PM Albanese and Labor never learn any lessons about anything at all, and when it comes to the corrupt, crackhead, former Ukraine President Vlodomyr Zelensky they are pathetic.

Albo has now offered unreliable Australian Taipan helicopters to Ukraine regardless the war is all but over with Russia.

Australia ordered 22 Tigers in the Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH) configuration in 2001, and these entered service in 2004, although final operational capability was not declared until 2016, at which point there were still 76 capability deficiencies needing to be rectified.

The Tiger ARH consistently struggled with higher-than-expected sustainment costs and lower-than-expected availability.

Labor has never asked the people if they support this massive government waste of resources which otherwise could be relied on by the military should an invader arrive at our shores.

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  1. Russian Hypersonic Missiles are WIPING the Odessa Port Infrastructures – VIDEO – gospanews.net (EN)

    “…………Overall, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 669 Ukrainian combat aircraft, 283 helicopters, 102,347 unmanned aerial vehicles, 639 surface-to-air missile systems, 26,524 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,630 multiple rocket launchers, 31,872 field artillery guns and mortars and 48,940 special military motor vehicles since the start of the special military operation, the ministry reported.

    https://gospanews.net/en/2025/12/13/russian-hypersonic-missiles-are-wiping-the-odessa-port-infrastructures-video/

  2. Albo banging his head against a brick wall is one thing. But there must be a better reason for joining up with Zelenski and banging his head against a piano keyboard. Maybe neither of them care how many Ukrainians get killed or who pays the bill?

  3. Is he really killing his own people Joe, or along with others clearing the land of Orthodox Christians by feeding them into Russia’s cauldrons?

    Putin is brachycephalic.

    https://archive.org/details/putin-kippa9jpg

    h ttps://www.timesofisrael.com/in-4-years-zelensky-went-from-jewish-comic-to-putins-enemy-1-democracy-defender/

    h ttps://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/22/politics/trump-israel-western-wall/index.html

    h ttps://www.jewishnews.co.uk/watch-as-keir-starmer-discusses-the-meaning-of-rosh-hashanah-in-synagogue/

    h ttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12617851/Sydney-vigil-horror-attacks-Israel.html

  4. I’m not concerned about Australia getting rid of military junk by letting Russia send it to the bottom of the Black Sea but where is the treaty between Australia and Ukraina. They’re not in NATO and we’re told they are legally still part of Russia. We hear nothing about Putin’s plebiscite in the Donbass and nothing about the pre-history of this in about 2014 when the Malaysia plane was shot. Note how prominent plane crashes and assassinations often occur in pairs ( JFK and MLK, Reagan and John Lennon, the leading examples, but also recall the two Melbourne massacres which preceded Port Arthur by a few years ). Isn’t there supposed to be a legal basis for things. What is our obligation to supply one side or another militarily, since puppet Zelenskyy is losing every fight and every argument anyway and only killing “his” own people.

  5. Video: “The New World Order”. The Imposition of a World Government. PM Tun Mahathir Mohamad
    By Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Prof Michel Chossudovsky, and Dr. Chandra Muzaffar
    Global Research, July 10, 2025.

    Excerpt > Dr Mahathir said globalisation and borderless trade are being used to establish a “one world government”.

    Dr Mahathir pointed out that disputes arising from these trade deals mean corporations could sue sovereign states at investor arbitration tribunals, in secrecy.
    The New World Order refers to the emergence of a totalitarian world government.
    Other prominent speakers at the conference also said that a secretive power elite led by the United States wants to replace sovereign nation states through regime change.
    Prominent academic and author Dr Michel Chossudovsky (see video below) warned that the so-called war on terrrorism is a front to propagate America’s global hegemony and create a New World Order.

    Dr Chossudovsky said terrorism is made in the US and that terrorists are not the product of the Muslim world.
    According to him, the US global war on terrorism was used to enact anti-terrorism laws that demonised Muslims in the Western world and created Islamophobia.

    Elaborating on his argument, Dr Chossudovsky said that NATO was responsible for recruiting members of the Islamic state while Israel is funding “global jihad elements inside Syria.

    Dr Chossudovsky, who is also the founder of the Centre for Research and Globalisation, further emphasised that the global war on terrorism is a fabrication, a big lie and a crime against humanity.
    Echoing Dr Chussodovsky’s arguments, Malaysia’s prominent political scientist, Islamic reformist and activist Dr Chandra Muzaffar said that the US has always manipulated religion to further its global hegemony on sovereign states.
    For example, he said the Arab spring was brought about by Colonel Muammar Muhammad Gaddafi’s resistance to US dominance.
    Full article and videos >
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-international-conference-new-world-order-recipe-war-peace/5894558

  6. This from February 22, 2025
    Our message to the peace movement across the land Worldwide:
    ABOLISH NATO ABOLISH NATO

    Video: NO WAR, NO NATO. Drago Bosnic and Michel Chossudovsky
    By Drago Bosnic and Prof Michel Chossudovsky
    Global Research, February 22, 2025
    Lux Media and Global Research
    Our objective is to reach out to the people of America, Ukraine, Russia, the European Union, China and Turkey: This video can be viewed in the original English and with subtitles in eight languages: French Ukrainian, Russian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Italian and Turkish
    We are at the cross-roads of a major shift in geopolitics with the prospects of bringing to terms the war in Ukraine. Negotiations have already started in Saudi Arabia.
    We are dealing with something which is exceedingly complex.
    From one administration to the next, namely from Joe Biden to Donald Trump, there has been a significant geopolitical shift, namely to initiate diplomatic negotiations with the Russian Federation with the firm intent to put a term to the conflict and to establish a peace agreement.
    Our message to the peace movement across the land, Worldwide:
    ABOLISH NATO
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-no-war-no-nato-drago-bosnic-and-michel-chossudovsky/5880635

  7. NATO’s Fake Commitment to Peace: Russia’s Proposals for Restructuring European Security.

    NATO’s Atrocious Military Performance

    By Drago Bosnic
    Global Research, February 23, 2025

    To this very day, NATO hasn’t changed its aggressive posturing and continues to be the greatest threat to world peace.
    This was perfectly clear in December 2021, when Moscow made the last-ditch effort to prevent a direct confrontation. Namely, it offered the US/NATO a treaty that would confirm the concept of the indivisibility of security. Among the points presented by Russia, there was “strict compliance with the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs”, including refraining from supporting “organizations, groups or individuals calling for an unconstitutional change of power”, which was clearly an attempt to stop color revolutions and similar black ops that were essentially a crawling precursor to every aggression by NATO.

    Most importantly, the treaty envisaged the creation of “cooperation mechanisms to settle emerging issues and disputes through a constructive dialogue on the basis of mutual respect for and recognition of each other’s security interests and concerns”, seeking to “avoid any military confrontation and armed conflict between the Parties and realizing that direct military clash between them could result in the use of nuclear weapons that would have far-reaching consequences”, reaffirming that “nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought, and recognizing the need to make every effort to prevent the risk of outbreak of such war among States that possess nuclear weapons”. Perfectly reasonable, right?

    Well, not for the unadulterated war criminals in Brussels and the US Deep State.

    The mainstream propaganda machine officially calls these proposals “December 2021 Russian ultimatum to NATO”. In reality, this supposed “ultimatum” was nothing more than the rehashing of several treaties between the USSR and the US, including the agreements on Measures to Reduce the Risk of Outbreak of Nuclear War of 30 September 1971, the Prevention of Incidents On and Over the High Seas of 25 May 1972, the Establishment of Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers of 15 September 1987, as well as the Prevention of Dangerous Military Activities of 12 June 1989. As previously mentioned, all this was rejected.

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/russia-2021-proposals-restructuring-european-security/5880663

  8. RUSSIA HAS BY FAR THE WORLD’S LARGEST KNOWN RESERVES OF NATURAL GAS.

    INTERESTINGLY, ACCORDING TO US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ESTIMATES, THE SECOND LARGEST GAS RESERVES ARE IN IRAN, A COUNTRY ALSO HIGH ON WASHINGTON’S TARGET LIST.

    High-stakes Eurasian Chess Game: Russia’s New Geopolitical Energy Calculus

    Tectonic Shift in Heartland Power: Part II
    By F. William Engdahl

    Global Research, March 20, 2010

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/high-stakes-eurasian-chess-game-russia-s-new-geopolitical-energy-calculus/18129

  9. AS WELL AS CONFISCATING ALL GAZA’S MARITIME OFFSHORE GAS RESERVES, WORTH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

    Video: “Wiping Gaza Off the Map”: Big Money Agenda. Confiscating Palestine’s Maritime Natural Gas Reserves
    Video Interview with Michel Chossudovsky
    By Felicity Arbuthnot and Prof Michel Chossudovsky
    Global Research, February 09, 2025
    Excerpt >
    Introduction
    Israel has launched an invasion (October 7, 2023) of the Gaza Strip.
    As outlined by Felicity Arbuthnot with foresight 10 years ago in a December, 30 2013 article:
    “Israel is set to become a major exporter of gas and some oil, “If All Goes to Plan”.
    In the current context, Israel’s “All Goes to Plan” option consists in bypassing Palestine and “Wiping Gaza off the Map”, AS WELL AS CONFISCATING ALL GAZA’S MARITIME OFFSHORE GAS RESERVES, WORTH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
    The ultimate objective is not only to exclude Palestinians from their homeland, it consists in confiscating the multi-billion dollar Gaza offshore Natural Gas reserves, namely those pertaining to the BG (BG Group) in 1999, as well the Levant discoveries of 2013.
    Update. Israel’s Secret Intelligence Memorandum
    An official “secret” memorandum authored by Israel’s Ministry of Intelligence “is recommending the forcible and permanent transfer of the Gaza Strip’s 2.2 million Palestinian residents to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula”, namely to a refugee camp in Egyptian territory. There are indications of Israel-Egypt negotiations as well as consultations with the U.S.
    The 10-page document, dated Oct. 13, 2023, bears the logo of the Intelligence Ministry … assesses three options regarding the future of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip … It recommends a full population transfer as its preferred course of action. … The document, whose authenticity was confirmed by the ministry, has been translated into English in full here on +972. See below, click here or below to access complete document (10 pages)

    Please continue >
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-gas-oil-and-trouble-in-the-levant/5362955

  10. Statements of NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg
    By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
    Global Research, August 04, 2025.

    The smoking gun: Who Started the War. Was it Russia or US-NATO?

    The answer comes from the Horse’s Mouth. NATO STARTED THE WAR IN 2014, following the U.S sponsored 2014 Coup d’Etat

    Of utmost significance: On September 7, 2023, NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in a presentation to the European Parliament, formally acknowledged that:

    “the war didn’t start in February last year [2022]. It started in 2014.”
    This far-reaching declaration confirms his earlier statement in May 2023 to the effect that the Ukraine War

    “didn’t start in 2022”, “The war started in 2014”.
    Stoltenberg’s Interview with the Washington Post: (emphasis added, complete text of Washington Post Interview in Annex)

    Speaking on behalf of NATO, what this statement implies is that US-NATO was already at war in 2014.

    It also tacitly acknowledges that Russia did not “initiate the war” on Ukraine in February 2022.

    Please continue and watch videos >
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/bombshell-nato-says-war-started-in-2014-nato-war-against-russia-fake-pretext-to-invoke-article-5-of-atlantic-treaty/5828312

  11. Duck flew west on Pop duties, it has become an annual pilgrimage, caught a bus or two, a train or two to a gem of a place discovered unplanned two years back and was reading the local rag, a freebie 😁over a pretty good coffee.

    It reads,

    “Plug pulled on subsidies

    Australians will lose electricity subsidies at the end of the year in an Albanese Government decision that leaves consumers even more exposed to an inflation outbreak. [🦆the warning]

    Treasurer Jim Chalmers said Cabinet decided on Monday morning against extending the $300-a-year rebate, introduced in 2023 to offset a spike in prices triggered by the start of the war in Ukraine and has cost almost $7 billion.

    The government decided the policy had become too expensive as it faces four years of budget deficits around $40b.”

    Just to be clear fellow Australians, it’s in black and white, the WAR-IN-UKRAINE-CAUSED-YOUR-POWER-BILL-INCREASES; not the closing of coal fired power stations, upgrading of electrical distribution networks, or the construction of a labyrinth of extra high voltage transmission lines crisscrossing the countryside connecting subsided solar and wind projects, that if western Macedonia is a guide, will increase unemployment and brownouts.

    It seems we might also be subsidising Albanese’s gifts to the Green Goblin, maybe even the purchase from U.S. MIC of one submarine or eight?

  12. Those helicopters will be target practice for sophisticated Russian SAM’s, just like the now destroyed Abrams tanks we gave the Ukro’s.

  13. You’ve really gotta wonder don’t you.
    Why is the Australian government giving even more of our defence force away when their own reports (and also the USs’) show that we are under funded and under resourced to win a war against a possible invasion?
    With China doing very provocative navy tours and live fire drills around australia one really has to ask…. “ whose side is Labour on?”
    Why do they insist on funding wars on the other side of the world?
    Why make enemies of nations that wouldn’t care less about us except that we’re arming their enemy when we should be arming ourselves?
    Why aggravate the only ally (US) that is strong enough to come to our defence?
    Is it sheer incompetence, cluelessness or outright treason?

  14. Well well well folks,

    Same old same old. Nothing changes – EVER.

    The headline article ends up with – “… Labor has never asked the people if they support this massive government waste of resources which otherwise could be relied on by the military should an invader arrive at our shores…”

    Rather a pointless statement, since when has the COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA CORPORATION asked Australians for permission to do whatever the Hell they want with ANYTHING to do with the Australian continent?

    The corporation OWNS the joint after all, NOT us.

    And just BTW, they neither work for nor answer to us, and they have their sealed secret society instructions all the way from over there in Davos to exterminate us. Apparently only a few of us have had the discernment to actually NOTICE that.

    Meanwhile, Old Bloke said – “… Why are we doing this?”

    Clearly trapped in the Stockholm Syndrome, identifying with our captors and tormentors, clinging to the delusion that we’re all on the same “team”.

    There’s no “WE” in the equation, Old Bloke, because in case you’ve missed it, they don’t work for us and they don’t answer to us, they get their orders from the foreign CORPORATION, a pack of blood-thirsty baby-eating Satanists over there on the other side of the world.

    All WE are doing is just sitting here like stupid impotent POULTRY and SWALLOWING each and every piece of Treasonous sold-out paid-off genocidal nation-destroying Globalist SHIT that these mongrel arsehole bastards shove down our ever-wide and hopeful BEAKS.

    The foxes OWN the hen house, folks. Observe as what we used to THINK was our country is pissed down the toilet, SQUANDERED for the sadistic utterly self-indulgent pleasure of foreign Satanists and their hordes of enthusiastic sycophantic Familiars right here in Australia, while Australian men, women, children and babies live in cars and under bridges and go in misery to early graves.

    Hey, did you know that walking shitstain and talking pig’s arse AnAL has AT LEAST SIX multi-million dollar “investment properties” that we KNOW of? Chalk one up for “our side”, folks, GO TEAM! At least SOMEONE out of 27 million hopeless aimless clueless feckless hopeless destitute starving dying Aussies has “made it”, right?

    And let’s not forget known paedophile and pathologic embezzler and celebrated mass-murderer, completely unaccountable and UNTOUCHABLE Snuff Scotty walking away with a cool $52 MILLION Genocide Bonus stuffed into his wallet. And all the rest. Yay team.

  15. Why are we even having this conversation.
    Financial crash closing in.
    Possibly end of 2027.

  16. @Bruce Brodie The armed forces of Phiphines have no use for high tech equipment, let alone having the technical support base to operate and maintain them. They’re a primarily infantry based army tasked with countering an insurgency from communists, criminals and Islamists.
    Half the technology in them requires approval from the manufacturer country for re-export etc which takes years sometimes to get.
    Better to cut them up and bury them.

  17. Are we supposed to be thrilled at the waste of the Albinsleasy pigpen kindergarten corporation that he is Ceo of.
    He could not make it in the real world … after all he is just a non-original clone of the real prick.
    Starmer, the Slease, Zelenski, Illuminati/NATO/NATZIS of Europe, the DEEP State of all Western Nations, the Democrat/Demonrats of America, Venezuala,none of them are the original real people, and most were evil from the start.
    They have all been involved with an underworld of entities that will shock you shortly as they are disclosed.

  18. What right has our government or corporation to be giving taxpayer funded equipment to anyone or any country? The corporation is not the owner of this equipment so I consider this transaction as TREASON or at least stealing taxpayer property. Charge the cost of these assets against the income of politicians.

  19. “………..Consider Mencken on the tax and spend churn fiasco: “Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.”

    Yes, as a society, we have succumbed to the politicians’ siren song: a promise to solve our problems, real or imagined, with money taken off someone else, or some business, who doesn’t ­deserve it anyway, or has too much of it, or doesn’t give enough. For the latest example of this, look at the disgraceful and contagious government attack on the banks.

    This week we heard a tape of Christopher Pyne saying he is in the “winners’ circle”. I don’t feel like I am in the winners’ circle, do you? As one of Pyne’s employers, I feel like I am in the losers’ camp. Tell me you don’t feel the same way too.”

    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/weak-politicians-and-rentseekers-make-us-the-losers/news-story/b3c32fb1bd48c2bf56fe34f6c73ceabd

  20. obvious bob – I saw a Borzzikman YouTube a few weeks ago which had a video clip of a train load of tanks which had just came over the border from Poland into Ukraine which was hit by Russian missiles. All the tanks and the train were destroyed, I thought that was probably Albo’s gift to the cross-dressing dwarf in Kiev.

    I read recently that the British army has more horses than tanks, they have only 40 tanks in their army. Albo should have given our tanks to that queer Starmer so the Brits could have doubled their tank numbers.

    Same story with the F/A 18 Hornets, we should have given them to the Yanks to replace their US Navy F/A 18 Hornets which they lost in the Red Sea in their failed attempt to suppress the bothersome Houthis in Yemen.

  21. Albo’s self-righteous largesse to Ukraine is nothing but grabbing another means of big-noting himself on the world stage plus he knows war is lucrative..!! A hypocritical move in a war already won by Russia.

  22. Very old news anyway. Don’t know why you bother. And the Abrams, according to them damn Rooskies, never even made it onto the battlefield because they were zapped well prior.

  23. Australia previously offered to send a squadron of F/A 18 Hornet fighter jets which Ukraine rejected with “We don’t want Aussie flying junk”. More recently, we gave them 40 or more Abrams battle tanks and cash as well.

    Why are we doing this? We have no interest in Ukraine, and Russia is not an enemy to us. Those tanks and helicopters should have been kept in Australia or sold to a third party, not sent to be demolished in the Donbas.

  24. Without decent pilots they are useless.

    I remember some months back, when this British journalist was explaining how he nearly soiled himself when given a test run by some German attack-helicopter crews.

    They were diving near vertical and pulling out at the last minute, – just like the old Stuka pilots.

    It takes years to train this type of crew.

    Manned aircraft are becoming obsolete and replaced by long-distance guided aircraft that cost nothing to produce.

    The British are finding this out with their fancy multi-million dollar high-tech scout car. It takes five years to train the crew, but they cannot deploy it in Ukraine as it would be immediately destroyed by a thousand buck drone driven by a spotty teenager on his Russian Army Play-Station.

    The British Army now have to choose their battles carefully in order to deploy their equipment without losing it in a week.

    The modern battlefield has moved on.

  25. “ Albo has now offered unreliable Australian Taipan helicopters to Ukraine regardless the war is all but over with Russia.”

    Albo has now offered UNRELIABLE…….
    Obviously he is not flying in one.
    Poor pilots whether Ukrainian or otherwise.
    Surely that’s a war crime!!

    And he has just given Ukraine millions of our taxpayer dollars, but can’t continue the electricity rebate to his own people.
    Is he following Starmer? Starmer gave Ukraine millions of pounds and denied the pensioners the money which would have helped them through their cold Winter. Plus Albanese is now under pressure from Trump to spend more money on armaments that will make America great again. Poor Aussies in more ways than one.
    How I wish I had confidence that the Opposition would do any better.

    And when I watched Trump accepting his Peace? Prize and him quoting the names of the many countries he had brought peace to, I turned the TV off because to my way of thinking, this had to be AI or someone’s fantasy. But then to my horror, I found out it was real.

    Perhaps one day we will wake up and realise that this current world was just a confusing dream.

  26. He’d be better off giving them to the Philippines to help boost their military, or at least selling them off, they are an asset but he just likes to big note himself🤬

  27. IT IS BLATENTLY OBVIOUS THAT DISHING OUT MONEY AS IF THERE ARE NO CONSEQUENCES IS THE ACT OF CERTAIN POLITCIANS THAT ARE NOT OF THIS WORLD.

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