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Club Troppo Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 21:39 Source

Many people think that if Medicare works for getting sick, it must also work for dental and anxiety and ADHD and various other types of problems.That isn’t necessarily the case.One big problem for any sort of health intervention is the interested carer. They have an incentive to suggest you need treatment.In the case of classic sickness, overtreatment has been restrained through various mechanisms.

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Your Democracy Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 20:24 Source

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THE BLOT REPORT Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 20:19 Source
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MacroBusiness Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 09:40 Source

What a difference an election makes! DXY is in free fall. EUR surging. AUD follows EUR and is threatening a 2025 breakout. Concrete boots are stable. Gold is in heaven. Nobody needs an oil rally. Metals ex-copper are signaling much weaker growth. Big miner’s big bear is intact. EM meh. Junk skunk. Yields have at

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Your Democracy Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 09:04 Source

If you think the Russian army's numerous battlefield victories are a clear sign that the war is nearing its end, you are sorely mistaken. As I said earlier, the closer Russia gets to victory in this conflict, the more dangerous Ukraine and its Western backers become.

 

Russia deploys world's most powerful and fastest 'annihilation system'

by Borzzikman

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Your Democracy Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 07:36 Source

More journalists have been killed in Israel’s genocide in Gaza than in the past seven major U.S.-involved wars combined, marking the “worst ever conflict” for reporters in history, a new report says.

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Your Democracy Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 07:30 Source

The unplumbed depths of Peter Dutton cynical politics should be a matter of deep concern to genuine political conservatives across Australia. Whoever those people are (at present they appear to be in hiding), its time they distanced themselves from what the Liberal Party is becoming under Duttons leadership.

 

Allan Patience

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Your Democracy Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 06:12 Source

Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz doesn’t officially take office until May 6, but that hasn’t stopped him from hitting the press circuit like it’s demolition day. Apparently, he’s got some lost time – and infrastructure – to make up for. 

 

Germany wants the UK to hold its hand while it starts WWIIIThe chancellor-in-waiting says he would commit to giving Kiev long-range missiles if London backs him

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Your Democracy Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 05:50 Source

Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared an Easter truce in Ukraine, the Kremlin press service said Saturday, over three years after Moscow launched a full-scale offensive of the neighboring country.

The unilateral break in fighting is scheduled to last from Saturday evening until midnight on Sunday local time.

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MacroBusiness Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 04:12 Source

  Weird things happen.   At 2 o’clock in the morning on Easter Sunday a mate at the BBC beams me a question.  “Haven’t your mates been saying this for years?’ seconds before another Youtube video link is fed through.  This is it.     Within minutes another close mate a long way up the

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Your Democracy Saturday, April 19, 2025 - 22:01 Source

US President Donald Trump has said that Washington could abandon efforts to find a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine conflict if Moscow and Kiev don’t engage in negotiations. He added, however, the US still hopes to see the fighting come to an end.

Speaking to reporters on Friday, Trump was asked to comment on remarks by the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who had suggested that the White House could walk away from efforts to broker a settlement.

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MacroBusiness Saturday, April 19, 2025 - 20:44 Source

      Australia & New Zealand       Europe       Asia   Americas …and the rest…

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John Quiggin Saturday, April 19, 2025 - 18:00 Source

Back in November, when I concluded that Trump’s dictatorship was a fait accompli lots of readers thought I was going over the top. In retrospect, and with one exception, I was hopelessly over-optimistic. I imagined a trajectory similar to Orban’s Hungary, with a gradual squeeze on political opposition and civil society, playing out over years and multiple terms in office,.

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Your Democracy Saturday, April 19, 2025 - 12:57 Source

The Australia Institute is one of the country’s most influential public policy think tanks. Based in Canberra, we conduct high impact research that combines rigorous fact-driven material with cutting-edge communication strategies.

With your help, we're countering the spin of multinational gas companies. 

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Renew Economy Saturday, April 19, 2025 - 08:12 Source
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New Politics Saturday, April 19, 2025 - 08:00 Source

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Your Democracy Saturday, April 19, 2025 - 03:53 Source

The US has presented its allies with details of its peace plan to bring the conflict between Russia and Ukraine to an end, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing European officials familiar with the matter.

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Renew Economy Friday, April 18, 2025 - 23:51 Source
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Your Democracy Friday, April 18, 2025 - 18:18 Source

Trump’s actions were neither ‘spur of the moment’, nor whimsical. The ‘tariff solution’ had been pre-prepared by his team over years.

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Your Democracy Friday, April 18, 2025 - 17:39 Source

“Chaos.” “A disaster.” “Uncertainty.” “Very negative.”

That’s a sample of the reactions to Trump’s first few months published in the latest Dallas Fed Energy Survey, which gives executives from nearly 200 oil companies headquartered in Texas the chance to speak anonymously about burning issues inside the oil industry.

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Your Democracy Friday, April 18, 2025 - 16:33 Source

Bernie Sanders has been repeatedly uttering the phrase “Israel has a right to defend itself” on his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, which in the year 2025 can only be interpreted as blatant genocide apologia. 

 

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Your Democracy Friday, April 18, 2025 - 16:09 Source

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Renew Economy Friday, April 18, 2025 - 14:43 Source
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THE BLOT REPORT Friday, April 18, 2025 - 11:08 Source
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THE BLOT REPORT Friday, April 18, 2025 - 10:43 Source

The problem with the US political system is that every four years they elect a president whose power is almost unlimited. Now the US Supreme Court has granted presidents immunity from prosecution for criminal acts committed while in office. This not only gives Donald Trump a free pass for his past crimes, but sets a dangerous precedent for all future presidents. Before Trump, no one had even argued that presidents are absolutely immune from criminal liability after they leave office. Indeed, every president – including Trump himself – assumed the opposite.

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xkcd.com Friday, April 18, 2025 - 10:00 Source

The biggest expense was installing the mantle ducts to keep the carbonate-silicate cycle operating.

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Your Democracy Friday, April 18, 2025 - 09:54 Source

FOLLOWING THE FAILED PEACE TALKS OF ISTANBUL BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE — DUE TO WESTERN INTERVENTION (BORIS JOHNSON IN KIEV) DEMANDING THAT THE WAR CONTINUED UNTIL THE KIEV REGIME “WON” (WEAKENED RUSSIA POSSIBLY TO THE POINT OF SURRENDER), THE WEST HELPED UKRAINE TO FIGHT ON AGAINST THE RUSSIANS. 

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Renew Economy Friday, April 18, 2025 - 09:46 Source

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Your Democracy Friday, April 18, 2025 - 09:42 Source

Achieving NET ZERO is a complex issue…

GUS LEONISKY HAS BEEN AT THE FOREFRONT OF EXPLAINING GLOBAL WARMING SINCE 1979. ON THIS SITE, WE STARTED 20 YEARS AGO WE EXPLAINED HOW today's CLIMATE CHANGE, A RESULTANT OF GLOBAL WARMING, PRESENTS MANY CHALLENGES AND DOUBTS THAT WE HAVE TO OVERCOME. 

UNFORTUNATELY, MANY HONEST ALTERNATIVE AND MAINSTREAM COMMENTATORS WILL ERRONEOUSLY LUMP OTHER CONSPIRACIES AND GLOBAL WARMING IN THE SAME BASKET. 

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MacroBusiness Friday, April 18, 2025 - 00:30 Source

For years, Macro Business has sounded the alarm about Australia’s immigration-driven housing crisis. The data is indisputable. Australia’s rental affordability has plummeted to a record low, with households forced to devote a record portion of their income to rent a home. Rents have risen about 50% nationwide since the pandemic’s beginning, driving the rental affordability

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