Author Archives: andrew

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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The weird and the fake taking your money

Posted on December 9, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Just after the COP28 (Nov. 30 – Dec. 12) orgy of climate alarmism began in Dubai, the Church of Scientology celebrated the Grand Opening (Dec. 5) in East Grinstead, England, of a brand new, purpose built 20,000 … Continue reading →

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Incoherent Labor doesn’t know right from wrong – Greg Sheridan

Posted on November 26, 2023 by andrew

The Australian’s foreign editor, GREG SHERIDAN, pulls no punches in a relentless critique of Labor’s chaotic, morally bankrupt recent behaviour; in this extract he takes aim at its foreign policy, national security and defence. 

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Consensus – a virus deadly to science

Posted on November 19, 2023 by andrew

When you hear or read something from a credible scientist that resonates entirely with your own thinking about a subject, expressing everything you have developed as a point of view, it not only gives you the comfort of confidence. It … Continue reading →

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Parable of the apple and the hand grenade

Posted on November 18, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban It came to pass one day, an apple and a hand grenade came face to face. – I am an apple, round and safe to eat. You can hold me in one hand. – I am a … Continue reading →

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Another epidemic of irrationality

Posted on November 16, 2023 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban I must stop smacking my forehead in disbelief. With that undertaking in mind, I referred back to an article of mine in The Spectator Australia published over five years ago, ‘Dysrationalia epidemic’ (28/5/2018, in the context of … Continue reading →

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