Seems Home Affairs are 'stacking the cards' for Segal, no public tender, and without referring such crucial appointments to the Minister. What the heck is going on? www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

ALP inherited a mess from exploitive LNP that galloped into disaster through to post-Covid. Labor has been resourcing the dept trying to sort the mess, but it's clearly inadequate & needs to act urgently as there's a worldwide shortage of skilled labour. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...

Trump & Netanyahu's unilateral war on Iran, bringing on the closure of Strait of Hormuz has exposed tremendous vulnerability of Asia-Pacific: in 2024, it received 84 per cent of the oil shipped through the strait and 83 per cent of its liquefied natural gas. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...

"It is clear, Oz, as with all States members of the UN, have an obligation to support boycotting, divestment & sanctions of the State of Israel until it ends the illegal occupation of Palestine. And yet our govts might proscribe the group as a hate group." pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...

'West' fence-sitting hypocrisy, of suppositions & scant foundations. A pathalogical reflection of actions of Anglo-America's renegade incursions, MICs, & unilateral withdrawal from global arms treaties. A cop-out by a corrupt cop that caused the Islamic Republic foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/12/i...

22May26, re Israel, Amnesty International Australia, Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN), & Australia Muslim Advocacy Network (AMAN) – submitted formal dossier to Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett & Attorney-General Michelle Rowland. CRICKETS! theaimn.net/the-sound-of...

History behind hateful, deliberately incompetent, unlawful, coercive & brutal actions of the Trump regime. Particularly Rubio, a native born Cuban who hates the socialist Cuban regime. To take over Cuban land & its 10 million citizens by extrortion for Florida votes. theaimn.net/regime-chang...

One Nation hides plenty, eg, its lack of cogent policy, lack of people to devise policy, also backing by Oz oligarchs against the interests of Oz as a whole. It is mimicking Trumpism which has failed Americans & others incl by banning journalists from pressers theconversation.com/one-nations-...

Americans are waking up to the fact Trump is a dud & that everything he touches turns to shit. USA's been a crumbling debt ridden economy for years, existing only by coercion. Trump has made it worse for all Americans except the useless cowardly oligarchs. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...

Oz as usual dragging the chain of useless, hopeless & pathetic toadying to Anglo-Americans in a suicide pact. It is doing them harm, & more material harm to the rest of the globe, who are moving away from these frenemies, & looking for more stable alliances pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...

Trump said 'Drill baby drill" and shut down all Biden's 'green / renewables' programs. Now Trump is trying militarily to hog & control all the world's oil - but is failing miserably. China on the other hand has taken a smart & non-confrontational approach. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...

Another brutal US siege. Rubio, a bitter, nasty, hostile, brute is a native Cuban who detests the Cuban's political regime. For votes in Florida (full of Cuban (capitalist) refugees), Rubio pumps Trump to extort Cuba then take over 10 million people militarily. foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/22/c...

Xi was right with his reminder. USA fast losing all it's 'friends' because of Trump (& Netanyahu) rampage against Iran (Persia) & others in the Levant. Whilst the two men are losing & have more to lose, both USA & Israel should stick to their knitting at home. theconversation.com/what-is-the-...

Bluff, bluster, bullshit. The Trumpian game touted being King, seeking Nobel prizes etc - diversion. Main game enriching self & hangers-on by shiftiness - market extortion racket at any cost to others & 'anti-weaponization' US$1.8bn. All before he goes stories.theconversation.com/the-market-m...

What is going on with Chris Minns (NSW Labor premier)? Not much it seems. Of late, every time he opens his mouth in public, unmitigated drivel floods into the public sphere. theconversation.com/do-australia...

Just like T-rump, the 'West' has been shriveling into a no-culture, no-idea, almost empty money-pit. As the 'East' rises with exemplary modernity & freedom (now the 'West' is largely gone), let's hope the 'West' can finally learn from the 'East'. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...

Oz must end US colonisation of our intelligence services. "How many people is Pine Gap involved in killing in Palestine Lebanon Syria Yemen Iran?” Oz expert, Dr Richard Tanter, attests Pine Gap’s direct role in providing intel to the IDF via US NSA. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...

Grateful for wellbeing, or a citizenship club via economic coercion & racism? Aboriginal wit on Angus Taylor's policy: 'Boat-people bias, OK but make it retrospective. They’re all boat people doing it for 200 years, now they think they own the place!' www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/2026...

Big corps training young'ns to cop it on the chin. A shocker. Why isn't it in mainstream media? Another rort by likes of Coles & Woolies etc, like the false discount regime they are being prosecuted for. Retailers could at least do corrective phase-in www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/economy...

Leverage by piss-poor paranoia, pounds of flesh & numeric nonsense. Since the political advent of Reagan, America cons itself via Holywood fantasy to dilemma. The Golden Dome won't have the US looking into a beautiful night sky, but an inverted stale yellowed piss-pot. theaimn.net/white-elepha...

Uncle Sam stuffs up everything he touches. Since the Reagan era, US has been providing huge aid $ (mainly military) to Egypt. It has achieved nothing but making the state more unstable & corrupt with manifest human rights abuses. foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/20/e...

The saucy screeching but hollow grift. theaimn.net/the-genius-s...

Angus Taylor's screeching assault of adjectives against Labor's budget tax changes is just that; a screeching assault of adjectives with an emptiness of analysis & viable alternatives. Here's yet another non-political objective review. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...

Concealed corruption, conflicts of interest & nepotism is rife in bureaucracies of Oz govts (aka Public Service). Results in tax money being wantonly thrown against the wall, & gives rise to less than efficacious functions, decisions, proposals & projects pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...

Govts & mainstream media make a concerted effort to blind citizens to the truth in current & historical backgrounds. The objective being to conceal their (& their allies) misdeeds, secrecies, brutality and wanton greed. This process has been rife in Oz & remains so. theaimn.net/the-monster-...

Nihilism, youth violence & crime through the roof. Why? Seeing some world leaders wantonly destroying & killing to enrich themselves & their elite mates, esp Trump, Netanyahu & Putin who have smashed the world, & brought a chain reaction of dog-eat-dog insecurity foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/18/i...

Iran wants war reparations, & economic & political sanctions lifted, then, not to be interfered with. Washington does not now how to ask. foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/19/i...

The Trump regime politicizes everything. In so doing, most of its strategies are deficient, & pose significant problems for American citizens & other countries. foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/15/t...

Russia, Israel & now USA, parliamentary govt turned to new despotic rule: ‘1 person, 1 vote’, disdain for parliaments, intolerance of other powers, & an overbearing executive playing ‘great statesman at the helm’, drunk on liquor of permanent emergency rule pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...

US's Publicly Held Fed Debt (US$31.7 trillion) from years of tax breaks given to wealthiest. Debt is burgeoning from interest. 20% of that interest is going to the wealthy who loaned to the govt. There's almost no govt services, & a bonanza for the rich pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...

Hooray! US Fed Court judge finds Trump regime sanctions on Francesca Albanese breach First Amendment rights, & temporarily blocked the sanctions. Marco Rubio's hostile & brutal overreach cut off at the legs. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...

Blue-Collar & others want a secure innovative future. What is Tim Ayres doing with the 'Future Fund' & 'National Reconstruction Fund'? According to him, he's hit the ground running, & now the schemes are starting to build a well-directed head of steam. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2026/05...

Labor's Budget. Screech from the 'Right' & 'Far Right' (LNP One Notion) is deafening. Backed by Mainstream Media, it is absolute bullshit. The loudest screech is coming from greedy wealthy, the rest is trying to bamboozle the uninformed middlers & poor www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/economy...

The Libs, Nats, LNP & One Notion well & truly lost & bifurcated. Their hope is based upon ignorance & bigotry. A nightmare of nostalgia suitable for old farts, the 'great unwashed', criminals & now homegrown unscrupulous investors looking for a hidey hole. theaimn.net/australian-p...

AUKUS subs anyone? theconversation.com/iran-is-thre...

Continued by colonial 'white men'. Ignorant, cruel & brutal British (western) racist system forced on Oz Aboriginals without consultation or knowledge of their successful systems of 10,000s years. Oz immigrants lied to about it by Oz 'white' authorities. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/indigen...

Oz building supply business is dominated by UK & USA mega-corps. In cartel-like behavior, their products dominate the Oz National Construction Code & Standards. They act to keep out alternate products. Must change fast, happening via revamp of the NCC etc. pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/we-...

Trained by good literate parents, by lotsa reading, in youth street-speak, business speak, academic speak, legalese, by traveling the globe? All very well & part of a broad vernacular, but only a smidge of what our mind interrogates to attain understanding. pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/don...

'West' (incl. USA) imperialists are to blame for African chaos, & will pay dearly. End of this century there'll be another 2.5 billion Africans. To prosper the world must rely on African brains, labor, & consumption. The 'white' west needs to get over its BS foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/04/m...

USA dupes everyone. Post WWII (Russia saving Europe), it duped Europe into fearing / blockading Russia. Via Abraham Accords it duped Gulf States into fearing / blockading Iran. Why? USA wants fear & war to feed its MICs & hegemonic power $$ lust. Now = US failure foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/07/t...

US decision to go to war was irrational. It can't win the war on Iran at 'acceptable' financial, military, & political cost. What US can regain, however, is some measure of rationality by ending its regime-change operations & return to international law & diplomacy johnmenadue.com/post/2026/05...

Liberals’ Treasury spokesman, Tim Wilson, deserves great praise for honesty of his position - he's opposed to any weakening of negative gearing & capital gains discount going mainly to well-off older men. The (blinded) Libs wonder why so few young people vote Liberal johnmenadue.com/post/2026/05...

Here's budget comments from Saul Eslake, the go-to man when anybody of any political persuasion wants objective views. One should completely ignore the eye-popped screeches from the Libs & Nats & their greedy elite mates (not to forget the One Notion blah blah) johnmenadue.com/post/2026/05...

What is Commissioner Virginia Bell going to do with witness statements rendered to the Commission's records, given under oath, that contain demonstrable falsehoods? michaelwest.com.au/the-bondi-ro...

Albo & Chalmers have broken the psych back of NG & CGT discount (albeit with a wimper), & cunning grandfathering. The rest of the budget is extra cautious, even the 'WATO' for ordinary wages folk is constrained. What of the future - ought not deter investors michaelwest.com.au/scaremongers...

Is Rubio a complete snarky dud? TACO obviously thinks Rubio is a budding TACO sucker. Whilst TACO duchesses the leader of the most populous country on Earth, what could Rubio possibly have to say to the leader of the second most populous country? "Give the US a break" theaimn.net/on-iran-war-...

"Yep!! America is eating itself and the billionaires are moving their money ….. Now ….. what is the latest on those pesky Epstein files??? theaimn.net/epic-interru...

From US Big-me-up regime, yet another TACO manoeuvre, in India by Rubio. Whilst TACO himself does the masochism tango in Beijing. TACO boasted Xi ordered 200 Boeing jets (possibly going to 750) - it's a dot as China builds its own & gets many planes from Europe foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/12/r...

Must we deal with a 'long war' between US-Israel & Iran? It's bringing huge pain on western Europe, East Asia & SE Asia, that may as well be the whole of the rest of the world. In wars of attrition no-one backs down. It could be a long & dire haul but for TACO foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/12/m...

IMF & World Bank are relics of change from the era of imperialism. Their signature: hubris à la elite who operate the patriarchy while extracting from the powerless. Those elite are now greedy oligarchs trashing fiscal policy benefiting the poor & working class johnmenadue.com/post/2026/05...