The Americanisation Of Australia

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I read in an ABC news report about a doctor earning $600, 000 a year. University vice chancellors on $1.5 million per year. Dentists earning half a million, whilst many older Australians cannot afford to go to the dentist because of the high cost involved. This is the Australia we now live in. A country, in which 20 of the last 25 years have had LNP Coalition federal governments. Inequity and inequality are riding higher than ever before downunder. This has Americanised us via the concentration of corporate ownership via mergers and takeovers creating duopolies and oligopolies in nearly every sector. This failure of the ACCC and ASIC, under the government’s watch, has stripped away consumer buying power and worker’s rights. The competition watchdog has been asleep at the wheel or paid off by nefarious means and the revolving door. This is the Americanisation of Australia.Continue Reading

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5 Reasons Why Toxic Masculinity Is A Real Problem?

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Don’t get defensive about this statement or I will punch your head in. 5 reasons why toxic masculinity is a real problem? Seriously though folks, it is, because it doesn’t just occur on the personal level it impacts across the whole spectrum. Vladimir Putin displays toxic masculinity via his actions invading Ukraine as the leader of Russia. The behaviour of the Russian President can only be described as toxic masculinity. Taking what you want violently against the wishes of another, when you know full well it is not yours to take.Continue Reading

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Australian Cybersecurity Insider Convicted Of Selling Secrets To Russians

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Peter Joseph Williams faces a lengthy US jail sentence after pleading guilty to selling out his American employer for millions in crypto currency. Williams, reportedly, used to work for the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) during the 2010s. This high level cybersecurity for intelligence executive has betrayed the US and its allies. Australian cybersecurity insider convicted of selling secrets to Russians is facing, at least, 10 years in prison.Continue Reading

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A Generation Of Australians Have Grown Up Weak believing in US might

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Baby Boomers have grown up under the misapprehension that the United States of America was there for us. A generation of Australians have grown up weak on this basis. When exactly has the US come to our aid since WW2? The answer is never. On the other hand, how many times has Australia answered the call from America? Korea, Vietnam, The Gulf War, Afghanistan, Iraq and Pine Gap of course. Australians have learned to see our subsidiary role to the US as payment in advance for any serious threat upon our shores. ANZUS was invoked after 9/11 and for the invasion of Afghanistan.Continue Reading

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Trump Always Picks On Soft Targets

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Have you noticed that Donald Trump always picks on soft targets. Trump has sent in a huge naval aircraft carrier to threaten Venezuela with, after illegally blowing up Venezuelan speedboats in international waters. Yes, he claims they are drug smugglers but no evidence has been provided to prove it. Trump is trash talking Canada and applying onerous tariffs in defiance of a free trade agreement he signed with them. Canadians are notoriously known as nice people throughout the world. The Trump regime’s ICE agents are heavily armed. These masked bullies are beating up on immigrants and Americans with brown skin.Continue Reading

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Trump

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Simplistic, trite and flag waving rubbish, as per usual, from the Aussie media. Anthony Albanese meets with Donald Trump in Washington and cheering from the little people angle erupts downunder. Australian media headlines hail rare minerals deal with Trump. In all likelihood, this will be another deal with American multinationals who won’t pay tax and will screw us on the royalty arrangements. Few jobs will come out of it in this highly mechanised mining sector in the 21C. It may increase our GDP numbers but this will mean diddly squat in actual terms to the vast percentage of our population. Wealthy investors might pop a few bottles of French Champagne over it.Continue Reading

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Why Are We Getting Poorer?

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Why is everything so expensive now? What price life? Why are we getting poorer? First and foremost, the entire economy is set up to greatly favour owners over all other parts. Investors are owners, of course, and the company executives operate on their behalf. Shareholders are king and everyone else runs a poor second. Thus, profitability is always the prime consideration and profits have to constantly increase to satisfy the shareholders. Plus, executives manipulate the stock price through buybacks to enrich themselves wildly. This is where we get all the billionaires from. Elon Musk is a prominent illustration of this, the richest man in the world.Continue Reading

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Massively Overvalued Tech Stocks

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You know, the only thing keeping the US economy going is its big bet on AI. The massively overvalued tech stocks, the 7 tech company stocks at the top of the Nasdaq, are the only thing flying the flag right now. Doubts, however, are more than creeping in, they are marching in, in the minds of many experts. The crazy Trump tariffs are viewed by every sane economist as unsustainable and downright dangerous. Now, circular financing tricks exhibited by Nvidia and OpenAI are giving rise to bad memories from the late 1990s. Bursting bubbles are on the tip of every tongue in the investor milieu. Warren Buffet has cashed up to the tune of $300 billion in prep for some really bad times.Continue Reading

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Australians Are Disgusted By Trump’s America

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I recently visited my relatives on the west coast after many years’ absence. We are all getting on in years and I would not describe my family as political in any real sense of that word. I was shocked at the level of vitriol expressed in regard to what is happening in the United States. My take on this is that ordinary Australians are disgusted by Trump’s America. The dysfunctional nature of Washington DC and wanton cruelty happening in the US, under Donald Trump, has Aussies upset. It is hard to get your head around the extremism of the actions taken by the Trump regime.Continue Reading

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The American Desire To Apportion Blame

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You know every time that I turn on a screen I am confronted with the American desire to apportion blame. YouTube is full of vids raging against the machine. Ever since the late Robert Hughes identified America, as infected with the culture of complaint, this groundwave has continued to swell. Making something that you don’t like into a conspiracy has become a full time business. And yes, there are plenty of examples where this instinctive reaction is justified by the evidence compiled. It can, however, become a habitual response to everything in life that you don’t like.Continue Reading