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“Trade sanctions of the type Australia is facing are a weapon used by both USA and China. So let’s have a debate on whether we need Five Eyes, or whether it’s time for us to trade on independently.” NZ businessman Wayne Brown’s sensible argument is based simply on it being in NZ’s economic interest to avoid getting dragged by its Five Eyes membership into the USA’s Australia v. China trade war.  Australia’s decision to package gratuitous insults and hostile military gestures al...

Australian Prime Minister Rallies Global Allies Against Big Tech Prime Minister Scott Morrison is hoping world leaders can cooperate on reining in the influence of Big Tech firms such as Google and Facebook. The call comes after the Australian government’s endeavours to introduce the News Media Bargaining Code evolves into a public spectacle between the government and Big Tech, garnering global attention. At a National Press Club address, the prime minister referring to the Media Code told ...

How the Five Eyes countries share immigration data 29 January 2021 The Five Eyes countries - Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the USA - are perhaps best known for their role in global spying and surveillance for the purposes of "national security". However, this is not the only way in which they cooperate. A report for Radio New Zealand looks at how and why they share immigration data. The report, by Gill Bonnett, notes that New Zealand recently set up something called the Secure Real...

In Five Eyes, MI6 guns-and-steel agent Orson Fortune (Statham) is recruited by a global intelligence alliance ‘Five Eyes’ to track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology that threatens to disrupt the world order. Reluctantly paired with CIA high-tech expert Sarah Fidel, Fortune sets off on a globe-trotting mission where he will have to use all of his charm, ingenuity, and stealth to track down and infiltrate billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds. Joining Jason Statham ar...

Hugh Grant in talks to join Guy Ritchies new movie PTI Updated : Jan 22, 2021, 3:32 pm IST The cast also includes Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett and Cary Elwes  Actor Hugh Grant ( Image source: AP News) British star Hugh Grant is in negotiations to board filmmaker Guy Ritchies next, starring Jason Statham in the lead. If finalised, the movie, which was earlier titled ‘Five Eyes,’ will mark a reunion between Ritchie and Grant after they worked together on 2019 movie ‘The Gentleme...

Five Eyes: Josh Hartnett Reunites With Jason Statham & Guy Ritchie in Spy Thriller Film According to Deadline, Josh Hartnett ( 30 Days of Night) has officially signed on to star opposite Jason Statham in director Guy Ritchie’s forthcoming international spy thriller film titled Five Eyes. This actually marks Hartnett’s second collaboration with Statham and Richie, who are all working together on MGM’s upcoming action-thriller Wrath of Man.  He will be joining previously announced cast...

US Trade Reps Urge Australia Not to Rush Google, Facebook Payment Law U.S. trade representatives have urged Australia to scrap proposed laws that will make it the first country in the world to force tech giants to pay local media companies for news content. Assistant Trade Representatives Daniel Bahar and Karl Ehlers called on the government not to rush the laws and to work towards developing a voluntary code if possible. “The U.S. Government is concerned that an attempt, through legislation,...

January 16, 2021 – 3:00 pm I don’t really have to say yet again that I do not condone the violence that happened, but, when you call people you disagree with Nazis and White Supremacists and raaaaacists and such for years, then conduct an election that is full of, let’s call them, irregularities, which can’t be explained and are not explained, people are going to be pissed. When they hear the plans of Democrats, they are pissed. But, hey, dissent is now no longer patriotic, and will be ...

Joe Biden’s Cabinet nominees have been warmly received by the massed ranks of anti-Trumpists in Washington. But the warmth stateside is nothing compared with the rave notices the incoming administration is receiving in much of Europe. There is particular delight in the UK, where the special Boris-Donald relationship evaporated within seconds of Biden’s election victory. The enthusiasm derives partly from a sense that, as some have put it, the adults are back in the room. The image of Trump ...

Last week’s insurrection at the Capitol in Washington DC was a jarring reminder of what Joe Biden will inherit when he takes over the US presidency on January 20. Trump’s legacy, apart from the personal and national shame of his egging on the challenge to the citadel of American democracy on January 6, will be a country not only racked by COVID-19 and economic crisis but one