So at this stage who would be the more reliable military aircraft supplier for Canada? The United States under the demented MAGA dictatorship of one DJT or Xi's China?

Longtail News@longtail-news.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Feed: "THE MAKICHUK REPORT" By: Dave Makichuk on Sunday, May 31, 2026

www.afr.com/rear-window/... Turns out Double Bay Jesus is a massive hypocrite and doesn't give two shits about the climate. Owns a private jet to fly to one of the most well connected cities in the world (London) and sponsors F1, a monstrously environmentally destructive motorsport.

Cannon-Brookes now travels by private jet

The climate warrior with a jet and an F1 team.

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Israel says a “process failure” by Israeli soldiers is not the same as criminal liability. Complete bulls@#t. They seem to have a process failure EVERY DAY! www.afr.com/world/middle...

Wong vows to keep hounding Israel over killing of aid workers

Israel has dismissed Australia’s outrage at its decision not to charge its soldiers who killed aid worker Zomi Frankcom and six colleagues.

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www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Finally a Judge prepared to point out the absurdity of conflating criticism of Israel the political entity with antisemitism. This case is also an absolute disgrace and shows how concerns about being soft on antisemitism are leading to miscarriages of justice.

NSW judge says anti-Israel graffiti case went ‘haywire’ when vandalism was labelled antisemitic

Mohommed Farhat spray-painted slogans and torched a car in Woollahra. He pleaded guilty but supreme court judge says case appears to be a ‘miscarriage of justice’

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www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08... The RBA is pushing Australia into an unnecessary per capita recession to attempt to stop cost push inflation. Madness given there is ZERO sign of their mythical wage price spiral (private wage growth is slowing, not increasing)!

Unemployment rate hits 4.5pc, the highest level in post-COVID era

Australia's unemployment rate hits 4.5pc in July, the highest level in the post-COVID era, reducing the chance of another rate hike in September.

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www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08... The evidence is fairly clear that Israel is pretty much a State sponsor of terrorism now. Murdering aid workers with drones and then covering it up. Yet Australia continues to kowtow to this fascist regime.

Israeli military clears soldiers over Gaza strike that killed Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom

Penny Wong said she is "outraged" and plans to haul in the Israeli ambassador after the Israel Defense Forces cleared its personnel of any criminal wrongdoing in the April 2024 strike on a World Centr...

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www.afr.com/chanticleer/... This is just embarrassing rubbish from the AFR. Private wage growth is 3.2% and falling steadily. There is absolutely ZERO evidence that private sector wages are out of control.

Economists say wage growth is fine. CEOs see a margin squeeze

Economists may be celebrating wage growth as “in line with expectations”, but corporate Australia is quietly pressing the panic button.

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Does Cambridge have Jason Arday’s blood on its hands? www.afr.com/policy/healt... It's my opinion that Simon Heffer and people like him are utter ghouls. The editors of the AFR should be utterly ashamed of themselves for allowing this rubbish to be printed (yes I'm aware it's an opinion piece).

Does Cambridge have Jason Arday’s blood on its hands?

Those who have allowed the reputation of the university to be so grotesquely tainted through the former professor’s unmeritorious appointment and its probable link to his death must pay a serious pric...

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defencesecurityasia.com/en/j-35-stea... Just remember that while the U.S. military can't even get its female soldiers tampons and pads while on deployment, China is on track to build 300-400 advanced fighters PER YEAR by 2027.

China's J-35 Stealth Fighter Blitz: Shenyang Doubles Production as Pakistan Nears First Foreign Fifth-Generation Fighter Deal - Defence Security Asia

China's J-35 stealth fighter enters Fujian carrier and PLAAF service as Shenyang expands production and Pakistan nears a landmark export deal reshaping Indo-Pacific airpower.

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www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08... If @albomp.bsky.social had any foresight he'd be investing in electrifying our diesel freight sector and pushing Rio, BHP and Hancock to follow FMG's lead by cutting the diesel fuel excise rebate to reflect the fact taxpayers are paying for miners fuel security.

Fuel security or electrification? We've crunched the numbers

The war in Iran has drawn attention to something invisible to most Australians — we use a lot of diesel to keep this country running.

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www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit... Penny Wong and @albomp.bsky.social truly are pathetic sycophants. Labor are damaging our long term economic performance AND national security by kowtowing to the lunatic in the White House. The U.S. has never been and now certainly is NOT a reliable ally!

www.reuters.com/world/asia-p... “Before oil prices rose, buyers in these countries might have needed 28 months to recoup their investment in an electric heavy truck," Yue said. "Now, it takes only 18 months.” Some good is coming from the U.S/ Israel's insane and illegal war of aggression on Iran.

reneweconomy.com.au/its-a-commer... The growth of battery storage is just getting started. Every MWh of storage allows more renewable generation capacity to come on stream.

"It's a commercial system. And it has a customer:" Sodium-ion battery sale hailed as a first for Australia

The sale of a 100 kilowatt and 200 kilowatt-hour sodium-ion battery system is being claimed as an Australian first – and may herald next generation of storage tech.

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I'd just like to say to the people of Clacton. You f@#king suck.

July 2026 BEV share in Australia almost tripled vs pcp. PHEV share more than doubled. One positive from Trump and Netanyahu's illegal and immoral war of aggression on Iran.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08... A$250m a year of subsidies to support...wait for it. 1,000 jobs! That's A$250k a job for every year of the deal. Complete insanity! That's money out of every taxpayer's pocket to keep a dinosaur of a plant operating.

Aluminium smelter bailout to cost taxpayers $2.5b over 10 years

Under the deal the Commonwealth and state of NSW will split the cost down the middle, with Rio Tinto contributing at least $1.1 billion to reduce its power usage and gear toward renewables.

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www.chinatravelnews.com/article/1904... The C919's first international route starts today at 3pm China time. Expect to hear A LOT more about the C919 once the CJ-1000A domestically produced engine is certified in '27. China intends to take production to 200 aircraft by '29.

www.afr.com/rear-window/... SGH.asx banked hundreds of millions of $$$ worth of tax benefits from the sale of its SWM.asx stake due to supposedly ceding control to SXL.asx shareholders. Fairly obvious this was a sham scheme. Does @albomp.bsky.social have the guts to direct the ATO to investigate?

Kerry Stokes shows who has the power at Southern Cross

What’s in a name? In the world of media mergers, it turns out quite a lot.

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www.thestandard.com.hk/innovation/a... "Hugging Face, the AI coding collaboration site that was hacked by a rogue OpenAI model, said last month that it used a Chinese open-weight model to defend against the attack because closed-source models have restrictions on use for cybersecurity work."

Meta launches new AI model as Zuckerberg champions open-weight push

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for lower US barriers for open-source AI models to better compete with Chinese rivals as the social media giant released a new open-weight model on Monday and said it p...

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According to Barclays, OpenAI and Anthropic, are estimated to make up 73% of Amazon’s AI sales in '26 and '27, rising to 75% in '28. UBS says 28% of Google’s cloud sales in '26 will come from OpenAI and Anthropic, with this figure rising to more than 48% in '27. www.afr.com/chanticleer/...

FOMO panic is driving markets. But this number should worry investors

The stampede back into technology stocks in the past five days has been nothing short of staggering. Has it been built on a false narrative?

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www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/c... The amount of cope out of U.S. and other western commentators on Chinese advancements in chip making and AI is incredible. You can literally feel the cognitive dissonance coming through in their arguments.

China’s reported chip breakthrough comes with some big caveats

China is reportedly producing a key chip tool in a market dominated by ASML. But analysts questioned China's ability to compete with the Dutch giant.

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bsky.app/profile/jonl... Just like the disastrous fall of Singapore highlighted how useless the UK was as an ally, this clown show should make it obvious to even somebody like @albomp.bsky.social that putting our entire defence into the hands of the United States is INSANE!

Jonathan Lemire@jonlemire.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: The United States is running out of missiles The Pentagon is worried about protecting assets in the Middle East and around the world. Trump lashed out at officials about the depletion And the shortage may force the U.S. to settle for a bad Iran deal www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

dialogo-americas.com/articles/chi... Look at this filthy U.S. Government propaganda. If you care so much about Cuba becoming dependent on China why don't you stop waging war on Cuba (through an illegal blockade)??? The a@#eholes that write this should be utterly ashamed of themselves!

China’s Solar Energy Projects Deepen Cuba’s Technological Dependence

As blackouts continue to cripple Cuba and fuel growing public discontent, China is leveraging the island’s worst energy crisis in decades to deepen its dependence on Chinese-made solar technology.

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www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08... When is @albomp.bsky.social going to grow some and actually stand up for Australian interests in the face of the blatant breaches of binding agreements with the United States? A weak, pathetic sycophant. High time he quits or gets turfed. Useless as tits on a bull!

Australian silicon company forced out of US by 40pc tariffs

Australia's only silicon producer will exit the US market next week, but the federal government says the Trump administration's move does not undermine the critical minerals agreement between the two ...

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www.afr.com/companies/pr... “I’m no longer going to be working nights and weekends, so we’ve only got health spas and wineries and lunches and boutique hotels.” He took FOUR years to deliver a judgement. I don't think this bludger has worked nights or weekends in a hell of a long time!

Slow-coach judge retires to a life of lunches, wineries and spas

Federal Court judge Bernard Murphy took years to write his judgments. At his farewell, he reminded his colleagues how hard he had worked.

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cnevpost.com/2026/08/05/c... Sodium ion battery electric mining trucks are now being produced in China. Great news for reducing diesel demand, while avoiding supply constrained elements like lithium!

China's sodium-ion push widens with first electric mining truck delivery

Hina Battery and Shaanxi Tonly Heavy Industries jointly developed the mining truck, which carries a 676-kWh sodium-ion battery system.

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Tends to happen when the nation that had spent decades trying to keep trade in energy free, decides to launch an illegal war of aggression and send energy prices through the roof!

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 3w ago

EV enthusiasm continues as research detects lasting consumer shift

EV enthusiasm continues as research detects lasting consumer shift

How Trump and Iran unexpectedly fuelled an electric car boom

Over the past year, electric car sales have tripled, as anxiety about fuel shortages and rising petrol prices continues.

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finance.yahoo.com/technology/a... Yes because there is a notorious unemployment problem for plumbers. Can this bloody stock pumper go away pls? Bring on the AI bust!

Jensen Huang says ‘a lot’ of six-figure jobs in plumbing and construction will soon be unlocked because someone needs to build new AI centers

The AI boom is threatening white-collar, entry-level jobs—but the Nvidia CEO says it's creating a six-figure opportunity for electricians and construction workers.

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Courts on alert as AI brings a torrent of sloppy workplace claims www.afr.com/work-and-car... AI is honestly more likely to be a productivity drag than a benefit the way it is currently going.

Courts on alert as AI brings a torrent of sloppy workplace claims

Data shows self-represented litigants lodging workplace disputes in the Federal Court have more than doubled in a year, while dismissal claims are soaring.

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