Author Archives: andrew

What keeps President Xi awake at night?

Posted on July 8, 2021 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Australia has earned the international community’s respect – and got China’s attention – with our highly visible resistance to China’s bullying tactics. As for Taiwan … most China experts and commentators are worried, anticipating an armed invasion. … Continue reading →

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Truth on social media – Geoffrey Robertson is keen

Posted on July 5, 2021 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban It’s a wonderful idea as espoused by high profile human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson on Sharri (Sky News, Sunday, 4 July, 2021): comments on social media (eg facebook) should be assessed by a select, independent and authoritative … Continue reading →

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CCP’s ‘Sintenery’ of death, destruction, oppression and fear

Posted on July 2, 2021 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban The more the amoral Chinese Communist Party parades its robotic army, its tanks and its missiles in celebrating this week’s centenary of its founding, the less confident is the regime, the more brutal its stranglehold has to … Continue reading →

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Find the CO2

Posted on June 28, 2021 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Man made carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere is responsible for catastrophic climate change, according to climate alarmists. We must stop ‘polluting’ the atmosphere with it. The accompanying pie chart vividly lays bare the hollow absurdity of … Continue reading →

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How we flag our racial prejudice

Posted on May 30, 2021 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Australia is a systematically and institutionally racist country; that is the story peddled by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC ) at last week’s Senate Committee hearings. Well, yes, that must explain why the Aboriginal flag is … Continue reading →

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Truth, justice, guilt – and war

Posted on May 8, 2021 by andrew

PETER VERSI reflects on some of the most fundamental aspects of the human condition – truth, justice, how war bends both – through his own life experiences. Guilt by accusation is not truth; truth is not always comfortable. I have … Continue reading →

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PayPal joins the thugs choking democracy

Posted on May 7, 2021 by andrew

Canada-based Rebel News has issued an urgent request to its user base for funding to fight a legal action against PayPal, following what they call an ‘ambush’ to shut down the news service, which has often reported on Australian protests … Continue reading →

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Availability entrepreneurs ruin everything

Posted on May 5, 2021 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban An availability cascade is a self-reinforcing process of collective belief formation that triggers a self-perpetuating chain reaction: the more attention a danger gets, the more worried people become, leading to more news coverage and greater alarm. Because slowly increasing … Continue reading →

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The Deep Rig and the Sharpie switcheroo

Posted on April 26, 2021 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Working with what he calls ‘white hat hackers’ – cyber forensics specialists aka ‘cyber-ninjas, geeks, dolphin-speakers’ – Patrick Byrne* documents ‘How Election Fraud cost Donald J. Trump the White House – by a man who did not … Continue reading →

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Who’s got the ticker?

Posted on April 25, 2021 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban A recent survey (Skeptic Research Centre) in the US showed that 44% of liberals (lefties) believe that white police killed 1,000 or more unarmed black men in 2019. The factual figure is 25. In 2020 it was … Continue reading →

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