Comments by "Animal Farm" (@animalfarm7467) on "news.com.au" channel.

@sorrrbet4923 You should understand, those who put the military personnel on a pedestal have been watching too many Hollywood movies. For those who aren’t psychopaths already, there is a strict reprogramming of the individual; they disassemble the personality and reconstruct it into something that will blindly follow orders. Look at the exposure by Assange of the murders of reporters on the ground in Iraq; listen to the psychopathic voices as they slaughter innocents. They are not the exception, psychopaths are the rule. Understand, the US is an Empire and under the cloak of “R2P - humanitarian intervention”, “defending freedom & democracy” or the fabricated scam of “A Threat to US National Security”; Washington invades countries, steals natural resources, and kills anyone who resists. Stealing natural resources and the Petrodollar scam is how those who own the US grew rich. Sometimes, like in Afghanistan, Washington has a fake rebuilding program to delude the recruits into believing they are doing some “good”, but in reality it’s just a mechanism for many in the higher ranks and other US officials to grow rich. Like the US Military Industrial and Intelligence Complex; it’s all about stealing dollars from the US taxpayer. If you really want to understand the strategy behind Afghanistan, read Zbigniew Brzenski’s “The Grand Chessboard”. Australia is just one of the US’s many vassal states Washington uses to create fake legitimacy on the world stage; and it utilizes Australia's forces in thieving other states natural resources when it can. What do you think the Iraq war was about? I'll give you a hint; it wasn't about Weapons of Mass Destruction or Saddam sourcing uranium from Niger; it was about oil and doing the bidding of Israel. What do you think the Syrian War was about? I’ll give you another hint – it was started under “Operation Timber Sycamore” by the CIA to overthrow Assad so the US could steal the oil and run pipelines from Saudi Arabia into Europe. Look at where the US military is stationed in North-Eastern Syria – right in the middle of the oil fields. Understand, the real terrorist is the US military. Washington, the Saudis, and other Gulf States are the ones who fund and arm the terrorists to do their bidding in states like Libya and Syria. The only real difference between Australia and the US is the US has the American Service-Members' Protection Act which is a "get out of ICC jail" free card – look it up! If the ICC should ever grow some balls and tell Bolton to go screw himself and prosecute the US and US Alliance war criminals, there would be fear of exposure in the eyes of many western politicians. This is the reason the US has passed the American Service-Members' Protection Act so it can legally, under US law, use the US military to extract by “all means necessary and appropriate to free US or allied personnel detained by or on behalf of the ICC.” It is sometimes called the Hague Invasion Act; so don’t give me any of this “Yamashita standard” crap when discussing “standards” that regulate military behavior. When it hits the fan, it’s all just toilet paper. Rules of Engagement and other equivalents are only something for ignorant idealists to believe; those fools who delude themselves into believing it’s a John Wayne movie. Understand, by definition and in actuality, the “US “Medal of Freedom” winner John Howard along with many in the Bush administration along with Tony Blair are all war criminals for their roles in the Iraq War and should be prosecuted at The Hague for War Crimes.
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@generaldamage3282 : It's a pain in the backside we can't directly give references to information anymore, but that's the world we live in. So if you wish to read a relevant article on the Whitlam Coup, may I suggest an article in The Guardian entitled, "The British-American coup that ended Australian independence". I have checked the Google search and it will retrieve the 2014 Guardian article by just inserting (in quotes) "The British-American coup that ended Australian independence". If this doesn't work, maybe include "Guardian" in separate quotes. There is another article in the Independent Australia (IA) but I have not researched its content although it should be similar to the Guardian article. It is entitled "Gough Whitlam and the CIA’s forgotten coup" and has the caption, "The political demise of Gough Whitlam is one of America's dirtiest secrets — but don’t expect to hear that from Australia’s political and media elite". This article may also give you some insight into the events of 1975. If you still having trouble, tell me and I will create a more detailed search string.
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"these men are guilty then so are the senior commanders" - sadly, this is not the case in the US Empire. Remember the Abu Ghraib tortures; those prosecuted were low in the ranks - Specialist Charles Graner and PFC Lynndie England. It was Cheney, Rumsfeld and many in the Bush administration along with the American Enterprise Institute neocons who created the rendition and torture program; and it was the CIA agent John Kiriakou who exposed the torture program and was sentenced to 2 years jail for his efforts. Those complicit in the torture program (Gina Haspel) were then promoted to Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. That’s the US Empire – full of war criminals and grifting sleaze that push Imperial wars under the guise of “humanitarian intervention” to profit the plutocrats that own and control the political arena.
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@sorrrbet4923 I was just giving a comment about the US military as Washington DC owns Australia - lock stock and barrel. The member for Hillsong (Morrison) always asks how high when Washington asks him to jump. Understand that "standards" don't apply when it comes to war crimes. All you get are token gestures from military puppet generals to appease the masses and maybe the prosecution of a couple of grunt psychopaths in the lower ranks. Psychopaths recruited into the military, whether in Australia or in the US, have been put there to kill - period. And then people start wringing their hands when the inevitable happens. As far as they're concerned, their only crime is they got caught.
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@sorrrbet4923 :Which part is a "conspiracy" - Don't be another deluded moron - look it up - it's fact. Henry Kissinger wasn't joking when he said "Military Men Are Dumb, Stupid Animals To Be Used As Pawns For Foreign Policy." - again - look it up!
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@sorrrbet4923 Don't run and hide under your bed and pull your "conspiracy" security blanket over your head to protect you from the truth. If you really want to know about the military, may I suggest you review the work of Westpoint graduate US Major Danny Sjursen (retired). He has a number of articles in "The Nation" and other publications and some educational YouTube videos. I'll ask you again; which statement is incorrect?
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@sorrrbet4923 : You have to think outside of that tribal military brainwashing that says only those within “your” little clique within the Australian military will understand the “truth”. Don’t you understand, this is the same BS that allowed these Afghanistan war criminals to cluster in groups and protect each other from being exposed as criminals? May I suggest you look at the big picture? Be brave and ask some awkward questions. Take a chance and look outside of your military cult and get some exposure to global politics. Read some books and get a broad understanding of the world and the reality of Anglo-American imperialism. If you intend to be in combat, may I suggest you research why you are exposing yourself to potential injury and death? You have to look past the usual mindless gladiatorial BS these cretins sell you and ask why. And when you eventually come to the conclusion that you are exposing yourself to threats of injury just to fill the wallet of some Anglo-American plutocrats, you will understand your precious military and its isolationist cult is nothing more than a private mercenary force. Many in the US military already understand this reality and approximately 20 a day who can’t handle the truth tend to take the easy way out.
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@generaldamage3282 : I beg to differ; the Anglo-America Empire owns Australia, lock stock and barrel. What existed of Australia’s sovereignty was decimated when US ambassador to SE Asia Marshal Green and the CIA removed Whitlam in 1975 and it hasn’t recovered since. The Whitlam Coup is widely known in the US but for some reason reality has been obfuscated with something about “supply” in Australia. But to understand that part of Australian history, read John Pilger. The upper levels in Canberra are now filled with Washington’s puppets and even the Canberrian “Wolverines” (Andrew Hastie, James Paterson, Tim Wilson) attack the US’s competitors (e.g. China) at every opportunity. Understand that people like Hastie are members of Neocon institutions like the Henry Jackson Society dedicated to the Anglo-American Empire. If Hastie lived in the US, he would be a member of the Neocon “American Enterprise Institute” from where the Iraq Was war strategized. Canberra, the media, and many institutions within Australia are filled with Washington puppets from US think tanks in Australia (e.g. US Study Center, US Asia Study Center). To understand how we got here, understand the US plutocrats began exporting jobs in the late 1970s to exploit cheap labor and increase their profits; and now wages have stalled for decades in the US we’re now close to the inevitability of that decision. In the US, the middle class is disappearing rapidly and those plutocrats who control the US are looking for a way out of their social, political, and economic dilemma. The US has the highest infection rate and deaths from Covid19 and that’s no coincidence. A functional democracy no longer exists and the plutocrats within Wall Street and the Military Industrial Complex now control the US government independent of who sits in the Oval Office. The US Empire is now failing due to the exportation of jobs and the implementation of Neoliberal policies and you are now watching the evolution of a failed state. Eventually the US is expected to reflect Brazil with a few wealthy and a sea of favelas. Understand Covid19 didn’t initiate the current US dilemma; it only exposed a corrupt failing system. The only question you need to ask is, “Will the US Empire implode relatively (Suez) peacefully like Britain, or will it instigate a war with China in some vain attempt to escape its dilemma?” This isn’t the first time in history an Empire has fallen into the Thucydides Trap. And may I suggest you research the ANZUS treaty and its implications. The treaty is "consultative" only, and as Articles 3, 4, & 5 of the treaty infer; there is no action defined by which the US must come to Australia's defense should it be attacked. Do a little research and you will find in an interview with the 2014 Defense Minister, Senator David Johnston; when he was asked, "Does the ANZUS alliance commit Australia or not, if the United States is in a conflict in our region?"?" and his response was, "I don't believe it does." So if the ANZUS treaty doesn't commit Australian forces to a US conflict in our region, I can't see how the reciprocal would be applicable. There appears to be a mountain of intentional ambiguity in the ANZUS treaty and maybe you should consider Washington's commitment to the JCPOA to get some understanding of how the US has acted throughout history. The irony to all of this is if War did break out say between China and Australia, it would have been instigated by Washington using its usual plethora of NGOs (e.g. NED), and the always faithful to the Anglo-American Empire - CIA. Take heed the words of Henry (Heinz) Kissinger, “America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests”. Always listen to your Uncle Henry!
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The Democrat and Republican criminals steal taxpayer dollars and pump them into Wall Street at zero interest rates allowing corporations to buy their own stock to increase stock prices and executive bonuses; and the rubes wonder why the financialized economy is at all time highs when the real economy is in the gutter.
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I don't see why people are so surprised. The most effective soldier is a psychopath as they kill without any emotional response; and most of the elite forces will be filled to the brim with psychopaths independent of what the Hollywood propaganda tries to convince you. Is the feigning of regret by this puppet of the system expected to convince you humanity and integrity exists within the military? The simple answer is the US military and its cohorts in imperial crime intimidate, threaten, and kill for hegemony of empire and natural resources for profit. If they actually wanted to let the people understand what atrocious acts these Washington sycophants carried out in Afghanistan, they wouldn't have redacted the report.
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