by leon | Nov 29, 2017 | Blogs
There is a delicious irony about the High Court’s ruling on the so-called Citizenship Seven which has ruled certain parliamentarians are ineligible to sit throwing the Australian government into turmoil. The gate-keeping around Section 44 of the Constitution is...
by leon | Oct 22, 2017 | Blogs
So President Donald Trump has tweeted that he will declassify the long-awaited files into the assassination of President John Kennedy in 1963. Of course its bullshit. Trump is trying to make out that it’s his decision when the long-secret files are scheduled to be...
by leon | Oct 7, 2017 | Blogs
There’s no doubting the power of the Minerals Council of Australia. Bankrolled by mining giants like BHP, Rio and Swiss-owned coal giant Glencore it will launch campaigns and destroy politician that don’t fit in with its agenda. Witness the way it got rid sitting...
by leon | Sep 16, 2017 | Blogs
This week saw the Turnbull government monstering AGL to keep its loss-making power plant open. That’s right, a Liberal government, supposedly the champion of private enterprise, telling a business to keep its unprofitable operations open. That of course followed the...
by leon | Sep 9, 2017 | Blogs
So Irma is now zeroing in on Florida After causing devastation in the Caribbean leaving at least 21 dead and thousands homeless, there are now forecasts that it will have an impact on the US economy. There are forecasts of damages topping $135 billion in Florida. And...
by leon | Jul 16, 2017 | Blogs
The laws of mathematics state there are problems breaking end to end encryption. As Pursuit points out, modern encryption uses maths. How so? Well, there’s an algorithm on your computer that transforms your message into a sequence of ones and zeros that’s meaningless...
by leon | Jun 17, 2017 | Blogs
People have died in an entirely preventable fire that engulfed a24-storey Grenfell tower block in west London 100 are feared dead. The bottom line is that landlords clad it in flammable materialand council chiefs, together with MPs, failed to review safety....
by leon | Jun 11, 2017 | Blogs
Having won the French presidency. Emmanuel Macron is about to deliver Theresa May a big lesson. Whereas May completely humiliated herself and the Tories, Macron will go from zero members in parliament to being its largest party so he can implement his legislative...
by leon | Jun 4, 2017 | Blogs
British Prime Minister Theresa May says today’s terrible attacks in London are a “potential act of terrorism”. She said: “Following updates from police and security officials, I can confirm that the terrible incident in London is being treated as a...
by leon | May 28, 2017 | Blogs
The anti-Trump forces were hit with the news that Greg Gianforte, the Republican who has been charged with assault won a special electionon Thursday and will soon take his seat in Congress as Montana’s lone representative. This was bad news for those who believed the...