Or "Seas the Day!" as my cruise ship key from a trip to Hobart last December says! (ref Carpe Diem). Yes - vast sums to feed the share dividends of US investors in WMD/AUKUS nonsense - and "budget surpluses" - definitely not the role of governments whose duty as you point out is to look after its people - not send our tax moneys abroad - nor to Ukraine/Israel either. Nor to hell-holes such as Nauru run on "our" behalf by US security companies! Keep up the clarity, Tim.
I don't mind using our taxes for aid: well spent, it is part of looking after us, too, and that might sometimes include things like the Ukraine. But you raise a bigger point that I didn't go into in this piece: we are also constrained by global systems to which we are party, so we need to be careful about them too. AUKUS is predicated on all sorts of formal and informal arrangements and understandings that go back decades.
All I can say is check out Aaron Maté's 8,000 word review (two days ago) of the entire US (Bidens/Nuland especially) involvement in the mess which is now Ukraine - and the deaths to suit US geo-political aims - of all Ukrainian men available to be conscripted into its military up to age 60! (He was interviewed US yesterday by US Judge Napoletano - 30 minutes of intelligent and informative detail - following the publication of his essay.
You know your stuff Tim, and you write so eloquently and articulately about it. I've never heard you speak, but I wonder if you would ever consider political representation? You seem to get the issues, and have a nose for what we can do to make progress. I'd vote for you in an instant!
'iuramentum sanguinum, bene scriptum' I respond in Latin. Bravo, well argued. Short. Pithy. Accurate. Eager to hear more of: I’ll talk more about specific structural reforms over the coming months and will keep you up to date on some projects already underway'. 2025 or sooner will be a make or break moment for this nation's notion of a fair, equal and sustainable Australian democracy. Cheers
Spot on - I would add that the mainstream media has very little effective journalism - at best, trapped by the same elitist mindset - but, I think, much worse is driven mostly by ideology - of the extreme Right
Or "Seas the Day!" as my cruise ship key from a trip to Hobart last December says! (ref Carpe Diem). Yes - vast sums to feed the share dividends of US investors in WMD/AUKUS nonsense - and "budget surpluses" - definitely not the role of governments whose duty as you point out is to look after its people - not send our tax moneys abroad - nor to Ukraine/Israel either. Nor to hell-holes such as Nauru run on "our" behalf by US security companies! Keep up the clarity, Tim.
I don't mind using our taxes for aid: well spent, it is part of looking after us, too, and that might sometimes include things like the Ukraine. But you raise a bigger point that I didn't go into in this piece: we are also constrained by global systems to which we are party, so we need to be careful about them too. AUKUS is predicated on all sorts of formal and informal arrangements and understandings that go back decades.
I agree with everything you said except funding for Ukraine - a very difficult 'problem'
All I can say is check out Aaron Maté's 8,000 word review (two days ago) of the entire US (Bidens/Nuland especially) involvement in the mess which is now Ukraine - and the deaths to suit US geo-political aims - of all Ukrainian men available to be conscripted into its military up to age 60! (He was interviewed US yesterday by US Judge Napoletano - 30 minutes of intelligent and informative detail - following the publication of his essay.
You know your stuff Tim, and you write so eloquently and articulately about it. I've never heard you speak, but I wonder if you would ever consider political representation? You seem to get the issues, and have a nose for what we can do to make progress. I'd vote for you in an instant!
There's a reason I write. Also have a great face for radio!
Yes Tim! Absolutely. We have to storm the walls of the Bastille.
Thanks for your good thoughts and sharing it with us.
At least the media class have given it a red hot go, throwing themselves onto the scrapheap of irrelevancy.
Worse than that - mainstream media is mostly biased and unquestioning of the status quo
'iuramentum sanguinum, bene scriptum' I respond in Latin. Bravo, well argued. Short. Pithy. Accurate. Eager to hear more of: I’ll talk more about specific structural reforms over the coming months and will keep you up to date on some projects already underway'. 2025 or sooner will be a make or break moment for this nation's notion of a fair, equal and sustainable Australian democracy. Cheers
2025 is shaping as one to watch. Where that "floating third" I keep talking about land in the next election will be very interesting to see.
absolutely!. All the best
Spot on - I would add that the mainstream media has very little effective journalism - at best, trapped by the same elitist mindset - but, I think, much worse is driven mostly by ideology - of the extreme Right
Class is definitely an issue, and a lot of journos will say the same thing.