Comment on Peace President Obama dispatcher of drones killing innocents by Hal Duell.
There is a strong case to be made that at the recent G20 summit in China the US lost its preeminent position in Asia. How the US responds to this new world order now becomes of pressing importance to Australia.
Will they accept that their brief time as the world’s and Asia’s hegemon is over, or will they attempt to reassert their former transient position?
If the former, all well and good for us here in Oz. If the latter, and given that Canberra has historically been incapable of standing up for Australia in the face of demands from formerly the Brits and now the Yanks, then we in Alice are sitting on a very real and unacceptable risk.
Recent Comments by Hal Duell
The task ahead is rebuilding
I agree that the issue will soon turn to rebuilding.
The question then becomes what will we rebuild as?
All around the world the public sector, and I am thinking primarily of health and education, has been neglected and hollowed out in the name of austerity. Now, when we really need a public health sector, in too many places it’s just not there.
Meanwhile military budgets have blown out to obscene levels, and while we in Oz may have escaped the worst of the cuts to public health, we have not escaped the blowout in military spending.
Which way will we go? Our overlord to whom we are “joined at the hip” is increasing sanctions on Iran and Venezuela at the very time that those two nations are struggling to deal with a global health crisis, maintaining a belligerent attitude to Russia and China in spite of those two nations helping it in its hour of austerity-induced need, and generally acting like a bully on the world stage. Do we really want to continue to go there?
This is fundamental. What sort of a nation do we want to be known as, and who do we want to count as our friends?
Do what I do: a lesson for the government, police
@ John Bell, Posted March 28, 2020 at 8:47pm: Bit of a cheap shot, that “Wuhan Virus”.
It could just as easily be called the Fort Detrick Virus.
Maybe we should all just stick with COVID-19 until we know more.
Do what I do: a lesson for the government, police
That the officer in question did what he did speaks to a degree of selfish irresponsibility that has to call into question his right to bear arms in public, to detain and arrest.
I hope he survives the virus, and I hope those he infected, if any, do also.
And then I hope he is dismissed from the NT Police.
Now it’s five
And has anyone suggested that the New South Wales health minister Brad Hazzard should be charged with criminal negligence for allowing those 2700 passengers to disembark without being tested for the virus?
Record NT debt: Gunner mum on collateral
There’s another serious problem with Gunner’s program for the coming year, and that has to do with the price of oil.
Saudi Arabia and Russia have just started an oil price war, and the perhaps intended consequence of that will be to shut the US shale gas out of international markets.
Lower than a certain price, and fracked gas is simply not economically viable. Bankruptcies are expected.
So probably good news for the anti-fracking lobby – profit and loss economics may make that whole problem go away.
This Gunner dude is looking more and more like someone who simply doesn’t keep up.
