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Economic Reforms 2026 : चुनाव खत्म, अब 'कड़े फैसले' PM मोदी ने देशवासियों से की ईंधन, विदेश यात्रा और सोना खरीदने में कटौती की अपील #ModiAppeal #IndianEconomy #FuelSaving #GoldImport #EconomicReforms2026 #NationalInterest

https://vrnewslive.com/economic-reforms-2026-sankat-ka-kaal-pm-modi/

Economic Reforms 2026 : चुनाव खत्म, अब 'कड़े फैसले' PM मोदी ने देशवासियों से की ईंधन, विदेश यात्रा और सोना खरीदने में कटौती की अपील - VR NEWS LIVE NEWS

Economic Reforms 2026 : चुनाव खत्म, अब 'कड़े फैसले' PM मोदी ने देशवासियों से की ईंधन, विदेश यात्रा और सोना खरीदने में कटौती की अपील बताया राष्ट्रहित में जरूरी

VR News Live
Big Blu GnuMar 22

Yet more evidence that America's unreasonable regulations are a national security threat. This unduly red tape does nothing to serve the national interest ... or the common good.

https://reason.com/2026/03/21/chinas-rare-earth-dominance-was-made-in-america/

#bureaucracy #China #freeTrade #geopolitics #governmentFailure #nationalInterest #nationalSecurity #overregulation #permits #rareEarth #UnitedStates

U.S. regulations helped make China the top rare-earth producer

America once dominated the rare-earth market, but permitting requirements are holding the industry back.

Reason.com
WIST QuotationsMar 15

A quotation from Samuel Johnson

Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1758-11-11), The Idler, No. 30

More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/5636/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #belief #credulity #deceit #deception #disinformation #meme #nationalhonor #nationalinterest #nationalism #patriotism #propaganda #publicrelations #spin #war

BellingenNSWFeb 24

Bulldozing Australia’s great tropical savanna
"One of the largest intact and biodiverse savanna ecosystems left on Earth”.

"The environment minister, Murray Watt, has given the green light for the bulldozing of nearly 3,000 hectares of tropical savanna in the Northern Territory without an assessment under Australia’s nature laws."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/24/federal-green-light-bulldoze-tropical-savanna-northern-territory-threatened-species
#biodiversity #cotton #monoculture #ThreatenedSpecies #EPBCAct #LandClearing #NationalInterest #exemptions #laws #Australia #extractivism #water

Image: The Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gouldian_Finch_(8952067299).jpg

BellingenNSWFeb 20

Australian biodiversity and imperial obsequiousness

In a nutshell:
#biodiversity #mining #JarrahForest #LandClearing #UnlawfulClearing #EPBCAct #EPBCActExemptions #cockatoos #EndangeredSpecies
#Australia #CriticalMinerals #ImperialObsequiousness #SubimperialEnforcer #ExemptionPower #NationalInterest #extractivism #zeitgeist

"The Australian government’s decision to allow the US mining giant Alcoa to continue clearing swathes of Western Australian jarrah forest despite past illegal clearing practices was made in part due to a critical minerals deal reached between Australia and the Trump administration last year, a new document shows."

"...The government has prioritised corporate interests and foreign defence interests above the jarrah forests, the endangered species that rely on the forests and Perth’s drinking water – showing just how wrong their priorities are.”

“In the twisted logic of Australia in the Trump age, the national interest lies not in honouring and protecting the beauty and richness of our natural heritage, but in sacrificing it to foreign mining companies.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/21/australia-us-minerals-underpinned-decision-to-allow-alcoa-to-keep-clearing-wa-forest-document-reveals

Australia-US minerals deal underpinned decision to allow Alcoa to keep clearing WA forest, document reveals

Document also shows US miner had been unlawfully clearing land for 15 years despite warnings from department

The Guardian
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Feb 13
“They are constructing a private world in which #deals are done secretly without any #democratic #accountability, mixing #nationalinterest with individual #financial interest.”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3meqibj5iq22i
WYM ModJan 8
What if U.S. foreign policy gets looted? Paul Krugman: Is U.S. foreign policy about to be looted? Under President Trump, he warns ego and clique profits could outrank national interest—watch the incentives. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-looting-of-us-foreign-policy #ForeignPolicy #USPolitics #NationalInterest Solid work from Krugman.
The Looting of US Foreign Policy

Goodbye, national interest. Hello, ego gratification and profits for the ruling clique.

Paul Krugman
Vietnamnet BOTJan 6

Mỗi đại biểu Quốc hội cần thấm nhuần lời dạy của Chủ tịch Hồ Chí Minh: phải ra sức giữ vững nền độc lập Tổ quốc, mưu cầu hạnh phúc cho nhân dân, luôn vì lợi nước quên lợi nhà, vì lợi chung quên lợi riêng. Đây là trách nhiệm thiêng liêng trong hành trình xây dựng và phát triển đất nước.

#NationalInterest #PublicService #HCMteachings #QuocHoi #DaiBieuQuocHoi #ViLoiNuoc #LoiChung #LờiBácDạy #ChínhTrị #ĐạiBiểuNhânDân

https://vietnamnet.vn/quoc-hoi-da-quyet-dinh-nhieu-van-de-kho-chua-co-tien-le-247

Show threadbsmall2Dec 17, 2025
> ... while there was no national interest in attacking South Vietnam, there very much was an elite interest in suppressing the contagious example of a successful national independence movement in Southeast Asia, as the failure to do so might encourage other countries in the Pacific to “go communist” (i.e., seek independence), which could ultimately have reversed the outcome of WWII in the Pacific had Japan ended up accommodating the officially socialist world instead of Washington.
#EliteInterest #NationalInterest
BellingenNSWNov 14, 2025

Australia's new national environmental standards

"Former ACCC chair condemns proposed exemption allowing minister to approve projects that don’t comply with law. Samuel, who led a 2020 review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act, also argued a loophole that effectively exempts native forest logging from the laws “shouldn’t be there”.

“Logging operations should be subject to the same rules as mining, agriculture, urban development and so on." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/graeme-samuel-calls-for-labor-to-ditch-national-interest-workaround-for-environment-laws

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC Act)
The problem of ministerial discretion and “national interest” exemptions. >>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/115528660854362227

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law. >>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/115528971744822369

#EPBCAct #biodiversity #NationalInterest #law #exemption #MinisterialDiscretion #FastTrackApprovals #VestedInterest #ParliamentaryScrutiny #EnvironmentalLaw #conservation #regulation #governance #democracy #NSWLogging #landclearing #DualState #lawlessness #authoritarianism #LawGuardrails #normalcy #EmergencyPowers #NationalInterest #legitimisation #exemption #constitution #state #governance #LoggingImpacts