
Scott Mitchell
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Scott Mitchell
@s_mitchell
Co-host and founder of Lamestream Podcast. || Former: Editor/EP of 7am, ABC news, Producer of #YouCantAskThat, Hungry Beast.


In 2013, a retired Air Vice-Marshal named John Blackburn wrote a report for the NRMA warning that Australia had adopted a “she’ll be right” approach to fuel security. He warned that a conflict in the Middle East would disrupt supply chains and leave Australia exposed within weeks. He warned that without adequate liquid fuel, food production and distribution would be severely curtailed, most businesses could not operate, and our Defence Forces could not function He warned that Australia was the only IEA member noncompliant on the 90 day reserve requirement, and that actual usable supply was closer to 23 days. He warned, specifically, that Singapore refineries sourcing crude from the Middle East were a critical vulnerability in Australia’s supply chain. That was 2013. 12 years ago. This week, an entire town in Victoria ran out of fuel. Farmers have idle tractors mid planting. NSW declared an energy supply emergency. The government is now scrambling to build a fuel taskforce that Blackburn said we needed over a decade ago. “You can have the best military in the world,” he said, “but it’s futile if you can’t fuel it.” Nobody listened.

Israel is preparing to deploy the “Gaza model” in Lebanon in plain sight — mass ethnic cleansing, annihilation of entire cities and villages, long-term occupation, and perhaps eventually Israeli settlements and annexation. My latest in the Guardian. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…





Northrop Grumman is profiled here, where @SBS Director Christine Zeitz was CEO, as with Lockheed Martin sbs.com.au/aboutus/person… I wonder if @Rashidajourno will have a job after this? 'Cashing in big time': Who's profiting from the war in the Middle East? sbs.com.au/news/article/w…




#Iran has taken out every US military base in the gulf. That’s Trillions of dollars and decades of work, GONE. Iran has destroyed the main port in #Israel, power plant, Bibi’s Security Bunker, and are systematically leveling buildings from city to city without interference. #StopTheWar #BringOurTroopsHome #BOTH #NoNukes




The issue of RAN personnel on the US submarine that sank the #Iranian ship is a big issue. Third Country Deployments (TCD) normally require ministerial sign-off. So did the MINDEF/DPM permit ADF pers to help kill dozens of sailors from a country with which we are not at war ?


🚨 Journalist Ross Coulthart claims he personally visited a real portal at a secret U.S. site allegedly hidden by the Forest Service, which also contains ancient ruins.


