Showing posts with label 2017 at 07:14AM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2017 at 07:14AM. Show all posts
Saturday, October 28, 2017
British navy sailors on nuclear Trident submarine fired after failing drug tests
Saturday, September 30, 2017
Hurricane Maria: Trump snaps at Puerto Rico capital’s mayor over emergency aid criticism
US President Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to lash out at the mayor of Puerto Rico’s capital city and other officials, contemptuous of their claims of a slow response to the natural disaster that has imperilled the island’s future.
Key points:
- San Juan mayor accuses Trump administration of “killing us with the inefficiency”
- Mr Trump cites the mayors “poor leadership ability”
- The mayor says she will not be distracted by “petty issues” and that municipal employees work hard…
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Vanuatu volcano: Infrared video shows Monaro sending columns of ash, rock billowing from crater
The Vanuatu Government declared a state of emergency and raised the official alert level to four — a level five is the highest — as seismic activity increased in recent day…
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Canberrans embrace new cutting edge solar system in hopes of slashing energy bills, cost just a gold coin a day
Retiree Eric Pulford is one of many Canberrans turning to a new home energy system that aims to slash about 60 per cent off annual energy bills.
The best part? He says it will cost just a gold coin a day.
With soaring wholesale electricity prices and the prospect of a looming gas shortfall nationally next year, renewable energy proponents say individual consumers like Mr Pulford could play an increasingly important role as citizen investors.
“I say it is a little bit gold plated,” Mr Pulford says of his $20,000 investment.
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
There are no easy options for dealing with North Korean – missile launch
Here’s the script accompanied by a lot of bombast, signifying not much.
- North Korea launches another missile — its 18th for the year and 80th since Kim Jong-un assumed power in 2011. This time it travels over Japan itself.
- The “international community” expresses outrage. Australia echoes these imprecations — at a distance.
- Meanwhile, US-South Korean war games proceed, according to schedule, on the Korean Peninsula.
- North Korea ignores the threats, and prepares for its next missile launch.
Clearly, a “fire and fury” strategy is not working. The question then becomes: what are the alternatives?
Back in July, the Council on Foreign Relations provided a useful primer.
In that post, the author referred to a proposal by Chinese delegates to a US–China Diplomatic and Security Dialogue in Washington in June in which they advanced a two-step strategy based on previous remarks by China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
- First, the US would suspend US-South Korean military exercises (the twice-yearly ones now in progress) in exchange for a freeze on North Korean missile development and testing;
- Second, China would monitor North Korean compliance. Should North Korea infringe on such an agreement, China would withhold economic benefits and security assurances.
In other words, China would have skin in the game — and perhaps, more to the point, risk losing diplomatic face if such a process faltered.
Trump makes Iran-style solution difficult
The above approach is not dissimilar from the one the Obama administration adopted in negotiations with Iran over a freeze on its nuclear program.
There was no single “big brother” standing in the wings to exert pressure on Iran.
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
EXCLUSIVE: Ivanka Trump’s jewelry company is hit with a tax lien from New York State
Source: Ivanka Trump’s jewelry company is hit with a tax lien | Daily Mail Online
Monday, February 20, 2017
Vietnamese asylum seeker returned by Australia says ‘a bullet would be better’ – months of detention and beatings
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