1985 at the Amberley Air Force Base in Qld the band Human Tigers (Mr Meaner) - played a song inspired by this one. Song called 'MX' (missile). Visiting US brass at the base that night - boys were loud, very loud, too loud for the brass (there were jet warplanes taking off outside at all hours), and we were asked to finish early. Pity YouTube wasn't around in those days. Those guys were up there. Everything was played loud in the 80s. Anyone see The Sweet - "LOUD", "LOUDER", "LOUDEST" guitar amps
''Forget those things I use to say; I've sold out in a major way. I use to twist and turn on stage, now I do that on the issues. Youve got to help me live this down - Because I dont want to break; Bob, Bob Brown, Brown- Got no time for land protection; Busy stacking pre-election. The labor party shaved my cred. Now nuclear mining is ok by me! --Old grown forest and evetything left wing - Going back on dam near everything'' :'( Chasers WoE Parody.. Everything in their parody is sad, yet true.
@wsburroughs23 ok, he was dismissed for wanting to close Pine Gap. I don't think so
It was a constitutional crisis brought on by the liberal/country party coaltion trying to force the government to call an early election by blocking supply because they had the majority in the senate. Kerr withdrew Whitlam's commission as Prime Minister because he didn't want the crisis to continue into the new year (1976). But this is a kick ass song from 10 to1 (1982).
(In David Attenborough voice): Peter Garrett: Clearly a fine example of a young child trapped in a mans body. Very fascinating and quite rare to see such crazy antics.
@wsburroughs23 Create a video response or You are obviously idiot if you believe that. Whitlam has been dismissed because he could not pass the budget. And apart from that he was and still is the worst Australian Prime Minister by far. Mind you, the current one, the lying stupid bitch Gillard is not far behind.
You are obviously idiot if you believe that. Whitlam has been dismissed because he could not pass the budget. And apart from that he was and still is the worst Australian Prime Minister by far. Mind you, the current one, the lying stupid bitch Gillard is not far behind.
GARRETT YOU SELL OUT. Minister Peter Garrett personally told Barack Obama his speech on an expanded US military presence was "inspiring" - almost three decades after he attacked the same armed forces in song.
@wyrwich his excuse for his current support is because that was the cold war. you think after the cold war the US would like to stop fighting. take a break and have a kit kat.
@wyrwich about a completely different war, in completely different circumstances and in a completely different time... Doesn't necessarily make him a sell out and I agree, the US Military presence is inspiring in Iraq and Afghanistan.
@CleanSheet1191987 Not often do you meet people who get inspired by a country invasion, based on false premises (which were never clarified) and the resulting deaths of 100,000 civilians, not to mention the heads of US Gov at the time, admitting to the use torture.
Peter, if you are reading this, then take note: I have been a fan of your music for more than 20 years. A few songs were beautiful enough to practically bring me to tears.
And after this last sellout, I may never be able to listen to a single song of yours again. I'm that disgusted and hurt. I feel like you spent 20 years lying through song. If your music ever generates tears now, it will be because of the magic that was once there that you've now killed.
@fractalchez Yeah your right!!!! I looked into this guy and he has changed his views...as soon as he got the power to make a big change he did't use it???
Marines in Darwin. Brutal for Garrett! I guess age makes fools of us all - you become what you hate to try to get at least some of what you want done. Or something. Still, the great song/track remains.
US forces get the nod ..........and you were there in Parliament nodding your head Garrett. You can control the issue and there was plenty of time to talk
I want the old Peter Garrett back. The Peter Garrett who was in this video. The one who had principles and backbone and stood up to government and big business. Not the guy who he is now.
I wonder how Garrett sleeps at night. I'd be fucking humiliated to cash in as desperately as this clown. Kind of feel sorry for him. Until I remember I'll be paying for his retirement plan.
Garret must have a hard time sleeping - resign from this Parliament Peter - come back to the light it is surely no longer conscionable for you to support the fascism. You will only ever be remembered as a lousy sell out unless you take a stand now for the cause.
I would like to see Garret do anything non-sellout let alone spazz dance across the floor! I'd have to Google what he does now, I lost all interest in the wimp - but The Oils are still worth listening to even though I don't respect the bloke.
@TheMrRoc Oh please - he's said he fights for what he believes in in Cabinet - that's more than anyone shouting from the fringes can do. Having said that, Midnight Oil was good at mobilising people so I don't know where he'd be better off. But he ain't no sell-out.
@spankMAbooTAY Whenever a politician disagrees with their party on a vote, they cross the floor to the other side. I would like to see Peter Garrett spazz dance his way across..
I LOVE AUSTRALIA..... ANOTHER TOP OZZIE BAND...... AUSTRALIA AND IT'S PEOPLE, MUSIC, CULTURE, WEATHER, WOMAN AND SPORT ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD OZZIEIS ROCK
HAVE BEEN TO U.S.A AS WELL GREAT PEOPLE ........AWESOME COUNTRY REMEMBER WE ARE ALLIES BROTHERS IN ARMS SHOULDER TO SHOULDER
It's funny, cuz most of the video is shot at Vales Point Power Station (a coal fired power plant), yet they slip in this little shot of the insite of a steel mill at ~2:15...
Sadly when it comes to US elections many of us feel that we're simply voting for the least horrible candidate because the two ruling parties are mostly self-serving and out of touch with Americans' views. The last time we got excited and voted for change we got handed the same crap, just a new brand. Obama was taking us out of Iraq but now we're getting involved in the middle east again, bombing Libya and telling arab leaders what to do. Sadly a lot of Americans are too apathetic to notice.
You just don't get it. The denunciation of American military interference in foreign affairs was relevant then as it is know. If you knew anything about modern history you'd know that US military "interventions" has killed millions since the end of WWII. Get your collective heads out of the sand and open your eyes.
your complaining about the us forces but years later,you support them killing innocent people.geez,your changed your tune pretty quick garret.you are either with them or without them and if i was prime minister,id let the us fight their own wars and we wouldnt have soldiers killed.love your music garret but i dont like your change of tune.
your complaining about the us forces but years later,you support them killing innocent people.geez,your changed your tune pretty quick garret.you are either with them or without them and if i was prime minister,id let the us fight their own wars and we would have soldiers killed.love your music garret but i dont like your change of tune.
It's one thing to be patriotic it's another to be lead and to fight for a Jewish lead government and to fight for Jewish interests. Everyone laughs at Americans in the south but they are the only true Americans the rest of the country is being lead around like sheep.
i love my country and I am proud to be an American and anyone that believes that millions of innocent lives being taken by a group of religious zealots is one sadistic SOB
the usa is nothing but a capitalist, imperialist peice of shit and it's citizens are the dumbest educated masses of idiots the world ever produced. you deserve your sarah palins and other right wing wackos. 9/11 was a great day for the world!
@ronw62 Sounds like People in the us are not the only ones that are uneducated idiots. 9/11 caused more deaths you moron. 9/11 is the whole reason so many US troops went to Iraq and Afghanistan. I love midnight oil, they bring up good points, but they don't sound ignorant and uneducated like you.
@ronw62 broseph, now you're either straight up trolling, or very stupid. don't be jealous of one of the largest forces in the world. ;P (ta few main still being USA and Russia military wise, maybe china too)
@Conchobhar Americans are known for criticizing their government more than almost any Western nation. Does this mean that the government always does the right thing? No. I agree with you that there should be more protests against things like American imperialism. But most Americans are completely ignorant about the issue because the government keeps it under wraps.
Do you agree with everything your government does? Why don't you do something about it?
@ryanmshepard92 exactlym I don't get why the world only judges us by the government when congress etc are only in it for money/their job and unfortunately a lot of people are corrupt
@ryanmshepard92 Yes by the government but last time I heard the US as a country were the ones that voted in the Government and if you hate them that much theres a thing in your amendment or something that says the people can call for an early election if they have enogh support
@ryanmshepard92 nah man we're not haters i just like the song, not what its saying, to be honest with you i love the US been there a few times, have friends living there, its a great country and i also find the US forces awesome aswell especially how they took out Osama, FUCK YOU TERRORISTS
@Rocknrolltrain95 The Americans are the BIGGEST TERRORISTS in the world,there foreign ploicy has destroyed many countries and will continue in this world until they have complete control through their world order of one currency one government this will through the IMF the World Bank and the CIA who controls the world with the israeli people
@ryanmshepard92 Agreed. Although, if any of that hate is coming from my fellow Aussies, I'd say it's a tad hypocritical. I mean, we are possibly worse we follow the US without question. Every fucking time.
@MarsMoonEuropa Well, let's see... There would have been no Vietnam war. The US government already admitted that they faked that so they could justify an illegal war in Vietnam. There would have been no Gulf war 1 - because the US armed Sadam to the teeth. No weapons, no Kuwait invasion, no war.
There wouldv'e been no 9/11 - US inside job and further the US armed the taliban to the teeth - so No war.
No obesity - There'd be no Coke, McDonald's and Pizza hut. From that there'd probably be...
@MarsMoonEuropa ... no adult onset or type II diabetes either which in itself is the catalyst for a truckload of other diseases/symptoms.
There would have been a shitload of people who were not infected with Syphilis - The US on the sly infected people to 'experiment' Check Tuskegee experiment.
Oh No great depression or the current GFC - Admissions from Ben Bernanke that the Fed caused the Great depression.
I could go on and on, but I think you get the point.
@MarsMoonEuropa Just to clarify I noticed that I missed the Gulf of Tonkin incident... that's what I meant in the first comment about the us faking 'it' to get into nam. I just somehow missed that I hadn't typed the GOT.
Just cause the US helped out in WW2- which was won largely by the Russians, doesn't mean the government hasn't acted like a bunch of cunts and made the world a worse place since.
Dirt poor - I don't think so. Hey how bout we all just bow down to the US government as our lord and saviour. Fuck me, you don't have any Idea the BS your govt pulls on the rest of the world do you?
God -- 1 million Iraqi citizens still alive? GET OUT OF HERE!!!! THERED BE 7 MILLION MORE DEAD IRAQI'S!!!! Many want the US in there. The Taliban are horrible and butcher Arabs by the dozen.
And by the way, I'm Australian. The US is our partner. We love them. We're all dependant on the US - wealth poor's from and into the US. Yes they make mistakes, but anarchy is NOT an option!
@MarsMoonEuropa Yes, of course it's the Japs fault. It's common knowledge that the US baited them into WW2 anyway so I'd argue that the burma railway among other things is the fault of the US.
Besides, Just because the Japs acted like assholes, doesn't mean that excuses any ot the Yank 'mistakes' as you put it. It just means you're as bad, no worse than them, as they never claimed to be helping anyone out. They were honest about what they were doing.
@MarsMoonEuropa Really? Not Cruel. Wow. Check out some of the shit you're govt is actually doing - Waterboarding - torture, infecting people with syphillis. Planning terrorist attacks against US civillian targets, sending it's own citizens to ILLEGAL foreign wars and running them into unprecedented debt while doing so.
Patriot Act, Patriot Act II, Telecommunications act 1996. You have no more civil libeties. The US consttution is dead.
It doens't matter - You're arguing that the US is as white as the driven snow, and that without you the world would be a better place. What China does or doesn't do is totally irrelevant. That's like me going to trial over a rape and murder and saying, well that dude raped and killed 20 people, so what I did is nothing. Please let me escape punishment.
@w0y1z92753 No, what the US has done is like hurting someone in a relationship - and growing up and realising what you did was wrong. It's true, we grow up!!! :)
@MarsMoonEuropa You stopped the Japs? Really? Mmmm so the Aussies, British, Indians, Canadians, Kiwis, Free French, Fijians and other island nations, Russians, Chinese did nothing?
Dream on dipshit.
The US are the masters of friendly fire - they are totally incompetent. They've never won a war since WW2.
@w0y1z92753 China was fighting among themselves. Koumingtang vs. Communists.
Australia, US, Canada, French, and all other allies think as one. I'm proud to be an Aussie aligned with the US. We do good work together. The US just happens to be the leader, thats why I say they stopped them -- of coarse we helped!!!
@MarsMoonEuropa china fighting among themselves - US war of independance started as a civil war. Oh and lets see, the US civil war? How the fuck does that have any relevance to anything either of us has said?
@w0y1z92753 no - I'm saying the China civil war meant they couldn't fight the Jap's. THEY WERE HELPLESS!!!!
Every civil war is horrible, mark my words. But the US established rights for slaves. I'm not hear to argue whether the outcome of every civil war was good or bad.
@MarsMoonEuropa Oh hypocrite - Dude, I'm well aware of the cunt acts my goverment has performed. Perhaps you need to re read the comment I made that you originally responded to. I believe I stated that the Aussie govt is just as bad and that it's hypocritical to hate on US citizens.
The US govt on the other hand is open season as far as I'm concerned.
@MarsMoonEuropa No, I actually think that 99.9% of the world are good and peace loving, on the whole.
However, I will argue to the death that without the foreign policy of the US in the last 60 years the world would be in turmoil. That is fucking ridiculous. If you had any Idea, any real Idea how cruel and sadistic some of the shit the West has done you'd be disgusted, with the Aussie and US govts. Many other Western govts too.
You should do history. China was horrible - rape gangs every where - and into dominating neighbours. Cultural Revolution - search that in google.
I don't know what world your living in, but it's not the real world. Yes, most of us are peace loving. The US is too. But things can be shite, but we learn from mistakes.
Tell me, should we destroy the POLICE?????? Well, the US is the global police force. You should go and travel.
@w0y1z92753 We can't go everywhere, unfortunately. The US isn't all powerful.
But we do our best. Tell me about your trip to Libya, don't you, please. I'd like to hear it.
But the policing is more in the presence. North Korea won't attack the South, for example. And Indonesia won't attack Australia and nor will China. That's policing.
And China is a horrible place - just not as horrible as it used to be.
@MarsMoonEuropa In turmoil? Wow! Just wow. Considering the US has been involved in every war since WW2 and has in 99% of cases been shown to be the aggressor in the shadows, says we'd be better off without them. They create financial and political instability in countries that don't conform to their dictatorial demands. For the record - Gadaffi who did he ever attack? His citizens enjoy free healthcare and education, didn't you see the people rallying around him by the millions last week?
@MarsMoonEuropa I mean, the truth is that Gadaffi wanted to exit the US dominated Fiat currency market - have an African currency backed by gold. Thats why he's being bombed. Listen to Cynthia Mckinneys interview on Alex Jones, she is after all a former federal politician and currently on the ground in Libya. She straight up says Obama is full of shit. The US/UK is bombing schools, hospitals and civilian infrastructure.
@MarsMoonEuropa but to brush the infection over several decades on purpose for experimentation as a 'mistake' which btw is just one of HUNDREDS of similair incidents is well, dumb.
Let's have a look though - There would be another 1 million Iraq civilians alive. Yes 1 million CIVILLIANS, 1.7 Million Vietnamese CIVILLIANS alive and the world would'nt be in the grip of financial meltdown.
It's a bit more than a mistake when the Government plans terrorist attacks against it's own people - see
@w0y1z92753 Cynthia Mckinneys is an idiot. Obama didn't want to attack Gaddafi. Shame on you. Gaddafi has butchered his own people, tortured and burnt them. Shame on you for condoning Gaddafi's behaviour.
Your forgetting China and the Soviet Union. Why not pick the better of two evils?
China is cruel and so where the Soviets. The US bravely stood up for us, for our values of democracy and freedom. I am proud of them.
It's a great song from a great band. I have always admired these guys and wish they were still together. Every great country has it's faults, and the US isn't perfect. I sometimes am frightened by the religious right swing we seem to have taken lately, but there are so many good things we do as well. We're a good people that sometimes displays poor judgement, buyt then what world power hasn't? That's not an excuse, it's just a level-set. I think the Oil's make a valid point with this song.
Yeah, but who's the first country the world runs to for money and troops: the Good "ol US of A! We're not perfect, but we're there to lend a helping hand to those who need it. All of you out there: get off our asses!!!
Get off America's ass!? Millions of people dead in Afghanistan and Iraq, to say nothing of the countless other wars throughout U.S. history. The most indulgent and bloated military budget on earth with scores of military bases and prisons--including the secret "black site" ones--located all over the world. Just who exactly are those "helping hands" helping? And did it ever occur to you that the US might have all of those troops for a reason? Why is it that wealth and military power go together?
Bob Bob Bob Bob, A Brown Brown Brown Brown
McMeevin 4 days ago
Great performer, lousy MP.
veteran2000 1 week ago in playlist PARTY
this is still relevant today. this proves freedom is timeless
WW3ization 3 weeks ago
1985 at the Amberley Air Force Base in Qld the band Human Tigers (Mr Meaner) - played a song inspired by this one. Song called 'MX' (missile). Visiting US brass at the base that night - boys were loud, very loud, too loud for the brass (there were jet warplanes taking off outside at all hours), and we were asked to finish early. Pity YouTube wasn't around in those days. Those guys were up there. Everything was played loud in the 80s. Anyone see The Sweet - "LOUD", "LOUDER", "LOUDEST" guitar amps
orbitingstar 3 weeks ago
@orbitingstar true..the 80s were the best for music in pubs ,stadiums,,they absolutley blaired it.
lynnej1970 5 days ago in playlist Favorite videos
top band
redridinghood254111 1 month ago
yeah anyway......killer guitar intro....!
vtr1000kiwi 1 month ago
Yep ... smells like yank FBI ....
ieatpeas24 2 months ago
''Forget those things I use to say; I've sold out in a major way. I use to twist and turn on stage, now I do that on the issues. Youve got to help me live this down - Because I dont want to break; Bob, Bob Brown, Brown- Got no time for land protection; Busy stacking pre-election. The labor party shaved my cred. Now nuclear mining is ok by me! --Old grown forest and evetything left wing - Going back on dam near everything'' :'( Chasers WoE Parody.. Everything in their parody is sad, yet true.
xXAustralianzOwnXx 2 months ago 2
Mr Garrot sold his soul to do more good in a big party, morons..
thule88vril 2 months ago
@wsburroughs23 ok, he was dismissed for wanting to close Pine Gap. I don't think so
It was a constitutional crisis brought on by the liberal/country party coaltion trying to force the government to call an early election by blocking supply because they had the majority in the senate. Kerr withdrew Whitlam's commission as Prime Minister because he didn't want the crisis to continue into the new year (1976). But this is a kick ass song from 10 to1 (1982).
rminister1971 2 months ago
poses
Srekwah 2 months ago
(In David Attenborough voice): Peter Garrett: Clearly a fine example of a young child trapped in a mans body. Very fascinating and quite rare to see such crazy antics.
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@wsburroughs23 Create a video response or You are obviously idiot if you believe that. Whitlam has been dismissed because he could not pass the budget. And apart from that he was and still is the worst Australian Prime Minister by far. Mind you, the current one, the lying stupid bitch Gillard is not far behind.
ivanv1952 2 months ago
You are obviously idiot if you believe that. Whitlam has been dismissed because he could not pass the budget. And apart from that he was and still is the worst Australian Prime Minister by far. Mind you, the current one, the lying stupid bitch Gillard is not far behind.
ivanv1952 2 months ago
Garrett was, and still, a one-thing freak show!
averysensiblename 2 months ago
Phillip98183 I know right. I saw them in concert as long ago as 1991, if my memory serves me correctly, and they were awesome!
Phillip98183 1 month ago
where was this video done
TheBadboy656 2 months ago
US forces get the nod. Is he protesting it or is it one of his policies?
n4wgt 2 months ago
hypocite!!!!!!!!! peter garrett, typical now u r in politics, good song though
littlelanos 3 months ago
people grow and move on. this is still superb and timeless!
marksilvasilva 3 months ago
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marksilvasilva 3 months ago
So, how many Oils songs has Garrett not traduced the message of (yet)?
macchilavel 3 months ago
That way everyone can keep hating the U.S. instead of Australia? Might be a possibility, at least.
larr5e 3 months ago
I'm not up on the speech, but maybe Garrett is letting the U.S. do the work for him?
larr5e 3 months ago
GARRETT YOU SELL OUT. Minister Peter Garrett personally told Barack Obama his speech on an expanded US military presence was "inspiring" - almost three decades after he attacked the same armed forces in song.
wyrwich 3 months ago
@wyrwich his excuse for his current support is because that was the cold war. you think after the cold war the US would like to stop fighting. take a break and have a kit kat.
fabes0011 3 months ago 8
@wyrwich about a completely different war, in completely different circumstances and in a completely different time... Doesn't necessarily make him a sell out and I agree, the US Military presence is inspiring in Iraq and Afghanistan.
CleanSheet1191987 3 months ago
@CleanSheet1191987 Not often do you meet people who get inspired by a country invasion, based on false premises (which were never clarified) and the resulting deaths of 100,000 civilians, not to mention the heads of US Gov at the time, admitting to the use torture.
wyrwich 3 months ago
@wyrwich Not often because anyone with a brain understands everything you stated here is bullshit.
TheLastBrainLeft 2 months ago
Have a look at The Chaser - U.S Bases Midnight Oil parody - was done as a comedy sketch - but looks more aligned with truth now...
petepjs 3 months ago
Peter, if you are reading this, then take note: I have been a fan of your music for more than 20 years. A few songs were beautiful enough to practically bring me to tears.
And after this last sellout, I may never be able to listen to a single song of yours again. I'm that disgusted and hurt. I feel like you spent 20 years lying through song. If your music ever generates tears now, it will be because of the magic that was once there that you've now killed.
fractalchez 3 months ago 3
@fractalchez Yeah your right!!!! I looked into this guy and he has changed his views...as soon as he got the power to make a big change he did't use it???
stephen1231000 3 months ago
Marines in Darwin. Brutal for Garrett! I guess age makes fools of us all - you become what you hate to try to get at least some of what you want done. Or something. Still, the great song/track remains.
swanstep 3 months ago
Keep ya posted, recorded Garrett laughing and shaking hands with Obama aka Barry Soetoro will upload a us forces and the footage soon
JuanMaria2012 3 months ago
US forces get the nod ..........and you were there in Parliament nodding your head Garrett. You can control the issue and there was plenty of time to talk
Ozipeter 3 months ago
I want the old Peter Garrett back. The Peter Garrett who was in this video. The one who had principles and backbone and stood up to government and big business. Not the guy who he is now.
THEORIGINALMATTYC 3 months ago
I wonder how Garrett sleeps at night. I'd be fucking humiliated to cash in as desperately as this clown. Kind of feel sorry for him. Until I remember I'll be paying for his retirement plan.
unluckytourist 3 months ago 2
WHY DIDN'T PETER GARRETT BREAK INTO THIS DURING OBAMA'S SPEECH? FFS
AlienBusDriver 3 months ago 3
Garret must have a hard time sleeping - resign from this Parliament Peter - come back to the light it is surely no longer conscionable for you to support the fascism. You will only ever be remembered as a lousy sell out unless you take a stand now for the cause.
cranyonrye 3 months ago
Sell out .Short memory,must have a,shorrrt,short memory.
poopy2010tative 3 months ago 4
Hmmm, ironic.
anarchisttomato 3 months ago
I would like to see Garret do anything non-sellout let alone spazz dance across the floor! I'd have to Google what he does now, I lost all interest in the wimp - but The Oils are still worth listening to even though I don't respect the bloke.
TheMrRoc 3 months ago
@TheMrRoc Oh please - he's said he fights for what he believes in in Cabinet - that's more than anyone shouting from the fringes can do. Having said that, Midnight Oil was good at mobilising people so I don't know where he'd be better off. But he ain't no sell-out.
kuliwil 3 months ago
Garrett for PM!! At least he's having a go!! Gotta play the game!
28foreman 3 months ago 2
Sad to see PG in bed with the gov...
351matt 4 months ago
He's got a Law degree mate..... your education is in good hands
ShnukaShwab92 4 months ago
AHAHAHAHAHA
catfishy08 4 months ago
Is turncoat too harsh??
darlingdagger 4 months ago
Fuck he's a retard when he 'dances'
IntertubeTr0ll 4 months ago
the carbon tax has been passed through the lower house this morning..
VictorYong36 4 months ago
the labor party shaved his cred
pwestonzoe 5 months ago
And he is now the minister in charge of my education...
DeathismyDesire97 5 months ago 3
help cure epilepsy
camdawog1 5 months ago
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silverhorse2010 5 months ago
i'm the world champion of the garrett dance when i've had a few too many
onyachamp 6 months ago 2
Just enjoy the song and shut the f*ck up
tazzygal2 6 months ago
Pete Garrett should recreate this song about the Carbon Tax.
VictorYong36 6 months ago
whats vodermorte doing in that clip
vinivinchenso 6 months ago
@spankMAbooTAY Whenever a politician disagrees with their party on a vote, they cross the floor to the other side. I would like to see Peter Garrett spazz dance his way across..
sighrd 6 months ago 56
@sighrd He'd be kicked straaaaaight outta cabinet if he did that, sadly.
kuliwil 3 months ago
@sighrd love to hear his honest reaction to the announcement of marines being poste to Darwin, is this a set back for our country??????????
SuperYarndi 3 months ago
@sighrd That is something I'd pay to see!!
jackieandrea 3 months ago
@sighrd He needs Rob to do 'drummer face' I think.
Khrystene 2 months ago
I LOVE AUSTRALIA..... ANOTHER TOP OZZIE BAND...... AUSTRALIA AND IT'S PEOPLE, MUSIC, CULTURE, WEATHER, WOMAN AND SPORT ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD OZZIEIS ROCK
HAVE BEEN TO U.S.A AS WELL GREAT PEOPLE ........AWESOME COUNTRY REMEMBER WE ARE ALLIES BROTHERS IN ARMS SHOULDER TO SHOULDER
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Learn to love the US.
Because without them, the world would be in turmoil.
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
Learn to love the US.
Because without them, the world would be in turmoil.
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@MarsMoonEuropa filth
scottywilso 7 months ago
@scottywilso filth my bum
hope you realise I'm not from the US
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@scottywilso Have you any idea how lucky you are?
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@scottywilso We Australians need US bases all over Western Australia.
Julia Gillard must pursue her plan to mingle US bases with Australian bases all over the Kimberley and Pilbara.
I know your Australian. Say AYE.
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@scottywilso Can't you see scotty? We Australians need the US to defend up from China, Indonesia, and NORTH KOREA!!!!!
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
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MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
i beg to differ i live in Canada and our neighbours are crazy bastards
atlantisrising100 7 months ago
@sellyme Me too :)
baroncrab91 7 months ago
It's funny, cuz most of the video is shot at Vales Point Power Station (a coal fired power plant), yet they slip in this little shot of the insite of a steel mill at ~2:15...
Brettah31 7 months ago
Sadly when it comes to US elections many of us feel that we're simply voting for the least horrible candidate because the two ruling parties are mostly self-serving and out of touch with Americans' views. The last time we got excited and voted for change we got handed the same crap, just a new brand. Obama was taking us out of Iraq but now we're getting involved in the middle east again, bombing Libya and telling arab leaders what to do. Sadly a lot of Americans are too apathetic to notice.
carolynsanity 8 months ago
when this written yesterday? seems like it.
skatracey 8 months ago
just love em
shaunusaurus99 8 months ago
You just don't get it. The denunciation of American military interference in foreign affairs was relevant then as it is know. If you knew anything about modern history you'd know that US military "interventions" has killed millions since the end of WWII. Get your collective heads out of the sand and open your eyes.
Ducatiprofessor 8 months ago
-everybody is an unelected president or god on you tube
abelyssah 8 months ago
even though he is a hypocrite, its a great song
littlelanos 9 months ago
Not sure I get the tie-in between US military/CIA actions with local big industry. Love the band and music, but this video is a messaging mess.
SleepyTymeT 9 months ago
BIN LADEN IS DEAD.
orden265 10 months ago
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xnonsuchx 9 months ago
@orden265 - and what about those who created him...including the U.S.?
xnonsuchx 9 months ago
the best midnight oil song ever,,what is it doing on vevo,,makes me sick
vikinggirlskill 10 months ago
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your complaining about the us forces but years later,you support them killing innocent people.geez,your changed your tune pretty quick garret.you are either with them or without them and if i was prime minister,id let the us fight their own wars and we wouldnt have soldiers killed.love your music garret but i dont like your change of tune.
obieoneknobe 10 months ago
your complaining about the us forces but years later,you support them killing innocent people.geez,your changed your tune pretty quick garret.you are either with them or without them and if i was prime minister,id let the us fight their own wars and we would have soldiers killed.love your music garret but i dont like your change of tune.
obieoneknobe 10 months ago
maybe just cook some eggs for him ...lol
weppanx 10 months ago
Hey Bro we aint all bad. Chill out a little.
Molemanftw69 10 months ago
FUCK AMERICA !!!!! FUCK ENGLAND !!!!! FUCK ALL HONKY MOTHERFUCKERS !!
ripgutmaori 10 months ago
@ripgutmaori ...are you Samoan ..?or Tongan ? ey... Doesn't sound like a NZ attitude .. :S
Maybe an aussie kiwi ? or yankee maori? maybe just te rio we dont get .??
There is my point its easy to be a troll ...
weppanx 10 months ago
Sorry guys, i've got some pretty onto it mates that never seem to realise they're logged into my account.
im Aussie Maori (MOZZIE) and i dont mind midnight oil my self !
ripgutmaori 10 months ago
He used to twist and turn on stage. Now he only does that on the issues.
baroncrab91 10 months ago 37
@baroncrab91 lol look you can quote a line from "The Chasers War On Everything" parody of this song lol I admit its funny
KylesLiberals 10 months ago
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@baroncrab91 10/10 for that one! Just a shame its so true!
fasthackem 7 months ago
@baroncrab91
funny
smileyj582 6 months ago
@baroncrab91 hahah chasers
jiujames 6 months ago
stupid song
terrypierce9 11 months ago
It's one thing to be patriotic it's another to be lead and to fight for a Jewish lead government and to fight for Jewish interests. Everyone laughs at Americans in the south but they are the only true Americans the rest of the country is being lead around like sheep.
bigkev164 11 months ago
911 acted as an attention switch around an historic moment ...
Dav0Aus1 1 year ago
i love my country and I am proud to be an American and anyone that believes that millions of innocent lives being taken by a group of religious zealots is one sadistic SOB
harryjf96 1 year ago
1982
shaneinkster 1 year ago
the usa is nothing but a capitalist, imperialist peice of shit and it's citizens are the dumbest educated masses of idiots the world ever produced. you deserve your sarah palins and other right wing wackos. 9/11 was a great day for the world!
ronw62 1 year ago
@ronw62 Sounds like People in the us are not the only ones that are uneducated idiots. 9/11 caused more deaths you moron. 9/11 is the whole reason so many US troops went to Iraq and Afghanistan. I love midnight oil, they bring up good points, but they don't sound ignorant and uneducated like you.
rocka52 1 year ago
@ronw62 broseph, now you're either straight up trolling, or very stupid. don't be jealous of one of the largest forces in the world. ;P (ta few main still being USA and Russia military wise, maybe china too)
TetrisChemisttt 10 months ago
For those of you who hate the US, most of the decisions are made for us by our government. Hate the government, not the country.
ryanmshepard92 1 year ago 12
@ryanmshepard92 Then do something about your government, United Statian.
Conchobhar 1 year ago 2
@Conchobhar Americans are known for criticizing their government more than almost any Western nation. Does this mean that the government always does the right thing? No. I agree with you that there should be more protests against things like American imperialism. But most Americans are completely ignorant about the issue because the government keeps it under wraps.
Do you agree with everything your government does? Why don't you do something about it?
ryanmshepard92 1 year ago 3
@ryanmshepard92 exactlym I don't get why the world only judges us by the government when congress etc are only in it for money/their job and unfortunately a lot of people are corrupt
TetrisChemisttt 10 months ago
@ryanmshepard92 Yes by the government but last time I heard the US as a country were the ones that voted in the Government and if you hate them that much theres a thing in your amendment or something that says the people can call for an early election if they have enogh support
KylesLiberals 10 months ago
@ryanmshepard92 - or hate the corporations that control the government!
xnonsuchx 9 months ago
@xnonsuchx True!
ryanmshepard92 9 months ago
@ryanmshepard92 When people refer to the "U.S." they're refering to the U.S. government anyway, brother. Peace.
jrt2009 8 months ago
@ryanmshepard92 nah man we're not haters i just like the song, not what its saying, to be honest with you i love the US been there a few times, have friends living there, its a great country and i also find the US forces awesome aswell especially how they took out Osama, FUCK YOU TERRORISTS
Rocknrolltrain95 8 months ago
@Rocknrolltrain95 The Americans are the BIGGEST TERRORISTS in the world,there foreign ploicy has destroyed many countries and will continue in this world until they have complete control through their world order of one currency one government this will through the IMF the World Bank and the CIA who controls the world with the israeli people
lifego07 7 months ago
@lifego07 hey comn man, you know thats not true
Rocknrolltrain95 7 months ago
@ryanmshepard92 But who elects the government? Just sayin'.
KirbyPownsYou 8 months ago
@ryanmshepard92 Agreed. Although, if any of that hate is coming from my fellow Aussies, I'd say it's a tad hypocritical. I mean, we are possibly worse we follow the US without question. Every fucking time.
w0y1z92753 7 months ago
@w0y1z92753 Have you any idea what the world would be like without the US?
Be careful for what you wish for.
Learn to love the US.
Because without them, the world would be in turmoil.
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@MarsMoonEuropa Well, let's see... There would have been no Vietnam war. The US government already admitted that they faked that so they could justify an illegal war in Vietnam. There would have been no Gulf war 1 - because the US armed Sadam to the teeth. No weapons, no Kuwait invasion, no war.
There wouldv'e been no 9/11 - US inside job and further the US armed the taliban to the teeth - so No war.
No obesity - There'd be no Coke, McDonald's and Pizza hut. From that there'd probably be...
w0y1z92753 7 months ago
@MarsMoonEuropa ... no adult onset or type II diabetes either which in itself is the catalyst for a truckload of other diseases/symptoms.
There would have been a shitload of people who were not infected with Syphilis - The US on the sly infected people to 'experiment' Check Tuskegee experiment.
Oh No great depression or the current GFC - Admissions from Ben Bernanke that the Fed caused the Great depression.
I could go on and on, but I think you get the point.
w0y1z92753 7 months ago
@MarsMoonEuropa Just to clarify I noticed that I missed the Gulf of Tonkin incident... that's what I meant in the first comment about the us faking 'it' to get into nam. I just somehow missed that I hadn't typed the GOT.
w0y1z92753 7 months ago
@w0y1z92753 There's no such thing as an ideal world. We all make mistakes, even governments.
No Vietnam war? Maybe you'd prefer a Nazi world. No Type Two Diabetes? Maybe you'd prefer your children to die from deadly bacteria (no penicillin?).
No GFC? Maybe you'd like to be dirt poor like the rest of the world, starving with no iPhone.
Maybe you'd like to be slaughtered by North Koreans and stand by watching Gaddafi cruelly murder thousands.
SAVY? Learn to love the US.
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@MarsMoonEuropa Operation Northwoods.
Just cause the US helped out in WW2- which was won largely by the Russians, doesn't mean the government hasn't acted like a bunch of cunts and made the world a worse place since.
Dirt poor - I don't think so. Hey how bout we all just bow down to the US government as our lord and saviour. Fuck me, you don't have any Idea the BS your govt pulls on the rest of the world do you?
w0y1z92753 7 months ago
@w0y1z92753
God -- 1 million Iraqi citizens still alive? GET OUT OF HERE!!!! THERED BE 7 MILLION MORE DEAD IRAQI'S!!!! Many want the US in there. The Taliban are horrible and butcher Arabs by the dozen.
And by the way, I'm Australian. The US is our partner. We love them. We're all dependant on the US - wealth poor's from and into the US. Yes they make mistakes, but anarchy is NOT an option!
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@w0y1z92753 Sorry --> correction --> not Nazi's, cruel Japanese.
Nazi's too --> since the US contribution near the end of the world was vital.
Sure you want a world dominated by cruel early 20th century Japanese?
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@MarsMoonEuropa Yes, of course it's the Japs fault. It's common knowledge that the US baited them into WW2 anyway so I'd argue that the burma railway among other things is the fault of the US.
Besides, Just because the Japs acted like assholes, doesn't mean that excuses any ot the Yank 'mistakes' as you put it. It just means you're as bad, no worse than them, as they never claimed to be helping anyone out. They were honest about what they were doing.
w0y1z92753 7 months ago
@w0y1z92753 NO!
We stopped the Japs, that's what matters.
We make mistakes, but we're not cruel.
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@MarsMoonEuropa Really? Not Cruel. Wow. Check out some of the shit you're govt is actually doing - Waterboarding - torture, infecting people with syphillis. Planning terrorist attacks against US civillian targets, sending it's own citizens to ILLEGAL foreign wars and running them into unprecedented debt while doing so.
Patriot Act, Patriot Act II, Telecommunications act 1996. You have no more civil libeties. The US consttution is dead.
w0y1z92753 7 months ago
@w0y1z92753 Water-boarding? The US does hardly any of that - thank God we're privileged enough to think that's BAD!!!
Of coarse that's wrong, but please, in China things are much worse. And China's the alternative.
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@MarsMoonEuropa Hardly? Uhhh Geneva convention anyone?
It doens't matter - You're arguing that the US is as white as the driven snow, and that without you the world would be a better place. What China does or doesn't do is totally irrelevant. That's like me going to trial over a rape and murder and saying, well that dude raped and killed 20 people, so what I did is nothing. Please let me escape punishment.
I wonder how that would go down in a courtroom.
w0y1z92753 7 months ago
@w0y1z92753 No, what the US has done is like hurting someone in a relationship - and growing up and realising what you did was wrong. It's true, we grow up!!! :)
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@MarsMoonEuropa Yeah, just keep telling yourself that. What a fucking joke.
w0y1z92753 7 months ago
@MarsMoonEuropa You stopped the Japs? Really? Mmmm so the Aussies, British, Indians, Canadians, Kiwis, Free French, Fijians and other island nations, Russians, Chinese did nothing?
Dream on dipshit.
The US are the masters of friendly fire - they are totally incompetent. They've never won a war since WW2.
w0y1z92753 7 months ago
@w0y1z92753 China was fighting among themselves. Koumingtang vs. Communists.
Australia, US, Canada, French, and all other allies think as one. I'm proud to be an Aussie aligned with the US. We do good work together. The US just happens to be the leader, thats why I say they stopped them -- of coarse we helped!!!
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@MarsMoonEuropa china fighting among themselves - US war of independance started as a civil war. Oh and lets see, the US civil war? How the fuck does that have any relevance to anything either of us has said?
w0y1z92753 7 months ago
@w0y1z92753 no - I'm saying the China civil war meant they couldn't fight the Jap's. THEY WERE HELPLESS!!!!
Every civil war is horrible, mark my words. But the US established rights for slaves. I'm not hear to argue whether the outcome of every civil war was good or bad.
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@MarsMoonEuropa Lol, still irrelevant. Please go research some truths for yourself. The US govt isn't 'growing' or getting any better.
w0y1z92753 7 months ago
@w0y1z92753 sorry, *here
Mind you, Mao Zedong China was the worst place in history.
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@w0y1z92753 Which country do you live in?
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@w0y1z92753 Sorry, Australia of coarse. That's easy. I know lots of evils we've committed.
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@w0y1z92753 Don't be a hypocrite. Australia can be just as bad.
Put that into perspective. Malaysia Deal?
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@MarsMoonEuropa Oh hypocrite - Dude, I'm well aware of the cunt acts my goverment has performed. Perhaps you need to re read the comment I made that you originally responded to. I believe I stated that the Aussie govt is just as bad and that it's hypocritical to hate on US citizens.
The US govt on the other hand is open season as far as I'm concerned.
w0y1z92753 7 months ago
@w0y1z92753 You think everyones bad. But look at what we've done! It's beautiful!
Stop criticising and start loving. We've worked wonders, and disasters. But we are all working forward.
THE MOON LANDING????????
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@MarsMoonEuropa No, I actually think that 99.9% of the world are good and peace loving, on the whole.
However, I will argue to the death that without the foreign policy of the US in the last 60 years the world would be in turmoil. That is fucking ridiculous. If you had any Idea, any real Idea how cruel and sadistic some of the shit the West has done you'd be disgusted, with the Aussie and US govts. Many other Western govts too.
w0y1z92753 7 months ago
@w0y1z92753 Shit, get out of here!!! haha
You should do history. China was horrible - rape gangs every where - and into dominating neighbours. Cultural Revolution - search that in google.
I don't know what world your living in, but it's not the real world. Yes, most of us are peace loving. The US is too. But things can be shite, but we learn from mistakes.
Tell me, should we destroy the POLICE?????? Well, the US is the global police force. You should go and travel.
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@MarsMoonEuropa Ok cool. I'll do that - Well, I'll add to my travels. Barring Antartica there isn't a continent I haven't set foot on, but whatever.
Hey why don't you go and police your neighbours - Oh yeah, what they do has fuck all to do with you.
The US doesn't police you fool, they pick and choose where they can benefit and act accordingly.
Cool, China was a horrible place - So the US raping countries of their wealth, causing Illeagal wars and being douchbags is cool though right?
w0y1z92753 7 months ago
@w0y1z92753 We can't go everywhere, unfortunately. The US isn't all powerful.
But we do our best. Tell me about your trip to Libya, don't you, please. I'd like to hear it.
But the policing is more in the presence. North Korea won't attack the South, for example. And Indonesia won't attack Australia and nor will China. That's policing.
And China is a horrible place - just not as horrible as it used to be.
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@w0y1z92753 It's hard to picture a world without the US, because it's all we know.
But please, learn to love the US. The guys that built the International Space Station, hence formalising international cooperation in outer space! :P
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@w0y1z92753 Helped build, sorry. As an international project with the fantastic space shuttle.
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@w0y1z92753 Do you ever make mistakes?
Listening to you, you must be perfect!
Except its a mistake to hate the US.
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@w0y1z92753 We are much more sophisticated now than fifty years ago. And much better educated.
You see, we can see more these days. We're more involved in politics. The world is a better place. :)
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@MarsMoonEuropa In turmoil? Wow! Just wow. Considering the US has been involved in every war since WW2 and has in 99% of cases been shown to be the aggressor in the shadows, says we'd be better off without them. They create financial and political instability in countries that don't conform to their dictatorial demands. For the record - Gadaffi who did he ever attack? His citizens enjoy free healthcare and education, didn't you see the people rallying around him by the millions last week?
w0y1z92753 7 months ago
@MarsMoonEuropa I mean, the truth is that Gadaffi wanted to exit the US dominated Fiat currency market - have an African currency backed by gold. Thats why he's being bombed. Listen to Cynthia Mckinneys interview on Alex Jones, she is after all a former federal politician and currently on the ground in Libya. She straight up says Obama is full of shit. The US/UK is bombing schools, hospitals and civilian infrastructure.
w0y1z92753 7 months ago
@MarsMoonEuropa but to brush the infection over several decades on purpose for experimentation as a 'mistake' which btw is just one of HUNDREDS of similair incidents is well, dumb.
Let's have a look though - There would be another 1 million Iraq civilians alive. Yes 1 million CIVILLIANS, 1.7 Million Vietnamese CIVILLIANS alive and the world would'nt be in the grip of financial meltdown.
It's a bit more than a mistake when the Government plans terrorist attacks against it's own people - see
w0y1z92753 7 months ago
@w0y1z92753 Cynthia Mckinneys is an idiot. Obama didn't want to attack Gaddafi. Shame on you. Gaddafi has butchered his own people, tortured and burnt them. Shame on you for condoning Gaddafi's behaviour.
Your forgetting China and the Soviet Union. Why not pick the better of two evils?
China is cruel and so where the Soviets. The US bravely stood up for us, for our values of democracy and freedom. I am proud of them.
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@ryanmshepard92 I love the government because I don't like to think.
Have you any idea what the world would be like without the US?
Be careful for what you wish for.
MarsMoonEuropa 7 months ago
@ryanmshepard92
I hate the country, not the people. A slightly better way to think of it.
Freecell82 6 months ago
@Freecell82 You mean the Government, the land is beautiful
chillydog12345 6 months ago
It's a great song from a great band. I have always admired these guys and wish they were still together. Every great country has it's faults, and the US isn't perfect. I sometimes am frightened by the religious right swing we seem to have taken lately, but there are so many good things we do as well. We're a good people that sometimes displays poor judgement, buyt then what world power hasn't? That's not an excuse, it's just a level-set. I think the Oil's make a valid point with this song.
bigelectricmac 1 year ago
It's a great song from a great band. I have always admired these guys and wish they were still together.
bigelectricmac 1 year ago
Yeah, but who's the first country the world runs to for money and troops: the Good "ol US of A! We're not perfect, but we're there to lend a helping hand to those who need it. All of you out there: get off our asses!!!
goldenstarpcfl 1 year ago
Get off America's ass!? Millions of people dead in Afghanistan and Iraq, to say nothing of the countless other wars throughout U.S. history. The most indulgent and bloated military budget on earth with scores of military bases and prisons--including the secret "black site" ones--located all over the world. Just who exactly are those "helping hands" helping? And did it ever occur to you that the US might have all of those troops for a reason? Why is it that wealth and military power go together?
eyeofthesquirrel 1 year ago
Does Australia still fly U.S. made F-111's?
goonercrew08 1 year ago
@goonercrew08 No we have Indonesian Crap these days
SammyMeowMeow 1 year ago
i credit my love of the Beatles for appreciating bands like Midnight Oil.
DarnellCotez 1 year ago