Why is Karoline Leavitt looking so paranoid when claiming Boebert is being transparent in briefing the Epstein Files to Congress? "Isn't that what you want?" From Lauren Boebert? NO!

So Blue Origin finally launches NASA's Mars Missission! Musk must be mortified? Mars is Musk's planet! His dream! And Bezos, that other potential trillionaire bastard is stealing it? Well, we've got til Sept 2027 to see who can spend the most money fastest.

Every citizen should be accountable for their government! Every Government should be accountable to it's citizens! Neither of these premises of Democracy seem to working in USA at present?

I hear that IMF has recently sponsored talks with major oil companies and US corporations, and Trump administration officials, to draw up a plan to best exploit Venezuala's huge resources in a 'post-Maduro environment'! So that's what the IMF does?

Why did I have to watch proceedings of the US Senate to know that 17 officers of General rank have left the Dept of War since Trump was elected? Where is the media? Is that 17 out of 38? Is that a coup, or collapse? Next stop, Venezuala!

MTG, apologist for the NRA, is complaining of death threats? Playing cowboys and indians, before I was old enough to develope a moral code, well before the internet, the rule was "those who live by the gun, die by the gun!" But I grew up. Seems many in America still play the game for real?

"Australian scientists debunk Trump's claims linking paracetamol to autism" Do we really need Channel 9 News to feed us the bleeding obvious?

2/ Vietnam. Betrayal of vaunted moral politics, ethics, and US power. Skip Afghanistan, Iraq, let's move on to Venezuala? I assume Greenland, Panama and Canada are forgotten?

1/ America claims a unified culture, but in fact is so diverse? It's not all apple pie? I would really like to know what it was we all grew up to believe was great about America! It was cowboy movies, music (blues and rock), the glitter of glamour and money as portrayed by Hollywood. Then...

As an Australian trying hard to understand US politics, can anyone tell me why voting district redistribution in Texas is so morally wrong, but voting for Prop 50 in California to do the same thing is the right response?

What happens when you build a huge gold-laden ballroom in a swamp?

"A jury awarded Abby Zwerner $10 million after she was shot by a 6-year-old student." Well, at least in America you can sue if you get shot at school?

Has satire of US degenerated into sarcasm? There's a bitterness in the humour? Cynicism definitely. Possibly despair.

Should America try the European way? where one in eight are NOT reliant on "foodstamps" and all get free healthcare! What's wrong with that? They will however have to tax billionaires and corporations. Too radical for America? 38tn debt cannot be the answer!

Here is list of White House ballroom donors. Please do what you will with it. We will be coming back to share more about the companies, as it relates to public health specifically. Source: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

With "$22trn in tariffs by the end of this year" (Trump, today, in S. Korea), America will soon be debt free! and able to provide free healthcare to all its citizens, free education to all its children, a living wage to all its workers, new infrastructure, safe environment, cheap renewable energy?

Bondi said.. the committee found "a cover-up of the president's cognitive decline... My team is reviewing Biden's reported use of autopen for pardons" Hasn't she watched Trump's reception in Japan? Witnessed latest tariffs? Seen who's been pardoned lately? This is Alice in Wonderland stuff!

Mining lease approval invariably requires at least minimal environmental standards - re pollution, degradation of farmland, destruction of wildlife habitat, water supply, etc. We have seen so many leases approved on this basis - which is good! - has anyone ever seen Govt. enforce those conditions?

WE NEED LOW FED RATES, to keep the AI bubble afloat! A lot of people are depending on you Donny?

It does seem strange that Hegseth needs a missile cruiser, several destroyers, a nuclear submarine, assault landing craft, logistical back-up and 10,000 soldiers to "patrol the coast of Venezuala for drug boats"???

Did anyone see the video of Trump being received and welcomed, steered around, by the new PM of Japan? Have you ever seen anything more embarrassing, more bizarre?

Why is the USS Gravely, a guided missile destroyer, in Trinidad and Tobago? "For joint military exercises". "What military assets do Trinidad and Tobago contribute?" "Is this exercise in Venezualan territorial waters?" Hegseth bans all information that incriminates the US.

Why is the USS Gravely, a guided missile destroyer, in Trinidad and Tobago? "For joint military exercises". "What military assets do Trinidad and Tobago contribute?" "Is this exercise in Venezualan territorial waters?" Hegseth bans all information that incriminates the US.

China's top trade negotiator, Li Chenggang, told reporters that the two sides had reached a “preliminary consensus," while Mr. Trump's treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, said there was “a very successful framework." So wishful thinking on both sides, but no resolution?

When Bessent, a self-proclaimed soy bean farmer, negotiates a 'critical minerals' trade deal with Li (Chenggang - chief trade negotiator)- does he know that's not lithium? And is he really a soy bean farmer? or just a banker?

UK's perceived immigration problem is resolved! One case at a time? Epping migrant sex offender to be deported ‘this week’, says David Lammy

"China’s industrial profits surge 21.6% in September, biggest jump in nearly two years" Ground News. So how's industrial profits going in America, even excluding Georgia, since Trump's America First campaign slogan won the election?

Albanese revealed he gifted Trump a model submarine to mark his official Washington visit. A token reminder, no doubt, of the many millions 'pre-paid' to AUKUS - to help US submarine constructors build up their capability before providing a sub for Australia? Does Trump get irony?

"ChatGPT to Allow Adult Erotic Content Starting December" Nothing is private, no-one is safe, AI has found a way to make a profit.

Someone has been reading the Old Testament and thinking it is about the Twentyfirst century? Someone has forgotten all the stuff inbetween?

How can America expect a people oppressed for decades, bombed for years, to welcome peace, when they return to a wasteland that was was once a vibrant city, If it was me, if it was any American, I would never forgive, never forget. It will go on forever now?

2/2 Mainly because we no longer trust Republicans, esp Texans, to take the deposit and not deliver, or deliver weapons so integrated with US military that Australia forfeits soveriegnty to to the Pentagon.

1/2 Michael McCaul, a Republican from Texas who until recently chaired the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said “As I’ve been told in my briefings, AUKUS is what keeps Chairman Xi up at night.” Aukus keeps a lot of people in Australia 'up at night' as well!

2/2 The Minister of Transportation will get a job advising new rail projects too expensive to be built? The Minister of the Environment will use social media to convince you everything is getting better? And police will carry guns, like America!

!/2 When a politician resigns, or loses their seat, who do they turn to? The Minister for energy will find a lucrative position on the board of an oil company.... for his contacts, not his knowledge of the industry?

There you go America! Just goes to show that someone who actually works for democracy can receive due praise and recognition! Congratulations to the Nobel Comittee for not being bullied! The irony of the Peace Prize going to a Venezuelan will be lost on all except the few pro's still at State Dept?

If the hostages are released by Hamas, then that's good! If the thousands of hostages held by Israel are not released, then that's bad! If it's about rebuilding Gaza, mending fences, then forget it! The bombing continues? And will never be forgiven!

US Secretary of Education was a WWE promoter? US Secretary of Health is an anti-vaccine conspirator! US President believes bankruptcy is a cool way not to pay workers. Imagine how stupid the next generation of Americans will be?

So pleased that following Trump's directive to build American ships in American shipyards, US has contracted Finland to provide new ice-breakers, for $6.1bn! Meantime refusing aid to Nato front-line nations!

What exactly do NSW Police mean by “significant safety concerns", when opposing pro-palestinian protests? Are they expecting a zionist or neo-nazi backlash? Deal with it!

WHY aren't ICE arresting illegal immigrants on the farms in Red States, the workers that sustain those economies! SO MORE RELEVANT... why isn't ICE arresting the employers of illegal immigrants? Threatening American employers will solve the immigration problem, but wreck the economy?

I'm guessing certain Texans are so looking forward to Chicago? [Forget about the Constitutional rights of States, not to be invaded by other states of the UNITED STATES.] SCOTUS is silent, and no-one is enforcing the "law" anymore!

Indefinite detention, via deportation to Nauru, is an immigration model now for several allies. Every now and again, the media seems amazed by the cost, paid to an American prison service Company, but never ever question the morality.

I love Kimmel, Meyers, Colbert and Fallon. But despite an army of writers to make jokes about current disasters in US society, they just don't seem funny anymore?

3/ Only metropolitan and one Gulf/Aboriginal councils now fluoridate water. That is, the rich majority and the other one. As The Dental Inst. said, regions without fluoridation are the same ones without dentists! Tooth decay will soon be a measure of poverty.

2/ Dentists are warning of the 'good old days', when you could tell a Queenslander by how many teeth he had!

1/ Qld LNP govt will again allow district councils to discontinue fluoridation of water. As Gympie Councillor said, "It costs $255000 pa, and people should be able to make their own choices! To buy fluoride toothpaste, get vaccinated..."

There must be miilions of Americans wondering why someone - someone else - won't do anything!

"A judge ordered his release"... BUT WAS HE RELEASED? ICE don't seem to be taking any notice of the law. They have Noem's Portland prayers to protect them!

Will the appointment of a woman as Archbishop of Canterbury make God more understanding? Was the proposal to appoint Blair a ploy by Netanyahu to sabotage peace? ICE in Chicago shot a woman: because she had a weapon in her car, she said something nasty, or ICE was "boxed in by 10 cars" in traffic?