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MacroBusiness Sunday, August 31, 2025 - 14:44 Source

By Lucinda Jerogin, Associate Economist at CBA Australian headline inflation surprised to the upside, sharply rising by 2.8%/yr in July. However, electricity and travel prices contributed to the majority of the forecast miss and will likely unwind in coming months. The Minutes of the August Monetary Policy Board meeting highlighted a shift in focus for

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Your Democracy Sunday, August 31, 2025 - 14:19 Source

Donald Trump demonstrates deep understanding of George Soros' nefarious role in supporting “engineered chaos,” both inside the US and abroad, retired Colonel Hatem Saber, an Egyptian expert in international counterterrorism and information warfare, tells Sputnik.

"Democrats use Soros and his organizations as tools for regime change," Saber says.

Saber highlighted the evolution of Soros’ role by decades:

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Renew Economy Sunday, August 31, 2025 - 13:59 Source
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THE BLOT REPORT Sunday, August 31, 2025 - 11:44 Source

I wrote a piece about the religious bastardry afoot in the US about 18 months ago which argued the Christian nationalism was a misnomer, and that christofascism was a much more accurate term1.

Looking into the history of democracy superficially made me wonder why most democratic nations became democratic when the church was politically much more powerful and had a great deal of influence over the lives of most of the populace, while now many of the churches in the US are antidemocratic in that they have been cheerleaders for Trump, who is rapidly dismantling US democracy. What has changed?

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MacroBusiness Sunday, August 31, 2025 - 10:04 Source

Australia’s auction market has gathered strength over recent months. Last week’s national final auction clearance rate of 70.0% was the strongest result since the week ending 11th February 2024 (70.3%). This weekend’s preliminary auction clearance results showed further strength, with Cotality reporting a national preliminary clearance rate of 76.3%, a full percentage point higher than

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Renew Economy Sunday, August 31, 2025 - 09:19 Source
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Your Democracy Sunday, August 31, 2025 - 09:10 Source

Speech: “Friends, AMERICANS, EUROPEANS, PLAY THE PIANO WITH YOUR DICK”

BY WILLIAM URBANOSKI

(from URSULA MACRONUS, spoken by THE GHOST OF ZELENSKIKI*…)

 

Friends, AMERICANS, EUROPEANS, PLAY THE PIANO WITH YOUR DICK;

I CAME to bury PUTIN, not to praise ME.

The evil that WE do lives after WE DIE;

OUR BONES ARE interred with OUR BAD INTENT;

So let it be with PUTIN. The noble TRUMPUS

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Your Democracy Saturday, August 30, 2025 - 16:00 Source

US Vice President J.D. Vance has accused Politico of running a “foreign influence operation” against special envoy Steve Witkoff, blasting the outlet’s reporting as “journalistic malpractice” for relying on anonymous officials while excluding on-the-record statements from senior figures who defended him.

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Your Democracy Saturday, August 30, 2025 - 14:58 Source

On July 30, 2025, the United States announced 25 percent tariffs on Indian goods [SINCE THEN TRUMP HAS INCREASE THIS TO 50%]. While diplomatic tensions simmered on the trade front, a cosmic calm prevailed at the Sriharikota launch range. Officials from NASA and ISRO were preparing to launch an engineering marvel into space—the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR), marking a significant milestone in the India-U.S. bilateral partnership.

 

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MacroBusiness Saturday, August 30, 2025 - 11:54 Source

Virtually every opinion poll held over the past decade shows that Australians do not support high immigration nor the rapid growth in population, which is straining our major cities. In the 60 years following World War II, Australia’s net overseas migration (NOM) averaged 90,000 per annum. In only two years over that 60-year period, NOM

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Your Democracy Saturday, August 30, 2025 - 11:42 Source

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico announced his upcoming visit to China for the Victory Day Parade during a powerful speech in Bratislava commemorating the Slovak National Uprising.

Fico condemned what he called a resurgence of fascism and nazism in Europe, warned against escalating East-West tensions, and defended the Soviet Union’s role in Slovakia’s WWII liberation. He stressed the importance of remembering historical truth, stating:

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Your Democracy Saturday, August 30, 2025 - 10:01 Source

During her visit to Denmark, Kallas was asked directly by a journalist whether the EU would provide security guarantees in the event of an American attack on Greenland. She responded that the EU “respects the decisions of Greenland, whatever they may be,” and supports Denmark as a member state of the Union. Kallas emphasized that the EU would show solidarity with Denmark “as a worthy member state,” but avoided addressing the military dimension of the question.

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Your Democracy Saturday, August 30, 2025 - 09:16 Source

The International Court of Justice handed down a significant climate action advisory opinion at the behest of the UN last month. Rex Patrick looks at Australia’s response.

So far, Australia’s approach to the ICJ’s climate advisory has been to try having its carbon cake and eating it too.

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Your Democracy Saturday, August 30, 2025 - 07:58 Source

For 80 years the world has sympathised with and supported Israel through the prism of the indescribably brutal Holocaust.

 

George Browning

Never again – so the world pledged

 

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Your Democracy Saturday, August 30, 2025 - 07:29 Source

Defence Minister Richard Marles  said in June that if war broke out between the US and China, Australia would inevitably be involved.

 

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Your Democracy Saturday, August 30, 2025 - 06:55 Source

Alastair Crooke’s remarkable analysis of Trump in the context of myth as geopolitics has left us with much to ponder. There’s no escape from Trump’s “extraordinary ability to dominate the discourse”, globally, as well as his capacity for “bending people to his will” – and thus wreak havoc on the geopolitical chessboard.

 

Mythic Trump: the incendiary Narcissus

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MacroBusiness Saturday, August 30, 2025 - 00:10 Source

The latest rate cut from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has stimulated the housing market, with Cotality reporting the strongest national final auction clearance rate since February 2024. Across the combined capital cities, 70.0% of homes taken to auction sold. This was the highest clearance rate since the week ending 11th February 2024 (70.3%).

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MacroBusiness Saturday, August 30, 2025 - 00:05 Source

International Reading: Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than the rest of America’s taxpayers, new study finds – CBS News Trump Seems Pretty Socialist These Days – Bloomberg Trump’s Appointees Could Rule the Fed for Decades – NY Times It turns out Gen Z is not ‘thriving’ the way they thought they would be: ‘American

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MacroBusiness Friday, August 29, 2025 - 16:00 Source

Asian share markets are finishing the trading week in a mixed mood with US and European stock futures not moving much as they anticipate a long weekend for the former and the end of week/month double witching session. The USD is steady against most of the majors but losing ground against the commodity currencies with

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Renew Economy Friday, August 29, 2025 - 13:32 Source
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Your Democracy Friday, August 29, 2025 - 13:30 Source

It's the most expensive single defense project in Europe, with a projected cost of at least €100 billion ($116.6 billion). From 2040, the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) aims to combine a new European fighter jet with fleets of drones controlled via a European defense cloud.

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MacroBusiness Friday, August 29, 2025 - 13:30 Source

The latest official labour force survey showed that New Zealand’s unemployment rate lifted to 5.2% in Q2 2025, the highest rate since Q4 2016. New Zealand’s underutilisation rate, which combines unemployment and underemployment, also surged, indicating a significant surplus capacity in the labour market. On Thursday, Statistics New Zealand released its filled jobs survey, which

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Renew Economy Friday, August 29, 2025 - 13:20 Source
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MacroBusiness Friday, August 29, 2025 - 13:00 Source

The Market Ear with more. Finally? Gold flirting with a break out above the huge triangle like formation. Complex psychology has developed inside this consolidation… Source: LSEG Workspace Frustration Gold net non commercials front ran a move lower, but gold has moved higher. Plenty of room to increase the long… Source: LSEG Workspace Computers –

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MacroBusiness Friday, August 29, 2025 - 12:30 Source

Albo’s anti-American rabble is mounting is pretending to care about ANZUS. The Australian. As Richard Marles engaged in high-level speed dating with ­Donald Trump’s top officials in the White House, Anthony Albanese was rolling out the red carpet in Canberra for an influential US Republican congressman. After a seven-month pursuit, Albanese is within striking distance

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Renew Economy Friday, August 29, 2025 - 12:02 Source
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MacroBusiness Friday, August 29, 2025 - 12:00 Source

Join us this week as Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen looks at the difference between GDP and company profits, discussing when you can get divergences and how investors should think about returns. Can’t make it to the live series? Catch up on the content via Podcasts or our recorded Videos. Damien Klassen is Chief Investment Officer at

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