Of the main themes of the political agenda of the Voice referendum, that runs through many articles at the Quadrant Special Digital Edition, August 2023, is that the Voice is like an iceberg, where only the tip of it is revealed. The rest is hidden, and like giant icebergs, are dangerous. This the theme discussed in detail by Keith Windschuttle in his contribution, “Hiding the Voice’s Content from the Voters.” The politicians, he says deliberately seek to hide the content of the Voice, because if the full agenda was known, as the Quadrant special details, the public would certainly vote against it; even now it is likely that the Voice will be defeated, but we should not relax our vigilance, as the elites want this in at all costs.

Nick Cater, “The Vision of the Anointed, in the Quadrant Special Digital Edition, August 2023, discusses the argument commonly made that the Voice is needed to deal with terrible problems facing some Aboriginal communities, including  alcoholism, domestic violence and child sexual abuse. Child sexual abuse is a shocking problem that the Left intellectuals shy away from; clearly even if there was historical racism, that would not explain this, and would in fact deny agency to Aboriginals, which is arguably “racist,” or worse, in itself:

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-13982-4

A very good historical background to the lead-up to the Voice is given by Michael Conner, “A True history of the Voice,” Quadrant Special Digital Edition, August 2023. This piece being a running account of the players in the Aboriginal industry beginning in 1981 - Bob Collins, H.C. “Nugget” Coombs, Marcia Langton, Shorty O’Neill, Al Grassby, Judith Wright, Garth Nettheim, Lyndall Ryan, Henry Reynolds and Eddie Mabo – is difficult to summarise given all that they got up to. But, Eddie Mabo gave us the Mabo case, and native title, which now covers over 60 percent of the Australian land mass, and it is not finished yet.

The Quadrant Special Digital Edition, August 2023 develops the most systematic critique of the voice referendum proposal to date. Among the contributions are three that strike a lawyer of particular note are: “Introducing Conflict” by Damien Cremean, “A Legal Ruse” by Alasdair Millar, and “The Voice Referendum: Cheating the Constitution,” by Professor Emeritus Michael Detmold, former constitutional law lecturers at the University of Adelaide. The first two items are letters, but profound ones, which alone, separately, destroy the Voice proposal; the latter article by Professor Detmold raises insuperable constitutional law difficulties the Voice referendum raises. A summary of the first two letters, now follows. The Detmold paper is discussed separately.

“The Voice Referendum: Cheating the Constitution,” by Professor Emeritus Michael Detmold, former constitutional law lecturers at the University of Adelaide, in the Quadrant Special Digital Edition, August 2023, delivers a knockout blow to the constitutional soundness of the Voice Referendum.

The short question will be before voters: “A Proposed Law: to alter the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Do you approve this proposed alteration?” The prosed law is outlined in a little more detail, albeit, still highly vague in the outline but does mention two things; first the Voice’s function (of making “representations to the Parliament and the Executive Government of the Commonwealth …”) and second, the Voice’s structure (Parliament’s “power to make laws with respect to matters relating to the Voice, including its composition, functions, powers and procedures”). But, these provisions, Detmold points out, are not going to be inserted into the constitution, and nor is the short question which is actually visible on the ballot paper. So, what exactly would go into the constitution if the Yes is carried? If this is confusing to legally trained minds, how much more difficult would this be for the ordinary voters to know what is going on? And if people are in the dark about this, as I see it,  the Voice referendum is nothing more than an expensive and nasty deception.

“Why Christians Should Vote No,” by James Jeffery, in the Quadrant Special Digital Edition, August 2023, is an important critique, since as far as I am aware, the woke churches have been championing the Voice as a social justice necessity; supporting the Voice is just the Christian and right thing to do, and the No vote is somehow immoral, to state matters bluntly. That is a position that needs to be attacked and defeated, at least on the intellectual level. But, we should not under-estimate the high degree of emotionalism that still will be pushed on this by woke church leaders.

The Quadrant Special Digital Edition, August 2023, “Why the Voice Would be a Disaster for Australia,” contains the leading criticisms of the Voice, some quite complex and perhaps too time-consuming for the average reader to digest. That is why there is the present special Alor.org blog presentation, which summarises the key arguments, and gives the intelligent ordinary reader, pressed for time, a thumbnail sketch of the key points. Here I mention some articles that deliver a plethora of anti-Voice arguments that the reader can use in their own personal campaign for the No side.

While this topic is grim, there is some humour to be made, as made by Roger Franklin, “Fifty Reasons to Vote No,” details. Some of the reasons are hilarious, but all true, such as:

As one of the younger writers at Alor.org blog, I must confess that before seeing the light and becoming a conservative, I was a Leftist, mainly through university. I was thus interested in the take made by Peter Baldwin “The Progressive Case Against the Voice,” Quadrant Special Digital Edition, August 2023. Can one reason with the liberal Left at the universities, and white-anting the entire society now, against the Voice? How does one overcome the high moral groundism, and pseudo anti-racism supremacy that the liberal Left get from parading the Voice virtues?

If there are ways,  it cannot be through the use of conservative arguments as the liberal-Left simply reject the entire paradigm. So, most of the arguments considered in other articles in the Quadrant special edition, will fail against this folk. But, as Baldwin notes, here are considerations that should phase the liberal Left, although I have my doubts.

I did not know this previously, but the Federal court has ruled that public does not have legal access to beaches north of Broome. This decision is presently being challenged by the Federal and Western Australian governments. But, it is but one more example of native title in action, which has delivered over 50 percent of the land mass of Australia over to native title. The Voice, if successful will finish off what remains of Australia. Time to stand up against this surrender of Australia!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-27/legal-fight-for-beaches-in-high-court/11245540

Robert Kennedy, US presidential candidate continues to give the power elites heart attacks. Not only is he a leading vax critic, an opponent of Dr Fauci, about whom he wrote a best-selling book, but now he is doing the right thing, for a Democrat, and going after Joe Biden, the head of the snake, well, at least on paper. Kennedy has now called for an investigation of the Biden bribery scandal, covered in other posts at this blog. This is so big and sordid, an example of the biggest, dirtiest lie, that the Biden regime hope is that the public will just be numbed by it, and just forget. But now there is both Trump and Kennedy jumping up and down about this, and Kennedy will keep Trump on the ball here. What is there not to like?

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/24/robert-f-kennedy-jr-calls-probe-joe-biden-alleged-bribes-changing-his-tune/

Prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, has delivered a number of speeches on what he sees is the growing crisis of the time with the Ukraine war, and the likely evolution of this into World War III. But, whatever happens there America and China are on a collision course, as few great powers have simply collapsed outside of a wartime situation. As he details, China is not merely intending to take over the world economically, which it is now doing in an imperialist fashion,  but militarily as well. Nothing new here but it is worthwhile reading a pollical leader say this first hand.

https://miniszterelnok.hu/en/speech-by-prime-minister-viktor-orban-at-the-32nd-balvanyos-summer-free-university-and-student-camp/

A Midwestern Doctor, has written on the smallpox vax, which contrary to the mainstream vax propaganda was highly controversial at the time. The received view is that the vax was a miracle drug that saved the day and led to the elimination of smallpox, so if the vax could do tht for one disease, it could do it for all of them. That generalisation would make an objective scientist suspicious, since it hardly follows. As shown below, the historical data shows that the smallpox vaccination did not work as promoted and tended to increase rather than decrease the occurrence of smallpox. In anticipation of Covid, harsh mandates were implemented to get even more people vaccinated, and riots broke out.

It was improvements in public health that led to smallpox disappearing, not the vaccines, although Big Pharma of the time claimed this as a victory. An even bigger killer than smallpox was scarlet fever, where there was never a vaccine developed, but which also disappeared with improvements in sanitation and living conditions. Just like smallpox.

Here is something new: China is set to not only wage war on America from land space and sea, but from the Arctic as well! The South China Morning Post reported that the Shanghai-based Polar Research Institute of China revealed that "China has completed the field testing and evaluation of an underwater listening device that will be deployed on a large scale in the Arctic Ocean." The idea here is to militarise the area to listen for American subs, and destroy them in the coming war. There is also surveillance of the area by air, often using balloons of the type Joe Biden allowed to track over US military bases, because, well why not if you are basically a CCP asset?

The West is facing its strongest foe for a final battle, and never has been weaker, or more stupid in a culture of decline.

Steve Kirsch has broadened his vax critique program, from the Covid issues to autism. This is important as if there is a causal relationship between vaccines and autism, this affects the next generation profoundly, and for us, that could be our grandchildren. He has thus reported that from a sample of doctors, there are some deeply disturbing revelations. “Several doctors noted that all or nearly all of their autism cases were linked to the MMR vaccine. In another case, one doctor told the story of a police investigator that he knew personally who was assigned SIDS cases over 7 years; she noted that 75% of SIDS deaths happened within 48 hours of a vaccine (approximately 300 cases total). That’s impossible if the vaccines aren’t causing the deaths.”

The wheels of the truth are turning slowly on the Wuhan lab leak scenario, and the role of US agencies in funding the research in the first place. One issue that came before the US House subcommittee investigating the matter was the influence of Drs. Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci, on the scientists who published the major paper at the time in 2020 in Nature Medicine, “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2.” The scientists had for a time supported the lab leak hypothesis, but then did a 180 degree turn. The issue was whether a bribe was made to exonerate the Wuhan lab, or whether influence was made. The core thing here is what was the motive for taking the heat away from the Wuhan lab, and as Robert Kennedy has proposed, the reason is that there was a cover-up because of US funding for the research.

https://theintercept.com/2023/07/21/covid-origin-nih-lab-leak/

The Left are concerned about the US Supreme Court, and have made various suggestions of how to neutralise its mildly conservative decisions. One was to stack the court with more Biden-appointed judges, who were crazed Leftists.  That did not fly. Now, two law professors have said, well, who cares, we just ignore the court and Democrat regime just does what it wants. They don’t exactly say that, but that, “the President should act when MAGA justices issue high-stakes rulings that are based on gravely mistaken constitutional interpretations, and when presidential action predicated on his administration’s constitutional interpretations would substantially mitigate the damage posed by the ruling in question.” Yes, and on every issue there will be such a difference.

Former President Donald Trump is facing an indictment with a penalty of up to 400 years for having classified documents that he had the power to declassify. But while that circus goes on, it has been revealed by a document released on July 20, 2023, information by an FBI informant, that Joe Biden, who was a presidential candidate, was allegedly bribed to influence Ukraine to remove a prosecutor who was investigating Burisma. This was the Ukrainian company where Hunter Biden was employed. The fine details are given below by a report by the Epoch Times.com, but the crunch line is that it took $ 5 million to bribe one Biden, Hunter, and another $ 5 million to bribe the other, Joe Biden. This should have received coverage around the world, as it indicates tht there is a president on the take. But, nothing much beyond the report below in the US, and from my internet search, no coverage in Australia either. Such is the lame stream media, and the cover-up for the Biden regime.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/fbi-source-provided-allegations-that-joe-biden-hunter-biden-were-bribed-document-5412158

I have not paid much attention to the Chinese internet phenomenon of TikTok, but I should have. There are allegations made at the government level that the social media platform is little more than a spying mechanism for the CCP. A friend has a son in the defence sector, and viewing TikTok on any computer associated with work is strictly banned. All sorts of spyware could be unloaded upon one. Indeed, I do not want to go here at all. But, other commentaries have compared TikTok in China, with the toxic waste that the CCP dumps upon the West for our young to consume, and the difference is astonishing. It is not just with the transgender agenda, but every woke thing is pushed, with virtually no conservative content at all. There is a dumbing down effect of content as well; a great moron factor. That must be by design, not default or accident. It is but another CCP cultural weapon to attack the West.

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2023/07/23/watch-exclusive-oli-london-says-china-uses-tiktok-to-manipulate-and-weaken-young-minds-with-trans-ideology/

Here comes yet another globalist New World Order scheme; so many are coming so fast that it is hard to keep up with them. Perhaps we need an Excel chart to document it all. And, the latest is Worldcoin, being promoted by two globalist technocrats, Sam Altman and Alex Blania. They support a Universal Basic Income, and see their form of global money bringing this to the suffering masses who are going to be displaced by artificial intelligence.

Writer Michael Hudson has given his take on the coming war with communist China. His point is that the present Ukrainian War is part of the process of carving off and defeating China’s allies, Russia being the core one. Then apparently China will be isolated and the grand battle will occur. But this is not going to the US plan, as Hudson explains: “What makes it so difficult in trying to evaluate where NATO, Europe and the United States are going is that the traditional assumption that nations and classes will act in their economic self-interest is not of help. The traditional logic of geopolitical analysis is to assume that business and financial interests steer almost every nation’s politics. The ancillary assumption is that governing officials have a fairly realistic understanding of the economic and political dynamics at work. Forecasting the future is thus usually an exercise in spelling out these dynamics.

The US/NATO West has led this global fracture, yet it will be the big loser. NATO members already have seen Ukraine deplete their inventory of guns and bullets, artillery and ammunition, tanks, helicopters weapons and other arms accumulated over five decades. But Europe’s loss has become America’s sales opportunity, creating a vast new market for America’s military-industrial complex to re-supply Europe. To gain support, the United States has sponsored a new way of thinking about international trade and investment. The focus has shifted to “national security,” meaning to secure a U.S.-centered unipolar order.