The Big Short (Aus) is Coming: Mortgage-Bonds Vs CDS

(My disturbing thoughts on the soon-coming Australian Version of THE BIG SHORT.)

Any Australian wise enough to understand the movie “THE BIG SHORT” and then read Michael Lewis’s book “THE BIG SHORT” would certainly realise that the Australian version of “THE BIG SHORT” has been well overdue here in Sydney.

Last 35 years since late 1990s, when the Capital-Gain-Tax (CGT) was halved by John Howard’s Liberal Government, Sydney houses have been in an incredible floating bubble massively super-inflated by landlords’ favourite the Negative Gearings, for the median house price has risen into the upper-stratosphere. From well below A$ 100,000 in 1990 to well over A$ 1,000,000 now in 2025.

I still remember the day when I bought my first house in Sydney in 1990, I paid A$ 98,000 for that brick-veneer-three-bedders while I was earning A$ 48,000 a year as a production manager in an engineering company and my wife was on A$ 27,000 a year as a tutor in Sydney University.

Indian Student Owns 56 Sydney Homes in Just 20 Years!

       (Aidan Devine’s post from REALESTATE.com FACEBOOK on 13 November 2025.)

Sydney investor now owns 56 properties after buying 18 in last five months: Property investor Bharat Patel, 43, first came to Sydney as a student and now has 56 homes across the country.

An IT worker who arrived in Australia as a student 20 years ago has revealed he now owns 56 homes, 18 of which were bought in the last five months – but he claims he isn’t being greedy by buying so many.

Sydney resident Bharat Patel, 43, said his properties were worth a combined $20 million and the rents he pockets from his property empire totalled nearly $780,000 a year. He added that he only holds about $7.5 million in debt against his $20 million portfolio because the values have skyrocketed since he purchased many of his homes.

Pauline Hanson Suspended from Australian Senate

            (Staff posts from ABC NEWS & The AUSTRALIAN on 25 November 2025.)

One Nation Party leader Pauline Hanson has been censured by the Senate and suspended for seven sitting days, a day after she wore a burka in the chamber to push for the garment's ban.

The censure motion was moved by government Senate leader Penny Wong, who said the burka stunt "mocked and vilified" an entire faith, and was "disrespectful" to the Senate as an institution. The Auatralian Senate has also been suspended over Pauline Hanson‘s latest stunt – entering the chamber wearing a burqa.

After Foreign Minister Penny Wong moved to have the One Nation leader suspended from the Senate for the remainder of sitting, Senate President Sue Lines was forced to suspend the chamber after Senator Hanson refused to leave.

BYD: Build Your Dreams

(Staff post from ENGINEERING & SCIENCE's FACEBOOK on 20 November 2025.)

From a small farming village in China, Wang Chuanfu’s journey to building BYD, the world’s leading electric vehicle company, is nothing short of remarkable.

Orphaned at a young age and raised by his siblings, Wang began his career with limited resources and just 20 employees. Despite these challenges, his vision and determination drove him to create a company that would revolutionize the automotive and energy industries.

BYD started by focusing on battery technology, gradually expanding into electric cars, buses, and renewable energy solutions. Wang’s innovative mindset and relentless pursuit of excellence transformed BYD into a global powerhouse, attracting attention from investors worldwide, including Warren Buffett. The company didn’t just produce vehicles; it created an entire ecosystem for clean mobility and sustainable energy, setting new standards for the industry.

Myanmar Army Enables Chinese Cyber Scam Centers

     (Myo Yan Naung Thein’s post from HIS FACEBOOK PAGE on 15 November 2025.)

Scam Centers in Myanmar: Myanmar Army Chief Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing and His Inner Circle.

This document provides a comprehensive overview of the individuals and networks associated with Myanmar’s scam centers, with a primary focus on the country’s military leadership under Min Aung Hlaing.

It examines his pivotal role in orchestrating the scam centers  network, details the involvement of his closest associates and influential families, and explores the scope of alleged criminal activities and international sanctions linked to his regime.

Min Aung Hlaing has been making billions of dollars personally for himself through his BGF lapdogs like Karen BGF Saw Chit Thu and the Kokang BGF before China brutally put them to death.

Dorothy Hodgkin’s 1964 Nobel Story (Mapping of Insulin)

         (Staff post from the THIS DAY IN HISTORY on 14 November 2025.)

She spent 30 years mapping a single molecule—insulin—atom by atom. Her hands were crippled by arthritis, but she gave medicine the blueprints to save millions. She was the only British woman to ever win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Oxford, 1934. A young chemist named Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin peered into an X-ray crystallography camera at a tiny crystal of insulin. She was trying to see something no human had ever seen: the exact arrangement of every atom in the molecule that keeps diabetics alive.

The technology was primitive. The calculations would take decades. And Dorothy's hands were already beginning to twist with rheumatoid arthritis that would eventually cripple them. She started working on insulin anyway. She would spend the next 35 years decoding it.

Organ Harvesting at Myanmar's Shwe Kokko Scam Hub

              (Staff post from the SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST on 22 July 2023.)

Survivors of Myanmar’s Scam Mills Talk ‘Torture,’ Death, Organ Harvesting—and the Battle To Escape: Those in charge of Myanmar’s scam centres don’t want the world to see what’s going on inside. Phones are confiscated upon arrival and work devices are wiped before anyone leaves, as scam bosses go to great lengths to hide their crimes.

Jane and Max, two Filipinos forced to work for one of the criminal outfits along Myanmar’s border with Thailand, were made to wait an additional 10 days before their eventual release in early July to allow their wounds to heal. “They held us because of our bruises,” Jane said, showing scars on her back and shoulders. “They didn’t want anyone to see.”

Despite these cover-up efforts, evidence of widespread and severe abuse is mounting. Footage supplied to This Week in Asia by victims and anti-trafficking activists shows electrocutions, beatings and workers who are handcuffed, blindfolded and forced to sleep in overcrowded rooms.

Myanmar Cyber-Scam-King Sent Back to China

          (Staff post from the ABC Australia on 12November 2025.)

Alleged Myanmar scam kingpin She Zhijiang extradited to China from Thailand: An alleged Chinese racketeer linked to a hugely lucrative scam hub in Myanmar has been extradited from Thailand to China.

She Zhijiang had been in Thai custody since 2022 after spending more than a decade on the run from Chinese authorities, accused of ties to the Myanmar gambling and fraud hub Shwe Kokko. A Thai appeals court upheld China's extradition request this week for the 43-year-old, who also held Cambodian nationality, after lengthy legal wrangling.

He was flown out of Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport on Wednesday afternoon, local time, a Thai police official said. The businessman was escorted from the airport's police station with his hands braced behind his back by armed and masked Thai police, an uncommon practice for local officers.

An Interpol red notice published in May 2021 and obtained by AFP said Mr She faced criminal charges in China related to running online gambling and fraud operations. He and his company, Yatai, have already been hit with sanctions by Britain and the United States.

TELOMERASE: Carol Greider’s Nobel Winning Story

               (Staff post from the SOLO TRAVELLER on 11 November 2025.)

Christmas Day, 1984. A 23-year-old grad student went to the lab to check her experiment. What she found would win the Nobel Prize—and rewrite biology. Most people spend Christmas Day with family or friends, opening presents, eating too much, enjoying the one day when the world slows down. Carol Greider spent hers in a laboratory—chasing the smallest secret of life.

It was 1984 at the University of California, Berkeley. Carol was in her first year of graduate school, working under molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn, studying chromosomes—the threadlike structures made of DNA that carry our genetic information. Specifically, they were studying telomeres: the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes, like the plastic tips on shoelaces that keep them from fraying.

Scientists knew telomeres existed. They knew telomeres shortened every time a cell divided—DNA replication couldn't quite reach the very ends of chromosomes, so a little bit got lost each time. Eventually, after enough divisions, telomeres would become too short. The cell would stop dividing. It would age. It would die. This explained cellular aging. It explained why our cells don't divide forever.