A modest bounce on Wall Street overnight due to the weaker than expected CPI print was somewhat overshadowed by the Bank of Canada forced to make another interest rate cut to forestall the effects of the slowing domestic economy due to Trump’s tariffs, while the Canadian government announced another round of targeted counter tariffs alongside
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Ukrainian forces encircled in Kursk Region – Russia’s top generalEighty-six percent of Kursk Region’s territory previously held by Ukraine has been liberated, Valery Gerasimov has claimed
France hosts European defense ministers to discuss Ukraine's security guarantees
Europe’s panicked response to the shift in Washington’s priorities raises a number of intriguing questions, not least why its leadership was so ill-prepared for the second coming of Donald Trump.
How the West was lost By Mahir Ali
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has given a lengthy interview with three US bloggers who traveled to Moscow. The discussion touched on Russian relations with the administration of US President Donald Trump, the settlement of the Ukraine conflict, and other issues.
COVID pandemic likely unleashed by lab mishap: Germany's BNDTimothy Jones with Reuters and AFPGermany's spy agency thinks an accident in a Chinese lab likely led to the COVID-19 pandemic, media say. Evidence it collected allegedly indicates negligence at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Recall the latest rental affordability report from PropTrack, which showed that rental affordability was the worst on record in Q4 2024, with lower-income earners hardest hit. This collapse in affordability has been driven by the 48% surge in asking rents since the beginning of the pandemic. ABC’s Q&A featured a question from a father, Morgan Cox,
I'm on the Ukrainian 'Enemies List' due to my work at
@infowars and with @RealAlexJones on the Ukraine proxy war…
The group who compiled this list is tied to the U.S. State Dept, USAID, CIA and George Soros….. JAMIE WHITE.
Asian share markets are somewhat mixed again as Diaper Don swings away again with tariff threats and retreats as this engineered recession and market correction gathers pace, this time hitting Australia with steel and aluminium tariffs – for no reason whatsoever. The USD is trying to fight back but is seeing continued weakness against Euro
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Well, that was distracting.
I was doing pretty well until Alfred turned up.
I wrote about tweaking my workflow a little while ago—getting some real extra productivity out of my new dictation set up. Surprising how quickly that fell apart in the teeth of a cyclone. Not that it was much of a cyclone, really. More of a weird omni-storm that rolled in late and outstayed its welcome.
Around 11:30 on Saturday night, Thomas woke me up to tell me there was a leak in the hallway just outside our bedroom. And he wasn’t wrong.
CoreLogic’s February housing market report contained the following graphic on dwelling value growth across Australia’s major capital cities. As you can see, Brisbane dwelling values have soared by 69.7% over the past five years, whereas Melbourne’s have only risen by a comparatively modest 8.2%. As a result, Brisbane’s median dwelling value was $894,425 as of