By James O’Neill*
Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Defence Minister Linda Reynolds recently made an unexpected trip to Washington DC to confer with their US counterparts, Mike Pompeo and Mark Esper respectively. Why the two of them felt it necessary to make such a trip has never been exactly clear. One relatively minor inconvenience of the trip was the necessity for the two Australian Ministers to spend 14 days in quarantine upon their return. Such an inconvenience does not appear to be inflicted upon their American counterparts who travel abroad frequently and appear to suffer no restrictions upon their return before setting off again.
Pompeo recently paid a surprise visit to Denmark, a destination generally ignored by the United States’ globetrotting diplomatic elite. The only plausible explanation for Pompeo’s visit was the Danish government’s decision to allow part of their territorial waters to be used for the transit pipeline destined to carry vast quantities of Russian oil and gas to the German market and points beyond. This is a project bitterly opposed by the United States government for multiple self-interested economic and geopolitical reasons. The European countries should be free to make decisions as to what is in the best economic and political interests of their citizens appears not to be a consideration that troubles the Americans.
The media reporting on the Payne/Reynolds trip was illustrative of the role the mainstream media play in coverage of the Australia – United States relationship. All of the media went to some links to highlight Payne’s carefully worded public comments. Those reports suggested that Australia was not completely on board with the United States policy of demonising all things Chinese.
There are of course several very good economic reasons for Australia not to join in the United States demonisation of all things Chinese. China is Australia’s largest foreign market by a very large margin, largest source of both foreign students and foreign tourists, and the third largest source of foreign investment. Economic self-interest should be a paramount interest of any government purporting to act in the best interests of its people.
Unfortunately, the nominal gestures of separation by Australia from United States foreign policy obsessions is more apparent than real. The political calculation in Canberra is most probably that the Trump administration has only a few months of shelf life left. The public opinion polls, for what they are worth, generally supports the view that the next United States president, come January 2021, will be the ageing and manifestly mentally declining (through dementia) Joe Biden.
That Biden will be a faithful mouthpiece for the elites who actually run the United States is not in doubt, and the probable reason he got the nomination in the first place. Biden can also point to a proven track record of carrying out the wishes of the military-industrial – intelligence complex during his eight years as vice president under Obama.
Anyone expecting any shift in United States policy obsessions with Russia and China under a Biden presidency is sadly delusional. United States foreign policy has been fundamentally unchanged in the post- World War II era, regardless of the nominal occupier of the White House. John Kennedy displayed some signs of making significant shift in US foreign policy that he intended to implement after re-election in 1994. That was clearly unacceptable to the people who really run the US, so Kennedy was killed. It is one measure of the power of those forces, and their control of the mainstream media, that 57 years after the event they are still promoting the fairy tale of Lee Harvey Oswald as the “lone nut” assassin.
A new President in the United States in January 2021 will therefore from Australia’s point of view merely be a return to “normalcy” in Australian foreign policy. The normality of and unquestioning Australian compliance with United States foreign policy wishes has been the outstanding characteristic of Australian policy since the 1975 coup that overthrew the government of Gough Whitlam.
Whitlam had shown alarming (from the United States point of view) gestures toward an independent foreign policy. The proposed closure of Pine Gap was the decisive basis for the coup, although there had been a series of other foreign policy initiatives preceding that event that had raised alarm bells in Washington.
One of the clearest indications of that alarm was the appointment of Marshall Green as United States ambassador to Canberra during the Whitlam government’s tenure. Green was known as the “coup master” as a result of earlier United States “successes” in South Korea, Indonesia and Chile in removing non-compliant governments. It is a revealing feature of Australian discussions about the work of Jenny Hocking in her tireless pursuit of the palace letters, i.e. the correspondence between Attorney General John Kerr and Buckingham Palace, that the United States role is downplayed or ignored.
The most obvious manifestation of the results of that coup is that successive Australian governments, regardless of nominal political differences, have faithfully followed the United States line ever since. This has included, most obviously, participation in illegal United States wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, the eldest of which is now rapidly approaching its 20th anniversary.
Australian compliance with these wars is manifest for example, in the almost complete absence of debate in the Federal parliament. It is frankly astonishing, and more than a little alarming, that a country’s participation in wars of choice should receive so little Parliamentary scrutiny. It reflects, more than almost any other factor, that Australia is compliant with United States wars of choice, and that compliance is a cross-party policy.
Which brings us back to the token gestures of Payne and Reynolds. They represent above all, a combination of the Australian desire to have its cake and eat it too. That is, they wish to retain its highly lucrative links to the Chinese market while at the same time remaining a loyal catspaw to United States foreign policy interventionism of which wars of choice are but one manifestation.
Because joining United States wars of choice is such a bipartisan event, it would be singularly unrealistic to anticipate any change of policy in the foreseeable future. There is one cautious caveat to throw over that assumption. The Chinese have already exhibited signs of a loss of patience with Australia’s two-faced approach in restricting the importing of several key Australian exports.
This may be taken as a warning shot across the bows of Australian stupidity. The question to be asked is this. Will Australia get the message and amend its foreign policy adherence to United States imperialism, thereby rescuing its relationship with its most important customer? To be brutally frank, the symptoms are not promising. Payne’s gesture at attempting to put some space between United States and Australian foreign policy imperatives was just that; a gesture.
Come January 2021 normal subservience will be resumed and Australia will face some brutal realities. They cannot say they were not warned, not least by the thus far limited actions of the Chinese government. 50 years of subservience to the United States however, carries a price tag. Australia is shortly to learn just how high that price will be.
*Geopolitical analyst. He may be contacted at jamesoneill83@icloud.com
My sentiments exactly.
The ominous end note ” Australia is shortly to learn just how high that price will be” isn’t substantiated, what is suggested, trade between China will be wound back? So what, it will increase elsewhere as product is dumped onto the international market. Other countries are pushing back against the CCP now, ASEAN, Japan etc., are not in favour of Chinese expansionism. Australian Iron ore is sold by BHP and Rio Tinto (a Rotschild company).
China is not a serious military threat to Australia so long as the traditional alliances exist.
Chinese and North Korean threats are not to be taken very seriously.
There are submarines all over the place, ensuring things don’t get far out of line.
Some other points in the article don’t make sense, such as the idea that the Russia to Germany oil pipeline runs through Danish waters to somewhere, why would this be, the only somewhere is Norway and UK who have North Sea oil and gas.
The idea that Trump will lose the election because the polls say so is not proven by recent history, polls always wrong, even before you get to the US electoral college.
Last election Trump spent almost nothing, Hillary raised a fortune and was demolished in the debates when Trump organised some of the women alleging rape by Bill Clinton, this undermined Hillary”s extravagant “glass ceiling” strategy quite effectively.
Bill’s terrified face was the key moment of the entire election.
This election sleepy Joe will have to explain why his son was carrying $1b (?) back from China. Should be a very incoherent moment.
Lets see how the deep state tries to undermine the debates before we make any presumptions or boast of foreknowledge.
Trump has already reclaimed the Republicans from the insane Bush dynasty and cut down the controlled Democrats, next in line would appear to be the Rockerfellas and that gang, judging by Trump’s stance on BIgPharma and the drug trade in general (notably his famed abstinence from mind-atering substances and the great big wall).
Trump was too smart for them all last time and I think will probably produce a few surprises again this time. This is the main game in the world this year. Fatalism is low value stuff in this context.
James I say this every time you write. Maybe I am off the wall but I’ll say it again:
The United States of which you speak is not my United States.
I mean the same for Australia. Is Marissa Payne Australia?
Mary, I don’t doubt the United States you knew growing up was a place worthy of admiration.
However George Carlin, calling in from the spirit world, informs us what it has become :
Off topic, Gates to give $$ to epstein. 4 minutes of MSM if you can tolerate it.
Thank you as always James
At the foot of the article in the WordPress view was linked this article (I dare anyone to skim it for dessert after vomiting up Mary’s MSM course)
https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/174636241/posts/319
“Australia has shown that when it counts, it is not afraid to stand up for its values and choose a side.
[… ]
Australia has chosen to uphold its values and stand by its closest ally, despite the obvious risk of economic reprisal.”
and
“A commitment to stick closest when times are tough is the true test of any relationship. This year, Australia and America have continuously proven that the relationship is far more than mateship or an obligatory tradition, it is a world-class model of an alliance which is above personalities and greater than the challenges of the day.”
It talks about those wonderful ‘shared values’
As Phil said in the previous article about Obama (yeah, me too!), I used to think that ‘shared values’ meant shared what I thought were ‘values’ – you know, decency, integrity, generosity … apparently not so.
They are very clever with words – like ‘health care’ – ‘charitable fund/trust/foundation’ – ‘philanthropy’ – or ‘humanism’.
“John Kennedy displayed some signs of making significant shift in US foreign policy that he intended to implement after re-election in 1994.”
Obvious misprint which most Gumshoe readers will know. Should have been “after re-election in 1964.”
Unfortunately James the political animals of the two major parties are brain dead and will not take any notice of what the people of Australia want. You only have to look at the Banking Industry “amendment bills” that they are refusing to pass at this time. Another major stuff-up is the carryon with the second greatest scam the world has known, named the Covid-19 event.
The greatest scam is the privately owned central banks loaning “funny money” to governments at interest. The funny money being a number plucked from the atmosphere loaded into a computer and sent to Reserve Bank of Australia and other places. That so called loan and interest is repaid with real currency earned from our labour and sovereign assets.
I forgot to mention the borrowing by Government from these foreign central banks is illegal. The Commonwealth Constitution states that ” the Federal Government is to issue the currency”. There is no mention of being permitted to borrow outside the country.
” the Federal Government is to issue the currency”. There is no mention of being permitted to borrow outside the country.
“issuing the currency” is not the same as “borrowing the currency” from megalomaniac usurers whether such usurers are nominally domestic or supranational corporate (or private) elites.
Money is simply a man-made convenience to simplify and facilitate the trading of goods and services and its token is entirely irrelevant ; the only criterion of its usefulness for the purpose is its acceptance by traders.
The only fault with the present system of ledger-entries (digital or “hard copy”) (effectively IOU claims for goods or services rendered) is that such medium of exchange is all issued as a debt to someone, somewhere with the implied (interest) claim to goods and services not supplied.
It is not without good reason that usury is one of the crimes “crying to Heaven for vengeance” as a most subtle and sly defiance of the Commandment “you shall not steal”.
An independent foreign policy for Australia?
You must be delusional, James. ‘Straya is a vassal of the “City of London” and its franchise in the District of Columbia since the get-go.
The only way for ‘Straya to detach from the plutocratic oligarchy is for the ordinary people to repudiate the carefully selected pawns of the political, corporate, judicial and “academic” elite and to install even people of moderate integrity into the “government”. Poor ole Lot didn’t have much success in that regard which resulted in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
I view this discussion quite differently. I hope China punishes Australia most severely for its naughtiness.
With a bit of luck, this will end Chinese imports, Chinese students, and Mandarin being the predominent language on many Australian streets.
I look forward to Australia reestablishing manufacturing and tariffs, and a new policy of exporting metals only in manufactured form.
Actually, I would love to see an end to imports and exports altogether, and also to foreign investment.
What is well-hidden from most Australians is that this is the only nation on Earth that possesses every resource, including oil. We do not need to trade to balance imports. And, best kept secret of all time, exports are endemically inflationary.
I very much admire Chinaman for his long history and cultural integrity… Chinaman is not our enemy! The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is. And it was created by the same God-hating perverts that slyly manipulate (Fabian style) the so-called “Western World”.
I agree. We and Chinaman and Seppoman and Godknowswhoman are in the same boat. The enemy is not over the border, he is above us.
I know of Chinese students in Oz who would like to change the rules in Beijng.
Nice side saddle Norsewoman, we will get the few numbers we need… Neeeeea(horse doing that horse noise).
Norsemen and Women what do you know of the Viking’s claw.
The Vikings and Baron Dupuytren’s disease.
I watched a recent David Icke video and it seems he is of that line. me too it seems Cathy Morgan courageous work–mostly unseen unknown unheard
The Vikings and Baron Dupuytren’s disease.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1305903/
I think it is mid way in this video–where it is noticeable that David Icke’s right hand is “claw like”
https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/5994×5/watch-david-icke-conspiracy-of-the-lizard-illuminati
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Its genetic at the least.
The Enemy is among us and he has an army of servants who look rather like us to implement his utterly perverse agenda. Inordinate Pride (I will not serve God or Man), Greed and Lust are the yoke and shackle sold as “liberty, equality, fraternity” that entice many into the Gulag.
Yes Dianne you are right. David does have a crippled hands, the effect of osteoarthritis. That is the reason that he had to give up a successful career as a professional football player in England. At that stage it was not his hands, but his knees.
couldn’t agree more, Tony. But just how many farms & industries, resources & ports etc do we still have in Aussies’ possession? Our polis sold us out long ago!
If ‘Straya was what it’s supposed to be (Christian, with a rule of law independent a of dictator’s whims) the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would forbid any of their controlees to come here for fear that they might be “contaminated” with the notion that a nation only exists so that its people can reach an indivifual sublime end.
Sorry Mr Elderly.
I SEEM TO BE BLOCKED COMMEMTING IN SUPPORT.
My point expressed is when James acknowledges that the bankers run our country and determine foreign policy I will think that stupid has awakened.
“50 years of subservience to the U.S … carries a price tag”.
50 years of grovelling.
50 years of shame ( alluding to our involvement in foreign military misadventures – some of these wars on behalf of Israel).
Enough is enough.
As for significant shifts in U.S foreign policy, Kennedy was not the only outlier.
Let’s not forget the much maligned Richard Nixon who the Zio-cabal assassinated also.
Not literally of course but Nixon was politically assassinated when the cabal purposely engineered the Watergate event to discredit him.
Nixon did more than ‘display signs’ of a significant foreign policy shift.
He ACTUALLY implemented the SALT 1 (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) with the Soviets and reestablished political, diplomatic and trade ties with China (not to mention withholding satellite information from the Israelis on purpose which showed a build up of Egyptian / Syrian forces poised to strike Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur war).
Make no mistake, Nixon wanted the Arab coalition to deliver more than a black eye to the Apartheid Israeli state and if the Zionists had been routed he would’ve been over the moon.
Both of the first two initiatives were not part of the script so this entailed serious repercussions for Nixon’s display of autonomy.
As for Nixon’s machinations that nearly cost the Zionists victory in the 1973 war, this was viewed as an act of treachery and from then on the Zio-cabal went all out to sow the seeds of Nixon’s demise.
Tony,
Your proposal is the only sane solution possible to restore prosperity to our commonwealth.
Although restoring the skills needed will be difficult. Practise makes perfect cause if we don’t use it we lose it.
The philantrophists have sucked the workers here dry. Broken broke and discarded, replaced by the third world. These are the results of mass migration and compliance to free(slave) communist trade.
We Europeans that migrated here, came from the first world, with knowledge and skills. Contributed significantly in the building of this nation. Cannot share the sentiments with the exploited new arrivals delivering take away on push bikes, or the professionals repeating Darwin’s devolutionary script.
Just saw a Democratic Party bumper sticker – “Sniff and Blow 2020”
I recall a bumper sticker from the early 80’s when Malcolm Fraser was P.M and his wife Tammy was first lady :
‘ Tammy’s got one. Mal is one ‘ .
Not that I agreed then. And, in light of the courageous disclosures Mal came up with in his final years, I believe he’s a champion Australian.
For general interest … so much reading to catch up on.
Keith Knight interviews Peter Quinones about Edward Bernays’ “Propaganda” – A Book Summary and Analysis
At 13:00
*”Quinones: I’m so happy that I read this before COVID.
I’m so happy that I read this before George Floyd.
Because I’ve been able to see through everything they’re doing and as I told you before it is insanely scary what’s going on right now. I mean they’re not even hiding it anymore.”*
Included here as 1 of 49 PDF links
https://archive.org/details/EdwardBernaysWomenSmokingAdCampaignPropaganda
Edward Bernays and Group Psychology: Manipulating the Masses
{Off topic; RE beirut)
A paragraph noted from Zerohedgea few days ago:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/rabo-once-again-global-architecture-risk-collapse-which-perfect-environment-markets-keep
Ironically, today marks the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Sevres, which dismantled the Ottoman Empire post-WW1, and which is likely to get far more attention in Turkey than it does in the West –where nobody seems to study history anymore– even as France jostles with Turkey over both Cyprus and Libya. Of course, it is also the date that saw the start of the French mandate in Syria and Lebanon, which coincides with French President Macron’s recent visit to ruined Beirut, a promise that France won’t walk away from it (which will be very expensive, if so), and a Lebanese petition signed by 61,000 people so far demanding the country once again “be placed under a French mandate for the next 10 years.”
New phrase in doublespeak by Vic. premier – “patient zero”. Taken out of Pol Pot’s mouth.
Realising that all in power are compromised poofters and pedophiles WHO drink the blood of sacrificed children, it’s clear to see where this is heading. During this whole event, just wonder how many children have vanished when compared to people actually dying from crown virus? In China they serve baby soup in restaurants, fact. Serco has Victorians under Martial Law CCP style.
Unless they are arrested and punished for murder, these pigs will continue to spread their abominations to all states. The three BSL4 factories must be shut down, otherwise there is no stopping this genocide.
Baby soup ? From human babies ?
Did that come from the same source that claims the Chinese are throwing dissidents ALIVE into incinerators ? (ie: the Kuwaiti ambassador’s daughter).
Repeating, there are no nation states. It’s a flag waving exercise for stupids.
This system is one global government run by murderous blood drinking vampires.
Hell, yes the royals are related to Dracula.
On a positive note, today is St. Mary’s day.
For believers, a yearly event celebrated just like Cristmass and Easter.
Where ever there are statues, of the Holy Mother, she is always crushing the head of the snake under her feet. Have faith in prayer for everlasting truth.
Yes-a positive note- the sun still shines the bird sings and David Icke knows a thing or two and never ever gives up
[Part 2/2] The Most VICIOUS HONEST 10 Minutes Of Your Life – David Icke
David Icke: Conspiracy of the Lizard Illuminati (Part 2/2)
Diane, the David Icke videos you posted above were very powerful.
I recommend them to all.
Sorry James off topic—however John Brown is a fellow traveller and the Annie Jacobsen links are relevant–and could be of interest—-connects some dots–
COVID-19 and the Aussie Battler Mindset in 30 Seconds
Monday, 23 March 2020
Annie Jacobsen: The Secret History of the CIA and Annie Jacobsen: Inside DARPA: The Pentagon’s Brain.
http://www.traumainreligion.com/about326.php?fbclid=IwAR2-8xN0KOqdfoUHxauv-XKykXzXP84b0jhBb_zQycXdR4X6ElM0rMmsyJQ
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John Brown does what is the rote position of the Enemy these days… to infer that sexual deviancy is the sole prerogative of Catholic clergy without any indication that such perverts have almost always repudiated their Christian faith in favour of the Naturalism that has been relentlessly pushed by the Synagogue and their lackeys in Freemasonry for well over 200 years. Such maggots should have, if they had any integrity at all, owned up to being outside the Christian fold and left. However, like Judas of old, they find it convenient to exploit the benevolence of their associates to indulge their moral and intellectual perversities.
Officially, the stated position of the Catholic Church is that any clergy or religious that is credibly accused of “sins against nature” in a Canonical Court and found guilty should be stripped of all ecclesiastical dignity (and forbidden to act in the name of the Church) and be handed over to secular authorities even if the likely penalty is death for the offender.
As long as it can be maintained that sexual perversity is a proclivity of the Catholic Church then all other perverts will be glossed over and ignored. In fact, it seems that whenever institutionalised perversion is alluded to there is a frantic flurry of accusations against a very few Catholics as a distraction.
Hi oldavid– whats your story??
re John Brown -I have only just found his web site–yes it is slow to load–but I recommend it to all–an Australian voice– a man prepared to share his experience, knowledge, research. Aligns with Fiona Barnett Reina Michaelson and Sarah Moore.
Also my story a survivor of tavistock experiments.
This is bigger than you or me– but I share some links– a wealth of info -cathyfox
https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2020/08/14/anneke-lucas-pimped-by-her-mother-to-the-belgian-network/
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2010/03/madeleine-and-dutroux-links-to-ghent.html
Also
If you are passionate for change and want to take a stand for the Children of this World, and you are in Australia, please join our Movement for change to help bring an end to Trafficking and Pedophilia.
For those who cannot speak.
For those never heard.
For those afraid to stand.
And those gone too soon.
For the Children.
Find the group on Facebook or DM for the link. Worldwide protest scheduled for August 22nd. Once you find the main group, it’s sub divided into countries & details of each city where protests are being held. I will be assisting with the Melbourne & Australia group.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/198725658247299/?ref=share
(Global Group – For The Children)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1211379655866247/?ref=share
(Australia Group – For The Children)
Also oldavid what were your earliest recollections 3 and a half.
John shares his:
‘For many years my earliest recollection was of a day at around 3 and a half years of age playing in the dry dirt under the house with a little girl from next door (white haired just as I was). She was the child of refugees from Western Europe after the end of WWII.
My father came to the little door that led to under the house and asked where my older brother Robert was. I pointed to the cubby under the bathroom corner.
My father walked over and opened the door. Inside was Robert who would have been about 8 years of age at that time and the lady refugee; she had been sexually molesting my brother.
Robert was blamed and was punished terribly by my father to the extent that Robert was forced to dig a hole in the back yard and put his small black and white Fox Terrier dog into the hole and my father shot it as punishment.
It is difficult to describe the horror of that today – what it must have been like to live through is difficult to describe. Many events like this led to my eventually developing my understanding of the abuse of children within the Catholic religion and the importance of the deeply embedded trauma of the Catholic childhood experience. This was also the beginning of bullying from brother Robert to the extent that my mother sought refuge for me with the nuns at the local convent.
“Pretend John if you have to”. Words my mother spoke to me on a number of occasions with regard to my disbelief in the Catholic notion of a god. On the last time I saw her she smiled and said she was having two bob each way. If there was an afterlife then she would be getting back to me”.
I am very much disinclined to give credibility or confidence to anyone at all whose claim to “righteousness” consists mainly or entirely in abusing Apostolic Christianity. The Enemy of God and Man has always had a plethora of disciples (often heavily disguised) going about his business of “dragging this God out of His Heaven” (Karl Marx) by any ruse to discredit the “Word made flesh” and His disciples.
Icke presents as a rather clumsy distraction manufacturer trying to create the illusion that various arch-criminals are not just “ordinary people” who have given themselves over to insane megalomania and a self-indulgent perversity but are some kind of hostile extraterrestrials… making the Christian notions of Grace, perversity and free will seem ridiculous and entirely irrelevant.
Brown presents as another kind of “Chuck something-or-other” (claimed to be an ex Jesuit) whose “comic books” were practically ubiquitous back in the ’70’s wherever Apostolic Christianity was reviled.
In answer to your strange question: my earliest memories are of following my Dad around the farm and raiding his tool box to pull things to bits to see how they worked; often incurring his wrath for getting in the road or leaving his tools where they might never be found again. I don’t know what you’re on about but I got plenty of beatings at home and at school and whether they were richly deserved or administered in ire or frustration they were blardy good preparation for the world outside home which is not centred on my convenience or pleasure.
I think the guts of this argument as far as the topic goes is that there must be some rules regarding the nature and purpose of human life and society that entirely transcend personal opinion and convenience; the most fundamental of which is the Ten Commandments and the derivatives of such.
Some useless and discarded memories seem to have resurfaced. I seem to recall that “Chuck something-or-other” used to call himself “Jack Chick”. Ageing anti-Catholics will certainly recall his diatribes even if I got his name wrong in both instances.
+1 Oldavid
Truth,
Baby soup hard to digest for most.
For red flesh eaters, eating veal mutton pork game etc. is all similar with slight variations in taste.
Who knows what’s in the cans and sausages?