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Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon kills 3 journalists covering the war ctvnews.ca/world/mideast-…


Up to 1,000 Iranian 'sleeper' agents embedded in Canada: Govt official trib.al/qYq65xK



BREAKING: The UAE’s state-owned aluminum conglomerate, Emirates Global Aluminum, says that its Al Taweelah production base suffered “significant damage” from Iranian attacks on Abu Dhabi’s Khalifa Economic Zone earlier today. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/hf4uyn


This has been stuck in my head for a week now


Australia is facing a very serious and likely long lasting fuel crisis as a result of #Iran closing the Straits of Hormuz. Now consider the scenario of a future war in the Indo Pacific region, perhaps as a result of a #Taiwan straits crisis, where #China deliberately targets our oil and natural gas supply through the archipelago to our north, specifically to coerce Australia into not supporting the United States or it’s allies in defending the liberal democracy of #Taiwan. This scenario could also see direct attacks on our ports and other infrastructure in the north of Australia to starve us of essential fuel supplies. Rather than a distant war, it would see daily attacks directly on Australia itself. Such a scenario is likely if China decides to use military force to impose unification on Taiwan, against the wishes of the Taiwanese people. This could happen within this decade or early in the next. With this future scenario in mind, the key lesson for government emerging from the #IranWar of 2026 is that Australia cannot be resilient so long as it is so dependent on distant energy supplies, and is not able to defend vital maritime trade routes, choke points and narrows through which our essential trade flows. Bottom line: we need greater self sufficiency in energy and fuel by increasing sovereign fuel reserves to the IEA minimum of 90 days and we need to build additional onshore refineries. We need to harden our critical infrastructure associated with energy and fuel. And we need to have a means to defend this infrastructure including with investment into Integrated Air and Missile Defence (IAMD) systems for the north. Oh, and we need a larger and more powerful ADF than is currently planned and budgeted for by government in the 2024 National Defence Strategy and Integrated Investment Program. We need to be able to project greater power and sustain larger forward presence, rather than waiting for the adversary to gain the initiative in a crisis, as we sit behind our northern approaches in the ‘Sea-Air Gap’. The ‘strategic moat’ is no longer a barrier to attack. That demands government significantly increase defence spending to a floor of 3.5% and 1.5% for national security and do so NOW - not in ten years time.



I’m at Melbourne airport (domestic terminal) and completely surrounded by foreign languages. What happened to my Country


Beijing Cheers Liberal MP's Attack on Canadian China Expert — As State Media's Detailed Attack Dossier Raises Questions thebureau.news/p/beijing-chee…




🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING — Trump Admits Socialism Works "I have to say, I respect China, because it’s incredible that with a system that, in theory, shouldn’t work—you know, we go to school, we go to the best business schools, we do well in those schools, and we read about free entrepreneurship, and we read about all these different things— But if you look at China, how well they do, how much they produce. I mean, they produce so many cars that they actually have competitions over who can produce the fewest cars because they have so many cars. You have to have great respect for China for the work they do. Whether you like them or not, you have to respect them."



Anti-Communists learning that their entire worldview was shaped by Epstein pedophiles










Shenzhen offers hotel quality that’s far better than in the US at half the price, with no tipping. Why is it so cheap here?
















