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The U.S. and UK’s Submarine Deal Crosses Nuclear Red Lines with Australia – CounterPunch.org

Why, if naval security was its objective, did Australia choose an iffy nuclear submarine agreement with the U.S. over a sure-shot supply of French submarines? This is a question that Malcolm Turnbull and Paul Keating, the Australian Labor Party’s former PMs, asked. It makes sense only if we understand that Australia now sees itself as a cog in the U.S. wheel for this region. And it is a vision of U.S. naval power projection in the region that today Australia shares. The vision is that settler colonial and ex-colonial powers—the G7-AUKUS—should be the ones making the rules of the current international order. And behind the talk of international order is the mailed fist of the U.S., NATO, and AUKUS. This is what Australia’s nuclear submarine deal really means.

Source: The U.S. and UK’s Submarine Deal Crosses Nuclear Red Lines with Australia – CounterPunch.org

 

A climate change conspiracy theorist has uncovered a set of strange patterns and repeated terminology in research papers, which he says is highly suspicious.

Source: Climate denier says it’s suspicious that every single scientist says EXACT same thing | The Shovel

 

Q: What is more threatening to a democracy than a fascist? A: A stupid one. The Republicans have an abundance of them. My piece of a couple of weeks ago; One step away from total fascism singled out a few of them. I did not except that in the short number of days since …

 

From the article:

“Ron DeSantis Wants to Make It a Felony to Have an Undocumented Person in Your Home or Car.

A new Florida bill criminalizes not just undocumented Floridians but anyone who associates with them.”

I wonder if he’ll also get some bounty hunters after them. It seems to be the done thing.

Friends in America tell me that DeSantis is worse than Trump. It’s hard to imagine, but I trust their word.

I hope they never find out how bad he can really be.

 

Source: One step away from total fascism (part 2) – » The Australian Independent Media Network

THERE’S NO US WITHOUT THEM

THE VOICE in NINE POINTS and a PREAMBLE By Paul Smith PREAMBLE – Addressed to serving military personnel and veterans Reconciliation with former enemies ought to be prominent in the ethos of the Australian military – serving personnel and veterans alike. What greater example is there of such mutual generosity than the existence of Turkish…

Source: First Among Equals: The Voice – » The Australian Independent Media Network

 

How blatantly LNP biased is this bullshit headline and report by Costello's "The Age". No praise in comparison with the level of spending done by the Abbott/Turnbull/ Morrison Federal LNP $3 Billion or NSW's $1Billion Only a headline trumpeting like Chicken Little on our States ALP's disasterous unspecified consultancies. Why is that? 

With egg on their face after their Red Alert embarrassment a 200% increase in 8 years spells disaster.  It sounds remarkable when no real context is outlined other than the LNPs 2022 election "promise" or no comparisons offered up until the very last paragraph. Yes. at the very last last part of this obviously one eyed article of complaint some reality comes to light about that massive sum of $177m spent emphasizing the 200% god almighty increase and the $500K a day spent The Age actually fesses up that Victoria only spent less than 20% of NSW's $1B spend on consultancies and less than 6% of the $3B the Federal LNP spent. 

Talk about smoke and mirrors and propaganda journalism! How much a day did Morrison and Perrottet spend far far more than the average of the $50,000 each of 10 Victorian Government Departments did.

Spending on consultancies has rocketed since Labor came to power, raising questions about a government promise to pare back spending on advice, research and analysis.

Big four cash in as Andrews government spends $500,000-a-day on experts