First it was Sydney, then Canberra, now Melbourne is opaque with acrid bushfire smoke, the worst it has ever endured.
Smoke from catastrophic bushfires – mega-fires and firestorms – still burning across north east Gippsland has drifted south and turned suburban air hazardous.
Overnight the EPA rated Melbourne’s air quality the worst in the world. Read the rest of this entry »
Written by Max Gross, Monday 6 January 2020
It is cold here in Melbourne – 15c – overcast, raining intermittently today and yesterday, the first “rain” I have seen in months, but this drizzle will have no effect on the catastrophic bushfires that have been burning since September and exploded on NYE, leaving me marooned, the Princes Highway north of Bairnsdale cut off in numerous places. Read the rest of this entry »
Written by Max Gross
Saturday 1 June 2019
“That’s a slogan, not a policy” – Anthony Albanese
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want too test a man’s character, give him power” – Abraham Lincoln
“He who wins through fraud is not a winner” – Umar ibn al-Khattab (Al-Farooq)
“Aussies are happy in their materialistic world as long as water is coming out of the tap and nothing bad lands on their doorstep” – Sue C. Read the rest of this entry »
Written by Max Gross
Monday 18 March 2019
Brecht was right.
“Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the bastard is dead, the bitch that bore him is again in heat”.
And here we are in the 21st Century and the barbarians ARE inside the gates.
Six years of relentless opportunistic LNP dog-whistling xenophobia, Islamophobia, bigotry and racism has finally paid off: on Friday 15 March a “white supremacist” – an Aussie – murdered 51 people in Christchurch New Zealand as they prayed. Fifty people are injured. The killer went from one mosque to a second before he was arrested by police. Read the rest of this entry »
Written by Max Gross
“Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country” – Karl Kraus (April 28, 1874 – June 12, 1936)
“While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage” – The Bible
“We have the best government that money can buy” – Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)
Last year the scandal-riddled Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) was charged with 53,700 breaches of money laundering and counter-terrorism-financing laws worth “around $624.7m”, according to the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (Austrac), the financial intelligence agency. Read the rest of this entry »
Peering through the periscope of his hidden Far South Coast bunker, Max Gross, raving reporteur for xenoxnews.com, appraises the state of Australia’s stinking, carcass-strewn political battlefield and makes ready with vomit bags, mops and hoses. No bandages needed, no prisoners taken!
Written by Max Gross
All you need to know about Federal Trasherer Scoff Morbidscum‘s last ever budget is this: the rich will get richer, the poor get a kick in the guts and spit in the face. Angels will fly from your arse before the LNP does a damned thing to improve the lives of Untermenschen. Read the rest of this entry »
Written by Max Gross
(*With apologies to George Gershwin and Georges Guetary)
Written by Max Gross
The current debacle involving Australian MPs found by the High Court to be dual-citizens and thus law breakers in breach of the Constitution and ineligible to sit in parliament has been as entertaining as it is bewildering.
That the prime minister Malcolm Turnbull jumped up in full torque sanctimony and faux indignation to defend the fraudulent Josh Frydenberg by mentioning the War, the Holocaust, and Josh’s long-suffering refugee mother, was a sign of just how far gone this lame duck PM and dysfunctional, discredited LNP government are. Read the rest of this entry »
Written by Max Gross
Unbelievably, a multiple bankrupt who all but incited violence against his opponents, a sexist, racist, hateful, shameless liar, has become POTUS: President Donald Trump!
Well, and why not? Australians once elected Tony Abbott PM! Read the rest of this entry »
AUSTRALIANS THE BIGGEST LOSERS!
By Max Gross
Tuesday 12 July 2016
“When you’re forced to listen to cattle singing, you must at least exercise your freedom to choose the one that sings best” – Nicolai Lilin, ‘Siberian Education’, 2009
XenoxNews.com got it right, Murdoch got it wrong, and Turnbull got it wrongest.
And although – eight days after the election – the LIEbrals can claim they have won, Australians generally have lost. Read the rest of this entry »
LIEBRAL MENDACITY & BLOCK-WAR DOWNUNDER
Written by Max Gross
“Budget surpluses or deficits are not economic decisions forced upon us by economic ‘facts’. They are political decisions. Decisions around the level of taxation (revenue collection), service provision (government spending), inflation and unemployment are also political decisions – not economic ones” – Kay Rollison, 14 February 2015, Debt and Deficit Duplicity, http://theaimn.com/
“There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men” – Proverbs 30:14
“Poverty is the worst form of violence” – Mahatma Gandhi
AUSTRALIA’S MORAL DEBT & DEFICIT DISASTER
Written by Max Gross
First published in abridged form at Xenox News Wednesday, 4 May, 2016
“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable” – John Kenneth Galbraith, US (Canadian-born) administrator & economist (1908 – 2006)
I was thinking of analysing the first and last Turnbull government Budget.
As another inevitably unfair LIEbral Budget looms, Aussie voters are being told by disdainful, privileged, self-entitled ultra-con politicians to “live within your means” in order to bail out the failing Turnbull/Abbott government
By Max Gross Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted: April 30, 2016 in Australia, Politics
Tags: 1%, Class war, Panama Papers
DESPERATE BUT NOT SERIOUS
Written by Max Gross
The reign of muddling Malcolm Turnbull PM looks set to be more fleeting than even that of the abysmal Tony Abbott.
Watching his pop poll percentage shrinking, this week Turnbull rolled the dice in a desperate attempt to cling to his recently acquired prime ministership. Read the rest of this entry »
Is the USA about to be trumped? If so, BYO bucket and mop, people!
By Max Gross
By Max Gross
First published Oct 18, 2005 – 06:24 PM, xenoxnews.com
While anxious Iraqis vote for a rigged constitution seen by few outside the fortified U.S. Green Zone, Amerikkka’s GWB plans to “cut and run” while “staying the course”, Monstralia’s JWH drives another nail into the coffin of “our way of life”, and Max Gross goes ape-shit Read the rest of this entry »
The Editorial Board of Xenox News nervously rattles a stick under the cage of its raving reporter, Max Gross, and unleashes another spray!
Written by Max Gross
First published July 23, 2009 – 07:14 AM, xenoxnews.com
Between 1939 and 1945 the brave, “democratic” Western alliance fought and defeated Adolf bloody Hitler, his psycho-Nazi racists and Axis allies, losing and reclaiming Europe and the South Pacific in just five, all be it, horrific years of war. Read the rest of this entry »
