Trump threatens to raise drug prices for foreign countries by 100%. NZ's Pharmac is globally famous for negotiating some of the lowest drug prices in the world.
​The U.S. argues that by paying low prices, countries like NZ are subsidising their healthcare systems at the expense of American R&D.
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NSW is introducing laws to make it illegal to say that you hate the existence of a stolen land named Israel, or you hate the IDF, or that you hate Israeli genocide. They named the Palestine Action Group as a target. This is so predictable. www.youtube.com/live/jjwt_jX...

Digging up rare earth is easy. Refining rare earth is difficult and polluting and takes 100 processes to refine. But actually creating alloys and products containing rare earth is almost impossible outside of China.
Link below.
- bbc.com/news/articles/… via @GoogleNews

The Australian Liberal Party opposition calling for Kevin Rudd's resignation to please Trump demonstrates everything that's wrong with Western politics. Gutless crawling to an authoritarian will get you nowhere.
www.skynews.com.au/australia-ne...

Hey Americans, it's not Trump firing guns at you, it's your fellow Americans dressed up in uniforms. You are a failed nation.

By now we're used to Trump-Level Crazy but Trump the Facist is never far beneath the surface. His Big Beautiful Budget bill would be about budgets you'd think. But he snuck in this piece of gobbledegook. What it means is he can ignore any contempt of court orders. Fascism.

If kids under 16 are banned from social media, it will mean that anyone, adults included, will need to prove their age. All users will have to provide ID. I don't think any platform will enable this.

Israel is carrying out ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Israel is evil incarnate.

apnews.com/article/isra...

It's May Day! International Workers of the World Unite!

Pope Francis on people who call other humans bottom-feeders...

Claudia Sheinbaum rocks! She could be one of the most influential people in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean. And she's a powerful shining light to the rest of the world. ❤️

Trump is proving to the world that the relationship between any government and the courts is purely based on convention. A court order without the government to enforce it is merely a powerless bit of paper. If the government ignores court orders what can the courts do?

This announcement is on par with DeepSeek in some ways. Imagine the future of protein without animals needing to be raised. This will disrupt primary industries like beef, pork and chicken massively. China is making huge steps.
scitechdaily.com/breakthrough...

DeepSeek AI is a profound threat to the US economy. A victory for Open Source and without doubt, the biggest disrupter ever seen.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/t...