Author Archives: andrew

Voter fraud? Yes it was – update

Posted on February 10, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Analysts in a new study say they can conclude that 28.2 % of respondents who voted by mail in the 2020 US presidential elections committed at least one type of behaviour that is “under most circumstances, illegal” … Continue reading →

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Nurse Cathy’s welcome to country

Posted on January 23, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban As the baby girl began her life-affirming cry on the birthing table in the hospital, nurse Cathy began to recite a welcome to country – much to the surprise of the new mother, a proud Aboriginal woman. … Continue reading →

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Volodymyr Zelensky – the frontline President

Posted on January 22, 2024 by andrew

The second book by Andrew L. Urban and Chris McLeod to examine Ukraine’s President in the context of the Russian invasion of February 2022, contrasts Zelensky, often at the front line leading his military with Russia’s Vladimir Putin anywhere but … Continue reading →

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The voter fraud that dare not speak its name

Posted on January 17, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban According to recent polling around the consequential caucuses just held, some 80% of Iowa Republicans believe Joe Biden’s presidency is illegitimate due to voter fraud. What’s wrong with the other 20%, I wonder. But then Donald Trump … Continue reading →

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Minister Chris ‘climate change’ Bowen – the village witchdoctor

Posted on January 11, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban In primitive societies, in tribes, the village witch-doctor claims to have remedies to protect others against maladies and witchcraft. Neither such claims of healing nor witchcraft itself are actually … real. But the villagers believe in witchcraft … Continue reading →

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Dear Chris Bowen – a New Year’s letter

Posted on January 2, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Stop enduring those night sweats, Mr Bowen…fear not: CO2 is safe. It’s welcome. I write to you openly since you seem not to have received the thousands of memos about fossil fuel emissions being no danger to … Continue reading →

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Is Hamas the company Australia wants to keep?

Posted on December 26, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Like individuals, nation states are judged by the company they keep. Friends of the hate-driven Iranian regime such as Russia and North Korea, for example, are held in contempt. Friends of terrorist groups likewise. Now Australia’s leadership … Continue reading →

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Gaza chaos foretold

Posted on December 22, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Walid, a young Palestinian terrorist, asks Abu Ahmed a revered leader of the Hamas terrorist cell, “Just tell me what’s in that bag?” A beat … “Redemption” replies Abu Ahmed. “The suicide bomber will use it tomorrow … Continue reading →

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Israeli and Palestinian history in brief and in context

Posted on December 21, 2023 by andrew

If you are interested in historical world affairs in general and in the current war against Hamas for its survival by Israel, and you have 40 minutes to devote to it, Jewish conservative political commentator and writer Ben Shapiro’s condensed … Continue reading →

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Revealing rejections, creeping censorship

Posted on December 10, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban “The other day I saw a news report in which a Palestinian woman in Gaza accused Hamas of taking all the aid delivered to Gaza “into their homes”. This was my rejected comment which I posted on the … Continue reading →

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