Nine chairman Peter Costello is now promoting war with China after making $millions lobbying for defence companies

Nine Entertainment-owned papers have been talking up the prospects of Australia going to war with China while failing to declare that Nine chairman Peter Costello has made $millions in recent years lobbying on behalf of defence companies.

Former Prime Minister Paul Keating has also stuck his head up while never declaring he was and possibly still is on China’s payroll and executive editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Tory Maguire, is sleeping with the enemy.

One of the numerous articles on this matter in Nine’s “Red Alert series” is titled “Australia faces the threat of war with China within three years – and we’re not ready” which is written as a statement of fact but is only an opinion piece which I find pathetic as it is blatant warmongering. The first question that should be asked is who benefits from propaganda like that?

In the next few days, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will announce what will be Australia’s biggest-ever defence purchase which will be for nuclear-powered submarines.

A lot of what is being said in the old media about Australia’s defence and its associated issues such as military spending is by companies and people who have skin in the game and that is what this article is about. With so many media companies and commentators having undeclared conflicts of interest, how is the public meant to make sense of Australia’s defence and the $billions spent on defence contracts?

It makes me wonder if the stories in Nine’s papers are part of a government propaganda exercise to justify the purchase of the submarines because the timing seems very coincidental.

David Miles, who is the husband of the executive editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Tory Maguire, is a Liberal-linked lobbyist and/or Public Affairs lobbyist. Mr Miles played snooker with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the lodge only a couple of weeks ago after paying $10,000 for the privilege. (Click here to read more)

David Miles works for Willard Public Affairs and it says on their website “Willard is a specialist public affairs consultancy, providing political counsel and strategy, media relations, event management and advocacy services.” which would be handy if you had to justify spending $billions on defence.

It must also be handy having his wife run 2 newspapers and their associated websites at Nine Entertainment reaching millions of people daily and even better when Nine Entertainment chairman Peter Costello likes making $million lobbying on behalf of the defence companies.

Update 15/3/23: I published the below video with further information on YouTube titled “Nine’s paper editor, Tory Maguire, hides her conflict of interest in promoting War with China”

https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2023/03/12/nine-chairman-peter-costello-is-now-promoting-war-with-china-after-making-millions-lobbying-for-defence-companies/

Yemen peace talks intensify after Iran-Saudi deal

UN envoy has visited Tehran and Riyadh after the agreement brokered by China

Diplomatic efforts to broker a peace in Yemen accelerated after Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations last week, the UN special envoy Hans Grundberg has reported to the Security Council.

“Intense diplomatic efforts are ongoing at different levels to bring the conflict in Yemen to an end,” Grundberg said on Wednesday, after returning from Tehran and Riyadh. “We are currently witnessing renewed regional diplomatic momentum, as well as a step change in the scope and depth of the discussions.”

Iran has reportedly agreed to stop supplying weapons to the Houthis of Yemen, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing anonymous US and Saudi officials. Tehran has officially denied sending weapons to the Houthis, and the Iranian mission at the UN declined to comment on the claim.

The Houthis are Shia Muslims, just like the Iranians, while the Saudis follow the Salafist branch of Sunni Islam. The US has backed Riyadh’s military involvement in Yemen, labeling the Houthis “Iranian proxies,” which both Tehran and the government in Sanaa have denied.

Last Friday, however, Saudi Arabia and Iran announced they had reached an agreement to re-establish diplomatic relations – which Riyadh severed in 2016 – and work to improve “regional and international peace and security.” The deal itself, as well as China’s role as the mediator, have been widely interpreted as a blow to US influence in the Persian Gulf.

On Sunday, the Iranian state news agency IRNA quoted government officials saying that the deal would help revive a ceasefire, “help start a national dialogue, and form an inclusive national government in Yemen.”

Saudi Arabia and several of its allies began bombing Yemen in March 2015, eventually deploying ground troops to fight against the Houthis, who had overthrown a pro-Saudi president. A tentative ceasefire reached last March officially expired in October, but large-scale hostilities have not resumed.

The UN estimates the years-long conflict in Yemen has claimed at least 377,000 lives, of which 150,000 were due to violence and the rest from starvation and disease. About four million people have been displaced.

https://www.rt.com/news/573095-yemen-peace-saudi-iran/

Hillary Clinton: As a society, 'we don't even want to hear things we disagree with'

"That is what we see happening in Ukraine today," said the former secretary of state. "The Russian aggression is aimed at dehumanizing the Ukrainian people; they are not worthy of existing so why should anybody care whether they are bombed into oblivion?"

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said it's difficult to run a society in "today's environment" where people "don't even want to hear things we disagree with," which she argues is what's happening in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

"The information ecosystem in which we live demands so much quick response, often totally unthought," Clinton said after a discussion at Georgetown University on the legacy of the Good Friday Agreement. "It creates so much insulting, threatening rhetoric aimed at people who are trying to do hard things."

Clinton said there are lessons for today from the Good Friday Agreement, which was signed in April of 1998. The peace agreement brought an end to the violent political conflict that had wracked Northern Ireland for decades.

Clinton mentioned the controversial decision that former President Bill Clinton made to issue a visa to longtime Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams in 1994. According to a BBC report in 2019, Adams said Clinton's decision "helped to pave the way for the IRA truce seven months later."

"You do not make peace with your friends," Clinton said during her speech. "You do not negotiate with people you already agree with. It is sometimes difficult in today's environment for people to want to make the effort, let alone take the risk, to get out of their own comfort zones. We don't even want to hear things we disagree with. We don't want to hear different opinions from people who we have already concluded are outside the pale of our comfort zone.

"You cannot run a society, let alone make peace for long, if that is your ingoing attitude. 'I have nothing to learn from this person. I do not see him/her as a fellow human being. There is no reason for us to talk.' That is what we see happening in Ukraine today."

Clinton told the audience that the "Russian aggression" in Ukraine is "aimed at dehumanizing the Ukrainian people: They are not worthy of existing so why should anybody care whether they are bombed into oblivion?"

She implored the public to find ways to relate to one another in today's complex information environment.

"So we all have to do some serious soul-searching about how we relate to one another in this much more complicated information environment where demonizing and scapegoating are just accepted strategies," she said.

https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/hillary-clinton-society-we-dont-even-want-hear-things-we-disagree

As COVID origin secrets near declassification, Wuhan lab's ties to China military burst into focus

Evidence suggest U.S. has known since 2017 about ties between Wuhan lab and Beijing's bioweapons program, yet federal agencies still funded research there.

As President Joe Biden weighs whether to sign a law passed unanimously by Congress to declassify U.S. intelligence on the origins of the COVID-19 virus, new evidence has emerged that the State Department and National Institutes of Health routed at least $1.7 million in tax dollars to a Wuhan virology lab despite evidence it was tied to the Chinese military — and possibly the communist nation's bioweapons program — according to government documents reviewed by Just the News.

The United States first declared in a 2005 State Department document that communist China maintained an offensive biological weapons program in violation of its treaty commitments and that it was run in part by an arm of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS). That report specifically cited the AMMS' Fifth Institute as the epicenter of the country's bioweapons program.

You can read that document here:

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A decade later, multiple medical publications emerged from China that linked the AMMS to research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the very lab that the FBI, the Energy Department and other U.S. intelligence agencies believe was the source of a leak that started the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2019.

It's also the same lab that received grants from a contractor working for Dr. Anthony Fauci's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the U.S. Agency for International Development, the foreign aid arm of the Stpostedate Department.

The ties between AMMS and the Wuhan lab sat in plain view for years before the pandemic started, federal documents show.

For instance, a 2015 study posted on the NIH's National Library of Medicine site shows collaboration between the Wuhan lab and AAMS on anthrax spores. Several other studies between 2015 and 2019 also listed both Chinese science organizations as collaborators.

One of the most troubling links — cited in an unclassified report released in December by the House Intelligence Committee — was a 2015 book in which China scientists tied to both AMMS and the Wuhan lab declared that coronaviruses were the leading edge of a new era of genetic weapons warfare.

"In 2015, the official publishing house of the AMMS released a book titled The Unnatural Origin of SARS and New Species of Artificial Humanized Viruses as Genetic Weapons," the committee reported. "The book was produced and edited using 18 experts, 16 of whom were officers at AMMS or other PLA research centers. Indeed, one of the editors not only works for the Fifth Institute but also has a long history of collaboration with the WIV, having coauthored 12 scientific papers with personnel from it.

"The central premise of the AMMS book is that SARS-CoV-1, the strain of coronavirus that caused the 2002 SARS outbreak, did not emerge naturally but was a chimeric virus artificially engineered as a genetic weapon to infect humans. The book described the PLA researchers' broader belief that other nations are developing chimeric coronaviruses to use as genetic weapons. The authors described how to create weaponized chimeric SARS coronaviruses, the potentially broader scope for their use compared to traditional bioweapons, and the benefits of being able to plausibly deny that such chimeric coronaviruses were artificially created rather than naturally occurring."

https://justthenews.com/government/security/fras-covid-origin-secrets-near-declassification-wuhan-labs-ties-china-military

USAF Reportedly Sent Another Spy Drone to MQ-9 Crash Site Shorty After Incident Over Black Sea

Earlier, amid the back-and-forth blame game over the downing of an American MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea near Crimea on March 14, the US Air Force released declassified footage allegedly depicting the encounter. The video does not seem to substantiate the previous US claim about the drone going down due to a collision with the Russian jet.

The US military sent another unmanned aerial vehicle, an MQ-9 Reaper drone - the same model as the one that crashed in the Black Sea on Tuesday - shortly after the incident, US media has reported. The UAV was reportedly dispatched in the hopes of surveying the crash site and monitoring Russia's efforts to recover the wreckage, according to cited American officials.

Furthermore, the US is mulling another drone flight over the Black Sea in the coming days, the officials added, echoing earlier statements made by the US State Department, which declared that its drone missions in international airspace would continue.

'Risk Assessment'

And at the same time, the incident has prompted the US to “take a close look” at its surveillance drone routes, and is generally conduct an assessment of its drone operations in the Black Sea area, the same US officials were quoted as saying. The media report reveals that the Pentagon, together with its European Command, for all their brazen statements about continuing the drone missions, intends to analyze and weigh overall costs and benefits of such surveillance missions.

As part of this assessment, an attempt will purportedly be made to weigh the intelligence value of the particular route, and, accordingly, justify pushing ahead with surveillance flights in an area fraught with further escalation with Russia.

While a number of American officials have insisted that the drone's operators had remotely wiped all sensitive information from the it before it went down in the sea, US media reported on Wednesday that Russia had allegedly recovered some debris, including pieces of fiberglass or small bits of the UAV.

https://sputniknews.com/20230317/usaf-reportedly-sent-another-spy-drone-to-mq-9-crash-site-shorty-after-incident-over-black-sea-1108489629.html