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U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest defiance of the courts — this time refusing to follow an appellate judge’s order to halt migrant deportations — has triggered another round of liberal outrage. Critics are calling it an authoritarian move, a blatant assault on the rule of law, and a warning sign that American democracy is on its last legs.

America’s librarians elected a Marxist to represent them and staked their reputation on providing explicitly sexual material to kids. It’s no surprise the Trump administration is pulling federal funding.

BY MARK HEMINGWAY

BNEF says Australia is on the cusp of a big battery boom that could deliver an eight-fold increase in capacity.

Peter Dutton’s call for East Coast Australia to start reserving gas has drawn the usual vested interest shrieking in your mainstream media. Most of it is utterly incoherent, and all of it creates a look suggesting that socially progressive media outlets love waking up with multinational capital and gas alongside them in the bed. Welcome

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Merchant.adventurers.of.london · DeepTandMisterG MB Radio 28 March 2025 After the announcement Australia would be going to the polls on Friday 28 March 2025, Deep T spoke about Australia’s economic structure and economic backdrop to the 2025 Federal election. Looking closely at the the announcement of a gas reservation policy should the LNP gain power, and

The inaugural Opacity in Real Estate Ownership (OREO) Index, published this week by the Anti-Corruption Data Collective (ACDC) in partnership with Transparency International, has ranked Australia last in the world. The report, released on 26 March, ranks major developed nations on two key criteria: 1) scope and accessibility of real estate ownership data and 2) the

President Donald Trump has made his fixation on Greenland abundantly clear—enough so to unnerve many of the people who live there. “I think Greenland is going to be something that maybe is in our future,” he told reporters this week, once again teasing the notion of annexation.

EU officials have demonstrated hypocrisy in how they have treated arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Russian and Israeli leaders, a political sciences professor at Birzeit University in the West Bank has told RT.

It was called a Budget reply, but the name was meaningless. Peter Dutton’s Thursday night effort was his election campaign pitch. Michael Pascoe reports it did have one good idea – but only one.

International Reading: Trump says US will ‘go as far as we have to’ to get control of Greenland – ABC It’s not just setting Teslas on fire. Now irate Americans are shoplifting from Whole Foods. – Business Insider Trump places 25% tariff on imported autos, expecting to raise $100 billion in tax revenues – AP

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Asian stock markets are having a poor finish to the trading week with most markets down amid noise around more Trump tariff nonsense, while the latest Japanese inflation figures sent local stocks sharply lower. The USD is lifting slightly against the major currency pairs, particularly Euro while the Australian dollar was pushed back below the

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A solar farm and big battery proposed for development north of Geelong has been fast-tracked for state approval after being named as a winner in the federal Capacity Investment Scheme.

Peter Dutton says he will lower the cost of gas. But will that translate into lower electricity prices? The answer is: No.