Letters to the Editor
Yes... The AUKUS chickens are coming home to roost
March 10, 2025
Dear John M., Thank you, thank you, thank you. For me and my reading, this article is so absolutely long overdue and well merrited. Just bang-on. “The Chinese Hawks” … being our government(s), politicians, general press, way too many of our 26 million and a lot of the rest of the world need to get your (our) drift. FYI … I have a daffy P.A.C. mate (Red) who belongs to the above group. I'm sure there are plenty of my S.P.O.C. (Blue) blokes in the same boat. Our poorly educated prime minister must learn word for word and understand...
James Scammell from Bowden, Adelaide, South Australia
In response to: The AUKUS chickens are coming home to roost, already By John Menadue Mar 7, 2025
Getting your head around community independents
March 10, 2025
Michael Keating's article shows that he's firmly stuck in the two-party system, unable to get his head around what community independents are – that independent means what it says and that, in government, it can and does work. When every vote they make is evidence-based and community considered, why would community independents effectively write a blank cheque to guarantee supply to one party or the other before knowing what is on the table after the election? Once they know who they are dealing with (Will there be an upset in Dickson? We live in hope!) and what assurances the...
Margaret Callinan from Hawthorn VIC 3122
In response to: Minority government: what will it look like?
Striking a 'balance of power' bargain
March 10, 2025
Excellent article, Mr Menadue. It would be a very good thing indeed if those MPs who are predicted to hold the balance of power after the forthcoming election were to use as a bargaining chip the commitment to re-examine everything to do with AUKUS and our ties (i.e. relinquished sovereignty) to the US military-industrial complex. The examiners must not include anyone at all from said US military-industrial complex or their lackeys in our tertiary education institutions. Let's all suggest this to our MPs! We've got nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Margaret Callinan from Hawthorn VIC 3122
In response to: The AUKUS chickens are coming home to roost, already
ABC ratings
March 10, 2025
I have zero tolerance for the obvious lies the ABC has been broadcasting. You know what would send their ratings through the roof? Telling the truth. You know what will keep ABC struggling to get off the floor? Continuing to lie to us.
Caroline McArthur from Central West
In response to: Fool or Fabricator-ABC in the spotlight
Trump: end point and springboard
March 10, 2025
I wholeheartedly agree with the title of Michael McKinley's article. But I disagree that Trump’s victory was not inevitable. If not Trump, someone incredibly similar, summarising McKinley's delicious adjectives with the inadequate deranged, was bound to emerge. Trump (or similar) is the natural endpoint of the neo-liberalism that started at least in the late 18th, early 19th century. That manufactured disaster hollowed out the US so that all the money weighing at the top could not be upheld by the masses of poor and ignorant the system created beneath it. It was inevitable that someone cherishing money and power...
Margaret Callinan from Hawthorn VIC 3122
In response to: We can see clearly now: We’re closely allied to a fascist regime and so must rea
The dumbed down ABC News
March 10, 2025
Of course, ABC News isn't worth a crumpet. It was captured by the Liberals years ago. Shades of Murdoch prevail. Its last remaining effort at genuinely informative news programming ended with the death of The Drum. Online, it waved the flag of mediocrity with its recently redesigned website, designed for the next step after Play School but content not up to Play School standards. Only Laura Tingle is worth reading.
Margaret Callinan from Hawthorn VIC 3122
In response to: Fool or fabricator? ABC in the spotlight
Forced labour?
March 10, 2025
So the country with the highest prison population in the world, where slavery is still legal (when convicted of an offence, refer to the 13th Amendment) and where torture and forced labour are rampant to profit private companies in those prisons criticises China for exaggerated and or debunked policies imposed to stamp out terrorism. Until recently, even the US classed Uyghur groups as terrorists. Perhaps China should have killed everything as is happening in Gaza and Trump could have moved the Palestinians there! (sarcasm intended!)
Jerry Cartwright from Perth
In response to: Media paladins of fortress Australia
Independents' support – decide after election.
March 10, 2025
I disagree with Michael Keating's view that democracy is best served by independents deciding which party they will support before the election. The minor parties and independents are seeking to represent their electorate and their ability to advance the policies they are promoting cannot be determined until after the election. Their ability to be independent would be eroded if they had to decide which party to support before the election – and erode their independence.
Keith Altmann from Woodend, Victoria
In response to: Minority government: what will it look like?
Accountability, accountability and more accountability
March 10, 2025
If we learn nothing from the Trump saga it is that democracy and accountability go hand in hand. To achieve that freedom of information legislation needs to be beefed up, regulatory bodies need funding without government interference, the Auditor-General needs to be funded sufficiently to do its job and the recommendations made by all of these bodies need to be vigorously acted upon as do the recommendations of royal commissions. We certainly need to revise some of the outdated parliamentary practices: Parliamentary terms extended from three to four-year fixed terms; Limit parliamentarians tenure to two consecutive...
Bob Pearce from Adelaide SA
In response to: we-can-see-clearly-now-were-closely-allied-to-a-fascist-
Taz, Taiwan and the Donbas
March 10, 2025
I agree with Edward Down – the ABC reporters are either the world's most ignorant or most complicit and compromised in the media outlets beyond the Benighted States of Murdochracy. (Honourable exception – John Lyons, now kicked upstairs as Global Correspondent after calling B/S on the beheaded babies in ovens and mass rape of 7 October which even the government of Israel has long acknowledged to be untrue hasbara. The Merkin Isle is approx. 250ks from Australia, Taiwan is 160kms from China. Both straits are international waters as the so-disant freedom of navigation provocations of the US and...
Allan Kessing from SYDNEY
In response to: Fool-or-fabricator-abc-in-the-spotlight
Invasion – massacre of sovereignty
March 10, 2025
An invasion, the massacre of sovereignty, which is the starting point, of freedom and well-being, of all humankind, must always be rejected. There can never be tolerance, let alone reward, of an invasion. Sachs' view is, therefore, untenable. Peace in Ukraine requires restoration of its territory, to the pre-2014 boundaries. All of humankind is duty bound to see to this restoration.
Graeme Tychsen from NSW
In response to: Letter Sachs - Jeffrey Sachs: Negotiating a lasting peace in Ukraine
Challenging antisemitism
March 10, 2025
I must have read a dozen articles decrying the situation of the Palestinians in Gaza and how opposition in Australia to Israel's actions is being muzzled, particularly by false claims of antisemitism. However, life/death in Gaza goes on. It is time to begin to ramp up the level of protest, turn words into action; learn from Vietnam protests in the 1960s/70s (yes, I was there!) and begin a campaign of mass civil disobedience culminating in a symbolic day of protest, a Moratorium. (Unfortunately the presence of a modern day Jim Cairns in the Labor Party has long gone). ...
Brian Bycroft from Evans Head NSW
In response to: Challenging ‘antisemitism’
A little friendship goes a long way
March 7, 2025
Awkward to say and impossibly flawed; Scott Morrison’s deception should have been reviled by the Opposition in both chambers and the decision reversed by the Australian Labor Party when it came to power. Along with an apology to the French Government and people. Now we’re perceived as a vassal of the Trumpian States of America and have become its milking cow. Another fine mess we’ve gotten ourselves into. From the brouhaha that erupted when three Chinese warships circumnavigated Australia and fired off a few practice shots, you’d have thought the sky had fallen in, which, in itself, would have...
John Mosig from Kew, Victoria, 3101
In response to: The AUKUS chickens are coming home to roost, already
Independent candidates must remain independent
March 7, 2025
A hung parliament is, to the major parties, the Damoclesian sword. They portray minority government as the end of our democracy. Decades ago the major parties commanded more than 90% of the vote. At the last election they held 68% of the vote between them; this share is expected to reduce further at the coming election. If the major parties want a greater share of the vote they must better reflect the people’s will in their policies and in their government. But these parties have compromised their policies to accommodate vested interests. The community-based independents’ movement has flourished to...
Chris Young from Surrey Hills, Vic
In response to: Minority government: what will it look like?
The AUKUS chickens are coming home to roost
March 7, 2025
Empires in decline are often very dangerous. They are even more dangerous if they are led by a cabal of ill-informed people who have a sense of entitlement coupled with a belief of their infallibility. We should learn from the US' actions in Europe; it has proved to be an unreliable ally. It will be no different for us. Our objective should be to chart an independent course.
John Tons from adelaide
In response to: The AUKUS chickens are coming home to roost, already
Pedestrian Council of Australia: two editions
March 6, 2025
Sam Varghese may have been speed-reading, to miss my reference to the PCA as the old one, not the current one in the letter he seeks to explain. The PCA to which I referred was this one. May I quote: The Wheelchair Council of Australia (formerly the PCA) is a road safety lobbyist who seeks to promote wheelchair as a transport mode. [1] The chairman and sole member is Harold Scruby. The current PCA is an entirely different body and I believe does excellent work in the community, unlike its predecessor. This is no nitpicking matter:...
Richard Llewellyn from Colo Vale
In response to: https://publish.pearlsandirritations.com/letters_to_editor/correction-about-pedestrian-council-of
Four and a half eyes?
March 6, 2025
Further to this article, the US has now said it will cut off access to US intelligence if Britain supports Ukraine militarily. Do we assume that the same applies to us in Oz now that our PM has indicated military peacekeeping support? Will Five Eyes be reduced to four and a half for us too?
Geoff Taylor from Perth
In response to: Albanese is as misinformed on the US alliance as live-fire drills
Correction about Pedestrian Council of Australia
March 5, 2025
In a letter published in this section, reference was made to the Pedestrian Council of Australia and it was described as having just one official. This is incorrect and I apologise for the error. The Council is a registered charity (which by law must have more than one member) and owns and manages National Walk Safely to School Day and Walk to Work Day, both of which have been going for over 25 years.
Sam Varghese from Melbourne
In response to: Due diligence, wherefore art thou?
Brits got in first for Ukrainian minerals...
March 5, 2025
I have only one thing to add to this very interesting article by Eugene Doyle... and I've posted a link below to Alex Krainer, who reckons the distinctly anti-Russian Keir Starmer had already sewn up a deal with Volodymyr Zelenskyy (in January) before Zelensky dangled a similar deal in front of the US. A UK/Ukrainian 100-year deal for minerals etc and Ukrainian port facilities in exchange for UK billions towards security and boots on ground. If this is so, it would go a long way towards Trump's testy exchanges and final disdain of a fellow who steadfastly refused to...
Glenda Jones from Carlton, Victoria
In response to: Ukraine deal: Beware of Americans bearing gifts
Private sector opportunism: Doing what they do best
March 5, 2025
Until we acknowledge that the job of the private sector is to make a profit, we will never get on top of this problem. The private sector is nothing if not opportunistic. Take the present housing crisis. The regulations that governed housing in our state have been thrown out the window (with the help of state governments). SA may not be as prone to flooding as our northeastern states. Bush fires are another thing, but wait. Houses are being built on school ovals, prime farming, market garden land swamps ETC without the supporting infrastructure. There are more high-rise...
Bob Pearce from Adelaide SA
In response to: the-real-truth-on-productivity-the-bosses-arent-trying-h
Productivity lessons forgotten
March 5, 2025
When studying production engineering in the 1960s, it was assumed that labour productivity could be improved by 1.5% a year. Clipboards and stopwatches gave way to Kaizen and continuous improvement in the 1990s with real improvements in productivity. In concentrating on technology alone, today's bosses overlook the gradual improvements achieved by dedicated input and shop floor co-operation with commensurate sharing of productivity gains.
Geoffrey Irwin from Ettalong Beach, NSW
In response to: The real truth on productivity: Ross Gittins
What medical service?
March 5, 2025
I can't say I was pleased to read Don and Patricia Edgar's article. Grateful, yes, and sick of the lack of care from those adhering to the medical practitioners industry instead of the oath to heal and care for the those in need of healing and caring. There's no bulk-billing GPs in the rural area I live in, only those with mixed billing. And... yes, indeed, they look you up and down whether you're on an aged or disability pensioner or not and they assess whether they'll get instant money or not. With me, they get nothing but contempt....
Diana Rickard from Tumbling Waters NT
In response to: Medical Skullduggery
Self regulation
March 5, 2025
When you can't trust your Parliament to self regulate, why would you expect industry to self regulate and follow its own voluntary code of conduct? The difference is that one of the main jobs of Parliament is to regulate for the good of all Australians. “Democracy may not be the best form of government but it’s better than all the other forms that have been tried“. That quote like our system of government needs regular updating, but how do you do it without political interference? I think that a benevolent dictatorship is the answer and I’m putting my...
Bob Pearce from Adelaide SA
In response to: What-happens-if-no-party-achieves-a-parliamentary-majori
A plea for a little more compassion
March 5, 2025
Thank you Melody Kemp for giving me the language to comment on the Bankstown nurses – angry fantasies. Who hasn't wished (aloud even) the annihilation of the schoolyard or office bully, by the most gruesome means imaginable? Thousands of people daily are unlucky enough to stumble across someone ready to exploit their vulnerabilities down the rabbit hole that is the internet. Yes, what the nurses said was stupid and repulsive when they fell into the trap of a master manipulator. But what must they have gone through either directly, indirectly or both in their so far short lives to...
Margaret Callinan from Hawthorn VIC 3122
In response to: To add to what Tony Kevin wrote…
No Other Land – A 'must see' film
March 5, 2025
The film No Other Land is brilliant and heartbreaking. For me, it raises the question about what must be done to the consciences of IDF members that they can look their fellow human beings in the eye and treat them so barbarically, even to the point of cold- blooded murder. It should be noted that this is not set in Gaza but the occupied territory of the West Bank. Interestingly, when I went to check this on Google maps the village of Masafer Yatta doesn't exist. This film has struggled to be shown in the US. It's not...
Margaret Callinan from Hawthorn VIC 3122
In response to: A five-minute scroll: No Other Land winning an Oscar underlines how Western publ
History repeating...
March 4, 2025
While platforms like ChatGPT are ostensibly “free to use”, they ... will very soon start charging a subscription fee without end. All those AI enticements scattered over our screens like confetti are not there to be helpful but to set us up to be fleeced (some more). Welcome, DeepSeek! Q: What do Marie Antoinette and Donald Trump have in common? A: They are figureheads for the end point of utterly corrupt systems of government. We know what came after the former. What will we create to come after the latter? These questions brought to you from...
Margaret Callinan from Hawthorn VIC 3122
In response to: The AI that Silicon Valley fears: How DeepSeek democratised innovation
Let's not go from bad to worse
March 4, 2025
This is brilliant... scary stuff written with humour – shared on social media and with fellow Community Independent friends and colleagues. My big fear at this point is that people who are so legitimately disappointed with Albanese will be tempted to vote Liberal, ignoring the monumental disaster that would befall us. Not only Dutton and his empty policies, but his vacuous Liberal colleagues as well. My hope is that we will get a significantly increased crossbench, including a goodly number of Community Independents, and that, not too long after the election, Albanese will bid us adieu, willingly or...
Margaret Callinan from Hawthorn VIC 3122
In response to: Dutton unplugged? Bolt for the long grass… More Dutton stuff-ups!
'I saw three ships a sailing by'
March 3, 2025
Semitic refers to a family of languages Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic and some ancient languages (Oxford dictionary Encyclopaedia Brittanica etc ) Abuse of those people is antisemitic. What is the acceptable word to describe the behaviour of elected representative and their followers in the ongoing abuse of China? I’m old enough to remember when some words were common, but are now unacceptable. How bad does the commentary have to be before you qualify for your own acceptable word/descriptor even if it is a shared one?
Bob Pearce from Adelaide SA
In response to: the-chinese-invasions-begins-anti-china-media-watch/
Free speech on campuses
March 3, 2025
I went to an all-boys Catholic High School in Brisbane in the 1960s. Immediately after High School I enrolled at University of Queensland in 1968. At that time, I was exposed daily on campus to the anti-Vietnam protests that were in full swing. They certainly made me uncomfortable and threatened my belief system; it was one of the best thing that ever happened to me!
Brian Bycroft from Evans Head NSW
In response to: People’s inquiry into campus free speech on Palestine to shine a light on repres
Nuclear subs and the Adelaide dolphin sanctuary
March 3, 2025
Thank you for posting this article about the government's report to address the environmental impacts of constructing nuclear submarines at Osborne, Port Adelaide, noting it is open for public consultation. We did a lovely kayaking tour recently in the Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary – a part of the Port Adelaide area. It encompasses a 10,000 year-old mangrove forest and marine park that is home to around 30 resident bottlenose dolphins, with another 400 transient dolphins that visit at various times – all wild, as well a number of threatened and migratory birds. I don't feel confident that the building...
K. Wang from Canberra
In response to: AUKUS ‘impact assessment’ report ignores nuclear sub risks in SA
If you're not with us, you're against US
March 3, 2025
What a friend we have in the US! If you're not with us, you're against us. If you are with us, you might be against us one day. If we are with you we might be against you one day has become we will be your friend at a price. We’re moving in today. Sit down, shut up and pay up (US$ or bitcoin).
Bob Pearce from Adelaide SA
In response to: there-will-always-be-an-enemy
Exit AUKUS now
March 3, 2025
I love and am so grateful for P&I but that doesn't mean I agree with every word or idea published. Assuming other fans are like me, some probably don't — yet — share Dr Patience's views in his Trump 2.0 article. Thus, for any such readers, the statement It is possible ... Trump (hence America) won’t care about Australia at all. .... Canberra’s timorous commitment to the ridiculous AUKUS agreement, for example, becomes ever more quixotic as Trump and his team up-end old alliances and the global order. is not direct enough. For current unbelievers and doubters, plain English...
Margaret Callinan from Hawthorn VIC 3122
In response to: Trump 2.0 and the crisis in Australia’s delusional middle power imagining
AUKUS – Australia's marine defence albatross
March 3, 2025
Rescinding our commitment to AUKUS should be given priority, before we throw more good money after bad. to gain nothing. AUKUS will never serve Australia's strategic interest. The arrangement is now on shaky ground with one of its co-partners deranged by power-lust and self-centred ambition. In no way does it buy US allegiance. NATO is a case in point. The projected delivery date was always shaky (early 2040s for merely the first of the fleet – come in spinner. Furthermore, with up to $368 billion hypothecated to AUKUS until the mid-2050s, what social investment will be compromised to...
Roz Averis from Adelaide, SA
In response to: Trump 2 and Australia's delusion middle power imagining
Healthy profit in government's hands
March 3, 2025
Health is an essential service, and undeniably costly. So, currently, are electricity and water supply. When the latter were taxpayer-owned and government-operated, these services were offered to consumers, domestic, commercial and industrial, at affordable rates – yet government still made a profit. This revenue was thus able to cross-subsidise services that were not operated for profit but were relatively costly to provide, for example, health and education. Seems like a no-brainer. I'd love to see the billions we're spending on AUKUS alternatively invested in utility buy-back and reinstatement of government-owned enterprises. This might just help attract investment by reducing...
Roz Averis from Adelaide, SA
In response to: To make Medicare well again our leaders must treat these worrying symptoms
To add to what Tony Kevin wrote...
March 3, 2025
I want to thank Tony Kevin for his clarity and insights about the Bankstown nurses. Many years ago I worked in mental health. Though the work changed over time, the learning didn't. I saw what the nurses were saying as angry fantasies.. and admit that at times I have has similar thoughts about people that get under my skin. For instance, I have been wishing Trump's injury required more than a sanitary napkin on his ear. It was clear to me that the agent was a smooth-talking manipulator who not only led the nurses on but then exposed them...
Melody Kemp from Balmoral Brisbane
In response to: What the Bankstown Hospital nurses’ affair teaches us
Query about the definition of antisemitism
March 3, 2025
This is more a question than a letter. The article 'What can one say about Israel without being called an antisemetic?' by Sawsan Madina raises such great questions. Who was consulted? How were they chosen? and many more. These questions should be answered, but I am not sure who or what organisation would be willing or able to do so. I would hope that Pearls could follow up. This definition stifles so much commentary that should be heard.
Wendy Logan from Croydon North, 3136
In response to: What can one now say about Israel without being smeared as an antisemite?By Saw
But what about Pine Gap?
March 3, 2025
Fifty years ago I learned of the existence of Pine Gap. I personally agree that we should be responsible for our own international policy, especially in our own geopolitical region. And, our own security. But what would, or could, we do about bases like Pine Gap? I appreciate there may be benefits for us in having this facility in the middle of our country. But it would also, surely, be a major impediment to us forging a truly independent relationship with any nation that might one day be an American target. I'd be most grateful if someone could...
Penny Lee from Perth
In response to: The fragility of Australia’s security
Levy has said what needs to be said
March 3, 2025
I agreed with everything Daniel Levy says: that Bob Marley's song that the people of the world are one love, one heart is a very beautiful way of saying we are all people. We are all born equal. Also since Netanyahu has said he intends to resume the war, and the West Bank is being ethnically cleansed, it is imperative that countries of goodwill send peace-keeping forces under the auspices of the United Nations to the occupied Palestinian Territory to ensure the Palestinian people aren't erased, The reconstruction of Gaza and the resumption of vital services should take place...
Beverley Dight from Canberra
In response to: Daniel Levy: We are all people, we are all born equal
What democracy? What trees? It’s a parking lot
February 28, 2025
We don’t live in a democracy! One of the basics of democracy is the separation of church and state. Take a look around to see how few places that’s happening. The separation of church and state should always have included the separation of state and corporations. The majority of crises the world is facing are as a result of the failure of the separation of government and corporations. For example, because of the misbehaviour of the banking sector we had the global financial crisis, with government bailing out the banks because they are to big to fail. This...
Bob Pearce from Adelaide SA
In response to: barking-up-the-wrong-tree
Due diligence, wherefore art thou?
February 28, 2025
I see the forthright Senator Sarah Henderson has besmirched the Jewish Council of Australia as a fringe organisation. I am sure we would all welcome the chance to examine the due diligence she has undertaken to determine that — for instance — the AJAIC is undeniably a representative organisation. Call me cynical, but I remember a time when the spokesman for the (old, not the current one) Pedestrian Council of Australia was trotted out as the resident expert and mouthpiece for every Australian who walked on the streets. A much-talented man whose name I could never be bothered...
Richard Llewellyn from Colo Vale
In response to: Sarah Henderson says
Civil defence response to attack on Oz sub bases
February 28, 2025
It sounds as if the assessment doesn’t deal either with the civil defence response needed if a nuclear-tipped hypersonic missile targets Osborne, or for that matter, Garden Island and Henderson in WA. The federal government seems to be of the view that such a response is a state government matter, but so far I have been unable to find out what the WA government’s civil defence plan for a nuclear strike on the sub facilities is.
Geoff Taylor from Perth
In response to: AUKUS ‘impact assessment’ report ignores nuclear sub risks in SA
Invite the flotilla to visit Fremantle
February 28, 2025
There’s still time to invite the Chinese flotilla to visit Fremantle, and show our goodwill. The Morrison Government invited a three-ship flotilla to visit Sydney in 2019, and the invitation was accepted.
Geoff Taylor from Perth
In response to: The Chinese invasion begins: Anti-China Media Watch
Trigger-happy individuals
February 28, 2025
Are they the same trigger-happy people with missiles that shot down Iran Air flight 655, killing 290 passengers, covering it up and awarding the captain and crew a medal? Not the Chinese or Russians, but those peace-loving Americans!
Jerry Cartwright from Perth
In response to: The Chinese invasion begins: Anti China media watch
Islamophobia
February 28, 2025
I'd like to see the universities adopt a similar definition for Islamophobia; i.e., among other things, criticisms of the actions of Islamic states such as Iran and Afghanistan would be considered Islamophobic and subject to the same kind of penalties. Somehow I don't see this happening. Who is creating division?
Brian Bycroft from Evans Head NSW
In response to: What can one now say about Israel without being smeared as an antisemite?
A different approach to antisemitism
February 28, 2025
How can Israel be the only country immune from criticism? Could we look differently at what is making some Jewish people so fearful at criticism of Israel's genocide such that they demand unjustifiable laws banning that criticism? Yes, antisemitism is unpleasant, even hurtful, but paralysing fear-making? The slings and arrows, real and metaphorical, hurled at Jewish Australians have been no worse than post-war Italians and Greeks suffered, Catholics of my childhood, Vietnamese refugees some decades ago, more recent migrants and refugees from Afghanistan and the Middle East, none of whom have had the special consideration given to the Jewish...
Margaret Callinan from Hawthorn VIC 3122
In response to: Jewish Council slams Uni adoption of dangerous, politicised and unworkable antis
Congratulations to Judith, Suzie and Michelle
February 27, 2025
Fantastic protest by Judith, Suzie and Michelle. It exposes the complete hypocrisy of several aspects or our society. You are all brave heroes/heroines.
Peter Sainsbury from Darling Point
In response to: Police and synagogue attendees shaken to the core by democracy
Former right-wing warrior goddess from micronation
February 27, 2025
Of course, China wants to blow the shit out of us. I used to defend Western civilisation, but now I just want the final solution to white nerds that cool lefties want. I have to hate myself and my race and become genosuicidal for you lefties. Everything my grandpa worked for will be taken away by Chinese and laidback movements. Well, let's just blow up Europe and give it to the Chinese. Maybe if Russia nuked England and took away the monarchy and stopped them from using elaborate ornate coats of arms in favour of simplistic Americanistic logos, while...
Athena Urabbanakis from Urabbaparcensia
In response to: I just hope china blow us all up so you cool lefties get what you want
A suffering and patient God
February 27, 2025
May I venture another response to Eric Hunt’s question “what does God think?” One answer is: Who am I to speak for God? Read the book of Job and ask Him yourself. Christians, however, have is an obligation to proclaim “good news”. So let me try. First, we proclaim that creation is good. This cannot mean the absence of pain. But if you had the power to switch off the universe with its good and evil, would you do it? Neither does God, mercifully. Second, we acknowledge that God sees the pain and experiences it. This is...
Anthony Asher from Sydney
In response to: Why doesn't God save the day
Are we facing a new era of imperialism?
February 27, 2025
The only way the US would defend our shores is if we ceded our sovereignty to its emperor. We are a defenceless minnow in a sea of turmoil: because of the AUKUS pact; this must be blindingly obvious to the rest of the world. Viewed from the Trump Tower, the prospect of annexing a large, unexploited and underpopulated land mass, rich in rare earths and minerals and other highly desirable commodities, must be compelling, if not irresistable. Australia, the western front and largest island state in the US of A. Any deal on defence will never be to...
Roz Averis from What US wants must serve as a warning to others
In response to: What US wants for Ukraine must serve as a warning to others