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...
by leon | Feb 18, 2017 | Blogs
Adani, the Indian company that for years has championed construction of the proposed Carmichael project in Australia, a multi-billion-dollar undertaking that would purport to supply coal to India, is in trouble. According to its 3QFY2017 quarterly results to December...
by leon | Feb 11, 2017 | Blogs
This week Australia saw Coalition ministers and MPs cradling a lump of coal brought to Question Time on Thursday by the Treasurer Scott Morrison who accused Labor of “coal-phobia” The Coalition has spent the last few months promoting “clean coal” and modern coal plant...
by leon | Feb 4, 2017 | Blogs
And so in the latest news, a Bush-appointed Federal judge in Seattle issued a temporary nationwide restraining order stopping President Trump’s executive order banning citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. h The ruling,...
by leon | Jan 27, 2017 | Blogs
Donald Trump always said the US taxpayer was not going to pay for the wall separating Mexico from the US. He always said Mexico was not going to pay for it. And Mexico has refused. Trump wants it so bad? He can pay for it. So what’s Trump’s solution? A 20 per cent...
by leon | Jan 21, 2017 | Blogs
Take a look at this map. It shows areas in Europe with strong nationalist tendencies. Some have active separatist movements, others are demanding increased autonomy but not independence In many of these regions, secessionist movements may be favored by a minority of...
