So, let me get this right; the Tangerine Tyrant has launched a war (colluding with Israel) against Iran with the explicit intent to topple the regime.... but, today Treasury secretary Scott Bessent has said the US will tolerate continued trading in Iranian oil (to keep prices from escalating) and therefore handling the Iranian regime a major windfall in oil revenues; which I assume they will be using to continue their side of the war.

No wonder the Europeans want no part of this!

#Iran
h/t FT

It is persistently fascinating to me that rapid data centre expansion threatens the *exact* same type of blackout related to the 2016 South Australia blackouts that changed climate and energy politics essentially permanently in Aus

And it gets...........zero attention.

https://www.aemc.gov.au/news-centre/media-releases/aemc-proposes-new-grid-standards-data-centre-connections

In the words of Housing Minister Clare O’Neil: “We’re not trying to bring down house prices…That may be the view of young people, [but] it’s not the view of our government.”

Likewise, Anthony Albanese made clear that because of his new housing policy called the First Home Guarantee that: “There will be a slight increase in prices”.

Indeed, during the last election, both the PM and then-Opposition Leader Peter Dutton clarified that they wanted house prices to keep rising, with the former Leader of the Liberal Party saying he wanted house prices to “increase steadily.”

To be clear, neither the banks, the property speculators nor the Albanese Government want house prices or rents to fall.

When we talk about a ‘housing crisis’ in Australia, we need to be clear that Australia does not have a ‘shortage of housing’ crisis, but an ‘access to housing’ crisis.

#AusPol #Housing
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260317-the-fake-gas-and-housing-shortage-is-australias-real-crisis