New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia bushfires crisis: PM sends in troops, ships and planes

In an unprecedented move, 3000 troops, the HMAS Adelaide and multiple aircrafts have been deployed to bushfire danger zones.

The Prime Minister has announced an unprecedented deployment of 3000 Australian Defence Force Reserve troops, the Navy's largest ship the HMAS Adelaide and multiple aircrafts to bushfire-ravaged areas across the country.

A long-feared day of terror has arrived, with catastrophic fire conditions and fears that a number of still-raging blazes could merge to create “monster infernos” in Victoria and New South Wales.

Emergency warnings are in place in Victoria and New South Wales, with scorching temperatures and unpredictable winds arriving, fanning hundreds of fires that continue to burn across large parts of Australia’s east.

Thousands of firefighters have been deployed but there are fears that major blazes burning could spread into untouched regions.

Meanwhile, a picture of devastation is emerging on Kangaroo Island in South Australia – half of which has been razed by an out-of-control blaze that has killed at least two people.

https://www.news.com.au/national/new-south-wales-victoria-and-south-australia-bushfires-crisis-day-of-hell-arrives/live-coverage/8461073cb45dfc0abd5d2048410b221f

New Video Surfaces of Socialist Pope SLAPPING ANOTHER WOMAN in Chile

On New Year’s Eve Socialist Pope Francis slapped a woman twice while greeting pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square.

Pope Francis slapped the woman twice in St. Peter’s Square after she grabbed his hand — Then he angrily walked away!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/breaking-new-video-surfaces-of-pope-francis-slapping-another-woman-in-chile-video/

New York Times Reveals America’s Weapons-Makers Drive Trump-Impeachment

A remarkably non-propagandistic news-report, in the New York Times, by Eric Lipton, Maggie Haberman and Mark Mazzetti, included powerful evidence that the impeachment-effort against US President Donald Trump is motivated, in part if not totally, by a desire by US Senators and Representatives — as well as by career employees of the US Departments of Defense, State Department, and other agencies regarding national defense — to increase the sales-volumes of US-made weapons to foreign countries. Whereas almost all of the contents of that article merely repeat what has already been reported, this article in the Times states repeatedly that boosting corporations such as Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Boeing, and Northrop-Grumman, has been a major — if not the very top — motivation driving US international relations, and that at least regarding Ukraine, Trump has not been supporting, but has instead been trying to block, those weapons-sales — and creating massive enemies in the US Government as a direct consequence.

The article, issued online on Sunday, December 29th, is titled “Behind the Ukraine Aid Freeze: 84 Days of Conflict and Confusion”, and it quotes many such individuals as saying that President Trump strongly opposed the sale of US weapons to Ukraine, and that,

In an Oval Office meeting on May 23, with Mr. Sondland, Mr. Mulvaney and Mr. Blair in attendance, Mr. Trump batted away assurances that [Ukraine’s current President] Mr. Zelensky was committed to confronting corruption. “They are all corrupt, they are all terrible people,” Mr. Trump said, according to testimony in the impeachment inquiry.

In other words, Trump, allegedly, said that he didn’t want “terrible people” to be buying, and to receive, US-made weapons (especially not as US aid — free of charge, a gift from America’s taxpayers).

The article simply assumes that Trump was wrong that “they are all terrible people.”

Indeed, Trump himself has sold hundreds of billions of dollars worth of US-made weapons to the Royal Saud family who own Saudi Arabia, and he refuses to back down about those sales on account of that family’s having been behind the widely-reported torture-murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and on account of their effort since 2015 to starve into submission — by bombing the food-supplies to — the Houthis in adjoining Yemen, and on account of their using US weapons in order to achieve that mass-murdering goal. Consequently, even if Trump is correct about Ukraine’s Government, he would still have a lot of explaining to do, in order to cancel congressionally authorized US weapons-sales to Ukraine but not to Saudi Arabia.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/01/03/new-york-times-reveals-americas-weapons-makers-drive-trump-impeachment/