Todays story’s have the following subtexts: 1. China is a bad totalitarian Govt than even harms Aust share prices (not mentioning the boom they created for the past 20 years).
2. Renewables are bad. And Zero Emissions targets cause ruin for countries who adopt them (No evidence)
3. ‘COVID Crisis will soon be over’
4. The PM is a ‘calming influence’ and cutting through the ‘BS’ on COVID numbers.
5. These two likeable ‘Aussie Farmer Couple’ were Saved by the LNP Govts bailout plan. (Don’t mention ‘Hawaii’ or ‘Black Summer’)
6. The AUKUS Nuclear Subs deal is ‘great’ and has China ‘rattled’ (nice sporting analogy. For nuclear war).
7. China’s a Bully. Other countries think so too (someone in Lithuania) .
8. Biden is a gateway drug for a ‘Communist Takeover of the US (told you so!)
9. Aust we greatly benefit from a Defence Pact with Japan than the LNP created, cos they hate China too.
10. Bloody Unions mean hard working tradies get less money (no mention of the abomination that is the Fair Work Act, or what Aust would look like without Unions)
11. Albo is a joke and doesn’t know what he is talking about. His promises are all ‘illusory’. And involve death. And scary things like ghosts.
12. The economy is actually booming! Not only is this farmer rolling in it, but banks profits soar!
13 ‘How great is (LNP) Australia !
In the same way that it is a mistake for the US Govt to try to crush all dissent, rather than be open, and learn from criticism, Murdoch’s complete refusal to stop political meddling could be his downfall.
Perhaps neither of them is capable of compromise.
Who can blame those in the ‘Global South’ for thinking the West is simply a vehicle for profits and propaganda?
Why would you do if you were them?
Are Murdoch and the US taking us down the right path?
For them, maybe. For our children? I’m not so sure.
PS: Arise Sir Tony!
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Seymour Hersh is right. For various reasons, which I will explain in this thread, Wikileaks did more to keep the US safe than those failed institutions of the CIA, FBI, and the corporate media.
If there had been a #Wikileaks in the 1980s and 1990s, there may never have been 9/11
As @StateDept knows, the US will eventual fail if it’s reputation around the world as corrupt and duplicitous reaches a critical mass. Powerful as they are, the US needs allies and markets to survive. Like ‘fossil fuels’, they are vulnerable to popular and progressive opinion.
In this regard the US at times needs protection from its own worst self: rapacious and unchecked nationalism and capitalism. In the 1960s & 70s this check came from mainstream journalism. Today it comes from independent journos with info from insider sources. like #Wikileaks
The US Military thinks it’s been ‘clever’ with this verdict but actually shows how lost they have become.
If it’s ‘acceptable’ to target people without evidence they are dangerous, it means their ROE must allow for indiscriminate killing. For ‘show’.
I’ll explain..
Apart from the submarines, here are a few other areas where Australia, under Morrison, has not gone through with their obligations to be ethical and lawful:
We abandoned our ‘staunch Afghan allies’ in their hour of need and wouldn’t even offer them protection visas…
By my not holding ‘war crimes trials’, when the evidence suggests we should, while being a signature to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, we broke our agreement to that body, and the civilians we murdered in Afghanistan
By not honouring our commitments to the various environmental agreements such as ‘Kyoto’ and ‘Paris’ we have failed in our duty to be a leader of ‘climate policy and innovation’ rather than just a reluctant (greedy) follower.
The announcement re the US Subs was likely based on polling:
The French Subs were unpopular but photos of new equipment is great for election campaigns. Solution? Get some ‘new, new subs’ that cost ‘nothing’.
‘Cement’ the Australian ‘MAGA’ vote at the same time.
Bash China✅
Even when ‘bullets were flying’ around Afghanistan, (Crosby-Textor type) polling was running the war.
Because the awarding of Bravery medals ‘polled well’ for the Govt,
lots of medals (some dubious) were awarded.
The story of Colin Powell is unfortunately one of tragedy and failure, not struggle and success.
It’s true he was a senior officer at time when there few black senior officers.
It’s true he become a civilian leader at time there were no black civilian leaders in the US.
But.
When called upon to actually ‘lead’ Powell failed.
More correctly, he showed his true character.
By going to the UN and knowingly making a false case for war, and then afterwards shrugging it off by the simple ‘I follow orders. It’s what I do’ he revealed his true nature, and the reason for his success.