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Stupidity has the heavy machinery
Good on you Glenn!
Onya Andrew and George!
Correction: Australia adds the population of Canberra every year
Renter's letter to the ABC re 7.30 on unaffordable housing
ABC 7.30 segment on housing stress
Paul Kelly nails it.
SPIFFA Koala talk 7:30pm Seawinds Community Hub Rosebud West
Your loss is my gain I'm afraid!
Law required Frankston Green Wedge Plan action without delay
A question people in Frankston would like answered:
Why wasn't the draft Frankston Green Wedge Management Plan adopted by Frankston Council on 14 October 2019 actioned without delay in accordance with the Local Government Act?
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1989 - SECT 94A Functions of the Chief Executive Officer
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1989 - SECT 94A
Functions of the Chief Executive Officer
(1) A Chief Executive Officer is responsible for—
S. 94A(1)(a) amended by No. 53/2015 s. 9(1)(a).
(a) establishing and maintaining an appropriate organisational structure for the Council; and
(b) ensuring that the decisions of the Council are implemented without undue delay
Save Arthur's Seat Community Meeting 7th MARCH 4pm Dromana Commu
Letter to Frankston Councilors re Green Wedge & Cr Hampton
The murdered Soleimani "Tehran's intimidating political fixer"?
From Donald Trump Murdered Qasem Soleimani (10/1/20) by James Risen | The Intercept. (The emphases in the quoted text below, are my own. - JS) :
Donald Trump has dragged America into a moral abyss. And yet Congress, the press, and the public are unwilling to admit that we are now standing in blood. The nation is enabling a murderous demagogue, and we are all complicit.
The president of the United States has murdered a high-ranking official of a foreign government. The assassination last week of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani was a state-sponsored murder.
But no one in the Washington establishment seems prepared to come out and say the hard truth: Donald Trump is a murderer.
Yet, further below, James Risen writes:
Soleimani was the head of the Quds Force, the elite external operations arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which operated with impunity throughout Iraq under his leadership. He ran Iran’s ground campaign against ISIS in Iraq, in parallel to the American air campaign, and employed Shia militias and their ruthless tactics to defeat the cult-like group. The United States has been happy to take credit for the victory over ISIS in Iraq, without admitting that it relied heavily upon Soleimani’s horrific paramilitary actions and his strategic acumen.
But he was much more than a special forces commander or spymaster; he was Iran’s most important envoy, and he served as Tehran’s intimidating political fixer throughout the Middle East.
He dominated the political landscape in Baghdad. In November, The Intercept and the New York Times reported on leaked Iranian intelligence cables that publicly documented Iran’s deep influence in Iraq from Iran’s perspective for the first time. What jumped off the pages in the leaked cables was Soleimani’s personal political power in Iraq and his hold on many of Iraq’s top political, military, and security officials.
Last October, Soleimani intervened at the highest levels of Iraqi politics to keep Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi in office amid massive protests and calls for his resignation.
So, on the one hand, James Risen rightly states that President Donald Trump is guilty of murdering Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. This clear fact and the consequent need to at least have Donald Trump shown up for the murderer that he is at least before world public opinion, if not in a court of law, is, bizarrely, rarely stated, even in the Iranian PressTV, the Russian RT or other alternative newsmedia.
On the other hand, whilst acknowledging Qasem Soleimani's role in leading the fight against ISIS in Iraq, James Risen describes his tactics against ISIS as "horrific paramilitary actions". No specific examples are given, let alone the context in which those "horrific paramilitary actions" were used. He also labels Soleimani "Tehran's intimidating political fixer throughout the Middle East".
So, whilst condemning Donald Trump's murder of Qasem Soleimani and acknowledging his leading role in the fight against ISIS, James Risen still manages to depict Qasem Soleimani, who was mourned by many millions of Iraqis and Iranians before, and during, his funeral as a ruthless and unconscionable operator, feared by most Iraqis. So, in spite of his initial outcry against the murder of Qasem Soleimani, much of what James Risen has subsequently written, seems to provide some justification for that murder.
Kangaroo shooting discussed on the ABC
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North East Victoria cloaked in smoke
RT downplays Stalin's treachery which enabled Nazi invasion
#E8FFFF;">The following is a response to the latter part of CrossTalk Bullhorns on impeachment: Impasse, the 23 December edition of RT's CrossTalk discussion. You can view the 30 minute program at the above link or below, where it is embedded. In my comment, I strongly dispute the panel's assertion that it was the Western Allies - France and Britain - and not Stalin that did the most to facilitate Hitler's launching of the Second World War. Whilst those countries' betrayal of Czechoslovakia at the Munich conference of 1938 should be condemned, I consider Stalin's subsequent appeasement of, and collusion with, Hitler to have been even more unconscionable. I tried to post the comment below to that page, but it was deleted. I intend to find out from the RT site administrators whether or not this apparent censorship was intentional. - JS
The case against supposed 'historical revisionism' concerning the outbreak of the Second World War was abysmal. Whilst, of course, the policy of appeasement by Britain and France prior to 1 September 1939 cannot be excused, the following facts are ignored by the CrossTalk panel:
Whilst they (and Vladimir Putin) have acknowledged Stalin's murder of most of the Polish officer corps at Katyn wood, Stalin's Betrayal of Poland did not start and did not end there.
Until the Red Army invaded Poland from behind on 17 September, the Polish Army's resistance to the German invasion was stiffening. "Rising '44 - the Battle for Warsaw" (2003) by Norman Davies shows how the Red Army stood still on the East bank of the Vistula, whilst the German Army brutally suppressed the Warsaw uprising from August until October 1944. [1]
The fact remains, that from 1 September 1939 until 22 June, Britain and France [2] fought on alone against Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, whilst the Soviet Union shipped across the border much of the raw materials needed by the Third Reich to invade Denmark, the Benelux countries, Denmark, Norway and then France. Whilst, in the skies above Britain, from July until October 1940, 'the few' fought against German bombers and fighters, the Soviet Union continued to ship raw materials across to Germany.
The supply of raw materials continued as the Germans and Italians conquered the Balkans and attempted to conquer North Africa.
How does the panel think the Red Army would have fared, had Britain made a separate peace with Hitler? How does the panel think the Red Army would have fared had President Roosevelt (FDR) not (against previous promises to American voters) succeeded in bringing the United States into the war against Nazi Germany? Could any country have endured proportionately more losses than did the the Soviet Union and still survive?
In spite of Stalin's treachery, when the British and Americans learned of Hitler's plans to invade the Soviet Union they warned Stalin, but these warnings were ignored. Stalin also ignored warnings of the invasion from his agent, German Communist Richard Sorge who worked in the German Tokyo embassy. [3]
The Soviet Union contniued to send raw materials across the border into the Third Reich right up until the morning of 22 June 1941, when after all the time that Stalin had supposedly bought the Soviet Union, the Red Army was surprised and routed terribly. [4]
So much for Stalin's brilliant plans to use the Moltov-Ribbbentrop Pact of August 1938 to better prepare for war against Nazi Germany.
Appendix: Embedded copy of "CrossTalk Bullhorns on impeachment: Impasse" (23/12/19)
Footnotes
[1] Even the Greek Communist ELAS resistance fared little better than the Polish Home Army after October 1994 because of Churchill's infamous "percentages agreement" with Stalin, as documented in "The Kapetanios" (1972) by Dominique Eudes.
[2] After 22 June 1940, when Vichy France signed a truce and effectively sided with Nazi Germany from that point on, 'France' refers to the Resistance and the conventional Free French armed forces of Charles de Gaulle.
[3] Richard Sorge was to be subsequently uncovered and arrested by the Japanese. The Japanese, who were not then at war with the Soviet Union, offered to return Richard Sorge, but Stalin did not take up the offer. Sorge was executed on 7 November 1944. In 1964, Nikita Khruschev posthumously awarded Richard Sorge with the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union".
[4] Even when the war finally turned in favour of the Red Army on 2 February 1943 at the conclusion of the Battle of Stalingrad, the Red Army still had to pay a terrible cost to drive Nazi Germany and its allies all the way back to Berlin. This was largely thanks to Stalin murdering or imprisoning the Red Army's best officers in the purges of 1938. Had those officers still been alive, the cost paid by the Soviet Union would not have been nearly as high.
Syrian Security turns US invaders away from Qamishli Airport
The following comment was posted beneath Syrian Security Prevent Trump Forces Approach near Qamishli Airport (13/12/19) by Arabi Souri | Syria News :
Great to see Syrians stand their ground against the thieving American invaders. Still, I think our two canine friends, Oscar and Pepi would be offended to know that soldiers of the Syrian Arab Army referred to them as 'dogs'.
The following may be of interest: "Assad: Europe was the main player in creating chaos in Syria-video" (13/12/19) by Sheila Newman at /node/5920 (URL of this page). It includes the embedded Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPiffHouxvc
On past occasions my comments to Syria News have been published immediately, however I am not able able to find on their site my copy of the above comment right now.
Facebook post: RT Interviews Barnaby Joyce about Julian Assange
I tried to post the following to Facebook's Going Underground page. I can't find that post. If anyone else can find it, please post the link here.
Barnaby Joyce: Extradition of Julian Assange to the U.S. would be a violation of Australian sovereignty - RT's Going Underground interview /node/5918 Afshin Rattansi speaks to ex-Australian deputy PM Barnaby Joyce about the persecution of Julian Assange. https://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/475352-persecution-of-julian-assange/ Other newspapers other published the same leaks for which Julian is being viciously persecuted by the U.S. regime.
My latest post to Twitter about the above article can be found here.
Residents protest against North East Link to Planning Minister
Concerned residents gather at Planning Minister Wynne’s office in reaction to North East Link announcement
#E8FFFF">by Claudia Gallois of the Friends of the Earth on 6/12/2019
Dozens of community members set to be impacted by the mega toll road gathered outside the planning Minister’s electoral office in Fitzroy this morning. This was in reaction to yesterday’s announcement by Minister Wynne to approve the North East Link.
The $16 billion North East Link is set to vastly expand the Eastern Freeway up to 24 lanes. This will add 95,000 more cars onto the road each day, many of which will end up at Hoddle St.
Locals from Banyule made the trip into the city, calling on Minister Wynne to rethink the North East Link, which will lock Melbourne into car dependency and rule out opportunity for a rail line to Doncaster.
The community members feel devastated about the extent of environmental and social damage and health impacts of the toll road. This includes 11 kindergartens, 12 schools, 5 aged care facilities and over 100 businesses which will be affected.
“The impact on parkland and sporting facilities in the area will be devastating for locals and Melbourne as a whole, robbing us of 175 hectares of open space during the 7 year construction period, with 18.2 hectares required permanently. Over 26,000 trees will be bulldozed for the project,” said Friends of Banuyle’s President, Michelle Giovas.
“We don’t accept this greedy, undemocratic, sham consultation. The Minister has failed to listen to reasonable advice from his own expert Planning Panel and over 870 submissions by the public,” she added.
Friends of the Earth’s Sustainable Cities campaigner Claudia Gallois said, “This will further entrench Melbourne’s reliance on cars for travel and have negative impacts on local communities and businesses, increase greenhouse gas emissions and lead to the loss of valuable amenity.”
“Mr. Wynne has ignored advice from the Environmental Effects Statement Planning Panel, leaving communities exposed to the major negative impacts of this toll road,” added Gallois.
Australia - Past The Point Of No Return?
Australia First
In The Australian newspaper (Nov 14, 2019), appear three separate articles which convey what a diabolical failure multiculturalism happens to be. And it’s all thanks to the insanity that open-door immigration intakes from an array of non-European cradles have inflicted upon Australia. Those articles are:
"Love thy neighbor: how to make newbies feel at home," by KPMGs, Simon Kuestenmacher;
"Age old hatred re-emerges right out of left field," by Peter Kurti, from the Centre for Independent Studies and, most significantly with,
"A constitution that distinguishes us by race: this way madness lies," by Greg Sheridan, the Foreign editor of The Australian.
The first of these can be seen as being pretty much nothing more than a rambling waffle. However, Kuestenmacher does say something that can only be described as decidedly fanciful. He says:
"Who is to do all the groundwork of inviting all the neighbours individually to a social gathering? On the road to, creating a socially cohesive street, town or nation isn’t an easy one-off task."
Well, Simon, I detect from those words - and your KPMG colleague, Bernard Salt - have now come to starkly realize that, the open-door intakes of immigrants from non-European and non-Christian sources over the past 20 years (but particularly so within less than the last decade) is that they’ve so inundated a total of 150 suburbs in Sydney and Melbourne which culminated with them usurping the previous dominant ethno-cultural entities. The results of these massive deluges of immigrants from non-European / non Christian sources has been so large they’ve now established enclaves which are culturally insular. Hence, Australia’s two most populated metropoli now have persons of non-European heritages who’ve become slight majorities of both.
This scenario actually occurred back in 2017.
With regards to Melbourne, Europeans became a minority of that city around the end of March to early April 2019, whilst this happened in Sydney some months later around September-October.
Now, over 2 years from then, the non-European components of Melbourne will be about 48% and Sydney at 48.2%. With that said, it is necessary to convey certain nuances as to how it came to this. Obviously, open-door immigration brought it to fruition. But there is more to it than this patently observable empirical circumstance. For instance, each city has at least 900,000 people residing who are here on temporary visas. That is, of the 930,000 international students in Australia there are in the vicinity of 390,000 International Student's in both Sydney and Melbourne. This means that the percentage of International Students living in those cities is 7.3% and 7.7% respectively.
But what has also been inherent with bringing this situation about of Europeans becoming minorities in Sydney and Melbourne is white-flight. To substantiate this can be ascertained with the ABS figures which say that, near on one million people have left Sydney since 2010, to move to move to the regions. [See candobetter editor's comment on 'white flight' at end of this comment.]
With regards to the views of Peter Kurti in the second piece which deals with the supposed rise of “anti-Semitism”, the specific part of his discourse for your attention is this:
"But many Labor-held seats contain seriously conservative Muslim populations [who are] hostile to Israel and sympathetic to the Palestinian cause."
He says no more about that and leaves anti-Semitism generally confused with criticism of Israel. However, it is abundantly clear what he is alluding to is the glaring example of the incontrovertible and the irreconcilable state of affairs between Islam and Judaism. And, of course, with Islam and Christianity.
But it is with the third article by Greg Sheridan, which irrefutably exposes just how totally fractured and, indeed, how irretrievable Australia’s sociological infrastructures have become. Effectively, Sheridan’s analysis spells out to the reader as to just how hopeless Australia’s future is! He sums up how parlous this sociological cataclysm happens to be with identity politics undermining our social cohesion. He states:
"First, the demands of identity politics are endless and can never be satisfied. Second, the views that someone expresses are assessed not on their merits but on a basis of racial identity, or the absolute conformity to [the] orthodoxy [of] identity politics. Third, disagreement, no matter how measured and mild is regarded as a sign of malevolence and racism." [See candobetter editorial comment no.2 at end of this comment]
In point of fact, what Sheridan has stated in those words equates to what I say bleeding hearts are afflicted with - and which I call Liberalinitis. So what is Liberalinitis? Quite simply, it is a severe psychological disorder that only afflicts Caucasians. [See candobetter editor comment no.3 at end of this comment.] And it all stems directly from the intense sense of guilt they have with construing that all of the evils in the world today emanate directly from European colonialism. Eventually, the intense sense of guilt that initially afflicts them morphs into becoming intense degrees of self-hatred, which then manifests into becoming having extreme hatred for those who disagree with their perspectives.
For them, the only way that they can receive total redemption/absolution for the sins-of-their-forebears due to colonialism, is to have every ‘racial variety’ on the planet move into every society which is ostensibly Caucasian and eliminate them from existence. And it really is that simple!
As it happens, Sheridan suggests something in his discourse, which expressly validates what I’ve just outlined:
“Finally, given that the existence of contemporary society allegedly involves the ongoing racist oppression of minorities, which can only be remedied by comprehensive revolution in social and racial structures, then the need to continually apologize, and forever offer reparations on a racial basis, means that, nothing, no set of measures that any democratic society can reasonably offer, is ever enough. "
Tragically, because Europeans are now the minorities of our largest two cities, at approx 48% and, due to the fact that all governments in Australia are hell-bent upon continuing mass-immigration, it means that, within a decade's time, Europeans will be lucky to be 42% of either Sydney or Melbourne's populations.
However, what’s worse still, is that those under the ages of 35 in either city will account for 50% of the ethno-cultural demographics.
Well, when that transpires it means they will have inundated our parliaments and bureaucracies. And when that occurs I can state categorically that, they won’t be ceding us any of the concessions that we lavished them with!
Candobetter Editorial comments on above content:
1. Re 'white flight': The editor would like to point out that the flight from big cities could be ascribed to the cost of living in the big cities, given Australia has the highest housing prices in the world, caused by population demand for shelter.
2. With regard to allegations of racism arising from any objections to the problems of high immigration: Often when we get comments from Mary, we find we have to edit out references to ethnicity, colour, and religion. Indeed it is difficult to decide what might be construed as incitement to racism or hate. In the case of this comment, which we are leaving without major edits of those allusions, apart from these editorial comments, it is obvious that there are considerable objections to the impact of numbers and enclaves via immigration in Australia.
Large diasporas forming large enclaves that are identifyable by predominance of religion or ethnicity are obviously noticeable to people not belonging to those diasporas and already living in those areas, and they feel a loss of control over their social and physical environments. It therefore seems valid to publish objections like Mary's,
without their being inciteful of hatred or racism.
No 3 - re 'caucasian'. You can be 'caucasian' and non-white. Many Indians fit this category.
Many Indians also have a colonial history and culture that has similarities with Australia's.
In conclusion, at https://candobetter.net,
we would say that the problem with Australia's immigration levels is the numbers. The problem is of incumbent socially networked and empowered populations being suddenly overwhelmed by new incoming networks where they have no power. Mary tells us the numbers, and they are telling. These numbers are also being milked and controlled and manipulated by people who derive power and wealth from supplying their demands for housing and other infrastructure. It is those forces that are causing this problem.
Please let us know if you have found any of Mary's published comment offensive.
Candobetter Editor.
Great Australian dream is fading says planner Joel Kotkin
7m more people will make electricity cheaper??
Plans for Ricketts Point Tea House terrible for local fauna
Who voted against Clifford's Bill to help people vs developers
Trioli not a high-rise denizen after all, just an ABC mouthpiece
The hypocrisy of Virginia Trioli disrespecting Mary Drost
Trioli and ABC facism
Virginia Trioli appears unsympathetic
Electricity myths - invest $1bn in mixed capitalist economy
High fat, low carb
Their profit from our loss
Definitely a coup d'état
Final ending for racehorses
Border protection evidently not a symptom of a rogue nation?
In the most recent edition of Redacted Tonight (19/10/19 - still not published, so far only broadcast live), Lee Camp correctly labels the United States a "rogue nation" for all of its wars of aggression, proxy wars, sanctions and other criminal meddling in the affairs other countries around the world in recent years - Libya, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Palestine, Lebanon, Cuba, Nicaragua, Yemen, etc. [1]
Unlike in his guest appearance in the 11 October episode of "The News With Rick Sanchez", referred to just above, Lee Camp did not include efforts by the United States' Immigration Control and Enforcement (ICE) agency to enforce immigration laws as an example of rogue behaviour by the United States. Just possibly the comment I made on YouTube last Sunday 13 October may have influenced Lee Camp to desist from this misreporting. However that comment has since disappeared from that page. That is also a concern.
Footnote[s]
[1] In fact, the U.S. has been meddling destructively in other countries' affairs since 1945 after Harry S. Truman, previously installed, by Democratic Party apparatchiks, into the office of Vice President instead of the vastly more popular Henry Wallace, succeeded the deceased President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) as President of the United States. (This is described by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick in their Untold History of The United States.) Prior to that the United States had been waging war against Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Japanese Empire on the same side as a number of large popular liberation movements. President Truman later turned the United States' guns on these same liberation movements, starting with Korea in August 1945. Already, prior to that, in October 1944, Churchill had, turned the guns of the British Army onto the Greek ELAS Resistance movement From 1948 the U.S., instead of Britain, helped reactionary forces in Greece.
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Farmers Thoughts. Poem By Joanna Collett . NSW
Churchill's betrayal of the Greek ELAS resistance in Oct 1944
The following has been posted as a comment beneath #comment-111447">The conservative case against Churchill (15/101/9) | The Duran by George Callaghan:
Thank you for this account of Winston Churchill's role in history. It is more comprehensive than anything else I can recall having read.
Churchill apparently led Britain alone in its defiance of Nazi Germany after it had conquered Norway, Denmark and all of Britain's allies in Western Europe after June 1940.
However, paradoxically, four and a half years later, in October 1944, as a consequence of Churchill's infamous "percentages agreement" with Stalin, British 'liberators', with the help of the Greek Communist Party (KKE), which unquestioningly took orders from Stalin, tricked or coerced Greek ELAS resistance fighters into surrendering their weapons. At the same as ELAS fighters were being disarmed, British soldiers secretly rearmed former collaborators whom they had supposedly placed under arrest after having rescued them from vengeful Greek crowds.
The former collaborators were subsequently unleashed by the British on ELAS and the rest of the Greek population. As a consequence ELAS was smashed in a series of clashes lasting until 1949. The former collaborators became the government of 'liberated' Greece.
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US Democrats even more warlike than US Republicans
Socialist Equity Party reports Barnaby's support for Julian
From Prominent Australian parliamentarian declares extradition of Julian Assange to US "totally unreasonable" (14/10/19) | WSWS by James Cogan:
In comments to reporters over the past 24-hours, Australian parliamentarian Barnaby Joyce, the former leader of the rural-based National Party and one-time deputy prime minister, opposed the extradition of Australian citizen and WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange to the United States to face charges of espionage.
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Joyce’s statements on the case of Julian Assange have a significance that goes far beyond his past or current status within the Australian establishment. They reflect anxiety in both political and media circles that the widespread disquiet over their collaboration in the US-led persecution of an Australian citizen is going to burgeon into public anger over the coming weeks and months.
Assange, an internationally recognised and awarded journalist and publisher, is being held in solitary confinement and harsh conditions in the maximum-security Belmarsh prison in London. His family members and high-profile supporters who have been able to visit him are making strident warnings that his psychological and physical state is deteriorating. His father John Shipton stated this month: "His health has been declining and has reached a point where he may die."
Millions of people in Australia and around the world know that the only reason Julian Assange is being persecuted is because WikiLeaks published information that exposed war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as sordid diplomatic intrigues and shameless political corruption.
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There will be escalating protests and other political action in defence of Assange in the UK, the US, and internationally, and especially in Australia.
The issues raised by Barnaby Joyce go to the heart of the undeniable responsibility of the government in Canberra to use all possible diplomatic and legal means to protect Assange from the US vendetta, secure his immediate release from imprisonment in the UK and arrange his return to his home country.
Barnaby responds to message of support
Tell Barnaby & Wilkie you approve their suppport for Assange!
Sanchez challenged: put your open borders views to ICE spokesman
The following was posted to YouTube beneath a copy of the broadcast of RT America's "News With Rick Sanchez" edition of 11 October [1]:
The otherwise informative and insightful "News With Rick Sanchez" bulletin of 11 October trivialised attempts by the the U.S government to enforce its immigration laws. This is in contrast with the treatment of illegal immigration by Mike Papontonio, presenter of RT's America's Lawyer in Corporations defend DACA: Don’t deport our cheap labor! (10/10/19) - its most recent weekly episode.
I challenge Rick Sanchez, Lee Camp or both to interview Secretary for Homeland Security Kevin MacAleenan whom you mocked on that program, or anyone from the United States ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agency and put to him what you said in your discussion.
Stalin left with no alternative to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
The following was posted as a comment in responst to #comment-4640004020">Debunking Lies and Myths About the So-called ‘Soviet-German Pact’ (VIDEO) (28/9/19) by Drago Bosnic | Fort Russ
Much of the broader context is missing.
Whilst Neville Chamberlain, and indeed, the Polish regime did betray Czechoslovakia in 1938, after Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1 September 1939, Britain, the British Commonwealth and France, for all their serious faults, did oppose Germany's aggression against Poland. At the same time, the Soviet Union under Stalin, sided with Hitler against Poland. Prior to 17 September 1939, when the Red Army invaded Poland from the east, fierce Polish resistance had caused significant problems for the German invasion. The Polish Army stopped the German army outside of Warsaw and it would have required a much more costly fight on the part of the Wehrmacht to subdue Warsaw. It is conceivable that the cost might have been too high for Germany to bear.
Hitler could well have been removed from power, the war would have been over and only a miniscule fraction of 60 million lives need have been lost.
After the subjugation of Poland, Stalin supplied the Third Reich with vast quantities of raw materials that it needed to conquer Western Europe, including France, and then bombard Britain. As Britain heroically resisted the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain, Stalin continued to send raw materials to Germany. After the Luftwaffe was defeated by the RAF, no thanks to Stalin, Hitler began preparations to invade the Soviet Union. In the ensuing months, Stalin ignored warnings of Hitler's invasion plans from Britain, the U.S. and even from his own spy, German communist Richard Sorge in the German Tokyo embassy.
Poland was eventually liberated by the Red Army, but not until after the Red Army stood still on the East Bank of the Vistula, for 63 days from August until October 1944, whilst the German army suppressed the Warsaw Uprising and then thence razed Warsaw to the ground. It seems that for all of Nazi Germany's monstrous crimes against the Soviet Union in the three years prior to the Warsaw Uprising, Stalin was still willing to shamefully collaborate with Hitler against Poland as he had in 1939. This furher betrayal effectively devalues the worth of the terrible sacrifice that Soviet citizens had to make to defeat the Third Reich. No doubt, this also causes some Poles in, 2019, to feel justified, in siding with NATO against Russia and the rest of humanity.
Video: Russian intellectuals say they are proud of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact!?
This 7 minute video with English subtitles, entitled "The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact 80 Years Later: Russia Forced to Shoulder Blame For WWII in Poland!" , is embedded in the abovementioned article. It is . It shows a number of Russian academics attempting to justify the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Near the end, one of the academics states "Actually. I think that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact is an achievement is an achievement of Soviet Democracy. An achievement. We should be proud of it."
Update: 24 Aug 2021
MFA Russia (@mfa_russia), which published the above video, has disallowed the viewing of the above embedded video on this site. It can be viewed only on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/embed/4JmIp9kTCS8. They have similarly disallowed the viewing of that same video within the article #comment-4640004020">Debunking Lies and Myths About the So-called ‘Soviet-German Pact’ (VIDEO) (28/8/2019) | Fort Russ. The Fort Russ article similarly attempts to justify the September 1939 Motolov-Ribbentrop Pact and the subsequent collaboration between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union right up until the launching of Operation Barbaraossa on 22 June 1941. I can only assume that @mfa_russia objects to my debunking of the attempted justification which that video also tries to support.
Boris Johnson and the Nigel Farage show
Corbyn stumbles, ..., Boris Johnson rises to the occasion
Corbyn stumbles, Remainers confused & Boris rises to the occasion (Video) (26/9/2019) | The Duran
The Duran Quick Take: Episode 316
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss Prime Minister Boris Johnson fiery speech in Parliament where cries of “Resign!” were ignored as Boris dared Remainers to try to remove him.
Johnson defended his plan to withdraw Britain from the European Union on Oct. 31, with or without a separation agreement with the EU. “I say it is time to get Brexit done,” Boris declared, accusing his opponents of trying to frustrate the will of the people, who in 2016 voted 52% to 48% to leave the EU.
For more, read the full article and watch the videos on The Duran.
Editor's note: Much of the alternative newsmedia has evidently swallowed the hysterical denunciation of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's supposed trampling of Britain's Democratic institutions by proroguing the UK Parliament. They ignore the fact that the anti-Brexit pro-Remain UK Parliament has voted down PM Boris Johnson's motion to dissolve the British Parliament and call a general election! Evidently the Remain majority of the UK parliament, who are posturing as defenders of democracy fear the verdict of the British people.
Population Summit – Organized Lunacy
"Increasingly affected by growing congestion, interminable commutes to work, overcrowded buses and trains and overflowing schools and hospitals. The challenge is how various levels of government, the bureaucracies and industry can plan for these changes in a way that can accommodate the Australian population [and laughably] improves the average standard of living and boosts [here it is again] economic growth."Unfortunately, the illusory Golden-Fleece of economic growth, which was supposed to have been spawned due to mass immigration intakes hasn’t eventuated. Alas, what has disturbingly come to fruition from this insanity has been: Exorbitant increases in real estate prices, due to billions and billions arriving from China; the federal debt has doubled to over $360bn and energy prices have also doubled. So, if mass immigration was supposed to be the catalyst to engender economic growth then how come Australia is mired in those calamities currently burdening us? Clearly, the formula that virtually all of these 31 apparently imaginatively challenged people who are designated to speak at the Population Summit, will fervently demand is that Australia must continue with its programme of mass immigration to engender economic growth. Even though it hasn’t been remotely beneficial to the broad populations. [Little commented, but numerically noticable] what has come to pass from open door immigration into Australia’s major cities over the past decade is that, peoples of Anglo/European extractions are now the ethnic minorities. And this has happened for two main reasons: First, because the 1.2 million people who’ve fled Sydney and Melbourne, look to me as if they may have done it to escape being, in many suburbs, absolute minorities. And, secondly, because each of Australia’s two biggest cities have been inundated with close on 900,000 people residing in them who've arrived on temporary-visas i.e. with international students comprising a big shaft of them. Thus, Australia's two largest cities now contain ethno-cultural groups so large that they seem like insular cultural enclaves [by virtue of different languages and networks]. And it is with those attributes [that] Australia’s future stability has been totally destroyed. Open door immigration from non-European sources has been so huge that it has transmogrified Australia’s largest cities into new ethno-cultural tribes who I fear will have no first-hand allegiances to Australia. How can there possibly be a stable future for this land, when its two largest cities are divided on ethno-cultural structures? Obviously, this is a pending and, moreover, [to my mind] inevitable sociological catastrophe that is way past ever averting. To clearly ascertain how our society is breaking-down into separate tribes in our largest cities, we should consider the ICAC investigation into corrupt payments to the NSW Labor party's branch from members of the Chinese community in Sydney (estimated to be in the vicinity of 900,000, including permanent residents - either immigrants or those born here and those on temp-visas i.e. international students, in excess of 100,000). See also NSW Labor boss suspended after Icac revelation about illegal donation So to all those who will gloat about the great future for Australia from more immigration, the reality is that you are totally insane. Regrettably, now that our two largest cities are divided into such factions , I fear that they will soon move to organise politically against Australia. Obviously, that situation must conclude with the separate groups asserting their agendas, which I fear will result in the extinction of this country as we know it. The above was partly edited by a Candobetter editor for legal reasons. Footnote[s] Added by Candobetter editor. [1] Link to https://www.smhpopulation.com.au added. A search using the terms "SMH Population Summit" (quotes omitted) found these critical articles: COMMENT IN REPLY TO ‘SMH Population Summit … A WHO’s WHO OF BIG AUSTRAYA Proponents’ (3/9/19), SMH Population Summit hijacked by ‘Big Australia’ mafia (3/9/19), - Ed
Submissions to POCTA review 2019
Return Quality of life
Theft of our quality of life
Will Venezuela finally hold Guaido to account for his treason?
On 23 January 2019, Juan Guaidó, who was virtually unknown in Venezuela at the time, declared himself 'interim President of Venezuela.' He did this at the behest of his masters in the United States government: Secretary of State Pompeo and U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton. Bolton on at least one occasion shamelessly stated that he wanted U.S. oil corporations to be able to exploit Venezuela's oil wealth once the elected President Nicolas Maduro had been replaced by Guaidó.
In spite of Guaido's clear act of treason on behalf of a country which has repeatedly interfered destructively in the affairs of Venezuela and practically every other country in Latin America since before the start of the twentieth century, Guaidó and his supporters have, astonishingly, been allowed until now, to freely walk around Venezuela in pursuit of their nefarious goals. Guaido has openly asked for an invasion of Venezuela by the United States, and called for the continuation of the sanctions which have so devastated his country, costing 40,000 lives by one estimate!
Finally, nearly eight months later, it seems that the Venezuelan government has finally decided to act against Guaidó, even if not explicitly for the actions described above.
As Stephen Lendman reports in Venezuelan Usurper Guaido to Be Charged with High Treason? (7/9/10):
Until now, his government failed to hold Guaido accountable for sedition and treason, the highest of high crimes against the state.
On Friday, Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek Saab said the following:
“We have initiated an investigation (into) an illegal negotiation behind the country's back (by Guaido) that intends to withdraw the historical claim our country has on the territory of Essequibo. The facts imply a crime of treason.”
Preceding his remarks, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez accused Guaido of being part of a “criminal organization” — aiming to hand Bolivarian territory and resources to foreign corporations, including ExxonMobil.
In April, Guaido's parliamentary immunity was lifted. He faces various charges, including “usurping the functions of the president.”
On Thursday, Maduro asked prosecutors to charge him with treason, urging “(t)he Public Ministry and the Attorney General's Office have to act expeditiously because pretending to deliver the Essequibo is a crime of treason to the Fatherland.”
Maduro urged Venezuelans to defend the nation's “legitimate and non-renounceable” territorial rights over the Essequibo region.
Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino defended his country's claim to the territory, saying: “The Sun of Venezuela is born in the Essequibo.”
The territory is located in southeastern Venezuela. It's rich in oil and other natural resources. It links the Caribbean Sea with the Orinoco River.
Venezuelan authorities have audio recordings between illegitimate Guaido envoy to Britain Vanessa Neumann and his “outside advisor” Manuel Avendano to “deliver the Essequibo” to ExxonMobil and other corporate interests, Rodriguez saying:
“The criminal organization headed by Juan Guaido had initiated concrete actions to illegally appropriate Venezuela's assets, financial resources, Venezuelan gold, Venezuelan debt, to enrich themselves and to serve transnational interests.”
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What’s likely next? Will Guaido be formally charged with treason, arrested, jailed and prosecuted?
He was guilty of the highest of high political crimes against the state by illegally self-declaring himself interim president in January — attempting to illegally usurp power in cahoots with the Trump regime.
Accountability for his criminal actions is long overdue!
The U.S. has since warned the Venezuelan government that there will be consequences should it proceed to prosecute Guaidó. Let's hope the Venezuelan government stands up to this bullying. Certainly the U.S. should be made to feel welcome to send an attorney to defend Guaidó before the Venezuelan courts, but the International community must tell the U.S. to let the Venezuelan justice system take its course and to get its thieving, bloody hands out of Venezuela!
Sri Lankan pea and thimble trick
Thanks for your
Sheer bastardry of U.S. attack only makes sense if ...
Shadow also affects vegetation and soil
Wattle Day - Order Of The Wattle Blossom Awards
No brainer
Growth lobby push for more buildings to overshadow public park
Update on Seaford carpark
Australian Federal Police
Seaford North Resever Car Park
A very reasonable request
Councillor response
Population growth and coming chaos
Peace Meeting -IPAN - 29 August Trades Hall - friends welcome
Dear friends and supporters of Independent and Peaceful Australia
REMINDER: Next IPAN-Victoria Meeting
Thursday 29 August
6pm - 8pm
Level 4, Trades Hall (cream building at the back, next to the car park)
Corner Lygon and Swanston streets, Carlton.
Agenda
1. Reports from IPAN Conference and activities in Darwin (a few photos attached). AGM Report.
Resolutions and calls for action.
2. Nominations for 2 Victorian representatives on IPAN National co-ordinating committee
To date 2 nominations received. Please send in your nominations to the email address above, before the meeting.
3. Planning next IPAN-Victoria activities
4. Solidarity activities
Links below to recent IPAN articles, press releases and articles.
https://youtu.be/VARTEt2_HJc
https://ipan.org.au/voice-august-2019/
https://ipan.org.au/no-to-us-missiles-in-australia-no-to-joining-the-u-s-in-a-battle-with-china-6th-august/
https://ipan.org.au/naval-support-for-us-in-iran-media-release-4-august-2019/
End plague level immigration and overpopulation chaos
Blatant, incurable and incorrigible, methinks
RACV: Tell us what you think about loss of wildlife habitat.
The latest edition of the RACV Magazine Royalauto on page 13 has a brief story headed “The mob next door” which says “Just 20 years ago kangaroos and cows grazed pastures and grasslands around Craigieburn in Melbourne’s north. But as suburbs expand and engulf open land mobs of roos are confined to small green wedges along waterways where they are vulnerable to cars and dogs. Tell us what you think about loss of wildlife habitat. You can make a comment here:https://Facebook.com/racv.
Huxley’s Predictions Of A Dystopian World Come To Pass?
Left versus Right Ideology
Labor speaking against Hanson's motion
Community meeting 6 Aug 7pm to protect Fitzroy North
National Wattle Day
US Study: Raising retirement age beats mass immigration hollow
Save Queens Parade Fundraising Dinner - 8 August 2019
Land lines
Social tennis for immigrants
Who infects who?
Singer's community shows a way, perhaps
They killed migrants and sold their organs: 38 arrests - Italy
Strange homelessness related news item
Thumbs down!
The Elephant In The Room
Finally someone names the
Tower block in Melbourne evacuated
Interviewer more on ball than most
Population policy so bare-faced, so shocking
Julian Assange and mainstream media
IPAN meeting Thursday 4 July Vic Trades Hall meeting room 1
Australian government has abandoned Julian Assange
Decline of play and increase in children's mental disorders
I have recently read a US psychology article about the greatly increased numbers of young people who are assessed as depressed, testing covering the last 50 to 70 years! In brief the article relates how the increases in depression are not about external circumstances or threats but about the degree to which subjects feel they have control over their lives. There has also been a shift over time in the sort of goals young people have for their lives from goals formulated by self to imposed goals, like material wealth and achievements that will be approved of socially. The author puts forward the hypothesis that there is a causal link between the increased "extrinsic" goal setting and a decrease in opportunities for free play (where children work out problems for themselves in an unstructured situation) since they have coincided. I have certainly noticed in Australia, an increase in parental supervision of children's out of school time with organised activities and organised sports or after school care. A year or so ago I saw a television documentary where they were able to show that neural brain networks were differently organised in children who played freely, unsupervised by adults and children whose out of school time was more organised and adult-directed. This brings me to the conclusion that the free play issue is also an issue of space- space in which to play. There must be a wealth of research about this as the implications are profound. It looks as though in the US and in Australia (as i think we have the same problems) we are sabotaging the well being of our children and that they will take their troubles into adult life.
Here is a quote from the article:
"The standard measure of sense of control is a questionnaire developed by Julien Rotter in the late 1950s called the Internal-External Locus of Control Scale. The questionnaire consists of 23 pairs of statements. One statement in each pair represents belief in an Internal locus of control (control by the person) and the other represents belief in an External locus of control (control by circumstances outside of the person). The person taking the test must decide which statement in each pair is more true. One pair, for example, is the following:
(a) I have found that what is going to happen will happen.
(b) Trusting to fate has never turned out as well for me as making a decision to take a definite course of action.
In this case, choice (a) represents an External locus of control and (b) represents an Internal locus of control.Many studies over the years have shown that people who score toward the Internal end of Rotter's scale fare better in life than do those who score toward the External end.[2] They are more likely to get good jobs that they enjoy, take care of their health, and play active roles in their communities—and they are less likely to become anxious or depressed.
In a research study published a few years ago, Twenge and her colleagues analyzed the results of many previous studies that used Rotter's Scale with young people from 1960 through 2002.[3] They found that over this period average scores shifted dramatically—for children aged 9 to 14 as well as for college students—away from the Internal toward the External end of the scale. In fact, the shift was so great that the average young person in 2002 was more External than were 80% of young people in the 1960s. The rise in Externality on Rotter's scale over the 42-year period showed the same linear trend as did the rise in depression and anxiety."
Below is the link to the article
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/freedom-learn/201001/the-decline-play-and-rise-in-childrens-mental-disorders?fbclid=IwAR3pQq5pm786v9OkbumddLhF1uCRpcL2KnzUQzK9JE0Iyqjlboqe9okSUPE"
Corona virus numbers keep rising in Victoria