DXY has stopped falling and that’s about all we can say about it. AUD is the reverse. CNY same, same. Gold is volatile! Oil jumped on possible new Russia sanctions but it is stuffed. Not so AI metals. RIO is the chosen AI metals king. EM can’t run without DXY gfalling. Junk is stuck. US
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US President Donald Trump is set to support South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham* at a fundraiser and golf tournament next month, according to US media reports.
The upcoming November event has already been dubbed the “Trump-Graham Classic.”
When Sanae Takaichi became Japan’s first female prime minister, headlines hailed a “historic moment” – a symbol of progress and national renewal. A conservative firebrand molded in Shinzo Abe’s image, she vowed to “work, work, work” for Japan’s rebirth.
Before the cock crows, I’m happy to admit I was educated in the Roman Catholic tradition under the largely effective tutelage of the Dominican Fathers. Like the Jesuits, the Dominicans placed special emphasis on study, critical thinking and the pursuit of truth. As I slouch into my winter years, I’m still trying to think critically and pursue truth whatever that is and wherever it might take me.
Many Australian journalists think Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Ambassador Kevin Rudd did a wonderful job this week in handling the corrupt narcissist who runs the United States, Donald Trump.
Of course, forelock tugging to monarchs is an essential in the Australian political leaders’ toolbox (former prime ministers Paul Keating and Gough Whitlam excepted).
The Australian Energy Market Operator’s (AEMO) Integrated System Plan (ISP) is a roadmap for transitioning Australia’s energy system to net zero emissions by 2050. It outlines the necessary investments in generation, storage, and transmission to meet consumer needs and government renewable energy and emissions targets. AEMO’s ISP was built on the fantastical assumption that Australian
In my palaeontological peregrinations, I occasionally refer to papers that may be everything from months to nearly two centuries old. For instance, one of the seminal papers in the early study of trilobites was a paper by Ignaz Hawle & August Corda entitled ‘Prodrom einer Monographie der böhmischen Trilobiten’ (Prodrome of a monograph on Bohemian trilobites)1. Searching the web for the two authors’ names shows how common references are to this paper in much more recent publications on trilobites, not just from Bohemia but from all around the world.
Bob Katter claims Gaza refugees are part of Hamas, as the Queensland MP continues to position himself as one of Parliament’s most outspoken defenders of Israel. Stephanie Tran reports.
The government is trying to set us against our ecosystems. We must resist this Trumpian gambit.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 16th October 2025
Crucial to the government’s war on nature is the “cauldron principle”. If a species is to be blamed for “holding up development”, it must be one you might find in a witch’s cauldron. The culprits are never dormice, otters, water voles, nightingales, turtle doves or orchids, widely considered cute or beautiful. They are bats, newts, snails and spiders.
On the Afghan–Uzbek border, the first thing you notice is the noise. Trains, trucks, and buses move in both directions almost without pause. For the first time in decades, the hum of trade has replaced the sound of gunfire.
How trade is winning the war that armies couldn’t
Trade replaces war on the CIS’s southern frontier
By Timofey Bordachev
Man, it turns out writing a book in less than seven years is really hard work and takes quite a bit of time each day. Not seven years, of course, but quite a few hours every day if you want to deliver it in less than seven years