US base with marsupials - indeed. What a disgraceful state of affairs. Commerce, cynicism, servility and dishonour - and we're paying for the debasement into the remaining years of the limited future. There will be nothing tangible beyond personal/party kickbacks despite the drumbeating - events are moving too quickly, including in the Antarctic for those paying attention. Next, digital ID and suppression of online dissent. The blatant lies about Assange should be repudiated by any Australian government but as you say, we only have management now, contracted to the US. Vale Australia - a third rate settler colony.
Yeah, look forward to potential mass shootings, and other US specialties you will now be able to enjoy as they turn your country into a war economy. Which absolutely cheapens all life, even civilian life distanced from the actual wars. I hope it doesn’t happen, but what do you think? Canada is doing similar and their shit is spilling into out country as well.
We don't have .50 BMG "machine guns" freely available. We DO have the option to buy bolt action and semi automatic rifles chambered in .50 BMG if we are wealthy enough to afford + unrealistic enough to think it worth our while to possess. It's a very "niche" market. I've used such things, they are ridiculously heavy and quite physically painful to fire for more than one or two shots. A new Barret .50 semi auto comes from their factory in a fitted case where one compartment holds a bottle of Ibuprofen- This was done originally as a joke, but turned out to be so practical Barrett kept on doing it!
That was a bit of an inside dig at my friend Mr.Raven who advocates for complete deregulation. All the way up to bazookas and .50 cals. I’m aware. Don’t think civilians should have automatic anything. Semi auto ok. But 5 or 8 round clips. Were trying to discuss the US rampant mass shooting problem, which is multi-faceted, but surely the availability of such weapons is an issue. Remember Christ Church? In a week they had banned those style weapons. US since Columbine has escalated to daily mass shootings and Newtown was especially horrific and crickets. You need to have healthcare for your citizens, and reasonable regulations on firearms IMO.
USA has an ongoing and constantly worsening mental health crisis, the health care issue will need to come first before the gun violence can be brought under control.
Sadly, I not only remember Christchurch, I recall some information much at odds with the official narrative.
You guys who think you can stand up to your government are hilarious. You don’t even have healthcare. Use your guns to get that. Then stop the war economy, glorification of violence, and with mentally ill people now seeing doctors rather than being abandoned and swimming in guns, see if that helps
Ok. So what does anyone think of as an ideal gun policy currently in existence or not. Canada is ok. Japan and UK are hard to argue with. The US is fucked and i would also want a gun for defense if i lived there. But surely common sense like not letting kids, the mentally ill and automatic weapons could be restricted
Don’t forget to blame video games for the violence while ignoring the actual violence we export and then decades later, learn that your intelligence agencies actually are narrating fps war games to propagandize you into hating Russians, or whatever current nation we are engaged in endless war with. Im not joking
PPS: The USA is a violent country. The people here support war constantly. They like violent movies and video games. They like violent sports.
The Presidential candidate who promotes peace may well win elections (I can give you plenty of examples), but the President instead always takes the USA to war and the people support him.
Peaceniks and hippies are looked at as fools in the USA.
Robert Lindsay: You are right. America is flooded with guns. The country has a gun culture from the Old West and the Revolutionary War (which began at Concord when the British came for the guns).
You can't stop guns in the USA. There are more guns than people. Trying to outlaw guns here will start another revolution.
Legalize drugs. Get rid of the gangs. But no, the government makes too much money from the drug war.
CarbonCopy: I played tennis with a black man in Seattle back in the 1970s. He worked for Boeing building cruise missiles. He made good money. He also kicked my ass in tennis.
Not true. Automobiles are also complex, yet most people manufacturing them are not college educated. That's because, regardless of the complexity of the finished product, each step in the assembly process is very simple and direct, with very little thinking involved, and everyone on an assembly line has only one very simple task. Then there's automation...
And? So once again where are all "these jobs" being claimed to be made? Also it is called "Rocket Science" for a very obvious reason! This is not an industrial factory floor!
CC: Not really. My playing partner told me that the cruise missile being assembled was on two sawhorses. It was just a matter of installing the parts. Everything was inspected and yet the cruise missiles launched at Syria by Trump still had a 25% failure rate, maybe more.
Remember that almost everything governments utter is a lie or some other variety of untruth. The missiles, for example, may or may not ever be produced. There is no particular reason to make them in Australia anyway and the project is almost certainly a piece of expensive propaganda to grease the egos of Australian psychopaths.
Any base which has Lindsay Graham as a visitor experiences marsupial presence. Compare a pic of Lindsay to that of an opposum with mange and a bad comb over...
A tragic situation. Neither countries actions are moral, both lack integrity! Woe to the truth!.I continue to object to unconscionable, unconstitutional acts by the US Government.
We all know AOC is a bimbo plant. 👎 I lived in Vermont almost 30 years. Don't even start w me about Sanders. He's an arrogant imposter who made it to where he has due to apathy, ignorance on part of voting public. There's not enough space here or time for me to expand on why he should hold no public office.
Please look into the work of the late Dr G3ne Sh@rp. He was a Harvard professor who sp3nt his life studying n0nvi0lent c!vil dis0bed!ence. He wr0te From Dictat0rsh!p to Dem0cracy. You can find it on eBay or from the Einstein Institution in Boston MA USA. Sorry for the numerals but YooToobe is c3ns0ring th!s inf0rmati0n. I th!nk Subst@ck d0es too. Th3r3 is also a dOcum3ntary about him c@lled H0w t0 St@rt a Rev0lut!on that you can buy on eBay.
Thanks for the lead! I clicked on one web page and all the links referencing his work were dead. Could be nothing, but usually that happens with stuff the government prefers us not to see. Thanks again.
Perhaps you've already discovered that it was Wall Street who actually financed the rise of the Natsies as if it were a proxy to begin with and to take over in the end.
I have so much rage for the US treatment, and common wealth support, of Assange’s situation. Which really means I am so sad at the current state of corruption in all of our countries. Im Canadian. Trudea is a WEF tyrant, and Canada is probably only trailing the UK and Australia for the world champions in being the US’s bitch. All that being said, Thank you Caitlin and Tim for never ceasing to keep this issue front and center. I will never stop talking about it, shaming those responsible at every opportunity, and to be quite honest, I intend to ramp up how i fight, in whatever way I can that is helpful. I don’t know what to do. My country also feels like what I imagine inter-war, like minded, Weimar Germans were going through in the 30’s. This is getting really scary. Advice please anyone
What, exactly, does the US "owe" to China? If you're speaking about the US "national debt," please learn Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). It will explain why the US actually doesn't "owe" US dollars to China. You can find it on The Rogue Scholar, MMT Mondays, Macro'n'Cheese, or Real Progressives on YouTube. Stephanie Kelton also has several great videos on YouTube about it. And read her book The Deficit Myth.
"... which has highlighted a troubling lack of ammunition stocks in Western nations including the US.”
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It is the steady drum beat of these kinds of stunning lies that azewholes like whatever this azewhole "journalists" name that has made most folks of western "nations" of genocide, war crimes, ... such brainwashed dolts. Ms Johnstone has reference this many times but it can't be said enough because how else is there to wash away the RELENTLESS usa/western lies/propaganda but relentlessly telling the truth.
Marsupial fartcatching coup by Oz! Weapons manufacture. What a dream. Just like the big boys. And they’ll be exported to other places too? Praise the Lord. Oh I miss Dame Edna. She’d know how to celebrate.
It’s horrific how many countries are controlled by the US military. Not to mention the fact that all of the torture countries were trained at the School of the Americas which is now called Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) and funded by our military. There are over 30 countries around the world trained on torture by the US military. The US military has spent BILLIONS and BILLIONS of dollars funding torture countries.
"Assange endangered lives" ??? That's really rich coming from Blinken: he is American isn't he? Is it possible he doesn't know his country's record on "endangering lives"? Well. actually, mass killing. Blinken is a night crawler, a creep, and I hope the Australian people gave him the response he deserves - a boot in the ass.
It's attitudes like yours that make it possible for the murderous empire to continue. You've quit before you even started. What a lazy, self-serving excuse: "there's not a damn thing anybody can do about it"! So you're comfortable with doing nothing while the US government continues to kill people in your name?
Please look into the work of the late Dr G3ne Sharp. He was a Harvard professor who sp3nt his life studying n0nvi0lent c!vil dis0bed!ence. He wr0te From Dictat0rsh!p to Dem0cracy and there is a dOcum3ntary about him called H0w t0 St@rt a R3v0lut!on. He tells us how to do it.
You can find his work on eBay or from the Einstein Institution in Boston MA. Or go to your local library.
I'm 77 years old and I haven't quit fighting. I'll never quit until I die or the empire is licked.
Susan: I've tried the civil disobedience route. All it got me was grief. I do what the Irish have always done. We find a third way out of the Man's prison.
I remember you, Sharpie fangirl. It's manuals like his that made sure the empire keeps destabilizing the world for its benefit.
Read history. The shit that's currently happening is nothing new and it was being done in your and other "activists" name throughout decades. Despite all your self-pleasuring "rebel" attitudes. And maybe because of them. They kept you drugged up through various programs so you felt good about yourselves, dummies that you've always been.
You know it's a sad day in hell when you just don't have enough weapons or ammunition to make war! The obvious horrible reality of these warmongering cuck fucks is THEY AREN'T GOING TO QUIT! Instead of the "long range" plan to be PEACE! These filthy warmongers continue to plan for war! We can't get these sorry excuses for human feces put out of any type of authority soon enough!
Depressing, CJ. Thanks for sharing and helping to expose the criminality of our failing empire. It is very sad to see Australia willingly join the stable of war whores controlled by DC and London.
US base with marsupials - indeed. What a disgraceful state of affairs. Commerce, cynicism, servility and dishonour - and we're paying for the debasement into the remaining years of the limited future. There will be nothing tangible beyond personal/party kickbacks despite the drumbeating - events are moving too quickly, including in the Antarctic for those paying attention. Next, digital ID and suppression of online dissent. The blatant lies about Assange should be repudiated by any Australian government but as you say, we only have management now, contracted to the US. Vale Australia - a third rate settler colony.
Building munitions will poison the air and water of your continent. It will poison your citizens who engage in weapons of destruction.
Yeah, look forward to potential mass shootings, and other US specialties you will now be able to enjoy as they turn your country into a war economy. Which absolutely cheapens all life, even civilian life distanced from the actual wars. I hope it doesn’t happen, but what do you think? Canada is doing similar and their shit is spilling into out country as well.
And to be clear Im not married to anything on this topic, but sorry Mr. Raven, having 50 cal machine guns is too much
We don't have .50 BMG "machine guns" freely available. We DO have the option to buy bolt action and semi automatic rifles chambered in .50 BMG if we are wealthy enough to afford + unrealistic enough to think it worth our while to possess. It's a very "niche" market. I've used such things, they are ridiculously heavy and quite physically painful to fire for more than one or two shots. A new Barret .50 semi auto comes from their factory in a fitted case where one compartment holds a bottle of Ibuprofen- This was done originally as a joke, but turned out to be so practical Barrett kept on doing it!
That was a bit of an inside dig at my friend Mr.Raven who advocates for complete deregulation. All the way up to bazookas and .50 cals. I’m aware. Don’t think civilians should have automatic anything. Semi auto ok. But 5 or 8 round clips. Were trying to discuss the US rampant mass shooting problem, which is multi-faceted, but surely the availability of such weapons is an issue. Remember Christ Church? In a week they had banned those style weapons. US since Columbine has escalated to daily mass shootings and Newtown was especially horrific and crickets. You need to have healthcare for your citizens, and reasonable regulations on firearms IMO.
USA has an ongoing and constantly worsening mental health crisis, the health care issue will need to come first before the gun violence can be brought under control.
Sadly, I not only remember Christchurch, I recall some information much at odds with the official narrative.
And I'm not even from NZ.
You guys who think you can stand up to your government are hilarious. You don’t even have healthcare. Use your guns to get that. Then stop the war economy, glorification of violence, and with mentally ill people now seeing doctors rather than being abandoned and swimming in guns, see if that helps
Ok. So what does anyone think of as an ideal gun policy currently in existence or not. Canada is ok. Japan and UK are hard to argue with. The US is fucked and i would also want a gun for defense if i lived there. But surely common sense like not letting kids, the mentally ill and automatic weapons could be restricted
Check present Russian Federation regulations.
Some aspects of Canadian gun laws are sensible, don't worry, those parts should be eliminated soon.
Don’t forget to blame video games for the violence while ignoring the actual violence we export and then decades later, learn that your intelligence agencies actually are narrating fps war games to propagandize you into hating Russians, or whatever current nation we are engaged in endless war with. Im not joking
Robert Lindsay: Chicago and Oakland and Baltimore all have the strictest gun laws in the USA. They also have the most shootings.
Guns don't kill people. People kill people. In Europe the killers use knives. In the Middle East they use bombs.
Folks in Oakland, CA arm themselves to protect themselves from the gangs. The cops have been defunded thanks to BLM and Antifa.
PPSS: The Second Amendment in the US Constitution was put there to give Americans the right to have weapons to resist a tyrannical government.
PPS: The USA is a violent country. The people here support war constantly. They like violent movies and video games. They like violent sports.
The Presidential candidate who promotes peace may well win elections (I can give you plenty of examples), but the President instead always takes the USA to war and the people support him.
Peaceniks and hippies are looked at as fools in the USA.
PS: I don't really give a shit about other countries. I live in California in the USA. This is my reality.
Robert Lindsay: You are right. America is flooded with guns. The country has a gun culture from the Old West and the Revolutionary War (which began at Concord when the British came for the guns).
You can't stop guns in the USA. There are more guns than people. Trying to outlaw guns here will start another revolution.
Legalize drugs. Get rid of the gangs. But no, the government makes too much money from the drug war.
It's a real laugh too about "creating jobs" what for all of 3 people!? What a horrible joke.
CarbonCopy: I played tennis with a black man in Seattle back in the 1970s. He worked for Boeing building cruise missiles. He made good money. He also kicked my ass in tennis.
My point was that it takes very specialised people to make a missile it's not like making crayons or Kleenex in a factory with a bunch of people.
Not true. Automobiles are also complex, yet most people manufacturing them are not college educated. That's because, regardless of the complexity of the finished product, each step in the assembly process is very simple and direct, with very little thinking involved, and everyone on an assembly line has only one very simple task. Then there's automation...
And? So once again where are all "these jobs" being claimed to be made? Also it is called "Rocket Science" for a very obvious reason! This is not an industrial factory floor!
CC: Not really. My playing partner told me that the cruise missile being assembled was on two sawhorses. It was just a matter of installing the parts. Everything was inspected and yet the cruise missiles launched at Syria by Trump still had a 25% failure rate, maybe more.
Remember that almost everything governments utter is a lie or some other variety of untruth. The missiles, for example, may or may not ever be produced. There is no particular reason to make them in Australia anyway and the project is almost certainly a piece of expensive propaganda to grease the egos of Australian psychopaths.
Any base which has Lindsay Graham as a visitor experiences marsupial presence. Compare a pic of Lindsay to that of an opposum with mange and a bad comb over...
A tragic situation. Neither countries actions are moral, both lack integrity! Woe to the truth!.I continue to object to unconscionable, unconstitutional acts by the US Government.
We all know AOC is a bimbo plant. 👎 I lived in Vermont almost 30 years. Don't even start w me about Sanders. He's an arrogant imposter who made it to where he has due to apathy, ignorance on part of voting public. There's not enough space here or time for me to expand on why he should hold no public office.
Please look into the work of the late Dr G3ne Sh@rp. He was a Harvard professor who sp3nt his life studying n0nvi0lent c!vil dis0bed!ence. He wr0te From Dictat0rsh!p to Dem0cracy. You can find it on eBay or from the Einstein Institution in Boston MA USA. Sorry for the numerals but YooToobe is c3ns0ring th!s inf0rmati0n. I th!nk Subst@ck d0es too. Th3r3 is also a dOcum3ntary about him c@lled H0w t0 St@rt a Rev0lut!on that you can buy on eBay.
Thanks for the lead! I clicked on one web page and all the links referencing his work were dead. Could be nothing, but usually that happens with stuff the government prefers us not to see. Thanks again.
Nm Susan. Found it!
Hear hear!
Perhaps you've already discovered that it was Wall Street who actually financed the rise of the Natsies as if it were a proxy to begin with and to take over in the end.
I have so much rage for the US treatment, and common wealth support, of Assange’s situation. Which really means I am so sad at the current state of corruption in all of our countries. Im Canadian. Trudea is a WEF tyrant, and Canada is probably only trailing the UK and Australia for the world champions in being the US’s bitch. All that being said, Thank you Caitlin and Tim for never ceasing to keep this issue front and center. I will never stop talking about it, shaming those responsible at every opportunity, and to be quite honest, I intend to ramp up how i fight, in whatever way I can that is helpful. I don’t know what to do. My country also feels like what I imagine inter-war, like minded, Weimar Germans were going through in the 30’s. This is getting really scary. Advice please anyone
Please read my response to Robert Lindsay for some advice.
Could you link me to it? There are a few Robert Lindsay’s and i struggle to navigate substack efficiently. Thanks for your reply
Robert Lindsay's comment is a few comments above yours on this same thread. I don't know how to link it.
Kinda weird to wage war against your number 1 trading partner. Let's see how that turns out.
Right but maybe they can do like the US who owes China big time and beg out of the deal by declaring war!
What, exactly, does the US "owe" to China? If you're speaking about the US "national debt," please learn Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). It will explain why the US actually doesn't "owe" US dollars to China. You can find it on The Rogue Scholar, MMT Mondays, Macro'n'Cheese, or Real Progressives on YouTube. Stephanie Kelton also has several great videos on YouTube about it. And read her book The Deficit Myth.
Australia is nought but a Satrapy of Empire, a resource basket and forward base. The Australian PEOPLE have no Rights.
"... which has highlighted a troubling lack of ammunition stocks in Western nations including the US.”
=====
It is the steady drum beat of these kinds of stunning lies that azewholes like whatever this azewhole "journalists" name that has made most folks of western "nations" of genocide, war crimes, ... such brainwashed dolts. Ms Johnstone has reference this many times but it can't be said enough because how else is there to wash away the RELENTLESS usa/western lies/propaganda but relentlessly telling the truth.
Marsupial fartcatching coup by Oz! Weapons manufacture. What a dream. Just like the big boys. And they’ll be exported to other places too? Praise the Lord. Oh I miss Dame Edna. She’d know how to celebrate.
It’s horrific how many countries are controlled by the US military. Not to mention the fact that all of the torture countries were trained at the School of the Americas which is now called Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) and funded by our military. There are over 30 countries around the world trained on torture by the US military. The US military has spent BILLIONS and BILLIONS of dollars funding torture countries.
ETA:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_torture_since_1948 post-war boom until now: torture countries trained by US military as well as cia blacksite map.
https://soaw.org/home
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_Americas_Watch
Here’s the choice. Build some missiles and be quiet OR just be quiet.
But Daddddd! ......
"Assange endangered lives" ??? That's really rich coming from Blinken: he is American isn't he? Is it possible he doesn't know his country's record on "endangering lives"? Well. actually, mass killing. Blinken is a night crawler, a creep, and I hope the Australian people gave him the response he deserves - a boot in the ass.
FUCK BLINKEN. THROW HIM OUT W MAYORKAS, GARLAND AND BIDUMB.
And there's not a damn thing anybody can do to change this. The human race at its finest.
It's attitudes like yours that make it possible for the murderous empire to continue. You've quit before you even started. What a lazy, self-serving excuse: "there's not a damn thing anybody can do about it"! So you're comfortable with doing nothing while the US government continues to kill people in your name?
Please look into the work of the late Dr G3ne Sharp. He was a Harvard professor who sp3nt his life studying n0nvi0lent c!vil dis0bed!ence. He wr0te From Dictat0rsh!p to Dem0cracy and there is a dOcum3ntary about him called H0w t0 St@rt a R3v0lut!on. He tells us how to do it.
You can find his work on eBay or from the Einstein Institution in Boston MA. Or go to your local library.
I'm 77 years old and I haven't quit fighting. I'll never quit until I die or the empire is licked.
Susan: I've tried the civil disobedience route. All it got me was grief. I do what the Irish have always done. We find a third way out of the Man's prison.
I remember you, Sharpie fangirl. It's manuals like his that made sure the empire keeps destabilizing the world for its benefit.
Read history. The shit that's currently happening is nothing new and it was being done in your and other "activists" name throughout decades. Despite all your self-pleasuring "rebel" attitudes. And maybe because of them. They kept you drugged up through various programs so you felt good about yourselves, dummies that you've always been.
P.S. Sorry for the numerals but YooToobe is c3ns0ring th!s inf0rmati0n. I think that Subst@ck is c3ns0ring it too.
What, Sharpie shit being censored? It's welcome by the empire!
You know it's a sad day in hell when you just don't have enough weapons or ammunition to make war! The obvious horrible reality of these warmongering cuck fucks is THEY AREN'T GOING TO QUIT! Instead of the "long range" plan to be PEACE! These filthy warmongers continue to plan for war! We can't get these sorry excuses for human feces put out of any type of authority soon enough!
Build our missiles or we’ll impose sanctions on you. Grovel now or else.
Depressing, CJ. Thanks for sharing and helping to expose the criminality of our failing empire. It is very sad to see Australia willingly join the stable of war whores controlled by DC and London.
If we are feeling sad and betrayed by the Australian government about Assange, what must be Stella Morris and his family be feeling right now....
The Australians should tell Blinken that no missiles will be produced until Assange is on Australian soil.
You would need someone with brains and balls for that to happen!
CC: Mostly balls, but I think the Aussies lost their dick and balls long ago. The government keeps them in a fridge in Canberra.