by leon | May 20, 2017 | Blogs
Robert Mueller, who was recently appointed as a special counsel to investigate Russian interference in the Presidential election, will have the opportunity to look at the elephant in the room behind Donald Trump’s presidency and his links to Russia. The bottom line is...
by leon | May 13, 2017 | Blogs
In another example of how bad political discourse in Australia has become, there’s the big controversy which broke out during the week with Liberal MPs texting journalists alerting them to the way Chloe Shorten removed a glistening necklace about 30 minutes into...
by leon | May 6, 2017 | Blogs
The latest opinion polls had Emmanuel Macron extending his lead in the polls over his far-right rival Marine Le Pen on Friday. An Ifop-Fiducial survey on Friday afternoon, hours before official campaigning closed at midnight, showed Macron on course to win 63 percent...
by leon | Apr 29, 2017 | Blogs
The big news yesterday was Westpac ruling out financing Adani Group’s controversial, giant coal mine in Queensland’s Galilee Basin under the bank’s new climate change policy. This came after activists disrupted Westpac’s 200th birthday party to...
by leon | Apr 23, 2017 | Blogs
The elections in France might well have echoes of Brexit. The polls badly misread global populist and had an impact on the British government, forcing David Cameron to resign and raising questions about the future of Europe. The first significant rollback in the...
by leon | Apr 8, 2017 | Blogs
There’s been a military response from the Russians to Trump’s attacks in Syria. The Russian frigate, Admiral Grigorovich RFS-494, crossed through the Bosphorus Strait and was reportedly heading towards the two U.S. Navy destroyers that launched missile strikes into...
by leon | Apr 1, 2017 | Blogs
Australian real estate agents with offshore sales offices and websites targeting foreigners are attracting money launderers. That’s one of the findings in a new Transparency International reportDoors wide open: corruption and real estate in four key markets. The...
by leon | Mar 19, 2017 | Blogs
During this weekend, Immigration minister Peter Dutton singled out Qantas CEO Alan Joyce and blasted him over gay marriage. In his address to the Liberal National Party’s state council meeting in Cairns on Saturday morning, Dutton got stuck into CEOs for campaigning...
by leon | Mar 4, 2017 | Blogs
After Trump’s address to Congress, which said nothing new, the Dow Jones surged to its all time high of 21,000. Trump’s speech was widely praised for its positive tone. But the problem is it lacked specifics about tax reform and deregulation, two key components of the...
by leon | Feb 26, 2017 | Blogs
There’s been a lot of speculation about the President’s mental health. Practising pyschotherapist John D Gartner told US News that Trump “is dangerously mentally ill and temperamentally incapable of being president.” Gartner acknowledges that he has not personally...
