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Volewica @nigel-purchase.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

As if rising oil prices weren't already driving the world economy into recession, credit is tightening too. Dear Goddess, the Trump government is so inept and incompetent!

Chart showing how US bond yields have risen since Trump started the Iran war. Chart shows data from 1st March 2026 to 16/9/2026 of the 10-year and 30 -year bond yields. 10-year yields have risen from 4 to 6.3%, 30-year from 4.65 to 5.36%.

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Volewica @nigel-purchase.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

It's almost impossible for this man to be any more childish and vile.

Trump claims US could rename Lake Ontario as Lake America
amid Canada trade war

Donald Trump has claimed he is considering renaming Lake Ontario as
“Lake America” as the trade war with Canada escalates.

Lake Ontario lays on the border between the two countries, with New York
state on one side and Toronto, the capital of Canada’s Ontario province, on
the other.

“The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of
Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to doing much business
with Ontario any longer,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform.

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Volewica @nigel-purchase.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

From The Guardian Australia Isn't capitalism wonderful!

Today’s young people the first generation to earn less than their parents at
the same age, report reveals

Today’s young people are the first generation to earn less than the generation
before them at the same age, and they’re still behind at 30, a new report
reveals.

Young people are also being forced to cut spending on both essentials and
luxuries, while older people are increasing spending across the board

Home ownership for 25-34-year-olds is below 40%, back to 1940s levels, and
not one of 48,776 rental listings was affordable for someone on Youth
Allowance

Young people are more than twice as likely as over-65s to experience serious
psychological distress. This is borne out by data from Anglicare Australia
services.

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Volewica @nigel-purchase.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Meanwhile, they're ramping up emissions and using up all our water. That's how they are "protecting" endangered species. [From an ad in the Guardian. ]

Picture of a black cockatoo over an AI-generated landscape, with the caption "Google AI is helping to protect threatened species"

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Volewica @nigel-purchase.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

How? By accelerating climate change? By drying up rivers? We'll have AI pictures of cockatoos, because the real ones have gone? And yes, this picture was obviously created by AI. It's an abomination.

Picture of a black cockatoo, with the caption "Google AI is helping to protect threatened speacies"

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Volewica @nigel-purchase.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Hat tip to Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion bsky.app/profile/did:plc:k3zxrwznk6… So, oil prices are going to remain high, supply will go on being constrained, and the world will face a recession.

The Hormuz Report @ X.com

@HormuzReport
BREAKING: Iran has completely ruled out any
future negotiations with the Trump administration,
declaring it will wait out Donald Trump's term until
January 20, 2029, per Iranian outlets and Ghalibaf
advisor's post.
"Trump will not reach an agreement with us. We
will accompany him until his term ends," said Majid
Shakeri, advisor to Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf.
He posted: "The path to victory is neither fighting
nor a deal — it is managing the process of neither
war nor peace, up to the point of victory. Publicly
confirming negotiations with the U.S. is sheer folly.
The winning approach is denial, ambiguity, and
strategic patience."
Iran's conditions remain unchanged: $300 billion
in compensation, release of frozen assets, and
withdrawal of U.S. forces. Until then, the Strait
stays closed.

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Volewica @nigel-purchase.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

$Sunlit from Within (2026) by Kim Leutwyler Oil on canvas, 76 x 102 cm. Sydney-based painter and sculptor Kim Leutwyler grew up in Arizona, and the artist says ‘the desert has always felt like home’. This painting was made after a trip to Western Australia. ‘Time spent in the Australian outback has been integral to reconnecting with myself and recovering parts that felt fractured and silenced,’ says Leutwyler. ‘The desert is reimagined here as a site of personal exploration, not emptiness, but a place of transformation, resilience, and survival.’ The painting shows beautiful coloured rocks and some desert bushes.$

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Volewica @nigel-purchase.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

(a) Why is she so afraid of "socialism"? (b) It's perfectly obvious Republicans *do not* care about ordinary people. Surprise!

@MeghanMcCain

| am going to say something that is going to anger my fellow republicans about Mamdani: | listened to his interview with @LuluGNavarro - for a low information voter who has no time to pay attention to the substance of his message, what he is saying is absolutely brilliant in his attacks against the right. The tone of what he is saying is brilliant. It is part folksy everyman, republicans have abandoned the working class and are a bunch of elites without being harsh or conspiratorial. He has gotten very strong, very fast and is evolving in his national messaging to the rest of the country.

Despite my abject fear and repulsion of socialism, it is really impactful. If democrats are smart they will nominate someone with his tenor and tone on
economics and national policy (leaving out Israel and international politics which is a whole other ball of wax).

If democrats do this in '28, we have a huge fucking problem. A huge fucking problem we will not be able to podcast bro our way out of.

3:02 PM - Jul 20, 2026 - 536.4K Views

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Volewica @nigel-purchase.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

"Illegal"? Does he ever follow the law himself? Loathsome cretin.

Trump says Iran's call for people to form human shields around
power plants "totally illegal’

In a brief phone call with NBC News, Donald Trump declined to provide any
update on the status of any supposed negotiations with Iran, but he sharply
criticized Tehran’s call for young people to line up as human chains around
the power plants Trump has threatened to bomb.

"Totally illegal. They’re not allowed to do that."

Asked what motivated him to post this morning that “a whole civilisation
will die tonight”, which has genuinely stunned the world, Trump said:

"You'll have to figure that out."

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Volewica @nigel-purchase.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

Is he threatening a nuclear strike? Fuck me, is this the beginning of WWIII?

Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight’ if Iran does not
make a deal

US president Donald Trump once again warned Iran to make a deal on
Tuesday, saying a “whole civilization will die tonight” if an agreement is not
reached to end the conflict.

Writing on Truth Social, he said:

44 A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t
want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete
and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds
prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO
KNOWS?

We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and
complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will
finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

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Volewica @nigel-purchase.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

They're not going to make a deal, sweetie. They hold the joker: they're more willing to endure pain than you are. And they control the Straits and can push the world into deep recession. Congratulations! You're so genius.

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Volewica @nigel-purchase.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

Gazza from GrongGrong is one of my favourite commenters at the Guardian Australia. Here he channels Gilbert & Sullivan's "He is the very model of a modern major-general" in a comment about First Dog On The Moon's latest piece. Beaut!

GazzaFromGrongGrong

I haven't posted a poem for quite a while, but this magnificent achievement is just begging for
some G&S:

He is the very model of a Bradman at his very peak,
combined, perhaps, with Warne, as he gives that ball a vicious tweak,
in fact | have to say that he's a cricketer quite glorious,
displaying to the world at large achievements meritorious.

He bats and bowls so brilliantly | hear the talent scouts are there
to check on his credentials as the Aussie cupboards rather bare,
which means that pretty soon we're gonna have the chance to go and see
cartooning cricket expertise displayed upon the MCG.

So let's applaud our Doggie, who is clearly quite the flannelled fool,
the bowlingest, most battingest example of the willow school,
who keeps on turning up and getting clobbered in his goofy gob,
the scintillating hero of the Tassie Roadies Cricket Mob.

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Volewica @nigel-purchase.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026

Oil prices surge past $100 per barrel. Deep recession, here we come. Chart from Trading Economics

Chart of oil price over the last year, showing huge spike since the gulf war began.

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Volewica @nigel-purchase.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026

From The Guardian. Temperatures just go on rising. While the world phaffs and dithers. #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe

Temperatures hit 48.9C in Victoria's north-west

Victoria appears to have recorded its hottest day [ever] with preliminary weather
observations showing temperatures have hit 48.9C in Walpeup and
Hopetoun in the state’s north-west.

The temperature observations in the Mallee towns were recorded close to
4pm on Tuesday afternoon, exceeding the previous highest daily maximum
temperature for the state of 48.8C in Hopetoun on Black Saturday in 2009.
The temperature will need to be validated by the Bureau of Meteorology
overnight before it is confirmed as a state record. Other locations, including
Ouyen Post Office, rely on manual observations, which will not be available
until after 9am on Wednesday.

A Bureau of Meteorology spokesperson said:
" Records will be confirmed when official numbers are available from 9am
AEDT tomorrow."

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Volewica @nigel-purchase.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026

Who thinks America is a reliable and trustworthy ally? Who still thinks sucking up to Trump works? The only thing he understands is force. Kowtowing won't work.

Trump says eight European countries face 10% tariff for
opposing US control of Greenland

Donald Trump has said he will impose 10% tariffs on Nato countries -
including the UK, France, and Germany - who have deployed troops to
Greenland amid US threats to take over the Arctic island.

In a lengthy Truth Social post, he said “Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France,
Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Finland have
journeyed to Greenland, for purposes unknown”, adding: “This is a very
dangerous situation for the Safety, Security, and Survival of our Planet”
The US president said 10% tariffs will be imposed on all goods the countries
export to the United States from 1 February, followed by a 25% rate from 1
June.

“This Tariff will be due and payable until such time as a Deal is reached for
the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland,” he added.

Trump reiterated his warning that “China and Russia want Greenland”,
saying “there is not a thing that Denmark can do about it”.

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Volewica @nigel-purchase.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/12/2025

(from the Guardian) What a load of old cobblers. Trump's US is no longer a reliable ally. Their word cannot be trusted. It's useless to pretend. You're on your own.

EU foreign policy chief says US is 'still our biggest ally’ after
release of policy paper supporting Europe's far-right

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Europe and the war in Ukraine.
The Trump administration released a policy paper on Friday that made
explicit Washington’s support for Europe’s nationalist far-right parties.

The 33-page US National Security Strategy, which includes a signed
introduction from Donald Trump, appears to push the racist “great
replacement” conspiracy theory, saying several countries risk becoming
“majority non-European” and Europe faces “the real and stark prospect of
civilizational erasure”.

Speaking at the Doha Forum, an annual diplomatic conference in Qatar’s
capital on Saturday, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas addressed the policy
paper by reiterating that the “US is still our biggest ally,” AFP reports. “Of
course, there’s a lot of criticism, but I think some of it is also true,” Kallas
said.

Kallas continued: “I think we haven’t always seen eye to eye on different
topics, but I think the overall principle is still there. We are the biggest allies,
and we should stick together”

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Volewica @nigel-purchase.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/11/2025

From The Guardian. Dear Laura. So charming! Such a little scamp!

Trump signs executive order to designate Muslim Brotherhood
chapters ‘Foreign Terrorist Organizations’
The White House just posted the full text of a new executive order, Donald
Trump signed on Monday, “to begin the process of designating certain
chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as Foreign Terrorist Organizations”.
Laura Loomer, a pro-Israel, anti-Muslim extremist with unusual influence
over Trump, responded to the announcement by renewing her call for the
administration to designate as terrorists Muslim American elected officials
she claims, without evidence, are connected to the Muslim Brotherhood.
‘Writing on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, which
Loomer was barred from for anti-Muslim racism before it was purchased by
Elon Musk, the extremist podcaster called on Monday for the White House
to use the new designation to arrest and jail three prominent Muslim
Democrats: Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Zohran Mamdani.

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