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Thank you for revealing this unconscionable cruelty to brumbies
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Australia First Party
Sally Pepper
Footage is shocking
Property industry have game sewn up
Property mob say majors won't slow pop growth no matter what
Bizarre claim that Assange is a Mossad agent by "Veterans Today"
I had thought that "Veterans Today" was a credible alternate news service, in part, because some of its staff, including Gordon Duff and Jim W. Dean have, on a number of occasions been interviewed on the Iranian PressTV (See Appendix below). "Veterans Today" appears to be outspoken against current U.S. government wars and proxy wars.
However, for some time, I have noticed that "Veterans Today" has been hostile to Julian Assange(!?) and even John Pilger! Examples include:
The Assange War on Ecuador: Is Assange an Agent of the Deep State? (14/4/2019) by Gordon Duff, NEO- Assange and Russia’s Dance with the Devil (8/10/2016) by Jim W. Dean, Pilger and Assange, Theatre of the Absurd (redux) (20/11/2014) by Gordon Duff.
Having looked at these articles, I see few examples to support the sweeping allegations made against Julian Assange and John Pilger, including that Julian Assange is a Mossad agent. There are no citations.
So, in this regard, "Veterans Today" seems little better than the corporate newsmedia.
Appendix: Examples of PressTV articles with videos featuring Gordon Duff, Senior Editor of "Veterans Today"
(Includes 2:33 minute video that I was unable to embed in this comment.)
Ivanka Trump may succeed Nikki Haley as US ambassador to UN: Pundit
Ivanka Trump might be nominated as the successor to outgoing United States ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, according to American political pundit Gordon Duff.
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Israel wants allied Syrian forces out of Arab country: Political commentator
(Includes 1:24 minute video that I was unable to embed in this comment.)
Margo Kingston's nofibs.com.au "citizen journal" censors again?!
Just now, I attempted (at 1:51pm on Thursday 11 Apr 2019) to post, beneath an article about the announcement of the commencement of the federal election campaign, some excerpts from the above article, with a link back to this page. In spite of my post being obviously relevant to the content of the article, it has vanished. I subsequently posted to Twitter about this apparent censorship:
I am still waiting to see what I posted about "Policies that should be put to voters at the forthcoming Australian Federal elections" at /taxonomy/term/9835 to appear on https://nofibs.com.au/ausvotes-2019-day-1-election-date-called-for-may-18-qldaah-qldpol/ - not the first time I have had such problems with this purported "Citizen Journalism"
Margo Kingston @margokingston1 59m
The indispensable @Qldaah has begun his @NoFibs #ausvotes19 blog - Day 1 to date up now, he will add to it till this day is over.
The article, to which I attempted to make the above post, is #Ausvotes 2019 Day 1 – Election date called for May 18: @qldaah #qldpol (11/4/19) | No Fibs. The No Fibs web site is run by Margo Kingston
Maybe others could try to post to 'nofibs' about policies on this page with a link back to here. If you do, please keep your own copy and post it here. A (less politically incorrect) example could be:
"Does anyone else here think that the old Commonwealth Service should be re-established? See: #commonwealthEmploymentService">/2019_FederalElectionPolicies#commonwealthEmploymentService
If Feb numbers continue there will be 1.8m new migrants in 2019
Palestine university biodiverse project
Protest Friday 4pm Victorian State Library for Julian Assange
A protest has been called for tomorrow outside the Victorian State Library to demand that the Australian Government act now to bring Julian Assange back to Australia. Bring yourself, friends, placards and any literature you may have to inform members of the public of why they need to act to help prevent the deportation to the United States, of Julian Assange, who is not even a United States citizen and has never been there!
Bring yourself, friends, placards and any literature you may have, to inform members of the public why they need to act now to help Julian Assange.
Another protest is to be called soon in Sydney.
What are our kids being told at school ?
Re dingoes and feral cats and repetition in research
Dingoes and feral cats
Extradition of Assange would be violation of international law
From UN Special Rapporteur: US extradition of Assange would be violation of international law (6/4/2019) | WSWS:
Following WikiLeaks’ warning yesterday that Julian Assange faced imminent eviction from Ecuador’s London embassy, widespread opposition has emerged to the illegal plans to terminate his political asylum.
Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, issued a statement calling upon the Ecuadorian government of President Lenín Moreno to "abstain from expelling Mr. Assange … or from otherwise ceasing or suspending his political asylum."
Melzer warned that if Assange was removed from the embassy, he was "likely to be arrested by British authorities and extradited to the United States," adding, "Such a response could expose him to a real risk of serious violations of his human rights, including his freedom of expression, his right to a fair trial and the prohibition of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."
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28 April Frankston Music Festival Green Fieldz & others
Frankston Beach Association is sponsoring the Peninsula Folk Club’s performance at the Frankston Music Festival on Sunday 28th April. FBA would love to see you at their event. Book online here
Details:
Fantastic performances by Green Fieldz, Harmonics, Just for Fun plus much more
Sunday 28th April
1 pm Life Saving Club
1 Long Island Drive Frankston
Cost $10 Please book online here.
While you are there, take in the exhibition of Marine life photographer Freddie Leong’s spectacular work.
Freddie is well known for his artistic and dramatic underwater images from Port Phillip Bay and many other locations. Some of his work is held by the National Library of Australia. It is well worth the visit to see Freddie’s amazing images. See more of his images here.
(For more information on FBA’s event contact Eva Welch [email protected] 0407 323282)
Australia population estimates for 2050 and 2082
Doesn't know, doesn't care.....
IPAN-Victoria Meeting TOMORROW Wed 27 March 6pm Trades Hall
Steve Bracks/Sheila Newman/Jon Faine population forum -removed
Faine's science ignorance typical of his class.
comment overlooked, sorry
Jon Faine says Putin started the war in Syria
Dick Smith on populaton on 60 Minutes Sunday 24 March 2019
US state the biggest terrorist
The United States (and not the Syrian Arab Army) defeated ISIS?
I posted this comment in respose to Syrian War Report – March 21, 2019: ISIS Influence Is Still Strong In US-controlled Part Of Syria (21/3/19) | South Front. At the memoment it has been 'marked as spam' and not published. In my past experience, other posts in which I have included links have also been marked as spam. Hopefully this will be shortly fixed by the South Front administrators.
This is yet another article which fails to reconcile the different explanations of ISIS and the illegal United States' intervention in Syria.
For most of the Syrian conflict since March 2011, it seemed to me that ISIS/Al Quaeda/Al Nusra Front/Syrian 'Democratic' Front (SDF)/... were allies [1] of the U.S., Israel and Saudi Arabia against the popular elected President of Syria (Syria's press conference the United Nations doesn't want you to see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnFQd4wBXnk). This criminal war, mostly done by proxies of the U.S. has cost (by one outdated estimate) the lives of 400,000 Syrians, including 80,000 Syrian soldiers.
Now we find that the U.S. is, in fact, (illegally) in Syria to fight against the same terrorists they I thought they had previously supported!?
So, is the United States now is a force for GOOD in Syria? So, why aren't they cooperating with the Syrian government (and Russia, Iran and Hezbollah) against the terrorists? Any reporting of the Syrian conflict which fails to at least acknowledge these apparent contradictions is deficient in my view.
Footnote[s]
[1] Part of the cover story for Western support of those terrorists was that, as bad as they were, they were not as brutal as the 'regime' of President Bashar al-Assad, so clearly Syrians would be better off if Western aid to ISIS resulted in their victory.
Sacred cow immigration cannot be discussed
IPAN meeting 27 March Trades Hall (Oz Peace Network)
IQ2 Immigration debate 26 March Sydney Town Hall
Australian attitudes to immigration: A love-hate relationship
If you're thinking of going to that event, note there is a discount offer at the end of this article.
The article argues that different surveys come up with different results. But the only one suggesting majority support for current immigration is the Scanlon Foundation "mapping social cohesion" survey, which carefully avoids reference to the quantity of immigration, making it hard for people to answer against the question without seeming to hate all immigrants.
Australian attitudes to immigration: A love-hate relationship | The New Daily
thenewdaily.com.au
Sat March 23 General Meeting Royal Park Protection Group
How school-based local action can affect state & national levels
Local grass-roots action alone cannot fix our environment
The author, a schoolteacher, writes:
“as an adult who has tried to stop over-population, over-development and habitat destruction in this city and this country, I know that the government and the press are entirely capable of ignoring indignation on the steps of parliament from multiple residents' action groups.”
From this he argues that today's march in the city was a waste of time:
“Our schools should not be marching in the city. ”
Instead, they should be marching to their local councils to demand that they act:
“marching, if we are going to march, to our respective local councils, with carefully thought out lists of demands.”
He argues that all the problems that today's student marchers wanted our state and federal governments to fix, could, instead, be fixed by local governments, schools, teachers and local communities.
Whilst, of course, we cannot hope to fix the environment without action by individuals, grass roots action and local councils, no amount of work on this front can hope to overcome the effects of state and federal governments acting to serve the interests of corporations against the interests of ordinary people and the environment. In particular, how can just local governments and local grassroots action hope to counteract the effects of high immigration encouraged by our state governments and our federal government?
Furthermore, how can only such local grass-roots action hope to stop our Federal Government from siding with the U.S. Empire against the people of Venezuela, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen and the even worse environmental destruction, not to mention human suffering, that that has caused?
Those, who harm our environment, can be held to account at elections …
Whilst we still live in a formal democracy, can vote and even stand for office, I think it is still possible to hold to account at election time those politicians who have served us so poorly. If done effectively, a good many, who had previously voted for them will be looking for other candidates to vote for.
Of all other candidates other candidates seeking our vote, they must be must be asked what they plan to do for the environment if they win office. In this way the profile of such candidates could be raised to the point where they should gain, at the very least, a good first preference vote. With effective grass-roots political campaigning we should even be able to hope to get such candidates elected to parliament.
… and replaced with elected members who serve us and look after the environment
The profile of such standing members of parliament would certainly make the local grass-roots action advocated above more effective. From this we can hope to move forward to them being able to form governments that properly represent us.
If this seems overly ambitious, this has already happened on at least two past occasions in Australia : the Federal Labor Government of Gough Whitlam from 1972 until 1975 and the South Australian State Labor Governemnt of Don Dunstan from 1970 until 1979.
If it has already happened in Australia, why can't we hope again to get such governments elected to power, but, next time, make sure that they remain in office?
But, again, I don't see how we can hope to achieve this though just grass-roots action at the local level.
Not to mention the 5G elephant in the room
The Pink Elephant in the Room
RSPCA incompetence again
I agree
Good response
Bunyip Fires and RSPCA
Good luck fighting the next election on wages, Bill Shorten
Chelsea Manning jailed for refusing to testify against Assange
From RT : US army whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been taken into custody for contempt of court after refusing to testify in front of a grand jury in what’s believed to be the case against WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange.
Manning received a subpoena from the US District Court in January.
She appeared before a grand jury on Wednesday and invoked her First, Fourth and Sixth Amendment rights. She said the questions pertained to her 2010 disclosures of the American military’s misconduct, and she had answered those extensively during her 2013 court-martial.
Temp housing for horses offered to RSPCA - no response yet
Why are these professional War Peddlers still around?
Julian Assange issued with new Australian passport
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was granted a new passport by his native Australia, marking what could be the clearing of a significant hurdle in his quest to leave the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and return home.
After lengthy discussions over whether Assange was subject to an arrest warrant for a “serious foreign offence,” Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed: “Mr Assange does have an Australian passport.”
Confirmation was given at a Senate hearing on Thursday that Assange’s 2018 application for a new passport had been accepted. The WikiLeaks chief received his Australian passport in September 2018, news of which has only now been reported.
Assange had been without a passport after his previous one expired a few years ago. The new passport issued to him makes it possible for him to return to Australia if he were ever able to leave the Ecuadorian Embassy without UK prosecution.
Assange has been there since he sought asylum in 2012, after Swedish authorities requested his extradition as a suspect in a rape case.
He was granted Ecuadorian citizenship in December 2017 in a bid to protect him from being extradited to the US, where he fears he would face secret charges for publishing US government cables and thousands of classified documents relating to activities in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 2017, Swedish prosecutors announced that they had closed the rape investigation.
Original source of this post is https://www.rt.com/news/452159-assange-australia-passport-granted/
US Senator Rubio shows serious psychopathy typical of deep state
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‘Sick & twisted’: US Senator Rubio tweets picture of Gaddafi’s murder as a threat to Maduro
US Senator Marco Rubio has posted a picture of the brutal murder of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in a less-than-subtle threat to Venezuela’s Maduro. Twitter blasted Rubio as a manic warmonger… who has extremely poor taste.
It is remarkable to watch the sociopathy of the US administration unfold publicly, as if the political actors have injuries to their frontal lobes and no longer sense danger or that people are watching. What is this dementia that seems to afflict John Bolton, Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo, and now, like mad cow disease, wannabe president Marco Rubio? Hilary had it too because she was the one who cackled in triumph as Gaddafi was killed in the most horrible way.
When Mike Pompeo addressed threats to the Venezuelan Army, you can see him fatly snuggling against himself in his suit with delight, eyes shining, at the idea of all the harm he might do. John Bolton, whose hair and moustache make him look like a cartoon character made out of a toilet brush, with his scrawled "5000 troops to Columbia" and "All options are on the table," seems to be the straight-man of the murderous alliance, making insane threats as if he were handing down detentions at school.
And Trump: "You can choose to accept President Guaido's generous offer of amnesty to live your life in peace with your families and your countrymen or you can choose the second path, continuing to support Maduro. If you choose this path, you will find no safe harbour, no easy exit, and no way out. You will lose everything."
And then, like icing on a cow pat, Virgin Blue's owner, Richard Branson, strutting round amongst the poverty and drug barons on the border of Columbia (itself a fine product of US intervention), promoting his "Live Aid concert". He said he talked several times to Juan Guaido - but he didn't talk to Maduro! What motivated him? The desire of a little man to be a part of the US big boys' psychopathic game? All he inspired in me was disgust and indignation - to be so rich and to be so stupid, and to be willing to do such harm, seemingly just to grandstand.
Avoid hitting wildlife on the roads
Tulsi Gabbard now claims that Bashar is murdering his own people
From a recent tweet by Tim Anderson:
The way of all candidates? @TulsiGabbard flip-flops on #Syria, acquiescing under pressure to repeat the fake mantra, "Bashar al Assad is a brutal dictator who has used chemical weapons". Shame Tulsi, shame.
General Meeting Royal Park Protection Group Saturday March 23, 2
The next General Meeting of Royal Park Protection Group will be held on Saturday March 23rd. We are delighted to have Jim Szonyi, Park Ranger to speak to us. The Junior Ranger program is a great favorite with children either through school programs or holiday events. Jim will share details of this program as well as the many other activities that rangers undertake in Royal Park. Do come along. Catch up on park news and enjoy afternoon tea afterwards. Date: Saturday March 23rd, Time: 2pm,
Where: Walmsley House* - 161 Gatehouse Street, Parkville. *Just down from the corner of Gatehouse St and Royal Parade at first entrance to Native Garden
Bad reporting or purposefully confusing?
Prudent move
Bank culture change - whistle the wind
New citizens should plant trees
Excellent characterisation
Hate these sweeping claims about economic immigration
ABC claims higher immigration = more jobs (no data given)
ABC claims higher immigration = more jobs?
Yesterday morning on RN Breakfast Fran Kelly repeatedly claimed, during an interview (can’t remember with whom) that a reduction in immigration would result in reduction of new jobs (this is in response to Morrison’s claim to be creating million or more new jobs).
This morning (Wed 30 January), ABC economic reporter Jane Norman made exactly the same claim in an interview on ABC News radio at about 6:25 am.
The claim is that higher immigration = more jobs.
I would have thought it is more complicated than this? For example there is the matter of absolute increase in total number employed (which may well occur if total population is increased) and relative changes in rate of unemployment? What about effects on wages? Basic laws of supply and demand for labour?
Media Benjamin repeats her demonstration in Washington
https://twitter.com/mediabenjamin/status/1090342662236971008
It is telling to see that people in the audience either ignore her or photograph her, as if convinced that the people on the podium have legitimacy, yet they do not. And also, as if to hold up a mobile phone and record an incident somehow deals with it.
Australian foreign policy is dictated from Washington to fools
Code Pink Media Benjamin calls US out on Venezuela
This took place at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC
https://twitter.com/mediabenjamin/status/1090305218334654464
Australia vis a vis Venezuela
Growth porn - regional Australia
Collision with "safety barrier"
Environmental Impact Statements
Australians do not want any more migrants: ANU poll
Some new political hope but population inertia can overwhelm
Breaking news
Facebook screened this article as political advertising
Thought I would let readers know that, when I tried to 'boost' this article on facebook (a form of advertising) it was knocked back because they thought it was political advertising. Yet it is just a discussion! So this is another example of why it is a very bad thing to rely on facebook for anything important. Actually I did get it through initially when I boosted it to Australia, but I cancelled that one and made my catchment the United States. Obviously this site is not advertising, but it does publish opinions.
Don't forget the US caliphate project that nearly was ...
and Donald Trump tweeted ....
Trump administration plans to pull U.S. troops from Syria immedi
By Missy Ryan
December 19 at 9:11 AM
The Trump administration has decided to pull all U.S. troops out of Syria, a defense official said on Wednesday.
The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a decision that has not yet been announced, said the decision would include the entire force of more than 2,000 U.S. service members. It was made on Tuesday, the official said.
President Trump has long promised to conclude the campaign against the Islamic State and has questioned the value of costly and dangerous military missions overseas.
The decision comes as tensions increase with NATO ally Turkey, which has promised to launch a military offensive against Syrian Kurdish forces, which are partnered with the United States against the Islamic State, in U.S.-controlled territory in Syria.
The withdrawal is expected to occur as quickly as possible, the official said.
The Wall Street Journal first reported on Wednesday that U.S. troops would be withdrawn from northeast Syria.
What does Permaculture look like?
Yellow Jacket Manifesto
Climate Change
Question media on blazing rainforests - could be wrong
John, thanks for your comment. We have to be very careful to get details from people close to what is happening with regard to the fires, not believe the corporate and state press. They are hopeless reporters on fires and forests.
I have heard from someone affected that the rainforest belt stopped the bushfires, at least those along the Kings Bore track in Kaloola National Park, where there is a big belt of rainforest. He is a bushwalker and environmentalist with local government knowledge, who was informed by a fire fighter.
That is what you would expect and I would also expect to be misinformed by the corporate press, who all want to clear land by pretending rainforests are flammable like the rest. I heard what you heard, that the rainforest was burning, and that was really alarming, but I would need much better info than we get from the state or corporate press.
Maybe some other readers can give us more info.
There were of course many other fires. One was in the Tinninburra State Forest, which is full of [highly flammable] pines, not natural forest. Apparently it has also has a high rate of housing inside, leaving it both cleared, flammable and at risk of loss of infrastructure and human life - which are not big risks in rainforests.
There is another factor that must be considered with regard to disaster reporting. From the 1980s insurance companies have been predicting higher and higher financial and human costs from natural disasters. Not because they expected more natural disasters, but because humans were now building in high risk areas and populating them very densely. An example of this in Australia was the Brisbane Floods, where the PM and the Lord Mayor had allowed and encourage building on floodplains. This is widespread practice by our dollar crazy elites.
With regard to climate change and rates of natural disasters, independent of settlement patterns, I think that science has to show caution. Time will reveal the role of climate change.
Obviously if we build in high risk areas, on coasts and in river beds, if we clear rainforest barriers to fire, if we plant forests of pine with no barriers of rainforest, if we clear the land and increase the Albedo effect, and build heat islands everywhere, there will be local climate change to add to the effects of global climate change.
I agree with you that we don't have much time, but permaculture is a way of surviving as we go down. The Yellow Jacket manifesto would also be a good basis for encouraging localisation.
Legislative Council numbers
SAP Win
Sustainable Australia Clifford Hayes Vic election win confirmed
We did it!
Today the Victorian Electoral Commission confirmed that our Southern Metropolitan Upper House candidate Clifford Hayes was elected to the Victorian Parliament.
Read The Age article here.
Clifford and I enjoyed a quiet celebration today in Brighton...
I offered my personal congratulations and thanks to Clifford, who first stood for the party as a Senate candidate in the 2013 federal election. Five years later he's proud to be our first elected Member of Parliament!
You may wish to leave a message of congratulations here on Facebook.
It was a huge team effort. Thank you to everyone involved - including our National and Victorian committees, 27 Victorian candidates and many members and volunteers! There have also been many people right across Australia that have helped (and stuck by) us over the years on this challenging journey. I hope this gives you great satisfaction and new hope.
Next stop is the NSW State election in March...
We now need our NSW members and supporters to help us to double up! If you live in NSW, stay tuned for information on how you can get involved.
Onward and upward!
Kind regards
William
William Bourke
Sustainable Australia Party
Time!
France or Australia
Tim Anderson's facebook page
Statement from University staff in support of Tim Anderson
Crispin Hull: HImmigration arguments the wrong way around
Crispin Hull has written a perceptive article about too high immigration and the Scanlon Foundation's immigration propaganda:
A SURVEY on immigration published this week seems to fly in the face of all other indications showing that more Australians are objecting to high immigration.
This week’s survey reports that 52 per cent of respondents think Australia’s immigration intake is about right or too low. That seems to run counter to other polls and broader political concern that immigration is too high, including Prime Minister Scott Morrison saying that he had heard “loud and clear” that “Australians in our biggest cities are concerned about population. Read more/
Dr. Tim Anderson's Facebook page blank?!
Support Prof Tim Anderson on facebook here
Tim says that "Expressions of support, under this post in my facebook comments section, are welcome. I will try to have them published. Reject political #Censorship. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdk-ejNiWkhvtN8xVn3ZZTZNLThn9XiLXnbOI0oQ6LR8XPErA/viewform
Correction to Summary of old and new feminism
Summary of new and old feminism
Feminism
Divide and conquer
Men and boys
Hypersonic missile superiority a guarantee against US war plans?
The following was posted beneath US military trying to catch up with Russian hypersonic weapons (26/11/18) | The Duran by Seraphim Hanisch
A century ago, the leaders of Russia understood that, unless the criminal rulers who had caused the First World War were removed from power, another even more terrible war was inevitable. In spite of Russian efforts, the rulers of the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Japan and Italy were not removed. As a consequence, just as Lenin and Trotsky - so vilified even by most of today's alternate newsmedia - had warned, the world endured another terrible war from 1937 until 1945 in which 60 million died.
Assuming that Vladimir Putin understands that an endless conventional and nuclear arms race cannot possibly preserve a worthwhile peace, does he have any other proposal to remove from the world, once and for all, the threat of war?
Starving Yemenis Reduced to Eating Tree Leaves
Spin wins: Andrews rewarded for ruining Victoria's environment
On Saturday night, I had to sit through the nauseating spectacle of watching, on ABC television, so many Labor Party apparatchiks and their underlings congratulating themselves for their massive election victory.
On Saturday, in the voting booth, I again put the Liberals last on my voting form, as I have always done, but almost immediately regretted having done so. Still, I naively looked forward to seeing the Andrews government get deservedly trounced on the ABC television voting count coverage that night. Even if, as Sally has shown, the Victorian Liberals are no better than Labor, I think the rejection of the Andrews government would have been preferable to what occurred.
Instead, that night Daniel Andrews was rewarded for policies which can only lead to greater traffic congestion, increased housing costs, the degradation of our natural envIronment and the continuing decline in our quality of life.
So, thank you, Sally for explaining to me what this election outcome actually meant.
For the time being, the true effects of these policies are being masked by apparent economic prosperity for the many Victorians who are now employed in housing construction and in the construction and management of all the additional infrastructure necessary to cope with population growth. However, none of the 'products' of this economic activity - housing, high rises, tollways, railway and bus infrastructure - can be exported. Unless they are all built only from components made within Australia, all of these 'products' will only add to Australia's current account deficit.
I have one minor concern with the article, however. You wrote, "They both have to deal with massive population growth ..." when both the Liberals and Labor are so clearly the cause of population growth they are now 'dealing' with. This is clearly illustrated by their notorious Victorian government web site site Live in Melbourne. The Andrews government is clearly a principle cause of the massive population growth they now have to deal with.
UK "Integrity Project" creates fake news against Rassia
Economy and Superannuation
Economics
State Election lealet/population directions
Does the Promotion of the Migrant Caravan help US war opponents?
I tried to post this comment beneath the Telesur article, but my post vanished - James:
More than three years after German Chancellor Angela Merkel illegally announced that any refugee who made it to Germany from North Africa or the Middle East could stay - thus precipitating the subsequent crises of mass immigration in Germany France, Sweden and the UK - much of the anti-imperialist left, including a number of governments unfortunately still carry with them the same 'bleeding heart' pro-refugee pro-open-borders baggage promoted by the billionaire open-borders advocate, George Soros. Soros almost certainly colluded with Angela Merkel and the Mediterranean people-smugglers in 2015 and either Soros and other similarly wealthy individuals have colluded to cause the current Migrant Caravan.
An example is the Telesur of the Bolivarian government of Venezuela. Since the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was first elected in 1998, Venezuela has been in the cross-hairs of the United States' military.
On nearly all domestic and international issues - Latin America, Syria, Israel, Palestine, Ukraine, Russia, Lebanon, Iran, NATO warmongering... - Telesur is highly informative, particularly in comparison to the global corporate newsmedia.
However, the editors of Telesur apparently presume that the people of some industrialised countries, particularly of the United States, don't have the right to decide who may or may not enter their country through their borders. An example of Telesur's misreporting of the immigration crisis is to be found in US-Mexico Border: Migrants Stuck Between a Rock And Hard Place (18/11/18) | Telesur:
"I cry a lot to not be able to feed them as I'd like...I just want an opportunity," said Orellana, a 26 year-old mother of three, who is currently situated at a shelter in Mexicali, which shares a border with California.
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For his part, Tijuana's mayor has recently called for a referendum to limit the entry of Central American migrants, calling them a "hoard" and stoking negative reactions against these people who are facing a dire humanitarian situation.
"We don't want you here!" and "Migrants are pigs," are some of the negative reactions that Tijuana residents have shouted at migrants in the Mexican city, according to the San Diego Tribune.
Whilst depicting unfavourably the understandable hostility of local Mexicans towards the immigrants, the article also fails to address the concerns that ordinary United States' citizens, north of the border, have about the threatened continuation of the mass influx of illegal immigrants into their country. This article also glosses over the fact that most people on the Migrant Caravan are young unaccompanied males.
Few ordinary Americans north of the border, who read articles like this from Venezuela's state newsagency, are likely to be influenced to want to defend Venezuela, Nicaragua or Cuba against the invasions planned by the ruers of the United States.
Telesur/PressTV take the supposed open borders high moral ground
The following was posted as a comment to Nigel Farage lashes out at Angela Merkel, as Chancellor attends EU Parliament debate (Video) (13/11/18) by Alex Christoforou | The Duran :.
Unfortunately, many other otherwise informative web-sites take the supposed high moral ground on refugee and immigrant rights that Nigel Farage has so conclusively demolished (I would have appreciated knowing that Nigel Farage's speech began 3:59 minutes into the video). Explicitly or implicitly they condemn those who try to defend national borders, including Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, Marine le Pen and the German AfD.
These web-sites include the Iranian http://presstv.com/ and the Venezuelan https://www.telesurenglish.net/
In turn those media and countries which own those media are vilified by some of those listed above, notably President Trump, when, in reality (as argued recently by Paul Craig Roberts) they could be Donald Trump's allies.
PressTV takes supposed high moral ground on illegal immigration
This was posted in response to the story Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif’s Declaration on Trump Sanctions (MUST SEE!) (6/22/28) | The Saker :
I admire Iran for its resolute defiance of the United States' Empire. Since 1945, the US has, overtly or covertly, meddled in a vast number of countries causing many thousands of deaths in most and a total death toll in the millions. Countries the US has directly meddled in include Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Iran, most infamously in 1953, and Saddam Hussein's war against Iraq from 1980 until 1988. Much of Latin America has also sufferred the rule of bloody militay juntas, installed with the help of the CIA. Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador have suffered bloody wars at the hands of the United States' local vassals
However, the otherwise informative Iranian PressTV (https://presstv.com or htttps://presstv.ir) now, perversely, sides with those forces now trying to meddle in the internal affairs of the United States!
Currently International forces largely guided by billionaire George Soros are attempting to overturn the immigration laws of the United States, as well as those of the European states. Nearly all of the coverage of this ongoing crisis by PressTV takes the supposed high moral ground of supporting the right of any person from Latin America or anywhere else in the world to seek a better life in the United States without regard to how this will affect existing United States' residents, particularly those who are unemployed or with low-skilled jobs.
PressTV's coverage fails to point out that the same criminal US elites, who have caused wars in recent years against Libya, Syria, Iraq Afghanistan and Yemen, also support the illegal immigration of cheap house maids and low-wage workers into the United States.
The Venezuelan Telesur TV (https://www.telesurenglish.net/) also takes this supposed high moral ground. This 'reporting' by the otherwise informative Telesur canonly make it much harder for ordinary US citizens to understand that they should oppose attempts by the US government to again interfere in countries like Venezuela and Nicaragua.
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