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Your Democracy
Sunday, April 21, 2024 - 19:23
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THE BLOT REPORT
Sunday, April 21, 2024 - 19:05
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Your Democracy
Sunday, April 21, 2024 - 18:11
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Washington Syndrome: Australia’s sovereignty sell-out hidden in plain sight Australian Defence Force in the decades ahead. As media quibbled about this equipment purchase or that one, former Senator and submariner Rex Patrick explains the sovereignty sell-out hidden in plain sight. Washington Syndrome |
Left Focus
Sunday, April 21, 2024 - 17:35
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The Australian Independent Media Network
Sunday, April 21, 2024 - 17:09
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Ok, some of you may have noticed that I’ve been on holiday… Just in case that seems a little egocentric, I’m sorry. It’s just that someone commented about one of my recent contributions that they’d been waiting to see what I made of it and it sort of made me think that there were people… The post A Lot Has Happened While I’ve Been Away… appeared first on The AIM Network. |
Your Democracy
Sunday, April 21, 2024 - 14:24
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in our mediocre universe, FOXnews would be naturally wrong and Morning Joe (Screaming Joe Scarborough ENDS His Career Live On MSNBC in a RAGE!!!) “could be” right… But we live in the inverted parallel real Joe Biden deceitful fascist world of loony democrats, where FOXnews is a bit more correct and Morning Joe is an explosive banana rotting on the spot… |
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The Australian Independent Media Network
Sunday, April 21, 2024 - 13:39
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“Can we still see universities as places to learn and produce knowledge that, at the risk of sounding naïve, is for the greater good of humanity, independently transient of geopolitical skirmishes?” Wanning Sun from the University of Technology, Sydney, asks in hope. “The history of universities during the Cold War era tells us that it… The post Universities for AUKUS: The Social License Confidence Trick appeared first on The AIM Network. |
Major wind farm withdrawn after more planning delays, downsizing, name changes and fierce opposition |
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Your Democracy
Sunday, April 21, 2024 - 06:45
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Your Democracy
Sunday, April 21, 2024 - 06:20
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Top secret papers reviewed by The Grayzone reveal Tony Blair demanded strikes on civilian targets in Yugoslavia days before NATO attacked them. While the UK military acknowledged a NATO strike on Hotel Jugoslavia would mean inflicting “some civilian casualties,” it insisted the deaths were “worth the cost.”
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Your Democracy
Sunday, April 21, 2024 - 05:49
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The legal team representing high-powered insurers Lloyd’s and Arch says that since the Nord Stream explosions were “more likely than not to have been inflicted by… a government,” they have no responsibility to pay for damages to the pipelines. To succeed with that defense, the companies will presumably be compelled to prove, in court, who carried out those attacks.
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Your Democracy
Sunday, April 21, 2024 - 05:37
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Australia’s carbon offset scheme costs a lot and captures almost no carbon but provides a fig leaf for continuing emissions. Technology-based Carbon Dioxide Removal is still a distant dream. Distributed energy resources can be the Swiss Army knife of the electricity system.
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Your Democracy
Sunday, April 21, 2024 - 05:29
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The House of Representatives held a rare Saturday session to vote on $95 billion in proposed aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, with the vote, desperately sought after by the White House, Democrats and neocon Republicans since October, coming after months of efforts by pro-MAGA lawmakers to focus resources on the crisis at the US’ southern border. |
Your Democracy
Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 18:50
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The New York Times coverage of the Israeli carnage in Gaza, like that of other mainstream U.S. media, is a disgrace to journalism. This assertion should not surprise anyone. U.S. media is driven neither by facts nor morality, but by agendas, calculating and power hunger.
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Your Democracy
Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 18:32
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In a dramatic break from his party’s hardline conservative base, US House Speaker MIke Johnson this week praised the country’s deep state, named Russia, China, and Iran as an “axis of evil,” and vowed to put his job on the line to funnel more than $60 billion to Kiev. |
John Quiggin
Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 14:53
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Robert Farley has replied to my recent post on the obsolescence of naval power. Unlike our previous exchange, a pile-on where I was (as he points out) in a minority of one, Robert’s tone is mostly civil this time, and I intend to reciprocate. Our disagreements have narrowed a fair way. On many points, it’s a matter of whether the glass is half-full or half-empty. |
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MacroBusiness
Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 10:24
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DXY looks to be getting set for break out: AUD virtue signalled a crash: North Asia is going nowhere: Oil virtue signalled an embargo. The gold whale swims on: Wall Street is handing the world another commodity inflation shock: Big miners are heavy underperformers as iron ore struggles: EM stocks yawned: Junk offering hope for The post Australia dollar virtue signals a crash appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
MacroBusiness
Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 09:24
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The latest data on the Chinese property market remains terrible. Via Goldman: Developers are still frozen out of funding markets and focused on completions, not starts. Excavator hours suggest only more downsides for new project starts: Steel demand is down big as well. Steel output is awful: Energy consumption via coal is going nowhere. The post Iron ore rises into thin air appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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New Politics
Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 07:55
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Your Democracy
Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 07:30
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Two articles discussing how state terrorism is applied against environmental activists. The first article from Reporterre tells how state terrorism is used against environmentalists, as in any self-respecting dictatorship, sequestration and torture (beating). The second article is Contre Attaque analyzes the situation and its purpose: to terrorize. In the basement of anti-terrorism, the hell of environmental activists |
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MacroBusiness
Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 07:07
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What is Money and why is the creation of Money something which is both fundamentally important to the financial and economic system, while at the same time something almost never considered, with the actual mechanics of it virtually unknown? This is the first of what will be a series of podcast discussions with The post Money for the Masses: The Introductory Podcast appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Your Democracy
Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 06:38
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In the latest Reuters/Ipsos Core Political poll, Americans continue to report political extremism or threats to democracy as their top issue facing the country, followed by the economy and immigration.
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The Australian Independent Media Network
Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 06:33
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By Roger Chao The Silent Truth In the tumult of a raging battle, beneath the echoing cries, Where shadows merge with fading lights, the silent truth belies. A world not split by borders, nor by rifles drawn in dread, But bound by shared existence, in the spaces tear-stained red. We gather here as fragments… The post The Silent Truth appeared first on The AIM Network. |
Your Democracy
Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 06:31
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I don’t want to appall the diplomats present by using a vulgarism, but Pillar two [of AUKUS] is fragrant methane-wrapped bullshit. Australia and New Zealand are beautifully placed to nurture and defend a different model of relationships between the prevailing power [the US] and the rising power [China]: A different approach from the one that says war is inevitable, says former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr.
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Your Democracy
Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 06:00
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MacroBusiness
Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 00:10
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Australian households have already been hit harder than almost anywhere else by rising mortgage rates: This surge in debt servicing costs has helped drive a record decline in Australian household disposable income: Analysis by Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) economist Benjamin Ung notes that the proportion of home loans with fixed interest rates peaked at The post Aussie mortgage rates will continue rising appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
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MacroBusiness
Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 00:05
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International Reads: Millennials want to retire by 60. Good luck with that. – USA Today The cost of owning a home is officially the highest on record, Redfin says. Here’s how bad it is out there – Fortune Florida sees thousands of people quit their jobs – News Week Dropbox’s CEO says managers mandating returns The post Weekend Reading and MB Media Appearances appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
The Australian Independent Media Network
Friday, April 19, 2024 - 21:50
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In 2013, I wrote a piece titled, “Climate Change: A layperson’s Dilemma” in which I pointed out the debunked theories of people like Andrew Bolt, Prof Ian Plimer, Tony Abbott, Alan Jones, Barnaby Joyce, Pauline Hanson, Malcolm Roberts, and others who insisted that climate change did not exist. Science won the day, proving beyond doubt… The post Nuclear Energy: A Layperson’s Dilemma appeared first on The AIM Network. |
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MacroBusiness
Friday, April 19, 2024 - 16:30
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Asian stock markets are having a bad end to the trading week due to the Israeli/Iranian conflict across the Middle East, with a strong safe haven bid in USD pushing all of undollars down further. The Australian dollar was trying to rebound after its recent large reversal but failed as it was briefly pushed below The post Macro Afternoon appeared first on MacroBusiness. |
Renew Economy
Friday, April 19, 2024 - 15:25
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