Posted on 11/04/2023 4:01:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber
During World War II, energy and mineral production was critical to the war effort and Australia was able to produce it. Now that Australia is going green, will that vital resource still be available?
As net zero strangles Australian industry, Australia is becoming green, powerless, and defenseless.
History holds lessons which we ignore at our peril.
Here is some of it.
Japan was opened to trade with the U.S. in the 1850s. The Japanese were daunted by the naval power of Britain and the U.S. but determined to catch up.
In the 1930s, Japan attacked China, Mussolini attacked Ethiopia, and Hitler plotted how to avenge World War I in Europe. Britain's prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, negotiated with Hitler and proclaimed he had achieved "Peace in our time."
But Churchill warned:
Britain must arm. America must arm. We will surely do it in the end but how much greater the cost for each day's delay.
In November 1938, just after the signing of the Munich Pact, John Curtin (the leader of the Labor Party in the Australian Parliament), made this statement:
.. . I say that any increase in defence expenditure appears to be an entirely unjustifiable and hysterical piece of panic propaganda.
Source: Hansard (British government report), page 1,095, Nov. 2, 1938.
Just ten months later, in September 1939, Germany attacked Poland.
On this side of the world, the Japanese built a large naval and air force.
However American, British and Dutch interests controlled Asian oil supplies needed for trucks, tanks, ships and planes. With Britain preoccupied with Germany, and Italy in Europe, Japan decided on a huge grab for land and resources.
In 1931 Japan occupied Manchuria and by 1937 Japanese troops were attacking Chinese soldiers outside Beijing. Japan invaded French Indochina in 1940 and a large Japanese force...
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Several well-funded, environmental advocacy groups lobbied and advised the Obama administration on joining the Paris Climate Agreement without disclosing their close ties to the communist government in Beijing.
https://capitalresearch.org/article/chinas-green-offensive-part-1/
Even worse than the USA, Australia imported very large numbers of migrants after 1965.
The far-left cities became the center of Australian political power. Before, it had been the large landed estates.
Australians are becoming poor as they become green.
It is curious how cities become leftist islands.
The urban areas are where all the ‘won’t work’ / ‘won’t assimilate’ mobs live because the Leftist hubs of welfare offices and all the free stuff depots are located
They walk or take the bus to get their free stuff
People in cities are much more concerned with human interactions, networking, status, and human power relationships than in rural areas where interactions with the natural environment, the land, and animals give a much different perspective.
In cities, who you know is often more important than what you know or what you can do.
Why do you think the government had to confiscate all the personal weapons?
And that is where the political power and corruption comes from.
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