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David Peetz
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Researcher, FASSA. Employment relations; labour markets; economics; pol science; gender; climate & finance; science; birdies. Carmichael Fellow at Centre for Future Work, Australia Institute, but views mine. Meanjin (Brisbane) & Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland). .. more

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Economics 19%
A dominant theme of Hitler's speeches in the late 1930s is that Germany was surrounded by threats. These threats were imaginary: it was Nazi Germany that threatened other nations. But they were used to justify pre-emptive attacks. Trump is following this script.

A nice triad of warnings.

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If only someone had warned us.

#DontLookUp
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

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A breeze will bring a brief reprieve for coastal areas of Victoria and South Australia today before the heat and fire danger ramps up again tomorrow.
State-by-state breakdown of the heatwave as a 47C day looms for some
A breeze will bring a brief reprieve for coastal areas of Victoria and South Australia today before the heat and fire danger ramps up again tomorrow.
www.abc.net.au

To avoid ambiguity
Trump: “I am pleased to announce that the Interim Authorities in Venezuela will be turning over between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil, to the United States of America. This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President”
It's really impossible to overstate how much *everyone* is watching the US threats towards Greenland, not just Europe. If you want to break not just NATO but Five Eyes and maybe our Asian defense alliances too, taking Greenland is how you do it.
Forcibly annexing Greenland would be a strategic catastrophe—for Europe, for Canada, and perhaps most especially for the United States itself.

My latest in @foreignpolicy.com on how we're all sleep-walking into a disaster: foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/06/g...
Annexing Greenland Would Be a Strategic Catastrophe
Any attempt by the United States to claim the island would quickly spiral out of control.
foreignpolicy.com
Trump: “I am pleased to announce that the Interim Authorities in Venezuela will be turning over between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil, to the United States of America. This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President”
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

True, but there’s better lebensraum in Canada than in Greenland.

But start with the easier ones.

*politician (not ‘political’)

Dan, I think you’re being too critical of the 1989 Liberals. Even then, no Liberal political would have supported the illegal occupation of another country by the USSR, the Soviet Union.

After we finish with Sudentenland, where shall we go next?

(Reply by the wife of Stephen Miller, the President’s instantly recognisable and highly influential deputy chief of staff.)

“Don’t you dare be inside other people’s houses.”

I love how they respond so well to clearly expressed propositions, and in Norsk at that.

You’re forgiven, it’s that time of year.

When the three wise men celebrated cheeses.

Others have already worked out that a much more cost-efficient method for anything needed is just to bribe the president himself.

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This exchange ought to settle any idea of the probable next word machine "saying" anything, per gullible media reports.
Of all the ways in which crypto is a scourge, this is the most bonkers.

2025, year when brutal home invasions to steal laptops and crypto wallet passwords surged.
Crypto Thieves Move Offline to Terrorize Investors at Home
Rising prices and the irreversible nature of crypto transactions have led to a surge of brutal home invasions and kidnappings.
www.bloomberg.com

Meanwhile, the owner of the New York Post has holes in his soles while the senior executives have to darn their own socks.

The US (and Israel) trying to force the principles of ‘patrimonialism’ (corruption capitalism) onto the rest of the world.

How dare you investigate us? We will crush you into dust.

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, essentially offsetting the lack of a global carbon price for anyone exporting to the EU, comes into effect this week.

Initially, covers six major sectors.

A surprise to those who thought this wouldn’t happen.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
EU’s new ‘green tariff’ rules on high-carbon goods come into force
The ‘border adjustment mechanism’ aims to create a level playing field while also encouraging decarbonisation
www.theguardian.com

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How about business leaders first institute all the recommendations from the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry?

Is this an online panel with paid respondents and the firm has failed to weed out dodgey responses?

Would explain the implausibly high recognition rates for seemingly little-known politicians & the consistently high ‘positive’ rates.

(Would ignore it, if not for the attention potential.)

Exactly.
Not surprising that Israel’s list of most “antisemitic” Australians is only a list of people against genocide and contains not one far-right/Nazi.

🫡 to those on the list

I suspect deeper problems with methodology.

Over half had negative ‘likeability' in 2024, only 2 out of 54 had that in 2025? So most went up?

Only one out of 54 had a fall in ‘likeability'?

Hanson is ranked 48th out of 54 on the “likeability ladder”, and Barnaby is ranked 53rd (yes, second worst) out of 54.

If that is “zooming up” the likeability ladder, what would “zooming down” look like?

According to the SMH journo, "Joyce’s popularity has soared” (yet also 2nd last in 2024).
Zoomed up likeability ladder!!

Yes...but still behind every teal MP, almost the entire Labor and Liberal frontbench, Greens Larissa Waters and Sarah Hanson-Young, and Bob Katter.

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Zoomed up likeability ladder!!

Yes...but still behind every teal MP, almost the entire Labor and Liberal frontbench, Greens Larissa Waters and Sarah Hanson-Young, and Bob Katter.