It’s only the UK so why worry? But still, just in case you might: UK to stop publishing data that suggest COVID vaccines are ineffective.
90% of Covid deaths have been vaxxed
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Monthly Archives: April 2022
Are Australians stupid enough to elect our own version of Joe Biden?
The government has repeatedly attacked the Opposition Leader and his frontbench on their ties with China as well as cuts to the defence and intelligence budget when it was last in power.
Mr Morrison in contrast has hit the hustings to promote his government’s strength on Chinese coercion and its massive increases in defence spending.
He said his Labor counterpart was “not the right leader for this country”, criticising his foreign policy credentials and his ideological base.
Weirdly, hardly anyone mentions border protection any longer, but the left across the world promote open borders. It would be the end of us, as it may soon be the end of the United States.
“The other part that worries me about Anthony Albanese when it comes to national security, is that he has always come from the socialist left of the Labor Party.
“He has always had sympathies with those policies which have been very hostile.”….
Mr Morrison said the voters had to “compare and contrast” between the Coalition and Labor at the next election on issues surrounding China, security and borders.
Every government is a disappointment since there are so many compromises that have to be made in government. But if we cannot see the difference a Labor Government would make, we are heading for a very dismal future.
Cask of Amontillado edition
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Politics has now moved beyond a joke
Is the left serious about anything? They’re just making fun of us, so here is someone making fun of them back.
A mural on modern marriage
The mural on our hotel is obviously a portrayal of marriage and divorce in the modern West with the woman on the man’s back as he crawls across the floor, before she ends up with the house along with much of his wealth.. This is the official description.
The end of 2019 saw the inner-west becoming the region in which property prices grew exponentially. In a 2017 Guardian Australia article, Tim Gurner declared that Sydney millennials should stop going to hipster cafés to save money to buy property instead. This was not well-received by Newtowners, who feel they’re being pushed out by property developers and high rental costs. These much debated costs of city living are best summarised in this Newtown masterpiece called The Housing Bubble. Painted on the wall of the Urban Hotel by Fintan Magee, a world-renowned muralist from Brisbane, it depicts a man on all fours with a woman sitting on his back. She is trying to catch a little townhouse, floating away on a set of balloons.
Interesting touch in the photo with the young couple standing before the mural as she diverts him from looking at the picture and drawing his own conclusions.
Changing the Calculus in the Defence of Australia
This is directly taken from Ace of Spades but it is really all about us here in the South Pacific.
Take a look at the map below. With the waters of Kiribati and the Solomon Islands now subject to Chinese military control, China can be as dominant in the South Pacific as it wants to be.
Lieutenant General Greg Bilton, the Australian Defence Force’s Chief of Joint Operations, told reporters in Canberra on Thursday that any stationing of Chinese navy vessels in the Pacific nation would “change the calculus” for Australia’s defence forces.
Changing the calculus doesn’t change the fact that Australia’s Navy is highly distracted by enforcing the culture war.
Here is the link where more is found: Solomon Islands inks security deal with China, ignoring Australian protests.
Daniel Andrews may be the most clueless political leader in Australian history
There really is no getting away from how dumb Daniel Andrews is, with this the latest: Dan Andrews rips into Scott Morrison as the Prime Minister calls for end to hated Covid isolation rules: ‘I’m in the business of taking advice from the experts’.
Everyone in politics has “experts” to draw upon. We elect our leaders for their judgment; we elect them in the hope they will be able to make sensible decisions based on the advice they are given. The PM is trying to emphasise that the lockdowns and closed borders are based on decisions made by the premiers, and if things were up to him, many of the restrictions now in place would be lifted. Andrews has thus helped the PM get his message across. It is Andrews who is responsible for having implemented the world’s longest lockdown, and for keeping the present restrictions in place.
As for taking advice, it has been clear from the start that it is Andrews who has made all the major decisions in Victoria, and that the only serious consultation he does is with those who do the polling. That is what we have had to put up with since the start. But if he has not had a variety of opinions offered by the “experts” he is surrounded by, Victoria really is an idiocracy from the very top all the way down. But that is not how it worked out. The people who do the polling have told him that the majority of voters in Victoria prefer the lockdowns and that is what we have had, and will continue to have until voter sentiment changes.
There he is, a political leader, Premier of the State, but still doesn’t know what the job he has actually is. It is to make decisions based on all of the options that others propose.
That he has been singularly inept in the decisions he has made is just how it is. He will leave Victoria a bankrupt mess, wrecking the world’s most liveable city in the process. And there is no doubt that the mess is directly attributable to the string of phenomenally bad decisions Daniel Andrews has made while Premier.
The Western Press has become utterly unreliable
Not everyone thinks The Ukraine are the good guys or that you can trust our Western news networks. There is, for instance, this which is a report out of India: Fake news in Kiev heralds cruel April. There we find, amongst other things:
A Tass report says: “The Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday that the Russian Armed Forces had left Bucha, located in the Kiev region, on March 30, while “the evidence of crimes” emerged only four days later, after Ukrainian Security Service officers had arrived in the town. The ministry stressed that on March 31, the town’s Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk had confirmed in a video address that there were no Russian troops in Bucha. However, he did not say a word about civilians shot dead on the street with their hands tied behind their backs.”
Even more surprising is that within minutes of the “breaking news”, western leaders — heads of state, foreign ministers, former politicians — popped up with statements duly kept ready and only based on the videos, seconds-long videos and a clutch of photos, ready to pour accusations. No expert opinion was sought, no forensic work was done, no opportunity given to the accused to be heard.
And they discuss Russian strategy which I have seldom seen mentioned anywhere in our Western press.
The Russian feint paid off in pinning down the Ukrainian forces in Kiev through past month. By the time the truth dawned on the Kiev set-up ( and their western “advisors), the damage was done. The enormity of the resultant situation needs some explanation.
The above map reproduced from the Novosti (unfortunately, in Russian language) on the exact ground situation as of April 3 and the commentary by Ivan Andreev, an experienced war correspondent who covered the Russian operations in Syria, gives the salience of the cauldron in Donbass where the crème de la crème of the Ukrainian forces numbering several divisions are entrapped, isolated by opposing forces from their logistical base and other friendly forces.
Still to find anywhere a list of Russian war aims. How can you tell who is winning if you can’t see what each of the sides is trying to achieve.
American military adventures since the end of WWII
Came across this list of American invasions that have occurred since the end of World War II. It’s not a complete list since I can think of a couple of others, and to give Vietnam a single line is to diminish its significance. Personally, I was happy with the anti-communist efforts, although that may be a view I developed perhaps post-1975. But it is an amazing list.
1948 PHILIPPINES – CIA directs war against Huk Rebellion.
1950 PUERTO RICO – Independence rebellion crushed in Ponce.
1951 KOREA – USA and South Korea fight China and North Korea to stalemate.
1953 IRAN – CIA overthrows democracy deposes President Mossadegh, installs Shah.
1954 GUATEMALA – CIA directs exile invasion.
1958 LEBANON – US Marine occupation against rebels.
1960 VIETNAM – Fought South Vietnam revolt and North Vietnam; 1-2 million killed.
1961 CUBA – CIA-directed exile invasion fails.
1962 CUBA – Naval blockade during missile crisis; near-war with USSR.
1964 PANAMA – Panamanians shot by US troops for urging canal’s return.
1965 INDONESIA – Million people killed in CIA-assisted army coup.
1965 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – US Marines land during election campaign.
1966 GUATEMALA – Green Berets intervene against rebels.
1969 CAMBODIA – Up to 2 million killed in decade of US bombing, starvation and political chaos.
1970 OMAN – USA directs Iranian marine invasion.
1971 LAOS – USA directs South Vietnamese invasion; carpet-bombs countryside.
1973 CHILE – CIA-backed coup ousts elected President Allende, installs Augusto Pinochet.
1975 CAMBODIA – US troops captured ship, 28 die in helicopter crash.
1976 ANGOLA – CIA assists South African-backed rebels.
1981 LIBYA – Two Libyan jets shot down in manoeuvres.
1981 EL SALVADOR – Overflights aid anti-rebel war, soldiers briefly involved in hostage clash.
1981 NICARAGUA – CIA directs exile (Contra) invasions, plants mines in Managua Harbour.
1982 LEBANON – US Marines expel PLO and back Phalangists, US Navy bombs and shells.
1983 GRENADA – US invasion deposes elected Prime Minister Maurice Bishop.
1984 IRAN – Two Iranian jets shot down over Persian Gulf.
1986 LIBYA – Air strikes to topple nationalist government.
1987 IRAN – US intervenes on side of Iraq in war.
1989 LIBYA – Two Libyan jets shot down.
1989 VIRGIN ISLANDS – St Croix Black unrest after storm.
1989 PHILIPPINES – Air cover provided for government against coup.
1989 PANAMA – Nationalist government ousted by 27,000 soldiers. More than 2000 people killed.
1990 IRAQ – More than 200,000 people killed in invasion of Iraq and Kuwait.
1992 SOMALIA – US-led UN occupation during civil war; raids against one Mogadishu faction.
1992 YUGOSLAVIA – NATO blockade of Serbia and Montenegro.
1993 BOSNIA – No-fly zone patrolled in civil war; USA downed jets, bombed Serbs.
1994 HAITI – Blockade against military government; troops restore President Aristide to office.
1995 CROATIA – Krajina Serb airfields attacked by USA before Croatian offensive.
1998 SUDAN – US attack on pharmaceutical plant alleged to be ‘terrorist’ nerve gas plant.
1998 AFGHANISTAN – Missile attack on former CIA training camps used by Islamic fundamentalist groups.
1998 IRAQ – Four days of intensive air strikes after weapons inspectors allege Iraqi obstructions.
1999 YUGOSLAVIA – Heavy NATO air strikes after Serbia declines to withdraw from Kosovo.
2001 AFGHANISTAN – US attack and invasion, deposes government and installs US puppet President Karzai.
2003 IRAQ – US attack and invasion, deposes President Saddam Hussein.
2007 IRAN – US Congress allocates $400 million to overthrow elected government, mounts covert infiltration.
2011 LIBYA – USA and allies attack Gaddafi government assets in civil war using cruise missiles.
And while the present American administration is hopefully an anomaly, for we in the West American power remains indispensable. Nevertheless, I also think this is undeniably true: Joe Biden ‘in bed’ with Chinese Communist Party.
When the New York Post published its blockbuster reports on the evidence from the laptop just three weeks before the 2020 election – indicating Joe Biden not only had knowledge of his son’s business dealings, contrary to his claims, but also profited from them – the CEO of the company formed to deal with CEFC China Energy, Tony Bobulinski, came forward.
Bobulinski, Devine said, “verified, corroborated the material that we had published and had a whole slew of his own emails and documents and WhatsApp messages with Hunter Biden referencing Joe Biden.”
“And Tony Bobulinski had also met with Joe Biden twice when the former vice president was vetting him to be the CEO of this new joint venture with a Chinese energy company,” Devine noted.
I don’t think I ever thought any politician ever did what they did out of pure altruism, but the corruption that is evident at every turn across most of the West at the present time is astounding.
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