Tuesday 1st of July 2025

Gus Leonisky's blog

the floods and the railway...

barnabybarnaby

Barnaby Joyce has been called in to quell a revolt in a north-west New South Wales branch of the National party over the planned route of Australian Rail Track Corporation’s multi-billion-dollar inland rail project.

In an extraordinary move, the National party’s Narrabri branch voted last month to withdraw support for the government’s preferred route after hearing from long-term local irrigation and hydrology expert Jim Purcell.

the one-sided blindness in both western eyes...

gripgrip 

THE NEWS YOU SEE:

A Ukrainian official says a second attempt to evacuate civilians from the under-siege city of Mariupol has failed due to continued Russian shelling.

Key points:


Evacuations from Mariupol were scheduled to begin at noon local time


But civilians were forced back into shelters as the bombardment continued


Russia said the military campaign in Ukraine was going "according to plan" and would not end until Kyiv stopped fighting

 

Most people in the port city are sleeping in bomb shelters to escape more than six days of near-constant bombardment by encircling Russian forces that has cut off food, water, power and heating supplies, according to the Ukrainian authorities.

the bear claws...

hyperhyper

Only self-sufficiency affords total independence. And the Big Picture has also been keenly understood by the Global South.

One of the key underlying themes of the Russia/Ukraine/NATO matrix is that the Empire of Lies (copyright Putin) has been rattled to the core by the combined ability of Russian hypersonic missiles and a defensive shield capable of blocking incoming nuclear missiles from the West, thereby ending Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D.)

the bear claws...

hyperhyper

Only self-sufficiency affords total independence. And the Big Picture has also been keenly understood by the Global South.

One of the key underlying themes of the Russia/Ukraine/NATO matrix is that the Empire of Lies (copyright Putin) has been rattled to the core by the combined ability of Russian hypersonic missiles and a defensive shield capable of blocking incoming nuclear missiles from the West, thereby ending Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D.)

is selling mercs to the US worth being a dangerous hypocrite?.....

olafolaf

For almost a decade the policy of the United States toward Russia has been based on Cold War logic. And today the western mainstream media blames Vladimir Putin for current events saying he wants the world to turn back the clock. For eight years, the leading nation of the NATO war pact has done everything in its power to turn the world against Russia. And now, having pushed the American brand of tyranny up to the gates of Moscow, it is Vladimir Putin who is the villain, yet again. The doomsday clock just clanged its first chime, but the liberal order still won’t relent. Dark and evil people and forces are at work today. Forces we thought were wearing white cowboy hats.

lying scomo and his disastrous clowns should be voted out.....

pollspolls

Results from the 2019 federal election and the Willoughby by-election suggest that green preferences are likely to decide whether Independent candidates can win previously safe coalition seats.

Analysis of the last federal election results in seats with strong independent candidates and the recent NSW by-elections suggest Green preferences could decide whether Independent candidates can win key seats.

It is dangerous to read too much into any by-election. When they are for state seats while the forthcoming election will be federal it makes detailed assessment even more risky.

she's cactus, mate...

koalaskoalas

In a country expert in killing off mammal species at a rate exceeding that of others (to be fair, there are so many more to destroy, with more to come), Australians now face the prospect that the koala, one of its most singularly recognisable animals, has its days numbered.

dear volodymyr...

assangeassange 

A MESSAGE to President Zelensky from an old bloke — Gus Leonisky.

 

You won’t read this because very few people read Gus’s rants but I feel I should write it anyway. 

 

You are now aware that Russia has not used its full might against your country so far. 

 

If I may say, you have been foolish. You and your "so-called” friends (I use quote marks because they are devious and deceitful) have created an impossible situation — possibly a trap for Russia to fall into. President Putin can smell a NATO/US trap a million mile away and he had to know he could be stronger than the trap to dive into it.

 

the nuz-cow... do you want fries with that?

news-cownews-cow

Fifty years ago, an Australian government had big plans for the media, seeing it as biased in favour of conservatism and its ownership too narrowly held. Powerful interests saw a sinister attempt to impose state control. With the death of Moss Cass, Australia’s second and last minister for the media, Mark Sawyer looks at a brave experiment and its legacy.

”I am depicted as a goateed Goebbels, or words to that effect, in seeking to control what the press says and does and so on.

So spoke Australia’s last Minister for the Media, in the House of Representatives, on August 19, 1975. It was a strange insult to level at a man given the name Moses and whose ancestors were eastern European Jews.

what it's about for the USA...

sam...sam...US draft plans for government-in-exile, guerrilla war in Ukraine – reports  Officials in Washington expect Russia to face fierce and bloody ‘insurgency’ in Ukraine 

The US and its allies are quietly working on “contingency plans” in case Russian forces succeed in their operation in Ukraine and force the current government into exile, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.

ye olde empireoleum shows its colours...

spin...spin...

Queen Elizabeth Makes a Rare Private Donation to Ukraine’s Refugees

Ein kleines stilles Leuchten!...

das Herzdas Herz 

Wie pocht’  mir in der Brust

Trotz meiner jungen Wanderlust,

Wann, heimgewendet, ich erschaut

Die Schneegebirge, süss umblaut,

Das grosse stille Leuchten!

 

Ich atmet eilig, wie auf Raub,

Der Märkte Dunst, der Städte Staub.

Ich sah den Kampf. Was sagest du,

Mein reines Firnelicht, dazu,

Du grosses stilles Leuchten?

 

Nie prahlt ich mit der Heimat noch

Und liebe sie von Herzen doch!

In meinem Wesen und Gedicht

Allüberall ist Firnelicht,

Das grosse stille Leuchten.

 

Was kann ich für die Heimat tun,

Bevor ich geh im Grabe ruhn?

sustainable development by sharing data...

sustain...sustain...

Chinese scientists will use remote sensing technologies and Big Earth Data to help other countries pursue sustainable development by sharing data, analytical tools and insights, a national political adviser said.

Remote sensing technologies refer to the use of satellite or aircraft-based sensors to acquire information about an object or scientific phenomena without making physical contact. Big Earth Data is big data associated with Earth sciences, including atmospheric conditions, oceanography, geology, human activity and others.

In November, China launched SDGSAT-1, the world's first scientific satellite dedicated to fulfilling the 17 goals highlighted in the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

the hairy fairy tale...

friends...friends... 

Once upon a time there was a declining world power. It had taken up the cause of democracy, freedom and human rights. At least, that’s what the spin-doctorswanted, who earned their money in glass palaces by leading people down the garden path. And the task was not easy, since the land of freedom was founded on the carcasses of millions of murdered natives, an indigenous population that had not invited the unsolicited immigrants from the 16th century onwards. The second stain that the spin-doctors knew how to whitewash was the deportation of millions of Africans who, as slaves, created the basis for the immense wealth of the immigrant Europeans.

 

 

By Tobias Salander

 

tony is an idiot...

idiotidiotWhy would right-wingers choose this week, of all weeks, to resurrect the climate wars?  

 

If there’s one thing this awful week has made clear, it’s that Australia – and indeed the world – needs to do a lot more to adapt to our changed climate, and to prevent further climate change. We didn’t need Monday’s terrifying IPCC report to tell us this, although it certainly added fuel to the fire.

 

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