You may be wondering, like I am, who is running the country.
It certainly isn’t the prime minister.
One could pose a forlorn argument that it is the executive, the cabinet calling the shots but that, too, doesn’t pass scrutiny. On Tuesday, Scott Morrison and Malcolm Turnbull were strident in opposition of a Royal Commission into the banks. It would not happen they said. Not on their watch. The commitments lasted less than 48 hours.
Tuesday’s titans have once again become Friday’s flotsam.
So who is running the country?
Sam Dastyari thinks the Chinese might be in charge, if not today then at some point in the not too distant future. Wealthy Chinese businessmen with strong links to the Chinese government imagine Australians as their drinks waiters and golf caddies of the future so with a gleam in his eye, Shanghai Sam has got out of the blocks early.
“The Chinese integrity of its borders is a matter for China. Seven iron, Mr Huang?”
Full column here.
Hoping someone here knows something about Bitcoin. Back in 2012 I obtained a wallet and purchased 80 bitcoin (about A$375) to purchase some tulip bulbs from a vendor in the Netherlands. The original vendor vanished from the net before I could complete a transaction. I found another vendor offering similar garden products at a lower price and made a purchase, costing 53 bitcoin. The bitcoin left the wallet but no tulip bulbs arrived. I decided not to pursue the matter. Figured I’d been dudded. I still have the wallet and the remaining 27 bitcoin. I heard about 2 years ago that Bitcoin had gone belly up and were worth about the same as the Zimbabwean $. Now I see reports of this stuff being worth heaps. I don’t believe this and still think I’ve been dudded and all I have is worthless internet ‘currency’. Does this cryptocurrency have a use by date or do I still have those 27 bitcoin available? What would they be worth if anything, and how do I get the $ back? My bank can’t/won’t advise me. The accountant I used for years for my business knows nothing about this stuff and I don’t know anyone to ask.
The wallet is kept offline on a thumb drive on but when I opened it online the balance showed 27 bitcoin. I have no idea where that ‘currency’ is, or how to get it but I know the wallet is just an access code like an atm PIN.
Tulip bulbs? Learn something new every day. I thought they called it skunk.
Shhh!
pineapple cush
I thought one just popped down to the local nursery to buy ’em. Tulips, that is.
Current exchange rate $390, 000Au and they don’t expire.
Google how to cash in Bitcoin, like selling shares…….you need to find an “honest” broker
Honest broker? And that would be me. Wissendorf, send me your bitcoins and $1000 for handling and transfer fees and I will have $6,422, 000 dollars transferred into your account within 1 hour of receipt.
I’m not even going to charge you a commission because you’re a mate. You lucky lucky bugger.
I feel blessed to have such a warm, witty, worldly and wonderful human willing to go to the necessary lengths to ensure my profitable and painless departure from the dark world of cryptocurrencies. However you were beaten to the punch by a chappie from a firm of accountants – Ndrangheta and Assoc I think he said – who have suggested a much higher return for my paltry 27 BC holding. Obviously a cultured and educated man, he popped by with a laptop and a violin case.
Wiss, at last count 1 bitcoin is worth around $10,000.
There are people on the web who will redeem them for cash.
Be careful though.
https://www.howtogeek.com/141374/htg-explains-what-is-bitcoin-and-how-does-it-work/
Higher than that $14323.15 it is trending up.
You’ve got to be kidding! I’m still convinced it’s some sort of con. I thought the prices I’ve seen quoted were for shares in the Bitcoin company. It’s got to be a scam.
If it’s too good to be true, it generally is too good to be true! 🙁
Thanks JS. I tried to get my head around how it works, but it’s beyond me. I’m out of Brisbane atm and I think I should hire in someone who understands how this stuff works. I could have a small fortune but as I only paid about 4 bucks each for these bitcoins, the idea that they are now worth some of the unlikely numbers quoted here is doing my head in. The tulip reference was a deliberate joke about buying embryonic plant life in a completely unsecure market. I know about the Dutch experience in the 16th century. I’m sure there were no tulips with names like Purple Haze, Northern Lights or Funky Monkey.
Wiss, we’ve been discussing this only recently. I have friends, predominantly Chinese here in Penang, who are very astute investors. They are saying that the Bitcoin people are talking it up to get more people to invest and they won’t touch it. I’ve never really understood how it works, it my feeling is it is a con. It sees to be marketed as similar to a pyramid scheme where the more people you get to the nvest the more money you can make.
I think yr friends are onto it Penny. I had forgotten I even had the stuff until it became a topic in the papers. Tracy has quoted a rather amazing number for what amounts to some loose change leftover from a dodgy transaction over the internet. Can’t be right.
Google it, you can check the value as you check any other currency. If you can find an honest broker don’t forget the tax implications.
Worth $14,350 as I check at the moment, there is the smell of Tulips in the air
Well Alan Kohler quotes the bitcoin price on the ABC news every night. Maybe he’s the person to throw some light on it
It should be called bitcon Penny.
Penny, it’s a fiat currency, pretty much like all others, it’s value determined by supply and demand. However, my US currency, my Australian currency, and all those other things I have bouncing around in my passport case, are backed by sovereign governments. Think of “full faith and credit”.
I do suspect a Ponzi scheme.
I wonder if Wizz is up for capital gains?
After all, capital gains are paid on something that is tangible – shares, property etc.
I don’t know what a fiat currency is but bitcoin sounds like ‘quantitative easing’ – printing money with nothing to back it up. There is apparently no ledger kept anywhere for this stuff, so I figure they can just keep creating this phony currency until it all falls apart.
Dwight, Ponzi scheme, that’s what I meant not Pyramid selling., although they are similar?
Pyramid, Ponzi…the same, generally. Early entrants get paid from new entrants. Amway is legal, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities was not.
Funny how the oldies are always with us. Ponzi was in the 1920s, yet Storm Financial here in FNQ was the same. The Spanish Prisoner goes back to the 1800s but we get emails from Nigerian princes or fake UN officials.
Your Chinese friends are spot on.
I had to smile about Wiss buying tulips with Bitcoin as the bubble of tulip mania way back in the 1600’s in Holland is very similar to the bitcoin mania.
In the Dutch case, people were paying more and more for something that was virtually useless (tulip bulbs) and the whole scheme depended on somebody always paying more until somebody did not and the whole thing collapsed virtually overnight.
The Dutch economy took decades to recover.
At least one got a tulip bulb in the Dutch case – with bit coin one gets an electronic entry.
The Ponzi scheme called bitcoin will collapse eventually and $100 billion or so will be lost by the suckers who got into it last.
It is very good for laundering money though.
Get out while you still can Wissy. Send me the grand, oh what the hell, make it 500 for incidentals and I’ll, uh oh I see a downward trend happening, two million electronic dollars. Don’t delay. Your “bitties” as we call them in the brokering game could be worthless in a week. You’ll be helping me too, I’m trying to fill an order for this desperate bloke in Shanghai to pay his gambling debts in Macau.
Sort of seems to me to be this ”digital money” – that doesn’t actually exist – but it does exist. I can’t get my head around it.
Here ya go. It works a bit like this little scam.
https://money.howstuffworks.com/how-much-money-is-in-the-world.htm
All you need is a little faith.
btw Penny the VR software works a treat. Thanks for that tip. I’ve never been any good at typing. ‘Hunt and Peck’ describes my typing style.
That’s great Wiss. I use it all the time,
I’ve been wondering what bitcoin is too.
My advice would be keep wondering Boa. I figure I’m out $375, and no ‘tulips’ to show for it.
I could do with a bit of coin Boadicea. I’ll forward my details. No hurry, Monday will be fine.
I’m still wondering Boa even after I read the link JS supplied
You’re not having a lend are you?
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dutch_tulip_bulb_market_bubble.asp
My reference to ‘tulips’ was a deliberate parallel reference to my unsuccessful attempt to purchase plant embryos of a completely different taxa, in a market that offers about the same security as the 16th century tulip market. Nil. I’m sure I’m not the only home gardener netted in this scheme. Bitcoin seems to be the currency of choice for dodgy transactions over the ‘dark web’. I think if it is worth anywhere near some of the estimates here I would run afoul of the tax people or police if I tried to cash it in, as it must eventually appear in a legitimate bank account somewhere. Unfortunate and embarrassing questions could be asked about my original purchase. If it proves to be worth anything, and I believe it won’t, I think I’d look at trying to purchase something of easily convertible value, and sell that item on for real money. I’m not worldly in money matters and feel I’ve made a rod for my own back with this.
There are kiosks on Bali where you can buy and sell Bitcoin right on the street.
Gee, Wiss. Go to Bali quick!!!
I smell a rat? JB your opinion?
Wissy’s always been FOS. That means a “fine original specimen.” (er, I think) and extremely entertaining. Comparing tulips to bitcoin is excellent.
You have to wonder how people got so hyped up over tulip bulbs but they did. Most people are plain just not logical, then and now. That’s just our emotions influencing our decisions.
Give ’em heaps.
Re-birthing perhaps?
Re-birthing or rebranding. Same product different name!
Me too and others know I smelled it some time back. Something that Roger Daltrey sung comes to mind.
Tiny Tim; didn’t he do a bit of tip toeing a few years ago?
Well miracles do happen sometimes Wiss. I should imagine you’ll be paying tax rather like share dividends though. Unless it’s considered gambling wins – which could be considered a reasonable explanation maybe?
Assuming you want to cash in – go to a crypto exchange with your wallet and follow the bouncing ball.
No expiry date – if it’s legit then it’ll be part of the block chain and any associated transactions on record (but not necessarily recipients so you can’t really track down the 53 missing coins) and you can cash in. As long as you have the wallet and key you can be verified
If it was me – I’d cash in 17 (approx $250K) and let the other 10 run for a while. It’s still going to go up a bit yet.
Here’s some exchanges. Be wary of brokers as there’s a lot jumping on the bandwagon lately
https://blockgeeks.com/guides/best-cryptocurrency-exchanges/
Good luck
Now that Michael Flynn has admitted to lying to the FBI, it’ll be interesting to see who’s next in Robert Mueller’s crosshairs: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/opinion/flynn-kushner-donald-trump-jr.html
Huge news. The Mueller investigation is officially inside the WH now. Kushner is next and is staring down the barrel at some very serious allegations.
Reading Seth Abramson’s tweets is particularly fascinating. Whatever happens in Australia seems kind of piddling compared to what we ‘re going to hear about in the next week or so.
Big, big events are brewing, Penny.
Who’s next I wonder?
If you go back six or seven months, the reports were that the links between Trump and Russia came to light from British intelligence. Given that Trump has annoyed the hell out of Britain recently, they may be very indiscreet with any other information they have.
That was the report part paid by the GOP, the other by Hillary. This is a lot messier but if you go back and read that report, it provides perspective on some of Trump’s looming legal problems.
Here we go again. The trial by media of Geoffrey Rush.
We are informed that the complainant requested confidentiality at the time – in fact so confidential was it that Rush was not informed of the complaint. So he had no opportunity to review the complaint, offer an explanation – heck, apologise even. Who knows, there could be another side to the story.
First he probably heard of it could have been a call from the media this week – and his photo gets splashed across the papers.
If I was him I’d certainly be calling the defamation lawyer.
Is this fair? I don’t think so.
Just to clarify – I’d be making the same comment if Rush was a woman.
This story went off half cocked during the week. I should add it has nothing to do with Tracey Spicer’s work.
Tracy Spicer is doing an excellent job I think. Can’t say the same about the Board of the Sydney Theatre Company. If there was a complaint about Geoffrey Rush, he should have been informed and then maybe a mediated counseling session offered. I know that sounds very “social worky” but over the years when I have been in managerial roles that’s what I have organized. When the complaint is handled properly often it turns out that there has been a misunderstanding. If not, the perpetrator learns quickly that inappropriate behaviour is not on….
Agree with the STC, Penny. The Tele ran the story then pulled it which told me they should not have run it in the first place.
In tbe meantime Rush has resigned from AACTA and the damage has been done.
Seems to me that the STC breached confidentiality Jack.
The other person concerned must feel betrayed too. Unless they were the leaker.
Yes Penny why not mediate instead of charging some for sexual assault. Because of lawyer friendly mediation and pay offs this type of behaviour has manifested itself. Story mate if my comment comes across a bit strong but being a grub is a grub.
True Razor. I wasn’t talking lawyer friendly mediation really, but most organizations do have some kind of outlet i.e an EEO person or something similar. But I still think Geoffrey Rush should have been informed of the complaint made against him. The fact that he resigned from AACTA is telling though.
Interestingly I remember ( and I have no idea why this has stuck in my mind) some years back when Don Burke went to Geoffrey Rush’s place to look at his garden for the show, Geoffrey was so irritated with Burke’s belligerent attitude he said he wouldn’t ever bother with him again…..
Unless we are at cross purposes Penny I think Rush resigned as a result of having his name tarnished on a whim. Any allegations like this, of a sexual nature esp paedophilia, once aired, especially or specifically if completely false, would have to be a living nightmare for the person named. Relationships, perceived or real with family, friends, society at large would be irrepraparably (sic) damaged/fraught. People in that situation are also victims. The guilty I have no care for.
It’s interesting, Penny. Because unless we are dealing with a serial grub – and so far there hasn’t been a procession of “metoo’s” – this was an in-house incident where STC was the employer and Rush and the other actors the employees
It is the duty of care of the employer to provide a safe workplace. They allowed the complainant to make a confidential complaint and never gave Rush the right of reply or mediation. Never even told him. So they took one side of the story only it seems.
They then allow his name to be thrown in amongst a pile of grubs currently hitting the headlines –
– allegedly without any warning or justification . And the complainant still remains anonymous.
He has resigned his position at AACTA and the STC has gone mute.
Neither of those actions would surprise if he is planning big legal action. His position would be untenable — not to mention he would be ropeable.
Time will no doubt reveal all I guess. I hope it’s not sad or bad.
PS: there was a very good discussion on workplace harrasment on RNLife Matters this afternoon.
Meantime I’ll go and examine the bitcoin links provided by the fellas and get more confused no doubt.!
Yes Boa, I agree. Having no right of reply is totally wrong. I once was told by a fellow Professor when we were teaching at a University in Kuwait that a student had come to him and complained about something inappropriate I had apparently said in class. He wouldn’t tell me the nature of the complaint, nor who had made the complaint as it would compromise their “confidentiality”. I didn’t bother with it after that, but told him to take it to the Dean if he was concerned. He didn’t and I learned later that he had encouraged the student (from the student himself I might add) to make an issue of it. The STC have done Geoffrey Rush a great disservice I believe. To not know what you have been accused of is just terrible. Most people want to see a person given fair go, this hasn’t happened and the STC have lost any credibility they once might have had.
Ex failed PM Kevin Rudd calls on PM Turnbull to go, Mr Insider, no that’s an ironic call given the mess he made of the Labor Party, twice! Also former Prime Minister John Howard has called for an end to the “madness”‘, backing Malcolm Turnbull to stay in power. It comes after NSW Nationals Leader John Barilaro called for the Prime Minister to resign before Christmas as a gift to the people. Methinks the “SS Liberal” now resembles the “SS Titanic” after it struck the iceberg and we all know what happened there don’t we folks, Leonardo Di Caprio drowned!
https://tinyurl.com/ybj6k5td
Nope! He froze to death and it wasn’t DiCaprio, it was the character played by DiCaprio. Well he didn’t actually die, it was a pretend thing where he appears to die because of cinema trickery. I hope I have explained that.
A bit like this theatre going on now. Turnbull will be rehabilitated before the next election and will win.
Whatever it takes. There is no way in the doomed wide world that the owners of this country will allow a Labor Government in before we become extinct.
I should clarify, I mean humans are doomed not the actual planet. How about them showers in Victoria Henry.
In about five years we’ll be copping hundreds of mil of rain a day every day for weeks on end. You aint seen nothing yet.
Ever cheerful, give ’em heaps.
Bugger, Mr Baptiste, I thought James Cameron had filmed the actual Titanic sinking now you tell me the Movie was only make believe, you learn something every day my good man. Hundreds of mil of rain a day in 5 years you say Mr Baptiste, goodness your humble correspondent had better get a better quality brolly and gum boots to say the least. Cheers
The whole Titanic fiasco would have been avoided if they’d given Freddy Fleet the binoculars, but some tosspot bridge strutter forgot to hand them out. And Freddy didn’t much like carrots. Freddy survived and never got over the disaster despite several more years at sea as a lookout, and hung himself in 1965.
Freddy Fleet you magnificent bastard! Had to look him up to be honest Wissendorf. Cheers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Fleet
Good link Henry. I had forgotten the name of the other lookout, Reg Lee. He also survived. I followed the link to Lee in Fleet’s entry and found that it was not a tosspot bridge strutter who had forgotten to issue the binoculars, someone had neglected to bring the keys to the binocular box and they weren’t on board. Just a dumb oversight. Fleet testified that binoculars would have made no difference as the night was moonless and the sea calm so no waves were breaking on the iceberg. I think the light gathering properties of the binoculars would have at least improved the chances of sighting the berg in starlight. We’ll never know. Fleet had time to sound the alarm, and perhaps a few extra seconds would have made a difference.
How’s life in the Baptiste Bunker?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqIt93dDG1M
In a bit of a moral dilemma Dwight. Will we be contributing to the problem by stocking up with 25 tons of baked beans? Or will it turn out to be a lousy investment if the air is unbreathable anyway?
Or do I give a rat’s anyway? I’m an old guy.
JB are you do you really believe 5 inch4s of rain everyday for weeks on end within 5 years? Would you like to put a small wager on that?
We are past the tipping point Razor. The oceans as predicted, are able to sequester only so much heat, are beginning to release some of it back into the atmosphere. This is the trigger for runaway climate change and it is happening right now as we see unprecedented weather events happening all over the planet. Yes I certainly believe rainfalls in that order are possible in that time frame while we also experience flash droughts in critical ripening times that will wipe out crops on a monumental scale .
The smart money you will observe is buying up productive land all over the world to give them better opportunities to make a killing when food production becomes unpredictable.
What do you call a small bet?
Here read this. We’re gone mate. Good old water will do us in.
http://e360.yale.edu/features/how_long_can_oceans_continue_to_absorb_earths_excess_heat
…”runaway climate change”…”unprecedented weather events”…”flash droughts”…”critical ripening periods”…”monumental scale”….!!!
Please Jean, stop it…no don’t… no stop. I like Rabelaisian humour as much as the next person, and personally i believe you are carving your own niche along those lines, but mate i’m trying to read, drink beer and watch the cricket all at the same time so i need to be able to control all of my orifices. Please desist old chap.
And remember, matter remains matter. If that matters! But at all times mind your manners.
I say JB, your closing comment: “We’re gone mate. Good old water will do us in.” got me thinking.
You obviously take as gospel all of this ‘end is nigh’ stuff you put up for us to read. Your reference in this instance about the ‘water doing us in’ has a familiar religious undercurrent, vis-a-vis Noah’s ark. In this regard do you believe some of us may be spared along with various remnant animals; or will it be goodnight Irene for the lot of us?
I was also wondering if you believed the seawaters heat capacity may be so huge that a lot of the sequestered heat may be locked away for millennia and if so we may have time to be better prepared than Noah was? As you well know he was only given a paltry 7 days me old mate.
Just stick with you’re good at Milton. Drinking beer and watching TV. Leave the reading out, if you haven’t figured out what is going on by now, reading is a bit pointless isn’t it? Nothing is going in.
I dismiss your begging petition with a haughty “pfffft” .
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-global-warming-greenland-ice-melting-rate-sea-levels-rise-a7147846.html
As to the “control of your orifices” there are some serious demarcation transgressions happening right there old boy.
Carl on The Coast. Oh my God. You truly do not have a clue do you.
I assumed you at least understood that water, viz water vapour in the atmosphere, too much of it, will be our undoing. Long long before biblical ocean level rises, we wont be around to see that.
Clearly you have no idea of how the thermohaline conveyor works and that the warming of deep ocean waters are already liberating truly terrifying amounts of methane into our atmosphere.
It is interesting to read your gainsay, gainsaying scientists who actually know what they are talking about. I like it, keep it up.
I suppose you would eventually become aware enough of the gravity of the situation if your government instructed you to be so, but that isn’t going to happen is it?
Some “pretty pictures” for you old duffer.
http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2017/11/world/greenland-global-warning/
I’m sure, despite his many faults, Rudd only got one bad Newspoll before he was knifed. The public were grumpy with him, but I’d still suggest he would have won an election against Abbott decisively. That Gillard did so poorly and was forced into a minority, illustrates the public didn’t buy the ‘good Government lost its way’ line. When she was justly turfed out ALP stocks rose. Standing behind both turfings out was Shorten. A serial assassin who sold out his own unionists for personal gain is the ALP’s offering as alternative PM. I have as much luck picking election winners as I do picking winners in the Straddie but I’d pick Turnbull to win over Shorten any day.
Rudd had committed the ultimate sin of trying to win back something from the multinational pillagers.
That my friend is death, metaphorically or literally for any leader of a vassal nation in the world.
We may not want to face the truth but Labor were given a choice. Fell on their knees, begged forgiveness and provided a village chief acceptable to Rome.
All the rest is window dressing for the Simple Simons.
A very bad look for Manchurian Sam.
He should resign from politics and become a private lobbyist for Chinese interests.
Like Andrew Robb has?
I guess that is the role model.
Carr seems to like them and I think Hawkey is on the board of some Chinese company.
As I keep saying, you can only be successful in China if you buy political influence and they are exporting the “Chinese Way” very successfully.
It is tie we woke up.
It’s time we woke up.
Andrew Rob never directly interfered in a matter of National Security. Once again everyone is missing the question; Who told Sam? Only one person on his side of government may have known…….
Or another proven route
Think Ferguson. .Conroy et al
Rudd’s back and whilst I didn’t miss him i’m uplifted by his return to public debate. Like Keating, except far superior, he’s the gift that keeps on keeping on, His absurdity and manic humour, unlike Camus and Spike, won’t be appreciated in his lifetime except by connoisseurs like moi. And no doubt by tbls.
I say dear Milton what a stout win by Anastasia Palaszczuk and Labor in our beloved QLD. She wiped the floor with the LNP’s Timmy Nichols. Cheers
B’man debt may be even more than you note. No surprises.
http://www.australiandebtclock.com.au/
To clarify under Labor debt rose at $38 Billion per year. Under the coalition debt has risen at $60 billion per year. According the Pre Election Fiscal Outlook at the time of the 2013 election under Labor setting the budget would be in balance today. Not $38 Billion in the red. Debt would have peaked at 13% of GDP and be falling. Today debt is 19% of GDP and rising. On every measure not just fiscally the coalition have been the worst government in Australia’s history. No Surprises.
https://thekouk.com/item/450-labor-vs-liberal-on-government-debt.html
http://thenewdaily.com.au/money/finance-news/2017/03/26/coalition-debt-exceeds-labor/
https://www.crikey.com.au/2015/02/03/remember-labors-skyrocketing-debt-the-coalitions-is-much-worse/
Past the forward estimates and the NDIS are the gift that keeps giving. NDIS important but never appropriately costed and planned for.
Despite naysayers Abbott’s best years are ahead for us. As for the banks I prefer to see them going gangbusters than bust.
Bring on Adelaide. Me youngest is there for the Pacific games representing Qld. Alas, only mum going, me at home.
Anyone reckon Stokes would make that much of a difference? I’ve got a pretty good idea who he’d replace if he does get a gig.
I might watch a bit of cricket if Stokes plays. Just on the off chance he might hook someone.
That’s the spirit Jean. Sadly he’s not but no doubt he’ll have a coupla frosties and snot someone.
Yeah well. I would just like to see a Test cricketer get snotted in an Ashes match. I’m not a violent man, it just seems, well, an interesting thing to happen on a cricket field.
To be fair, some of those streakers weren’t half bad.
Which half?
Which half? What have we got here, a statistician or an aficionado? I had no idea equal representation was a feature of streaking.
Best of luck to your youngest sprog.
Cheers Rhys.
…..this is interesting. Years ago when this blog first started I said the only way to defend our country because of its huge coastline is with a bank of ICBM’s across the top of Australia equipped with nuclear warheads and a big red button in Canberra. I was howled down on blogs, by friends but of late, many are embracing my view…yes even Abbott and now Chris Barrie former Defence Chief!
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/australia-must-wake-up-as-world-sleepwalks-to-war-20171130-gzvrtf.html
Mate! The invaders will come streaming out of container ships and take over the major centres in hours.
Only the “Methode Suisse” would have any chance of deterring an invasion.
In 1941, the Japanese estimated that it would take 30 divisions and 300,000 tons of shipping to take and hold Australia. That was with a population of 7 million.
Hitler never invaded Sweden or Switzerland because the cost would have been too high.
This country is defensible if there was the will.
That might involve arming a lot of people with guns that go bang quickly.
Think Israel, Taiwan, Switzerland to name a few
But here! Ho ho! Arm the peasants! The authoritarians would have a heart attack at the very idea.
OK, i can’t take it any longer, what’s the “Methode Suisse”? For some reason it sounds sexual to me! Anything to do with philodendrons?
Is there anything that doesn’t sound sexual to you? It involves eating a lot of cheese and having a nice watch.
Hey what about that Milo Yappiopoluos bloke? Everyone seems to have gone quiet on that front. Love affair over already? Was it something he said?
Give ’em heaps.
The guy’s just a classless con-man who knows the cost of everything but the value of nothing.
Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) might be the go, but I don’t think the US is allowing exports of it. THAAD is too short-ranged for our long border.
Settle down. No-one is going to invade. Just the usual from the spivs and shills for the armaments industry.