Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "" video.

  1. Australia in the 1930s was politically almost tantamount to the Third Reich of the South Seas. Why? Quasi-fascism and right-winged economic squeezing of the Australian population by the Bank of England until blood comes out of the stone (why a left revolution never happened back then was a mystery). This was little to do with the United States back then (except for causing a global depression), but a fair bit of being in debt then to the bloody British Empire. This brand of Fascism back then not only extended to cutting the ribbon to opening the Sydney Harbour Bridge by an actual horse-riding, sabre weilding fascist instead of the State premier, Jack Lang (by a Quisling named De Groot). To the Western Australian government, a notably fascist government by Australian standards until the present day, pointed bored ex-soldiers at emus (a native seed eating bird of a type called a ratite) in order to expend machine gun bullets and brain cells. This was the stupid Emu War. Fortunately, the emus (being quite common and a hardy species) were not wiped out, unlike the unfortunate Thylacine or Tasmanian Tiger at about that same time (in Tasmania). This account of the ridiculous Emu War is fair, by a Yank. 😉
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