Interesting things too

Ha ha ha haaaa!

Too funny.

you not rocking ACAB anymore thinking man's thought policer?

run it's course?

served it's purpose?

or, exposed for what it is?

stepping away big fella...

thats ok, it seems you're not alone...

AAAD

Haha I knew a Gary once.

Top bloke.

Until he had one beer too many, and couldn't find his pipe.

Exactly what’s this all about I wonder .....

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/how-chinas-vi...

Comment under the article:

“I am aware of this & pleased to see you vigorously pursuing it still, Anthony. I've heard it from other sources as I have to say, I refuse to access or subscribe to anything linked to Murdoch.

Exactly why Virgin would want to build an new airport & a huge flight training facility near Tamworth, Australia, to train Chinese flight staff is a question not answered.

I am quite familiar with areas of provincial China & know it has plenty of available space to establish & train there. People have this impression of rural China being like Vietnam; each village less than a stone throw from the next. Take a province like Henan, over 90million people, highly industrialized, yet driving through rural areas of the province one can look out at wheat field & sheep grazing in seemingly endless paddocks, without an urban area in sight.

This facility in Tamworth was about establishing a strategically important, potentially military useful base in Australia. It would give the opportunity for Chinese air crew & intelligence officers to gain detailed knowledge of Australia. This is exactly what China has done in other countries.

Unless a lot more IA readers keep abreast of international news & geopolitical developments than I suppose, they may not know of China's earlier drive to establish a large naval facility near Sihanoukville in Cambodia. It was being built as a "aid"; a commercial port which rapidly became off limits to Khmer people. Then they set about "upgrading" Sihanoukville's airport, supposedly to facilitate growth in Chinese tourism. They secretly built a runway in an off limits location north of Sihanoukville which was beyond any commercial need, but ideal for military use. From there, they launched unmanned drones which roamed the skies, intruding into Vietnamese & Thai airspace plus the waters of the Gulf of Thailand. Since then, there's been a falling out with Hun Sen which has seen huge numbers of Chinese flee Cambodia. Undoubtedly Vietnam's shooting down of at least one of these Chinese drones will have seen 'serious discussion' with Hun Sen's former backer.

Cambodia is but one example of exactly what China has been attempting in strategic locations across the Pacific & the Indian Oceans & across to the east coast of Africa. China uses aid & supposedly commercial investment as a tool of influence, intelligence gathering & to establish potential military facilities in strategic locations. From the Andaman Seas, Cambodia, the South China Sea, PNG, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa Cook Islands & Micronesia, Chins is seeking to ring fence & isolate Australia. The Japanese tried to ring fence & isolate Australia in WW2. That's why war raged in the Coral Sea & in the Solomon Islands, most famously Guadalcanal. Australia is a very strategic location for any potential conflict, especially with China.

It is not only our links to the US through alliances, supposedly joint facilities like Pine Gap, it is the potential for forces based in Australia to also dominate the seas & air over large areas, and as a base of attack. We are a huge land mass, not an small island where facilities have to be concentrated. Australia's resources are essential to China & others. Iron ore (Fe) being but one. Yep, they can get Fe from Brazil, but that has to cross the US's areas of deniability, just as strategic fuels supplies our idiot Energy Minister has stored half a world away in Texas, would have to transit through China's ring fence.

Sadly, our politicians are a myopic pack of shortsighted fools who can't see beyond immediate dollars. It is why recent Coalition governments never recognised the risk of cutting aid to the Pacific. If they hadn't cut so arrogantly, China wouldn't have had the opportunity to usurp Australia's influence.

One has to wonder exactly what Gladys agenda is. She's a State Premier, not a PM or Federal Minister. One suspects it can only be a case of cash blindness & a convenient, unthinking sop for her gang of intellectually challenged Nationals seat warmers. It is almost as unfathomable as her determination to destroy one of the world's great museums, so her devloper mates can build more apartments.

Anthony, keep pushing. You've learnt the hard way why your former employer, has too much influence in our democracy. Politicians only fear being voted out, when perceived as traitors to the nation's best interests, by an overwhelming number of voters. That's the only thing which ever brings change.“

Blumpkin...

Times have changed?
I reckon you’re right. Despite thousands of years of constant invasions, I reckon you’ve called the change, and it’s all stopped as of last week

If you saw that a guy posted attacks on one or two people from 8.00 am to 11.00pm during one day then was straight into it the next morning with the same content would that raise alarm bells about the dudes mental well-being.
Would it make one wonder if there where other activities in this poor sods life that could tear him away from the forums. Maybe surfing or family or a life outside the same half a dozen people arguing over the price of eggs?
Just asking for a friend

Surfs up, I’m off.

Is blowin having a spell? The forums have been rather passive lately

I think everyone has Goofy, it was getting outa control there for a while :)

Thanks facto. Incompetence meets indifference funded by vested interest.

I agree Fitz

Talking Politics...
March 6 - (Aug 24 Fed Govt Return)
= Timeline for Sitting Days Nation / State / Territory

N Z....42 Days
WA...33
SA.....21
VIC....16
NSW.16 avg house split
QLD...15
TAS....14
Fed.... 12 (Polls Skyrocket when PM doesn't touch anything!)
ACT....10
NT........ 5

What a rort! 10mil to an overseas owned company and not freely available to all. #crook

Favours get repaid.

Only ever known 2 people to have Foxtel and 1 of those was from his parents subscription. I've always thought it was a rort, and it still is.

Per month

Basic pack: $49
or
Basic pack with Netflix: $61
+Sports HD : $25
+Movies HD: $20
+Kids: $5 (I mean ffs)
+Favourites : $20
+Multiscreen: $15
+HD: $10
etc etc etc.

Honestly, who would pay for this stuff? Does anyone really pay for this shite?

Feeling good about having just 3 subscriptions: Netflix $14, Spotify $12, and the best value of the lot, Swellnet for $9.....it may be cheaper than a Basic Foxtel subscription, but its value is inestimable.

It's just one of the many ways this government will find to repay the favours they owe..

Going to have to be a lot more handouts to save that sinking ship. Foxtel won't be around in a couple of years.

There's a reason why Australia's corruption index has deteriorated so much over the last 7 years. We are being governed by a pack of corrupt scumbags. $10 mil to Rupert and he didn't even ask for it. FFS that's pathetic.

The PM's Office asking for the list to be provided in Excel form instead of a PDF pretty much sets the scene doesn't it??

Lucky we've got these fellas at the helm...

..... and not forgetting the IPA prescribed tax cuts for those earning up to $200,000

The IPA pretty much doesn't do any "research" these days. It's become a third rate trolling organisation. Gina really isn't getting value for money.

What I do know is an IPA complements a ploughmans lunch delightfully.

Someone is wearing the cranky pants tonight.

I disagree- bread, cured meats, cheese and pickles. Who doesn't like that?

A meal fit for a king or a farmer.

Or anything served on a mini chopping board.

edit:- deconstructed and served on a mini chopping board.

Hey Zen, that ploughman's lunch; you would have to eat it with your hands wouldn't you? Just remembering how you keep your hands warm :)

There's always a thin layer of plastic keeping the nastiness at bay Guy. Haven't slipped up yet (touch wood).

I like your article Puppifact but don't see it happening. Co-opting pubs is another idea worth looking at though, but the wowser brigade is loud and proud and I reckon it's not even worth picking up that sharp stick to begin with.

Removing costs and barriers to entry would be somewhere to start. Little hole in the wall places, Japanese style, one owner-operator type scenarios.

Yea, what an inspiration, sheesh.
How about this one from last week...channeling Costello?