Comment on Liberals and Labor: Tweedledum and Tweedledee on Pine Gap by Hal Duell.
With the current state of international affairs, laced as they are with loose bluster and rattle, including irresponsible nuclear chatter, the bullseye on Pine Gap becomes a thing of concern.
Let’s just hope if “they” do take it out, “they” use one of those low-yield, precision smart numbers and drop it on one of those golf balls.
But don’t knock Pine Gap. Ever wonder why Alice has, and will always have, a long strong airport runway?
Recent Comments by Hal Duell
24 hours to remove election signs
I think the plethora of signs and street corner tents both in Alice and in Darwin where I am now on vacation indicates an awareness by all candidates and parties contesting the coming election that government in the NT is very much up for grabs.
As for the signs themselves, I am reminded of the old aphorism: “Fools’ names and fools’ faces always appear in public places.”
24 hours to remove election signs
I think the plethora of signs and street corner tents both in Alice and in Darwin where I am now on vacation indicates an awareness by all candidates and parties contesting the coming election that government in the NT is very much up for grabs.
As for the signs themselves, I am reminded of the old aphorism, “Fools names and fools faces always appear in public places.”
The militarised centre of Australia
In a recent article in Foreign Affairs asks: Is Taiwan the next Hong Kong?
China Tests the limits of impunity.
By Michael Green and Evan Medeiros.
July 8, 2020
We read: “When Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to invade Ukraine and annex Crimea in 2014 …”
With advice like that I fear that we remain locked into someone else’s war mentality, and any chance we have of kicking the warmongers out of Oz is just not there.
NT to become just one Federal seat of Parliament
And waiting in the wings is Joel Bowden, currently holding down the NT seat of Johnston for the ALP.
Massive military spending: Election distraction?
Hong Kong is now an integral part of the Peoples Republic of China. No more will foreign interference be tolerated.
Japan has cancelled participation in the US’s Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System.
The South China Sea is open for all commercial traffic, but it is controlled by China.
The “containment” of China is simply not happening.
Instead of acknowledging this new geopolitical reality, we persist with doomed and demented projects like Five Eyes and the Angle-Zionist Empire of Chaos.
The US likes Australia. They get to tell us what to do.
And Chansey Paech seems to have a lot of excuses for not knowing anything.
