Mission Impossible
Trump’s Hormuz blockade is live. Oil is at $102. China’s Defence Minister says the strait is open for Chinese ships and dares the US to stop them. A forty-nation coalition is forming against the blockade. And one of the last two tankers carrying pre-war oil on earth is heading to Australia. Urban Wronski on the war Trump cannot win.
Hormuz Dateline
The war now has the smell of salt, oil, and old empires trying to defy the tide. Thirty-three kilometres. That is the width of the Strait of Hormuz at its narrowest navigable point: two shipping lanes, each two miles wide, one in, one out, with a median strip of Iranian territorial water between them. Through those lanes passes approximately 21 million barrels of oil every single day. That is one barrel in every five consumed anywhere on earth. Add the liquefied natural gas, and you have […]
The Erasure of a Civilisation Part 2 of Donald Trump, the War on Iran, and the Rules Nobody’s Enforcing
On the morning of April 7, Donald Trump posted that a whole civilisation would die that night. He was not bluffing. Part Two of Urban Wronski’s Operation Epic Fury series examines the systematic destruction of Iranian universities, libraries and cultural institutions, the weapons tested on children, and what it means that none of the rules are being enforced.
Australian Sovereignty: Steps to Regain Independence
#AustraliaSovereignty, #IndependentAustralia, #PoliticalReform, #USInfluence
Learn how Australian sovereignty can be reclaimed while mitigating U.S. influence. Explore actionable steps for independence without retaliation.
https://socialjusticeaustralia.com.au/australian-sovereignty/
Read the full article here (paywalled):
Sure, there’s a newly-elected madman loose in the Northern Hemisphere ranting about being “saved by god to make America great again”, but here in the South, we know an election is nigh when one of our homegrown nutbags appears to derail it.
As many tried to avoid Trump's inauguration by tuning in to the Australian Open this week, billionaire and chief election scammer Clive Palmer resurfaced to begin his tri-annual assault on the senses, this time with tales of woe and concern for Aussie battlers.
And in the process, Palmer's efforts may well help elect the Trumpist Peter Dutton as Australia's next prime minister.
Emulating the confected empathy and political strategy of fellow billionaires in the U.S., Palmer’s advertising blitz – commenced even before a confirmed Federal election date – was all about children going to bed hungry, the cost of living breaking families and offering “prayers” for our fellow poor Australians.
All very admirable, one might think, were it not for a couple of small details.
The first is that there would be decidedly fewer children going hungry if Palmer and his billionaire buddies – both here and elsewhere – reined in their greed just long enough to pay their employees equitably — or at all, in Palmer's case. The billionaire famously refused to pay retrenched workers their entitlements when his nickel refinery went broke back in 2016, after bankrolling his political party to the tune of $20 million.
#Auspol #HigherEd #HECS #Scam #ATO #AustralianTaxOffice
The ATO is charging interest on HECS that has already been repaid! 😨
When interest rates were 1% it was barely noticeable. But now, it's hundreds of dollars that students are being scammed.
HECS indexation increasing unaffordable student debt
“In 2020 and previous years, indexation was sitting around 1.8%- 2% and then a jump to 3.9% in 2022 and in 2023 a whopping 7.1%…
“Your HECS debt is indexed on 1 June every year before the end of the financial year. Really, it should be indexed after the start of the new financial year on 1 July.
“The problem with the indexation system is that the ATO hasn’t calculated the repayments your employer has made throughout the year, hence they are applying indexation to your debt amount from the start of the financial year.
“This means that a larger dollar amount will be indexed causing you to end up with more debt added on.
“The ATO should be including the payments you have already made to reduce the debt for that financial year.”
The #IndependentAustralia.net publication is so independent it goes through US #LiteSpeed servers. Lol
Truthfully we had them on a higher pedestal than most #publications, but lost respect for them when we saw they allowed themselves to be #MITMd.
What do you think of youtubers reporting on war? Check out my article where I discuss youtubers becoming citizen journalists covering the war in Ukraine.
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#youtubers #YouTube #journalism #CitizenJournalism #Ukraine #Russia #WarReporting #POL204 #RussianInvasion #UkraineWar #NewsMedia #Commodon @commodon
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