Paul A

Cricket, Cars, Music, Motorsport/F1, Dogs.

[Paul A @AtkinsonPaul]

Smashed out the yard work just before it looks like it is going to bucket down with rain.

[Paul A @AtkinsonPaul]

@GeoffWilsonWAM It is worth remembering the Ralph Review scrapped pre-1999 CGT indexation specifically to enliven markets, encourage risk-taking & share ownership.

[Barton Gold @bartongoldBGD]

🎦 Barton Gold (#ASX: $BGD) is pleased to share video of its @VEvents_RIU Sydney Conference presentation.

BGD has ~60,000 metres drilling and feasibility studies underway on two #gold #production hubs and new high-grade #Tolmer #silver #discovery.

Watch: https://t.co/ptR5SqTXkz

[Paul A @AtkinsonPaul]

Amanda Lacaze smashing it at the National Press Club today. #NPC

[Paul A @AtkinsonPaul]

Lest we forget

[Daniel Davis Deep Dive @DanielLDavis1]

President Trump today acknowledged that there was a deal to have the Strait of Hormuz opened up, that Iran had agreed to a mutually beneficial deal, but then on his word he canceled it.

Let that sink in:

the Strait could’ve been open, a deal had been made, and because the president suddenly decided he didn’t want to allow Iran to benefit too, he sank the deal for everyone.

Not only again did the diplomatic word of the United States mean nothing, our friends and allies keep suffering financially. That is close to being the epitome of failure of leadership.

[Paul A @AtkinsonPaul]

@DonDurrett I didn't realise you had Brightstar - it is looking really good. One to look at is Legacy Minerals (asx).

[Paul A @AtkinsonPaul]

So Trump's solution to opening the closed Strait (which was open before the US's failed excursion) is to now blockade it??

[Paul A @AtkinsonPaul]

Who could have guessed it - a negotiation team which includes Witkoff and Kushner has failed.

[CanberraDSN 📡 @CanberraDSN]

It's been our absolute pleasure to support @NASAArtemis in their journey to and from the Moon, as part of NASA’s Deep Space Network . #DSS43 is one of our antennas currently hard at work on this task. #NASA #ArtemisII #CDSCC #DeepSpaceNetwork #Moon

[Paul A @AtkinsonPaul]

Oh okay the US is going to send an amphibious assault ship where a carrier strike group dare not tread... They are very very desperate to be even floating such a crazy plan.

[Paul A @AtkinsonPaul]

Another first for Trump's excursion to the middle east - this time the loss of an E3. The US has never lost an E3 Sentry AWACS to hostile fire in a combat environment prior to now. This is going south very quickly.

[Paul A @AtkinsonPaul]

Single digit temperatures today in Canberra. It is too early in the year to be this cold. I'm not ready.

[Paul A @AtkinsonPaul]

@WilliamShatner Happy Birthday Bill!

[William Shatner @WilliamShatner]

At 95, I'm still smokin'! 😝

I’ve learned two things:

Never waste a good cigar.
Never trust anyone who says you should ‘act your age.’ 😉👍🏻

[Paul A @AtkinsonPaul]

No post-Vietnam conventional war has seen this many US bases hit in so few weeks with this combination of casualties and assets destroyed. It has to be one of the most ill-conceived operations ever.

[Paul A @AtkinsonPaul]

The fact Iran could still launch IRBMs towards Diego Garcia after weeks of US/Israeli strikes raises questions about how thoroughly those capabilities have been neutralised as claimed by the US.

[Daniel Davis Deep Dive @DanielLDavis1]

This is bloody well unhinged!

In this TruthSocial, President Trump at first lashes out at Israel for attacking the North Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf, but then threatens to destroy the entire gas field if Iran retaliates. That makes literally no sense whatsoever!

Israel launched an attack, that not only hurt Iran, but Qatar and Iraq. For the United States to then say, if Iran retaliates, the United States will destroy the field utterly – harming Qatar and Iraq, even more, not to mention the global gas supply – is irrational to the extreme.

Hopefully, this was just a late night rant and will not result in any action.

[Paul A @AtkinsonPaul]

Trump is completely flummoxed as to why other countries don't want to join his war in the middle east.

[Paul A @AtkinsonPaul]

Wow - fuel up 20c in one week! Ouch.