For The Greater Good
This is good advice. The group is made up of individuals. Look after the personal freedom, awareness, competence and productivity of the individual and the prosperity of the group is more certain.
As a matter of fact, if you looked at it hard, you might find that only made up of strong, capable, ethical, responsible individuals prepared to work in concert with one another could a group have a chance of surviving for any length of time.
The idea of making individuals less for the sake of the group is a certain path to individual slavery and group destruction.
Not that communists have any other goal.
Show Up and Be Seen
I think midlife is when the universe gently places her hands upon your shoulders, pulls you close, and whispers in your ear:
“I’m not screwing around. It’s time. All of this pretending and performing , these coping mechanisms that you’ve developed to protect yourself from feeling inadequate and getting hurt – has to go.
Your armor is preventing you from growing into your gifts.
I understand that you needed these protections when you were small. I understand that you believed your armor could help you secure all of the things you needed to feel worthy of love and belonging, but you’re still searching and you’re more lost than ever.
Time is growing short. There are unexplored adventures ahead of you. You can’t live the rest of your life worried about what other people think. You were born worthy of love and belonging. Courage and daring are coursing through you. You were made to live and love with your whole heart. It’s time to show up and be seen.”
Brené Brown
Be Amazing
Some time ago I read a researcher found it takes 10,000 hours to become world class at something. Doesn’t matter if it’s sport, music, painting… …whatever, 10,000 hours and you are up there with the best in the world.
If that seems daunting, instead of watching TV from 7 to 11 of an evening, put that time into doing something you love and in under 7 years you could be one of the best in the world at it.
What would you enjoy doing for 4 hours a night to become world class at?
Art Is Pointless
Rapid Fire Truths
65 seconds of truth summary.
If You Know The Truth
the Voice – The Crux Of The Matter
As I was walking home this morning I reflected on the points I made about the Voice in that infographic I posted overnight. If you missed it you can see it here: https://www.tomgrimshaw.com/tomsblog/?p=46590
I am always trying to distill my messages to the irrefutable simplicity.
One of the most important lessons I have learned this lifetime is to evaluate relative importances, to ‘sort the wheat from the chaff’ as goes the old saying.
It occurs to me there is a sea of data and an ocean of opinion about the Voice but one indisputable datum stands head and shoulders above all others.
That fact is that we are being conned.
How is that indisputable?
Because it comes directly from the mouth of Anthony Albanese. Now granted, he is not honest enough to call it a con but no conman ever alerts you in advance to the details of the sting.
This article https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/detail-of-indigenous-voice-to-come-after-referendum-albanese-20220731-p5b5zj.html reports:
“Details about a proposed Indigenous Voice to parliament will not be known before a referendum on the issue, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says, arguing he does not want a repeat of the failed 1999 republic referendum.
“Albanese, speaking from the Garma festival in Arnhem Land, said the detail of the Voice would be left to federal parliamentarians to debate rather than let it be a central element of a proposed referendum…
“…There have already been calls for more details about the Voice, including from Coalition spokesman for Indigenous Australians Julian Leeser who says while the referendum question was a positive start there were many details to be explained.
“But Albanese said he wanted to avoid the situation caused by the republic referendum where people may have disagreed with one element within the proposed model and were then urged to vote no.”
“One of the things I’m trying to avoid here … [is] people looking for all of the detail and saying well, if you disagree with these 50 clauses, if you disagree with one out of the 50 but 49 are OK, vote no. We’re not doing that. We’re not doing that. We’re learning from history,” Albanese said on ABC television on Sunday.
Well, that’s all very well, but would you sign a contract without having the opportunity for you or your solicitor to read it?
What if one of the 50 clauses is to cede sovereignty over your house and land to a new council with no redress?
Or take a percentage of your income or spending as reparations?
Shouldn’t you have the right to reject the whole thing over that one clause?
The whole idea of a referendum is so that Australians can decide on issues of importance, like changes to the Constitution. How can we make an informed decision if we don’t know on what we are deciding?
Albo continues, “We’re appealing to the goodwill of the Australian people and as I said, the Australian character as I see it.”
In my opinion that means he takes us for fools who can be easily manipulated emotionally to do something that is logically not in our best interests.
I think it’s time to show him we are smarter than that and vote “No”.
the Voice – Before You Vote
The Only Graph You Need To Know
Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it. – Homer. the Voice is worth understanding BEFORE harm has been done!
I recommend you play The Who’s ‘We Won’t Get Fooled Again’ in the background while reading this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDfAdHBtK_Q
You may recall the last time a large media campaign was run in this country. The one to get us all on board with the Covid agenda the government was running.
What you may not know was that every single thing the government said was a lie. If you care to check it out I documented more than 40 of them here: https://www.tomgrimshaw.com/tomsblog/?p=34451
What makes you think that this time with the Voice will be any different? If you need more proof that the government would not like to be restricted to telling only the truth, look no further than the proposed misinformation bill currently available for comment. Penalties are proposed for saying or writing anything that contradicts the official story. The two parties excluded from complying? The government and the media! The most blatant hypocrisy I have ever seen.
Rod Cullerton exposes the Voice to be illegal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8t8ewxRQdw
The Voice: Five More Problems by John Anderson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFcHsjh2iuw
Rita Panahi exposes the link between Albanese’s #VoiceToParliament and a race-based Treaty!
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=833490431638562&
Admitted to here: https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/rita-panahi/uluru-statement-is-about-treaty-voice-advocate-pat-anderson-says-quiet-bit-out-loud/v ideo/0cfce189a09a088b893ccfde578661b4
We Already Have An Indigenous Body That Fulfills The Stated Aims Of “the Voice”, It’s called the Coalition of Peaks: https://www.tomgrimshaw.com/tomsblog/?p=46230
Albo admits to not even having read the 26 page Uluru Statement yet calls Dutton a liar for saying what is in it:
Albo refuses to provide detail of how the Voice will work because he does not was a repeat of the failed 1999 referendum. In other words if we knew the details of what he proposes there is no way we would vote yes. Makes sense to keep it secret! He’s not just selling us a pig in a poke! He’s telling us what is in the bag is not a pig!
I stand with those Aboriginals and other Australians who accurately recognise the duplicity involved and do not wish to be a party to this racial divisiveness let alone what skulduggery he is not admitting to.
Tom Grimshaw
US Officials keep boasting about how much the Ukraine War serves US interests
One of the most glaring plot holes in the official mainstream narrative on Ukraine is the way US officials keep openly boasting that this supposedly unprovoked war which the US is only backing out of the goodness of its heart just so happens to serve US interests tremendously.
In a recent article for the Connecticut Post, Senator Richard Blumenthal assured Americans that “we’re getting our money’s worth on our Ukraine investment.”
“For less than 3 percent of our nation’s military budget, we’ve enabled Ukraine to degrade Russia’s military strength by half,” writes Blumenthal. “We’ve united NATO and caused the Chinese to rethink their invasion plans for Taiwan. We’ve helped restore faith and confidence in American leadership?—?moral and military. All without a single American service woman or man injured or lost, and without any diversion or misappropriation of American aid.”
(Tom: Absolutely, unquestionably, incontrovertibly criminal action on the part of the US!
Probably fast closing in on 500,000 Ukrainians dead, plus Russians, no counting how many wounded or maimed, billions stolen from the US taxpayers to fund the military industrial carnage, European economies devastated… ..US interests? How is destroying other countries in ANYONE’S best interests? You’d have to be a psychopath to say that. Oh, but they are.)