Posts by Kim Browne
Republicans Blame End of Crucial Program DOGE Cut on Biden
Republicans are trying their best to push the blame for the resurgence of the flesh-eating New World screwworm on former President Joe Biden—even though it was their current boss who cut funding for the monitoring program. “Under the last administration with the massive movement under the open borders policy that the cartels etcetera, border security,…
Read More8 Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in Partner Visa 820 and 801 Applications
The Australian Partner Visa (subclass 820/801) is one of the most document-heavy and closely-examined categories of visa in the immigration system. If you’re an entrepreneur looking to apply for one of these and expand your business in a new location, such as Australia, you will need to ensure you meet the requirements to qualify. The…
Read MoreFrom Code to Curse: How Specialized Rigging Systems Delivered the Defining Visual Effects of Weapons
Few horror films have made as big a cultural impact in recent years as Zach Cregger’s Weapons. Released in 2025 and following up the filmmaker’s searing entry into the genre with Barbarian a few years prior, Weapons not only went on to become a box office phenomenon in its own right, but also earned immense…
Read MoreUS stocks: Wall Street gains as chips rebound, Middle East tensions ease
Published Mon, Jun 8, 2026 · 10:49 PM WALL Street’s major indexes advanced on Monday (Jun 8), as chipmakers bounced back from a sharp selloff last week, while investors took comfort from signs of cooling tensions in the Middle East. Intel shares jumped 8.5 per cent. The Information reported that Alphabet had tapped the company…
Read MoreTranscript: Trump 250 Turns Humiliating as MAGA Ally Harshly Mocks Him
And again, we’re a year and a half in and gas costs $5 a gallon everywhere. So who really wants to participate in that anyway? But I think that this is not somebody, or this is not an administration, that is interested in honoring or celebrating American history or culture to begin with. So why…
Read MoreCarlsberg nears filing for US$700 million India IPO: sources
It is working with Kotak Mahindra Capital and local units of JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup on the share sale Published Mon, Jun 8, 2026 · 03:47 PM [NEW DELHI] Carlsberg is preparing to file draft papers for an initial public offering (IPO) of its India unit as early as June, sources said. The potential listing…
Read MoreNvidia announces deals with South Korea’s SK Hynix, Naver and Doosan for AI data centres
The South Korean memory chipmaker and rival Samsung Electronics are the world’s two largest makers of memory chips Published Mon, Jun 8, 2026 · 08:48 AM [SEOUL] Nvidia on Monday (Jun 8) announced deals with South Korea’s SK Hynix, Naver and Doosan Group to build artificial intelligence data centres and use the US chip firm’s…
Read MoreTrump says Fed rate increase would be wrong, again calls for cut
Published Sun, Jun 7, 2026 · 11:34 PM [WASHINGTON] President Donald Trump said Federal Reserve policymakers would be wrong to raise interest rates after a blowout US jobs report, while insisting he does not want to influence Kevin Warsh before he chairs his first Fed meeting. “Nowadays when you have good reports, the market goes…
Read MoreSouth Korea unveils measures to stem won slide, curb speculation
These include tighter scrutiny of offshore currency derivatives and probes into potentially illegal FX transactions Published Sun, Jun 7, 2026 · 06:35 PM [SEOUL] South Korea laid out a series of targeted measures to curb pressure on the won after the currency slid to its weakest level since 2009, pledging firm action against speculative trading…
Read MoreThe World Cup in an Age of Strongmen
But industrial modernity did more than create the bases for mass athletic competition. It also created the conditions for sophisticated international sporting events. “Victorian Britons invented most modern sports,” Kuper writes, “but couldn’t see the point of playing them against foreigners.” The French could. In 1896, Baron Pierre de Coubertin organized the first modern Olympic…
Read MoreTrump Is a Hot Mess—and He’s Cooking His Party
Allen is an unusual would-be assassin. There’s nothing about him that reminds me of any number of mass shooters of recent vintage. There’s no air of glory-seeking; no meme-sludge in his rhetoric. In his manifesto, he spends quite a bit of time apologizing to various people in his life for betraying their trust and takes…
Read MoreBig questions loom as China’s memory chipmakers prepare blockbuster IPOs
Many investors see CXMT and YMTC as central to driving the current bull run in domestic technology stocks FOR YEARS, CXMT was losing money. In 2026, it is preparing for an IPO that some say could make it China’s most valuable listed company. CXMT, a leading producer of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), the chips that…
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