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Haha bendejo I've a global finance career behind me and don't need to follow Fox when I can get all the light relief I need from ABC, BBC, Guardian, Washington Post and New York Times amongst my serious media of Politico, Al-Monitor and The Australian. But I still read the left/green shrills to get some balanced perspective and you? As for market manipulation, hardly hair splitting when it either is or isn't. The SEC won't find a case to answer, while all the petty benign luvvies and legacy media can knock themselves out.

You'll to have to do better than that. Which friends, which shares? How much, when did they sell and when did they buy back? You're also assuming it was his plan all along when the media is casting it all as a panic, knee jerk response.

Everyone knew it when he advised before his announcement, "This is a great time to buy" so no insiders! Had he not said this, there might be grounds for insider trading, yes?

How can it be insider trading when he advised everyone hours before the announcement that it is a great time to buy? So everyone got the tip before his 90 days deferment. Who are the insiders? Also flies in the face of legacy media purporting that Trump had to change his mind in a panic as bond markets reacted. Bessent and Trump discussed the scenario on the weekend and Trump spent a couple of days monitoring and ultimately deciding to change tack. In the meanwhile, many countries have already started trade negotiations with the White House and China is isolated. Looks like a great outcome at this stage but lets see how it all plays out.

Will try freelance, manage my trades and other investments digitally wherever I go. Live 6 months of the year out of Thailand, and travel fairly extensively inside and out. So I'm a digital grey nomad 😅

I work remotely managing my active portfolio (super fund), plus fixed securities and a rental property - hoping that will get me across the line. Anyone have any experience with this?

Amazing new technology instead of nuclear - what could go wrong 😅

Mix it up with couple of 5km runs each week, 40 mins of resistance & stretch exercises a few times each week, 18 holes of golf once a week and 600m swims a couple of times each week. Something every day. At 73 am more flexible than I was 20 years ago and wish I'd supplemented my runs x5 for many many years with more variation earlier. Very good health, with occasional knee niggles and my herniated disc L4-L5 of 15 years ago is well behind me.

No brainer

"Pretoria responds to what it sees as a politically motivated intervention in its domestic affairs." Huh??? White mans burden has to stop some. Time for many African leaders to get their domestic affairs in order. And stop blaming a relatively short period of colonialism for their plights, which brought brought more progress than they'd previously accomplished in their feudal, slave states for centuries.

Wow, what a lovely example of irrelevant, righteous pomp masquerading as superior intellect. So typical of many on the left these days - simple minded, may even have a degree or two, which is not that difficult - yet snooty, drawn towards symbolism and idealism rather than contextual analysis and basic smarts.

Yep, she would be a valuable doctor living with her own people and their beliefs. Do everyone a favour and send her packing.

Data presented by hundreds of people, who all have the same doomsday view on Climate Change as they don't allow, let alone encourage others to attend and expound their research. The vast army of government funded researchers are somehow considered holier than industry funded researchers.

I find it interesting how so many people said world leaders don't take Trump seriously, which is clearly being shown to be so wrong. No US president has so quickly got major things done in such a short time, trust you can see that. As far as US in a lot of trouble on many fronts, Trump is addressing many of those things quickly though I don't necessarily agree with all his methodology nor some of his policies. But he is taking an axe to the sheer waste in bureaucracy, legal overreach, absurd regulations especially for business, falling education standards, lousy health generally and the sickening trend of the Left towards the Western civilization, reinforced in the universities and naive arts community. China hasn't been impeded by these, even though it is the Left that so many people in the West now aspire to, kinda crazy uh. Meanwhile China has its own significant problems, despite not having the above US challenges - population in decline and ageing is huge, as is their internal economy while exports will get chiseled away by Asian tigers and India. Let's also see how their Climate Change industries fare in the next few years. In my view Democracy, with all its warts, is the biggest differential as so much better than Authoritarianism, not just for personal freedom but ultimately creativity and efficiency. Folk worrying about Nazi Trump are deluded, he's simply doing what needs to be done, even if it often seems ham-fisted - which most of the bewildered media remind us hourly. Let's see how it evolves.

Reality is the authorities now need to carefully assess the culture within Bankstown Hospital - in a strong Moslem area of Sydney where a few radical clerics have been allowed to preach their bile for many years. Totally foreseen consequences from evil Murdoch media and totally ignored by the ABC for the obvious reasons - gormless hive of left wing activism.

Vapes are "95% safer than tobacco", according to British studies and they are saving hundreds of thousands of lives by encouraging smokers to switch to vaping... https://www.bbc.com/news/health-66852503 There are still a lot of studies to be done, but vapes do not have the carcinogenic agents that cigarettes do and hence why they're seen today as 95% safer. Nicotine is addictive and every effort should be made to keep the kids off it. Vapes should be regulated, and sold next to the cigarettes, with hefty fines for selling to kids.

Not sure where you that notion. Quite a few countries have moved their capital from the largest city for main reason of reducing population, but also make it more neutral - thinking of Canada, Australia, Indonesia, Nigeria, Netherlands, Turkey, Brazil. Think it makes a lot of sense and Nakhon Ratchasima would be ideal. Good political move and with high speed rail, public servants could live half way and not that far from Bangkok or Korat.

Is Trump actually invading these countries - hope you know the answer to that. Is he illustrating with his extreme language, how silly the Left has become - undergoing widespread rejection cos they went too far with ideology and dropped the ball on reality. How the hell and who is going to successfully rebuild Gaza and keep it from doing what they've been doing for decades? The UN? What checks and balances are removed? He has his own party to deal with, let alone the media and the courts. Anti-Trump competent people, really? The US is a mess is so many ways. And in danger of losing to China big time through their lack of policies and cohesive strategies. Musk is clearly an innovator and effective doer, time and time again, who has his own foes within the Trump team. Settle petal and watch it all unfurl and you'll be able to think back on what a Harris reign would have achieved - more of the same old ideological nonsense, ridiculous bureaucracy, weak leadership.

Reversing trans competing with females is mad? Tightening borders is mad? Reducing government waste is mad? Pulling the rug from WHO and UNRWA is mad? Suggest we look at these initiatives in the context of years drifting too far along woke/left ideology. As far as Gaza in concerned, brilliant concept and let's see how it unfolds. Pumping $billions of western aid to extremist based societies to rebuild, only to allow them to continue their destructive agenda for both their own citizens and Israelis alike, will just lead to more conflict and further damage to Gaza. This could be the circuit breaker than ends up sorting the whole mess. Certainly giving everyone something to ponder, some shriek. Above all is Trump is a negotiator, so we shouldn't take his opening gambit as a final position. He is pointing out the silliness of so many situation and disrupting them. I don't like what he says but like what he does.

Frightening really that it has come to this. Brainwashing on a major scale and constantly amazed how my Left wing mates refer to the ABC in Australia as the purveyors of truth on many contentious issues, where the Left/Green have built incredible dangerous power.

Frightening really that it has come to this. Brainwashing on a major scale and constantly amazed how my Left wing mates refer to the ABC in Australia as the purveyors of truth on many contentious issues, where the Left/Green have built incredible dangerous power.

And Keir Starmer would be like, "Oh that's shocking. You poor dear. Now who are UNRWA?" Are they being persecuted by the Zionists as well?"

Yeah, same here, which is counter intuitive. I expect the Thais get better paid in Hua Hin than the Burmese. As for Thais won't work from hotchilli - not my experience, living in Hua Hin and wide family clan in Ubon. Migrants generally work harder in new countries, unless they're pandered with handouts and can't speak the language. In London 45 years ago, they'd employ Aussies cause they would "work harder", at the same time Brits could easily get jobs in Australia 😅

The Kool Aid overflowing in this analysis. Not a hint of why the Dems lost comprehensively and the internal soul searching underway No mention of post election Trump increase in surveys, campaign pledges into action - now there's a novel concept Lastly how Trump's disruption, all going reasonably well, could change the landscape for many years, just like Reagan did.

And the alternative amongst Jihadist goons would be?