Yes, absolutely ridiculous, irresponsible "journalism" from any Australian media group, let alone the ABC who we hope will report truthfully. The American warmongering always effects other countries, not their own, but the arms manufactures spread throughout American states all benefit.
If another un-winnable war is started by the US and Australia is forced, dragged or pressured to join in there is no excuse to blame China for the devastation it will undoubtedly bring to Australia. Meanwhile the warmongering American financiers could not care a hoot on how many deaths or how much devastation is caused as long as they make more money.
If there is another war, Jack, Australia will not need to be forced, dragged or pressured to join in. Be assured of that. Australia's unbounded desire to serve the US and to get involved, may even supercede the decision of the warmongering USA, so controlled is little Australia by the US dictates, regardless who is the President at the time. Our past record makes that very clear. Ask Albanese, Wong and Marles, our AUKUS enthusiastic signatories
One instance stands out contrary to that statement and that was when our last respectable and honest Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam in the 1970's called our troops back from one of the other US engineered wars, Vietnam. But the US put paid to his career in double quick time. Didn't kill him as with Allende in Chile (no drones in those days) but used their dirty resources to make sure he did not get re-elected. They won that battle with the good old heroin farmers, the CIA, the world's #1 criminal group by far, working for the world's most criminal country.
How many Australian politicians voted to go along with the AUKUS agreement recently? Probably just 4 or 5, all US lackeys in a country that has long lost its independence in foreign policy. Didn't they all get a vote? Not a chance of that one.
Australia. Now an undoubted US vassal state. So all the Nine network and Murdochs have to do in this country is to add to the apathy that is evident every day. WHY?
It's the football season, Jack. This is Australia. Nuclear armed B-52's up north are of little concern when compared to next Saturday's footie results. That's just the way we are.
Biden knows it, Trump knew it, every man and his dog knows it. Then, after that, cricket.
Sad but true. So thanks to the US, a 26 million population in Australia is now seemingly a target for a country with 1,374, 000,000 more people than Australia. (Hope my mathematics are correct)
So.... a fair fight, with the USA supporting its Australian proxy, from Washington, as in Ukraine. (It justifies as a script for a Disney cartoon). 'The Aussie Duck', for example.
Behold the duck
it doesn't cluck
a cluck it lacks
it quacks........
Its very fond of a puddle or pond
and when it sups (with America).... it bottoms ups.
(With the greatest respect to Ogden Nash)
Watch out though, China. We have a nuclear-powered submarine on the way due in 2040. The AUKUS special, 'HMAS Albanese'. Now that will scare the daylights out of Peking.
For you American readers, HMAS means His Majesty's Australian Ship. Yes, we are still bowing humbly and gracefully to the Pommies (the English) as well, from our days as a penal colony. Not much has changed. PS. That was in 1788.
Australian Govts always remind me of the Bugs Bunny cartoons, with the yappy little dog backed up by a big bull dog. The bull dog never actually did anything.
I'm not sure any pollies voted for AUKUS since the deal was negotiated in secret, which is a betrayal of Australians.
This is just as horrible as it gets. This criminal Biden is more than likely trying to get all this warmongering done before the election in 2024 but then again I hear he has already been determined to be president again so who knows. The US people are mostly idiots from the comments I see when they have been presented with the facts they every last one attack the person never once trying to disclaim the truth!
The POTUS is really only a puppet, so it matters not who the "people" elect as President. The so called "law makers" are the ones who control foreign policy, finances and the media.
By "law makers" you mean the billionaires/oligarchs, right? It's not like anyone is ever "elected" in the US. It's more like they're "selected" by their campaign donors to do the billionaires' bidding.
Such utter stupidity on part of leadership. No war with anyone any where. The US, Britain, Australia lacks moral leadership. So very weary of this crap!
At the exact same time you were typing your comment about how weary you are with the lack of moral leadership, I was typing a comment about how weary I am with the tropes they use in their propaganda. It all does wear a person down.
Can you imagine what the world would be like by now - if they spent all the energy and resources they now spend on war, on seeking collaboration and peace? What a different world it would be for all of us.
"It might sound like twisted logic, but military forces everywhere argue that the greater the firepower they possess, the greater the chance of maintaining peace,"
Next segment: China's slight increase in defensive military budget (lower than Australia's per GDP) threatens countries thousands of miles away for no reason, and makes war inevitable.
As Henry Kissinger famougly said. "To be an enemy of the United States is dangerous. To be its friend is fatal." Watch out Australia. You're in danger of ending up like Ukraine.
Calling the Five Eyes "top cops"? Still characterizing the US (and here its merry little band of tag-alongs) as some global police force facing down a host of international bad guys?
"Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship."
"There is one difference," I pointed out. "In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."
"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
the nuclear war suicide cult never rests. even more convulsions and frothing at the mouth for their own destruction - not just their own, the world’s, but how I wish they couldn’t bring us all down with them, just their psychotic selves
America, with its low-T and low-IQ army of trannies and drag queens, would last about a month against China.
And I think that’s the plan.
China started investing and buying up America like a liquidated asset fire-sale 30 years ago and now wants to take delivery of its property. The elites have their CCP-promised golden parachutes, and China knows that A weak soft feminized nation of beat-down, overweight, broken, psychotropically-medicated, propagandized beta males isn’t going to be much resistance, even though they have lots of guns.
I've never been to Australia, but the sample of Australians I've seen here in the U.S. (and no, this is not drawn from Foster's Lager's commercials, "Crocodile Dundee," or anything to do with Steve Irwin) has convinced me that Australians as a rule are a hardy bunch, with none of the simpering suburban deadweight moping around on motorized scooters by age 11 and terrified of normal emotions.
That has me afraid of misinformation there, because I picture all these reckless and sturdy fuckers making ill-advised moves in all directions, quickly and fearlessly. Here, people mostly sit in front of their TVs and soak in Rachel Maddow or Sean Hannity until their mandibles are kissing the carpet and their eyes have taken on a trout-like glaze.
A: Back in 1985 or so the Australian Navy was in Seattle in August for the big SeaFair holiday. I was at the J & M Cafe on Pioneer Square on a Saturday night. Bursting into the bar are about 12 Aussie sailors in uniform. They want beer. They want drinks.
In the middle of the large old bar with high ceilings is or was a long 30' (10 meter) table that folks like me would stand around drinking beer, wine, and hard booze while eating popcorn, chicken wings, and french fries.
After an hour's worth of drinking the Aussie sailors decide it would be a good idea to run down the length of the table and leap off into their comrade's arms.
Drinks and food went flying!
The big black (and I mean HUGE) black bouncer told the kangaroos to get the hell out of the bar. They left.
B: An Aussie borrowed my battery charger for his battery. He left the damned thing plugged in and on after he was done. A fecking idiot!
C: My niece married an Aussie from Sydney and the wedding was in Napa, CA. My wife and I attended. The Aussies, men and women, were fit, happy, laughing, hard-drinking (my brother-in-law told me that bar tab was $10,000 (US).
I am a retired infantry officer. However, I am appalled by the militarism displayed by this journalist, who is also ridiculously self-staged. I'm all the more shocked because, as a former soldier, I have no sympathy for militarism. Militarism is an ideology of gun merchants and white-collar imperialists, certainly not a soldier's ethic. But how low has the profession of journalism reached to sell propaganda based on the most shameless lies; this journalist seems almost to rejoice in this deployment of means of destruction and never asks good questions, that is to say those that Caitlin Johnstone asks and must ask himself any citizen still having some neurons connected.
Some of the best anti-propaganda comes from Australia, in Juice Media's Honest Government Ads. Have they yet addressed this irresponsible insanity? If not, why not?
What can you say? Some people simply have a death wish. Some people are simply mean to the bone. China's history shows it to be as reliable as any country can be, and far more so than any other powerful country on the globe, except Russia with whom it has a natural affinity. What can you do with such people? They should be tied up, but barring that, recognize them for what they are: mean people with a death wish. They deserve no serious consideration on any subject.
Wars are peace, Truths are lies, China threatens us all! Of course it was 'evil' Russia that backed down in Cuba not Kennedy's Camelot....did the US remove the missiles from Turkey? Well yes, and then replaced the obsolete Jupiters with Polaris. Turkey still hosts 50 or so US B61 nukes.
China's military bases around the world: 1 (Djibouti. As do US and France and others depending)
US overseas bases: 800+
UK overseas bases: 145 (68 run directly, the others rented out)
It’ll be good for Australia to join in...we’re running out of Ukrainians. U.S. mercenaries don’t seem to be a match for Spetsnaz. We’ll see how they do against the Chinese SOFs. Once we run out of Australians, there’s plenty other bodies we can throw at ‘em. Starve ‘em at home, kill ‘em overseas. The oligarchs are laughing their asses off.
Yes, absolutely ridiculous, irresponsible "journalism" from any Australian media group, let alone the ABC who we hope will report truthfully. The American warmongering always effects other countries, not their own, but the arms manufactures spread throughout American states all benefit.
If another un-winnable war is started by the US and Australia is forced, dragged or pressured to join in there is no excuse to blame China for the devastation it will undoubtedly bring to Australia. Meanwhile the warmongering American financiers could not care a hoot on how many deaths or how much devastation is caused as long as they make more money.
If there is another war, Jack, Australia will not need to be forced, dragged or pressured to join in. Be assured of that. Australia's unbounded desire to serve the US and to get involved, may even supercede the decision of the warmongering USA, so controlled is little Australia by the US dictates, regardless who is the President at the time. Our past record makes that very clear. Ask Albanese, Wong and Marles, our AUKUS enthusiastic signatories
One instance stands out contrary to that statement and that was when our last respectable and honest Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam in the 1970's called our troops back from one of the other US engineered wars, Vietnam. But the US put paid to his career in double quick time. Didn't kill him as with Allende in Chile (no drones in those days) but used their dirty resources to make sure he did not get re-elected. They won that battle with the good old heroin farmers, the CIA, the world's #1 criminal group by far, working for the world's most criminal country.
How many Australian politicians voted to go along with the AUKUS agreement recently? Probably just 4 or 5, all US lackeys in a country that has long lost its independence in foreign policy. Didn't they all get a vote? Not a chance of that one.
Australia. Now an undoubted US vassal state. So all the Nine network and Murdochs have to do in this country is to add to the apathy that is evident every day. WHY?
It's the football season, Jack. This is Australia. Nuclear armed B-52's up north are of little concern when compared to next Saturday's footie results. That's just the way we are.
Biden knows it, Trump knew it, every man and his dog knows it. Then, after that, cricket.
Sad but true. So thanks to the US, a 26 million population in Australia is now seemingly a target for a country with 1,374, 000,000 more people than Australia. (Hope my mathematics are correct)
So.... a fair fight, with the USA supporting its Australian proxy, from Washington, as in Ukraine. (It justifies as a script for a Disney cartoon). 'The Aussie Duck', for example.
Behold the duck
it doesn't cluck
a cluck it lacks
it quacks........
Its very fond of a puddle or pond
and when it sups (with America).... it bottoms ups.
(With the greatest respect to Ogden Nash)
Watch out though, China. We have a nuclear-powered submarine on the way due in 2040. The AUKUS special, 'HMAS Albanese'. Now that will scare the daylights out of Peking.
For you American readers, HMAS means His Majesty's Australian Ship. Yes, we are still bowing humbly and gracefully to the Pommies (the English) as well, from our days as a penal colony. Not much has changed. PS. That was in 1788.
What a country Australia has become.
Australian Govts always remind me of the Bugs Bunny cartoons, with the yappy little dog backed up by a big bull dog. The bull dog never actually did anything.
I'm not sure any pollies voted for AUKUS since the deal was negotiated in secret, which is a betrayal of Australians.
"What a country Australia has become."
You can say the same for the "good ole US of A".
This is just as horrible as it gets. This criminal Biden is more than likely trying to get all this warmongering done before the election in 2024 but then again I hear he has already been determined to be president again so who knows. The US people are mostly idiots from the comments I see when they have been presented with the facts they every last one attack the person never once trying to disclaim the truth!
Yes, Biden "has already been determined to be president again...."
The senile Biden puppet is doing just what his (((sponsors))) want. Why would they install anyone else.
As one pundit recently put it: "No matter who we elect, we end up with John McCain".
The POTUS is really only a puppet, so it matters not who the "people" elect as President. The so called "law makers" are the ones who control foreign policy, finances and the media.
By "law makers" you mean the billionaires/oligarchs, right? It's not like anyone is ever "elected" in the US. It's more like they're "selected" by their campaign donors to do the billionaires' bidding.
And the action is elsewhere, just like Ukraine.
I say the Aussies are damn lucky to just have a bimbo selling them war. They had to use 9/11 on us to get us to kowtow. 🤯
Such utter stupidity on part of leadership. No war with anyone any where. The US, Britain, Australia lacks moral leadership. So very weary of this crap!
At the exact same time you were typing your comment about how weary you are with the lack of moral leadership, I was typing a comment about how weary I am with the tropes they use in their propaganda. It all does wear a person down.
Can you imagine what the world would be like by now - if they spent all the energy and resources they now spend on war, on seeking collaboration and peace? What a different world it would be for all of us.
An infomercial for war. Not even a pretense of actual journalism. Sickening.
"It might sound like twisted logic, but military forces everywhere argue that the greater the firepower they possess, the greater the chance of maintaining peace,"
Next segment: China's slight increase in defensive military budget (lower than Australia's per GDP) threatens countries thousands of miles away for no reason, and makes war inevitable.
As Henry Kissinger famougly said. "To be an enemy of the United States is dangerous. To be its friend is fatal." Watch out Australia. You're in danger of ending up like Ukraine.
Calling the Five Eyes "top cops"? Still characterizing the US (and here its merry little band of tag-alongs) as some global police force facing down a host of international bad guys?
Please, please stop. I can't stand it anymore.
"Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship."
"There is one difference," I pointed out. "In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."
"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
In case anyone doesn't recognize this, it's an exact quote from the Nurembourg trials.
the nuclear war suicide cult never rests. even more convulsions and frothing at the mouth for their own destruction - not just their own, the world’s, but how I wish they couldn’t bring us all down with them, just their psychotic selves
I used to think this kind of psychosis was only in the movies. But little did I know.
America, with its low-T and low-IQ army of trannies and drag queens, would last about a month against China.
And I think that’s the plan.
China started investing and buying up America like a liquidated asset fire-sale 30 years ago and now wants to take delivery of its property. The elites have their CCP-promised golden parachutes, and China knows that A weak soft feminized nation of beat-down, overweight, broken, psychotropically-medicated, propagandized beta males isn’t going to be much resistance, even though they have lots of guns.
I really wish we had a country like that, peaceful, empathetic. Instead we have too many crazed assholes with a boner for war.
I've never been to Australia, but the sample of Australians I've seen here in the U.S. (and no, this is not drawn from Foster's Lager's commercials, "Crocodile Dundee," or anything to do with Steve Irwin) has convinced me that Australians as a rule are a hardy bunch, with none of the simpering suburban deadweight moping around on motorized scooters by age 11 and terrified of normal emotions.
That has me afraid of misinformation there, because I picture all these reckless and sturdy fuckers making ill-advised moves in all directions, quickly and fearlessly. Here, people mostly sit in front of their TVs and soak in Rachel Maddow or Sean Hannity until their mandibles are kissing the carpet and their eyes have taken on a trout-like glaze.
I could be wrong (not about Americans, though).
Kevin Beck: I have met many Aussies.
A: Back in 1985 or so the Australian Navy was in Seattle in August for the big SeaFair holiday. I was at the J & M Cafe on Pioneer Square on a Saturday night. Bursting into the bar are about 12 Aussie sailors in uniform. They want beer. They want drinks.
In the middle of the large old bar with high ceilings is or was a long 30' (10 meter) table that folks like me would stand around drinking beer, wine, and hard booze while eating popcorn, chicken wings, and french fries.
After an hour's worth of drinking the Aussie sailors decide it would be a good idea to run down the length of the table and leap off into their comrade's arms.
Drinks and food went flying!
The big black (and I mean HUGE) black bouncer told the kangaroos to get the hell out of the bar. They left.
B: An Aussie borrowed my battery charger for his battery. He left the damned thing plugged in and on after he was done. A fecking idiot!
C: My niece married an Aussie from Sydney and the wedding was in Napa, CA. My wife and I attended. The Aussies, men and women, were fit, happy, laughing, hard-drinking (my brother-in-law told me that bar tab was $10,000 (US).
And that's my take on Aussies.
I am a retired infantry officer. However, I am appalled by the militarism displayed by this journalist, who is also ridiculously self-staged. I'm all the more shocked because, as a former soldier, I have no sympathy for militarism. Militarism is an ideology of gun merchants and white-collar imperialists, certainly not a soldier's ethic. But how low has the profession of journalism reached to sell propaganda based on the most shameless lies; this journalist seems almost to rejoice in this deployment of means of destruction and never asks good questions, that is to say those that Caitlin Johnstone asks and must ask himself any citizen still having some neurons connected.
Some of the best anti-propaganda comes from Australia, in Juice Media's Honest Government Ads. Have they yet addressed this irresponsible insanity? If not, why not?
When you said that she was moaning and orgasming, I thought you were just exaggerating, but then I watched it and damn....
I'll have what she's having!
https://media.tenor.com/pI7xntcIx0YAAAAC/when-harry-met-sally-ill-have-what-shes-having.gif
What can you say? Some people simply have a death wish. Some people are simply mean to the bone. China's history shows it to be as reliable as any country can be, and far more so than any other powerful country on the globe, except Russia with whom it has a natural affinity. What can you do with such people? They should be tied up, but barring that, recognize them for what they are: mean people with a death wish. They deserve no serious consideration on any subject.
Wars are peace, Truths are lies, China threatens us all! Of course it was 'evil' Russia that backed down in Cuba not Kennedy's Camelot....did the US remove the missiles from Turkey? Well yes, and then replaced the obsolete Jupiters with Polaris. Turkey still hosts 50 or so US B61 nukes.
China's military bases around the world: 1 (Djibouti. As do US and France and others depending)
US overseas bases: 800+
UK overseas bases: 145 (68 run directly, the others rented out)
Who's threatening us?....CHINA!
🙄
It’ll be good for Australia to join in...we’re running out of Ukrainians. U.S. mercenaries don’t seem to be a match for Spetsnaz. We’ll see how they do against the Chinese SOFs. Once we run out of Australians, there’s plenty other bodies we can throw at ‘em. Starve ‘em at home, kill ‘em overseas. The oligarchs are laughing their asses off.