Long ago the international world trading standard was gold.
After gold the international trading standard became the US dollar.
Soon, imho, it will be the Chinese Yuan as the international trading standard currency.
Well done Donny. I’m sure Americans are proud of what you’ve done ya idiot
Trump, a former casino owner, holds no cards. China and Iran knew when to hold ‘em when to fold ‘em ‘till the dealing is done.
China, as I said from the day Trump was elected just kicked back, never fired a bullet and now America has been utterly humiliated.
Know when to hold ‘em …
The front cover of this week’s Economist shows President Xi in focus smiling at Trump who is in the foreground out of focus ranting. The Economist’s headline read/: “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
Under the terms of the ceasefire, if an American oil tanker wants to transit the Strait of Hormuz, it must pay $2 million. In Chinese yuan. To Iran.
The United States has crossed the event horizon of political humiliation.
And "promised on a handshake" is not some bullshit metaphor to me. I've shaken a man's hand, and therefore that is my word.
Nothing to do with "deals" or "money" just principles. I shook Father Bob's hand on that promise and that is it.
If some ain't like it, well, stiff shit.
Anything less is just playing tiddlywinks under the disguise of "diplomatic relationships".
The only thing the US Government needs to be told is "fuck off, get the fuck out of our country."
Grab those McDonald's stores owned by US HQ and nationalise them. Make America broke again. 1929.
Every nation on earth should cut off trade deals with the USA. Close US bases in their nations, nationalise all US assets in their nation and cut the Yanks off at the pass.
Down under, that means closing US bases here, kicking the US out of Pine Gap and cutting of their access to it's data.
This IS and ALWAYS HAS BEEN, the United States of America.
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Nah, I went to high school down under in the 1990s and knew it back then that Trump is just the latest incarnation of ya typical Yank.
The only things Americans know about are guns, Big Macs and pickup trucks. Always have. Trump isn't an anomaly, he's ya typical, average, everyday Yank.
Just another typical day in America. Only Americans think this is "out of the ordinary" when America has ALWAYS been the "we're better than everyone else, we'll do whatever the fuck we want" place now trying to claim Trump isn't what America stands for.
You voted for it, and ya got what ya wanted.
Anyway, haven't you Yanks got some school kids' heads to blow off this morning at school?
You're no longer the 'leader of the world' or a 'superpwoer' you're a despot country run by a deranged fucking lunatic.
Personally, I have called for Pine Gap to be seized by ANZACs, US troops here arrested and the US cut off from all intel coming from Down Under.
FUCK AMERICA.
If you were buying US GALLONS of gas in Australia, you'd be paying around $16-$18 USD a gallon at the pump, so shut the fuck up Yanks, ya whinging sooks.
Either get rid of that fucking thing in the White House, today, or shut the fuck up and go away, you dumb arse Yanks.
Nowhere. The whole world hates you now, America. You are no longer the world superpower, just a has-been country of despot nutjobs and wankers.
I see every day, Yanks complaining about $4 a US gallon for gas. It's $4 in Australia A LITRE (1 US GALL = 3.785 litres) and you Yanks are whinging?
So Hanson, PVO, Rhinehart, Stokes, shut the fuck up and go away, or I may do something the MSM will not do and expose shit you don't want exposed.
So this is ya last chance ya BRS backing rich pricks, to shut the fuck up or I may blow it all wide open. What ya gonna do then?
Call me old-school, but once you've said you will, stood beside a fellow man and shaken hands on it, well, that's it. It's not cosplay. I shook Father Bob's hand on my word, and nothing will ever change that, no matter who one is.
The homeless (wo)man on the street can't afford that and it's those without access to a voice that journalists are supposed to listen to, investigate and report on, not rich cunts.
I promised - on a handshake - Father Bob I would stand by his values and the values he had. In spades.
In the las year of his life, I was the media spokesperson and journalist for Father Robert 'Bob" Maguire. I promised him I'd always be the voice of those who don't have one.
If rich pricks want a say, they can buy an ad in the paper or pay for airtime to spruik their bullshit.
It's a good one, but I'm sure you've seen how angry people get when ya upset the rich & powerful.
They want the homeless man arrested and jailed because he stole a Mars Bar and a can of beer, but if it's calling them out for stealing $millions, nah, ya can't do that.
Having worked with Mr Nick McKenzie, there's no fucking way on this earth that he handed up reports of this magnitude to his editor for publication without making sure every I is dotted, and T is crossed.
Seems the RWNJs don't like actual journalists, rather than stenographers, doing their jobs.
Look at Trump's USA, such as speaker Mike Johnson, who has said many times over "I don't know" "I haven't seen that" "I haven't heard that" well ...
That's the US government denying they have knowledge, is it not?
"Always look for the truth from the ground up, not the top down." (Pilger, J.)
Yep, as a teen cadet in the 1990s, it was my favourite show (along with A Country Practice), but it wasn't about UFOs or aliens to me, it was about the words in the opening credits ...
"Government Denies Knowledge"
"The Truth Is Out There"
It's my job to find the truth that is 'out there'.
Every bit of info I gave to Mr McKenzie he checked out for himself before publication. Not that he didn't trust me, he was being a journalist and verifying what I had passed on to him was true and accurate b4 publication.
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When I found out about the Chinese mafia, helicopters, money laundering by Chinese triads, well, as a small town reporter, I couldn't break this story or I'm putting my own and my family's lives at risk.
So I contacted Mr McKenzie. So he broke the story in The Age and I kept feeding him info.
I can't speak for Chris Masters as I've never worked with him. But I can speak for investigative journalist Nick McKenzie.
It's not "an agenda" it's called investigative journalism, research, fact-checking and reporting.
Mr McKenzie is an investigative journalist of the highest standards, imho.
6PR, Nine, 60 Minutes.
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Be realistic. I have said, clearly that Kennett allegedly committed sexual assault and I was a 16yo teenage boy (with Dad's Playboys at home lol) and i thought it was disgusting and I have called Kennett out on it, but he's never sued me for defamation? I wonder why?
This occurred in a Kennett-arranged 'presser' at Northcote Plaza at 10am on 19 April, 1994.
Unfortunately, the (great) female journalist I was assigned to & the editor are no longer with us.
But I have the records, the drafts of the article, etc., so if Kennett wants to sue me? Bring it on.
As far as I am concerned, Kennett's behaviour should have left the weekly Leader newspaper office for the front page of the next day's Herald Sun.
Yes. Premier Kennett sexually assaulted the senior female reporter this 16yo cadet was assigned to. If Kennett wants to sue me? Bring it on, I say.
