by Oui
Fri Oct 1st, 2021 at 08:03:57 AM EST
The East-West propagandists are having a field day ... 😄
$66 Billion Reasons: did Scott Morrison get the French submarines right?
A must read, informative and quite enjoyable ...
Forward to the past
It is poetic too, that at this very time we are striking even stronger and even more unnecessary ties with Westminster and Washington. Boris Johnson's government is beset by the chaos which is Brexit, such chaos now that it has spawned a global energy emergency. While the EU has the wobbles on its trade deal with Australia, Boris is in the market for a friend.
Moreover, the retro economic policies of our "Superior Economic Managers" of the Coalition are redolent of Old England, very Old England of the 12th and 13th centuries, Edward II Old England where they depleted the forests to pursue their extractive industries of mining and agriculture, where incompetence culminated in humiliation on the battlefield, the Great Famine, the Black Plague and finally the Peasants Revolt of 1381.
In parallel, the Coalition has suffered defeat and retreat in Afghanistan, the Drought and the Pandemic, and all they need now is a peasants revolt. That ought to come sooner rather than later. The settings are in place. Poor government, spiralling inequality, abuse of wealth and power.
The Government's neo-liberal "trickle down" policies have failed miserably. Even before the Pandemic, the economy had been contracting. Just like the feudal model of the Middle Ages, where the rich got richer as asset prices rose, and the poor were exploited as wages stagnated and treasury was depleted in useless wars against France and Scotland, Australia's working classes are increasingly vassaled to their superiors, disenchanted.
AUS former PM ...
Biden You Should be Aware Your Submarine Deal Has Costs | NY Times Op-Ed |
The landmark defense pact with Australia and Britain, AUKUS, that Mr. Biden announced this month is a major step to making that pivot to Asia a reality. Under the agreement, Australia will explore hosting U.S. bombers on its territory, gain access to advanced missiles and receive nuclear propulsion technology to power a new fleet of submarines.
China ...
EU trade ...
Corbyn ...
France-UK relations ...
Channel: UK Practices Pushbacks as France, NGOs and the UN Deem "Turn-Around" Tactics Unsafe and Unlawful
Reassurance from US State ...
Partner EU trade ...
Breaking News ...
The UK righthand turn a quid-pro-quo with Joe?
The good-old ways of the past ...
India has a larger number of consumers ...
Submarine deal with Pakistan ...
French ex-PM Balladur on trial over 'Karachi affair' kickbacks | France24 - Jan. 18, 2021 |
Pak Army's role in deadly 2002 Karachi terrorist attack continues to haunt France
Pakistan's image as a terror sponsor came into sharp focus when France recalled the killing of 11 French nationals in Karachi on May 8, 2002, with anger and sadness. The French citizens were working on a French-Pak submarine project in Karachi when they were targeted by terrorists sponsored by a cabal of middle-men, Generals and politicians in Pakistan who were angry at not receiving the bribe they were promised.
Although Pakistan was quick to label the suicide bombing as an al Qaeda attack, the French investigators subsequently were able to discover clear evidence of the ISI's direct involvement in the bombing.
...
In 1994, France sold three Agosta 90B class military submarines to Pakistan for about one billion euros. Fifty million of these euros were set aside as commissions to be shared by some of Pakistan's politically powerful figures of the time as well as military officers who had 'managed` the deal. The group included the then Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's husband, Asif Ali Zardari, the then Naval chief, Admiral Mansurul Haq, his predecessor Admiral Saeed Khan, a former naval intelligence director besides some defence agents in Pakistan and other countries. The most notorious of them was Amir Lodhi, brother of a former Pakistani ambassador to the United States, and a close associate of Zardari.
Damn ... inflation has really hit the price of a submarine 😉
What is it about submarine contracts?
German-Israeli submarine order
Chronicle of a German-Israeli scandal | Politik - SZ.de |
A bit of British humor after Brexit 😂
