Looks like a contract was signed with Australia for rare earth metals so looks like another source is coming on line!that’s good news!

Just now, Tug said:

Looks like a contract was signed with Australia for rare earth metals so looks like another source is coming on line! that’s good news!

More fabrications.

4 minutes ago, Tug said:

Looks like a contract was signed with Australia for rare earth metals so looks like another source is coming on line!that’s good news!

Yes and Trump caught out Rudd for the fool he is 👍

 

Rudd, what a dope 

4 minutes ago, cjinchiangrai said:

More fabrications.

Hope you are mistaken but we shall see anyway it’s an important resource and China seems to be holding the cards.

11 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Yes and Trump caught out Rudd for the fool he is 👍

 

Rudd, what a dope 

 

So people are constantly trying to screw each other over all the time? Like 24/7? 

Wow, that's cynicism.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly9kvrdk2xo

18 minutes ago, Tug said:

Hope you are mistaken but we shall see anyway it’s an important resource and China seems to be holding the cards.

China holds the cards because they refine the rare earths without any regard as to the environmental consequences. Rare Earths arent rare, just filthy

21 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

33 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Yes and Trump caught out Rudd for the fool he is 👍

Rudd, what a dope 

So people are constantly trying to screw each other over all the time? Like 24/7? 

Wow, that's cynicism.

 

 

1 hour ago, cjinchiangrai said:

More fabrications.

How so?

- Australia and the USA will each invest $1 billion over the next six months into mining and processing projects as well as set a minimum price floor for critical minerals, a move that Australian miners have been asking for.

- The  investments  target deposits of critical minerals worth $53 billion,

The U.S. Export-Import Bank, which acts as the U.S. government's export credit agency  announced seven letters of interest totaling more than $2.2 billion to advance critical minerals projects in Australia.

- The US War Department plans to build a gallium refinery in Western Australia.

Is this all a lie? 

 

Something I was really ‘happy about’ at the WH meeting
was the Aussie reporter saying the quiet part aloud.
 

‘You have within your power, the most powerful man on Earth —
why don’t you just enable Ukraine to finish this war tomorrow?’
 

The most salient question — and the elephant in the room.
You could hear a pin drop.
 

Hitting back, Trump said:
‘Well, if you knew anything about what you were talking about, you’d be able…’
 

She cut in: ‘I do.’
 

At last — real reporter pushback.
Trust an Aussie who doesn’t take the raw prawn.
 

Donald Trump savages Aussie reporter after blunt question triggers tense exchange

6 minutes ago, LosLobo said:

Something I was really ‘happy about’ at the WH meeting
was the Aussie reporter saying the quiet part aloud.
 

‘You have within your power, the most powerful man on Earth —
why don’t you just enable Ukraine to finish this war tomorrow?’
 

The most salient question — and the elephant in the room.
You could hear a pin drop.
 

Hitting back, Trump said:
‘Well, if you knew anything about what you were talking about, you’d be able…’
 

She cut in: ‘I do.’
 

At last — real reporter pushback.
Trust an Aussie who doesn’t take the raw prawn.
 

Donald Trump savages Aussie reporter after blunt question triggers tense exchange

Yeah lets risk nuclear war. Another example of the boganistic nature of the Socialist Australians.

3 hours ago, Tug said:

Looks like a contract was signed with Australia for rare earth metals so looks like another source is coming on line!that’s good news!

Heres more great news for everyone.jobs and manufacturing are coming back due to big beautiful tariffs. You point blank stated this would be impossible, so well worth an acknowlegement🤣

 

"The move "bolsters the U.S. supply chain and onshores the AI technology stack that will turn data into intelligence and secure America's leadership for the AI era," Nvidia says. It also aligns with President Donald Trump's efforts to strengthen U.S. technology and manufacturing leadership."

 

https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-tsmc-unveil-first-blackwell-chip-wafer-made-us-axios-reports-2025-10-17/

1 hour ago, Yagoda said:

Yeah lets risk nuclear war. Another example of the boganistic nature of the Socialist Australians.

 

"Socialist". Yagoda's favourite word. It's the Swiss Army knife of his vocabulary and a clear example of the limitations of his intellect.

Where did you first discover it, buddy? Was it in one of the libraries in Cambodia?😆

3 hours ago, Yagoda said:

China holds the cards because they refine the rare earths without any regard as to the environmental consequences. Rare Earths arent rare, just filthy

Yep last I heard Australia exports iron ore to China, then imports steel from them.

13 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

Was it in one of the libraries in Cambodia?

The country that banned you too?

3 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

The country that banned you too?

Are you banned from Cambodia? In one of the most corrupt nations on the planet there are very few things that can get you banned.....

1 hour ago, Yagoda said:

Yeah lets risk nuclear war. Another example of the boganistic nature of the Socialist Australians.

 

A question about accountability now 'risks nuclear war'?

That leap of logic — between a textbook Straw Man, a classic False Dilemma, and a Bogan Ad Hominem — deserves its own study in recreational contraindication.
 

Through the haze, you somehow inhaled Armageddon from the question the world’s been asking all year — why the TACO in Trump?

4 hours ago, Tug said:

Looks like a contract was signed with Australia for rare earth metals so looks like another source is coming on line!that’s good news!

No contract signed.  Memorandum of understanding I think they call it.

Showing an intention to discuss and possibly proceed, but not a contract in the traditional sense.

Either way it is a good result.

18 minutes ago, brian69 said:

Yep last I heard Australia exports iron ore to China, then imports steel from them.

Exports coal to China too, which is used in the steel making process.

4 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

 

 

Apparently they kissed and made up after the press conference.

21 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

Are you banned from Cambodia? In one of the most corrupt nations on the planet there are very few things that can get you banned.....

And they banned you, huh

29 minutes ago, brian69 said:

Yep last I heard Australia exports iron ore to China, then imports steel from them.

The US ships rare-earth ore to China — then buys the finished magnets back.

America lacks large-scale refining and separation facilities, which keeps it dependent on China — and makes the Aussie deal all the more important.

Turned of the 6pm news before - first 10 minutes were dedicated to this so big deal here. 

4 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

 

 

Kevin Rudd’s got an interesting back story.
He lived and worked in China for several years — studying Mandarin before serving as a diplomat in Beijing.
A brilliant China specialist, Rudd once delivered a full speech in fluent Mandarin to students and officials at Peking University — and left them stunned.
Later, as Australian PM, he lost a second term to Murdoch’s media machine of lies and spin.
In March 2023, he was appointed Australia’s Ambassador to the United States.

9 minutes ago, LosLobo said:

Kevin Rudd’s got an interesting back story.
He lived and worked in China for several years — studying Mandarin before serving as a diplomat in Beijing.
A brilliant China specialist, Rudd once delivered a full speech in fluent Mandarin to students and officials at Peking University — and left them stunned.
Later, as Australian PM, he lost a second term to Murdoch’s media machine of lies and spin.
In March 2023, he was appointed Australia’s Ambassador to the United States.

Yep, he's gone putrid, like the REST of them. 

Wish we still had Hawkee. 🙏

 

Bring on PAULINE 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

54 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

Apparently they kissed and made up after the press conference.

Albo thought it was good for a laugh. 

 

11 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Albo thought it was good for a laugh. 

 

How embarrassing for Kevin 07!

29 minutes ago, LosLobo said:

Kevin Rudd’s got an interesting back story.
He lived and worked in China for several years — studying Mandarin before serving as a diplomat in Beijing.
A brilliant China specialist, Rudd once delivered a full speech in fluent Mandarin to students and officials at Peking University — and left them stunned.
Later, as Australian PM, he lost a second term to Murdoch’s media machine of lies and spin.
In March 2023, he was appointed Australia’s Ambassador to the United States.

That's only part of the story. He was arguably the second worst Prime Minister in Australia's history. He got deposed by Julia Gillard part way through his tenure and then subsequently rolled her and then lost the election. Typical of the Labor party, they tend to self destruct.

Murdoch media didn't need to do anything, he did it all himself.

42 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

That's only part of the story. He was arguably the second worst Prime Minister in Australia's history. He got deposed by Julia Gillard part way through his tenure and then subsequently rolled her and then lost the election. Typical of the Labor party, they tend to self destruct.

Murdoch media didn't need to do anything, he did it all himself.

Brandolini tells me not to waste my time — and he’s rarely wrong.
Known as the Bull💩 Asymmetry Principle — the energy to refute nonsense is an order of magnitude greater than to produce it.

You have nothing — only empty pockets

4 minutes ago, LosLobo said:

Brandolini tells me not to waste my time — and he’s rarely wrong.
Known as the Bull💩 Asymmetry Principle — the energy to refute nonsense is an order of magnitude greater than to produce it.

You have nothing — only empty pockets

What on earth are you going on about?

Is Brandolini the local delicatessen owner?

Or a cheap drink that underage kids buy?