| Will Australia Be a Nuclear Pariah State? |
Friday, 28 June 2024
 | | By Nick Hubble | | Editor, Strategic Intelligence Australia |
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[4 min read] Dear Reader, Nuclear power is becoming a rather popular pariah in Australia. But the fear mongers are out in force to try and shift public opinion back their way. So far, we’ve heard about three eyed fish, nuclear accidents and nuclear waste that’s impossible to deal with. Not to mention the funny cost projections from AEMO. It’s as if the world isn’t using nuclear power safely and cheaply already… But if you can’t beat them, join them. Today, it’s our turn to fearmonger. You shouldn’t fear nuclear power. You should fear the lack of it. At this rate, we may be the last developed country without it. Our mad hat energy policy is already hurting our economic growth and potential…and the stock market. ‘We are the only OECD country that doesn’t utilise this type of technology’, said Federal Liberal National Party MP Keith Pitt in 2019. Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce repeated it in 2022. The Australian Associated Press helpfully fact checked them. Of the OECD countries, ‘18 of the 38 do not produce nuclear power’. So Keith and Joyce were a little bit off. Then again, ‘produce’ and ‘utilise’ are two very different words… Powerful hypocrisy The 18 ‘holdouts’ are Australia, New Zealand, Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal and Turkey, plus Chile and Colombia in the Americas. But this list is just as misleading as the original quotes from our politicians… Continue Reading...
 | | By Bill Bonner | | Editor, Fat Tail Daily |
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[3 min read] ‘Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.’
Jack Paar
‘It’s the creolization of France’, whispered a neighbour.
“Creolization” was the type of word we used to admire. Or, at least we admired the French for using words like that. Big, Latinate words... the kind a professor of history might use... make people sound intelligent.
And so it was, that when we first came to France, we thought the French were smart. Now, we realise; they are just as dumb as Americans. Maybe dumber.
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