by leon | Jul 16, 2016 | Blogs
Turkey’s leaders said they have largely quelled an attempted military coup, With army officers claiming to have seized power, clashes persisted in major cities as tanks blockaded roads. Soldiers have been fighting with police. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a...
by leon | Jul 9, 2016 | Blogs
The black US Army reservist who shot dead five officers during a Dallas ‘Black Lives Matter’ protest was shot by a police robot. Dallas police chief David O Brown told reporters that a hostage negotiator was able to talk with the suspect for hours before...
by leon | Jul 2, 2016 | Blogs
For those watching the election tonight, here are some issues to monitor. 1. Will Tony Windsor beat Barnaby Joyce in New England? We don’t know. The seat looks safe for the Nationals but Windsor held it for 12 years. There’s no official margin. Watch this...
by leon | Jun 25, 2016 | Blogs
So does the Brexit vote tell us that Donald Trump will be the next president? Writing in Ha’aretz,Chemi Shalev says the Brexit vote which defied opinion polls, bookmakers and politicians has made the election of Trump a distinct possibility. “Like the recent elections...
by leon | Jun 19, 2016 | Blogs
Apple says it won’t offer any support for the Republican convention in Cleveland in July citing Donald Trump’s incendiary rhetoric about women, immigrants and minorities. Politico reports that Apple has told the Republicans it won’t provide cash or technological...
by leon | Jun 18, 2016 | Blogs
And so a 52 year old white male Thomas Mair has been charged with the brutal murder of 41 year old Labour MP Jo Cox. . He should have been charged with terrorism related offences. Police found neo-Nazi paraphernalia in Mair’s home. According to the Southern Poverty...
by leon | Jun 11, 2016 | Blogs
The world has been feeling the impact of climate change. Australia’s east coast is recovering from last weekend’s wild winds, waves and flooding, caused by a weather pattern known as an east coast low. Climate change didn’t exactly cause the storms but no-one...
by leon | May 28, 2016 | Blogs
Donald Trump is closing in on Hillary Clinton. According to the RealClearPolitics poll, Trump has narrowed Clinton’s lead to a single percentage point. Clinton’s lead has shrunk to 3 points in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey...
by leon | May 22, 2016 | Blogs
(picture: David Rowe AFR) The Turnbull government has turned Australia into a police state with the National Broadband Network raiding the office of former Labor Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy. The raids were in relation to leaked documents given to The...
by leon | May 21, 2016 | Blogs
One of the most fascinating developments in the Middle East is the growing connection between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Strange bedfellows but it makes sense. As reported here, a number of nations, including Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, and Egypt, are interested in...