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Your Democracy Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 08:39 Source

Retired Royal Navy Rear Admiral Chris Parry stated that Russia would not be able to defend itself against a massive ICBM strike.

"One Trident submarine has the ability to incinerate 40 Russian cities very quickly. That is a lot of food for thought for Putin and that should make any world leader fearful," he told The Telegraph.

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New Politics Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 08:00 Source

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Your Democracy Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 07:44 Source

The big news on house insurance this week was the response of the insurance industry’s peak body to a parliamentary committee’s extensive criticisms of its treatment of people claiming on their policies after the massive floods of 2022.

 

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Your Democracy Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 06:47 Source

Former US President Joe Biden has offered to raise funds, campaign, and do whatever is needed to help Democrats regain ground lost to the Republicans during his tenure, NBC News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

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Your Democracy Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 06:00 Source

Broken promises and burned pipelines: Why diplomacy with Kiev is a dead endUkraine blew up a Russian gas facility just days after a mutual agreement not to do just that. As if anyone expected something different.

By Nadezhda Romanenko

 

In a brazen act of duplicity, Ukraine has once again demonstrated that it is not a reliable partner for diplomacy – let alone peace.

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MacroBusiness Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 00:10 Source

By Stephen Saunders  Major-party election-offerings are unsympathetic to ordinary voters. Coalition indolence (and overstated Trump fears) may well re-elect Labor or (heavens no) Labor-Greens. At MacroBusiness also The Australian, I’ve portrayed Election 2025 as a winning romp for the top 20% regardless of who becomes prime minister. Meaning, little improvement across crucial indicators such as

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MacroBusiness Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 00:05 Source

Global Reading: Trump’s trade war could claim a new victim: Canada and Europe are reconsidering $150 million Lockheed Martin fighter jets – Fortune Billionaire Peter Thiel Warns of a Looming Real Estate ‘Catastrophe’—A ‘Massive Hit to the Lower Middle Class and Young People’ Who Can’t Buy Homes – Yahoo Trump’s US Commerce Secretary, who owns

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Your Democracy Friday, March 21, 2025 - 21:47 Source

Russian President Vladimir Putin would breach a peace deal with Ukraine if it is not defended, Sir Keir Starmer has said, after attending a meeting of senior military leaders in London.

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MacroBusiness Friday, March 21, 2025 - 14:00 Source

CreditorWatch warned that almost one out of every six (16.2%) hospitality firms is at risk of failing due to high interest rates, rising rents, cost-of-living pressures, and the pandemic hangover. CreditorWatch forecast that roughly one in eleven (8.9%) food and beverage enterprises would close in 2025. The latest insolvency data from the Australian Securities and Investments

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MacroBusiness Friday, March 21, 2025 - 13:30 Source

This is so dumb or corrupt that I don’t know where to look. Sky. Shadow energy minister Susan McDonald has hit out at Labor over Australia’s looming gas crisis, declaring state and federal governments needed to “get out of the way” and allow more projects to proceed. …Speaking on Sky News Australia, shadow resources minister

The post Coalition rages about wrong gas problem appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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MacroBusiness Friday, March 21, 2025 - 13:00 Source

Australians are hurting following an 8% decline in real per capita household disposable income since the Albanese government came into office. Australian households have suffered from an inexorable rises in gas and electricity prices. Australian renters have suffered from a near 50% rise in rents since the pandemic, driven mainly by the surge in net

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