B-21s for Australia? Not on the basis of defending against a Chinese base in Australia’s nearer region. 

Defence policy often proceeds under a number of heroic and muddled assumptions. Most likely, the Defence Strategic Review (DSR) will also. These must be tested.

Defence policymakers often make assumptions about potential adversaries that are convenient for their own purposes. Adversaries are expected to attack or invade Australia in a manner that validates preconceived preferences. More problematically, they assume deterrence only works in one direction.

Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse,
And brother Coleridge lull the babe in nurse.

                           Lord Byron… [GL QUOTE]

The popularity of both William Wordsworth, the Romantic English poet, and the Avatar franchise — in their respective eras — indicates a steady decline to destruction, writes Jonathan Cook.

There is some terrible double-foolishness afoot, that is certain to be widely noticed beyond the Western bubble. Australia is stepping forward with gusto to secure its position as a best-military-buddy not only with America, the most warlike nation in history, according to Jimmy Carter, but also with Japan, one of the 20th century’s most infamous warmongers, presently rearming with alarming relish. You are, as they say, known by the company you keep.

America imposed a Pacificist Constitution on Japan in 1947, after it was defeated in World War II. Article 9 of this constitution outlaws the resort to war by Japan as a means to settle international disputes involving the state.

Archival documents published in 2012 confirm the organization of the Second World War by not only German industrialists and bankers, but also by American and British bankers, covered by President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain , hoping to destroy the USSR.

But before going any further, a clarification on what the European Union really is.

The European Union was conceived by Nazi fascism and “given birth” by American, French and German imperialism.

by Berthe Poggiale Avidor

THE LIES OF THE EMPIRE ARE SO WELL CONSTRUCTED THAT WE RARELY GET A GLIMPSE OF THE BOWELS THAT MANUFACTURE THE BLATANT SHIT.  

EVEN THE PEOPLE WHO CONCOCT THE LIES SEEM TO BELIEVE IN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LIES, AS IF THIS BELIEF WAS A RELIGIOUS DOGMA. THERE IS ZERO CREDIBILITY AND ZERO EVIDENCE ON OFFER, BUT THE STRUCTURE OF THIS PROPAGANDA IS DESIGNED TO PROTECT THE INSTITUTION THAT CONTROLS THE LOOT OF EMPIRE. THE LIES, THE LOOT AND THE LAWS ARE THE FOUNDATIONS OF A PROFITABLE SAND-CASTLE ORGANISM. THE MIX IS MUDDY, SWAMPY AND SMELLY, BUT THE PROPAGANDA IS LIKE A CHEAP BUT POWERFUL PERFUME.

IT IS SO CONSTRUCTED THAT SHOULD WE STOP TO BELIEVE THE LIES, THE WHOLE STRUCTURE WOULD COLLAPSE INTO ITS OWN SHIT.

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THE PICTURE ABOVE COMES FROM AN ARTICLE (IN FRENCH/T: JULES LETAMBOUR) ON HOW THE POLITICAL ELITES CONTROL THE "MARKET". IN AUSTRALIA THE SMOKE AND MIRRORS ARE VERY SIMILAR AND THE PRICE OF YOUR FISH ISN'T THE SAME AS THE PRICE OF THEIR FISH.

BELOW: by Michael West

The United States was founded by dissenters. The Declaration of Independence is one of history’s most significant dissenting documents, inspiring people seeking freedom around the world, from the French revolutionists to Ho Chi Minh, who based Vietnam’s declaration of independence from France on the American declaration*. 

But over the centuries a corrupt centralization of American power seeking to maintain and expand its authority has at times sought to crush the very principle of dissent which was written into the United States Constitution.

THE BIG THINK IS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE LOGOS (REASON AND “ORDER”) AND THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSAL THINGY WHICH IS RUNNING OUT OF “ORDER”.

WE, AS HUMANS ON A SMALL PLANET GOT LUCKY, IF WE CALL LIFE A LUCKY ORDERLY HAPPENING IN A STABLE EXISTENTIAL FLOW OF THE “HEAT DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE” WE SCIENTIFICALLY CALL ENTROPY. OUR TIME IS LIMITED AND HAS NO UNIVERSALITY. 

President Joe Biden signed into law, on 23 December 2022, the Countering Assad’s Proliferation Trafficking And Garnering Of Narcotics Act, acronym “CAPTAGON Act” (H.R. 6265).

Officially, it is aimed at disrupting the trafficking of this synthetic drug between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. Unofficially, it is about finding a new pretext for the relentlessness of the United States against the Syrian Arab Republic.

Aah, the World and its freelancers, an immutable source of sighs, of raising one's eyes to the sky (or one's one eye to the heavens for the one-eyed person) and of massaging tired eyebrows with frowns... This time again , Simon Leplâtre, in his works as a sofa-café journalist, gives us his opinions on the recent relaxation of the zero-covid policy in China...

Is it for the pleasure of those who employ him? Without a doubt. Is it to inform people? We will see why I doubt it. In any case, Jean-Claude Van Damme has something to worry about: here is a serious competition in terms of flexibility of the raconteurs. I dedicate my text to "SOMETHING ELSE"...

BY Xiao PIGNOUF

The White Renegade of the Year is not the person who is the most anti-white. It’s not the person who is the most destructive. He is the person who could — or should —have done the most good, but instead did the most harm. This year’s winner is Boris Johnson, former British prime minister and former leader of the Conservative Party. Though he lost power in September 2022, 2023 could be his comeback, if only because other Conservative leaders are even more unpopular. He has so thoroughly wrecked his party that it may still need even him. This paradox sums up his career.

There is something irresistibly attractive in Russia’s defense of traditional and religious values (what might be called Russian neo-conservatism if that label had not been usurped by American Jewish warmongers). But where does it really come from? We tend to assume that it is a reaction to Western post-modern decadence. But there is more depth to it.

It is often said that the systemic Western European superiority complex, a disease which consists of the self-justified domination and exploitation of the surrounding world, began with the First ‘Crusade’ (1096-1099). Technically, this is true, but before it there were other events which we may call ‘Pre-Crusades’. For example, there was the massacre by the barbarian Frankish leader Charlemagne of 4,500 Saxons at Verden in 782.

By Batiushka for the Saker blog

... Sadly for the UK, once famed for its aerospace, its automobile makers, manufacturing too has shrunk. It’s not just Brexit but the dismal failure of neo-liberal policy. As Prem Sikka puts it in this piece.

“The elites have transformed the state. Instead, of an entrepreneurial state which once invested in biotechnology, aerospace, information technology and other emerging industries, it now guarantees corporate profits to enrich a few.

…Как вы знаете, у меня, Владимира Зеленского, еврейского нацистского борца за свободу и члена-пианиста, в сердце только ваши глупые бедные русские жизни. Я спасу вас от злого Путина, сожгу ваши русские книги, перестану поклоняться не тому богу, объявлю «Щелкунчик» незаконным балетом и посажу ваших «украинских» представителей власти в тюрьму — все для вашего же блага…

Вот почему мы (я) бомбили Донбасс, чтобы вы не впадали в иллюзии о том, что вы русские, говоря по-русски…. Наоборот, Путин хочет, чтобы вы поверили в свой тупой русский дух, прикрываясь славным фактом, что Меркель и Олланд солгали о Минских соглашениях. Они сделали это для твоего же блага. Поверьте мне. Я знаю, какое дерьмо у меня в голове… и что Гитлер был святым.