Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): One of the many, many signs that Australia is nothing more than a US military and intelligence asset is the way its government has consistently refused to intervene to protect Australian citizen Julian Assange from political persecution at the hands of the US empire.
To lie is holy in a world that worships Moloch. The World Cup of lying is held every four years in D.C. Lying is so endemic in Human Culture now that we can barely recognize it even when we are told that lying is good for us. The cure is upon us. Apocalypso Now, Cha cha cha.
Wong says “We are doing what we can, between government and government, but there are limits to what that diplomacy can achieve.” Such a huge cop-out! This narcissist seems only capable of posing and preening on her stage of choice, the national parliament, with every opera-like gesture and utterance reflecting her need to appear ever so stateswoman-like, while actually achieving nothing of substance. A real 'doer' would find another way to achieve the ends required...how about informing the Yanks and the Poms that we're no longer their sock puppet, and if Assange doesn't come home then the Yanks can come take their Central Australian Pine Gap spy base paraphernalia home! This is a dire matter of principle, which Wong doesn't seem to grasp. Sometimes we need to get out of our comfort zone if we purport to have matching balls and morals. Wong's nothing other than a poser and a prima donna, which has been confirmed by her cave-in on the life or death Assange issue.
CJ: Albanese government's "quiet diplomacy" to free Assange is so quiet that it can't actually be said to exist. - too true Caitlin. If Julian Assange isn’t released we’ll before the next federal election , his case will added to election issues. In fact Julians’s detainment is more than an issue it’s a national crisis , a scandalous one at that.
Perspective:
Upon reflection , I for one regret being sporadic and not pushing harder on behalf of Julian.
I am now wholeheartedly committed to the increasing number of voices around the globe , whose ‘soul’ goal is to secure Julians release into the outstretched arms of his loving family.
Australia is in a stronger position than its captured politicians wish it to realize. You are so uniquely situated on the planet that if you withdraw from Five Eyes, AUKUS, & any other stupidly named "alliances" -- you cannot be replaced. But your government doesn't represent you any better than my government represents me so the occupation by the U.S. will likely continue. Unless the spirit of France breaks out?
Best April Fool's Day joke I've seen so far today is that France joined AUKUS which then changed its name to...
It is remarkable that as we think of countries where fierce individual independence is the most pronounced, American and Australia are surely leading the pack. Yet, the Aussies accept whatever BS the US sends their way. Both here in the US and there, it seems our fierce independence ends at what bumper stickers we slap on our petrol-hog machines and which politicians and (so called) journalists we love or deplore.
We can see clearly that Labor in Australia will do nothing for Assange. Big surprise....
Let’s face it the bureaucrats are united against us, the very people who pay the taxes they rely on for their tyranny. The saddest thing is the second fall of Rome will not take hundreds of years but is planned for 2030 but may not take that long. It doesn’t matter who you vote for they are all funded by the same sources who dictate policy and limit access to information that would expose their crimes. It was a fantastic ride for a small slice of humanity but the ride is over and tyranny appears poised to dominate the entire planet once again. You can’t fix stupid and the bell curve is a constant that demonstrates the reason why it only takes a small number of devious human beings to subjugate the majority.
I think it's time to arm the kangaroos--and the koalas. Arm all the great Australian symbols and set them against the American invaders who bring nuclear weapons into your country and hold at least one of your citizens hostage in Belmarsh prison for the crime of journalism. You've got to do it to save the world and mostly to save your self-worth as a nation. Australia has got to stop being America's b*tch and use those kangaroo back legs to kick the murderous US imperialists across the ocean!
Lovely, well said. Yep. What we are is asleep, don't you think? All Western nations are the same. All simply asleep. I don't know what did it. Coca Cola? Hollywood? Too much white bread? The educations system? Some hypnotic secret vibe in the cellphone towers?
I don't know. But the problem is the same everywhere and I don't think it needs any special acuity to see it nor any special ability to argue it. It was plain as day in the Covid years. Was it not?
Did we not see 'rulers' everywhere flabbergasted at what their constituents would put up with?
Did we not see them tentatively trying one imposition after another before plunging excitedly and wholeheartedly into totally draconian and Orwellian and patently unconstitutional and illegal restrictions and impositions?
Can anyone to this day really comprehend a whole medical professional laying down and being forced to practice charlatanry? And still not, to this day, presumably after the event. raising a murmur of protest?
We are asleep Caitlin.
It is pointless to fume and foment against those in power. They simply do what we let them do.
It is us.
That knowledge should inform our thinking and actions henceforth.
BBC show ran a panel of experts last night - the topic was "Who will run the world in 20 years"
Explicit support for US/NATO/EU empire - the woman from the US was insane. Every US imperial objective was projected on China and Russia, despite the host's lame efforts to play Devil's advocate by noting that it was the US who had military bases around the world and a robust history of military invasions and interventions and land grabs, while China had none.
The treatment of Assange is despicable by US, Britain, Australia.
To lie is holy in a world that worships Moloch. The World Cup of lying is held every four years in D.C. Lying is so endemic in Human Culture now that we can barely recognize it even when we are told that lying is good for us. The cure is upon us. Apocalypso Now, Cha cha cha.
Wong says “We are doing what we can, between government and government, but there are limits to what that diplomacy can achieve.” Such a huge cop-out! This narcissist seems only capable of posing and preening on her stage of choice, the national parliament, with every opera-like gesture and utterance reflecting her need to appear ever so stateswoman-like, while actually achieving nothing of substance. A real 'doer' would find another way to achieve the ends required...how about informing the Yanks and the Poms that we're no longer their sock puppet, and if Assange doesn't come home then the Yanks can come take their Central Australian Pine Gap spy base paraphernalia home! This is a dire matter of principle, which Wong doesn't seem to grasp. Sometimes we need to get out of our comfort zone if we purport to have matching balls and morals. Wong's nothing other than a poser and a prima donna, which has been confirmed by her cave-in on the life or death Assange issue.
CJ: Albanese government's "quiet diplomacy" to free Assange is so quiet that it can't actually be said to exist. - too true Caitlin. If Julian Assange isn’t released we’ll before the next federal election , his case will added to election issues. In fact Julians’s detainment is more than an issue it’s a national crisis , a scandalous one at that.
Perspective:
Upon reflection , I for one regret being sporadic and not pushing harder on behalf of Julian.
I am now wholeheartedly committed to the increasing number of voices around the globe , whose ‘soul’ goal is to secure Julians release into the outstretched arms of his loving family.
Have a beautiful day
M
Australia is in a stronger position than its captured politicians wish it to realize. You are so uniquely situated on the planet that if you withdraw from Five Eyes, AUKUS, & any other stupidly named "alliances" -- you cannot be replaced. But your government doesn't represent you any better than my government represents me so the occupation by the U.S. will likely continue. Unless the spirit of France breaks out?
Best April Fool's Day joke I've seen so far today is that France joined AUKUS which then changed its name to...
It is remarkable that as we think of countries where fierce individual independence is the most pronounced, American and Australia are surely leading the pack. Yet, the Aussies accept whatever BS the US sends their way. Both here in the US and there, it seems our fierce independence ends at what bumper stickers we slap on our petrol-hog machines and which politicians and (so called) journalists we love or deplore.
We can see clearly that Labor in Australia will do nothing for Assange. Big surprise....
Let’s face it the bureaucrats are united against us, the very people who pay the taxes they rely on for their tyranny. The saddest thing is the second fall of Rome will not take hundreds of years but is planned for 2030 but may not take that long. It doesn’t matter who you vote for they are all funded by the same sources who dictate policy and limit access to information that would expose their crimes. It was a fantastic ride for a small slice of humanity but the ride is over and tyranny appears poised to dominate the entire planet once again. You can’t fix stupid and the bell curve is a constant that demonstrates the reason why it only takes a small number of devious human beings to subjugate the majority.
Well said. What foreign governments do on our soil is clearly, no one’s business, but their own.
Come on Australia, we can't all be Wong.
A+ title. Think you’d enjoy the 10 step color revolution playbook: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-execute-a-color-revolution
Penny Wong is a disgrace. People thought that the Coalition government were terrible, but how exactly is the ALP government different?
I think it's time to arm the kangaroos--and the koalas. Arm all the great Australian symbols and set them against the American invaders who bring nuclear weapons into your country and hold at least one of your citizens hostage in Belmarsh prison for the crime of journalism. You've got to do it to save the world and mostly to save your self-worth as a nation. Australia has got to stop being America's b*tch and use those kangaroo back legs to kick the murderous US imperialists across the ocean!
Lovely, well said. Yep. What we are is asleep, don't you think? All Western nations are the same. All simply asleep. I don't know what did it. Coca Cola? Hollywood? Too much white bread? The educations system? Some hypnotic secret vibe in the cellphone towers?
I don't know. But the problem is the same everywhere and I don't think it needs any special acuity to see it nor any special ability to argue it. It was plain as day in the Covid years. Was it not?
Did we not see 'rulers' everywhere flabbergasted at what their constituents would put up with?
Did we not see them tentatively trying one imposition after another before plunging excitedly and wholeheartedly into totally draconian and Orwellian and patently unconstitutional and illegal restrictions and impositions?
Can anyone to this day really comprehend a whole medical professional laying down and being forced to practice charlatanry? And still not, to this day, presumably after the event. raising a murmur of protest?
We are asleep Caitlin.
It is pointless to fume and foment against those in power. They simply do what we let them do.
It is us.
That knowledge should inform our thinking and actions henceforth.
This is Wong's 'make a kind-looking, kinda sorry face.' But those lyin' eyes give it away.
BBC show ran a panel of experts last night - the topic was "Who will run the world in 20 years"
Explicit support for US/NATO/EU empire - the woman from the US was insane. Every US imperial objective was projected on China and Russia, despite the host's lame efforts to play Devil's advocate by noting that it was the US who had military bases around the world and a robust history of military invasions and interventions and land grabs, while China had none.
Russia and/or China could stage a propaganda coup by calling for exchange of Wall Street Journal reporter for Assange.