Labor has raised their 2035 decarbonisation target in order to acheive net zero by 2050 and be a “world leader”. They insist it is an economic opportunity. The world is not going to buy green steel made from hydrogen unless it is cheaper and better for building things with than steel made with coal. They … Read more
Australia is largely a land of followers. We look to other countries for cues on what to think and how to behave, and we elect and follow those who seem to be better followers than the others. There are, of course, capability people with different ideas, initiative, after all our population is normally distributed like … Read more
Lenin believed that communism had to be everywhere for it to be truly effective anywhere. This was called international communism. He set up COMINTERN, a Russian government agency which funded and directed communist parties across the world in order to achieve revolution, including in Australia. Even after Stalin (and others’) nationalist communism took over the … Read more
Last week, Japan’s 20 year bond auction failed. https://www.ig.com/en/news-and-trade-ideas/japan-s-bond-market-turmoil–understanding-the-causes-and-global-250521 The pressure on JGBs has been going on for a while. Big JGB buyers like local insurance firms have reported big paper losses: https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/asia/news/life-insurance/japanese-life-insurers-report-major-bond-valuation-losses-536925.aspx The government got yields to fall a bit by promising to issue fewer bonds, but if they do that, then won’t that … Read more
Corbie Walpole – a name you have undoubtably NOT heard in the msm. She is the strong independent woman who poured petrol over her male friend when he jokingly said she should ‘get back to the kitchen‘ leaving him with burns to 63% of his body, was put in a coma for 10 days, spent … Read more
3 years of Albo means more mega immigration, more gas cartel, higher electricity prices, more expensive vehicles, more subversive propaganda via schools and state owned media, more of nobody doing anything much except mining and building investment property portfolios. Dutton has gone, but so what. He was an opposition in name only. Most if not … Read more
Shvets is an interesting thinker and gets paid an awful lot of money to make an awful lot of money for Macquarie. He is Russia born, Australian citizen, but has been based in Hong Kong for decades. MB has shared his stuff before. He sometimes appears on Macrobusiness, and elsewhere. I went to his website … Read more
Just because the last thread was getting a little overly long, this interview of the Hungarian President Vicktor Orban seemed like a good follow on from “Space, community and religion“ Here he is talking about the demographic crisis, pointing out that if it were not for these European wars, mainly to crush nationalism and implement … Read more
This started out as a reply to Lord K’s post here https://www.ezfka.com/2025/02/22/quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes/#comment-71078. But since it ended up being an essay and since we need a new post, here it is. We are all pretty upset about the theft of our country by hostile elites, but outrage is just a beginning. You can’t stay outraged. It’s … Read more
Western government, including the USA and Australia have government departments whose role is to audit the performance of the government. This begs a couple of questions: 1. Why did Trump create DOGE rather than give Musk authority over the US Government Accountability Office (USGAO)? I’m not saying that he necessarily was wrong to do so, … Read more
Drew Pavlou posted this and it’s been picked up by onenation: It purports to show an Israeli being told by a muslim nurse in Australia that she is killing jews in Australian hospitals. Given the passing of the hate speech laws, this may have been staged to justify them. It is normal not to trust … Read more
Never really watched the Footy show (at least the Victorian version of it) I don’t know a lot about Sam Newman and have never really listened to him other than as a passing curiosity in terms of whatever news, scandal or outrage he managed to generate through his own public behaviour. However, given the work … Read more