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Your Democracy Sunday, August 3, 2025 - 10:45 Source

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has announced it will cease its operations early next year after losing its budget to US President Donald Trump’s cuts.

Operations will be gradually wound down over the next few months, the CPB announced on Friday. Founded in 1967, it has been responsible for stewarding over 1,500 public television and radio stations, including major US broadcasters PBS and NPR. 

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MacroBusiness Sunday, August 3, 2025 - 08:37 Source

DXY is a flamed-out rocket. AUD chaos! AUD big short still intact. Lead boots into the pit. Gold up, oil down. Metals mixed. Mining big bear plods on. EM bust. Junk down, yields down, growth no bueno. Stocks smashed. ISM was soft. US jobs and PCE were a bad combination Thursday and Friday. PCE was

The post Australian dollar catches Pox Americana appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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Your Democracy Sunday, August 3, 2025 - 07:19 Source

A Republican Party social media post on Friday aimed at promoting American manufacturing has drawn ridicule online after users identified the car featured in the image as a presumably Soviet-made Lada, not a product of the US auto industry.

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Your Democracy Sunday, August 3, 2025 - 05:55 Source

Russia Cripples NATO Armor—Australia's Abrams Rushed Into Growing Tank Graveyard!

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Your Democracy Sunday, August 3, 2025 - 04:53 Source

 

LARRY PICKERING WAS A POPULAR RIGHT WING AUSTRALIAN CARTOONIST. HERE GUS MISCHIEF ONE OF HIS MOST INCISIVE TOON ABOUT THE STATE OF THE USA IN THE 1970s.

Senior members of the US Democratic Party and their benefactors are listed in the Epstein documents, X owner Elon Musk has claimed.

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Your Democracy Saturday, August 2, 2025 - 08:02 Source

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Your Democracy Saturday, August 2, 2025 - 05:55 Source

 

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that Delhi's relationship with Moscow remains a "point of irritation" in India-US ties.

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Your Democracy Saturday, August 2, 2025 - 05:06 Source

A reality of our day: The Israeli Government, with the full support of the United States, is conducting genocide in Gaza. Numerous other countries, including Australia, as well as a multitude of corporations worldwide are complicit.

Question: Why are Australian institutions so silent, so quiet, in the face of obvious and evident mass slaughter, another holocaust?

 

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Your Democracy Saturday, August 2, 2025 - 04:44 Source

Donald Trump says US nuclear submarines are being repositioned in response to "provocative statements" from Russia's former president, Dmitry Medvedev.

In a Truth Social post on Friday, Washington time, the US president wrote: 

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MacroBusiness Saturday, August 2, 2025 - 00:10 Source

At the end of 2024, CoreLogic (now Cotality) reported that Australia’s housing affordability—both to purchase and rent—was the worst on record, as illustrated by the graphic below. Home prices relative to incomes, the percentage of income required to service a mortgage, the number of years taken to save a deposit, and the percentage of income

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MacroBusiness Saturday, August 2, 2025 - 00:05 Source

International Reading: Beginning tomorrow, Trump Tariffs Will Affect Nearly 75 Percent of US Food Imports. – Tax Foundation How Trump’s tariffs could affect your grocery bill  – The Hill Trump Ends Tariff Exemption For Small Packages – Wired Bessent: Trump Has ‘Backdoor to Privatizing Social Security’ – Mediaite The US Will Be the Biggest Loser

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Your Democracy Friday, August 1, 2025 - 20:49 Source

The EU was not “feared enough”during negotiations with the US on the newly-signed trade agreement between the two, French President Emmanuel Macron has said, according to Euractiv. 

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