The United States(!) of A
Or picking up some soap in a prison shower.
But I forget - he probably has a draw full of pardons for himself and others.
I am greatly honoured by the Australian Government’s decision to nominate me as our country’s next Ambassador to the United States of America commencing in March. pic.twitter.com/vIz1KckSv4
— Office of Kevin Rudd, 26th PM of Australia (@MrKRudd) December 19, 2022
Supafreak wrote:https://twitter.com/mrkrudd/status/1604985681033531401?s=46&t=4nQlOYqB_j...
I'm sure he will an unctuous Ambassador...
san Guine wrote:Supafreak wrote:https://twitter.com/mrkrudd/status/1604985681033531401?s=46&t=4nQlOYqB_j...
I'm sure he will be an unctuous Ambassador...
san Guine wrote:san Guine wrote:Supafreak wrote:https://twitter.com/mrkrudd/status/1604985681033531401?s=46&t=4nQlOYqB_j...
I'm sure he will be an unctuous Ambassador...
I had to look it up, he certainly gives that impression. Hopefully not though. But thanks for the new word.
A bit of chaos in Europe has it upside. The "tremendous opportunities" Blinken referred to become a bit clearer as to what and for whom....
Belgium accuses US of ‘aggressive’ push to lure European business:
Alexander De Croo told a meeting at the European parliament on Tuesday that the US was seeking to undermine EU industry with the Inflation Reduction Act
“The US, our partner . . . they call our industry. And they tell them why are you investing in Europe? You should come over to the US. Calling German firms and Belgian firms in a very aggressive way — don’t invest in Europe, we have something better,”
And maybe even 10% for the big guy!
When Vlad rolled the tanks in, he united Europe. Kudos, it's a very hard thing to do!
US has just proposed local content rules on vehicles over and above that act, will comprehensively wedgie all importers who don't produce 70%+ locally. Interestingly, it's just how the Aussie car industry was protected in the early 1970s when it flourished. In fact, I believe they were encouraging manufacturers up to 95%+ local content.
15th Dec 1978 US + China announce & reiterate Taiwan is part of One China...
US would honour their pact & sever ties with Taiwan but continue as "Unofficial Contacts".
1955 SAMDT > Replaced by JC/EDR to be ratified on 1st Jan 1979.
Student Protests broke out in US.
https://www.alamy.com/carters-presence-in-plains-attracts-taiwanese-prot...
US Govt sent Commander in chief of Pacific / Dept Sec of State / Defence / Commerce + Team of Aides.
28th Dec 1978 > US to sever ties with Taiwan & arrange framework for all future "Unofficial Visits"
With just 3 days for diplomats to work out a plan by > 1st Jan US/China One State Agreement.
US Govt / Pacific Defence Motorcade came under attack by 20,000 angry Taiwan Mob
For an hour the US Govt Motorcade was terrorized not unlike recent US capital attack.
US military bosses & Aides were pelted with Eggs / Tomatoes / Mud / Sand bombed / Paint bombed.
Angry Mob Hurling Rocks & Bamboo Sticks
The cars were shook / Dented sides & Roofs / wipers torn off / Windows -Windshields Smashed.
Aide/s had their glasses smashed & Faces Cut & bodies bruised.
One protester sets himself on Fire another chops off his finger.
Terrorising violent Youth cursed & shouted ...(Slogans)...
[ Yankee Go Home ]
{ Eagles become Chickens }
(Carter sells Peanuts & also friends)
[ We want Justice ]
Plain Clothes Men & Women cops were credited with cushioning the A Team to safety.
Talks were in jeopardy!
Foreign Ministry talks were diverted to a makeshift Hotel Visit.
Talks only went from bad to worse...
Taipei Govt : "US has seriously impaired Peace & Security of Asian Pacific Region!"
"US must mitigate the Disastrous Damage wrought by this mistake!"
"Please clarify how US will insure peace this region in a years time?"
OMG (Think the Bamboo under the Fingernails Torture might have won over the Yanks!)
Pretty much the US Govt was terrorized / abused / bruised / sworn at & bullied by Free Taiwan Gang.
US copped nothing more than an ear bashin' & no deal was done as easily as China only weeks before!
US Govt departure was secured secretly & abrupt...surprising Taiwan officials. (Outta Here!)
Washington strongly protested to Taipei Govt...All were lucky to get out alive from the Hostile State.
https://www.nytimes.com/1978/12/28/archives/taiwanese-attack-us-motorcad...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/12/30/us-and-taiwan...
1st Jan 1979 TRA Taiwan Relations Act signed under duress of constant terrorist / Govt threat.
Passed in March 1979 basically affords US to exploit (Signed) One China's Defence Port as US territory!
This TRA was clearly signed under an act of terror.
Any nation supporting this corrupted Taiwan independence claim is supporting terrorism.
Ask US if they accept anarchy in their Capital...all know the answer!
It's Ok to Bully & smash up US officials to corrupt 50 year Pacific policy but not 4 years domestic policy?
It doesn't wash, does it...Yanks have got to close this ugly chapter!
Should Taiwan seek independence thru peaceful means...they may win legitimacy.
This US sponsored quest is worth shit as even they protested it was born from Hostility not Peace!
Sorry crew...none can advance Taiwan cause under acts of terror...no matter how long ago!
If Oz lap dogs US on this stinking pile of shit then we also support terrorism!
We can do better...so too must US & Taiwan strive for peace in the Pacific.
No matter how this plays out...
Taiwan bully US to breach Chinese deal on Day One...none will buy into that...No Happy Ending!
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Pretty damning video from the chair of the The Lancet covid-19 Commission.
How are we not living in a completely corrupt, compromised and fraudulent system?
I think that video is from August 2022 and sachs has being getting slandered ever since . Anyone that speaks against Fauci gets hammered, scientific debate was killed by the authorities early on in the pandemic. Our own Professor Nikoli Pertrovsky had his views on origin and vaccines . https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-find-covid-19-virus-was-highly-huma...
“If you had showed that statute to anyone in the ’hood, they’d have been like, ‘No, absolutely not’.”
https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/design/10-million-martin-l...
‘Do you swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth or….
Ummmmm…. ;););)
The "hidden" tributes to the Empire of Peace and Truth we all pay.
In ancient Rome, whether you were male or female, rich or poor, white, brown or black, Christian, Jew, Roman or Barbarian, if you “belonged” to Rome, you had to pay taxes to Rome. It was not popular but was all known and upfront.
These days tributes and protection money to the Empire of Truth and Peace are in plain sight yet sort of hidden.
Here are two:
1. Defence spending where allies must buy predominantly US made weapons and equipment in order to be an approved part of the alliance means decent chunk of the defence spend of 2 to 4% of GDP for many countries goes to the US MIC. A nice little earner year in year out.
2. The reserve currency allows creation of money out of thin air at a massive scale with few short term consequences to the US but acts as a hidden tax on the rest of the world through inflation. Also, if they want they could just print and buy any asset on earth with a few key strokes - sometimes they do.
You start to see why geopolitics and controlling various narratives that keep the tributes flowing with minimal grumbles is such as deadly serious game with massive resources applied to keep things on track.
Trillions of dollars are at stake.
Narratives = media. If the narrative deviates from the desired path it has potentially a trillion dollar consequences.
Do you think they spin just a little bit or .... maybe it is non stop at a furious pace?
Render unto Caesar.
Morituri te salutant
But what would you prefer? Carthage? The Carthaginian tanks have a habit of blowing their turrets high into the air.
Carthago delenda est
The only real USA worth watching ;)
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This country is fucked. Are the cops so on edge? Probably! Useless also? Definitely! 5 cops couldn’t sort this civilly against one guy? Couldn’t subdue and cuff him even though it probably wasn’t warranted? Then they flog him and spray him! For what?
https://apple.news/AkL-DdNQ5RF6XJdMPj4FoDA
seeds wrote:This country is fucked. Are the cops so on edge? Probably! Useless also? Definitely! 5 cops couldn’t sort this civilly against one guy? Couldn’t subdue and cuff him even though it probably wasn’t warranted? Then they flog him and spray him! For what?
https://apple.news/AkL-DdNQ5RF6XJdMPj4FoDA
The whole country is delusional and living in past glory…going downhill fast…from the top down the place is fracturing.
russia russia russia
nah, not really...
actually, probably not at all
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/highly-cited-hamilton-68-russiagate-...
seriously, one has to wonder how much this war is purely a result of domestic US madness!
tds on steroids
a very very dangerous game the democrats have played, pure insanity
Come on syppie, the war in Ukraine is entirely the doings of a madman in Russia.
Twitter wars are so peripheral as not to matter. The Dems hardly caused Russia to invade Ukraine. Twitter wars are as dangerous as tiddlywinks.
Of course ;)
‘The war in Ukraine is entirely the doings of a madman in Russia’ ;);)
Haha ;) no one else did a thing.
No proxy US government was ever installed, no bombing of the Donbas, no provocation whatsoever $$$$
No one else bombed the gas pipelines or the bridge to further escalate ;);)
Nobody even provided advanced weaponry to Ukraine to the order of billions of dollars ! (When they can’t pay for it)… Nobody green lighted the supply of tanks as a distraction to the ongoing corruption scandal rocking zelensky in regard to the continued investigation of misappropriation of the funds and weaponry being supplied . ;);)
It’s all legit and for our freedom and security … remember that ;);)
Or one could also consider things :
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So some one woke up one morning and decided to go next door and kill the neighbors... of course its some one else fault.
batfink wrote:Come on syppie, the war in Ukraine is entirely the doings of a madman in Russia.
Twitter wars are so peripheral as not to matter. The Dems hardly caused Russia to invade Ukraine. Twitter wars are as dangerous as tiddlywinks.
dude, the whole news cycle for the last 6 years has been based on lies and fabrication. blatant lies and fabrication to compensate for the pathetic shortcomings of the democrats, and to discredit one man - not putin!
from collusion to interference, from kompramat to indebted to russian banks ...pee tapes, prostitutes, dodgy business connections, enabling an oligachy, corruption of the highest order... apparently...
most of that list should be attributed to one man - and it ain't trump!
twitter is the expose - not the war
the war has played out in the supposedly reputeable news sources, like nyt, wa-po, nbc, msnbc, cnn etc. and right down to state media and independents like abc and npr
all lies and fabrication, 6 years of it - with no correction of record!
yes seeded by twitter... (and fake accounts run by podesta and co.) ...but dangerous lies and 'misinformation' none the less...
keep turning a blind eye mate, keep making excuses... life is easier that way...
it truly is
and what jelly flater said...
Bread crumb trails to war, ooops sorry, peace......
RAND Corp has the delightful role of, in their words, "helping make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous". A prosperous MIC is high on the list of priorities (and therefore so is more war). That may seem disturbing but to "think tankers" that is just a misconception of the ignorant.
To make us safer in 2019 it wrote and released the influential paper;
"Overextending and Unbalancing Russia"
AKA "How to really [email protected] with the ruskies"
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html
The Empire of Peace and Truth has followed the plan very closely and thankfully Europe is now much safer and more secure. And, of course, any bad stuff is all Mr Nasty's fault.
https://t.co/uKeN3Ej1g4 pic.twitter.com/b75ucHAn1w
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 29, 2023
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haha...
reminds me of a certain ideologically blindman on here
almost overnight started accusimg everyone of being a 'russian bot'
fell for it, hook line and sinker
"...Simply in terms of volume, Taibbi estimates that Hamilton 68 “may go down as the single greatest case of media fabulism in American history. Virtually every major news organization in America is implicated, including NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times and the Washington Post. Mother Jones alone did at least fourteen stories pegged to the group’s ‘research.’ Even fact-checking sites like Politifact and Snopes cited Hamilton 68 as a source.”
But what is Hamilton 68? It is, Taibbi writes, a “computerized ‘dashboard’ designed to be used by reporters and academics to measure ‘Russian disinformation.’” But what it really measured was politically tendentious and utterly baseless allegations of Russian disinformation in order to discredit people and opinions that the people running Hamilton 68 didn’t like. Taibbi identifies it as a “neoliberal think tank” supposedly devoted to uncovering the nefarious influences of the Russkies on — well, everything. But especially — tell me you are not surprised — anything that involves Donald Trump or anyone or has to do with Trump.
Who is behind this gigantic exercise in journalistic malfeasance and deception? Well, wouldn’t you know it, at the center of the operation is our old friend Bill Kristol, patron saint of NeverTrumpery, along with John Podesta, former Hillary Clinton apparatchik, and Michael McFaul, academic anti-Trumper par excellence. As a story in the New York Post put it, “Hamilton 68’s pronouncements were used to allege a hidden Russian hand in US politics from hundreds, and possibly thousands, of news stories during the Trump years.”
But it was fake, all fake — or, as a frustrated Twitter employee put it, it was “bullshit.” indeed..."
https://thespectator.com/topic/the-fake-think-tank-that-fueled-the-russi...
"Taibbi identifies it as a “neoliberal think tank” supposedly devoted to..."
stooged!
in the truest sense of the word
Narratives disconnection from truth in politics, investment promotion, religion, fear narratives and even war narratives can matter little for a long long time. If you write the history or if it is really just opinions with few clear, tangible outcomes it might never matter.
Truth and facts do not always win.
But in some aspects of life one day there can be consequences for endless spin.
- sport - you lose
- media - steady ratings decline
- politics - voted out of office or worse
- markets - losses from "unexpected" stock market falls "no-one" could have predicted
- war - slow or even a sudden defeat of "great" powers (Afghanistan).
To paraphrase John Lennon "All we are saying is give truth a chance". Not always easy to know what truth is but at least attempting to find it is good a starting point.
6 years of Twitter wars, mostly with the democrats losing.
50+ years of Koch brothers propaganda flooding the US and by extension the rest of the world giving us the neoliberal ‘experiment. The lines that the Koch brothers started back in the 70s are now being spouted on the forums of swellnet by the likes of Sypkan, Jelly Flater etc. May as we’ll be bots.
For the record, the ‘left’ has been totally pwned in the propaganda stakes. It was going for 30 years before the ‘left’ even knew it was happening. I recommend ‘Dark Money’ by Jane Mayer.
Meanwhile, an actual sovereign country was invaded by Russia. No?
Jelly Flater is aptly named, as easily led as pouring the jelly mix into a mould and waiting for it to set.
"6 years of Twitter wars, mostly with the democrats losing..."
you're very generous...
more like flat out lying, fabricating, and fabulating
did you miss this bit...
"Taibbi identifies it as a “neoliberal think tank” supposedly devoted to..."
the democrats ARE now the establishment, ...with all that that brings... controlling ALL the levels of influence...
and doing untold damage...
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/its-time-scientific-community-admit-w...
if zerohedge is too 'right wing' for you... you can check out the 'In no less a liberal rag than Newsweek' version...
Batfink :
‘Meanwhile, an actual sovereign country was invaded by Russia. No?’
- ummmm
Iraq.
Afghanistan.
The list goes on…
We never invaded sovereign countries ;)
Yet we can call others out on it ?
Shut the fark up hypocrite.
Georgia?
https://m.
Not a fan of the messenger…
But… considering the message ;)
Facts.
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@sypkan not sure what forum you mentioned why hasn’t the US shot the balloon down but here’s an update . https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64524105
A balloon, a balloon OMG a balloon .. national frenzy.
Spy satellites forgotten.
Why?
Always an agenda to such media and political frenzies.
thank god for the US, humanity is now safe from the Chinese spy balloon. here's the Pentagon inside footage of it being shot down:
Here are the aviators who took down the. #ChineseSpyBalloon near Myrtle Beach. pic.twitter.com/0Gu20Wf3Vq
— bill bohnsack (@nccajun99) February 4, 2023
gsco wrote:thank god for the US, humanity is now safe from the Chinese spy balloon. here's the Pentagon inside footage of it being shot down:
USA! USA! USA!!!!
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It was a close call, a touch and go situation for freedom and democracy, which were under grave threat from the Chinese weather...whoops I mean spy...balloon.
Western civilisation as we know it was on the brink of collapse and destruction.
It was good vs evil, freedom vs despotism, Western Christendom vs pagan infidels, barbarians. The Holy Roman Catholic Church shuddered at the imminent threat of Chinese Confucianism.
The US and its democratic allies launched a highly risky, secret, covert operation out of the sight and scrutiny of the public and mainstream media. The US leaders displayed next level diplomacy and tact in order to not upset the Chinese aggressors.
The survival of Western civilisation, democracy, freedom, capitalism, Christendom, liberalism, science and reason, once again came down to the selfless, heroic effort of a single US fighter pilot.
God bless America.
Who’s upset about the balloon?
Video of the balloon getting shot down over Myrtle Beach!! pic.twitter.com/nGA5RXA14P
— Jason Sellers (@JasonSellers32) February 4, 2023
"That's my airforce right there, buddy!"
sort of related:
In the age of stats… and data…
- more US taxpayer funded adventure ;)
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couldn't agree any more with the chick in the first five minutes of that vid...
not many people claiming vlad ain't the bad guy
and, not many claiming the west shouldn't have done anything
it's the tone and absolute lacking of debate that is concerning, the no plan... or 'the plan' that has well extended past it's once strict parameters...
the extreme 'mission creep'
with no debate, no consideration of alternatives, strict media control and shameless outright propaganda...
we've been here before, very recently, and look how that turned out
offensive missiles, tanks, a changing of the boundaries we're willing to 'defend'...
what happens next? ...when the grinder is low on meat?
local recruitment is going well...
How is mobilization carried out in Ukraine? pic.twitter.com/50Ldl6a7aP
— Viktoriya Samarina (@viktoriyarus34) January 27, 2023
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Both da Prez are lookin' to start a war over a couple of Pies in the Sky...
UAP Unidentified Aerial Phenonema
2022 = 366 UAP > 163 ( Balloon Types ) that never make the news.
+
2019/2020 Swarms of Drones over Defence Missiles @ Colorado / Nebraska / Arizona
One US (Montana) Balloon was seen over India / Japan + Philippines
As again now Balloon Farms in Canada / South America / US...
News : Prez just exempted Vax & Covid Tests for Chinese Scenic Flights over US.
Djokovic wasted no time booking tickets for the US Open.
Prez : "We may need to take a parting shot if yer flying out overseas!" Ouch!
PS: Is that a cloud of Chinese Covid or Local Anthrax dusting the US population...(Cough!)
CDC : "Nah! Just a new Avian Flu Killer Strain, so we're mandating another dose...of Vax & Virus!"
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/chinas-spy-balloon-over-montana-is...
Hahaha.
I know Cam Leckie. Great bloke. I haven’t seen him for years though.
What a load of drivel.
I'm guessing he's outside the tent these days. Your tent?
As an aside, how's this from a corporate media outlet in 2014...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/29/ukraine-fascists-o...
Times have radically changed?
Tunes most definitely have...
Septic Tanks are going to Septic Tank