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Ned Kelly, the Man from Snowy River, Banjo Paterson’s Ballads and now Dezi Freeman: Victoria’s High Country Never Stops Stirring Australia

Ned Kelly Dezi Freeman

Dezi Freeman outta Porepunkah 🚌 and old Ned Kelly 🤠 are a good 150 years apart, but bugger me if they don’t look like long-lost bush cousins. Pair of bloody larrikins, both told the law 🚔 to shove it, both reckon uniforms are for mugs, and both have scarpered into the same scrub 🌲 that’s been hiding bushrangers since the gold rush days ⛏️.

1. Outlaws with a beef 🔫

Ned kicked off floggin’ stock, then went full tilt as the most infamous bushranger we’ve ever had. Shot three coppers at Stringybark Creek 💥 and got slapped with the “outlaw” tag quicker than you can sink a middy 🍺.

Dezi? Calls himself a “sovereign citizen”, tried to “arrest” a judge⚖️, can’t say I’m sorry, them judges make their own laws called the “common law.” Desi calls the cops “terrorist mongrels” and now the yarn is he ambushed a couple before legging it bushwards.

2. Same old bush, same old hidey-holes

Kelly country – the Vic Alps 🏔️ and up the Murray – is where Dezi’s playing peek-a-boo with the boys in blue.

Coppers reckon he’s bush-smart; they’re pokin’ round caves, old mine shafts and cold-as-charity gullies. That country’ll swallow a bloke quicker than you can say “she’ll be right.”

3. The Hume’s still a mug’s magnet

Back in Kelly’s day, it was coaches and gold-rush punters 💰 that copped it along the Melbourne–Sydney track. Kelly, Power, Mad Dan Morgan all had a crack.

Now it’s the Hume Freeway, same guts, different toys. Horses swapped for Hiluxes, bush camps ⛺ and fire trails still making perfect bolt-holes for any stickybeak with a grudge.

4. Bush spirit, 21st-century style

Dezi’s bus yard outside Porepunkah is basically a Kelly hut with a solar panel ⚡ slapped on top.

And like Ned, he’s got a peanut gallery 🥜 who reckon he’s some kinda bush hero. Different blokes, different toys, same rough-as-guts country. Same bloody chip on the shoulder, same cat-and-mouse caper with the coppers. The names change, but the bush and the bull-dust legends never do.

Realpolitik Wins, Half-a-Trillion Dollars Lost: Washington Pulls the Plug on Eastern Europe after realizing Germans Refuse to Bleed for Poles

FT Washington Pulls the Plug on Eastern Europe

src: https://www.ft.com/content/0157d5f9-1b27-4d6c-b44e-f0a77da59b5d

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s grand design was to wed US power to Eastern Europe’s rim, betting that a militarily wired Poland would keep Russia permanently off balance. Brzezinski bluntly wrote that “with Russian cooperation or without it” NATO must move east while Russia was still prostrate.
The flaw: no German parliament will ever vote to send its sons to die for Warsaw.
The historical refrain is not “Ja, ich sterbe für Polen,” no German will ever utter “Ja, I will die for Poland” but “Ja, Polen ist Lebensraum” “Ja, Poland is German Living Space” fewer Poles = the Better.
If Berlin won’t bleed, why should an Iowa farm kid bleed for NATO?
Washington has finally done the math: the Eastern trip-wire is unpaid and unloved.

So the money stops, the brigades pack, and the “disunity” finger is pointed at Orban in Budapest and Fico in Bratislava useful scapegoats.

And the sunk cost is already on the table:

  • Half-a-trillion dollars since 1991 poured in from EU coffers, diaspora remittances and NATO kits.
  • 236 bn of it came from Polish emigres like Brzezinski himself.
  • 221 bn of EU structural money asphalted the A2, modernised the sewers of Gdańsk, yet none of it bought a single German battalion willing to defend those same roads once they run eastward.

USD 3 billion a year goes to the Top 50 Western Foreign Policy Think Tanks, Institutions which have failed to win either wars or change minds

Rank by Influence UPenn Index Think tank City / Country Latest total funding (USD) Sources of funding
1 Brookings Institution Washington DC, USA $130 m Funding page
2 Carnegie Endowment for Int’l Peace Washington DC, USA $46 m Funding page
3 Center for Strategic & Int’l Studies (CSIS) Washington DC, USA $45 m Funding page
4 Chatham House – RIIA London, United Kingdom $26 m Funding page
5 French Institute of Int’l Relations (IFRI) Paris, France $10 m Funding page
6 Woodrow Wilson Int’l Center for Scholars Washington DC, USA $52 m Funding page
7 German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) Berlin, Germany $8 m Funding page
8 Atlantic Council Washington DC, USA $70 m Funding page
9 Elcano Royal Institute Madrid, Spain $4.5 m Funding page
10 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) New York, USA $95 m Funding page
11 Peterson Institute for Int’l Economics (PIIE) Washington DC, USA $28 m Funding page
12 Institute for Int’l Political Studies (ISPI) Milan, Italy $7.5 m Funding page
13 Stiftung Wissenschaft & Politik (SWP) Berlin, Germany $22 m Funding page
14 RAND Corporation* outlier because most of its $1.4 bn are reimbursable U.S. federal contracts Santa Monica CA, USA $1,400 m Funding page
15 Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) Brussels, Belgium $10 m Funding page
16 Stockholm Int’l Peace Research Inst. (SIPRI) Stockholm, Sweden $11 m Funding page
17 Fraser Institute Vancouver, Canada $11 m Funding page
18 Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) London, United Kingdom $12 m Funding page
19 International Crisis Group (ICG) Brussels, Belgium $34 m Funding page
20 Clingendael – Netherlands Inst. of Int’l Relations The Hague, Netherlands $7.5 m Funding page
21 Bruegel Brussels, Belgium $6 m Funding page
22 Centre for Int’l Governance Innovation (CIGI) Waterloo, Canada $13 m Funding page
23 Australian Strategic Policy Inst. (ASPI) Canberra, Australia $21 m Funding page
24 Centre for European Reform (CER) London, United Kingdom $2.6 m Funding page
25 French Institute for Int’l & Strategic Affairs (IRIS) Paris, France $4 m Funding page
26 European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) Berlin, Germany $8.5 m Funding page
27 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP) Stockholm, Sweden $3.2 m Funding page
28 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) London, United Kingdom $27 m Funding page
29 Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Berlin, Germany $180 m Funding page
30 Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Berlin, Germany $168 m Funding page
31 Heritage Foundation Washington DC, USA $95 m Funding page
32 Hudson Institute Washington DC, USA $47 m Funding page
33 Institute of Int’l & European Affairs (IIEA) Dublin, Ireland $1.9 m Funding page
34 Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) Oslo, Norway $8 m Funding page
35 ISIS Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia $2.6 m Funding page
36 Singapore Institute of Int’l Affairs (SIIA) Singapore, Singapore $3.3 m Funding page
37 Prague Security Studies Inst. (PSSI) Prague, Czech Rep. $2.4 m Funding page
38 Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) Warsaw, Poland $5 m Funding page
39 Finnish Institute of Int’l Affairs (FIIA) Helsinki, Finland $3.3 m Funding page
40 Danish Institute for Int’l Studies (DIIS) Copenhagen, Denmark $12 m Funding page
41 Norwegian Institute of Int’l Affairs (NUPI) Oslo, Norway $8 m Funding page
42 Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) Geneva, Switzerland $19 m Funding page
43 Barcelona Centre for Int’l Affairs (CIDOB) Barcelona, Spain $3.8 m Funding page
44 Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) Athens, Greece $3.4 m Funding page
45 German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) Washington DC, USA $47 m Funding page
46 Chicago Council on Global Affairs Chicago, USA $18 m Funding page
47 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) London, United Kingdom $12 m Funding page
48 New America Washington DC, USA $42 m Funding page
49 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft Washington DC, USA $12 m Funding page
50 Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) Tokyo, Japan $9 m Funding page
Line total (50 rows) $ 2 994 000 000

🔄 From Change Management to 🌀 Spin Management: America’s Lost Response to Rival Powers

In the past, the United States confronted rival advances with urgency, discipline, and innovation. When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957 🚀, Washington did not dismiss it as a stunt. Instead, it became the catalyst for sweeping change: NASA, DARPA, and unprecedented investment in science and education. This was change management at the national level ✅ an honest recognition of a gap, followed by decisive action to close it.

Today, that ethos has withered. Faced with China’s rapid progress in technology and military capability 🇨🇳, many in the U.S. retreat into denial. Chinese achievements are dismissed as propaganda, CGI, or “fake.” At home, energy is consumed by partisan infighting ⚔️. The reflex is no longer to adapt but to spin 🔄 .

This evolution from change management to spin management reveals a deeper crisis of confidence. America once embodied the Protestant work ethic ✝️ resilience, sacrifice, and renewal. Until that mindset shifts back, the nation’s capacity to lead will continue to erode ❌ not because rivals are inherently stronger, but because America has abandoned the very tools of renewal that once made it formidable.

💡 Why do we have so many Sudanese Skilled Migrants in Australia? ❌ The question no journalist wants to answer.

Dau Akueng, 15, was walking home with friends after refereeing a basketball match. His life was one of two cut short in a suspected youth gang attack in the city’s west.

Sudan holds a strategic position in the Nile Basin. By controlling water that flows into the Nile, Sudan can exert leverage over Egypt, whose 115 million people are almost entirely dependent on the river for food and water security. A dependent, leashed Egypt allows Israel to do whatever they want in Gaza.

Sudan is also in the midst of its own Civil War which has been going on basically since their independence. Sudanese come to work in Australia and send money back home to help with the victims of the Civil War.

These remittances play a significant role in Sudan’s economy: in 2021, funds sent to Sudan totaled about US $12 billion equivalent to 23.9% of the country’s GDP.

The ideal “blonde hair, blue eyes” combination that many consider a hallmark of Western beauty is actually a story of ancient European & Asian genetic admixing.

blonde hair, blue eyes

Blonde hair is traced to a specific genetic mutation on the KITLG gene, which first emerged in the ancient peoples of Siberia and Central Asia roughly 17,000–20,000 years ago. Meanwhile, the gene for blue eyes (OCA2–HERC2 region) appeared much earlier, around 40,000 years ago, likely in a few individuals near the Black Sea region before spreading through Europe.

When these ancient Siberian populations with the blonde hair mutation migrated westward into Europe, they encountered populations already carrying the blue-eye mutation. The combination of these two distinct genetic traits created the phenotype we now associate with Northern Europeans, the “ideal” look that adorns glossy magazines & Hollywood billboards the world over.

The process that created the Sydney Sweeney/Chris Hemsworth phenotype is genetic admixture. Two distinct populations one carrying the Siberian-derived allele for blonde hair and another carrying the West Eurasian-derived allele for blue eyes came into contact, interbred, and created a new admixed population where these previously separate traits could combine in a single individual.

Banks & Global Bankers be Warned we will engrave on your epitaphs: Western civilization was just like the Mongols, using FIRE🔥: Force, Intimidation & Resource Extraction to strip natives of their lands, leaving little to indigenous hands or knowledge.

A Lowly Chinese Canal Engineer writes:
“Here lie the last Mongols in suits,
they too rode under a banner of FIRE🔥:
Force, Intimidation, Resource Extraction.
They too burned the libraries of the living,
seized the earth with spreadsheets and cannon,
left the original keepers of the land
only ash and a rent receipt. Indigenous peoples were stripped of their lands, displaced, and denied access to the knowledge embedded in their own cultures

They locked what little truth they tolerated
behind gilded gates called universities,
let knowledge ossify in ivory
while the roots of indigenous science
were salted under concrete.

When the epitaph is done,
the engineers will plant gingko saplings
whose leaves will out-read your balance sheets,
whose roots will crack the vaults you thought were eternal.

🇮🇳 80% of Indian-Australians now Vote Labor; 🇨🇳 Chinese-Australians Remain at 50-50 the True Swing Diaspora in Modern Australia

📊 1. The Headline numbers

  • Indian-Australians: ≈ 80% two-party preference for Labor (RedBridge 2022; Indian Link 2025).
  • Chinese-Australians: no bloc effect, Labor–Coalition split sits within the margin of error.

🇮🇳 2. Why Indians are locked into Labor

Demographics

  • 72% arrived 2010–20 as skilled migrants; most now citizens.
  • Median age 34, inner-city, classic Labor/Greens profile.

Issue salience

  • Climate and multicultural inclusion dominate; only 14% rank tax cuts first.
  • Perception test: 27% say Labor “understands Indians”; 25% say the Coalition; 35% say “no difference” but ironically qualitative answers keep returning to “they don’t like us” whenever the Coalition or affiliates like Advance Australia run a “African gangs” or “Chinese foreign interference” ad cycle.

True Foreign-interference from the BJP

  • Modi’s 2023 Sydney rally with Albanese was carried live on Hindi/Tamil Facebook pages with 1.2 m Australian reach = free community-legitimacy advertising for Labor.

Outcome: once naturalised, enrolment is near-universal and preferences split 4:1 to Labor.

🇨🇳 3. Why Chinese-Australians swing

Size & footprint

  • 1.4m identify as Chinese-Australian. Concentrated in ~10 marginal seats (Chisholm, Reid, Banks, Bennelong, etc.).

Issue-driven movement

  • 2022: childcare + toned-down China rhetoric → Labor +3%.
  • 2025 Lowy test: AUKUS framed as jobs → Coalition +4; framed as $368bn trade-off → Labor +6.
  1. 🏠 Negative gearing (62% property ownership)
  2. 🎓 Uni fee reform (international students as family business)
  3. 💰 Foreign-investment screening (racialised perception risk)
  4. 🛡️ Security rhetoric (“loyalty tests”)

🔀 4. The structural divergence

  • Indian-Australian politics: one media ecosystem, Modi imagery, centralised cues.
  • Chinese-Australian politics: fragmented media (WeChat, Xiaohongshu, local radio)

🎯 5. Strategic take-outs

  • Indians: Now safe Labor base
  • Chinese: the true swing diaspora that can swing 5% in marginals, enough to decide 3–6 House seats. Coalition may need to over compensate for Chinese vote in next few election cycles or die a slow death. Either is fine.

👑 A Queen, a “Sovereign Fund” and the Fine Print: Why Māori Capital Still Pays the Crown

🌫️ At Tūrangawaewae, Queen Ngā wai hono i te pō announced something historic.
💰 A Māori-owned, Māori-controlled investment fund, built from iwi capital alone.

The promise was bold: “Economic independence in our lifetime.”
The crowd cheered, the haka shook, accountants reached for calculators.

But beneath the ceremony lurks a stubborn fact:
⚖️ If this fund is sovereign in spirit, why does it still pay tax to the Crown?

🌍 Whilst foreign sovereign wealth funds who invest in New Zealand get the red carpet tax free treatment.

1️⃣ No sovereign discount

  • 🇸🇬 GIC, 🇳🇴 NBIM, 🇦🇺 Future Fund All are exempt under NZ’s double-tax treaties with 0 % withholding on dividends and interest..


💡 The reason is that under international law, state entities are immune from tax.

👉 Māori funds, however ancient the whakapapa or collective the asset, are not the Crown.

  • NZ companies pay them dividends and 15–30 % is withheld.
  • The same dollar that leaves Wellington untouched for the Norwegians is clipped for Waikato.

2️⃣ The Māori Authority rate: misunderstood

📰 Headlines often highlight the “special 17.5 % rate.”
But here’s the catch:

  • It applies only when the fund distributes cash to iwi shareholders.
  • It is a rebate mechanism to align investor tax with household rates.

Inside the fund, nothing changes:

  • 28 % on rental income, bank interest, or offshore dividends
  • 5 % Fair Dividend Rate (FDR) on global equities, even if those shares lose value

📌 The 17.5 % is not a holiday. It is just an adjustment at the very end of the chain.

3️⃣ The bigger picture: Sovereign in name, taxed as local.

🌱 This fund is not just a balance-sheet project. It is a Treaty claim in financial form.

It says: “We will build our own kāinga of capital. But we should not be penalised for not being the Crown.”

Every 28 % cheque to IRD reminds Māori investors that rangatiratanga and kāwanatanga still diverge.
Even when both sides want Māori wealth to grow, the tax code whispers otherwise.

📜 The Queen has spoken; the Crown still invoices.

🏛️ United States shows a true Indigenous sovereign tax regime is possible for New Zealand

  • Tribal governments = sovereign equals of states; Revenue Ruling 67-284 exempts tribe’s own income from federal tax.
  • Trust lands immune from state/local property tax; casino profits federally tax-free.
  • Tribes can impose their own sales/income taxes on-reservation; federal & state levies abated under Inter-governmental Tax Immunity. (Exemption stops at tribal borders; individual members still pay normal tax off-reserve.)

Are 💉Vaccines Rewiring Our Immune Systems?

🧬 Modern vaccines introduce multiple antigens at once, often combined with adjuvants (AS03, MF59 used to boost the immune response to the antigen) and preservatives that prevent contamination (bacterial or fungal growth), both of which are not present in the natural course of traditional infectious diseases.

This kind of artificial stimulation may alter the normal trajectory of immune development, especially when given to very young children whose immune systems are still maturing. The sharp rise in autoimmune disorders and allergies within highly vaccinated populations suggests that we may have disrupted the body’s natural immunological balance.

📜 History shows the consequences of immune systems encountering unfamiliar challenges. When Europeans arrived in the Americas, diseases such as smallpox, measles, and influenza devastated Native populations precisely because they had never been exposed to those pathogens and thus lacked any natural immunity. This catastrophe was akin to biological warfare with two populations coming into contact with each other, with one been completely immunologically unprepared for what the other carried.

🏝️🐟💎 Independence Awakening: How a De-Colonized New Caledonia & Bougainville Could Reshape Sino–Australia Pacific Priorities

China’s Pacific priority ladder

# State Why it matters to Beijing
1 Solomon Islands Security pact since 2022; ports and airports viable for PLAN logistics; nickel and bauxite; Coral Sea choke-point.
2 Papua New Guinea Largest population and EEZ; LNG, gold, cobalt; government still open to BRI port financing.
3 Independent New Caledonia 1.7m km² EEZ, 25% of world nickel, deep-water port at Nouméa; symbolically pushes France out.
4 Fiji Suva = PIF HQ; Chinese-built wharf; influential in regional diplomacy.
5 Vanuatu Luganville wharf and runway upgrades; controls lanes between Australia and Solomons.
6 Samoa Debt to EXIM-Bank; fibre-optic hub; Polynesian swing vote.
7 Tonga Refuelling stop; US$110m Chinese debt; royal court cultivation.
8 Kiribati 3.5m km² EEZ; flipped from Taiwan in 2019; vast fisheries.
9 Independent Bougainville Panguna copper-gold restart under BRI = China’s biggest Pacific resource play.
10 Micronesia Compact state but Chinese fishing fleets entrenched; votes with Beijing at IMO & UN.

Australia’s Pacific priority ladder

# State Why it matters to Canberra
1 Papua New Guinea Security treaty (2023); Manus base; Torres Strait approaches; 9m people on doorstep.
2 Solomon Islands RAMSI legacy; AUKUS maritime corridor; major ADF exercise partner.
3 Independent New Caledonia France’s FANC forces + Quad surveillance node; secures Australia’s NE approaches.
4 Fiji PIF HQ; Blackrock camp; key peacekeeping partner.
5 Independent Bougainville Panguna mine crucial for copper; stability still under ADF monitoring.
6 Vanuatu Closest capital to Australia; Aus-built wharf & cyber centre.
7 Samoa Hosts PIF finance process 2025–27; AusAid > A$45m/yr.
8 Tonga Only has Aus patrol boats; royal stability matters.
9 Kiribati Aus-funded runway enables RAAF/US staging; surveillance node.
10 Nauru PIF secretariat rotation; detention-centre diplomacy; reliable UN vote.

Ranked using five criteria:

EEZ size & sea-lane location, Critical minerals & fisheries, Security agreements & basing potential, Political leverage in the PIF / UN bloc, Aid dependency & debt leverage

🇨🇳 China’s Military Leap: From 2019 to 2025 Defense Parades

🇨🇳 2019 China National Day Parade

🚀 Missiles (DF & JL family)

  • ⚡ DF-17 – debut of a hypersonic glide vehicle
  • 🌍 DF-41 – ICBM with MIRV capability, global reach
  • 🚛 DF-31AG – road-mobile ICBM
  • 🛰️ DF-26 – dual-capable intermediate-range missile (land/ship targets)
  • 🌊 JL-2 – SLBM on Type 094 submarines
  • ✈️ CJ-100 – long-range supersonic cruise missile

🚀 Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles (YJ family)

  • 🛡️ YJ-12B – ground-launched supersonic anti-ship missile
  • 🔥 YJ-18/18A – subsonic-to-supersonic anti-ship missile

🛩️ Unmanned Systems

  • 🕶️ GJ-11 “Sharp Sword” – stealth UCAV
  • 🚀 WZ-8 – high-altitude supersonic recon drone
  • 🎯 JWP-02 – target drones & loitering munitions

📡 Radar & Air Defense

  • 🌀 Type 305A – phased-array radar
  • 🛡️ HQ-17A – short-range air defense (Tor derivative)
  • 🔫 LD-2000 – counter-rocket/artillery/mortar system

🎖️ 2025 China Victory Day Parade

🚀 Missiles (DF & JL family)

  • 🌍 DF-41 – enhanced ICBM with MIRVs & decoys
  • 🚛 DF-31AG – improved road-mobile ICBM
  • 🌊 JL-3 – next-gen SLBM on Type 096 subs

🚀 Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles (YJ family)

  • ✈️ YJ-21 – air-launched hypersonic anti-ship missile
  • 🕶️ YJ-18C – stealth anti-ship cruise missile
  • ⚡ YJ-15 – ramjet supersonic anti-ship missile
  • 🔥 YJ-19 – scramjet hypersonic anti-ship missile

🛩️ Unmanned Systems

  • 🤖 FH-97 “Loyal Wingman” – AI-enabled stealth UCAV
  • 🕶️ GJ-11 (upgraded) – swarm-capable stealth UCAV
  • 🚀 WZ-8 (hypersonic recon) – supersonic drone
  • 🌊 Large UUVs/USVs – uncrewed undersea & surface vessels
  • 🚜 UGVs – robotic ground vehicles for combat/logistics

🔬 Directed Energy & Defense

  • 🔫 Laser weapons – vehicle-mounted, C-RAM role
  • 📡 Counter-drone – RF jammers & DEW systems
  • 🖥️ Cyber/EW – integrated jamming & cyber platforms

🔑 Key Shifts from 2019 → 2025

  • 🤖 AI & Autonomy – FH-97 loyal wingman & GJ-11 swarms highlight AI-driven combat
  • ⚡ Hypersonic Supremacy – expansion from ground-based DF-17 to air- & sea-launched YJ-21 and YJ-19
  • 🌊 Multi-Domain Integration – UAVs, UUVs, USVs, and UGVs showcased in joint ops
  • 🔬 Directed Energy – shift from experiments to combat-ready vehicle lasers
  • 🖥️ Cyber/EW – from basic jamming to multi-domain electronic dominance
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