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Your Democracy Sunday, March 24, 2024 - 06:40 Source

The US empire SABOTAGES entire nations for the same reason it sabotages domestic infrastructure... to KEEP US DOWN!

https://www.brighteon.com/a1ee8938-260b-4755-affb-5b68e2fea5c2

 

THIS IS CONSPIRACY THEORY.... AND THE CONSPIRACY COULD BE TRUE!....

GUS LEONISKY, POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951, HAS NO WAY TO VERIFY THE TRUTH...

 

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Your Democracy Sunday, March 24, 2024 - 06:31 Source

The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal interviews Swedish engineer Erik Andersson, who led the first independent investigation to the site of the Nordstream pipelines blast sites, on the Swedish government’s sudden closing of the investigation into the terror attack on the eve of joining NATO.

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Your Democracy Sunday, March 24, 2024 - 06:26 Source

As I was saying to Diocletian over Prosecco just last week, it is hard to run an empire these days. You have to lie to people more or less incessantly to keep the troops minding the perimeter in supplies. No falsehood is too preposterous to gain the public’s acquiescence. At times you have to deceive even the Senate. 

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Renew Economy Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 21:19 Source
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Your Democracy Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 20:02 Source

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The Tally Room Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 18:00 Source

Polls have just closed for the Tasmanian state election. Polls will also close in the Dunstan state by-election in South Australia in half an hour.

I won’t be liveblogging here tonight because I’ll be appearing on air on ABC Radio’s election night broadcast. You can hear it on ABC Hobart and ABC Northern Tasmania local radio, as well as ABC News Radio. The show will start at 7:30pm.

While I won’t be posting here, feel free to chat about the results in the comments.

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The Australian Independent Media Network Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 17:09 Source

Actions speak louder than words if not nearly as often, while inactions can speak louder than both. The Liberals are paying lip service to a target of fifty percent women in ten years, after Morrison’s catastrophic election hot mess-dumpster-fire-trainwreck in 2022 triggered an independent review from Peta Credlin’s manbag, Brian Loughnane and jolly Jane Hume.…

The post Team Dutton duds women; snubs gender equality, bipartisanship and democracy appeared first on The AIM Network.

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The Australian Independent Media Network Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 14:37 Source

By Callen Sorensen Karklis   The election results of the local government elections are in. Some will be despairing on both the progressive and conservative sides in some key areas around the state, while others on each side will be content with the results. One thing despite it all is obvious: QLD Premier Steven Miles should…

The post Analysis of the 2024 Qld Council Elections appeared first on The AIM Network.

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Your Democracy Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 12:43 Source

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The Australian Independent Media Network Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 11:57 Source

Be wary of what Washington offers in negotiations at the best of times. The empire gives and takes when it can; the hegemon proffers and in equal measure and withdraws offers it deems fit. This is all well known to the legal team of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange, who, the Wall Street Journal “exclusively” reveals,…

The post Julian Assange and the Plea Nibble appeared first on The AIM Network.

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MacroBusiness Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 11:37 Source

The storm in a teacup about political donations comes from another era, and it’s time to move on. People over the age of 60 will remember that era. Things lost in the post, cheques, facsimile machines, paper invoices, and accounts receivable people entering numbers into spreadsheets were all reconciled for the end of the month

The post 21st century beckons political donations appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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Your Democracy Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 10:10 Source

When Donald Trump surprised the political establishment and won the 2016 US presidential election, there was a mad scramble within the Turnbull government to get in touch with him.

Australia’s then ambassador to the US, Joe Hockey, came to the rescue by getting Trump’s number from the US-based Greg Norman, who was a friend of the golf-mad president-elect.

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MacroBusiness Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 09:17 Source

The dead cat bounce in Chinese steel prices continued Friday, though SGX iron ore flamed out: The Dalian Death Cross is here: The latest MySteel data remains alarming: Its commentary is equally so: The blast furnace (BF) capacity utilization rate among the 247 Chinese steel producers under Mysteel’s regular tracking ended a four-week drop and

The post Iron ore outlook darkens further appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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MacroBusiness Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 09:05 Source

DXY is up and away: AUD was pounded: The AUD short is now ludicrous. It will not be easy to push it lower with this. Then again, ludicrous can become preposterous! CNY broke lower. This does not happen without permission: Brend and oil sagged: Copper false break? Big miner retest resumes: EM is tired: Junk

The post Australian dollar defenestrated by China appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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Your Democracy Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 08:05 Source

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MacroBusiness Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 08:00 Source

On April 20th, MacroBusiness’ very own Unconventional Economist, Leith van Onselen,  will be the headline speaker at a public forum in Adelaide:  “From housing crisis to eco-crisis: Why Australia’s population growth is unsustainable?” Leith will be joined by Dr Jane O’Sullivan and Peter Strachan, the incoming President of Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). SPA is hosting this

The post Say “No” to a Big Australia appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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Your Democracy Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 07:56 Source

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Kensington Palace had given little detail about Kate’s condition beyond saying it wasn’t cancer-related, the surgery was successful and recuperation would keep the princess away from public duties until April.

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Your Democracy Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 06:14 Source

While the Government this week announced another billion-dollar handout to foreign shipyards, this time in the UK, the mayor of Bathurst is putting his hand up for the town’s share of some of the $368B AUKUS loot. What’s the scam?

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Your Democracy Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 05:31 Source

The conflict in Ukraine does not directly affect France’s key national interests, the former leader of the far-right National Rally party, Marine Le Pen, told the BFM TV broadcaster on Wednesday. Le Pen, who led the party for more than a decade argued that “France’s vital interests are not in question.”

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New Politics Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 01:00 Source

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MacroBusiness Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 00:05 Source

International Reads: 44% of single family homes will likely never be back on the market. 95% of America should be concerned. – Medium Best Buy closes 24 stores this year, another 10-15 by next year, company says – ABC 7 Reddit CEO Steve Huffman defends his $193 million compensation following backlash from unpaid moderators –

The post Weekend Reading and MB Media Appearances appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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The Australian Independent Media Network Friday, March 22, 2024 - 22:00 Source

The ongoing commentary about the relative ages of the two Presidential candidates is becoming tedious. What matters most is their ability to lead. By the time of the election, Trump and Biden would have each spent a term in office. So, there has been sufficient time for the American people to have formed an opinion…

The post What has age got to do with it? appeared first on The AIM Network.

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Your Democracy Friday, March 22, 2024 - 20:09 Source

Why did Chuck Schumer call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an “obstacle to peace” and demand new elections in Israel just weeks before an IDF ground offensive in Rafah?

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MacroBusiness Friday, March 22, 2024 - 16:30 Source

An uneasy final session for Asian share markets after what was a solid overnight showing on Wall Street with the higher USD still weighing on sentiment. The Australian dollar has reversed course fully after looking boisterous previously, now back down towards the 65 handle. Oil prices are pausing their recent breakout as Brent crude remains

The post Macro Afternoon appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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Renew Economy Friday, March 22, 2024 - 15:46 Source
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Renew Economy Friday, March 22, 2024 - 14:37 Source
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Renew Economy Friday, March 22, 2024 - 14:22 Source
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THE BLOT REPORT Friday, March 22, 2024 - 14:16 Source

We went and checked the mail today after a few days of not doing so. Our post office box was pretty full, which is fairly unusual. The contents were stuffed in a bag as we had other things to do before we went home. On arrival at home, my partner opened the letters, one of which was addressed to me from the New South Wales government. It was a fine notice for a parking offence in Queanbeyan in early March. The fact that I hadn’t been to Queanbeyan at all this year made me scratch my head in disbelief. Initially I suspected that the fine notice may have been bogus (i.e.

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MacroBusiness Friday, March 22, 2024 - 14:00 Source

On Thursday, Statistics New Zealand released the Q4 national accounts, which were an absolute shocker. Overall GDP contracted by 0.1% in the December quarter, missing economists’ forecasts of a 0.1% rise. Along with some modest downward revisions to recent history, GDP growth was 0.3% weaker year-on-year than the Reserve were expecting. “In the context of

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MacroBusiness Friday, March 22, 2024 - 13:30 Source

Sharri Markson of Sky News interviewed me Thursday night about the latest population statistics from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, which broke records in all major jurisdictions. Below are highlights from the interview. Sharri Markson: New figures show that immigration numbers for the year to September have soared to nearly 550,000 people, more than twice

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