On June 22, 2025, South Korean presidential spokesperson Kang Yu-jung announced that President Lee Jae-myung would not be participating in the NATO summit scheduled for June 24–25 in The Hague. She referred to domestic priorities and the escalating uncertainty in the Middle East as reasons for the decision.
Why Lee Jae-myung Did Not Attend the NATO Summit
DXY is trying to rally as EUR falls. AUD is doing OK, but I am increasingly concerned it will top out here. That said, the big short is relentless support. Lead boots have stalled. Gold a bit better. BTC has broken out. Metal flamed out. The big mining bear has room to rally and remain
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Everything old is new again in Australia’s parasitic media. Nothing more so than house prices as we head into another monetary policy easing cycle. The media, which largely relies on real estate revenues to exist, loves to pretend to care. These days, ABC is dedicated entirely to pretence. This small gathering of homeowners and politicians
CALL AGAINST WAREuropean leaders are preparing for war. A vast rearmament program is underway. And it is the working class they will ask to pay the price for their weapons and their wars, through taxes, cuts to our social benefits, a decline in our living standards, and our blood and sweat.The order established after World War II is disintegrating—politically, financially, and militarily.
As summer warms Istanbul's waters, the megacity's authorities are having to battle a noxious algal bloom dubbed "sea snot".
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Russian counterpart on 10 July that Beijing and Moscow should strengthen strategic coordination to promote peace in West Asia.
If you are curious about the differences in methodology between myself and the usual auction data providers, there is an explanation down the page. This weeks result brought something of a rare result to the Sydney and Melbourne auction markets. The headline sold to listed clearance rate in Sydney eclipsed that of Melbourne, with
Quite often online when someone is amazed or annoyed by something (quite often an incidence of MAGA stupidity or bastardry), they will use the exclamation ‘JFC!’, short for ‘Jesus F*****g Christ’. I have been known to use a similar one; ‘JHC!’ or with increased exasperation requiring more emphasis, ‘Jesus H. Christ’, or with a tinge of disgust at my inability, for example, to pot a sitter at our weekly snooker game, ‘Jesus H. Christ on a bike’.
How “humour” opens the door to far right politics.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th July 2025
Membership of the Chinese Communist Party has just exceeded 100 million. It has long been the largest political party in world history.
Western Europe is “losing” the economic competition with its main rivals, China and the US, and is struggling with a shortage of globally competitive companies, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has said.
The US has removed Syria’s al-Qaeda franchise from its list of designated terrorist organisations just days after the UK added nonviolent activist group Palestine Action to its own list of banned terrorist groups.
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Britain and France have unveiled a new agreement to coordinate their nuclear arsenals more closely, citing what they see as heightened “threats”to security in Europe. Moscow has called the move part of NATO’s overtly anti-Russian policy, warning it would factor the agreement into its military planning.