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My own view on this Manus-Nauru deal over illegal country-shopping migrants is – “I hope it all blows up in our Govt’s face.”
First in 2015 the Feds stood by while a Chinese company leased the Port of Darwin where the US has thousands of US Marines and other service personnel shipping in and out every year. The US has already expressed displeasure on that stupid decision by Australia.
Re the Paris climate thing I suppose it is Australia’s business if our pollies want to weaken our electricity grid and increase electricity prices. I think holding off on ratification would have been more in our national interest.
The migration issue getting the US to take in our remaining tropical island country shoppers seems to me fraught with the danger of unintended consequences. Why risk annoying the new President?
We need adults in charge in Canberra.
The article says at the end :
‘His son Donald Trump Junior also made headlines during the campaign for comparing Syrian refugees to deadly Skittles, tweeting “If I had a bowl of Skittles and I told you just three would kill you. Would you take a handful? That’s our Syrian refugee problem”.’
Don Junior is obviously a chip off the old block, and his “crass” comment picks up perfectly the way the average Joe with a bit of common sense looks at this problem. I’m not sure that Obama will be rushing to take a bowl of earlier Skittles from us before Inauguration Day either. Transition means just that in the USA – the old lot may issue a few pardons to crims who have chipped in to expenses, and burn everything they can find on their own crimes and misdemeanors, but policy stuff like taking other countries’ illegal immigrants goes on hold.
BTW for anyone who doesn’t know, Skittles are not like nine-pins. They are confectionery that look like fat Smarties but have fruity centers.
Details are emerging now;
John Kerry confirms US considering Nauru, Manus Island refugee resettlement deal
www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-13/australia-poised-to-announce-outcome-of-refugee-deal/8020564
when will we see all the angles laid out in plain english?
Many of those from the Manus Island Resort who were found to not be refugees could be on the No Fly list too.
Watching ABCNews24TV; if you were newly arrived from Mars you would never learn that this country shopper swap was cooked up in the dying days of the 8 year reign of Obama. Now they are reporting…….
Donald Trump: Migrants surge to cross US-Mexican border before President-elect takes office
www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-13/trump:-migrants-cross-mexican-border-ahead-of-new-president/8021190
I am sure the incoming President will be OK with this new surge in illegals, no worries.
@Beachgirl
> “I am sure the incoming President will be OK with this new surge in illegals, no worries”
Not his problem. He’s figuring out how to fill the SCOTUS vacancy before January next.
With regard to the Aus Govt ratifying Paris, yes, it’s a quid-pro-quo for offshore processing. And Waffle effetely stamping his feet and asking the ABC: “How high ?”
Ian8888 you could very well be right – Obama’s people have us “ratify” a non-treaty in return for them “considering” to take our left-over boat people.
It’s a fair exchange, since both transactions are fakes. Paris is not a real treaty, at least under US law, since it imposes no lasting obligations. And the US agreeing to “consider” our refugees also means nothing because they don’t have to actually take any.
But the deal suits both parties. They each get kudos because the media are too dumb to see the fakery.
Note a little sentence in this story www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-13/australia-announces-refugee-resettlement-deal-with-us/8021120 that confirms the above:
“The final figure [i.e. the number of boat people that will be offered to go Stateside] will be up to American officials from the Department of Homeland Security, who will arrive in Australia to begin the vetting process in the next few days.”
@David Brewer
> ” … the media are too dumb to see the fakery”
I agree with what you point out except for that section.
The MSM believe we out here in Mugsville are too dumb to see the fakery. And those of us who do see the B/S are so few in number, so powerless, that ignoring us is seen as a viable response.
Except that just this morning on the FM car radio about 8am, I had ABC FM music playing and was momentarily distracted by a knot of traffic from changing the station before the ABC trumpets its’ on-the-hour “news”. And there was Waffle belligerently telling us that Obama was still US President.
Ho ho ho …