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This Australian paper is posted here for convenient reference purposes.   

These sentences, extracted from the paper, give an idea as to its general thrust.

". . . . . surrender of Commonwealth and State sovereignty to an Internationalist agenda where public international instruments prevail over national law and, ultimately, over our national sovereignty".

". . . . . ultimate authority in the making of any human law is not the U.N. or the Legislatures but the Law of Nature"

"The author’s …

May 24

. . . has come and gone 

for the eighty-fifth time 

. . he’s still on the road 

since we were young

entering our ears  

through the air waves

gramophone speakers

cassette tapes 

then CD’s 

now Spotify

his Rough and Rowdy Ways 

(39th album)

and his quiet days

in this earthly realm 

may soon be over

sad to say  

for as we are told

in the Psalms

we are given but threescore and ten

or, if strong, fourscore 

then we Cross the Rubicon

to the Great Beyond 

. . . How this bard

has enriched our lives 

Hero image: British cavalry charging against Russian forces at Balaclava in 1854 (The Relief of the Light Brigade / Public Domain)

The Book

Title: Empire: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Stephen Howe
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
Release date: Jun 8, 2021
ISBN: 9781666114287
Web source: Everand

Stephen Howe interprets the meaning of the idea of "empire" through the ages, disentangling the multiple uses and abuses of the labels "empire" and "colonialism," etc., and examines the aftermath of …

IT DOES NOT SEEM REASONABLE to describe the young man who shot twenty children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012 as a religious person.    This is equally true for the Colorado theater gunman and the Columbine High School killers. As one of the members of the Columbine duo wrote: (108)

The human race isn’t worth fighting for, only worth killing. Give the Earth back to the animals. They deserve it infinitely more than we do.  Nothing means …

Above hero image:  David Kilcullen (left) and Clinton Fernandez (right)

David Kilcullen (born 1967) is the subject of the story here.  He was chief strategist in the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the U.S. State Department, from 2005 to 2006.  He's certainly no lightweight. He's been a member of the US deep state, yet still appears to be an independent thinker, or so it seems.  He came out as highly critical of the decision to invade Iraq, saying "There undeniably would be …