There's a big mistake people are making in calling Elon Musk president and claiming Trump is his B$tch. Trump, the most disloyal human bieng perhaps ever born, is simply and ruthlessly using Musk, not only for his money, but to "flood the zone". He will sit back, fleece him dry, let him help dominate the news cycle, then cast him adrift without a thought - just as he has done his whole life. Trump is king here, Musk is just his court jester.

If he benefited from insider trading, yes. The Australian want-to-be prime minister bought shares in the big four banks, in 2009, at the height of the global financial crisis, after not buying any in the preceding three years. He promptly sold the shares under two weeks later after the Labor government announced a massive bank bail out, sending the shares rocketing in value. He's alleged to have been briefed on the impending bailout before it happened. We need to know.

So how IS that multi-decade 400 billion dollar Australian defense pact with America looking today? I must admit, I thought World War 3 was inevitable, I just didn't think America would be on the other side. What will Trump demand over this? Australian mineral resources? Nuclear missile bases in Darwin? Perhaps even scarier is Five Eyes, the hugely secretive intelligence alliance between America, the UK, Aus, NZ and Canada - sharing our most top secret intelligence and assets with an ally of Putin.

There are a couple of themes being promoted by the infernal trio about Europe when it comes to military spending (not enough!) and immigration (to many brown people!). What this ignores is the elephant in the room. Europe didn't invade Afghanistan, Europe didn't invade Iraq, or overthrow the government of Libya. Europe would need to spend so much on its militaries or receive so many immigrants from these areas if it wasn't for American wars in the first place.

And at the end of it all, the whole world is in shock that Trump did exactly what was 100% certain he would do all along, side with Putin. But this war, with no possible victory for Ukraine and unending suffering and destruction for the Ukrainian people, never needed to happen and had no good outcome for Ukraine anyway. A look at the decades long road to war - just so the West could attack Russia, and vast sums of money could be made - and how none of it needed to happen but we in the West made damn sure it did.

The much earned and very late entrance into the interest rate cut cycle is a joyous reward for Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese and the Labor party - lets hope it manages to cut through with the public, above the relentless wall to wall pro-Liberal noise of the Australian news media. To listen to them it's the worst government ever, by every metric, we have a near world leading economy. Why would we risk Dutton?

One thing this wildfire of a second Trump administration has proven, if someone can come in with such power to instantly destroy or change everything they want, above the law or political machinery in place, the system was broken to start with. In places like the UK, the rest of Europe and Australia, it isn't even legally possible to do half the things the Trump administration are doing. To quote Kanye West - No one man should have all that power.

Given Trump and Netanyahu are now saying the quiet part out loud - we are going to remove the Palestinians from Gaza, a look at the enormous elephant in the room when it comes to global reporting on the future of a Palestinian state. As I covered a long while back, Israel cannot simply take the West Bank and Gaza strip and assimilate them into a future Israel - they HAVE to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians from those regions first. No one ever says it but this is why.