@rickcarmody
Walking talking data analysing machine. Lightning photographer. Opal miner. Business owner pretender. Economics know-all. Student of Edward Debono. Self study zealot. Lover of details and very happy with how much room bluesky put here for a descrip
"There’s a perception we only represent big coal lobbyists. I want to change that. I want to lead a party that also stands up for medium coal lobbyists, boutique coal lobbyists, and the next generation of coal lobbyists coming through the system". #auspol theshovel.com.au/2026/03/11/n...
The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit
Stunning poll reveals what Americans think of Trump's Iran war: 'Operation Epstein fury'
->Raw Story | More on "Trump Iran attack Epstein poll" at BigEarthData.ai | #IranWar #NoDecency #TrumpFascism #Epstein
The Albanese government cannot pretend to care about poor people while it continues to force people to live in poverty, refuse to act on Robodebt royal commission recommendations, and inflict millions of penalties a year – many unlawful – on people with compulsory activities.
• •• HAYEK'S BASTARDS: THE NEOLIBERAL ROOTS OF THE P... Introduction Volk Capital Together, we are promoting a new fusionism that argues that there are—as Mises knew— iron links between culture, economics, and politics. —Lew Rockwell In 2006, Charles Murray, the longtime think-tanker and tireless advocate of a revived race science, gave the keynote address at a "Freedom Dinner" marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the international hub for neoliberal think tanks, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. A member of the Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) since 2000, Murray used his time to rehearse the well-worn story of how Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher provided the opportunity for the ideas of Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and Milton Friedman to break through, aided by "Cato and Heritage and Hoover and the dozens of think tanks around the world that Atlas has fos-tered."1 Projecting forward, Murray asked what they would
HAYEK'S BASTARDS: THE NEOLIBERAL ROOTS OF THE P... be discussing at an Atlas meeting on its fiftieth anniversary in 2031. It would not be economic liberty, free trade, the genius of the entrepreneur, or any of the other standbys of the neoliberal script. He predicted they would be talking about science. "For the last forty years," he said, "the battle cry of the Left has been 'equality.'" Science would deal the death blow to this demand. "The explosive growth of genetic knowledge," he said, "means that within a few years science will definitively demonstrate precisely how it is that women are different from men, blacks from whites, poor from rich, or, for that matter, the ways in which the Dutch are different from Ital-ians." If the enemy, at its root, was the claim of human equal-ity, science would deliver the coup de grace. The confirmation of ineradicable group differences would leave a void "in the moral universe of the Left," Murray predicted. "If social policy cannot be built on the premise that group differences must be eliminated, what can it be built upon?" The same year that he gave the talk, he argued in one of his rare peer-reviewed articles that the persistence of Black/white intelligence differences made affirmative action untenable.3 A few years later, Murray expanded on the theme at a meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in an exotic location: the Galá-pagos Islands. The name of the meeting was "Evolution, the Human Sciences, and Liberty" and his talk was titled "the rediscovery of human nature and human diversity," a process that he claimed was going to happen because of new discoveries in genetics. These would induce "reversions to age-old understandings about the human animal." This would lead to
HAYEK'S BASTARDS: THE NEOLIBERAL ROOTS OF THE P... the reconfirmation of discredited prejudices as scientific truths. He dwelled on the question of racial difference. "Throughout the 19th century and first half of the 20th cen-tury," he wrote, "physical anthropologists accepted the concept of race with little dissension." Carleton Coon's magnum opus, The Origin of Races (1962) "provoked no outrage when it appeared," he claimed. (Not true; in fact, it "sparked enormous controversy in the anthropological community.")= Two events led to what he called "the intellectual eclipse of human nature and human diversity in the United States": the civil rights movement and the feminist movement. Political developments had since obscured the primal origins of difference between not only the races but the sexes. Appealing to the sociobiology and evolutionary psychology developed at Harvard University by E.O. Wilson, Robert L. Trivers, and his students, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby (the latter two who were in attendance in the Galapagos), Murray claimed that we still bore binary gender differences as an inheritance of the savanna. "Men who could process trajectories in three dimen-sions-the trajectory, say, of a spear thrown at an edible mammalhad a survival advantage," he said in Ecuador. "Women did the gathering. Those who could distinguish among complex arrays of vegetation, remembering which were the poisonous plants and which the nourishing ones, also had a survival advantage." This is why, he claimed, "ele-vated three-dimensional visuospatial skills" for men and "an elevated ability to remember objects and their relative loca-tions" for women "show up on tests of these abilities today." Going back to nature was necessary to reaffirm hierarchies
... HAYEK'S BASTARDS: THE NEOLIBERAL ROOTS OF THE P... hardwired into genetics challenged by insurgent social movements and progressive ideologies. Shattering taboos around race and gender differences was necessary not only to fight the pernicious effects of what Murray called the "Equality Premise" but to better recognize and organize patterns of aptitude in a changing economy. This book argues that the appeal to nature was a central part of the neoliberal solution to a problem they faced in the decades after the Cold War. This was an era in which communism was dead but, as they put it, Leviathan lived on. Public spending continued to expand even as capitalism became the only surviving economic system. Behind this was a political problem. The social movements of the 1960s and 1970s had injected the poison of civil rights, feminism, affirmative action, and ecological consciousness into the veins of the body politic. An atmosphere of political correctness and "vic-timology" stultified free discourse and nurtured a culture of government dependency and special pleading. Neoliberals needed an antidote. Confounded by persistent demands for the redress of inequality at the expense of efficiency, stability, and order, neoliberals turned to nature in matters of race, intelligence, territory, and money as a way to erect a bulwark against the encroaching demands of progressives and hopefully roll back social changes to return to a hierarchy of gender, race, and cultural difference they imagined to be rooted in genetics as well as tradition. Neoliberals had always been concerned with the extra-economic conditions for capitalism's survival, but they had
🧵Over the next week there are two rightwing conferences in Sydney. This weekend Tony Abbott leads the hate group-boasting Advance. Next week John Anderson leads the up-market version, Aspire. (Details below) Both are based on hysteria about culture/race suicide. Need to read this book to 💡 #Auspol
Aka the Australian greens need to model themselves on Zack Polanskis UK greens.
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
You can whinge, or get angry, or sulk … or you can get active. Join me and others TODAY from 1200 at the Burnside Ballroom for the ‘power of activism’.
@adlfrin.ge free event! #auspol #saparli
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10-days left countdown graphic to Election Day, March 17! The photo showcased is of Kat yelling into the void, overlayed on the ten. Full copy reads: "10 days until the election!" with Kat For Illinois' logo.
🚨 10 DAYS! 🚨
We’re in the final stretch, within single digits of winning.
And you can help us get there.
That big scary survey about Gen Z men being more regressive than Boomers is so flawed. An image of young men is being manufactured in the media and we should be very concerned about that.
Why do pollsters keep doing this???
RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
I am frankly more concerned about the apathy of the American public and even more importantly the lack of leadership in the Democratic Party.
This is not a dress rehearsal. Every single American must speak out against this Facist administration.
Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.
open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
I discovered something that just nauseated me to my core today - Polymarket has a huge number of bets running on climate impacts and disasters
An entirely new flavour of disaster capitalism
*leftist pushes for banning the drowning of puppies*
The media:
"Banning the drowning of puppies will make everything more expensive" says Puppy Drowning Group
I’m no fan of the Iranian regime, but the attacks on Iran are patently illegal. It’s galling that rather than standing up in defence of international law, the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister have as good as cheered the US and Israel on for this latest illegal action. #auspol #politas
Cos your expectations were super low or otherwise how has he achieved this???
Far-right group Advance has been growing in size & influence, so when the team at GetUp saw they were organising a private conference, we knew we had to get inside.
What I found wasn't just a room full of extreme rhetoric – immigration described as an "invasion", feminism destroying
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#auspol
"The ABC contacted the office of Jillian Segal, Australia's antisemitism envoy, to see what her response to those comments was. It's been almost a week now, and there's been no reply."
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Labor's caution increasingly comes across as patheticness. Just frigging say you are considering it.
"Do you like ice-cream?"
"It's not unusual for people to express preferences for a range of delicious desserts at this stage of a meal."
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Judge muzzles Simon Turner coalminer case against BHP - then throws it out. Court transcripts don't materialise.
Court says too bad, its fault of the foreign multinational they sold the transcription service to
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/case-muzzled...
*headdesk*
Amazing that shallow, opaque and essentially unregulated betting markets are subject to insider manipulation. Nobody could have predicted this, it seemed like legitimate commerce and it has never happened before.
At least they didn't call him spank
