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Ex-journalist, ex-broadcaster, ex-Catholic, ex-X, ex-hausted. Mr Denmore is the (very) long-term nom-de-plume of now retired Australasian journalist and corporate communications hack, Jim Parker
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Yes, they had an agreement under Obama, then Trump ripped it up. And then he accuses the Iranians of refusing to negotiate. The only way Tehran can guarantee its security (like India and Pakistan) is get nuclear arms. It's quite logical. This is all about serving the interests of Israel.
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Then when Saddam arched up, the US invaded Iraq in 2003 which led to a 10-year civil war and created the terrorist group Islamic State. Yet still when Washington says ‘jump’ Albo and Marles say ‘how high?’
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The US overthrew Iran’s democratic govt in 1953 when it sought control of its own oil. Washington installed the despot Shah in its place, then when the Shah was overthrown in 1979 the US backed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in a bloody 8-year war against Tehran. Why wouldn’t Iran seek nukes??
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We’re told the ALP is being pragmatic and exercising realpolitik in its grovelling to Trump. I would have thought the only way we’ll get their attention and respect is to stand up and publicly disagree wth them, for once. Who advises these people??
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Quite. The level of self dumbing down you have to do when reading and watching how the legacy media nonchalantly normalises Trump’s fascism just leaves you questioning your own sanity
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And the words that don’t get them condemned on
Sky or in The Australian.Just gutless.
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Sorry don’t feel sorry for him. He’s a hack. Just vacuous
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If you can’t see what a compromised individual he is I have nothing to say to you.
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And here’s ‘Albo’, with his lisping speech impediment, telling us it’s about Israel’s ‘right to exith’. No mate, it is about your capacity to putting your shallow personal ambition above the principles you espoused as a youth. What a careerist whore you are.
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Marles is such a provincial mediocrity and placeholder for American power - a careerist vacuum and strutting egotist without a shred of substance, intellect or sense of any mission beyond his own aggrandisement
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Let’s see how courageous Trump is when Iranian operatives are targeting civilian targets on the US mainland. So much for the ‘peacemaker’ president. Trump is toast.
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Yes, there’s definitely a whiff of the old white trash of Asia superiority complex about it. Again, and despite all the evidence that they shouldn’t, they dance to the vile Murdoch’s tune.
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It’s the Canberra security and defence establishment who are all on the Sinophobic gravy train. These are all Peter Hartcher’s sources.
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The perfect job for some who has always been nothing more than a smarmy, self-interested, shallow spiv.
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I would have thought the popular stand would be say we’re reviewing the contract because of the excessive cost and because we are not sure about the wisdom of allying ourselves with a failed state. Just say it. What will they do?? Tell the Americans to f&^k off.
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And all lining up for well-paid defence and mining jobs when they leave politics.
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Yes, these are the End Days crowd of which Morrison is a paid up member.
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Let’s have a referendum. Do you want to spend $360 billion of taxpayers’ money to a failed state ruled by a corrupt rapist felon and conman on submarines that will never be delivered or should Australia work with its other allies on a defence strategy.
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I agree, but the point is the empire won’t protect us. If the US is walking away from Ukraine, it ain’t going into bat for Australia, Taiwan, Japan or South Korea.
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I just read Hugh White’s quarterly essay. He says the Canberra establishment is still living in the unipolar 90s. Clueless and completely devoid of imagination.
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My god, but it is a long, slow and painful and slow death. Can’t we get someone to administer some Nembutal?
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This treatment just proves how cowed their journalists are, essentially running PR for the Zionists who hide behind the fiction that they are representative of Jews, just as Trump claims to be a Christian.
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The ABC is in the pocket of the Zionists. You saw they took that interview down with a Palestinian representative. Just lily-livered careerists masquerading as journalists.
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Let’s speak frankly. The Zionists are doing to the Palestinians exactly what the Nazis did to the Jews. But Western politicians, trying to atone for appeasing Hitler and terrified by the ‘anti-semitism’ slur, just wave the genocide on through.Thats really what’s going on here.
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The super tax concessions were designed to encourage folk to save for retirement, taking pressure off the age pension. But they became primarily a tax minimisation vehicle. We must define a reasonable benefit and cap it. That’s not just equitable; it’s fiscally responsible
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And the irony is these extremely well-off people are the first to lecture the unemployment and those on sickness benefits about ‘entitlement culture’, all the while quietly sucking on the taxpayers’ tit.
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Agreed. It’s Mean Politics for Unhappy People.
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No, I’ve convinced the real evil ones are Gen X - ScoMo’s generation.
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I’m 66
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Retired public school principal John Frew captures Sussan Ley’s near impossible task in dragging the Liberal Party (never mind its fossil fuel-captured coalition partner) from the far right back to policies that reflect the concerns of middle Australia. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/05...
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Yes, I do know a bit about that. Did you see my reply earlier to someone who asked about it?
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Or rather, the Libs confuse what they stands for with what their donors stand for - wrecking the planet (miners), monetising division (Murdoch), war profiteering & demonising refugees (defence and security industry), killing public education (private schools), wrecking Medicare (private insurers)
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Those people are usually illiterate, I’ve found, wrongly assuming their winning of the generational real estate lottery makes them financial geniuses. A reckoning is coming.
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And the irony is her franking credits, even if she had them, were never imperilled. The issue was refunds for people whose tax liability was less than their franking credits. Hint: Not many. Already comfortable. Mostly pretty well off.
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And the fact is we can all see this. It’s karaoke politics. But then we are expected to play the ‘karaoke public’, mouthing along with the predictable scripts uttered by a zombie journo class.