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Jun 18, 2021Liked by John Birmingham

I confess when I first heard about 'ASIS operative K' I thought -they're taking the piss, aren't they?

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Jun 18, 2021Liked by John Birmingham

Aah, yes! The hypocrisy of equivalence. This must be the "rules-based order" I keep hearing about! Shocked (well, put out at least) to find the other night that Alexander of the nation-building family Downer was appearing as a guest on The Drum - to the same degree as I am when Greg verbal diarrhoea Sheridan appears. Don't these two have their Murdoch media outlets - both of them attackers of the ABC - so why invite them inside that ABC tent? ...

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Jun 18, 2021Liked by John Birmingham

Love reading your work, JB. And good choice of artwork: Foghorn Leghorn would be the perfect defender if they ever charged Downer with anything.

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At least we know Yang's name. Somehow the most Orwellian, unperson power of it is that we're not even permitted to know who K is

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Jun 18, 2021Liked by John Birmingham

Cracking work JB.

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Jun 18, 2021Liked by John Birmingham

Nice JB...Love your work. Also loved "hermeneutics"... Officially my Word of The Day

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I wish i was shocked by any of this. I wish i could read it incredulously then rush off to see what Waleed or Sam Maiden or, well, anyone had to say and for it to be refuted somewhere. But the fact that Lord Downer had his grubby mitts in it is the least surprising thing i think I’ve ever read. Apparently the LNP have got to the basement subfloor and decided to bring a jackhammer and shovel

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I'm sure Downer's murderous ancestors will be proud of him sticking it to "the natives". If we had courts of justice, rather than courts of law, it would be Downer in the dock.

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I'd love to know how many dollary doos David Irvine earned from all this mess. Where is Ashton Calvert buried? May he Timor-Leste in peace. Also, with regards to the K moniker, at the Sydney Writers Fest, Bernard Collaery said it was a name they proposed to the Spooks, in reference to Kafka. Nobody at ASIS or the CDPP got the joke.

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Keeping to the Orwellian/Kafkaesque theme: last July Woodside wrote down the value of their 33% holding in the Greater Sunrise Gas fields to $0. Shell and ConocoPhillips got out a bit earlier, selling their stake to the Timorese, who are burning their sovereign wealth fund at an unsustainable rate. There's a good chance that it will never be economical to develop, overtaken by various Pilbera renewable/hydrogen/ammonia/wind schemes. (based on an article by Hamish McDonald in the Saturday Paper no. 321, October 2020).

So it was all worthwhile in the end...

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The architect of the rise of the fascist slime, Smirko the Jerko, has already ordered his henchman ,the Machiavellian dark lord Dutton, to create legislation that would make anybody guilty until proven innocent. The name of the High Court judge that would preside over the proceedings would be selected from Senator Heffernan's secret list of 28 federal pedophile judges and politicians to guarantee a verdict. The Q Anon theory that Dutton is Xenu has been confirmed.

The proposal that all nefarious miscreants be beaten with a stick to embrace Liberal Party ideology is making the rounds of the cabinet office. An amendment has been adopted that if the stick breaks the malefactor will be billed for the cost of the stick and then renditioned to Ashmore Reef. A cost effective method of reducing our gargantuan deficit.

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