Brittany Higgins false rape earned her $2m. Nary always had this uncanny sense of seeing me if I went near my favorite café next to the river in Phnom Penh and would come up to me with a broad happy smile. About a month ago I saw Nary walking on the road in the opposite […]
Lies of Mike Burgess, the Director General of ASIO Mike Burgess, the Director General of ASIO, has been reported as telling the ABC Insider program that there was “far more anti-Semitism than Islamophobia in Australia” before the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks. (“ASIO boss urges restraint in political rhetoric”, The Australian, 11 August 2024). However, […]
Evan Gershkovitch and Krasikov is Bad Policy The trading of Russian FSB assassin Vadim Krasikov for various Russian political prisoners, including US citizen Evan Gershkovitch and a number of Russian dissidents, illustrates the incompetence of US and German leaderships in foreign policy – and reflects the reason that Russia is winning the war in Ukraine! […]
Beazley, Richardson, Dibb are old men pushing sexy, ignorant group thinks. On 28 May a Defending Australia Summit was held in Sydney by “The Australian Newspaper” which showcased 3 former Australian defence officials who seemed confused by their old age and indulged in ignorant and historically romantic group think. Kim Beazley is a former […]
Jewish women Yvonne Engelman and Nina Bassat are Russia-type PR pawns? President Putin banned the word “war” and insisted that Russians use the term “special military operation” to describe his February 2022 invasion of Ukraine because he wanted to manipulate the public’s thinking and divert it from reality. I lived in Russia until October 2022 […]
Bad News for Ukraine! Several interesting pieces of news about Russia have emerged in recent days which add to my view that Ukraine has little chance of a victory. FIRSTLY, Tatiana Stanovaya, in “Russia’s Pro-Putin Elites”, Foreign Affairs, 9 May 2024 (see (https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/russias-pro-putin-elites ), reports on the present elite mood in Moscow when it […]
Group Think psychology of AUKUS and Option 2. The idea that nuclear submarines can be built in Adelaide under AUKUS has the characteristics of the “group think” that led to invasion of Iraq in 2003 — and the prolonged strange debate about business taxation’s Option 2 over twenty years ago. Alexander Downer, the former Australian […]
Putin says he follows Israeli Gaza example in Ukraine Vladimir Putin has in the past justified brutal Russian military actions – such as in Ukraine and Syria — by saying they are the same as the Israeli actions we now see in Gaza. Putin has said that “attempts to spare terrorists under the pretext […]
Henry Ergas praises Nazi “Will” Henry Ergas, “What has happened to the West’s will to win?” (The Australian, 16 February 2024) criticized lack of US “will” for “victory” in Gaza and Afghanistan under presidents Biden and Obama, while praising Franklin Delano Roosevelt for saying that the World War II task of the US Army was […]
What did we learn from the Tucker Carlson interview of Putin? Carlson’s interview with Putin has been roundly condemned by various Western commentators and officials for having taken place, for Carlson not asking tougher questions, and for Putin’s answers which were sometimes a distortion of the facts. But most of the condemnation has missed the […]