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Read more about the article The word from Australia’s masters

The word from Australia’s masters

Opinion by Greg Ray The floggings will continue until morale improves. That’s the word from Australia’s real government – the energy and mining industry. According to the head of the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association, Ian Davies, “political attacks” on the energy industry could kill investment and make consumer prices go even higher than they are now. In other words, shut up and take your lumps, otherwise we will belt you harder. Naturally, in the lala-land of the Murdoch press this warning is reported with solemn gravity. Don’t be nasty to the big bosses or…

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Lost pipeline, lost lifeline

So the Nordstream pipelines were sabotaged. One of them, Nordstream 2, was pretty much brand-new, and was built with Russian and European money to take gas from Russia to Germany via the bed of the Baltic Sea, without having to pay transit fees to Ukraine. Nordstream 2 followed Nordstream 1, which was already providing Europe – especially Germany – with immense volumes of cheap gas and thereby underwriting European industrial production, energy security and prosperity. America hated Nordstream 2 from the start and tried hard to stop it happening. It argued that Europe was making itself…

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Read more about the article Why I’m a nuclear skeptic

Why I’m a nuclear skeptic

You can feel the pressure building, from a number of directions. For a start, the mad Murdoch media empire getting oddly on board with the rhetoric of climate change action - something it has frantically opposed for years. Then there's AUKUS, the Australian Government's new plan to stick Aussie flags on nuclear submarines as part of the US plan to suppress China in the Indo-Pacific region. As soon as that announcement was made people started talking, right on cue, about Australia's lamentable lack of a domestic nuclear industry, and how the subs would be a better…

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