sorry, Ms Merkel, but you are 101% dead-wrong

.. thanks, but ...

  .. "No, thanks!" to ...

    .. austerity; it *stinks*

Thesis/Subtitle: neoliberalism has had it's run, from TINA to the GFC and now debt-crises & austerity; all neoliberalism does is a) creates large-scale misery, while b) enabling the already filthy-rich to get obscenely richer. (The 99+% vs. the <1%)

Corollary: From the beginning, neoliberalism, partly 'the market' with globalisation (= exporting jobs) along for the ride, never even looked like it would work for us, we the people; leaving everything to 'the market' whilst a) cutting taxes (mainly off the rich), b) cutting govt. spending (i.e. required services & benefits), all the time c) 'flogging-off the family silver' = privatisations, these so-called 'economic reforms' have, as already said, produced mostly pain - for us, we the people = voters.

-=*=-

Trigger article:

Merkel steadfast on austerity as uncertainty rattles eurozone
By Europe correspondent Rachel Brown, wires
Updated May 07, 2012 23:56:40
  «Speaking one day after elections saw fellow austerity proponents turfed out of office, including her closest ally, French president Nicolas Sarkozy, Ms Merkel said she had no plans to change course.
...
"Rather, I think the core of the debate lies in whether we need debt-financed stimulus programs or whether we need growth measures that are sustainable and lead to an improvement of the economic strength of individual countries."» 
[AusBC/'news']

Comment 1: It's called the 'false dichotomy fallacy;' offering a limited choice (= false alternatives) and worse, not including a real option = proper, progressive taxation.

Comment 2: In Aus, we were given no choice; neoliberalism along with globalisation was brought in by Labor (Hawke/Keating), extended by Liberals (Howard/Costello) & so on by Rudd/Gillard = bipartisanly. In case you haven't noticed, bipartisan = un- & anti-democratic, exactly because it offers us, we the people = voters *no* choice.

Comment 3: It's the utmost stupidity of Merkel&Co to push austerity and 'bailouts' = *more* unemployment, *lower* incomes, *more* debt, since all lead to a spiral-down. It's why France & Greece are perhaps the 10th & 11th 'regime-changes' since the GFC. Idiots, all, *especially* the corrupt economist-advisors.

Comment 4: When Reagan was 'on the stump,' one of his then-opponents called Reagan's program voodoo economics - the opponent was correct 'back then;' Reagan's program approximated Thatcher's as similarly destructive for us, we the people, and nothing much has changed since then - except to get worse. Vast unemployment plus falling incomes in the US + lots of EU, plus economic-fear almost everywhere (jobs! Jobs! Jobs!) is *the proof* - of our misery.

Comment 5: Also in case you haven't noticed, so-called 'leaders' introducing 'reforms' which do us, we the people no good (actually, in the case of neoliberalism damaging us), is utter treachery.

-=*=-

Neoliberalism, along with globalisation, was largely *smuggled in* (also un- & anti-democratic), since had its import been properly explained - best beforehand (obviously, or even since), there could have been blood on the streets (namely politicians' and economists' both.)

It's not too late; let the tumbrels roll!

no 'specific' knowledge leads to a scenario of plausible deniability

.. but ignorance ...

  .. is no excuse ...

    .. under just law

Thesis/Subtitle: 'weasel words[1]' are a way of avoiding some (uncomfortable) truth - but IF it ain't 100% the truth THEN it's a lie[2].

Corollary 1: No worthwhile project needs a 'lie-screen.'

Corollary 2: Secrecy may be a requirement when justice is being sought against some criminal circumstance, but when secrecy is part of some crime that's conspiracy[3].
 
[update, 14:51]

-=*=-

Disclosure: This is an anti-Aus-Liberal diatribe, but given the multi-dimensional similarities, under 'comparable circumstances' it could equally apply to Aus-Labor. Far too often (once would be one too many), our so-called 'leaders' more resemble incompetent, *criminal* children than responsible adults. No wonder Aus continually seems to be going down the tubes (= tor-let.)

-=*=-

Trigger article 1:

Slipper accuser Ashby was secretly helping rival
Jessica Wright
May 5, 2012
  «Revelations of Mr Ashby's close contact with LNP members comes after a week in which the Liberal powerbroker Christopher Pyne was forced to alter his recollection three times over his dealings with Mr Ashby.
Mr Pyne has now conceded he may have sought the contact details of Mr Ashby after a late night drinking session in the Speaker's office.
Three days earlier, he said he had no reason to contact the staff member, and that he could not remember if he had.» 
[theage/Wright]

Comment: "alter his recollection three times" = confirming that he lied three times.

Trigger article 2:

Brough denies he lied on Ashby
May 6, 2012
  «Mr Brough was quoted in The Sunday Mail last weekend dismissing as "nonsense" any suggestion he knew of James Ashby's court documents before they were lodged.
He reportedly said he knew Mr Ashby as a local party member but had no previous knowledge of his civil suit.
But Mr Brough yesterday confirmed he had met Mr Ashby three times and sought legal advice on his behalf. Mr Ashby went to him for advice on how to deal with the allegations of sexual harassment and misuse of travel entitlements, he said, at the urging of Liberal National Party of Queensland member Val Bradford.» 
[theage/Political News]

Comment: "no previous knowledge of his civil suit" after "he had met Mr Ashby three times" - no further questions, m’lud.

Trigger article 3:

Abbott denies 'formal complaint' made over Slipper
Posted April 23, 2012 21:59:39
  «Mr Abbott has also dismissed any notion that the Coalition helped Mr Ashby prepare his case.
"I had no specific knowledge of this until I read the newspapers on Saturday morning and to the best of my knowledge, no-one in the Coalition had specific knowledge of this until they read the newspapers," he said.» 
[AusBC/'news']

Comment 1: Weasel words; "no specific knowledge," "to the best of my knowledge" and "no-one in the Coalition had specific knowledge."

Comment 2: As far as denialists go, is Abbott plausible?

Comment 3: What of Abbott's no 'formal complaint?' Well, this:

  «Mr Ashby's documents allege that Mr Nutt was told of the allegations "in or around mid-2003".
It says a former Slipper staffer, Megan Hobson, had seen a video in which Mr Slipper was observed to behave inappropriately but that Mr Nutt told her to "forget all about it".» 
[AusBC/'news' ibid.]

Comment 4: The "behave inappropriately" was of the homosexual variety, "seen [in] a video" "in or around mid-2003". Yet Slipper was allowed to remain selected by the LNP and was subsequently re-elected - thrice.

-=*=-

Musing: Some people think this is 'all good fun,' and that anything that can be, will be used, to bring Gillard&govt down. The corrupt&venal MSM seem all too ready to 'kick someone already down' but worse - they collaborate in staging the initial fall. Murdoch, of course, is the absolute worst, but it is utterly outrageous not to mention disgraceful that the AusBC allows itself to go pro-Liberal partisan. A gaoling offence, IMHO - if not to be hung as traitors.

The grounds for wishing to 'ditch the witch,' to bring Gillard&govt down are ostensibly that Labor is determined to ruin the economy to fatten union-cats = socialism = next-best to communism - citing mining-tax (MRRT = a fairer share for we the people) and CO2-tax (trying (however (in)effectively) to save our once jewel-like planet's comfortable-life supprting ecosphere), plus the usual vilifying by lying shock-jocks. Over time it all works as planned; the people crumble to the psychologically constructed propaganda.

But whatever it is, it ain't (proper) democracy; a deceived electorate cannot make informed decisions. As if that wasn't enough, numbering candidates on a ballot once every 3-4 years is totally risible as a method of determining we, the people's wishes. No proper people-sovereignty = illegitimate representation = no mandate for laws, no right to tax, no right to fight wars - of any sort (except defensive; doesn't happen) and especially no right to go off murdering-for-spoil, as US+UK+Aus in Afghanistan, Iraq & (F+UK/NATO/US) in Libya, next Syria with Iran in planning - again. Then there's the Nakba; those aiding crime make themselves into accessories, those who tolerate crime = accomplices, those arguing support = apologists, all = guilty.

-=*=-

"Order! The 'honourable' member will resume his seat!" (About 7,960 results)

-=*end*=-

PS If it wasn't all so boringly repetitive. I first experienced it against Whitlam, and the poison still clings in many minds (again, one would be one too many). People don't seem to learn, but some must, and many would be too clever to fall for lying propaganda in the first place. Q: Where are the truly clever, truly honourable ones, those who could rescue us from these dire circumstances?

-=*=-

^ Update, 14:51; PPS Two new-ish items:

Article 1:

Hockey calls for silence on Slipper allegations
May 6, 2012 - 11:18AM
  «Senior coalition frontbencher Joe Hockey has called for an end to the public commentary over the sexual harassment accusations made against Speaker Peter Slipper.» 
[theage/political-news]

Comment: Note the time; 11:18AM.

Article 2:

Labor accused of Slipper staffer smear campaign
Posted May 06, 2012 21:06:34 | Updated May 06, 2012 21:09:05
  «Opposition Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey says the Labor party is smearing the staffer who accused embattled Speaker Peter Slipper of sexual harassment.» 
[AusBC/'news']

Comment 1: One might hardly credit that both articles were based on the same source/input (AusBC's Insiders), and that the AusBC item was posted 'only' about 10hrs later than theage's (so much for 'AusBC news').

Comment 2: I hardly need to point out, the difference in 'slant?'

Comment 3: In case you hadn't noticed, there's a moral aspect: In order to desire 'plausible deniability,' one first needs something to deny.

Q: What's Abbott's excuse? (Tip: Recall that the 'captain' is 'responsible' for the entire shebang.)

[«back»]

-=*=-

Ref(s):

[1] weasel word  n. (usu. in pl.) word that is intentionally ambiguous or misleading. [POD]

[2] lie2  -n. 1 intentionally false statement (tell a lie). 2 something that deceives. -v. (lies, lied, lying) 1 tell a lie or lies. 2 (of a thing) be deceptive.  give the lie to show the falsity of (a supposition etc.). [Old English] [ibid.]

[3] conspiracy  n. (pl. -ies) 1 secret plan to commit a crime; plot. 2 conspiring. [Latin: related to *conspire]

conspiracy of silence  n. agreement to say nothing.

conspirator  n. person who takes part in a conspiracy.  conspiratorial adj. [ibid.]

[4] deniable
adjective able to be denied: the government did agree to play a limited and deniable role in the rebellion.
DERIVATIVES
deniability noun
deniably adverb.
[The NEW OXFORD Dictionary OF ENGLISH] 

Brough at Slipper via Ashby equals sleazy Liberals

.. what ...

  .. else ...

    .. is new?

Thesis/Subtitle: Some born-to-rule Libs' (homosexual/power) games

-=*=-

Trigger article:

Labor seizes on Brough-Slipper link
Posted May 05, 2012 15:58:15
  «Mr Brough is seeking Liberal National Party pre-selection to run against Mr Slipper in the seat of Fisher at the next Federal election, and this morning confirmed he and his wife met Mr Ashby.
He is the second senior Coalition figure to admit to having contact with Mr Ashby before the claims were made public.
Last week it emerged Opposition frontbencher Christopher Pyne met with Mr Ashby three times during the staffer's time in the Speaker's office, and had requested Mr Ashby's email and mobile phone number.» 
[AusBC/'news']

Comment: Oh, what a tangled web they weave...

Related Story: Brough denies conspiracy against Slipper

Comment: Never believe anything - until officially denied.

Related Story: AFP launches probe into Slipper allegations

Comment: (Terrorising) cops raiding (homosexual) bedrooms.

Related Story: Government pounces on Pyne over Ashby link

Comment 1: Hold on, wasn't Pyne up to his armpits in the Grech affair, along with Abetz? Try this google: Pyne Grech affair Abetz, amongst about 3,450 other 'juicy' ones, see "Abetz admits Turnbull fed him leaks from Grech | The Australian," or was that Minchin? (Oh, he's gone; funny that. Perhaps Heffernan? All blurs together; sooo many bad names, sooo little time.)

Comment 2: By 'word-association' (aka google), we now have Brough, Pyne, Abetz & Turnbull to which we could add the current arch born-to-rule and very peripatetic Abbott.

Comment 3: If the polls are to be believed, the great Aussie-unwashed are intending to vote this rabble right in, very next opportunity. The Aus voting public (poor little ppp-dd'd darlings that they are), plus all non-voters (*involuntarily*, boo hoo) will get what they 'deserve;' think something similar to being (homosexually) raped with a (Sunshine Coast) Peta-Pyneapple. [ppp-dd'd = pushed-propaganda paradigm dumbed-down. Lied-to voters are incapable of making properly informed decisions; resulting representatives have *no* mandate, *no* mandate = no valid law, no right to tax us, or to send us to war. In sum, *no* mandate = illegitimate - just like Israel (improperly dispossessed almost an entire country by genocidal ethnic-cleansing - now *that's* illegitimate - just like lying politicians; looping.)]

-=*=-

Note: Brough is ex-army, that nest of 'honourable defenders' currently aggressively invading Afghanistan, some having detoured through Iraq (another mass-murder-for-spoil US+UK+Aus-adventure) on the way.

-=*=-

Fazit: Brough is after Slipper's seat. Abbott is after Gillard's job. Murdoch is after Aus' = our PM & govt. Oh, goody - this is how our democracy works - or doesn't work, as the case may be. Cui bono?

-=*end*=-

Ref(s):

[1] sleazy  adj. (-ier, -iest) squalid, tawdry.  sleazily adv. sleaziness n. [origin unknown] [POD]

Merkel vs football

.. nothing ...

  .. like ...

    .. priorities

Item: "Merkel will ihren Ministern empfehlen, der EM fernzubleiben."

Xlate: "Merkel wants to recommend to [her] ministers not to attend the European [football] Championships [in Ukraine]."

The problem: Tymoshenko may be being 'roughed-up' a bit in prison, or perhaps she's just faking it ("All politicians lie!")

Note 1: Tymoshenko may have once come to power in the Ukraine, thanks to the "Orange Revolution," reasonably suspected by many of being a US subversive, covert operation.

Note 2: Instead of helping former USSR components to 'recover' into prosperous, liberated 21st C. states, the US sent their carpet-baggers in armed with neoliberalism; the 'old East' are now almost exclusively looted, failed states.

Note 3: Many German banks follow the US 'examples.'

In any case, Merkel has her knickers in a twist over Tymoshenko.

BUT: Germany supports Israel (= IL), that illegitimate entity squatting on stolen land - land/property improperly alienated from 100s of 1000s of hapless erstwhile legal owner/occupiers (= ELO/Os), those who fled rather than be murdered by invading Zionist (= Zs) terrorists in aggressive, genocidal operations like Plan Dalet/Deir Yassin massacre, such-like continuing down to the current moment. (Note: Aggressive invasions = Nuremberg-class war crimes.) IL is an un-remedied crime-scene. Germany not just 'supports' IL-Zs but also supplies them with U-Boots - capable of carrying nukular-bombs, possibly to attack Iran.

(Note also that the US, another of Germany's 'chums' runs 'Gitmo,' tortures people (Abu Ghraib) and multi-murders for spoil - see Iraq, say; possibly many more than 2mio dead as direct results of US aggressive "Shockin' Whore" invasive attack.)

Merkel is getting ready to interfere in football, one of the German public's favourite diversions, calling for a boycott.

Q: Why not boycott US &/ Zs, Angela?

Msg to Mme M: Get a life!

from B, B & H via Charles Taylor to O, C & S - all same

.. some ...

  .. more equal ...

    .. than other - criminals

Thesis/Subtitle:

The vermin only teaze and pinch
 Their foes superior by 2.54cm.
 So, naturalists observe, a flea
 Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
 And these have smaller still to bite 'em,
 And so proceed ad infinitum.

-=*=-

The US started 'our troubles' latest on August 6 and 9, 1945, with the double war crime atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (No, the bombings were *not* needed, neither to end the war nor to save US soldiers' lives; Japan was finished anyway and the field-commanders on up knew it.)

The French were fighting = slaughtering natives in Vietnam before the US (later + Aus and some other SQSH-Os = snivelling quisling sycophantic hangers-on) began its invasion with aid to France in 1950. Then came US 'advisors' followed by 'the full Monty' = bombing (HE, napalm, agent orange) and the My Lai Massacre etc. (Hostile forces crossing a border inbound = aggressive invasion, à la Nuremberg.)

UK teamed up with the US to overthrown (democratically elected) Mosaddegh in a coup d'état in Iran, 1953.

The US with more SQSH-Os invaded Afghanistan in 2001 after US+NATO smashed the FYR in 1999 ("... illegal 1999 US-led NATO bombing of Serbia - a NATO “out-of-area” deployment never approved by the UN Security Council.")

Starting in 2003 Bush, Blair & Howard (= B, B & H) 'led' more SQSH-Os in smashing Iraq with "Shockin' Whore" - back to the stone-age, then lynched Saddam via a kangaroo-court.

Recently, Obama, Cameron & Sarkozy (= O, C & S) as F+UK/NATO smashed Libya (brutally murdering Gaddafi) and are actively pursuing basically the same m.o. in Syria.

-=*=-

Trigger article:

Charles Taylor guilty of crimes against humanity
Posted April 26, 2012 21:09:34 | Updated April 27, 2012 09:49:30
  «Former Liberian leader Charles Taylor has been found guilty on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.» 
[AusBC/'news']

Comment 1: Sure, Taylor may be a 'bad one,' could rank with Milosevic, Saddam & Gaddafi (= T, M, S & G). But these 'bastards' are essentially no worse than Bush, Blair & Howard or Obama, Cameron & Sarkozy - the essential difference is that the 'little tyrants' did not get along (= declined to submit to 'great-power' rapine) too-well with the 'leading tyrants.'

Comment 2: No villain-list is complete without Herzl, Balfour & Jabotinsky & Co (= H, B & J etc.) These 'gentlemen' plus far too many others to list (Golda Meir gets a 'double-gong' for $US50mio for arms, and the 'Samson-threat' = world's ultimate suicide-bombing blackmail), and the un-remedied crime-scene which is the illegitimate-entity Israel.

Altogether the 'Western' tyrants' illegal&immoral actions have led to massive casualties = literally multi-millions slaughtered, plus almost an entire country (Palestine) stolen from its hapless erstwhile legal owner/occupiers (= ELO/Os).

So the 'leading tyrants' smash the 'little tyrants' and many truly innocent 'collaterals' are murdered as the left-living are ripped-off.

-=*=-

The general argument = 'that the US fights for freedom and democracy' = utter&total bullshit; their own citizens are being driven into the dust as are others in the 'Western' economic sphere, notably the EU with its idiotic austerity, but also most of the former USSR. Then there's the "Economic Hit Man" = IMF-SAPed 3rd world (Aus voluntarily self-SAPs). In addition to murder-for-spoil wars, banksters + erring-ideologists (economists, psychologists + others) are to blame for militarism+neoliberalism all wrapped in lying propaganda relayed and *actively assisted* by the corrupt&venal MSM (incl. big bits of the AusBC), enabling the riches-transfer from us, we the people to the rapacious, mostly already obscenely rich <1%. (See Susan George, say, problem clearly seen by 1999. Q: So why do govts still pursue neoliberalism? A: Corrupt representatives.)

Note: When electors are lied to, and we are, on a truly staggering scale, then no election can be called 'free&fair,' and any resulting 'elected' representatives have no mandate. No mandate = no valid laws, no mandate = no valid taxation & no mandate = no right to enter into (aggressive, murder-for-spoil) wars.

-=*=-

Fazit: What we are getting is *not* truth&justice.

free two one zero

.. two-state is unjust = Palestinians dispossessed ...

  .. one state = Jews into minority ...

    .. so, *no* state

Thesis/Subtitle: Solomon-type justice; cut the baby in half?

Historical fact: Zionists (=Zs, mostly self-claimed Jews, many of Ashkenazi = European origin) set out to acquire a 'homeland' in Palestine, 'by hook or by crook' = to buy if possible else to steal by violence = ethnic-cleansing by genocidal methods, i.e. Plan Dalet/Deir Yassin massacre & such like, continued down to the current moment. Having killed hapless erstwhile legal owner/occupiers (= ELO/Os) to dispossess them, the Israeli-Zs (= IL-Zs) now live a life of continuous crime which they try to disguise with their non-viable excuses = 'explanation' = hasbarah = lies.

As long as IL has no 'clear title' to the land/property the Zs 'improperly alienated' = stole, they can neither have peace nor honour - and must live in disgraceful illegitimacy.

IF the IL-Zs won't give the land/property back (UNGA194, "right of return" + pay a fine) OR pay for it in a free&fair exchange (acceptable recompense + reparations) THEN they stay illegitimate AND have to keep their aggressive, alien-invasion = illegal war going.

-=*=-

Nobody (in their right mind) likes liars, even less lying criminals, and lying murderers-to-steal come last on any honourable list.

The world has an *undeniable* responsibility to remedy the Z-crimes.

Lacking effective action by our so-called 'leaders' to remedy the Z-crimes, peace&justice-seeking citizens have every right to all legal means of redress = BDS campaigns etc. are not just reasonable but required.

The Palestinians have an *inalienable* right to their Z-stolen land/property = it must be returned to them, to keep or to sell as the Palestinians freely determine.

The IL-Zs have an *undeniable* responsibility to legitimise themselves.

The IL-Zs do *not* have the option to continue in crime.

1. Declare mandate-Palestine as a world-heritage reserve,

2. Disarm all 'combatants,' turning them back into 'people like us.'

3. Return what property that can be returned, have the perpetrators pay acceptable restitution/reparation for what cannot.

4. Have the perpetrators say a sincere "Sorry!"

5. All proceed together in a just peace.

Crime&punishment check profit&loss remedy=revest

.. no criminals ...

  .. to walk ...

    .. free

-=*=-

Thesis/Subtitle: Benefiting from the proceeds of crime is also a crime. Whereas lying per se is 'only' an offence against decency&honesty, lying is a prerequisite to = partner in crime, and all who lie in support of a crime make themselves as equally guilty as the perpetrators, by the accessory-mechanism.

Corollary: Society seeks to deter crime by the threat of punishment (prevention being preferred to cure); prosecutes actual crimes in order to punish, then recompenses victims (including returning any stolen property) - so why does Israel remain not prosecuted, unpunished and its victims not recompensed? Similarly with the US, as it rampages across the world, plundering resources (accent on oil), each rogue-regime worse than the other.

-=*=-

Trigger article 1:

The Palestinians: The Forgotten People
By William James Martin
22 April, 2012
  «It is impossible to understand the present Palestinian/Israeli conflict without understanding the past, in particular, the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe, who are not Semitic people, but indigenous to Eastern Europe.
In 1900, there were no Ashkenazi Jews living in Palestine; essentially none, that is, but a few, small mostly temporary Russian Jewish settlers, not totally unusual for various cults in the Holy Land at that time. Theodore Herzl, frequently designated ‘The Father of Modern Zionism', because of the publication of his book, The Jewish State, in 1896, and because of this founding of the World Zionist Congress, a year later stated in 1897:
“[We shall] spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.”
Thus the concept of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians was introduced.» 
[countercurrents/Martin]

Comment: In case it's slipped your attention, that's *exactly* what's happened = ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Zionists using genocidal methods (deliberate extermination of a people or nation), continuing and expanding right down to 'the current moment.'

Musing:

IF someone dispossessed THEN seek restitution,

IF someone aggrieved THEN seek recompense,

IF someone infringes THEN seek justice,

IF someone injured THEN seek redress,

IF someone killed THEN seek revenge,

 - Wilful murderers should themselves be put to death; tumbrels.

Comment: I am a seeker of truth&justice, and not *normally* vengeful. BUT: Killing someone (in non-strict self-defence[*]) may be regarded as the *ultimate* crime, since the victim thereby loses *everything*, including the totality of his/her future - for which there can be no possible restitution, let alone recompense.

[*] Consider the burglary/home-invasion analogy; the perpetrators have neither the 'right to exist' (as murdering-to-steal perpetrators, only as charged then convicted felons), nor have they any 'right to defend' improperly alienated property. Specifically, burglar/home-invaders have no rights to resist their arrestors, so where are the SWAT-teams?

Trigger article 2:

Truth, lies and Afghanistan
How military leaders have let us down
By LT. COL. DANIEL L. DAVIS
  «...Tell The Truth
When it comes to deciding what matters are worth plunging our nation into war and which are not, our senior leaders owe it to the nation and to the uniformed members to be candid — graphically, if necessary — in telling them what’s at stake and how expensive potential success is likely to be. U.S. citizens and their elected representatives can decide if the risk to blood and treasure is worth it.» 
[armedforcesjournal/Davis]

Comment 1: Davis is concerned with the military lying to the politicians, and admits that his classified report has more of the same but far worse. Recall my contention that 'secrecy is an enemy of democracy,' then ponder that in Aus, we have even *less* openness vis-à-vis the military, politicians & war etc..

Comment 2: Read the lot to appreciate just how many and vicious are the lies, *by* our so-called leaders, relayed *and augmented* by the corrupt&venal MSM (incl. big bits of the AusBC).

Comment 3: Lies are deployed to deceive, and as previously pointed out, are prerequisites to crime. The crimes of the US+Z rogue-regimes are 'murders-for-spoil' on a truly massive and shocking scale. It was the UN raison d'être to prevent war - yet the UN *assists* the US+Z's criminal carnage, at least from UNGA181 then allowing Israel to persist in its criminality, recently not preventing the US' invasive = aggressive attacks on Afghanistan & Iraq, through UNSC1973 = rapine of Libya, lining up on Syria with Iran next - why?

Comment 4: No worthwhile project requires a single lie, yet we are inundated with them. Ergo, the US+Z rogue-regimes' lie-supported projects are *not* worthwhile. (Bet you already knew that, eh?)

Let the tumbrels roll.

-=*=-

Fazit: In our representative democracy model, we the people are (supposedly) sovereign, and elect 'leaders' tasked with implementing the will of the majority whilst respecting all minorities. This process simply *cannot* function correctly if the people are lied-to = deceived, as we clearly are. Further, the so-called 'leaders' are not just telling us little-white- or noble-lies, since what they are trying to hide are vicious crimes, QED. Once again, let the tumbrels roll!