Earthaly Delights

"The truth is mighty & it shall prevail. There is nothing wrong with this sentiment except it that it ain't so."
~Mark Twain

[Earthaly Delights @EarthalyDelites]

@AlboMP
You're a traitor & a coward. A liar, a thief. A tinpot dictator.

[Declassified Australia @DeclassifiedAus]

The Russians know.
The Chinese know.

But Australians are NOT allowed to know.

That’s the trouble with ‘democracy’ — if the people know the truth of what’s really going on, they might want to change it.

AUSTRALIA’S SECRET EMBRACE OF U.S. NUCLEAR PLANNING
https://t.co/VHGoCmPbxY

[Consortium News @Consortiumnews]

🥂Congratulations @MaryKostakidis on winning the 2026 Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award presented by Consortium News at a ceremony in Sydney on Sunday. Previous winners were Oliver Stone, Julian Assange and John Pilger.

[Earthaly Delights @EarthalyDelites]

@Erin_Molan @JerrySeinfeld Oh ffs not another Aussie Nazi Barbie.

[Earthaly Delights @EarthalyDelites]

@keepitgreat7 @rustyrockets There's that famed Christian love & kindness again. It's unmistakable, innit?
"Y'ALL CONNA BURN & SUFFER & BE TORMENTED & WE-UNZ IS GONNA LAFF & TEST OUT OUR WINGS WHILE WE WATCH!
But remember, Jesus loves you."

[Earthaly Delights @EarthalyDelites]

@rustyrockets Performative monogamy.

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@YourAnonOne So - we will be Borg?

[Earthaly Delights @EarthalyDelites]

@richardaeden I'm hearing "Colin Firth's ex is a decent human being who refuses to stay silent as an acquaintance hawks a luxury real estate development built on the sire of an 80 year long ethnic cleansing."

[Earthaly Delights @EarthalyDelites]

@InsiderWorld_1 #FREEPALESTİNE

[Peter Reynolds @TweeterReynolds]

Why is anyone surprised that @BBCNews is systematically biased in favour of Israel? Its outrageous disinformation and unfairness towards Palestine is reaching new levels as it covers up Israel's crimes and fails to present the Palestinian perspective.

[Earthaly Delights @EarthalyDelites]

@NikkiHaley Oh do fuck off.

[Earthaly Delights @EarthalyDelites]

Most nations are run by traitors to their own people. Why do any of us continue to tolerate it?

[sciziocat @sciziocat]

Forgot that US military ships can dock in India for repairs and maintenance after they are used to bomb Indian container ships.

Masterstroke.

[Earthaly Delights @EarthalyDelites]

@SenatorWong @YvetteCooperMP @AnitaAnandMP Let me translate this: "Today three of the most appalling people in western politics came up with a snidely repugnant ruse to funnel more money to Israel so they can step up the genocide."
You pisstaking pack of psychopaths.

[Earthaly Delights @EarthalyDelites]

@bing_bong_banjo @Kate02404353 @NYMag Palestinians have a right to defend themselves.

[Earthaly Delights @EarthalyDelites]

@justdavenow89 Hunter Biden is proof positive that the DNC has its own pervy presidential progeny doing rails of coke in the White House toilets too.

[Robert Barwick @RobbieBarwick]

Breaking!

Former foreign minister Gareth Evans has told the AUKUS Public Inquiry that the strategic benefit of AUKUS to the USA is the subs base at Stirling, WA.

So the US can "interdict" Chinese energy supplies going through the Malacca Strait.

I.e. it's a threat to sea lanes.

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

It’s time for the Federal Police to investigate Australians who are returned Israeli Defense Force soldiers.

“Any Australian who has committed war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide must be held to account and face justice.

“The international rules-based order must be respected and upheld, and the Australian Government must honour its obligations to bring accountability for perpetrators of these grave crimes.

“The impunity must come to an end.”

AFP urged to investigate Australians allegedly involved in Gaza genocide https://t.co/yNbOXPOiE0

[toasted avocado @toastedavocado2]

@JJKALE2 Forever wars for fake "enemies" and Forever Arms sales to fake "friends"is the Empire business model

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

Prof Jeffrey Sachs, American economist and public policy analyst. Columbia University:

"AUKUS is designed to bill the Australian taxpayers and enrich the US military industrial complex. You have been had Australia, sorry to tell you. And your politicians should own up it."

[Keith Sutherland OAM @KeithSutho_OAM]

Without doubt 🇦🇺 has been conned by 🇺🇸 & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 as AUKUS will never be delivered as seen by the 3, 2nd hand junk subs🤬
Time for @AlboMP to accept he was wedged by Morrison
Trump will never honour any agreement as we are only being used for US bases for Trump to start war with China

[Peter Fox 🦊🇦🇺 @Foxy_PeterFox]

Do we really need the U.S. as a 'defence' partner who goes to war, almost every year? A partner with its own agenda who starts wars in other countries without consulting us, then asks for our help? #ExitAUKUS #Auspol

[StarBoySAR 🇭🇰 🇨🇳 🥭 @StarboySAR]

Brilliant piece from Pearls and Irritations. Finally, someone in Australia is saying out loud what the rest of us have been watching for the past five years

Let's be clear about what AUKUS actually is: the greatest military protection racket in modern history. Washington looked at its own crippled submarine industrial base—17 boats short, yards choking, Congress screaming—and found the perfect mark. A wealthy, eager, insecure middle power with a bipartisan fetish for great-power relevance and a defense minister who treats strategic questions like a classified state secret

The deal? Australia pays half a trillion dollars. In return, it gets used Virginia-class hand-me-downs—Block IV boats with a decade of wear already on the hulls, probably smelling faintly of its previous crew

Even more intriguing, the article confirms for what this overpriced second-hand Australian "sovereign" nuclear submarine fleet is actually for:

Hunting Chinese Jin-class and Type 096 SSBNs. Not to protect Sydney Harbour. Not to secure Australia's trade routes. To find, track, and if ordered, destroy the Chinese nuclear submarines that threaten continental America!

That's the job. That's the whole job. Australia just committed A$368 billion to be the US Navy's underwater security guard!

The comedy of "sovereign capability" is almost too rich. Sovereign? The reactors are American. The combat system is American. The weapons are American. The fuel is American. The intelligence feed is American. The maintenance schedule is American. Permanently tethering Australia to U.S. software, maintenance, and logistics, effectively ending any "sovereign" capability. The only thing Australian is the taxpayer—and the Prime Minister standing in front of a camera calling this independence

Australia is not buying a submarine; it is buying a node in a U.S. sensor network. The acquisition deeply integrates Australia into the U.S. military command structure, making Australia a tool for U.S. strategic objectives in the Indo-Pacific — while a massive amount of Australian wealth is transferred into the U.S. military-industrial complex

And the timing is exquisite. Washington just added another half-trillion to its own defense budget while Australia is told to hit 3.5% of GDP. America gets the money, the boats, the basing rights at HMAS Stirling, and a Pacific ASW auxiliary. Australia gets the bill, the dependency, and the warm fuzzy feeling of being taken seriously by the adults.

The U.S. 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) emphasizes "burden-sharing among allies" and "realist diplomacy." This submarine deal is the perfect execution of that strategy: the U.S. maintains its military overmatch against China by essentially "outsourcing" the financial cost of undersea surveillance to Australia 🤡

Paul Keating called this three years ago. He was mocked, of course. The press club gasped. The security establishment rolled its eyes. But he was right then, and this article proves he's right now. It is worse than he thought. It's not that AUKUS is of little military benefit to Australia. It's that AUKUS is of negative military benefit to Australia—actively diverting resources from actual defense needs toward a capability designed for someone else's homeland

https://t.co/f7lYAMf3JY