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MacroBusiness Sunday, May 4, 2025 - 11:30 Source

There are hints of the trade shock landing on China but they are so far minor. American freight route costs have pancaked. But freight volumes are still fine. Perhaps as dumping elsewhere begins. Ahead is a problem. With some offset already accelerating on the ground. It’s not going to be a banner year for China.

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MacroBusiness Sunday, May 4, 2025 - 10:37 Source

DXY is making hard work of it. AUD is ripping your face off now. Lead boots will be lead boots. Oil is about to crater. I will buy a deeper gold pullback. Metals have no interest in growth. Miners yuck. EM gapped into madness. Junmk says no bueno. Treasuries are confused. Stocks are on fire

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Your Democracy Sunday, May 4, 2025 - 10:01 Source

Australia's socialist leader Anthony Albanese cruises to election victory thanks to anti-Trump bump - just six days after same happened in Canada

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MacroBusiness Sunday, May 4, 2025 - 08:42 Source

The federal election has delivered a stomping Labor victory with the party winning 85 seats and a comfortable majority, with 19 seats still in doubt. The Coalition was routed, scoring one of its lowest primary votes on record. Leader Peter Dutton lost his seat (good riddance), alongside senior figures like Michael Sukkar. Shadow immigration minister

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Your Democracy Sunday, May 4, 2025 - 08:11 Source

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Your Democracy Sunday, May 4, 2025 - 07:21 Source

The increased use of private military companies to wage covert warfare is here to stay. Valère Llobet takes a look at a sector that's not affected by the crisis.

While mercenary work is arguably the second oldest profession in the world, the emergence of private military companies (PMCs) is more recent.

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Your Democracy Sunday, May 4, 2025 - 06:50 Source

Imagine how this would have been reported if Russian soldiers had executed Ukrainians in this way. Not like this, you can be sure.

Here is yet another example of stunningly craven journalism from The Guardian, entirely illustrative of what is going on across the British establishment media in its coverage of Israeli war crimes in Gaza for the past 18 months.

 

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Your Democracy Sunday, May 4, 2025 - 06:06 Source

Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much?

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The Tally Room Sunday, May 4, 2025 - 04:48 Source

Good morning, I have been writing this blog post after getting home to wrap my own head around the scale of the count. I expect I will have some issues with the website’s accessibility today, so some of this may also be posted over on Tally Room in Exile, my backup blog.

Firstly, it appears that there has been a significant increase in the number of contests involving minor parties and independents, but it will be some time before we can say how many seats are now non-classic.

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Your Democracy Saturday, May 3, 2025 - 22:46 Source

Anthony Albanese will hold power as prime minister after leading Labor to an extraordinary victory at the federal election and driving Peter Dutton to the brink of defeat in his home seat.

A significant swing to Labor in more than a dozen seats put Labor in position to increase its majority in parliament, with some supporters calling the results a landslide.

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The Tally Room Saturday, May 3, 2025 - 18:00 Source

Polls have just closed on the east coast.

You can discuss the election results here tonight.

I won’t be liveblogging tonight – I’ll be helping with the ABC’s election coverage. But I’ll be back on Sunday with some written analysis and a podcast.

I suspect the website may struggle with traffic tonight, but I am just going to let it cope as best it can.

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THE BLOT REPORT Saturday, May 3, 2025 - 16:32 Source

It is a beautiful, cool, sunny, Saturday morning in Canberra, and my partner and I just walked the few hundred metres to the local school hall to vote in the federal election, both for the House of Representatives and for half of the Senate. Federal and state elections are always held on Saturdays in Australia and voting is compulsory. The House of Representatives is voted on in its entirety every 3 years while the Senate is voted on every 6 years, with half of them facing the voters at the same time as the House of Representatives does.

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Your Democracy Saturday, May 3, 2025 - 11:00 Source

"The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders. When we lay off, more and more Iranians tend to be critical of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The more abusive we are and the more pressure we put on them, the more nationalism fuses with fundamentalism in Iran."

- Zbigniew Brzezinski  

 

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Your Democracy Saturday, May 3, 2025 - 10:47 Source

This week marks the 50-year anniversary of the end of the U.S. war against the country and people of Vietnam. Americans refer to the war as the Vietnam War, but it was actually an American war.

This war had a huge impact on me, my generation and, of course, the Vietnamese.

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