strategic stakeholder (ironic: bureaucratese for vested interest)
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Alan Luchetti retweeted
My latest article for @shot_au where I point out that Segal's latest 'report' was not requested by government or the PM.
It's simply a rehash of last year's report - with a purpose beyond its pages.
It's arrival has more to do with her strategy of filling media spaces with antisemitism angst now the royal commission is over, and also influencing the royal commission findings.
It is also a document designed to inflame culture wars and get people arguing and create political division - a classic tactic of conservatives the world over.
Nothing Segal says is new, (except of course for the astonishing claim she makes that all Jews in Australia are unbothered by neo-Nazis!)
Comments welcome. theshot.net.au/uncategorizedâŠ
Alan Luchetti retweeted
I just did a right-wing show where I suggested Republicans lost because they no longer have any grip on reality, and one of the panelists started screaming at me about how James Talarico wants to trans my kid. I donât think they understand why they lost quite yet.
Alan Luchetti retweeted
'The Special Envoy's updated report on antisemitism is so misguided, conspiratorial, and frankly, Orwellian that it's hard to know where to start.' Our response highlighted in the @australian today.
Alan Luchetti retweeted
A 40-year-old Perth woman has been charged with aggravated stalking and extortion of Greens senator Jordon Steele-John. afr.com/politics/federal/womâŠ
Alan Luchetti retweeted
A short summary of mainstream and post-Keynesian theories on how wages, prices, interest rates, exchange rates and the money supply are determined.
Which one explains better experience and data?
Ask firms if they calculate marginal productivity, marginal cost and marginal revenue
Alan Luchetti retweeted
Higher interest rates currently cause a lot of damage in the Eurozone. They increase interest payments to bond holders (of new bonds) and make it harder for member states to hit (dysfunctional) budget deficit limits.
(Source for the figure: 25bp.eu/en/ecb/)
Alan Luchetti retweeted
âWe donât need to replace waste,â as I told @FT.
Electrifying doesnât just change the fuel, it shrinks the amount of energy you need.
Our forthcoming paper finds the same useful energy with roughly half the primary energy.
I call it Electrofficiency.
ft.com/content/1a40a3af-933bâŠ
Alan Luchetti retweeted
Ekonomin behöver pengar denominerade i kronor. De kommer frÄn banklÄn och offentliga underskott.
Statsskulden Àr i praktiken de kronor staten har tillfört ekonomin genom sina betalningar men Ànnu inte skatta ut ur ekonomin.
NÀr staten bromsar pengaskapandet sÄ landar mer av "bördan" hos bankerna. Statsskuld och privat skuldsÀttning Àr sÄ att sÀga "kommunicerande kÀrl".
Den höga privata skuldsÀttningen skapar instabilitet och fallhjöd. Hög statsskuld behöver inte vara ett problem - utan innebÀr bara problem om man av okunnighet gör det till ett problem.
För statsskulden Àr inget lÄn. Det innebÀr inte att vi Àr skuldsatta. TvÀrtom. LÀs om stycke 2. Statsskulden Àr vÄra kronor. VÄr finansiella nettoförmögenhet i kronor.
Staten lÄnar inte kronor. Staten skapar kronor nÀr den betalar.
Detta hÄller numera till och med RiksgÀlden med om (efter lite begreppsmÀssig akrobatik). De kallar det "okontroversiellt".
LÀs min fÀrska debatt med Klas Granlund frÄn RiksgÀlden nedan:
xitter.gq/ArnellOErik/status/209âŠ
I sin replik avfĂ€rdar Granlund min kritik av RiksgĂ€ldens anvĂ€ndning av den konsoliderade termen âstatenâ med att jag bortser frĂ„n den juridiska separationen av myndigheter.
Han avfÀrdar alltsÄ min kritik av RiksgÀldens sÀtt att kommunicera just det konsoliderade perspektivet med att jag i min analys utgÄr frÄn det konsoliderade perspektivet.
Allt detta gör han i en text dÀr han bekymmerslöst och sömlöst vÀxlar mellan juridiska grÀnsdragningar mellan myndigheter och ett konsoliderat perspektiv dÀr han sjÀlv talar om staten.
Bakom denna begreppsmĂ€ssiga akrobatik bekrĂ€ftar han dock att myndigheternas betalningar skapar pengar och att det Ă€r dessa pengar som SEDAN anvĂ€nds av bankerna för att köpa statspapper frĂ„n staten. Han kallar denna beskrivning av verkligheten för âokontroversiellâ.
Svenska staten lÄnar alltsÄ inte svenska kronor. Statsskulden Àr inte ett lÄn utan i praktiken de kronor staten har gett ut.
Detta mÄste pÄverka diskussionen om nyttan med det nuvarande finanspolitiska ramverket, som ÀndÄ ingen respekterar lÀngre, och som Àr skapat ur den felaktiga idén att staten Àr en lÄntagare, utelÀmnad till lÄngivarnas rÀntekrav.
PĂ„ söndag Ă€r det val â dĂ€refter Ă€r det dags för nĂ€sta regering att ta initiativ till förĂ€ndringar i ramverket, baserat pĂ„ denna för mĂ„nga nya information frĂ„n landets expertmyndighet.
LÀs min korta slutreplik (och hela debatten) hÀr:
altinget.se/rikspolitik/artiâŠ
@altingetse
@Riksgalden
#svpolitik
Alan Luchetti retweeted
"Her tickets were booked before she was even appointed." @Wendy_Bacon & @petersc2u investigate Jillian Segal's appointment and the global Israel lobby
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/foreign-aâŠ
Alan Luchetti retweeted
Jim Chalmers says the Middle East turmoil is responsible for the adverse impact on Australia's economy.
Correct, the Middle East activity that his leader was the first international leader to praise Trump when he illegally bombed Iran, murdering a couple of hundred schoolgirls.
Alan Luchetti retweeted
Pauline Hanson is worried businesses canât find staff because there arenât enough immigrants.
Sorry, I appear to have wandered into a parallel universe.
Alan Luchetti retweeted
In May 2025, I painted a mural of Donald Trump titled The Host. The mural was an image if Donald Trump, dressed as Uncle Sam with the Israeli flag in his eyes.
The work was a commentary on how US politics and foreign policy have been co-opted by Israel.
Shortly after its completion, police were called to the mural, a campaign was launched to pressure @innerwestcouncil into removing it (which they did), and I began receiving legal letters.
What followed was a lengthy legal process in which the complainant sought orders from the Tribunal requiring me to:
1. I create a new mural that apologised for the original mural, and that this mural had to be in the same place as the old mural;
2. I had to post photos of the mural apology and post it on my Instagram page;
3. I had to write a letter of apology to the President of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, and prescribed what he wanted me to write in that letter;
4. I pay $10,000 + revenue made on the sale of posters of the mural in equal parts to several Jewish fundraisers; and
5. I was to attend the Sydney Jewish Museum and undertake specific case studies.
After more than a year, Iâve finally put that legal process behind me.
This is yet another in a growing list of attempts to silence and censor my artwork critical of Israel.
Long story short, it didnât work. đ
I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Jen Robinson, Danielle, Michael and Lauren at Marque Lawyers, and Oshie Fagir.
You are absolute lifesavers â€ïžđđȘ
Alan Luchetti retweeted
My God. The most powerful state in human history, home to Harvard, MIT, dozens of Nobel laureates, and trillions spent on research, is publishing economic analysis on the OFFICIAL White House website at the level of âif you build a free hospital, Americans will be eating each other within ten years.â
At least the Roman Empire waited for the barbarians. America decided to do the job itself.
whitehouse.gov/socialism/
Alan Luchetti retweeted
The "crowding out" myth: government deficits donât squeeze private investment.
They create net financial assets.
A thread.
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Alan Luchetti retweeted
Terrifying rumors are swirling about Israel pressuring Trump to launch a nuclear strike on Iran immediately after the midterms or some other major escalation. I wish I was sure that this was too unhinged to take seriously, but we do not live in sane times where these kinds of dismissals are possible. Instead, we live amidst the rise of end times fascism, where dangerous accelerationists hold enormous sway in both the Israeli and U.S. governments.
The hardcore religious end timers have partnered with criminals like Trump, Netanyahu, and several tech oligarchs whose only path to avoiding legal accountability for their many crimes is dramatic (and distracting) escalation. I desperately hope the rumors are exaggerated, but we need to be ready in case they are not.
That's why we are releasing this video today on the eve of the U.S. midterms. We can defeat these maniacs, but only if we know what we are up against.
youtube.com/watch?v=obZN_n53âŠ
Alan Luchetti retweeted
*No thanks Minns. I want $94million spent on mental health services not wasted on fully armed military to âcontrolâ peaceful demonstrators. Wouldnât have been one iota of help to Helen Haines MP tragic situation.
*ARC officers, whoâve been training in private, now commencing to do so in public, prior to the deployment of its initial officers. This will then grow to a total 250 ARC officers and 28 civilian staff members, whoâll too be equipped with 24 purpose-built vehicles. And this $94 million investment involves Operation Shelter becoming permanent.
