshevism; Melissa S Kearney; The Two-Parent Advantage; same-sex marriages; same sex couples; LGBTIQ+; sperm donation; egg donation; Obergefell v Hodges; Pavan v Smith; Robert L Spitzer; D Paul Sullins
One of the most decisive factors on how well a child is going to do when they grow up, is what level of education they achieved. All the studies indicate that a child from a broken home has a severe handicap there. The studies also indicate that a child living in a home with its married biological parents has significant advantages over children living in other situations. I’m going to share how that works, because you might not believe me, in this programme. Coz you trust the science don’t you.Tag words: Melissa S Kearney; The Two-Parent Advantage; Katy Faust; Them Before Us; divorce; marriage; patriarchy; cohabitating boyfriend; multigenerational households; the Bible; Proverbs; Hebrews; God; Millennials; broken homes; education;
Your divorce will destroy your children’s lives.
There’s no argument that broken homes have a major adverse impact on how children perform really badly at school and university and then very often fail at life itself.
Tag words: Melissa S Kearney; The Two-Parent Advantage; Katy Faust; Them Before Us; marriage; married parents; divorce; no-fault divorce;
Get a divorce and give your children cancer.When a child’s parents divorce, when the child’s biological family is broken up by divorce, the consequences affect the child’s physical and mental health, their academic performance at school, and beyond, if there is a beyond, and then it wrecks their ability to enter into meaningful, lasting relationships. Their physical and mental health can be ruined by your divorce. Do parents think about all of this stuff when they decide they want to get a divorce. If they don’t, they should, and if they do and go ahead with their divorce, then maybe they’re just evil.So what happens?Tag words: Donna Jackson Nakazawa; Katy Faust; Them Before Us; divorce; broken homes; fathers; Henrik Ibsen;
Divorce inevitably sees a big decline in the involvement, the biggest decline is usually of the father but the same applies to the mother for a variety of reasons, of the parents in their childrens’ lives. All of the research shows that for a child to grow up with everything it needs, it needs to grow up with its biological mother and father living together in the one household. As I said in Part 5 of this series mothers can’t be fathers, and fathers can’t be mothers.
Consequences – there are consequences for a child, for their parents, and for society from not having a child brought up living with its mother and father. The problem is that we never really hear from the children who are caught up in divorces about what they think. About whether the idea that kids are resilient, is true, or just a self justification for the parents who are prioritising their lives and desires ahead of their childrens’.
So in this programme I’m going to give the children their voices, let you hear what happens to them because you’re involved in shattering their lives, because your own children of your divorce are never going to honestly tell you how they feel because they know that you don’t want to know. As Tom Cruise said in A Few Good Men, you probably couldn’t handle the truth.
Tag words: Louise Perry; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; Katy Faust; Them Before Us;Marripedia; divorce; two homes; children of divorce; Peaches Geldof; Bob Geldof; Paula Yates;
Well I was wrong! Australia didn’t invent no-fault divorce. Who did, makes it truly shocking that Gough Whitlam would have copied his idea of all people.
It seems that the father of no-fault divorce was that early proto-type Trump figure, Ronald Reagan, when he was the governor of California. Times have certainly changed haven’t they! In 1969 he passed the first no-default divorce laws in America. He later described those laws as his greatest mistake, and he was right!
Contrast the views about 50 years after Gough Whitlam introduced no fault divorce into Australia with the Family Law Act of the leading feminists who pushed the then new Labor government of Gough Whitlam to introduce no-fault divorce laws.
Elizabeth Evatt is one of those. She says she still had no regrets about those laws. She’s an intelligent woman, and she was one of the main people involved in bringing in those laws. She was the Chair of the Royal Commission on Human Relationships and then she was appointed as the first Chief Judge of the new Family Law Court. No one would have seen the consequences of no-fault divorce than her, from the lofty heights as Chief judge of the Family Law Court, she would pretty well have instantly that those laws were being taken advantage of, not by women subjected to domestic violence, although there were of course women in that category, but also by a flood of people who were just bored with their marriage, perhaps because it wasn’t living up to the standards of a Hollywood RomCom. It wasn’t as exciting as when we first met. As the military would say, children were collateral damage to this easily available divorce – but nothing to worry about. Kids are resilient – right!
Elizabeth Evatt, in the book Women and Whitlam wrote:
I have not wavered from my support for the general principles of the Family Law Act. The model it established was admired around the world, and remains one of the great legacies of Gough Whitlam and his Attorney-General, Lionel Murphy.
Does this lead us to the conclusion that what happened with the divorce rates soaring was what she was hoping for when she pressed for the introduction of no-fault divorce. Consistent with socialist policies which want the family ended and its role taken on by the state.
So how would children suffer from divorce, in what ways and what did no fault divorce do to the institution of marriage.
Tag words: Katy Faust; Them Before Us; Gough Whitlam; Ronald Reagan; Family Law Act; Elizabeth Evatt; divorce; Adverse Childhood Experiences;
Shocking, traumatic events have a way of drilling deeply into the very core and heart of human beings. The shock children experience when they learn that their parents' marriage has died is, for them, the worst moment that they’ll ever have in their lives. This event’s especially traumatic for children completely unaware of the trouble in their parents' marriage. One day everything’s fine, those children are totally oblivious to the fact the entire foundation of their lives is about to disappear. One moment they’re safe and secure; the next, everything they thought was a permanent fixture in their life is gone. Children of divorce will never forget the moment their parents announced their separation or when Dad bailed, or the day Mum never came home. The emotional scars of those fateful moments remain even decades later. The consequences are often the ruination of their lives and very often too, the lives of people that they will connect with when as adults they’re looking for something that may always elude them – a stable, permanent relationship because they can’t give that themselves.
From this programme I’m going to start to look at the catastrophic effect that divorce has on children, but also on the people involved in the marriage too.
It would be better to lose your parent in the collapse of the Twin Tours on September 11 than to have your parents; marriage break up.
Tag words: Melissa Kearney; The Two-Parent Privilege; Katy Faust; Stacy Manning; Them Before Us; marriage; divorce; Gen Xers; Millennials; Family Law Act; Gough Whitlam; Louise Perry; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; GK Chesterton; Marxist theory; Judaeo-Christian; Bolsheviks;Communist Russia; Joseph Stalin; Pandora; Jordan Peterson;
Never before in the history of the world has marriage between people of the same sex been recognised by law. But here we are today with most Western countries having recognised it and passed laws to that effect. And it has made a difference beyond comprehension. It is all good? It it all bad? Is it a bit of both?
Let me tell you a bit about it in the context of children’s rights in the world of same sex marriage, because the impact it has on children’s rights is massive.
Tag words: Jordan Peterson; Beyond Order; same-sex marriage; the Cinderella Effect; Louise Perry; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; marriage; throuples; polygamy; Darwin’s Theory of Evolution;Survival of the Fittest; Karl Marx; miscegenation; Loving v Virginia; Stolen Generations; Obergefell v Hodges; Pavan v Smith; God; Christian; Kay Faust; Them Before Us;
Do you want your own harem?
Marriage has changed enormously in Australia since 12 June 1975 when the Family Law Act became law. Marriage between a man and a woman for life, with few exceptions, became marriage until you got bored and wanted to move on. All of the people that thought these changes would just loosen things up for those in a terrible marriage found that they’d opened the floodgates for large numbers of unexpected people to get divorced.
In America from 2015, after the Supreme Court case of Obergefell v Hodges, and then in Australia soon after the November 2017 referendum, a new kind of marriage, that hadn’t existed anywhere in the world before – same sex marriage - came in. In a future programme I’m going to look at how children have fared from same-sex marriages, but now another ancient type of marriage, never known in the West, is now rearing its head seeking to be legalised. This series of programmes is looking at the whole question of how children fare growing up in those different life style situations. If it's damaging for them, then we should think about what limitations we should put on those alternative relationships, including preventing people in those relationships from having, or being able to have, children.
So let’s start with the common ancient form of polygamous marriages. Articles appear regularly in the media promoting our new found freedom to cast off the ancient shackles that have bound us and letting adults do whatever they like.
Tag words: Jordan Peterson ; Katy Faust; Them Before Us; Family Law Act; Obergefell v Hodges; Louise Perry; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; monogamy; polygamy; throuple; Cinderella
You want to adopt a child. A particular child. But the child has parents. Bother. So think out of the box. Have the parents murdered, so you’re not caught, hire a good hit man, then adopt the child.
If you’re more conventionally minded and wanted a child, not the traditional way, you could buy a sperm and/or an egg and perhaps get a surrogate mother.
Doesn’t matter which way you go, murder or sperm/egg donation. The result’s going to be the same for the child – devastating.
Tag words: Katy Faust; Stacy Manning; Them Before Us; adoption; sperm donation; egg donation; surrogacy; slave trade; Milly Fontana; Big Fertility; UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; Hague Convention on Protections of Children and Co-Operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption; Uniform Parentage Act; My Daddy’s Name is Donor; Mark Newton; Peter Truong; Theresa Erickson;
The parties in a traditional marriage are a man, a woman and later, very often, one or more babies. In this scenario, the baby happens as a matter of biology.
When you change the law to say that a same sex married couple can enjoy all of the benefits that a heterosexual married couple you can’t, of course, mean the natural outcome of a child. The only way that can happen is if the couple obtain either an egg or a sperm, or both, from some other party. So when a homosexual couple has a child, the child will be missing one or both biological parents in its everyday life. What does that mean?
Tag words: Katy Faust; Them Before Us; intent based parents; adoption; Big Fertility; Mitsutoki Shigeta; Mark Newton; Peter Truong; paedophile; David Farnell; Wenyu Li; Sperm donor; egg donor; surrogate;
The biggest issues, badly affecting children’s rights, have been same sex marriage and science. Science in many forms, some not yet arrived although they’re being talked about, like artificial wombs for men. The science topics will be talked about in future programmes, this programme’s about the Love is Love movement around the world that ushered in what is labelled “same sex marriage” – picking up on the Christian word, marriage, that had previously uniformly meant the union for life of one man and one woman.
Like no fault divorce, our governments around the Western world rapidly and totally remodelled the institution of marriage that had existed for thousands of years without ever really asking why it was structured the way it was and with it have destroyed and are continuing to destroy children’s rights.
This takes me back to what GK Chesterton said in Part 7 of this series – if you’re a properly intelligent human being, you don’t pull down a gate without knowing what it’s there for. With these two changes we pulled down the very cornerstones of our society without knowing what doing what we did would mean.
The core proposition of this series of programmes is that it is the right of every children on earth to grow up with their biological mother and father. This is what Article 20 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, says. Australia (and every country on earth except for the United States) area signatories. And all that Convention does is what all of the science, studying the effect of these radical changes on children, shows is absolutely essential for a well-developed child. There is some poorly conducted research that suggests otherwise.
So let’s look at the Love is Love gate that was pulled down and what came down with it.
Tag words: Tag words: Katy Faust; Stacy Manning; Them Before Us; Love is Love; GK Chesterton; UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; Glenn Scrivener; Defense of Marriage Act; DOMA; Louise Perry; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; Obergefell v. Hodges; Pavan v. Smith; Heather Barwick; Millie Fontana; children; motherlessness; fatherlessness;
To get married or not. If children are involved then there’s really only one answer if you’re a woman - yes. If you’re a man, then the answer’s really the same – but not as obvious.
But for the unconceived child of these two, this isn’t even a question. The consequences for them, from this biological process that they have no say in, makes it vital that you’re married. Because if you have children without being married to the other biological parent, you’ll almost certainly damage your child – perhaps very deeply, perhaps ruining their entire lives. And that is a sin.
Tag words: Jordan Peterson; Katy Faust; Stacy Manning; Louise Perry; marriage; Them Before Us; traditional marriage; same sex marriage; love; romance; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; Dr. Louann Bizendine; The Female Brain; Beyond Order; What Is Marriage?; Ryan T Anderson; Sherif Girgis;Robert George; consent-based marriage; conjugal marriage; Glen Scrivener; Dr Elizabeth Evatt; Women and Whitlam; Anglican Archbishop Marcus Loane; Gough Whitlam
The richest, brightest and the best women are getting married and staying married. They’re not doing what the feminists are telling them – and that’s making them and their families richer than the women who are following the advice of feminists and avoiding the so-called patriarchal trap of marriage. Is it possible that the feminists got it wrong?
Tag words: Jordan Peterson; Mary Eberstadt; How the West Really Lost God; Louise Perry; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; Andrea Dworkin; Germaine Greer; Kate Millett; marriage; liberal feminists; radical feminists; Marlene Dixon; STEM field; Charles Murray; Coming Apart; W. Bradford Wilcox; When Marriage Disappears: The Retreat from Marriage in Middle America; UK Divorce Reform Act; Lord Stow Hill;
There are lots of good reasons why a man and a woman should get married rather than shacking up or just randomly having sex.
Here are 4 of the biggies:
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If you have children and you, the biological parents, aren’t married, there’s a really good chance that you’re going to ruin the lives of your children. It should be a human right for a child to have the parents who are married and living together with their child;
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If you’re a woman, being married is what you really want;
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If you’re a man, you really need to get married – you might not think so, but all of the science is against you if that’s what you think; and
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Financially, socially, and in almost every way imaginable, you and the whole society you live in will be more prosperous and happy.
There are always exceptions – but this isn’t something you should want to gamble with, and one outstanding feminist backs me up. Or probably more realistically I’m backing her up. Her name is ...
Tag words: Louise Perry; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; Glen Scrivener; Gough Whitlam; Dr Elizabeth Reid; Women and Whitlam – Revisiting the Revolution; Family Law Act; John 1:3; John 10:6 to 8; Mark 10:9; Galatians 3:28; Monogamy; Sexual Revolution;
This programme asks the important question. If you give a baby girl a Barbie doll when she’s born, well something a little softer at that tender age, then the hard plastic Barbie doll later when she’s a bit older, will she turn out to be a girlie girl incapable of doing science, technology, engineering and mathematics – those STEM areas that mean so much to radical feminists?
Alternatively, if when she’s born you give her a pair of knuckle dusters, will she be a brilliant scientist, who knows another Oppenheimer, who will build a bigger and better bomb. We can only hope eh!
The radical feminists accept that there are biological differences between men and women. I don’t think that’s much of a concession. I gave you the science about that in the last programme. I also mentioned that radical feminists say that although men and women have different bodies below the neck, they tell us that from a biology point of view – men and women have the same brains. The only difference between men and women, the radical feminists want us to believe, is how we’re brought up – the doll thing. It’s usually called the debate between nature and nurture. So let’s see ...
Tag words: Louise Perry; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; radical feminists; liberal feminists; STEM; Barbie doll; nature or nurture; Sarah Blaffer Hrdy; Jennifer Doudna; Walter Isaacson; The Code Breaker; James Watson; The Double Helix; Google; James Louann Brizendine ; Damore; The Female Brain; Will Knowland;
When I was growing up I heard this nursery rhyme a lot. It’s an old traditional nursery rhyme about what little boys and little girls are made of.
What the nursery rhyme’s telling us is that boys and girls, and so men and women, are very different to each other.
But today, picking up on Marxist ideology, that there are no individuals and everyone is the same, regardless of our gender. Liberal feminists, in particular, say that there aren’t even any physical differences between men and women.
Radical feminists accept that there are physical differences between men and women but, under what they call the socialisation theory, they say that the way boys and girls are treated growing up has a dramatically negative effect on women. That theory, accepts physical differences but insists that there aren’t any innate psychological differences between men and women. Any differences we observe must be the product of nurture, not nature.
So who’s right? And what does it matter in the context of children’s rights to a mother and a father.
Tag words: Louise Perry; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; Kary Faust; Stacy Manning; Them Before Us; Lia Thomas; Liberal feminists; Radical feminists; transgender; testosterone; osetrogen; Dr Louann Brizendine; The Female Brain;
“Star Wars – Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back”, has probably the most unique scene in any movie, or any book for that matter, that you’ve ever come across, and what it has to say is what this programme is all about. Let me play this short excerpt from the movie.
Tag words: Star Wars; The Empire Strikes Back; Darth Vader; step-father; step-parents; H. J. Sants; genealogical bewilderment; sperm donor; egg donor; Katy Faust; Stacy Manning; Them Before Us; baby boom era; Donor Conceived;
The Cinderella story is about a young girl whose mother dies. Her father remarries. His new bride was married before and had two daughters from her previous marriage. Cinderella’s father dies, leaving her in the not-so tender care of her step-mother and her step-sisters. Things work out really badly for Cinderella as it does for most step-children in real life. And in real life, at least in Australia, there aren’t balls at the palace and there aren’t many handsome princes to sweep a girl off her feet and rescue her from her step family. Why the life of most step-children is a long way from ideal is what this programme is going to look at, because thus it was and thus it will always be.
In fact there’s an even better known, a real life story of what it’s like to be a step-child where one of the parents is not your own and nor are any of your brothers and sisters. His were all step-children with the same mum and dad. I’ll tell you about that.
Tag words: Cinderella; step-children; step-child; step-son; step-daughter; Jesus; Mary; Joseph; Psalm 69; the Bible; step-mother; step-father; Them Before Us; Katy Faust; Stacy Manning; adoption;
They say:The only things kids need to grow up healthy and happy are to be safe and loved.And here’s what Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) says to Vincent Vega (John Travolta) in Pulp Fiction about what they say:So “they say” a lot of stuff that they’ve heard from somewhere else and they don’t know whether it’s true, but it sounds true, so they treat it as if it’s true.But that’s not true – you can’t ignore your biology and I’ll tell you why what “they say” isn’t true.Tag words: biological parents; marriage; married parents; single mums; Cinderella; the Cinderella effect; step-children; step-child; step-parent; fatal beatings; child maltreatment; child abuse;
In their book Them Before Us, Katy Perry and Stacy Manning spoke of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child. They had this to say:
Every country on the planet understands how critical mothers and fathers are to children. The United Nations, an institution in which consensus is as rare as a winged unicorn, enshrined children's right to be known and loved by both parents in the Convention on the Rights of the Child — the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history.
This winged unicorn has declared that children have a right to be known and cared for by both their mother and father, should not be separated from their parents, and have a right to remain in contact whenapart. Children have a right to their biological identity and extended family. In summary, children are not items to be cut and pasted into any and every adult relationship. As Rabbi Gilles Bernheim has noted, children are subjects of rights, not objects of rights.
So let’s see what the importance for children is of living with both of their biological parents.
Tag words: Them Before Us; Katy Perry; Stacy Manning; United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child; homelessness; human trafficking; prisons; suicide; teen pregnancy; abortions; high school dropout rates; emotional and behavioural problems; single parenthood; rape; prostitution; domestic violence; identity politics; ; welfare bills; prison inmates; Mary Eberstadt; Adam and Eve After the Pill – Revisited; Jeffrey Epstein; Ghislaine Maxwell; Louise Perry; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; Children; Nicholas A. Christakis; Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society; Communist societies; Shulamith Firestone; Igor Shafarevich; Donald Winnicott; Leah Libresco Sargeant; Gough Whitlam; Family Law Act; Camilla Nelson; Dave Chapelle; early menstruation; telomeres;
Louise Perry, young English feminist who published the book therefore with the surprising title of The Case Against the Sexual Revolution quotes the story that English philosopher, writer and Christian apologist, GK Chesterton, told. It goes like this and is entirely relevant to our modern tear everything down culture – which includes the sexual revolution going back to the 1960s, powered by the invention of the contraceptive pill and easy divorce.
The story goes like this:
In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, 'I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away.' To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: 'If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.'
The Family Law Act 1975, introduced by the Whitlam government, was born from the contraceptive pill. The fears, at the time that this legislation were that the Family Law Act would destroy the family. The feminists led the charge on that. They mocked the suggestion that the Family Law Act would destroy the family. They said it was that non-existent thing, the patriarchy that was trying to rob women of their freedom. Now nearly 50 years on we can see how that worked out. The Whitlam government had pulled down the 4,000 year old marriage gate and revolutionised it. Did they know what they were pulling down and what that gate did? And where was that going to leave the children – which this series of programmes is all about.
Tag words: Louise Perry; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; GK Chesterton; Family Law Act 1975; divorce; Whitlam government; Matrimonial Causes Act; Marriage Act, 1961; Moses; Genesis 2:24; Christians; Gough Whitlam; Women and Whitlam; Camilla Nelson; Melissa Moschella; The Rights of Children: Biology Matters; Swinging Sixties; Karl Marx; Plato; The Republic; Igor Shafarevich; The Socialist Phenomenon; Sexual Revolution; the Pill; Institute for American Values; - Births to Unmarried Women, Child Trends, December 2015; Katy Faust; Stacy Manning; Them Before Us; contraceptive pill; Timothy Reichert; Bitter Pill; Dave Chappelle; Peter Pan syndrome; manolescent; Mick Jagger;
In my last programme I talked about the discovery that although a lot of behaviour, of animals and humans, may be wired in, often it has to be triggered by a parent etc before it starts to operate. One instance of this that I talked about in the last programme is cats that are taken off their mothers too soon – they will never learn how to climb down from a tree.
Then there were Susan Minetka’s tame monkeys, wild monkeys and a snake. The tame monkeys didn’t know what a snake was and that they had to be afraid of it - for good reason – like if a snake bites, then the monkey will die. After a brief time with wild monkeys that were shown a snake and went berserk at the sight of it, the tame monkeys learned to match the behaviour of the wild monkeys forever after. After that brief exposure to how wild monkeys behave, the tame monkeys were immediately and totally equipped to deal with snakes.
Then there are the male snakes of the #MeToo controversy. It turned out that many of the men and women involved in that controversy were both like the tame monkeys. The women hadn’t been socialised to deal with the behaviour of that kind by men and many of the men weren’t equipped to deal with those women who didn’t want that sort of attention.
Tag words: Susan Minetka; #MeToo; Mary Eberstadt; Primal Scream; Women’s Christian Temperance Union; WCTU; Christianity; Galatians 3:28; Communists; Karl Marx; Plato; The Republic; Igor Shafarevich; The Socialist Phenomenon; Louise Perry; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; Sex and the City; Carrie Bradshaw; The Fall; Stella Gibson; Catharine MacKinnon; RAG; Revolutionary Anarcha Feminist;
In this programme I’m going to tell you why some cats can climb up a tree but need the Fire Brigade to get them down. And how the explanation I’m going to give you for that explains how some women found themselves victims of the #MeToo movement, and eventually I’m going to tell you from knowing that, why that explains why we should ban surrogacy, egg and sperm donations, and even take a long, hard look before allowing same sex couples to adopt children. So please fasten your seat belt because you’re in for a bumpy ride.
Tag words: cats; #MeToo movement; surrogacy; egg donations; sperm donations; retractable claws; fire brigade; Karen Pryor; Temple Grandin; Animals Make Us Human; social learning; Harry Harlow; rhesus monkeys; John T. Cacioppo; William Patrick; Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection; autistic-like syndrome; Susan Minetka; Mary Eberstadt; Primal Fear; Louise Perry; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; Divorce Rates Double When People Start Watching Porn; David Shultz; Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy; Mark Regnerus; Charlie Rose; CBS; Linda Boreman; Linda Lovelace; Deep Throat; Ordeal; John Anderson; Katy Faust; Them Before Us; Pat Fagan;
Who has a right to adopt child a? Is it married heterosexual couples? Unmarried heterosexual couples? Same sex married couples? Same sex unmarried couples? Individuals whatever gender they identify as?
Well the answer’s surprisingly simple, no adults have the right to adopt a child that they’re not biologically related to.
The proper question to ask is whether the child should be adopted out to the applicants seeking the adoption. And those adults have to jump through a lot of hoops to satisfy the people responsible for allowing that child to be adopted to decide if those adults are suitable parents.
Tag words: adoption; surrogate; American Academy of Pediatrics; child-centric social worker; Katy Faust; Stacy Manning; Them Before Us; H. J. Sants; genealogical bewilderment; egg donor; sperm donor; Big Fertility;
Adoption. In my last two programmes I talked about the incredible biolological changes that happen in the biological parents of a newly conceived child and that keep on going through to their child’s early, even teen years.
Not every biological couple can have children though, and these days same sex couples are also allowed to adopt children.
Adoption’s a great way to go if you want children and can’t have them naturally yourselves. But there’s a massive problem that comes with adoption, for the adopted children, and that means for the adopting parents too, and I should start the programme there.
Tag words: Adoption; baby boom era; Them Before Us; Katy Faust; Stacy Manning; Erik Erickson; Sue Erikson Bloland; Biological parents; The Primal Wound; Nancy Newton Verrier; adoptees' bible; Julianne Jaz; normal ego; false self;
I’m looking into the market for buying babies. But first I’m covering off what happens when a man and a woman, who are married, preferably, or are living together, have children.
In the first part I looked at the incredible things that the body does to prepare the babies biological parents for what’s coming. In this programme I’m looking at what happens after the child has arrived, the role that the biological parents play in the lives of their children. Equally amazing. So the babies come home – possibly for the rest of your life – that’s called “entitled dependence” – or hopefully a lot less. I’m just going to stick to the formative years though. And I have to tell you that mummies and daddies behave differently with their baby – each making enormously important contributions to what success a child will have in life.
If they’re missing one, or the other, they are most likely going to have problems in life.
Tag words: babies; biological parents; entitled dependence; Dr Louann Brizendine; The Male Brain; hormones; testosterone; vasopressin; #MeToo; Jeffrey Epstein; Predators;
It seems like only yesterday that it was illegal to buy babies – but then we have science to thank for new developments that have made that possible. Also society has made major changes to what is acceptable creating the demand for babies for people who couldn’t get babies the usual way themselves, same sex couples.
In this programme I’m going to start by looking at the old-fashioned way people got babies and the in-built mechansims that came into play from pregnancy to birth, then I’ll be looking at children born in answer to the demand of adults where the egg or the sperm, or both, are obtained from a third party which third party usually will never have any further connection with the child produced from their egg or sperm. Sometimes one of the people involved in getting the baby will contribute their egg or sperm, but the other side of the equation will be obtained from a donor – usually an unknown stranger.
Sometimes all of that applies, and sometimes it may be that the egg and the sperm both, are provided by the future parents but a woman, who is most likely unrelated to the couple, will be the surrogate mother – she’ll carry the fertilised egg through to birth and then, usually, immediately relinquish the child to her paying customers without having anything at all to do with the baby that she just gave birth to.
There’s always been the long debate with science on the issue of whether we should do something for the simple reason that we can. Then there are the arguments that that is no reason to do something that perhaps we shouldn’t be doing. This seems, to me, to be one of those areas.
We’ve been doing this sort of thing with sperm and egg donors and surrogate mothers for long enough now for there to be children who, today, are old enough to let us know how this sort of situation is working out for them. They are clearly entitled to a voice that must be heard and weighed on the scales to decide if we should continue to do this or ban it.
The result of all these new techniques is that babies are being born that could never be born otherwise. People are buying babies to demand. Being able to buy another human being seems like a horrible thing for our society to allow.
So me tell you what happens when a baby is conceived in the old fashioned way by a man and a woman who are living together and intend to bring up the child as their own. It would be far far better if they were married, to give the child the chance of having those biological parents while the child is growing into an independent human being, but that’s another issue.
Tag words: Louann Brizendine MD; The Female Brain; The Male Brain; mommy brain; progesterone; cortisol; fetus; placenta; pregnancy; ultrasound; Dads; testosterone; prolactin; pheromones; Couvade syndrome; baby; mother; father;
In 1882 the German philosopher, Nietzsche, said “God is Dead”. He was right – or he had been right for a few days. But how was it possible for God to die? No other religion even comes close to imagining such a thing – it would be an affront to any of their gods. In 500 BC the famous Greek philosopher, Socrates wrote to Plato: “It may be that the deity can forgive sins, but I do not see how”. These two burning issues plague our secular world and defy every other religion which offers no solution for sin. God had a profoundly different way to cure the problems of the fallen world which the secularists and no other religion had in their myths.
Tag words: Nietzsche; God is Dead; Socrates; Plato; God; The Gay Science; crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Christianity; Christian; the Bible; Old Testament; Alexander the Great; Gordium; the Gordian Knot; Aristotle; Romans 1:17; Martin Luther; Daniel 9:25; Gabriel; Daniel; Messiah King;; Daniel 9:25; Nebuchadnezzar; Ataxerxes; Persian Empire; Jesus Christ; Luke 19:41-42; Mary Magdalene; Amaeus; Galilee; Mount of Olives; 1 Corinthians 15:6; Genesis 1:1-2; Genesis 2:7; John 20:21-23; Mark 16:15-16; Pentecost; Ascension; Acts 1:3; David Bentley Hart; Garden of Gethsemane; Lazarus; John 18:9;
When you look at something on the internet today you’ve just gotta wonder. So much rubbish there. So many lies dressed up as the truth. For me the good posts are the ones that are obviously wrong and funny – like the quote attributed to US President Abraham Lincoln who lived in the 1800s, before there was electricity and the internet. The meme on Facebook “quoted” him as saying “You can’t believe everything you read on Facebook”. So when your ten closest friends tell you something that just isn’t possible but which they said they’d seen with their own eyes do you believe them? And can you still be friends with someone that you’ve just seriously failed in their hour of greatest need? I’m Paul and let’s find out in this CYKIAE.
Tag words: Facebook; Thomas; Didymus; Jerusalem; Lazarus; Jesus Christ; John 11:14-16; Pontius Pilate; the Last Supper; John 14:1-4; John 14:5; Cleopas; John 20:24-25; God; John 20:26-29; Mark 16:7; John 21:2-3; John 21:5-6; the Bible; John 21:7; John 21:8; John 21:9; John 21:10-11; Simon Peter; Isaiah 50:6; Isaiah 52:14; John 21:15; John 21:16; John 21:17; John 21:18-19; John 21:20-21;
A lot of people these days have been brought back from the dead thanks to the miracles of modern science. After a person’s been determined to be dead for a short period of time. But what happens if you’ve been dead for days – nothing modern science can do to bring that person back. What happens to that person when life returns to them? The evidence is that, besides other things, the person shows a great sense of humour and a voracious appetite. It’s the little details.
Tag words: Mary Cleopas; Jesus Christ; Messiah; Clopas; John 19:25; Luke 19:13-33; Sanhedrin; Joseph of Arimathea; Pontius Pilate: crucifixion; Mary Magdalene; Nicodemus; Old Testament; resurrection; Roman guards; high sabbath; tomb; Easter Sunday; road to Emmaus; Luke 24:13-14; Luke 24:15-16; Isaiah 50:6; Isaiah 52:14; Revelation 5:6; Luke 24:17-19; Luke 24:19-21; Luke 24:22-24; Luke 24:25-27; Luke 24:28-29; Luke 24:30; Luke 24:31; Luke 24:32-33; Luke 24:33-35; Luke 24:36-40; Luke 24:41-43; Luke 24:44-46; John 20:21-23; God;
In about 1995 the modern superstring theory was announced. It was revolutionary. It said that there were 11 dimensions. Bill Bryson, in his book, “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, tells us that these dimensions were the three that we already knew about – length, breadth and depth – plus time (which we also knew about). There are also another 7 dimensions that are unknowable to us. How staggering? Scientific progress. Well except of course God knows all about the universe. From the Bible, a source of considerable scientific knowledge, a Hebrew sage named Nachmanides, living in Spain in the 12th Century, told us that there were 10 dimensions (4 known to us and 6 that were unknowable). He’s probably right – 10 not 11. Chapter 1 of the Book of Genesis was his source. So the 1995 announcement was really very old news. The story of Jesus, from the resurrection until his return to heaven, is repeatedly the story of these other dimensions unknoweable to us - known only to God. This programme is about Jesus and the superstring theory – and the resurrection of Jesus after his crucifixion.
Tag words: Bill Bryson; A Short History of Nearly Everything; Nachmanides; God; Book of Genesis; The Bible; Jesus Christ; Messiah; crucifixion; Herod; Matthew 28:11; Roman guard; the tomb; Joseph of Arimathea; Matthew 28:1-4; Matthew 28:11; Matthew 28:12-15; empty tomb; 14th of Nisan; 17th of Nisan; Great Flood; Noah; Ararat; Old Testament; New Testament; Chuck Missler; Mark 16:3-8; sepulchre; Luke 24:4-8; Luke 24:11; John 20:3-10; Mary Magdalene; John; Peter; John 20:11-18; Aramaic; Rabboni;
In 1970 Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the lyrics for the musical Jesus Christ Superstar. In the title song to the musical Superstar, Judas asks what seems to be a reasonable question of Jesus:
Why'd you choose such a backward time and such a strange land? If you'd come today, you would have reached a whole nation, Israel in 4BC had no mass communication.
Today we know that Jesus had far less chance of getting his message out today than he did in 28 AD. The atheist religion is even more vocal against Jesus today than the pharisees were at the time of Jesus’s crucifixion. In today’s world of social media, truth is not only optional, it is mostly shunned. Today’s CYKIAE is about Jesus after his death and before his resurrection – about things that aren’t usually given a lot of attention – but wow, they are amazing.
Tag words: Andrew Lloyd Webber; Jesus Christ Superstar; Judas; Jesus Christ; Messiah; God; The Bible; crucifixion; Heavy the head that wears the crown; Pontius Pilate; First Fruits; Jews; Joseph of Arimathea; Mark 15:43-44; Caiaphas; Annas; Golgotha; centurion; Mark 15:45; Roman centurion; John 19:38-39; Nicodemus; Sanhedrin; Talmud; Roman siege of Jerusalem; John 19:41; Gospel; high sabbath; John 19: 40; Luke 23:55-56; Galilee; Mary Magdalene; Mary the mother of Jesus; disciple James; Joseph; Salome, the mother of the disciples another James and John; Matthew 27:60; Mark 8:31; Temple; Passover; Matthew 27:62-66; the tomb;
David, the man who as a very young boy killed the giant Goliath, wrote a poem (a psalm) when he was King of Israel, about 1,000 years before Jesus was crucified. It reads as a staggering account, by Jesus, of his crucifixion and death.
Now remember that the Old Testament was translated into Greek by over 70 scholars (why it’s called the Septuagint – from the Latin for 70) in about 275BC. At that time most Jews didn’t speak Hebrew. So the Old Testament is locked in as being 100% genuine – written a long time before the birth of Jesus and full of prophecies of the coming of Jesus. The most staggering by far is what the Angel Gabriel told Daniel (the man in the lion’s den). It predicted about 650 years ahead of time the exact day that Jesus would enter Jerusalem on the ass – Palm Sunday. So in today’s programme Jesus final moments on the cross are explored and he is brought down from the cross dead – with the perfection of his promise to rise from the dead yet to be fulfilled.
Tag words: David; Goliath; Old Testament; the Septuagint; Latin; Hebrew; Angel Gabriel; Daniel; lion’s den; Palm Sunday; John 19:26-27; Mary; Matthew 27:46-47; Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani; My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me; Elias; Elijah; Psalm 22:1; the Passover; sacrificial lamb; Kind David; Paul; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Jesus Christ; the Messiah; the Bible; Isaiah; Isaiah 53:10; Psalm 22:15; Matthew 27:33-34; Psalm 69; Psalm 69:21; John 19:28-29; Psalm 22:14; John 19:23-24; Psalm 22:18; John 19:30; Psalm 22:31; Luke 23:45-46; Psalm 22:14; Deuteronomy 21:22-23; Feast of Unleavened Bread; pharisees; John 19:31; Pontius Pilate; Cavalry; John 19:32-33; John the Baptist; John 1:29; Passover Lamb; Exodus 12:5; Satan; John 19:6; Moses; Exodus 12:46; Psalm 34:20; Roman soldiers; God; John 19:34; Mary Magdalene; Mary the mother of Jesus; Salome; Joseph of Arimathea; Luke 23:50-56; sepulchre;
Jesus wasn’t crucified on Good Friday. Excruciating is a word that comes from Christ’s crucifixion. Why does Richard Dawkins, atheist hero extraordinaire, have his knickers in a twist for all of the wrong reasons, again, over a story from the Old Testament that’s really all about Jesus that he doesn’t understand anyway – as usual? Stick around and find out.
Tag words: Jesus Christ; the Messiah; crucifixion; the disciples; Matthew 12:40; Abraham; Isaac; pharisees; Son of God; Son of Man; John 8:56-58; Richard Dawkins; GK Chesterton; Ishmael; Hagar; Sarah; Arab nation; Genesis 22; Genesis 22:7-8; Mount Moriah; Golgotha; Calvary; Luke 23:27-2; Temple; fall of Jerusalem; Cicero; Alexander the Great; Judaea; Caponius; asphyxiate; Isaiah 53:5-8; Psalm 22; King David; Isaiah 53:12; Psalm 22:16; Matthew 27:39-43; Luke 23:39-43; Grace; God Redeems at Christ’s Expense; John 3:16;
The greatest injustice in the history of the world was about to happen. Pontius Pilate, Jesus’ judge, was blackmailed into sentencing an innocent man, the only man who never sinned, to death. There’s much more subtlety to this than “Jesus Christ Superstar” revealed – but then it’s my job to give you the real story in this programme.
Tag words: Pontius Pilate; Jesus Christ Superstar; Matthew 27:12-14; Luke 23:13-15; John 18:33-36; John 18:37-38; John 14:6; John 18:38-40; Luke 23:16-17; Luke 23:18-22; Old Testament; New Testament; The Bible; Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 53:7; Isaiah 50:6; Isaiah 52:14; Mark 15:16-19; Roman soldiers; Jesus Christ; Barabbas; John 19:4-8; Son of God; Son of Man; John 19:9-11; John 19:13-15; of the Passover; Caesar; Matthew 27:19; Matthew 27:20-26; Jerusalem; John 19:19-22; Caiaphus; King of the Jews; Yahweh; Yeshua HaNazarei v Melech HaYehudim; Jesus the Nazarene; King of the Jews; acrostic;
It’s a public holiday. Last night you went to bed relaxed, looking forward to another quiet day of the Passover holiday. But did that ever turn into a train wreck. Tomorrow was going to be the most extraordinary day of your life. The kind of day that made you wish you’d never been born. And it began at an indecent time – the absolute crack of dawn. This was the day that a Roman soldier and public servant of no great importance, Pontius Pilate, became one of the most famous men in history.
Tag words: Pontius Pilate; Fortignall in Perthshire, Scotland; Caesar Augustus; Praetorian Guard; Judaea; Claudia Procula; Greek Orthodox Church; Russian Orthodox Church; II Timothy 4:21; the Bible; Luke 13:1-3; Galilean; aqueduct; the Temple; The Sanhedrin; Herod Antipas; the Messiah; Jerusalem; John 18:29-31; Luke 23:2; Luke 23:4-7; Luke 23:8-12; Old Testament; New Testament; Zechariah 11:12-13; Matthew 27:3-4; Acts 1:18-19; Matthew 27:6-10;
If you were going on trial in modern day China, or North Korea, you’d know that you’d be found guilty – It wouldn’t matter if you were really innocent. But if you went on trial in Australia, you’d expect to get a fair trial. We have an elaborate system to make sure of that. But if all the rules about giving you a fair trial were broken, or ignored, and it was obvious the people running the trial wanted to make sure that you were found guilty, even though you weren’t, you’d be in a state of shock and anger. Well this programme is the story of the most unjust trial under what was normally a fair legal system.
Tag words: fair trial; Garden of Gethsemane; Jesus Christ; the Passover; pharisees; Pontius Pilate; John 18:12; Peter; Annas; Caiaphas; John 18:20-21; John 18:22; John 18:17; John 18:25; Malchus; John 18:26-27; Luke 22:60-62; Daniel Defoe; Robinson Crusoe; the Bible; universe; New Testament; Matthew 14:22-33; Messiah; Galilaean; Roman Law; persona; mask; face; colonized peoples; Pedanius Secundus; slave; non habens personam; not having a persona; not having a face; Mark 14:55-59; Matthew 26:62-65; Leviticus 21:10; Mark 14:65; the Sanhedrin; Roman governor Caponius; Old Testament;
Today you’ll hear the report that Jesus actually gave to God about what he had done in fulfilling what God had required Him to do. He’d now completed everything … but for his final blood sacrifice – the last sacrifice that would be needed to be made to God forever. The greatest act of self-sacrifice by the greatest man ever who ever lives. As Jesus and the disciples walked together to the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus gave them his final instructions about spreading his teachings - something they were going to do spectacularly and make the world you live in today –then he was taken – his trials are about to begin.
Tag words: Jesus Christ; God; Garden of Gethsemane; Ten Commandments; Easter; John 14:2-3; John 14:6; John 15:9-27; Son of Man; Son of God; Christians; John 16:7; John 16:32-33; John 17; Peter; James; John; the Bible; Lazarus; Crucifixion; Cicero; Mark 14:36; Abba; Father; Mark 14:37-43; Mark 14:45; Judas; Luke 22:48; John 18:3-12; Matthew 26:52-53; angels; Mark 14:48-50; disciples;
When you’re trying to bring someone, hugely popular, down it’ll take careful planning. You have to be in control – total control. So when the person you’re trying to do this to takes complete control of your kangaroo court, what are you going to do? Jesus was no innocent victim of evil plotting pharisees and the traitor Judas – he was the one calling the shots all the way through. His enemies started tripping all over their own feet. They never regained their balance. So the people who wanted to see Jesus dead, were being pushed headlong and unprepared by him into doing what He wanted them to do – and everything they did was going wrong.
Tag words: the Last Supper; Matthew 26:21-25; Judas; Jesus Christ; Matthew 26:26-29; the Passover; the Bible; the Gospels; Matthew; Mark; Luke; John; John 13:4-5; John 13:6-9; John 13:10-11; John 13:12-18; John 13:19-38; Mark 14:1-2; Pontius Pilate; Roman governor; Caesarea; Herod; Caesar; John 13:31-38;
Here’s the Easter story you haven’t heard. In AD70, the Roman Emperor Vespasian had his son, Titus, surround Jerusalem, with the 5th, 10th, 12th and 15th Legions who stormed it. Over a million people died and 100,000 were taken as slaves. And what has that got to do with Easter? I’ll tell you all about that and a lot of other things that happened before the Last Supper in this CYKIAE Easter programme.
Tag words: Easter story; Roman Emperor Vespasian; Roman Emperor Titus; Jerusalem; 5th Legion; 10th Legion; 12th Legion; 15th Legion; slaves; Jesus Christ; Mount of Olives; Temple; the fall of Jerusalem; 70 AD; God; Messiah King; Palm Sunday; Luke 19:41-44; Gabriel; Daniel; Judaea; Zealots; Emperor Nero; Christian Jews; Emperor Galbo; Emperor Otho; Emperor Vitellius; civil war; Coliseum; Roman persecutions; of Simon the leper; Annas; Caiaphas; Sanhedrin; Matthew 26:3-5; Pontius Pilate; crucifixion; prophets; Matthew 21:1-4; feast of the Passover; Mark 14:12-17; Judas Iscariot; Luke 22:1-6; Matthew 26:15-16; John 12:5-6;
The day after Jesus’ triumphal parade into Jerusalem, he goes to the Temple. He gives the priests some brutal tongue lashings. Finally he tells the Jewish crowds outside the Temple that they’re doomed until – well that’s where todays programme ends up – so you’ll have stay listening. Now the Jewish leaders have to come up with some other way to get the Romans to do their dirty work to kill Jesus.
Tag words: Jesus Christ, triumphal entry; Jerusalem; Mark 14:1; Messiah/King; Tim Rice; Andrew Lloyd Webber; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat; Joseph; Jacob; Genesis 49:10; Caponius; Pontius Pilate; Judaea; Sandhedrin; Temple; John 1:19-30; Matthew 21:23-27; Matthew 21:45; Galilee; Romans; High Priest; Passover; Matthew 22:17-21; Matthew 23:34-39;
You think you know the story of Easter? I’ll bet you you don’t. I’m going to tell you about the prophecy which gave the precise day that Jesus would enter Jerusalem as the Messiah/King exactly 173,880 days time from a historical event – and He did. The torture of Jesus that was too grisly for Mel Gibson to show in the Passion. Jesus’ incredible sense of humour, his brutal verbal confrontations with the pharisees (the Jewish priests). Was Christ crucified on a Wednesday and not a Friday? The warning given to the Christians in Jerusalem about Jerusalem’s destruction from which every Christian was saved but over 1 million Jews were killed and 100,000 taken as slaves. The story of the crucifixion week is the most astounding story ever told about the greatest man who ever lived, who did the most amazing thing because he loved you and changed our world forever.
This is the first of a few parts of the story of Easter. It’s just too big for one programme. Welcome to CYKIAE, I’m Paul - you’re really going to get a lot out of this – you already have.
Tag words: Christianity; Jesus Christ; Isaiah; God; Holy Spirit; Daniel; Crucifixion; Easter; Jerusalem; Messiah; Mel Gibson; The Passion of Christ; crucified; Christians; Babylonian empire;Nebuchadnezzar; Daniel; Gabriel; Mary; Nehemiah; Ataxerxes ; Persian Empire; Passover; Nostradamus; God; Nazareth; Isaiah 61:1-2; Luke 4:18-21; Zechariah 9:9;Torah; Passover feast; Lazarus; Bethany; John 11:1-43; Martha; John 11:25-27; Caiaphas; Judas; tribe of Levi; John 12:13; Luke 19:39-40; John 12:19; John 12:23-24; Luke 19:41-44; Luke 3:1 & 2; Annas; Passover; Matthew 21:12-16; The Bible; New Testament; Romans; Tim Rice; Andrew Llloyd Webber; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat; Jacob; Genesis 49:10; Sanhedrin; Caponius;
This is the end my friends. Over the past 12 parts I’ve looked at the issue of the Stolen Generations – and there is no other conclusion than the finding that it’s a myth. In the first two parts I looked at what Aboriginal activists had to say about it from the 1940’s to the 1980s (until Peter Read “discovered” the Stolen Generations). Not one Aboriginal activist had commented on the Stolen Generations until Peter Read had discovered it, and since then not one Aboriginal activist has failed to comment on it.
The claim that there were Stolen Generations went to the High Court in the Kruger Case to prove that the policies of the Australian government were genocidal. In 1997 the High Court of Australia rejected that in a decision handed down after the Bring Them Home Report had been issued. The High Court invited anyone who thought they had a claim about genocide, because of the way that the government departments administered the laws, to bring any such claims. Lorna Cubillo and Robert Gunner did just that. In 2000 Justice O’Loughlin of the Federal Court of Australia rejected their claims. He found that the government had pursued a policy of offering humanitarian care to vulnerable children, exposed to mistreatment, violence, including sexual abuse, as well as trying to offer children caught up in those problems, education and skills to find employment.
Despite the fact that after both of those cases it’s no longer possible to bring a case before a court in Australia alleging genocide and to be a member of the Stolen Generations, because there were no Stolen Generations, I seriously doubt whether more than a handful of Australians today know that. Our children continue to be taught about the Stolen Generations in schools and at universities, even though it’s now a proven myth. Aboriginal leaders continue to not only tell the story of the Stolen Generations. Some even make the impossible claim that they’re members of the Stolen Generations.
The thousands of white Australians who dedicated, in some cases, their whole lives to helping Aboriginal children who were in desperate need between 1910 and 1980, have been called out as being the no different to the concentration camp guards at the Nazi death camps.
We know that the children of families where there’s domestic violence, victims of sexual abuse, are very likely to do to their partners and children what was done to them. Letting kids grow up in an environment free from that was clearly a good thing.
So what’s happened in Aboriginal communities around Australia since all State and Federal governments have effectively stopped being involved in trying to prevent these abuses being perpetrated today? Why did so many Aboriginals claim to be victims of the Stolen Generations, even though there was no such thing?
Let me try to give you some answers in this wrap up.
Tag words: the Stolen Generations; Aboriginal activists; Professor Peter Read; High Court of Australia; Kruger Case; Bring Them Home Report; Lorna Cubillo; Robert Gunner; Justice O’Loughlin; Federal Court of Australia; Natasha Robinson; The Weekend Australian; Family And Children Services; FACS; Marcia Langton; ABC Q&A Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; Curtin University; Hannah McGlade; The Fact Checker; climate change; Donald Trump; colonisation; Geoffrey Blainey; Western Front in World War I; Gloria Steinem; Dennis Prager; Genesis – The Rational Bible; National Aboriginal Consultative Council; Coral Oomera Edwards; Link; Dr Abraham Twerski; someone to blame; Cootamundra Girls Home; Keith Windschuttle; The Fabrication of Aboriginal History – The Stolen Generations; Anne Deveson; Faces of Change; Merryl-Leigh Brindley; Kevin Rudd; Mick Dodson; Retired Professor Steven Alan Samson; Helms School of Government Liberty University; Wokeshevism; Isaiah 5:20;
I‘d have to say that Sister Kate probably never did the Shimmy. But I know she did things that most other people would never have done, and when she breathed her last breath, she must have had the sure and certain satisfaction of knowing that she left the world a better place for many adults then living, who at one time in their lives had been in her care.
For people like Dr Anna Haebich, the best thing that Sister Kate ever did was to die. No matter what you say about a dead person, you can’t be sued for defamation. And Dr Haebich has some vitriolic scorn to pour out on this dead woman. Why? Well here’s the story.
Tag words: Sister Kate; Dr Anna Haebich; Broken Circles; Katherine Mary Clutterbuck; Stolen Generations; Parkerville Children's Home; 'Appeal for One Million Pennies; West Australian newspaper; Muriel Chase; Neville, the Chief Protector of Aborigines; Mollie; Gracie; Daisy; Rabbit Proof Fence; Moore River Settlement; Galatians 3:28; Archbishop Henry Le Fanu; Paul Hasluck; Ruth LeFroy; Queen’s Park Children; Buckland Hill cottage; Justice O’Loughlin; Dr Peter Read; Vera Whittington; Sara Van de Berg; Ken Colbung; Clearing the Wheat Belt; Nazi eugenics; Darwin’s Theory of Evolution; The Descent of Man; Karl Marx; Friederich Engels; Francis Galton; H. G. Wells; Christian; Aryan Race; Cubillo/Gunner case; Keith Windschuttle;The Fabrication of Aboriginal History – Volume 3. The Stolen Generations 1881-2008; Uniting Church; Sir Ronald Wilson; Bring Them Home Enquiry;
The Human Rights Commission Bringing Them Home Report, from Sir Ronald Wilson and Mick Dodson stated:
The policy of forcible removal of children from Indigenous Australians to other groups for the purpose of raising them separately from and ignorant of their culture and people could properly be labelled 'genocidal' in breach of binding international law.
The previous programmes in this series, looking at the decisions of the High Court of Australia in the Kruger Case in 1997 and the decision of the Federal Court of Australia in the Cubillo and Gunner Cases, in 2000, conclusively rejected this sloppy finding of the Human Rights Commission.
Many years later, Sir Ronald Wilson, in an interview with the Bulletin magazine in 2001, recanted the finding of genocide. He said he was wrong in saying that that was what had happened with the government policies with Aboriginal children, particularly half-caste children. No case has ever been brought since the Federal Court ruling in 2000 rejecting the Stolen Generations narrative. No case could be brought because superior courts, with the advantage that the Bring Them Home Report did not have and do, hearing both sides of the story, seeing witnesses give evidence and be cross examined on their evidence, not just believing whatever the Aboriginal witnesses said, found that there were no stolen generations. The government had been properly implementing a policy of necessary, indeed often life saving child welfare.
But that hasn’t stopped Australia’s good name being blackened in the international community by aboriginals, academics, politicians and left wing activists who have ignored the judicial findings of fact, as they continue to chant the genocide lie to all of those people only too willing to listen to their untruths and choose to believe them. So let’s see how Australia’s name and reputation has been falsely smeared across the world, and let me give you an outrageous example of the lies told by one of the leading genocide experts about the Stolen Generations.
Tag words: The Human Rights Commission; Bringing Them Home Report; Sir Ronald Wilson; Mick Dodson; the Stolen Generations; Genocide; High Court of Australia; Kruger Case; Federal Court of Australia in the Cubillo and Gunner Cases; Nazis; holocaust; The Armenian Genocide; Adolf Hitler; Pol Pot; Cambodia; Rwanda; Tutsis; Journal of Genocide Research; Paul R Bartop; Deakin University; The Holocaust, the Aborigines, and the Bureaucracy of Destruction: An Australian Dimension of Genocide; Colin Tatz; Genocide in Australia; Justice O’Loughlin; Moore River Settlement; University of Natal; Professor Peter Read; Australian National University; Nicholas Hasluck; Sir Paul Hasluck; Bench and Book;
Molly, Gracie and Daisy were sent to the Moore River Settlement in 1931 by the Protector of Aborigines, AO Neville. What was it like, the place they were being sent to? Doris Pilkington, in her book, Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence tells us that the settlement was for Aboriginal half-caste children only. But is that right?
Tag words: Molly; Gracie; Daisy; Moore River Settlement; Protector of Aborigines; AO Neville; Doris Pilkington; Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence; Aboriginal half-caste children; Carrolup; Phil Noyce; Rabbit Proof Fence; E. C. Mitchell; Great Depression; Constable Riggs; Justice O’Loughlin; Cubillo/Gunner Case; Christine Olsen; Kenneth Branagh; Dr Cecil Cook; Ernestine Hill; Baz Luhrmann’ Australia; Crocodile Dundee; Stolen Generations; Louise Perry; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; Half Caste Home; Venereal Disease; J. W. Bleakley; Nicole Kidman; Nullah; Australian Prime Minister Joseph Lyons; res iudicata; Mission Island; Melville Island; Faraway Downs; Marcia Langton;
Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence is a book that is part of the curriculum for school children, Years 6-11, throughout Australia. It was also made into a movie with funding by the Australian Film Corporation in 2002 with a cast led by that great English actor, Kenneth Branagh and starring many prominent Australian actors. It was directed by one of my old class mates at Sydney University Law School, Phil Noyce, where he headed up the University Film Club. He’s become one of the great directors. He’s directed such big Hollywood movies as Gone Baby Gone (we seem to have a theme here) as well as Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, bothstarring Harrison Ford.
Movies always aim for high drama and Phil Noyce can deliver on that front. And to do that real life isn’t usually big enough for the screen. Almost any real life story needs to be embellished on to make a big cinema success. And that is what happened here.
The book itself was written by Australian author, Doris Pilkington, and it was published in 1996. This was 16 years after Peter Read had made up the Stolen Generations myth. Six years before Doris’s book was published, Barbara Cummings had written her book, Take This Child: From Kahlin Compound to Retta Dixon Home. It focussed on the alleged experiences of Lorna Nelson (Lorna Cubillo after she married) as a member of the Stolen Generations (a claim that Justice O’Loughlin rejected in the Federal Court case discussed in Parts 7 and 8 of this series, two years after Barbara Cummings convened the Bring Them Home Conference in Darwin that was to see the Cubillo/Gunner Case brought, unsuccessfully, as a claim for very substantial damages in the Federal Court of Australia in 2000. Her book also came out one year before the Keating government ordered the holding of the Bring Them Home Enquiry which had its first hearing on 4 December 1995 – also a year before her book was published.
It’s hard to think of a better time that this book could have been launched to guarantee its commercial success. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
So what is the book about? And what is the movie about, because they both don’t tell the same story, even though the movie’s based on her book. More importantly, is the Rabbit Proof Fence story an example of truth telling? Or is it something else? It’s an important question because the book and the movie are regularly shown to our children at school as the gospel truth. So we need to know if it is.
Tag words: Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence; Australian Film Corporation; Kenneth Branagh; Phil Noyce; Gone Baby Gone; Patriot Games; Clear and Present Danger; Harrison Ford; Doris Pilkington; Stolen Generations myth; Barbara Cummings; Take This Child: From Kahlin Compound to Retta Dixon Home; Lorna Nelson; Lorna Cubillo; Justice O’Loughlin; Federal Court of Australia; Bring Them Home Conference; Paul Keating; Bring Them Home Enquiry; Molly; Gracie; Daisy; Jigalong; Moore River Station; Mardu Aboriginal people; Thomas Craig; Peter Gunner; Chief Protector of Aborigines; Mr Auber Octavius Neville; High Court of Australia; Kruger Case; half-caste; Mrs Chellow; Murra Munda Station; Pat Jacobs;
In the previous part of this programme I told you that Justice O’Loughlin who, before he was appointed to the bench, had done a lot of work as counsel appearing for Aboriginals, had heard the leading two test Stolen Generations cases of Cubillo and Gunner v The Commonwealth. He found that they hadn’t been wrongfully taken from their parents. In fact after this case no Stolen Generation cases have ever again been brought before the Courts. Why? Because after the six judges of the High Court who heard the case of Kruger v The Commonwealth found there was no genocide policy behind the removal of Aboriginal children, and this case (which found that in the carrying out of the welfare policies of the government towards Aboriginal children there was no genocide), and then its unsuccessful appeal from Justice O’Loughin’s judgment to the Full Federal Court and then the failure of Cubillo and Gunner to get leave to appeal to the High Court (heard by Chief Justice Gleeson and Justice McHugh) from the Full Court judgment (heard by Justices Sackville, Weinberg and Hely), the unanimous rejection of the claims of the Stolen Generations by 8 High Court judges and 4 Federal Court judges, and the judicial precedents then in place, after the utter failure of the cases brought, and the overwhelming evidence brought against those cases, has meant that there have been no further cases brought by anyone alleging that they were members of the Stolen Generations. Any such claim is utterly untenable.
This claim that there ever was a genocidal policy of the Stolen Generations in Australia now only lives on in political and academic circles which choose to ignore the reality of the court findings in these two cases where, unlike the Bring Them Home Report with witnesses were from only one side, who were heard not a standard required in a Court of law.
Sadly Australia’s name remains smeared internationally because of the Bring Them Home Report and the on-going political/academic agitation which ignores the reality of the fatal impact on those claims as a result of these Court findings.
In my last programme I was up to the part about Peter Gunner and the circumstances of how he came to be taken into care. Remember that immediately after he was born his mother had put him on top of an ant’s nest in an attempt to kill him. Her aunty had rescued the baby. He was seven years old when he was taken to the Retta Davis Home – why was he taken?
Tag words: Cubillo v The Commonwealth; Gunner v The Commonwealth; Lorna Cubillo; Peter Gunner; Stolen Generations; Aboriginals; High Court of Australia; Kruger v The Commonwealth; genocide; Aboriginal children; Federal Court; Full Federal Court; Chief Justice Gleeson; Justice McHugh; Justice Sackville; Justice Weinberg; Justice Hely; Bring Them Home Report; Mrs McLeod; Utopia Station; Ivan Leonard (Ray) Vincent; Retta Dixon Home; St Mary’s; Topsy; Sir Ronald Wilson;Mick Dodson; Mr Lovegrove; The Rabbit Proof Fence;
On Friday 11 August 2000 Justice O’Loughlin handed down his judgment on the two stand out claims of people who said they were members of the Stolen Generations. And he, when he was a barrister, had frequently acted for Aboriginals, rejected these two outstandingly unlosable Stolen Generations cases brought by Lorna Cubillo and Peter Gunner. Why?
The following week after the judgment was handed down, , Nicholas Hasluck, in his book Bench and Book, reveals that one of the chair of the Bring Them Home Report, Sir Ronald Wilson, went on the attack at those findings, which had to meet the high judicial standard of proof on the balance of probability and not the sloppy, the person claiming to be a victim must be believed standard that his enquiry set. The Bring Them Home Report, after all knew what its findings were going to be before it started.
Nicholas Hasluck tells us what appeared in the paper the following Friday 18 August 2001:
An article in The Sydney Morning Herald by Sir Ronald Wilson. The Cubillo/Gunner ruling is a travesty, he declares. A compensation tribunal headed by Lois O'Donoghue should be set up to hand out damages for all the wrong-doing that took place. Here is one man who clearly won't accept the umpire's verdict.
Flash forward 11 months to Wednesday 6 June 2001 when Nicholas Hasluck told us this, which he sets out in his book:
An absolutely incredible discovery! While at the airport to catch a flight to Sydney, I chance upon the latest edition of The Bulletin. The cover story presents a picture of Sir Ronald Wilson and the headline: Second Thoughts on the Stolen Generation. The article, by the reporter Patrick Carlyon, sets out some astonishing admissions. 'With hindsight,' Wilson says, 'it was a mistake to use the word genocide.' What was that? 'No, you haven't misheard,' the reporter Carlyon affirms. 'Wilson is sorry for the most shocking finding in Bringing Them Home, the verdict that elevated Australian practices and policies to levels of evil associated with Hitler and the monsters of Rwanda.'
Elsewhere in The Bulletin story, Sir Ronald goes on to say that the Inquiry was careful to ensure that everything it did was in line with Indigenous aspirations. The findings were supported by 'evidence' but without having to go to that further level of proof which would stand up in a court of law.
The article reveals far more than the interviewee may have intended. It is open to the interpretation that Sir Ronald's Report was moulded to suit a pre-determined outcome, being little better than rhetoric masquerading as judicial method. Perhaps Sir Ronald and others will realise at last that by joining unsubstantiated allegations of genocide with demands for reconciliation they have prejudiced the possibility of any genuine consensus about the past, and clouded their push for an apology. I can't help wondering whether my correspondence played some part in compelling him to moderate his earlier position.
And I keep asking myself, why do I feel like we’ve been had?
So let’s see what the findings of a proper judge, going to that further level of proof which Sir Ronald said he didn’t do, found about the claims of the two outstanding examples of the Stolen Generations.
Tag words: Justice O’Loughlin; Federal Court of Australia; Stolen Generations; Lorna Cubillo; Peter Gunner; Nicholas Hasluck; Bench and Book; Bring Them Home Report; Sir Ronald Wilson; The Bulletin; Patrick Carlyon; Melinda Richards; Mick Dodson; The Leydin memorandum; the Milliken tests; Mrs McLeod; Topsy Kundrilba; Eileen Mosely; GK; Elizabeth Hollingworth;
Sure, the High Court case of Kruger v The Commonwealth had been a 6-0 wipe for the claim that the laws operating over the custody of Aboriginal children or half-caste children was genocidal. But the High Court correctly pointed out that it hadn’t heard any evidence about how the laws were enforced in practice. If the laws were pursued in a way that was genocidal, then the cases that were going to be brought by Lorna Cubillo and Robert Gunner would prove it. After the October 1994 Darwin Conference over the Stolen Generations, they had 550 Aboriginal or part-Aboriginal starters to bring a court action against the Commonwealth for damages as members of the Stolen Generations.
That was way too many cases to bring for a lot of practical reasons. For one thing, the preparation for each of 550 cases would take up a lot of time – and in the world of the law time is absolutely money – big money. The Court filing fees to start each matter alone would be hefty. I haven’t been able to find what the filing fees were for 1996 when the Court cases by Lorna Cubillo and Peter Gunner were started, but in 2022-2023 the fee that had to be paid to the Federal Court just for starting a court case was $4,760.00. So for 550 people that, in today’s moneys, would have cost $2,618,000.00 just to have the Court open a file on each case. That’s just to get you through the doors without anything being done. Each case would have had to have some sort of originating process prepared and filed with it. That means for each of the 550 people bringing a claim, the lawyers would have had to go through the facts and evidence that they had for each person before they could draft the necessary document.
So in this kind of situation what lawyers do is pick their absolute best cases as test cases to run. If they win the test case, then the next cases all ride on the back of the legal precedent established in the first case. Once critical elements of those test cases are found by the Court then the next case gets the benefit of that and doesn’t have to prove that again – at least not in the same detail as the first case. It gets easier, then, the theory goes, there would eventually there would be an embarrassing tsunami of claims and the government would lay down and pay compensation to all of the Aboriginal claimants – and other Aboriginals beyond the original 550.
How much compensation? Well Mick Dodson had set that up nicely. After the Bring Them Home Report had been released he’d said that probably not one Aboriginal family in Australia then had not been scarred by that forced separation policy. So that’s about 100,000 families at $500,000 each – that is a cool $50 billion that the taxpayers of Australia would be forking out.
So we are definitely talking big big bickies. To pull that off the lawyers for the Aboriginals were going to need the absolute best cases – the ones that would be a shoe in to prove. Out of their pool of 550 starters they chose their winning couple – Lorna Cubillo (her maiden name was Nelson – and if you remember from the previous programme she had helped Barbara Cummings write her 1990 book about policies for half-caste children in the Northern Territory called Take This Child: From Kahlin Compound to Retta Dixon Home.
The other starter, in the interests of gender equality maybe, was Peter Gunner. To win this high stake game, $50 billion compensation for the victims of the Stolen Generations, Lorna and Peter were simply the best. They were ..
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The Bring Them Home enquiry was to be an investigation, broadly, in the words of the terms of reference to trace the past laws, practices and policies which resulted in the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families by compulsion, duress or undue influence, and the effects of those laws, practices and policies. The instructions for the inquiry were given by Michael Lavarch the Attorney-General of Australia on 2 August 1995.
The language isn’t balanced, it strongly suggests wrongdoing rather than an enquiry to find out if that was the case, but nonetheless the role of the Inquiry was to be an investigative role – truth telling might be the modern buzz words to use. A fact finding exercise to reveal the truth – whatever that may be.
One of the bodies engaged to assist the truth telling process of the inquiry was the Indigenous Advisory Council set up by the Human Rights Commission. It’s role was defined as beint to provide advice on the hearing process, the solicitation of evidence and submissions and the analysis of the material presented. An impartial resource.
Again, I repeat, the inquiry was to impartially establish the facts. It’s hard to see how that was going to be possible when one of the people appointed by the Human Rights Commission to the Indigenous Advisory Council was a high profile “Stolen Generations” activist, Barbara Cummings.
Barbara was not someone that I would have chosen to help as an impartial researcher and inquirer with the investigation to find out the truth of what had happened to people who claimed to be members of the Stolen Generations.
In 1990 Barbara had written a book about policies for half-caste children in the Northern Territory called Take This Child: From Kahlin Compound to Retta Dixon Home. The book was purportedly a history of this issue from the early twentieth century onwards. One of the people who helped Barbara write her book was a girl who had been at the Retta Dixon Home by the name of Lorna Nelson. Barbara had, herself, been born at the Retta Dixon Home. She grew up there with her mother and siblings – so she wasn’t a member of the Stolen Generations. As an adult she moved to Adelaide and took up a career as a social worker.
In 1994, three years before Michael Lavarch convened the Bring Them Home inquiry, Barbara was one of the convenors of a conference in Darwin. All children who had been in homes for half-castes in the Northern Territory were invited to attend. Some of the speakers addressing the conference described what they said had happened to them as cultural genocide. Remember those words.
One of the speakers at the conference was barrister, later Federal Court judge, Ron Merkel QC. He recommended to the people attending the Conference litigation against the Commonwealth government over this issue of the Stolen Generations and their right to compensation, if that was found to be the case.
But now Barbara was about to have her claim of genocide vindicated by a full bench (7 judges) of the highest court of the land, the High Court of Australia. Or was she?
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I forgot to tell you something important that Sir Ronald Wilson, one of the two chairs who did the Bring Them Home Report, said. So I’ll tell you now before I continue with the exchange of correspondence between Sir Ronald Wilson and Nicholas Hasluck after the last letter that Nicholas sent to Sir Ronald on 19 May, 2000.
Sir Ronald had been one of Nicholas’ lecturers at the University of Western Australia in the early 1960s. Then they bumped into each other by chance while both of them were working barristers from time to time – just accidental contact no close connection. Sir Ronald worked as Crown Prosecutor, and Nicholas didn’t do criminal work. But Sir Ronald was appointed, first to the High Court of Australia, and then after he retired from there, to the Commonwealth Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Tribunal. That appointment was made at about the same time that Nicholas was himself appointed to be the part-time President of the West Australian Equal Opportunity Tribunal. This common area of work then resulted in more frequent inter-action than over the previous years.
And so it came to pass that in 1990 Nicholas was attending a semi-formal lunch with some of the heads of the anti-discrimination and equal opportunity judicial bodies in Australia. Sir Ronald made a short speech, thanking those attending for their attendance. Then he said something remarkable and disturbing, especially considering his later role in the Bring Them Home enquiry. He said of his new role on the Human Rights Commission:
I am looking forward to not having to write lengthy judgments. I will be dealing with matters expeditiously, and simply getting on with doing whatever needed doing.
This wasn’t a very judicial, or quasi-judicial way of approaching the important work he’d be doing on the Human Rights Commission and especially later on, on the Stolen Generations enquiry.
More significantly, this comment wasn’t a random one-off comment. In 1991, or 1992, Nicholas was attending a formal conference of the heads of the anti-discrimination and equal opportunity judicial bodies throughout Australia. Sir Ronald made a speech. In that speech, in a much larger and very formal public forum, Sir Ronald not only repeated what he had said before about how he was going to do the work that was his responsibility on the Human Rights Commission, but going further than he had on the last occasion. He said:
'at times, in dealing with matters briskly, I feel that I am 'living dangerously’
Him and the rest of Australia if that was how he approached his vital role as the most legally qualified commissioner co-leading the Bring Them Home Report with Mick Dodson – more of him later in the programme.
Nicholas said that with these comments still in his mind, the Bring Them Home Report and the media coverage that Sir Ronald got:
I have been left with the unsettling impression that their findings were likely to be affected by rhetoric and sentiment
Nicholas was not going to be disappointed on that score. So let’s go back and look at Sir Ronald’s final reply to the chain of correspondence that had been begun between him and Nicholas in May 2000, and then something far far more important that Sir Roland revealed publicly in 2001.
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In my previous programme I said that there wasn’t a genocide and there wasn’t any Stolen Generations. In the way of the world today you might be thinking I’m a racist but you won’t once you understand how this whole Stolen Generations thing works.
I’m not just making this up. I have all of the judges of the highest courts in the land who have heard cases where the plaintiffs claim to be members of the Stolen Generations, agree with me. The only cases that have gone to court to prove that the individual litigants were victims of genocide, members of the Stolen Generations, have failed. There’s been one High Court Case, a Federal Court case, and the unsuccessful litigants in that case appealed from the decision to the Full Federal Court and failed in their appeal. In all of the cases the judges found that there was no genocide.
In 1997, the Bring Them Home Report, by Sir Ronald Wilson, a former judge of the High Court of Australia, and Mick Dodson, an Aboriginal activist, and a barrister, found that there was a nationwide policy of genocide and consequently there were Aboriginals who were members of Stolen Generations. Those findings were substantially based on hearing only witnesses who argued that either they were members of the Stolen Generations, left wing academics who supported the view that there were Stolen Generations or people who supported that view. Effectively no witnesses were called of people who held positions as ministers or senior or junior public servants, working in the areas which were claimed to be conducting the genocide – the people who were said to be carrying out the genocide.
But significantly, just few years after the Bring Them Home Report had been delivered, Sir Ronald Wilson came out publicly and said … well I’ll get to what he said in the next programme.
The most vital part of the Stolen Generations report is findings that there was actual genocide. If there was no genocide, what does that mean? As it stands at this point in my programme, the only people who had to make a determination on whether there was, or was not, Stolen Generations, are the two commissioners who delivered the Bring Them Home Report – Sir Ronald Wilson and Mick Dodson. But … well that big but is for the next programme.
The only contested court case that has loosely been described as having as the plaintiff a victim of the Stolen Generations, that has succeeded, was a case brought by an unfortunate man by the name of Bruce Trevorrow. The facts of his case were appalling, but what ...
Genocide is the vital ingredient in the Stolen Generations. If it’s not there … well I’ll talk about that in later programmes. Let’s first look at an interesting exchange of letters between Sir Ronald Wilson, one of the joint chair of that Commission, someone you could accept as being an experienced judge, on the High Court of Australia no less, who made the finding that there was genocide. So I need to introduce you to Nicholas Hasluck because he plays an important part in the story of the Stolen Generations, which the media isn’t telling us about, but he did in his book Bench and Book – Diaries, Letters, Memories published in 2021.
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In my last programme I told you that in 1980 Peter Read wrote a pamphlet revealing that Australia had committed a genocide every bit as bad as the Nazi holocaust of the Jews – that is now widely discussed in papers by academic genocide professionals. Peter’s wife told him to call them The Stolen Generations, and not the Lost Generations, as he was originally going to call them in his pamphlet and so he made the change.
The Stolen Generations story is about the forcible removal of children from their parents by government authorities to breed out the black, as one of the people involved with the policy, called it. The aim was that eventually the Aboriginal race, as a distinctive race in this country, would be extinct. This crime against humanity is said to have happened from 1910 through to 1970, or even 1980. Mick Dodson, one of the commissioners who brought us the Bringing Them Home Report said that the policy caught 1 in 3 Aboriginal children who were forcibly taken from their families, and every single Aboriginal family, without exception, were affected and traumatised by this. He said 100,000 children were forcibly removed.
I wanted to go back and look at the records of the leading Aboriginal activists from those times to show the story of their struggle against this genocide. I started that in the last programme. Three of the top people, Aboriginal activists during this time, that I looked at were Bill Ferguson, Walter Page and Pearl Gibbs. They were especially active from the 1930’s through to the 1950s. Nothing could have happened except for the smallest, most inconsequential things, to the Aboriginal community without them knowing about it, and intervening to deal with it – or at least give it a good shot. Surprisingly, I mean really really surprisingly, they didn’t mention anything about the Stolen Generations during their lives.
Undeterred, today I’m going to look at what the next generation of Aboriginal activists did about this crisis in the 1970s and 1980s to stop this shocking holocaust.
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This was probably the most shocking thing I’ve ever heard. It made me feel ashamed to be an Australian. The words are spoken here by Sir Ronald Wilson, he was the Chair of the Bringing Them Home Report issued by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in April 1997, giving its findings into what were called and are known by everyone in this country, if not the world, as the Stolen Generations. The spoken words that I’m about to play you aren’t exactly the words that appeared at page 37 of that Report, but they’re pretty close and they’re what the focal point of the findings delivered by him and Mick Dodson, the social justice commissioner, the co-author of that report, wrote in their findings.
Just to repeat, the findings of the Bringing Them Home Report was that at least 1 in 10 Indigenous children, but possibly as high as 1 in 3 were actually forcibly removed from their families. And according to Sir Ronald Wilson and Mick Dodson, there is probably not one Aboriginal family in Australia today that has not been scarred by that forced separation policy. Wow!
The government activities, of forcibly removing children from their Indigenous family, that are the subject of the report that covers the period from about 1910 through even to the government of Gough Whitlam between 1972 and 1975, and maybe even up to 1980. So this was happening definitely for 60 years, possibly up to 70 years.
I was born in 1950 so I lived through between 22 to 30 of those years. And when I heard that, it was news to me. I’d never heard about it before this. At the time these things were happening I was going to Sydney university, so I was exposed to the sorts of left wing radical ideas that thrive in those places. And still I never heard anything about this. Then I started my first job as a solicitor.
It's such an important story that I really feel the need to cover it in some depth because, frankly it has destroyed Australia’s reputation internationally ever since the report was released. Australia’s known as a country where a major genocide happened, and the world views what happened in this country as being every bit as bad as what the Nazi did to the Jews in their extermination camps in Europe between 1941 and 1945. We, I mean everyone who isn’t Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, or has a mixture of that blood, seems to be having to say sorry to those people every chance we get for what the white people who were running our country at that time were getting up to. And so we should ....
It was in 1990 that Archie Roach, made his first recording of a song. ....
Then in 2020, Archie Roach released an album, on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the release of Took the Children Away. He also brought out, available through our ABC, The Archie Roach Stolen Generation Educational Resources ....
Later that song came to the consciousness of Adam Briggs. He was only 4 years old when the song was released – too young for it to mean anything to him then. But it really hit him when he grew into adulthood. What really struck a chord with him, when he was old enough, were these words in the song:
This story’s right, this story’s true, I would not tell lies to you.
So let’s just dive in and see what the story of the Stolen Generations is all about.
Tag words: Lost Generations; Stolen Generations; Sir Ronald Wilson; Bringing Them Home Report; William Ferguson; Walter Page; Pearl Gibbs; Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission; Mick Dodson; Gough Whitlam; Archie Roach; Took the Children Away; Paul Kelly; The Archie Roach Stolen Generation Educational Resources; Adam Briggs; Professor Peter Read; Jay Arthur; Andrew Fleming; Coral Oomera Edwards; Link-Up; National Aboriginal Consultative Council; Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies; AITSIS; Aboriginal Progressive Association; National Day of Mourning; Australia Day; Aborigines Welfare Board; Protectors of Aborigines; Indigenous Australia website;
In World War 2 the biggest factory ever was built by Ford to make the Consolidated Liberator B-24 bomber. The smart guys until then had had many different factories make parts for this large type of bomber, and then shipped the manufactured parts to a factory that assembled them all into a plane. That wasn’t good enough for “Cast Iron Charlie”, Charles Sorensen, the Ford production chief. He knew he could build these aircraft at one plant on a production line. This was a frankly unbelievable call. The Liberator had 450,000 parts, weighed 16,330kg. Was 21 metres long. Needed 360,000 rivets in 550 different sizes. Ford built a factory just to make these planes at “Willows Run”. The factory was 915 metres long and 390 metres wide at its widest point. The factory’s internal area was 0.33 hectares. It’s floor area was bigger than the combined floor area of the Empire State building. It took 6 months to build the plant (it was finished just three days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour). By 1944 it was turning out a completed B-24 Liberator bomber every 24 hours just like “Cast Iron Charlie’ had promised. But that’s not what today’s CYKIAE programme is about – it’s about the most complex factory on the planet – that makes this one look tiny. Tag words: DNA; Enzymes; Richard Feynman; Stephen Hawkings; Robert Hooke; Copernicus; Antoni van Leeuwenhoek; Delft; Jan Vermeer; Old Testament; God; Charles Darwin; World War 2; Ford; Consolidated Liberator B-24 bomber; Cast Iron Charlie; Charles Sorensen; Willows Run; Pearl Harbour; Rouge River Factory; Bill Bryson; A Short History of Nearly Everything; Royal Society; Christopher Wren; Richard Dawkins; The Greatest Show on Earth; Geraint Lewis; Luke Barnes; A Fortunate Universe; Cornell University;
I think I have no fear of being corrected when I say that Holland is THE most outstandingly progressive city in the world for homosexuals. The Amsterdam tourist industry website has all of this to say: “Amsterdam's reputation as one of the most gay-friendly cities in Europe is well earned. Relatively liberal attitudes in the first half of the 20th century led to the establishment of the first Dutch gay magazines, Levensrecht and Wij. Real progress was made from the 1970s on, leading to the formation of many LGBT groups and the release of the Gay Krant magazine. The Netherlands became the first country in the world to recognise same-sex marriage in 2001, and Amsterdam’s then-mayor Job Cohen performed ceremonies almost immediately. For any visitor looking for up-to-the-minute information on the Amsterdam gay scene, the Pink Point found close to the Anne Frank House at Westerkerk provides an excellent overview. The friendly folks behind the counter at this gay tourist information stand are always willing to help with maps, club night listings and insider advice. One of the most popular annual events in the city continues to be the Amsterdam gay pride celebrations. When July turns to August every year, Amsterdam comes alive with street parties, club nights and the world-famous canal parade. Festival events are organised throughout the weekend, including the always-excellent Drag Queen Olympics in which contestants compete in games such as the handbag toss and the 100-meter high heel sprint. The first gay bars in Amsterdam were founded in the 1920s, and the scene has gone from strength to strength since then. Today there are well over 100 Amsterdam gay bars, with many more LGBT friendly venues throughout the city. Look for the rainbow flag to easily spot gay venues. There are of course plenty of excellent gay clubs to visit too, and a nice selection of gay hotels for those looking for the complete Amsterdam gay experience. Again I don’t think I have any fear of being told that I’m wrong, when I say that nowhere in Australia or the rest of the world, can compare with the level of acceptance of homosexuality that is to be found in the Netherlands – especially Amsterdam. So the outcome must be outstanding for the homosexual community living there. With all of this going for them the issues of mental health, depression, anxiety, mood disorders and suicide, that plague homosexual communities in other, far less tolerant societies, must be, if not non-existent, considerably lower, maybe close to just non-existent. Not surprisingly, a study of these issues has been made of the male homosexual community in the Netherlands, compared to the heterosexual male community elswhere, and I thought I should share its findings so we can find out what we can find out. The study that I’m referring to for this programme was conducted by Sanjay Aggarwal and Rene Gerrets of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands in September 2013. Their study was called “Exploring the Dutch Paradox”. But the results were way different to anything that I was expecting. My expectations weren’t even close to what the study found. What it found was so important, and given how much time is devoted all through the Western world to issues on the homosexual community I felt that it was worthwhile for me to do a programme on this. Tag words: Gay; LGBTIQ+; homosexuals; Amseterdam; gay bars; gay clubs; Sanjay Aggarwal; Rene Gerrets; Department of Sociology and Anthropology; University of Amsterdam; Exploring the Dutch Paradox; Ilan H Meyer; Columbia University; City University of New York; acts of discrimination; stigma; internalised homophobia; suicidal self-harm; Adolescence and being normal; gewoon; Amsterdam Gay Pride Canal Parade; Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras; Swinging 60s; heterosexual couples; Same sex marriage; Levensrecht; Psychiatrist M. Scott Peck;
On 10 April 1912 the magnificent, largest luxury liner in the world, the White Star Line’s unsinkable Titanic, left Southampton harbour to begin its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean – and to fulfil its tragic destiny. The inability of any of the latest technologies carried on board this state of the art ship, to give warning to the danger that lurked out of sight, under the water, was one of the things that led to the development of the new technology. The new technology would use sound under the water to let the command on a ship to know what dangers lurked there. As we always seem to find out, nature already had this covered – and far better than we’ve been able to do so far. For the whole of their existence, the dolphin had been using the technique that the scientists were to discover and copy – or had they. Perhaps Charles Darwin had light to shed on how this adaption had happened. Tag words: White Star Line; Titanic; Atlantic Ocean; echolocation; Dennis Venema; American Scientific Affiliation; Fellow of Biology for the BioLogos Foundation; Scot McKnight; Adam and the Genome; Charles Darwin; Theory of Evolution; prestin; Amino acids; DNA; Bats; whales; dolphins; sonar; Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee; ASDIC; F.V. Ted Hunt; Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory; Sounding Navigation and Ranging; Sonar; Stephen Hawkings; melon; Tim Leighton; Professor of Ultrasonics and Underwater Acoustics at Southampton University; David Attenborough; Blue Planet; Thermals; Mulloka Project; Royal Australian Navy; HMAS Yarra; On the Origin of Species; On the Origin of Species; Chapter IV Character of Natural Selection; Divergence of Character; ASA Acoustical Society of America; Peter Teglberg Madsen; Aarhus University; Denmark; Science Daily; Dr Joe Parker; Queen Mary’s School of Biological and Chemical Sciences;
In this CYKIAE programme I’m taking you to Hawaii with me. We’re leaving from Alaska and heading south before the winter hits. Everyone that can, clears out from Alaska for the winter – sun-seekers. I’ve even bought a ticket for you. It’s a budget ticket – but if you’re like me you’re prepared to rough it a bit for the saving. The reason why this ticket was sold at a budget price is because the airline has only loaded the plane with enough fuel to get 80% of the way to Hawaii. The whole trip is over water. No land. I guess you have to make your own arrangements to go that last little distance – 800 kilometres. A bracing swim I guess – or maybe I’ll surprise you and tell you how you can avoid that. Tag words: Golden Plover; Charles Darwin; Theory of Evolution; HMS Beagle; Alfred Russell Wallace; Stephen Hawking; Chapter six “Difficulties of the Theory; Modes of Transition; Chico Marx; Groucho Marx; A Night at the Opera; John Alcock; Vickers Vimy heavy bomber; County Galway; Montana State University; Brigham Young University; British Antarctic Survey; NASCAR Daytona 500; Robert Glenn Johnson Jr; Ray Fox; Pontiac; Bobby Allison; V formation; Francisco Ayala; DNA; Molecular biology;
Maybe I’m going too far to say that the giraffe is the most beautiful, graceful and extraordinary animal in the world. Our name for this animal that we know as the giraffe comes from the Arabic word “zerafa” which means charming or lovely one. But listening to all of the facts about the incredible facts about the giraffe’s body – I’d have to agree with myself that it is the most beautiful, graceful and extraordinary animal. You may not agree but before you make a decision listen to this programme. Tag words: theory of evolution; giraffes; zerafa; giraffe’s tongue; giraffe’s heart; giraffe’s neck; Richard Dawkins; The Greatest Show on Earth – The Evidence for Evolution; lung capacity; blood pressure; Charles Darwin; The Origin of the Species; St George Mivart; scientific theory;
Gender theory? What is it? Well one of the best books that cover the dark place that gender theory came from is the book written by one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th and 21st Centuries, Igor Shafarevich. He lived through the horrors of Stalinist Russia. He published his insightful study into the evils of socialism in a book called The Socialist Phenomenon. He described socialism as a death cult. It’s goals are being carried out, in part, today in the form of modern gender theory. It masquerades as science, like scientific socialism which Shafarevich dismissed saying: We cannot recognize “scientific socialism” as a genuinely scientific theory. One of the goals of socialism is the abolition of the family. Because the family is the most important building block of society. The barrier against the utter collapse of civilisation. So let’s resume my interview with Patricia Weerakoon, sex therapist, and author of what is a vital book for families to protect them against the predators that even our governments and teachers are unleashing on the most innocent part of our community – her book is called You & Me. It seems you have to get your children properly educated about who to trust in the world before they’re corrupted, possibly irretrievably. It’s a shockingly vital race to save your child from the evil doers who are now being given free rein to corrupt them. Jordan Peterson in his book, 12 Rules for Life says that the window of opportunity for parents is up to the age of 4. So there’s no time to waste. Tag words: sin; socialism; Igor Shafarevich; gender theory; Jordan Peterson; 12 Rules for Life; feelings; God; rejection of God; The Socialist Phenomenon; You & Me; prayer; biological sex; children; stereotypes; gender non-conforming behaviour; trans-child; girl brain; boy brain; watchful rating; gender exploratory therapy; live in their skin; puberty blocking drugs; life time medicalisation; sterilisation; surgery; hormones; biology cannot be changed; atheists; agnostics; Ken Zucker; Ray Blanchard; Professor John Whitehall; Colleen Wright; Dr Diane Ehransaft; Is Three Too Young for Children to Know They’re a Different Gender? Transgender Researchers Disagree; USCSF; University of California San Francisco; Child and Adolescent Gender Center Clinic; University of Western Sydney; Katherine Stock; Andrew Doyle; Helen Joyce; queer theory; oppressive; child led management; child centred management; bigot; Dennis Prager; Louise Perry; Sexual Revolution; science;
In my last programme I spoke with Patricia Weerakoon, a sex therapist on some issues of sex and gender – the issues that some people have made amazingly confusing to many people to do.
The first vow under the Hippocratic Oath is to do no harm. That doesn’t seem to matter to some people today.
So let’s dive right in with Patricia to continue – and there’s no better place to start than to find out from her what gender is – because some people have created massive confusion over that word and what it means, and many of our young people are setting themselves up for a life of unhappiness, mental illness, depression and despair listening to them, and to many people, who hold respected positions in our society and who are believed because of that, when older and wiser heads know that they can’t be believed.
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I’m terrified for our young children today. The government, teachers from pre-School to University and in many other walks of life whose job it is to care for and protect our very young children, people who are supposed to care for them don’t seem to be doing that. Worse some of them seem to be leading our children astray either because they’re not aware that that’s what they’re doing, or worse, deliberately. Without wisdom, good intentions, and even kindness and courage. are ultimately of little use. As the man, after whom the famous Alpine rescue dogs are named, St Bernard, is said to have coined this very accurate observation: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. And the trend of teachers deliberately deceiving parents and doing serious damage to your children has just increased as this news story which article appeared on Sky News on 9 April 2023 reveals: A Queensland parliamentary committee has backed controversial legislation that will allow people to change their birth certificate in line with their chosen gender identity. The legislation will mean the change of identity will allow the individual the rights of their chosen gender, says University of Queensland Professor Patrick Parkinson. “It allows you to essentially choose any gender identity that you like and then say that's how you were born,” Mr Parkinson told Sky News Australia. “This is a profoundly unscientific sort of law.” And on 19th April 2023 this story appeared on Sky News: A Queensland school email has revealed teachers can lie to parents when a student asks the school to change their gender, name or pronouns. Teachers are asked to use the birth-given gender, name and pronouns when communicating with parents who may not be aware of their child’s wishes. Ethical concerns have been raised as to whether a teacher should keep secrets from parents to protect the child. In a speech day address, Gina Rinehart warned the parents of the children attending to ask their children at the end of each day what they were taught at school. So in this programme I’m going to interview the author of a book for your/our young children on this vital topic, the unknowable mystery of whether you’re a boy or a girl, written by Patricia Weerakoon. Maybe you should stay tuned to find out what you are – today. Tag words: You & Me - By the Book; understanding God's good plan for girls and boys; Patricia Weerakoon; University of Sydney; sex education; social media; sexual abuse; World Health Organisation; WHO; Christians; marriage; Proverbs 22:6; Deuteronomy 6; books; reading to children; short attention span; curious, ask questions; sex; gender; John Money; biological sex; sex determination; fertilisation; birth;
We’re on the cusp of a New Year and something great is happening.On 8 January 2023, Sunday next, a brand new church, the GAFCON Northern Hope Anglican Church of the diocese of the Southern Cross, is opening in Cairns. On that day, at 9:00 am, it will be holding its first service at the Cairns & District Junior Eisteddfod Hall, 67 Greenslopes Street, Edge Hill.A special guest, Bishop Glenn Davies (formerly the Archbishop of the Sydney Anglican Church) of the Diocese of the Southern Cross, will be at that service, commissioning the Reverend Trevor Saggers as the rector of the Northern Hope Anglican Church, and addressing the congregation about the importance of this new church.It's vitally important that Cairns has its own GAFCON church and the Reverend Trevor Saggers is about to tell you why.Tag words: GAFCON; Norther Hope Anglican Church; Diocese of the Southern Cross; Rev Trevor Saggers; Bishop Glenn Davies;
We’re on the cusp of a New Year and something great is about to happen.
On 8 January 2023 a brand new Anglican church, the GAFCON Northern Hope Anglican Church of the diocese of the Southern Cross, is opening in Cairns. On that day, at 9:00 am, it will be holding its first service at the Cairns & District Junior Eisteddfod Hall, 67 Greenslopes Street, Edge Hill.
The Right Reverent Glenn Davies, Bishop of the new Diocese of the Southern Cross of GAFCON, will be the special guest at that first service. He will be commissioning the Reverend Trevor Saggers, a long time serving Minister of the Anglican Church, and currently in his last days as the rector of The Good Shepherd Anglican Church at Edge Hill. In this programme I’ll be talking to Bishop Glenn Davies about the circumstances that have led Trevor Saggers to leave the Anglican Church and to start up a new church, and next week I’ll be talking to Trevor Saggers himself.
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If I say I’m going to talk about conspiracy theory, you’ll say nutjob and stop listening to me. Am I right? Well this programme’s different because the people getting up to no good, which they call good, are the ones calling what they’re doing a conspiracy.
Now you think I’m some sort of super sleuth to be breaking this story to you – and I’d like you to believe that, I really would, but these conspirators told their story in Time magazine of 15-22 February 2021, just after the US Presidential election. Their conspiracy was to make sure that Joe Biden won the Presidential election, which would not be interfering in the election because that was the right result, and he did. That’s why the story in Time magazine is called The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign that Saved the Election.
So on top of all of the other things I’ve talked about over the past few programmes, this one is the final one on the 2020 Presidential election.
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At 5:00 am on Wednesday, 14 October 2020, just under three weeks before the US Presidential election voting day, many people had already taken advantage of early voting options, a story appeared in America’s fourth largest, and oldest, newspaper, the New York Post, the paper founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801.
The story was entitled Biden’s Secret Emails. It drew on the data from Hunter Biden’s laptop, that he’d dropped in for repairs to John Paul Mac Isaac’s computer repair shop (just 3 kilometres from Joe Biden’s home) on 12 April 2020. Hunter Biden never returned to pick it up – which wasn’t unusual for him. Miranda Devine, of the New York Post, investigated Steve Mac Isaac’s claim that he had Hunter Biden’s laptop. After doing a due diligence, she was satisfied of the authenticity of the laptop and the information contained on it.
The article that was published was written by Emma-Jo Morris and Gabrielle Fonrouge.
This was an article of vital concern to the American electorate. Their votes would decide if Donald Trump continued in the White House for another four years, or if he was voted out of office and in his place 77 year old Joe Biden would be the President.
The story was immediately, and majorly, trending on social media. Facebook pulled the plug on the story 5 hours later and Twitter followed.
Five days later, on 19 October, 2020, 50 former, senior intelligence officials, led by the man who had been the Obama administrations appointee as CIA director, John Brennan, released a letter which said of the information that
The drive, has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.
We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to The New York Post by President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement. But there are a number of factors that make us suspicious of Russian involvement.
Such an operation would be consistent with Russian objectives, as outlined publicly and recently by the Intelligence Community, to create political chaos in the United States and to deepen political divisions here but also to undermine the candidacy of former Vice President Biden and thereby help the candidacy of President Trump....
A 'laptop op' fits the bill, as the publication of the emails are clearly designed to discredit Biden.
The US intelligence service had been monitoring Hunter Biden during the years that Joe Biden was Vice President between 2009 and 2017. They knew all about the wheeling and dealing activities that he‘d been up to on behalf of his dad, Joe. I discussed these in Parts 23 and 24 of this series.
They knew that Joe had been using his son as his front to do business with the Chinese, the Russians and the Ukrainians and Joe was a friend to those regimes. They also knew that Donald Trump, when he became President, had been tough with China and Russia. The election, putting Joe into the White House, offered the best possibility for those regimes to resume normal business. They would definitely not be helping Donald Trump to win office.
So long story short, the intelligence people hadn’t even looked at the Hunter Biden laptop, but they didn’t need to. They knew what the New York Post story was saying was true. But boy, did their letter of 19 October pull the legs from under that lethal Hunter Biden Laptop story.
The letter included the following killer material, in addition to what I quoted above:
Our view that the Russians are involved in the Hunter Biden email issue is consistent with two other significant data points as well. According to the Washington Post, citing four sources, “U.S. intelligence agencies warned the White House last year that Giuliani was the target of an influence operation by Russian intelligence.”
In addition, media reports say that the FBI has now opened an investigation into Russian involvement in this case. According to USA Today, “…federal authorities are investigating whether the.
Russia and Ukraine had been lucrative for the Biden family, but Joe Biden had been nurturing the big prize for many years now, going back to 1979 – China, or to be more accurate the Chinese Communist Party because after Mao Zedong took control of China, that country ceased to exist. After 1948 it has always just been the Chinese Communist Party. Talk about playing the long game. Joe had done well.
One of his greatest triumphs had as one of the champions of having China admitted to the World Trade Organisation. That was fantastic for China. A disaster, but for people who didn’t matter ironically for the working classes in the Western world, the proletariat. The story, about why China just had to be admitted to the WTO was that if you embrace China as part of the Western World then Communism would slowly fade away. You know like the Communists know that capitalism is going to slowly fade away. But what the West hoped, that wasn’t what really happened to Communism. Thanks to globalisation millions of working class jobs in America, Australia and other western countries disappeared to China. The Chinese Communist Party acquired the technology from the West to oppress its own people even more. But the good news was that the world’s richest people have gotten richer.
When Joe became Vice-President, the boat had really come in for him and the Biden family. As I quoted Sam Waltz, a Wilmington business consultant who covered Joe as a young reporter, with The Nation some years ago:
…. Joe says that when someone helps his family, it's just like helping Joe.
Whether it was by sheer brilliance, which seems unlikely, no offence, or just rat cunning, Joe was doing well, but he certainly wouldn’t have won the Presidency without a lot of help from the big media and social media because of what I’m about to tell you, and because of what Miranda Devine wanted to tell you but was very effectively shut down – well only for a little while, during the presidential race, but that was all that mattered.
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I think that the majority of Joe Biden’s successful run for President in the 2020 Presidential race is thanks to Republican Senator Tom Cotton, The New York Times, and all of those woke folk on its staff as journalists and editors.
What happened on 3 June 2020, covered in Parts 19 to 21 of this series, as a consequence of the New York Times publishing the opinion piece by Senator Tom Cotton, about sending in the military to end the rioting and looting after the death of George Floyd, set the scene for what later happened on 14 October 2020, when the New York Post published the first of a series of exclusive stories that the outstanding Australian investigative journalist, Miranda Devine broke, just as the voting on the election for the new president was about to begin. It should have been a game changer – but it didn’t work out that way.
Although denied vigorously at the time by anyone and everyone, especially by the intelligence experts, I mean these people didn’t even need to see the laptop to know that it wasn’t Hunter Bidens, to say what was on it was Russian disinformation. But today there’s no dispute that what Miranda Devine was writing about was material taken directly off the laptop that Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son, had abandoned on 12 April 2020 at John Paul Mac Isaac’s computer repair shop. The shop was just 3 kilometres from Joe Biden’s home.
The material on the laptop suggested that Joe Biden was involved in massive corruption. It suggests that he used his position as Vice President of the United States, to make millions for himself and his family from Xi Jinping’s China, Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the Ukraine, one of the most corrupt government’s on God’s earth. What wouldn’t Joe Biden be able to do when he was the President of the United States?
So let me tell you what was found on Hunter Biden’s laptop and how the mainstream media, social media (including Twitter and Facebook) and 50 top former US Intelligence officials, including John Brennan, the Obama administrations head of the CIA, and James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, were all able to put their hands on their hearts and lie saying that the laptop was Russian disinformation.
All of this is detailed in Miranda Devine’s 2021 book Laptop from Hell – Hunter Biden, Big Tech and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide.
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OK. You have a Jewess work colleague that you particularly hate. Because she’s against everything that you’ve been told to believe in and have done without question. Like going to a Thai restaurant and ordering their banquet meal so you don’t have to think about this food that you don’t know a lot about. Like that, all of your ideas have been given to you. You’ve elected not to be an individual. That makes you a perfect candidate for being a socialist, if you aren’t already one.
So this bitch, and I have one in mind, her name is Bari Weiss. She worked at the New York Times. She got monstered into leaving by her colleagues because of that Senator Tom Holland piece (covered in Parts 20 and 21), in particular, but she also covered a host of other people that the woke folk would rather were dead. This includes Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who would be called an Islamophobe.
Eventually, by doing exactly what she had been employed to do, Bari Weiss had started an internal, one woman, culture war at the New York Times. The longer she was working there, posting the sorts of opinion stories that she was employed to find, her colleagues were looking for ever viler insults that they could throw at her. She copped these: “incendiary”, a distributor of “far right” materials and “absolutely, categorically stupid”. But I think the Oscar for the Best Insult has to go to this one. Since 6 million Jews were exterminated by the Nazis during World War II, for the crime of being Jewish – and undoubtedly some of her family were murdered by the Nazis – to call her a Nazi is pretty vile. I mean you’d have to be one of the woke folk to do that because no one is as vicious and intolerant as they are.
So what did she do to make her work colleagues wish that they had been able to buy tickets to watch her shoved into a gas chamber at Auschwitz? That’s what this programme’s about as I wrap up the George Floyd part of this story. Then move on to the Hunter Biden laptop from hell.
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George Floyd’s death, on 29 May 2020, sparked massive protests across America. The protests were used as an opportunity for those inclined, to riot, and mixed in with the rioting was a lot of looting and shooting. Much, most, of the media didn’t distinguish between the peaceful protests and the rioters and the looters. Donald Trump was president and there was political mileage in keeping the unrest going. When Trump wanted to use the military to stop the violence (the rioting and the looting), his agenda, was the opposite of those people who wanted to exploit it for their advantage.
Those people won the day. The rioting and the looting continued. Some brave peaceful protestors still stuck their heads up and went out to protest. Mostly during the day. The rioters and looters had claimed the night.
But there was a much bigger prize up for grabs, and that was most of the mainstream media.
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Bari Weiss seems to have been good at her job. I haven’t read anything that she wrote, but I’ve read about her in Barya Ungar-Sargon’s book Bad News. Resigning from the New York Times over the bullying you’ve gotten from your workplace colleagues is the only kind of love that the left deal out to people who don’t agree with them – socialism hates individuals.
When it comes right down to it, the left don’t really care about the causes they use as vehicles to try to undermine our society. They care about raising the red flag. To do that they have to tear down a society that is infinitely more kind, more successful than anything their ideology has ever done in the past and will ever achieve.
A classic example of the left, that loves women, and passionately cares about the plight of the indigenous Australians, is the treatment that Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has been on the receiving end of and is going to grow the more she becomes a thorn in the side of the left. She should be way ahead on the woke scoreboard. She’s a woman – true she was born a woman and that detracts a lot on that score. Better if she had been an indigenous Australian man who had transitioned to being a woman – but still, being a woman is pretty up there.
So you’d think the woke folk would be carrying her on their shoulders down the main street of Alice Springs. But no – they wished she’d never been born – either sex. Because it’s all about winning their nightmare for the world. Everything else they do and say is just bull.
So the person front and centre of this story is a woman, Bari Weiss. Not as lucky as Jacinta Nampiginpa Price, because she’s not a minority that the left like. She’s a Jewess (the left is totally anti-semitic and always has been, look at Hitler). When her woke crisis blew up she was working for the New York Times. She had successfully applied for the job of sourcing interviews and opinion pieces by and about people who weren’t remotely woke – the sort of people that no self respecting employee of the New York Times would give the time of day to. She did her job so successfully that she ended up being forced to resign.
Obviously love and tolerance means different things to the woke folk.
In the next few programmes I’m going to tell you a story about courage involving one unlikely playerthe New York Times (definitely not the courageous one), and these other people – Republican Senator Tom Cotton (and Trump supporter), Bari Weiss (an opinion editor with the Times hired to find stories that the Times wouldn’t normally tell, George Floyd (you know who he is), Black Lives Matter (you know who they are), Adam Rubenstein (a junior editor with the Times) and 2 women who have been dead now for an awfully long time, who, when they were alive, were both very low on the social scale compared to the person they deliberately disobeyed with major consequences for the entire world, they were midwives. But unlike most people today, it seems, had the courage to defy the most powerful man in the world because what he wanted them to do wasn’t right.
The question is, is the courage of those long dead women, also now long dead in our society today, because if it is, we’re in serious trouble. This story, that I’m about to tell you suggest that it might be mostly dead and that’s a worry.
Batya Ungar-Sargon, in her book Bad News, looks at the new critical race theory. What she finds, she says is:
Anti-racism is a magic trick that transforms economic guilt into racial guilt, absolving the rich of any role in solving inequality because it's rooted in the one thing they have no control over—their race. It was the perfect worldview for white liberals, increasingly college educated and affluent, a diffuse intelligentsia employed in creative, knowledge-based, and managerial jobs, convinced of their own superior virtue and desperate to telegraph it. America's news media stepped in to show them how to keep their rarified status while also feeling like heroes. All it would cost would be a yearly subscription.
What is she talking about? It’s important for us to know what the magic trick is that we’re being fooled by – well some of us.
Extinction Rebellion. What does it mean? The Red Rebel Brigade is the best known face of this Marxist Group in search of a Chosen People. Full length red velvet costumes with faces a deathly ashen white.
I think Extinction Rebellion’s name, and the costume of the Red Rebel Brigade reflects the key subconscious fact about Marxism, that should make you think and recoil in horror.
The Red Rebel Brigade say that the red colour symbolises blood, danger, passion, stop signs. But coupled with the whitened faces it is obviously intended to make you think of death and that’s no accident.
Extinction Rebellion tell us:
We are in the midst of a climate and ecological breakdown. We are facing an uncertain future - our world is in crisis and life itself is under threat. Now is not the time to ignore the issues; now is the time to act as if the truth is real. The science is clear. We are in the midst of a mass extinction of our own making and our governments are not doing enough to protect their citizens, our resources, our biodiversity, our planet, and our future.
This crisis knows no borders, race or ethnicity, and while wealth may offer some protection, it is all but temporary. The clock is ticking, and if we don’t succeed in uniting to protect our planet, everyone will be impacted - you, your family, everyone and everything you hold dear…
…and yet every crisis contains the possibility of transformation.
But guess what? The rapid, mass mobilization of people and governments to Covid 19 shows us how quickly we can turn things around when required. The pandemic has shown us that a response in equal proportion to the problem, is both possible and necessary. We have the example; we have seen we can massively shift our behaviors and economic systems when required.
I’m going to try and make sense of these dire, gloomy predictions of death in this programme in the broader context of woke and the media.
The 1619 Project. Nikole Hannah-Jones team, in conjunction with the New York Times, in their Pulitzer Prize winning work, totally blew the roof off the fiction that America was the home of the free (what a joke) and the land of the brave.
In 1619 the first African slaves were brought to America, in fact the first slaves in America, The 1619 Project tells us. By 1776 the British were threatening to end slavery. That was what the American Revolution was about – The 1619 Project tells us.
Schools and universities across America, with their left-wing teaching unions, school boards and teachers rushed to embrace this new narrative, embarrassing and humiliating, the country that they hate with an irrational passion.
Now, thanks to Nikole Hannah-Jones, they had the weapon to do that. Teach all American children about their shameful, racist, white past.
But then, on the other hand there was Leslie M. Harris, professor of history at Northwest University. The New York Times knew what she had to say, but they didn’t want you to because it spoiled their narrative. What was it she had to say? Let’s drill down.
The left tell us that the truth is that racism, misogyny, homophobia, islamophobia are evil.
The left tell us that the theories known as critical race theory, intersectionality are true and very real and very wicked. I’ll tell you what they mean in later programmes.
The left tell us that there is no such thing as truth, that we all have our own truths so don’t believe anyone when they tell you that their truth is your truth.
So which is it? Cause they’re telling us that we have to believe their truths.
At the end of my last programme I raised the issue about what was happening in America with police stopping black drivers compared to white drivers. It’s one of the most frequent points of contacts between authority and white people and black people. So is it true, what the young journalist at the New York Times said to his boss, the editor-in-chief , Dean Baquet:
I just feel like racism is in everything. It should be considered in our science reporting, in our culture reporting, in our national reporting.
Well the statistics on police stopping cars driven by White and Black Americans don’t show anything like that. The figures from the Cato Institute research, undertaken by Emily Ekins, showed that higher income Black Americans were pulled over at 1.5 times the rate that higher income white Americans were (and there are not many in that category so this is not happening a lot of times), while lower income Black Americans are only pulled over at a slightly higher rate than low income white people. And that obviously is what mostly happens
So let’s dig deeper into what evidence there is of racism or no racism in America.
When I finished my last programme I was talking about one of the great turning points in the triumph of woke ideas. The New York Times had turned almost its entire focus to an online presence. It had gotten rid of a lot of its older experienced, but non tech savvy/non-woke journalists and focussed on young people, some of them journalists, and some not, telling them to build their presence as influencers on social media.
And what happened out of these major changes was that the management and other senior journalists and staff now found that the usual hierarchical tables had been turned on them. Now they had to do what the new woke folk wanted, what they demanded. Didn’t see that coming did they! And apart from Donald Trump what was the issue that really ground the gears of the new woke folk? It was slavery which ties in nicely with racism – well as they see and understand it.
As the woke journalist told the executive editor of the New York Times, Dean Baquet about leaving the word “Racist” out of the headline for an article on Donald Trump:
I just feel like racism is in everything. It should be considered in our science reporting, in our culture reporting, in our national reporting.
So racism was in everything and slavery was one of the worst signs of this racism. Well that’s what the woke folk say.
But maybe I’m going too fast and too far for you. Maybe you’re surprised to hear that Trump was against slavery – go figure. That might be surprising for some people and I’ll tell you why they’d be surprised.
The news media had a lot of highly experienced journalists. They’d been well trained in their trade. They were sensible. They knew how to write a good story. They knew not to express their own opinions. They knew to tell the truth without fear or favour. These were the traditional values that had made the media the Fourth Estate – responsible for keeping the government honest.But even as far back as 1978, the famous Russian dissident, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, who knew how left wing governments really operate from the ten years he spent in the Soviet forced labour camps, called gulags, and wrote 2 famous books about what they were like and how they operated, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago, had this to say when he delivered what turned out to be a real exercise in truth telling that the Harvard graduating class found too critical, and perceptive, of American society. He said:“… the press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislative power, the executive, and the judiciary. And one would then like to ask: By what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?Since then, as I’m about to tell you, things have gotten infinitely worse.So how did so much of the media become woke and abandon all of those vital traditional values that earned the media the term the Fourth Estate? Well if you’ve got about 20 minutes or so I’ll tell you.
Everyone know that Trump only won the 2016 Presidential election because his supporters were racists. That’s what the media tell us. But were they?
I think we need to have another, closer, look at that and try to work out whether that was what really happened – with the election, with Trump winning and with the coverage the media gave it for the next 4 years after he’d won.
In the last programme I told you about the most fundamental change to journalism, that the election of Donald Trump brought about. Instead of reporting the news impartially, the media, especially the New York Times discovered that that wasn’t the best way to run a profitable newspaper business in the late 2010’s.
What newspapers needed to do was to choose sides (and for the New York Times there was only one side to choose) and that was get onto what was cynically, and short sightedly, called the Trump Delusion Syndrome by some, but was really the path to riches. I’m going to tell you how rich the New York Times got from the Trump.
As the New York Times was heading towards financial oblivion in 2015 there was only one thing that could save it, and a lot of the media, including the CNN network. The greatest friend and saviour to the media was a man, admittedly a larger than life man, known by the name of Donald Trump, who, thanks be to God, became the 45th President of the United States.
Leaked tapes have revealed that the President of the CNN network encouraged Trump to run for President. CNN even offered him tips on how to win a CNN-sponsored debate to make sure that he had the best shot at becoming the president.
And the worst thing that happened to CNN, since Trump announced he was running for president, was Joe Biden becoming the new president after beating Trump in the November 2019 presidential race. Thanks to that stroke of bad luck, CNN has since lost nearly half of its prime time audience.
Put that into context. On 4 November 2015, the day after Donald Trump beat Hilary Clinton in the presidential race, an average of 2.5 million prime time viewers tuned in to CNN.
If Hilary Clinton had won the election, MSNB, according to the head of NBC, would have taken at least a 30% hit to its revenue.
So let’s see how Trump accidentally saved the left wing, fake news, media and how the corporate heads of the fake news media knew it and loved it. The journalists at the coalface of those news media outlets might have been fighting to genuinely bring Trump down, but the fake media bosses looked on Trump with love in their eyes.
In my last programme in this series, I talked about how the mainstream news was abandoning the working class.
The news in America began to shift its focus away from the whole population, of which the overwhelming majority was the ordinary man and woman in the street, to the more elite members of our community, which mostly meant the people working in offices and the more up-market offices at that.
Sir Robert Menzies, in 1942, had used the term, the Forgotten People. Well ordinary working class people were now being forgotten by the media. They didn’t matter.
To put this into context, people with office jobs in America only represent a small proportion of working people. There are also 64 million people who earn less than $15 an hour none of whom work in offices. All of these people, the majority of people, steadily found that the newspapers had nothing that they wanted to say to them.
This change happened progressively over the years. In 1971, less than half of the journalists in America, just 39% said that it was “extremely important” to focus on news that’s relevant to the “widest possible audience”. By 1992 that was down to 20%. By 2013 it was a miserable 12%. What they were telling the majority of people of America was that they didn’t matter. Australia isn’t immune from this.
The public that the media were aiming at stopped being the workers and their families, important because of their contribution to the well being of society. The media was now only interested in the top people, well off, big spending, very highly educated, elite consumers.
So where did this go?
Donald Trump – two words to conjure demons with for the left.
One month after Donald Trump did the unbelievable, and won the 2016 election, which Hilary Clinton had in the bag, the New York Times published an editorial warning about the danger that he posed to the country. It said that the saviour of the American civilisation now depended on the media organisations:
“that report fact without regard for partisanship, and citizens who think for themselves, will need to light the way.”
If the impartial observer of that pious editorial realised that 91% of the readers of the New York Times identified as Democrats, would they believe what was said about saving democracy?
There had never been a time like it, and there would never be a time like it again. Sure America didn’t officially have royalty, but it did have them unofficially.
The unprecedented election of a Catholic in America as President – John Fitzgerald Kennedy – Jack Kennedy. A man from the new monied class. Well his daddy had made his money as a bootlegger, bringing illegal booze into America. There was big money in that. And with lots of money comes respectability. Jack Kennedy represented the new college educated elite class of people. Smarter than the stupid blue collar working man. Now there could be a meritocracy. Let the elite smart people run the country.
His wife was a huge asset not to be underrated. Jackie Kennedy brought the old money class with her. And respectability for the Kennedy clan.
So the Kennedy’s brought together two branches of upper-crust America. Two mighty rivers that merged and became an irresistible force that was sweeping us ever faster on towards the new woke that is threatening to take over today’s world.
Telling the truth without fear or favour, talking to the working man in language that he could understand. Giving him a voice. That was standard that not every one wanted to meet.
There was a different point of view about what the news should be. Pulitzer’s paper was making profits large enough to even be attractive to a well-to do member of the New York State Assembly and a banker, leading them to have a serious discussion about setting up a paper of their own. You’ll know the papers name when I tell you.
History is not something that’s widely taught in schools today.
In his book “Bench and Book” Australian novelist, poet, short story writer and retired Western Australian Supreme Court judge, Nicholas Hasluck, has published some of his diary notes for the years 2000 and 2001. Important years in our history. He attended a conference in Canberra, called Challenging History. Melbourne historian. Stuart McIntyre told the Conference that the study of history was rapidly declining. In NSW in 1984 34% of high school students studied history. In 1995 that had fallen to 18%. In Victoria the story was far worse. It was 26% in 1984 but down to staggeringly low 6.5% in 1995.
So no history. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Harvard University thought it had pulled off an enormous coup when it made what, for it, turned out to be the huge mistake of inviting Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to speak at its Graduation Ceremony on 8 June 1978. It expected that this man, who had been given political asylum in the United States would show his gratitude to his new home country. To focus on attacking his old persecutors, the Communists, but Solzhenitsyn saw himself as a man now living in the United States – and he saw his proper role as being telling the Americans the truth about itself as he saw it – in the way that often only a foreigner could do.
The coming of Woke. A lot of it goes back to judicial activism. An important case was Everson v Board of Education which began to exclude Christian education from the public space. It is a case probably far worse than the Roe v Wade decision that has just been overturned but it came from the same source of judicial activism.
Now if I told you that the first man to warn us against woke was the most famous Russian dissident and prisoner of Stalin’s gulag (concentration camp system in which 60 million people died), Alexander Solzhenitsyn who won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novel called One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch. You probably either don’t believe me or you don’t know who Alexander Solzhenitsyn was. So we can’t say that we weren’t warned that all of this stuff was coming our way – because the core ideas of all of this stuff today were what Alexander Solzhenitsyn grew up with in Stalinist Russia. Let's find out more.