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US President Donald Trump has said that Washington could abandon efforts to find a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine conflict if Moscow and Kiev don’t engage in negotiations. He added, however, the US still hopes to see the fighting come to an end.

Speaking to reporters on Friday, Trump was asked to comment on remarks by the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who had suggested that the White House could walk away from efforts to broker a settlement.

Back in November, when I concluded that Trump’s dictatorship was a fait accompli lots of readers thought I was going over the top. In retrospect, and with one exception, I was hopelessly over-optimistic. I imagined a trajectory similar to Orban’s Hungary, with a gradual squeeze on political opposition and civil society, playing out over years and multiple terms in office,.

In the 2022 federal election, the "teals" and other independents had their finger on the voter pulse. What are they pushing for in 2025 as cost-of-living flavours energy policy?

The US has presented its allies with details of its peace plan to bring the conflict between Russia and Ukraine to an end, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing European officials familiar with the matter.

Trump’s actions were neither ‘spur of the moment’, nor whimsical. The ‘tariff solution’ had been pre-prepared by his team over years.

Bernie Sanders has been repeatedly uttering the phrase “Israel has a right to defend itself” on his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, which in the year 2025 can only be interpreted as blatant genocide apologia. 

Singaporean developer Aquila has reportedly started work on its long delayed wind project in Tasmania, after a reprieve from the state government.

The problem with the US political system is that every four years they elect a president whose power is almost unlimited. Now the US Supreme Court has granted presidents immunity from prosecution for criminal acts committed while in office. This not only gives Donald Trump a free pass for his past crimes, but sets a dangerous precedent for all future presidents. Before Trump, no one had even argued that presidents are absolutely immune from criminal liability after they leave office. Indeed, every president – including Trump himself – assumed the opposite.

FOLLOWING THE FAILED PEACE TALKS OF ISTANBUL BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE — DUE TO WESTERN INTERVENTION (BORIS JOHNSON IN KIEV) DEMANDING THAT THE WAR CONTINUED UNTIL THE KIEV REGIME “WON” (WEAKENED RUSSIA POSSIBLY TO THE POINT OF SURRENDER), THE WEST HELPED UKRAINE TO FIGHT ON AGAINST THE RUSSIANS. 

Achieving NET ZERO is a complex issue…

GUS LEONISKY HAS BEEN AT THE FOREFRONT OF EXPLAINING GLOBAL WARMING SINCE 1979. ON THIS SITE, WE STARTED 20 YEARS AGO WE EXPLAINED HOW today's CLIMATE CHANGE, A RESULTANT OF GLOBAL WARMING, PRESENTS MANY CHALLENGES AND DOUBTS THAT WE HAVE TO OVERCOME. 

UNFORTUNATELY, MANY HONEST ALTERNATIVE AND MAINSTREAM COMMENTATORS WILL ERRONEOUSLY LUMP OTHER CONSPIRACIES AND GLOBAL WARMING IN THE SAME BASKET. 

CoreLogic released its final auction results for last weekend. The clearance rate was just 59.9% nationally, the second time in three weeks it has been below 60%. The following chart plots the monthly average final auction clearance rate across the major markets. As you can see, the decline in the national final clearance rate has

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I managed to get some writing done while I was wandering through the brain fog after melanoma surgery, but I wasn't allowed to do any kind of exercise. And honestly, I wasn't in much of a mood for it. I felt pretty demotivated.

My PT, Darren, came around this afternoon, however, and we loaded up the barbell for a deadlift session. It feels like the engine has kicked over again.

I did a bit of a climb up the ladder and back down again.

Nobody is really interested, but I'll post the sequence here because it makes it more likely I’ll do something tomorrow when I wake up and see this.

Warm up sets.