"Unless we are fully nuclear armed"...Look out Pakistan! Hassy you have a reputation what could innocent men, women and children expect if you had the finger on the button? Total destruction?

'A puss sucker who though she was above everyone else,'

straight from the antifa/greens dictionary. What a hero!

Dear David,

Rabbi Marianne Williamson has in her book, "Illuminata"
written some interesting thoughts that might be
appropriate to add to this discussion. She says that
the only thing we can be one hundred percent
responsible for is our own minds.

In our nation today, and as we can see from some of the
posts on this forum, there is a widespread malignant
thought form that "other people are the problem".

Conservatives tend to blame progressives for their
problems. Progressives tend to blame conservatives. The
media blames almost everyone, and almost everyone tends
to blame immigrants. Some people are convinced homosexuals
are the problem, while others think single parents are.
Still others think the Christian Right are the problem,
and far too many blame their parents. This entire culture
has become a hysterical blame session.

Yet a vital, healthy society is not one in which we all
agree. It is one in which those who disagree can do so
with honour and respect for other peoples' opinions and
an appreciation of our shared humanity.

Without personal commitment to the attributes of fair play
and integrity , we are in grave danger.

Malice and intolerance stalks our society, staking claims
on our minds and not one corner of our social order is
unaffected. This darkness is a significant threat to our
national good, perhaps the most significant threat to our
history, for it strikes at the very heart of democracy.

Where people are not free to disagree, there can be no
democracy, since that is what democracy is.

Our political conversation must shift away from the mass,
infantile finger-pointing that now pervades it. It is not
Progressives or Conservatives who have or are ruining our
country. It is the tendency on so many people's parts to
think that their way is the right way and that people who
disagree with them are bad.

It is important that we renew dignified and respectful dialogue
with those who do not agree with us than that we keep
slavishly congratulating those who have the wisdom to see
things our way.

Yes Foxy,

there is only one right way with the CCP, take it on.

and that is what is happening, with the momentum building.

If we dont act now, people in the future will have much less time and opportunity to read books about democracy.

Dear Chris,

M<any tyrants would not have risen to power had it not
been for vast numbers of people who gave them that
power.

Regarding China, I still believe that internally she is
not as strong as she makes out. And that Australia is
currently taking the right approach.

Had the Abbott government cared more about Australia's future than short term budgetary objectives and their hatred of the ABC, we'd be broadcasting into China now. Strategically, that would've been worth an order of magnitude more than this increase in military spending.

But the militaristic dinosaurs who dominate this forum cheered Abbott on...