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The United Kingdom is set to announce new sanctions against Russia on Monday, marking three years since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy said Sunday.

What is omitted from the Coalition's nuclear policy costings is far more informative about the party's energy and climate leanings than anything contained in its modelling.

A rally on the steps of the Victorian Parliament under the banner of Jews for a Free Palestine was arranged for Sunday 9 February. At 11:11pm on the eve of that rally, Mark Leibler — lawyer, who claims to have a high profile and speak on behalf of Jews by the totally unelected organisation AIJAC — put out a tweet on X (and paid for an advertisement of the same posting) as follows:

This week, we have seen leaders in western Europe forced to move from fumbling cautious politeness to action as a result of the US president's various pronouncements.

There's no reason to think Australia's national interests will not be directly challenged in a similar way, whether that is over economic or geo-strategic interests, or even over political fashion.

DXY was firm. AUD legged down the leg up. Jaws still open. Oil was flogged. Can’t find an obvious reason. Commods mixed. Miners down. EM Deep Seeking continues. Junk yawn. Yields rolling? Stocks puked. US housing and services data was soft but not terrible. Perhaps everything was exaggerated by Batwoman’s new coronavirus. More likely were

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After what happened in the US on January 20th and subsequently, I have found myself constantly scrolling through assorted writings on Substack, where a large number of reasonably literate Americans, and some very astute Australians (e.g. John Quiggin, Tim Dunlop) are fulminating, or at least aghast at the idiotic petulance from the Mango Mussolini. I also recently heard this sort of scrolling being appropriately termed ‘doomscrolling’. This is defined as: “The act of spending too much time reading negative news online, especially on social media”.

Congratulations must go to the Albanese government and its Grand China Grovel, for it has delivered what is left of “Australia” a truly unprecedented outcome. When Qantas pilots jetting across the Tasman have to worry about the threat of potshots from Chinese warships, the stabilisation in relations between Canberra and Beijing has reached its limits.

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President Cyril Ramaphosa has downplayed the absence of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting, calling it “not a train smash.” Ramaphosa insisted that the US would still follow the outcomes of the discussions.

The rapid development of Artificial General Intelligence and advanced AI systems has ushered in a new era of technological capability. These systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated, capable of performing tasks that were once thought to require uniquely human intelligence.

AI, power and the future of human autonomy – A growing divide    By Yuri Koszarycz

Its all about Japan today as the latest inflation figures come in hot, sending a flurry of activity across the Japanese government bond market and Yen sharply lower as the BOJ indicates more rate rises are needed. Other Asian share markets are doing well although local shares are still flopping around due to the latest

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Mount Isa is looking to green energy and gravity storage in its disused mine shafts to secure a future for the city once its big mines close.