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Your Democracy
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 07:40
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The failure of Ukraine’s 2023 summer counteroffensive against Russia was “easily predictable,” according to US tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist David Sacks, who has suggested that the Washington elite should be held accountable for talking up the doomed operation. |
Your Democracy
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 06:40
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US President Joe Biden is facing an angry backlash from conservative and religious critics after he made his annual proclamation of March 31 as Transgender Visibility Day – a date which this year coincides with Easter Sunday. According to the White House, the celebration is designed to “honor the extraordinary courage and contributions of transgender Americans and reaffirm our Nation’s commitment to forming a more perfect Union.” |
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MacroBusiness
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 00:19
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It is on its way to becoming a minor party anyway. Less than one in three people voted for it. So, let’s get on with it: The false advertising of “Labor” calling itself “laboyr” is becoming steadily apparent to all. The erasure of the “u” is not enough to justify the existence of a radical The post Disband Labor appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 00:10
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Last month, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the official population data for the September quarter of 2023, revealing that Australia’s population increased by an astounding 660,000 people over the year, driven by a record net overseas migration (NOM) of 549,000. In percentage terms, Australia’s population increased by 2.5%, the fastest growth rate since |
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Your Democracy
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 23:04
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The Australian Independent Media Network
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 19:49
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Ok, I did consider giving this the heading: “Anyone who confuses correlation and causation will die!” However, that would have mean that the joke was so clearly telegraphed that only Donald Rump supporters would have missed it… Anyway, I’ve been reading a lot lately and I’ve come to the simple conclusion that Mark Twain was… The post Anyone Who Votes For Peter Dutton Will Die! appeared first on The AIM Network. |
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The Australian Independent Media Network
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 16:29
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A hog-tied Joe Biden is depicted in a life-size decal on the tailgate of a pickup truck in an image Donald Trump posts on Truth Social, Good Friday. Cue howls of outrage. Clearly, The Donald wants to make himself centre of attention again, via a “dead cat on the tailgate” decoy, in case we dwell… The post Murdoch’s monster Trump all trussed up and in for a wild ride. appeared first on The AIM Network. |
The Australian Independent Media Network
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 16:26
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By James Moore “Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants’ labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.” – U.S. Cong. Luis Gutiérrez. Politics needs enemies to move constituencies. Fear doesn’t just sell, it motivates, and divides. The strategy for succeeding in American electoral politics has been, for… The post Cracks in the American Mosaic appeared first on The AIM Network. |
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Renew Economy
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 16:15
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Renew Economy
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 16:01
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The Australian Independent Media Network
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 12:17
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Cancer is a stomping bugger of a disease. It seeks the worm-ridden end, a thief finding its way into your body unasked and willingly helping itself. This cellular mass army will, in a most tribal way, make off with your remains chance permitting. So, it’s understandable that people speak about it. Blog, discuss, worry, grieve… The post Kategate: From Conspiracy to Contrition Extraction appeared first on The AIM Network. |
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Monday, April 1, 2024 - 11:00
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Your Democracy
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 08:13
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...OR ANY OTHER ENGLISH MEDIA, INCLUDING THE GUARDIAN… THIS FROM ONE OF THE GUARDIAN READERS: |
MacroBusiness
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 07:13
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The difficult decisions made by Lord Charlton and Lady Pharcus on behalf of the poor of Parramatta are as heartrending as they are perplexing. Some days, Parramatta records smog as bad as Beijing. Yet the Bellevue Hill and Palm Beach villas of the Lord and Lady offer some of the freshest Pacific air anywhere. Lord The post Lord Charlton and Lady Pharcus bring fresh air to Parramatta appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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John Quiggin
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 06:31
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Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I’m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email newsletter. For the moment, I’ll post both at this blog and on Substack. You can also follow me on Mastodon here. |
Your Democracy
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 04:47
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGXZtVDPlBw 'Russia Won, NATO Lost': France Leader Drops Bombshell; Global Panic Over Ukraine's Loss? SINCE THE TIMES ARTICLE BELOW FROM A MONTH AGO, THE SITUATION FOR ZELENSKY HAS GOT FAR WORSE: |
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MacroBusiness
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 00:01
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Some of the statistics in this tour de force of Chinese ghost cities is are mindblowing: property values down 90%; enough vacant realty to house double the population; hundreds and thousands of towns with occupancy rates below 10%; mysterious hulks of half-completed developments designed on hallucinogens. All of it was built with Aussie commodities and |
MacroBusiness
Sunday, March 31, 2024 - 16:13
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The latest dwelling value results from CoreLogic would be discouraging for anyone hoping that the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) November interest rate hike would stop Australian house prices from rising. According to CoreLogic’s daily dwelling values index, values across the five major capital city markets increased by 0.6% in March, with Perth (1.8%), Adelaide The post Australian house prices won’t die appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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THE BLOT REPORT
Sunday, March 31, 2024 - 12:10
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The blog has been a bit quiet over the last few weeks. The reason is in part because we are downsizing. We are moving from a fairly large house we bought in the early 1990s when such houses were affordable, into an apartment about half the size. As a consequence of this downsizing we have to get rid of a lot of stuff and some of this stuff which has to go, consists of books. We have already taken four carloads of books over to Lifeline in the hope that they can give others as much joy, interest and inspiration as we received from them. |
Your Democracy
Sunday, March 31, 2024 - 08:35
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I doubted whether or not it would be possible, but Russia has managed to trace the funding to at least one of these terrorists – back to the Ukraine. |
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MacroBusiness
Sunday, March 31, 2024 - 00:10
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The Skyscraper Index is one of those marvellous indicators that pops up now again to make an excellent point: It’s more apocryphal than it is scientific, but it is nonetheless indicative of overextended economic models in the final throws of exuberance. Today, the skyscraper index comes home to roost in Australia’s capital of crushloading economics, The post Skyscraper index portends doom of Melbourne appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Sunday, March 31, 2024 - 00:05
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David Llewellyn-Smith discusses the ruination of NSW energy market by energy gentailer, Origin Energy: Origin built an LNG export plant in QLD (along with two others) that has created an artificial gas shortage in Australia since 2014. Aussie gas is regularly more expensive in Australia than it is in Europe. This has derailed the NSW The post Original sin: How the gas cartel ruined NSW appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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The Australian Independent Media Network
Saturday, March 30, 2024 - 12:08
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Rarely has the International Court of Justice been so constantly exercised by one topic during a short span of time. On January 26, the World Court, considering a filing made the previous December by South Africa, accepted Pretoria’s argument that the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was applicable to… The post Starvation in Gaza: The World Court’s Latest Intervention appeared first on The AIM Network. |
MacroBusiness
Saturday, March 30, 2024 - 11:36
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Let’s start with the cause: One of China’s biggest property firms delayed its earnings report while another posted a record profit decline as the nation’s real estate crisis shows no signs of easing. Country Garden Holdings Co., once the nation’s top residential builder by sales, made a surprise announcement late Thursday that it will miss The post The greatest iron ore crash in the galaxy has begun appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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Your Democracy
Saturday, March 30, 2024 - 08:34
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Why did Rishi Sunak downgrade me from security threat No 1 and hand it to China? The black dude who strolled into No 10 in loafers. And the Baltimore conundrum. Plus incontinent Biden Biden is not even in control of his own bowel movements https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkbxTJPP6v0
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Your Democracy
Saturday, March 30, 2024 - 07:36
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New NATO member admits ‘sovereignty’ issue with US pactA military agreement with Washington comes at a cost, Helsinki has said A new military cooperation agreement with Washington limits Helsinki’s sovereignty, the Finnish Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, advising that its ratification will therefore require a two-thirds majority in the parliament. |
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MacroBusiness
Saturday, March 30, 2024 - 00:46
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Arthur Streeton ‘Beach Scene’ 1890, Art Gallery of NSW Global Macro Fed’s balancing act could see June rate cut in play even with sticky inflation – Reuters Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for multi-billion dollar FTX fraud – Reuters US economic growth for last quarter is revised up slightly to a healthy 3.4% The post Easter Links Vids and Pods: March 29 – April 1, 2024 appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Saturday, March 30, 2024 - 00:10
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In this week’s Treasury of Common Sense with Mike Jeffreys from Radio 2GB, I ran through the latest annual capital city population data from the ABS and what it means for Sydney, especially the housing market. I explained why supply-side solutions to Sydney’s housing crisis won’t work as long as the federal government continues to The post Sydney’s housing crisis is unfixable appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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Your Democracy
Friday, March 29, 2024 - 22:18
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Russia has hit back after a senior White House official accused it of peddling “manure” by claiming that Ukraine may be linked to last week’s terrorist attack near Moscow. Moscow believes the attack may have been masterminded by Ukrainian special services who used a group of radical Islamists to carry it out. Washington has urged the world to accept the claim of responsibility by ISIS-K, an Afghanistan-based offshoot of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS). |
The Australian Independent Media Network
Friday, March 29, 2024 - 22:00
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Of course, any election will have various reasons for why a particular candidate or party won or lost. Therefore, what I write can only be taken as my opinion and may contain some bias. So, how does one decide why a party won or lost? The facts will show that one party won because it… The post Triumph over Dutton-style politics: A retrospective look appeared first on The AIM Network. |
