BEFORE WE EMBARK ON SILLY TONY'S VIEWS ON GLOBAL WARMING WE MAKE A DETOUR BY HIS GENUINE ADMIRATION FOR A DEFENDER OF PEDERAST PRIESTS.... I MEAN YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN...

And Hell’s Pells, Tony Abbott, what an amazing man!

From making a knight of a prince, to seeking sainthood for another, Tony never misses an opportunity to sweetly surprise us.

The syrupy gushings about Pell from the Abbott, were indeed lovely and poetic:

“So I will hold on to him in my heart,

from love of a friend and mentor,

and as a gentle child for virtues sought but not yet attained.”

“History isn’t what happened, but the stories of what happened and the lessons these stories include. The very selection of which histories to teach in a society shapes our view of how what is came to be and, in turn, what we understand as possible. This choice of which history to teach can never be ‘neutral’ or ‘objective.’ Those who choose, either following a set agenda or guided by hidden prejudices, serve their interests. Their interests could be to continue this world as it now stands or to make a new world.” – Howard Zinn

What makes for a thieving culture? An overabundance of pickpockets? Tsunamis of burglary and shoplifting?

Most definitely not. To truly gauge a society’s larcenous leanings we need to look beyond the nimble-fingered and focus more on the smooth-talkers, the power-suited flimflammers who thrive in any society where significant numbers of people feel a driving need to get rich quick.

BY Sam Pizzigati

In the autumn of 1973, Jack Anderson, the wonderful iconoclast of the Washington press corps, published a syndicated column revealing that a Hearst Newspapers reporter had spied on Democratic presidential candidates in the service of Richard Nixon’s 1972 reelection campaign. 

At the time of Anderson’s column, Seymour Frieden was a Hearst correspondent in London.  Anderson also reported, not quite in passing, but nearly, that Frieden tacitly acknowledged working for the Central Intelligence Agency.

By Patrick Lawrence
Special to Consortium News

Anderson’s column was as a pebble tossed in a pond. The ripples grew, if slowly at first. 

Senator Thorpe is correct. We have two nations in Australia. An Aboriginal nation – and then the rest of us. The issue is of sovereignty, a matter that can only be settled by a treaty, and not an Indigenous Voice to parliament. Great to see Senator Thorpe thinking very deeply. 

Graeme Wells, Hornsby 

We shouldn’t doubt Thorpe’s deep personal commitment genuinely outweighs her loyalty to a political party. She is being honest in the face of a lot of hostility – why not accept her views have crystallised since she was elected, not that she is being cynical and gaming the system.

The countries of the Atlanticist Axis are supplying increasingly powerful weapons to Ukraine, logically reinforcing the risks of a headlong rush from the conflict and a direct confrontation with Russia. In the role of the firefighter-arsonist, the German Chancellor Scholz has just declared that Western weapons will not be used to strike Russian territory.

by Karine Bechet-Golovko

One might actually be willing to consider that there might be some value in the “rules based international order” being promoted by the Joe Biden Administration if such a thing actually existed and was applied equally to all transgressors. Of course, in reality, the “rules” being referred to are neither agreed upon nor driven by any broad international consensus and are merely a trick that is exploited to further the interests of the United States and its closest allies.

In fact, the “rules”, such as they are, are most frequently ignored to give a pass to the bad behavior being exhibited by the US and its friends.

History has gone too far the wrong way, 

The Kiev regime has gone too far astray.

We can admire the unity of the Belgium people 

As the French and the Flemish learned to live together

But in Ukraine, unity has been destroyed forever

by an Americans hegemonic demonic power

As the Americans have hated anything Russian since that fateful day of the revolution in 1917,

When capitalism became under threat from “Das Kapital", 

By Karl Marx, a German thinker, and his friend Friedrich,

Who showed us a new way for humanity to live more equally

While workers, so far enslaved under the axe, would be better treated.

Unfortunately, there’s a moment in the excellent documentary 

“The United States and the Holocaust”

When the writers mention the Germans and their “ACCOMPLICES”,

In late 1996, the impression was allowed, or caused, to become prevalent that it had been somehow and somewhere decided to expand NATO up to Russia's borders. This despite the fact that no formal decision can be made before the alliance's next summit meeting, in June.

The timing of this revelation -- coinciding with the Presidential election and the pursuant changes in responsible personalities in Washington -- did not make it easy for the outsider to know how or where to insert a modest word of comment. Nor did the assurance given to the public that the decision, however preliminary, was irrevocable encourage outside opinion.

IT TOOK A WHILE TO WORK OUT WHY THE ORBIT OF MERCURY IS WEIRD. FOR THE ORDINARY MAN IN THE STREET, THIS IMPORTANT BIT OF KNOWLEDGE HAS AS MUCH IMPORTANCE AS A DEAD LEAF FALLEN THREE WEEKS AGO, TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY NINE METRES FROM THE LOCAL PUB.

BUT FOR THE ASTRONOMER, AND THE SPACE TRAVELLING PROBES, KNOWING WHERE MERCURY IS GOING TO BE, IS ESSENTIAL.

ACCORDING TO THE DISCOVERER OF NEPTUNE WITHOUT SEEING IT, URBAIN LE VERRIER MADE SOME CALCULATION PROVING THE EXISTENCE OF SUCH A PLANET, IN 1845.

OF COURSE SHOULD YOU BE A PROUD FRANCOPHOBIC ENGLISHMAN , YOU WOULD KNOW THAT “SIMULTANEOUSLY”, THIS DISCOVERY WAS MADE BY ANOTHER ENGLISHMAN, JOHN COUCH ADAMS. BUT THIS IS IRRELEVANT EXCEPT FOR TRIVIA NIGHT. 

How can we allow this to continue (“Land clearing threatens wildlife”, February 6)? It’s an established fact that rampant land clearing is decimating native wildlife. In this case, the endangered greater glider will face certain extinction, and for what? More urban spread in Jervis Bay and to top it off, facilities for two wealthy educational institutions, Scots College and the University of Sydney. Really?

Australia has been persuaded, enticed and strongarmed into taking gravely dangerous decisions. But Australia is a sovereign state and its fingerprints are, ultimately, all over the formation of its terrible abdication of national independence.

We need to pay particular attention to a definitive insight advanced by Paul Keating: Taiwan is not a vital Australian interest. In fact, it is an entity that could help unravel decades of remarkable, positive development in Australia, if we allow this to happen.

By Richard Cullen

FROM CARTER TO BIDEN, EIGHT AMERICAN PRESIDENTS OVERSAW DEMOLITION SUCCESS IN AFGHANISTAN…. 

JIMMY CARTER, 1977-1981

RONALD REAGAN 1981-1989

GEORGE H W BUSH 1989-1993

BILL CLINTON 1993-2001

GEORGE W BUSH 2001-2009

BARACK OBAMA 2009-2017

DONALD TRUMP 2017-2021

JOE BIDEN 2021-

YES THE AFGHANISTAN CAMPAIGN, THE US LONGEST WAR, FINALLY BORE THE DESIRED FRUIT — DESPITE A SPECTACULAR EXIT DEBACLE. SO WHAT WAS THE AMERICAN PLAN FOR AFGHANISTAN FROM THE TIME OF JIMMY CARTER ONWARDS:

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is willing to pull the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights if the continental court that interprets the agreement tries to interfere with his legislative crackdown on illegal immigration, official sources told The Times on Saturday. 

The PM’s new legislation will prohibit anyone arriving in the UK illegally from claiming asylum there. Set to be unveiled “within weeks,” according to The Times’ sources, it establishes a process to deport new arrivals in “days or weeks” to their origin country, if considered “safe,” or to Rwanda, with whom the UK signed a controversial hosting agreement last year. Previously, the deportation process took “months or years,” Sunak told TalkTV last week after unveiling the proposal.