{"id":4072,"date":"2020-07-13T01:13:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T01:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/?p=4072"},"modified":"2020-07-15T09:50:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T09:50:42","slug":"and-what-are-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/and-what-are-we\/","title":{"rendered":"And What Are We"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4073\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-13-at-10.55.52-am.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1866\" height=\"1308\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-13-at-10.55.52-am.png 1866w, http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-13-at-10.55.52-am-300x210.png 300w, http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-13-at-10.55.52-am-1024x718.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-13-at-10.55.52-am-768x538.png 768w, http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-13-at-10.55.52-am-1536x1077.png 1536w, http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-13-at-10.55.52-am-676x474.png 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1866px) 100vw, 1866px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #808000; background-color: #ffffff;\"><em>Elizabeth and Aide-de-Camp<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">And what are we to do? To tell the people that they must smite the Chinese hordes while asking them to stay silent and not report<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Report with respect for<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Not report or acknowledge the hypocrisy of a war that if indeed ever came to pass would be, like all wars, the death penalty for those on the losing side? Our democracy it would seem wants to mirror the other side. And how then, are we to ever garner support for foreign policy?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">It was an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radionational\/programs\/saturdayextra\/mike-pezzullo,-secretary-of-the-department-of-immigration-and-b\/12443458\">interview<\/a> with the presiding government official that clearly laid out<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">The idea that journalists should not report anything that<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">You are our leader Madam and as such<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">No leader wants sycophants running alongside them offering unpalatable uncontested views<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Your own policy Madam<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">That interview was ripe for satirical riposte and I assure you many years ago it would not be allowed to run in a country born of the rum rebellion and sharpened on the legends of outlaws<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">It won\u2019t be<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">There is no place for complacency now! I want a satirical run on foreign policy and I want some sharp blades<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">You cannot order creativity like some<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">I see. The Sistine Chapel painted itself did it?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Or is it a problem with ageing vaginas? What is Australia going to win? The Bland Brass Spoon?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Cyber intelligence<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">American hegemony was born of cunning and chutzpah. What you are doing is what you did in the 20th Century. You made sure a narrative of suffering was applied to ensure the best talents of the Jewish Diaspora went Westward, straight into the hands of the Americans. An empire was born and England went kaput. Of course later, the Americans cap in hand went to the UK and said \u2018please help us with the Communist hordes\u2019 and they obliged. Obviously, the Western advance is greater than historical memory. And now, our little Five Eyes wants the best minds of Asia into our wonderfully democratic hands when in fact, the country is still ruled legally, by virtue of a convenient constitutional aberration, by the Queen. Making arguments about authoritarian countries somewhat obsolete. We won\u2019t mention the Saudi\u2019s or in fact, the governance of most Islamic allies or the fact, that while the Uighar situation is wrong, incarceration rates in the Western world<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">The State must at some stage<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Fashion a narrative. You cannot argue that the security law of Hong Kong is a problem if Kashmir and our own laws are a mirror to those very same laws.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">But we must ensure<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">You can give 290 billion to an industry that has no accountability and on an environmental score, rates close to zero. What are you going to do, argue that tanks and lasers are \u2018green\u2019 technology? Made with recycled bottles? Please, entertain me.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">If the security environment demands<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">What security environment? Which one? What you don\u2019t like is that the Yellow People can make money. And I have not seen you stop any of the dams upstream<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">That is a matter of security politics<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">That is a matter of the environment as much as politics.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Much like the health of the citizens of this country who deserve to be ruled by people who care if they live or die. Or is that irrelevant to the greater cause?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">The dam is an issue for Egypt and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">What is that great large dome in Addis Ababa for? It seems to me, these very powerful and intelligent people that run the world are incapable of looking after the very same people they claim to represent.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">When we are talking about energy<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Yes. I\u2019ve seen. I\u2019ve seen what takes precedence over all else. If this country is to savour it\u2019s earth, it will have to make a very strong case for immediate demands. I\u2019d start making your case for your Foreign Policy. Until then, I\u2019ll suffice with Looking North. And the end of the Trojan War. They tell me history makes a strong case.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">With all due respect, you cannot pause progress Madam<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">You are asking me to choose which child should suffer amongst all my children. That is not a choice nor progress.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Harry and Meghan<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Chose to run an independent race. The division, like many in history, is a chimera. Stay on the side of history. Or I should have no-one interesting to talk to. Keep up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c40c0c; font-size: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><i>arched eyebrow. saunters off<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Elizabeth and Aide-de-Camp &nbsp; And what are we to do? To tell the people that they must smite the Chinese hordes while asking them to stay silent and not report\u00a0 &nbsp; Report with respect for\u00a0 &nbsp; Not report or acknowledge the hypocrisy of a war that if indeed ever came to pass would be, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-4072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-starring","post_format-post-format-chat","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4072"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4116,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions\/4116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovemesaidhenry.com\/lovemesaidhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}