“US policy needs to be based on a clear understanding of what the rest of the Indo Pacific wants. We need to demonstrate we have interests we want to nurture beyond security interests.”

Australia’s foreign minister Penny Wong made an important speech in Washington on December 7, spoilt by an untenable claim discussed below. In addressing the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, she gave the strongest expression of her views since the election. She said, “US policy needs to be based on a clear understanding of what the rest of the Indo Pacific wants. We need to demonstrate we have interests we want to nurture beyond security interests.”

By Brian Toohey

U.S., Japan, Australia and India Discuss Joint Infrastructure Project

Australia, US, India and Japan in talks to establish 'alternative ...

19 Feb 2018 — Allies are talking about establishing a joint regional infrastructure scheme as an alternative to China's multibillion-dollar plan.

Allied Infrastructure Strategy in the Indo-Pacific

15 Oct 2021 — Thank you for joining today's discussion about allied cooperation on ... Indeed, the Japan, Australia and United States share the ...

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Full Committee Hearing To Examine The Department Of The Interior’s Implementation Of The Infrastructure Investment And Jobs Act

The hearing will be held on Tuesday, December 13, 2022, at 10:00 am in Room 366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC.

The purpose of this hearing is to examine the Department of the Interior’s implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

The hearing will be webcast live on the committee’s website, and an archived video will be available shortly after the business meeting concludes.  

Rebecca Armitage is the digital producer for the ABC's International Desk. She was previously a multiplatform producer with the ABC's Specialist Reporting Team and a producer at 730. 

THE ABC SHOULD SACK THIS ONE-SIDED BITCH, OR AT LEAST NOT PLACE HER CRAP, UNDER "NEWS". 

I’VE SAID IT. REBECCA LEADS THE ANTI-PUTIN BRIGADE AT THE ABC (AUSTRALIA):

With Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, humiliated again and again on the battlefields of Ukraine, he may be preparing to cash in a favour owed to him by one of his closest allies, Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. 

I don’t think Premier Dominic Perrottet (“Premier’s joy at young woman’s jail time was ugly”, December 9) sees the irony in his response to the prison sentences given to climate protesters under his government’s recent legislation.

This week’s Scheer Intelligence podcast brings together host Robert Scheer and author and renowned physician Dr. Gabor Maté to talk about Mate’s recent New York Times best-selling book, “The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture,” written with his son, Daniel Maté. After decades of treating thousands of patients in myriad fields, including general family practice and palliative care, Maté began to foster more attention to his work involving stress, addiction and childhood development.

Millions of people will be struggling to stay warm, a charity has warned - as parts of the UK are set to be hit with snow and freezing conditions.

National Energy Action said people faced a "vicious choice" between a cold home and falling into debt.

A remarkable narrative event occurred on Sunday when the Washington Post (WaPo), which is regarded as one of the US’ premier platforms for managing public perceptions and considered to be connected to its national security apparatus, began rehabilitating President Xi’s image. In their piece about how “A more pragmatic Xi Jinping launches a global charm offensive for China”, the outlet praised the Chinese leader for the positive interactions that he shared with his Western counterparts since October.  

Andrew Korybko

December 5 2022

THE MINSK AGREEMENTS WERE A MASSIVE GRAND DECEIT... JULES AND OUR COHORT BELIEVE THAT PUTIN KNEW THIS BUT HE HOPED THAT THEY WOULD WORK NONETHELESS.... WE KNOW THAT WW1 WAS AN ENGLISH CONSPIRACY.  THIS STATEMENT IS A BIT BRUTAL BUT WE CAN EXPLAIN IT BY VISITING THE CORBETT REPORT REPOSTED HERE. 

WHAT OUR FRIEND JULES LETAMBOUR SUSPECTS IS THAT GENERAL DE GAULLE KNEW THAT WW2 WAS ALSO AN ENGLISH/US CONSPIRACY WHICH DID NOT GO ACCORDING TO PLAN, UNTIL THE “HAPPY” ENDING AFTER A HARD SLOG. IT COULD HAVE GONE EITHER WAY, WITHOUT THE RUSSIAN INTERVENTION THAT DEPLETED THE GERMAN ARMIES FAR MORE THAN THE WESTERN OFFENSIVES.

Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud was born October 20, 1854, in the small French town of Charleville. His father, an army captain, abandoned the family when he was six.

A confession by former German chancellor Angela Merkel about the Minsk peace agreements could be used as evidence in a tribunal involving Western politicians responsible for provoking the Ukraine conflict between Moscow and Kiev, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned on Thursday.

The deal, brokered by Germany and France, was supposed to be a roadmap for peace in the war-torn country. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that his country's current military offensive was prompted by the failure to implement the terms of the accords.

The former German leader admitted in an interview with Die Zeit on Wednesday that the actual purpose of the Minsk agreements was to give Ukraine time to prepare for a military confrontation with Russia.

Wouldn’t it be amusing to see an actual fly-on-the-wall job about Netflix’s new Harry & Meghan documentary? Imagine the scenes behind-the-scenes. The Duchess rehearses her crying face in consultation with her make-up specialist. The Duke glares at himself in a mirror. ‘I had to protect my family,’ he repeats over and over as he fingers his apricot beard. The lighting team try to coax along the impossibly capricious royals only to suffer their own nervous breakdowns after Meghan accuses them of disregarding her mental health.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/war-of-the-windsors-who-will-win-this-round/

THE SPECTATOR IS A RIGHT WING MAGAZINE. THE QUESTION IS “Can a leftie read the Spectator?”

Attacks deep into Russian territory carried out by Ukrainian forces confirm Moscow's fears that are behind the Russian military operation in Ukraine. NATO has plans to use Ukraine as an attack platform against Russia and this is the biggest threat to Russia's security since the USSR was dissolved.

by Luciano Lago

BEFORE READING THE ARTICLE THAT FOLLOWS, PLEASE CONSIDER:

THE WEST IS AFRAID/IRKED OF HAVING TO GIVE ANYTHING TO RUSSIA.

YET ANY NEGOTIATIONS HAVE TO PLY TO RUSSIA’S FAIR DEMANDS (THESE WON’T CHANGE, EXCEPT IN RUSSIA’S FAVOUR AS THE CONFLICT GOES ON. THE WEST KNOWS THIS):

*NO NATO IN UKRAINE.

*CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN

*THE DONBASS REGIONS ARE NOW RUSSIANS BECAUSE KIEV REFUSED TO ACCEPT THE MINSK AGREEMENTS

*FORMALISED WESTERN NON-AGGRESSION AGAINST RUSSIA (AND CHINA).

BIDEN* DOES NOT WANT TO GIVE ANYTHING TO RUSSIA, THUS THERE IS NOTHING TO DISCUSS. 

*BIDEN IS A DUPLICITOUS SENILE IDIOT WHO HAS LONG LOST THE PLOT AND NEEDS A TELEPROMPTER TO THINK.

PUTIN HAS MADE EVERYTHING CLEAR LAST YEAR:

*RESPECT THE MINSK AGREEMENTS

While the US distanced itself from Ukraine’s drone strike at two air bases hundreds of kilometers inside Russia, the German government’s spokesman said on Wednesday that Kiev doesn’t have to limit its war effort to Ukrainian territory.

“Ukraine has a right to self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter,”Steffen Hebestreit told journalists, when asked to comment on reports of explosions at the Russian airfields. “Ukraine is not obligated to limit defense efforts to its own territory.”