Murdo.Max 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💧🇦🇺

Scientist & former journalist; sustainability adviser; loving any discussion that advances understanding; expatriate Scot; totally loving life.

[Tom the whistleblower @blowingtom2]

This was definitely worth a share and sums up Bernardi perfectly.

[Michael Pascoe @MichaelPascoe01]

Japanese 30 yr bond yields highest ever, US 30 yr highest since 2007, German 10 yr highest since 2011, UK 30 yr highest since 1998, French & UK 10 yr highest since GFC. @FinancialReview embarrassing itself reporting yield rise here is all Budget's fault.
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@Baumann_Mac @douginbrisbane Absolutely with you mate!
Maybe we just need to start saying "Between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Palestinian sovereignty!"

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If only journalists in mainstream media could remember these 'broken promises', and maybe even repeat them to the coalition during interviews. It might highlight the blatant hypocrisy of Angus and colleagues.

[The Noisy Elephant @TheNoisyTrunk]

And yet, after #TonyAbbott did it, the Liberal cheats stayed in power until 2022.

Want me to do the maths for you, cooker? NINE YEARS after a string of, barrel loads of, more than you can poke a stick at BROKEN PROMISES or LIES as you seek to brand them.

You are so politically naive that it is an embarrassment.

Let's help you out cooker chick.

For your viewing pleasure. Cooker.

[Lilah RPG 💜 🇵���� @LilahRPGtt]

For over 3 years they kept telling us there was no evidence of price-gouging. Well here you go.

[Dr Tom Montgomery @DrTOMontgomery]

#Birds

What do you think about this?

British-owned beef giant CPC has been granted a permit to poison and kill 20,000 native galahs and little corellas at one of their vast cattle stations in the NT, Australia.

In its permit application, CPC admits its practices created the problem: “grain production, on-site storage, and cattle feeding have provided an artificial food source.”

Ornithologist Dr Lilleyman was "shocked" to learn of the NT government's decision to grant the permit.
She said that Birdlife Australia is concerned about the potential for secondary poisoning of non-target species occurring close to "an internationally significant wetland".

CPC has ten cattle stations on about 9 million acres. They supply cattle and beef to Asian markets, domestic feedlots and processors, and export live cattle.

The company is owned by Guy and Julia Hands through the Hands Family Office. They live in Guernsey after leaving England to avoid UK tax.

CPC has also applied for massive water licenses for irrigation projects to grow grain sorghum and other crops which will inevitably attract even more birds.

So what happens then? Even wider-scale poisoning of native wildlife?

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@DaveTaylorNews When the economy is being hammered by supply shocks, even if only temporary (which I doubt), then raising interest rates can only further dampen confidence and reduce investment.

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@NikkiHaley Sorry Nikki, you had a chance to rise above them all. But you chose to pay homage to the most corrupt regime the world has ever known. While corruption may exist abroad, Trump will be reviled as the least ethical and most morally bereft person to ever occupy the US presidency.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.

A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts.

In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention.

Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, the Trump family’s deals are expanding, and not a single Washington Republican is willing to say a word about any of it.

This is a corruption of everything the office of the presidency is supposed to stand for, and the American people deserve to know about it.
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@RonniSalt @DrCameronMurray I suspect that DP's question about volume of gas exports from commonwealth waters was also intended to avoid any potential for Shell to obfuscate and generate conflict between state v. commonwealth on taxation, revenues and royalties.

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@latikambourke @PaulBongiorno But is it?
Where’s the challenge to the commentary, the critique? Absent that, it’s plain stenography.

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@deniseshrivell Denise, ask a Frenchman about Napoleon and the Napoleonic wars. It’s not just a case of ‘history is written by the victors’. There are so many cultural perspectives that were, and are, ignored. Can you imagine how American historians (even Democrats) will record current events?

[Chris Nineham @ChrisNineham]

More guidance for foreign news desks. Memo 3.

Things are slipping again. Correspondents please note the following:

1) Lebanon is a country, even though majority Muslim. It includes ‘south Lebanon’. Another country setting up a ‘security zone’ there is called ‘an invasion.’

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[Andrew Wilkie MP @WilkieMP]

Australia’s gas resources belong to Australians, not the gas companies. A minimum 25% gas export tax is only fair. It means Australians get a return on the extraction of our resources and we can fund public programs for the benefit of all. 📷 Credit: Mike Bowers #auspol #politas

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@adamseconomics @AntonyGreenElec @Rodw33381986 Sorry! You broke the most basic rule of journalism.
First, verify your source!!!
Having circulated gobshite, you try to validate this by being “…fascinated by the reaction.”. This is basically the ‘SkyNews’ model - make shit up then critique anyone trying to correct you.

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@umyaznemo Seriously! As journalists your role is to question the veracity of statements on all sides. Meekly accepting the administration's account of how the war is going is not journalism but stenography.

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@badsideofthings @aaronsmith Excellent work! But don't necessarily believe that it's an issue of religion. Groups such as this provide a convenient tax structure within which to operate, as long as they can apear to be distant from any political party 🤔.

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@ick_real Don't believe what you read on 'X'!

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@ka_grieco @ka_grieco the news media is attributing too much time to reporting unverifiable statements from US leadership (Trump previously claimed they had entirely destroyed Iran's nuclear capacity).
We should instead be asking - what would a shrewd enemy be doing?

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@ka_grieco Kind of reminds me of Muhammad Ali's 'Rope-a-dope' boxing strategy.