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Look for ASIO's mandate to "protect the national interest". What the fuck is "protect the national interest???" If "public interest" is too nebulous a term for Australia's military (note the McBride case), then "national interest" (without transparency with voters) is also too nebulous a term for ASIO!!! That is a mechanism that enables tyranny to infect Australia's democracy, with a bunch of politically aligned nutjobs in ASIO subverting (e.g.) the decision of the High Court of Australia in the Mabo and Wik cases. ASIO is not allowed to conduct terrorism campaigns against Australians (perhaps hence its decision to hand back its powers to arrest and interrogate 14 year olds without their parents being present), but ASIO has been engaged in terrorism anyway (surfing the fine lines). What else could be in the "national interest", that many Australians might object to? E.G., recognition that our founding forefathers (the white ones), included an Aboriginal constitutional right to water for conservation purposes in Section 100 ... and which also blocks foreign absentee landlords from controlling Australia's food supply chain - could ASIO determine that Australia's Constitution, written when Catholics and Protestants were engaged in sectarianism, is against the national interest? ASIO acts with Organised Crime and with corrupt Senior Politicians to override our constitution, hidden during the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? And to keep otherwise criminal actions covered up, I allege ASIO can coordinate the other agencies of The Crown to keep covered up matters that might otherwise call into question (for example) the legality of the Canadian Police and Army Pension Fund as the largest water holder in Australia. ASIO participated in the industrial espionage of Murray Goulburn, to destroy dairy farmers' wealth and assets. And ASIO is engaged in smearing me and people like myself because my family's historical connections expose the truth. They cover up the role of state and Federal Polices, oligarchs and senior politicians enabling tens of thousands of undocumented horticulture workers, trafficked into Northern Victoria to provide an illegal workforce to horticulture, to strip and launder the assets of Australian dairy farming families, now listed on the LSE. I allege that ASIO has the capability to manipulate other agencies of The Crown, including our education systems, police forces, etc. All Australians have had our exclusive constitutional rights to water (freedom from The Crown) stripped and laundered. I allege that ASIO is involved, "in the national interest" (of Marxists, corporatism and organised crime), via influence over Australia's parliaments, via lobbyists with inappropriate levels of access. Presumably, ASIO, via its Five Eyes connections, can also determine that "it is in Australia's national interest" to hand over sovereignty of our food supply chain to other Five Eyes partners, such as the Canadian Government.

The RAIN network for Defense and AI is one more place where #Latvia has no representation. There are many good efforts in progress, but there are simply places where one cannot afford not to have representation. There is for example no justification to be absent on committees of the ISO, which has a global economic impact measured far in excess of a trillion dollars per year. I will start an effort later this year to vet and select Latvian partners to be considered for access to these organizations.

Weekend edition of our daily newsletter, Conversations in Chinese Media, for 06.07.24- 07.07.24 🔗 : https://lnkd.in/dfkuy_U2 On #NewsInChina, we cover: Xi's Central Asia Trip Boosts Regional Cooperation and Sino-Tajik Relations, Breakthrough Cooling Material Uses DNA to Cut Building Emissions, China Boosts Computing Power to Drive Digital Economy, #China and #Belarus to Hold Joint Anti-Terrorism Drill, China's Foreign Exchange Reserves Decline 0.3% in June. On #ChineseSM, we cover: #HongKong University Students Targeted by Job Scams on Social Media, Sparking Concerns Over Online Safety. On #IndiaWatch, we note: #India's New Federal Budget to be Unveiled on July 23, Xinhua Reports, Outlining Key Financial Strategies and Priorities.

Interesting points made during this discussion with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

I'm also getting some scroll through for the American Dynamism Fund. https://lnkd.in/gRr-rkq9 I think this is going to be a total disaster. The goal is to get rid of the dysfunctions of the American defense industry through Silicon Valley thinking, but I think the actual result is going to make Silicon Valley as dysfunctional as the defense industry. https://lnkd.in/gsEGAWGX

The political economy of war and de-industrialisation … This formed the basis of my discussion with Philip Pilkington, a macroeconomist and researcher based in Budapest. Our conversation explored his recent reports on: 1. The challenges of re-industrialisation - tariffs aren’t viable solutions to what are long term, deeply entrenched systemic problems. 2. The resources of the NATO countries compared to those of the BRICS+ group; wars are resource intensive and NATO isn’t well endowed. Addressing the first set of ambitions requires abandoning the pursuit of conflict (even in the name of deterrence). Rather, it requires a new modus vivendi of sorts, which integrates prosperity with peace. That’s what #MultipolarPeace is about. #peace #prosperity #NoGlobalNATO https://lnkd.in/gGjJ_qEM

Short summary of EuroCis

Short summary of EuroCis

That's just how it is. Bold truths. Perhaps the most pacifistic culture, society and country in our era? JAPAN. I don't know a single Japanese friend who starts fights. Never met one anyway. I'm sure they exist. But, I've also been preached to about peace by many Japanese friends. IMAGINE what is going on in the world when Japan can't come and play with AUKUS because they're too pacifistic. Welcome to the 21st century. For anyone playing at home? IT'S NOT THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY ANYMORE. Historic firmware updates: 1. China is vying with the US for hegemony on all stages but both countries quietly kniw they need to be the greatest ever partners in every industry. 2. Japan has been having too much fun. For 70 years. Inventing the most wild, brilliant and then wildly unique technology. 3. Japan for some reason exports their lowest grade goods and keeps their highest quality products and services for Japan only. If they changed this they'd probably increase their economic output by 1000%. 4. British people overanalysed colonialism more than any country could overanalyse anything. Then their comedians, the most brutal in human history, ridiculed the EMPIRE more than any other country in history ever could. We all watched and said 'Wow.' 5. The US was so free they used their freedom of speech expressed on social media platforms they own and operate - to make the VERY FIRST AMENDMENT.... null and void. The source of societal collapse. 6. Arabs play the most innovative blues on planet Earth. They're yet to spread to the US and Western countries fully. But when they do we will have the biggest blues festivals in human history. 7. The world's cultures are fractured but longing to come together. Hip hop communities in Chengdu, LA, Perth, Tokyo. New York and Taipei. Heavy metal in Egypt and ALL OVER EUROPE. Art rock all over the world. Art rock with such useful beats per minute it should be a wildly lucrative form of music for offices and businesses wanting music that stimulates thought and creativity. But? It's all coming together. 8. We are admitting that we overcooked and oversold everything. We are all kids playing around with words and actions. But our toys got too big. Now we can't be too big for our britches anymore. A good thing. 9. The world owes it to the least economically developed regions to help them. All of us. No matter who we are. Or who we THINK we are. 10. We are all working out how to be a UNIVERSAL PATRIOT AND A UNIVERSAL SOLDIER FOR WORLD PEACE. Now we can get on with protecting our planet together from external forces of nature and interplanetary/extraterrestrial considerations. Who has more answers than the species can? No one. Ever. Did. And when it's OK for us to all know we need armies and regular meetings? We can begin to have the greatest parades. All of us. With music, comedy, dancing, art, politicians, theatre - and everything wonderful. Everything that we all know. Is truly wonderful. Right on.