by leon | Dec 2, 2017 | Blogs
So former United States national security adviser Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in the federal investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election. The big worry for Trump is that Flynn has agreed to...
by leon | Nov 30, 2017 | Blogs
Much has been made of Bitcoing surging past $11,000 Bitcoin has risen tenfold in value so far this year, the largest gain of all asset classes. Everyone from Wall Street executives to venture capitalists have been weighing in with their forecasts. Some are sceptical...
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...
