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Retired and sailing the oceans. Views are my own and not investment advice

Sydney, New South Wales
Joined June 2010
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For the first time in 40 years, deaths in America dropped across every age group. RFK Jr. says age-adjusted deaths fell 4.6% in 2025, the largest drop ever. “In 2025 the age adjusted deaths dropped for the first time in 40 years across every age group by 4.6%.” “That's the largest ever.” “The obesity rate has dropped this year for the first time in 40 years by 7%.” “The purchases of Real Food have gone up this year by 7%.”
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$VET - Vermilion Energy
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ALBANESE USING YOUR TAX DOLLARS TO BUY SILENCE & BLOCK REFORM Geoffrey Watson SC, anti corruption barrister and Centre for Public Integrity director, has torched the PM for treating independent MPs’ staff as personal political tools. Under the MOP(S) Act, Albanese alone decides who gets taxpayer funded advisers, and Watson says the power is “unaccountable, unreviewable” and being used for “party political manipulative purposes.” The trigger, a secret offer this week of an extra staffer to One Nation MP David Farley. Pauline Hanson called it an attempt to buy off MPs. One Nation has formally accused the government of “undue influence.” Watson’s examples are brutal: • Senator Payman denied staff because of a personal feud — “quite frankly is disgraceful.” • Greens given full allocation so they won’t back any move to change the law. “The whole exercise is entirely cynical.” Hanson’s August letter, now public, pointed out the double standard: Greens get 17 adviser positions for 11 MPs, One Nation, now past the same threshold, is stuck on 4 and simply asked for proportionate parity to 9. No cuts to anyone else. Just fair treatment. Denied. Albo’s office still hasn’t explained why one crossbencher gets the full works and another gets punished. This isn’t governance, it’s patronage with public money. The law is rotten. The PM is using it exactly as Watson described. The Albanese government campaigned on integrity and transparency, yet the management of parliamentary resources indicates an ongoing reliance on systemic political leverage.
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So now they've run out of our money & they can’t wait to get their hands on your superannuation .. until Australian citizens wake up to this corruption .. it will continue.. — #JimChalmers is accelerating government plans to unlock #billions of dollars from Australia's $4.3trillion #superannuation system to underwrite Labor's policy priorities through an overhaul of rules that will remove "unnecessary obstacles to investment". Addressing an Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry dinner on Wednesday after inflation rose above market expectations to an annual 3.2%, the Treasurer said new investment was needed to boost productivity and growth, amid - rising geopolitical tensions and "complex transitions" in energy and technology. As the government looks to limit record public spending and subsidies, Dr Chalmers confirmed he was pushing ahead with superannuation performance test changes to ensure the nation's retirement savings were available to invest in key areas including housing and clean energy. #Chalmers, who told business leaders "our future growth depends on your strength, resilience and ingenuity", said Treasury officials had been instructed to progress consultation with stakeholders on an overhaul of the superannuation performance test to remove unnecessary obstacles to investment.
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I still can’t decide whether Chalmers is a 1: a brilliant Machiavellian thinker who deliberately constructed the 2026 Budget to quickly finish off Albo as PM, 2: A complete moron, 3: Both 1 and 2. I lean towards 3, he’s both!
Chalmers economic bombs include the world’s highest investing tax at a 70% rate, making direct share investing untenable. He’s so stupid he doesn’t even realise what he’s done! He then implies its other Ministers’ fault Labor’s brand has been torched, and he should be PM!
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Rather than confront unpleasant realities, Twiggy Forrest has long sought to silence his critics. It makes sense that he’s now demanding government censorship. He’s going to need a lot of it to cover up the catastrophic impact of his delusions.
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For most of the 10+ years I spent at Sprott, we had a running inflation/deflation debate that often got rather heated. Each time the economy and the stock market collapsed, Eric grew very weary of a deflationary depression. I always argued (to the point of nearly being fired on my early years) that the central bankers will bail out their banker buddies as they always have. That they will create money and monetize any bad debts they see fit. That they can and will push prices up of anything they choose. Preventing deflation is rather easy if you really want to be a reckless government with a supportive central bank. Maintaining reasonable employment levels is at the core more important than inflation targeting. Still, the drawdowns in these periods of retrenchment can be extremely nasty. Like we are seeing now. Gold and silver can drop 50-70% no problem. It’s happened over and over again as golds moved from $20 to $6000 in the century. All this said, I always felt long term inflation is the greatest worry. Especially for younger people But now, I’m starting to get really concerned about the 3 massive deflationary forces that are building up. Robotics, Ai and nanotechnology. The combo is going to super deflationary. Huge job losses… and frankly I don’t think anyone has a clue where people getting laid off will end up getting hired. It’s easy for those doing the firing to say that it will sort itself out. But, as companies cut 10’s of thousands of high paying middle aged workers and our youth graduate school with completely useless degrees…. Well, Houston… we got a problem. I think the response will be printing and bailing along with infrastructure spending. Governments will have no choice but to fund these massive projects and use freshly printed money to do it. This remains core to my investment thesis. We must prepare for the downside and expect high volatility. But, position for what sectors will experience growth and margin expansion. Quality producers of commodities and nano tech companies with valuable patent portfolios will ultimately prove to be the best safe haven over this next decade. Just like how the tech stocks mostly had a lost decade post Y2K with many failing. We will see a lot of struggles in today’s bubble stocks We likely have barely heard of the companies that will be the best for performing stocks of the next 10-15 years. Many are probably still private and just getting started. :)
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It’s hard to fathom the vast numbers of young men who’ve been sent to their death by old men with irrational grievances and desires for glory. Whether kings in thrones or politicians behind desks… they all sicken me. Long gone are the day when leaders at least willing to charge on the front line. Cowards and traitors of humanity… that’s what’s common place today
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⚡️Today shares of @Sprott Physical #Uranium Trust $U.U slid just -0.4%🛷 but Sprott saw Spot #U3O8 rise again to $92.74⤴️ pushing #SPUT's NAV to a new 9-month high of $7.66B⤴️💰with discount to NAV at -12.8%🎁 offering investors a chance to buy Spot lbs at just 80.85/lb!🛢️☢️🛒🥰
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So, basically, 500 million Europeans expect 300 million Americans to protect them from 120 million Russians who can’t even defeat 40 million Ukrainians while those 500 million Europeans don’t even realize they are being conquered by 2 billion Muslims who claim they are being persecuted by 8 million Israelis. Is that about right? 1
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My thesis Yield curve normalizes US 10 yr yield heading to 4% Wall St is positioned for the wrong future.
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THE NATION IS ON FIRE. We have a government that is completely out of control. This is worse than the dying days of Whitlam. 🔥The Prime Minister has misled Parliament in a desperate attempt to cover up the corrupt up the $6 million Marrickville Golf Club affair. 🔥The regime bullied Helen Haines by leaking a dirt sheet simply for speaking out against Albanese’s Marrickville Golf Club rort. 🔥They appear to have attempted to bribe a One Nation MP by offering him an extra $200,000 per annum staffing allowance — conduct that looks like a criminal offence under the Criminal Code. 🔥Ministers, including the Attorney-General, have been caught red-handed rorting their travel allowances and were forced to pay the money back. 🔥A clueless nincompoop in Chris Bowen is destroying our national electricity grid, driving power prices through the roof, and surrendering the competitive advantage Australia once held in low-cost energy. Businesses are shuttering shops across the country as a direct result. 🔥The biggest infrastructure project in the nation, Snowy 2.0, is a national embarrassment of financial incompetence — a giant money pit. The original $2 billion budget has blown out to between $40 and $50 billion, and it may still climb higher. 🔥A disgraced former New Zealand Prime Minister is being rewarded with a “Professor” title to farcically lecture on cohesion at the University of Sydney — an institution that already receives more than $1.2 billion in taxpayer funding. 🔥Meanwhile the economy is collapsing. Unemployment is rising. The government has lost control of inflation. Interest rates are set to rise again on Melbourne Cup day. 🔥GDP per capita is going backwards. Homelessness is at record levels. 🔥Productivity is in freefall. Productive businesses such as the Blayney Gold Mine are being blocked on fictitious grounds. 🔥Millions of taxpayer dollars are being spent apologising for paedophiles while the same government passes new laws to censor free speech, claiming they are “protecting the children.” 🔥Our military is under attack. They are persecuting Ben Roberts-Smith. They are trying to sell off Victoria Barracks. Our two largest naval vessels cannot put to sea. And they are planning to rewrite the War Memorial with exhibitions designed to shame Australians over the fact that Aboriginal societies were rescued from the Stone Age. 🔥Dodgy Dan Andrews is pulling the Prime Minister’s strings, having him attend suspect meetings with dodgy Chinese billionaires who are in dispute with the tax office. 🔥biological men are being given free rein to invade women’s and girls’ toilets and changerooms. 🔥Crime is surging. Home invasions, carjackings and machete mayhem — once foreign to Australia — are now everyday events under this government. 🔥Children are being so brainwashed by the Marxist infiltration of our education system that they planned to protest on Remembrance Day. 🔥Unprecedented rates of mass migration are being deployed as a tool to import Labor voters, as more and more Australians are feeling like foreigners in their own land.
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Chris Brycki’s numbers are brutal and exactly what you’d expect from @AlboMP ’s new CGT and negative gearing changes. Great analysis @chrisbrycki 🙏🙏🙏 $382,000 worse off over 30 years on a typical investment property. Higher holding costs. Worse after-tax outcomes. The “favourite wealth-building strategy” turned into a ball and chain. This is economic vandalism dressed up as housing policy. It doesn’t just punish property investors, it attacks capital formation, aspiration and the incentive to invest in anything productive. Don’t punish new investment. Stop the war on people trying to build wealth @AlboMP @AustralianLabor We all need change to Get Ahead! #StoptheCGTtoGetAhead #JoinWARonCGT
Australia’s love affair with investment property is turning into a financial nightmare. Our modelling shows the new CGT and negative gearing rules leave property investors $382,000 worse off over 30 years. My analysis in The Weekend @australian today.
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Patrick Stewart holds the record for most takes on Extras with Ricky Gervais, which is quite an achievement. It’s wonderful watching a man with such Shakespearean gravitas reduced to a quivering wreck saying “Knickers.” 🤣😂 Such a beautiful man. RIP, Patrick.
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How will Twiggy Forrest explain to shareholders why he already paid himself A$1.2 billion for 2026 even as his iron ore piles up in China? How will he explain to his workers why he paid himself A$1.2B as he cuts back their hours and even lays them off?
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Taxpayers gave mining titan Twiggy Forrest's Fortescu A$308M in energy subsidies in 2025 alone, plus A$99M for an H2 project he abandoned. In exchange, Forrest gave millions for propaganda to pass @AlboMP government's censorship bill. It's a transparent, sinister quid pro quo.
Online misogyny causes sexual violence, say governments. But the science doesn't support such claims. Now, a new investigation reveals that mining titan Twiggy Forrest, who receives millions in subsidies, spent millions to pass censorship legislation.
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We won't be taking our yacht out in these conditions, a 1.2m swell was enough for us for fly instead of sail between Spain and Sicily 🤣
Yeah fuck that.
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We are led by ideological idiots of the highest order
Australia bet big on hydrogen made from renewables and lost billions. Now, one of Australia's largest miners may soon cut production and jobs. The cause was a set of catastrophic decisions by Labor leaders and Fortescue's founder, Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest.
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