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THE BLOT REPORT Sunday, August 24, 2025 - 15:05 Source

I was forced to work with a workplace psychopath for a decade or so. Most of the time, it had little effect, because my day-to-day work was something he knew little about and I was largely left to my own devices. However, there were a few times when we interacted. We edited a book some years ago, and as I was an experienced editor, I did most of the work compiling the volume. He wrote the two page foreword.

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MacroBusiness Sunday, August 24, 2025 - 12:04 Source

The latest Westpac consumer sentiment survey showed that Australians have become bullish on house prices. House price expectations hit a cyclical high, whereas the ‘time to buy a dwelling’ sub-index also shot higher. The improving sentiment has also been reflected in the auction market, where the national clearance rate has climbed to its highest level

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Your Democracy Sunday, August 24, 2025 - 08:42 Source

Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, who is seeking a pardon from Donald Trump, told top Justice Department officials during an interview last month that she never witnessed the president “in any inappropriate setting” with girls introduced to him by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

 

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Your Democracy Sunday, August 24, 2025 - 08:11 Source

The German economy is experiencing a “structural crisis” rather than just temporary “weakness,” Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said, admitting that steering the country’s economy back on track has proven harder than he had anticipated.

Merz made the remarks on Saturday in a speech before members of his Christian Democratic Union party in the Lower Saxony city of Osnabrueck, the home state of major carmaker Volkswagen. 

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Renew Economy Sunday, August 24, 2025 - 08:10 Source
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Your Democracy Sunday, August 24, 2025 - 05:55 Source

 

France has summoned Italy’s ambassador following “unacceptable”remarks made by Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini about President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to send troops from EU members to Ukraine, French media has reported, citing a diplomatic source.

Salvini suggested on Wednesday that the French leader should go himself.

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Your Democracy Saturday, August 23, 2025 - 16:55 Source

I have entered the age of incomprehension

Possibly because of the infernal confusion

Up there in my old lofty pigeon

Due to a blow from a truncheon

Not even wearing an hearing aid

Would sort this inner devil afraid

Did she say a bunch of arseholes 

Or announced the next batch of households

Should I say I am too old for this piss

As Donald trumpets talks of peace

When I understand nothing any more

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Your Democracy Saturday, August 23, 2025 - 11:20 Source

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Your Democracy Saturday, August 23, 2025 - 09:04 Source

This is no longer about partisan politics, wag-the-dog distractions from the Epstein debacle, or even genuine national security concerns.

This is martial law disguised as law-and-order—the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook.

We have been traveling this slippery slope toward a police state for some time, but under Trump 2.0, the descent towards outright tyranny is accelerating.

 

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Your Democracy Saturday, August 23, 2025 - 08:05 Source

Amid an ongoing assault on its neighbors, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is attempting to improve its image by posting highly sexually suggestive content featuring its soldiers, changing the prevailing emotion of onlookers from outrage to lust.

 

Gooning For Apartheid: How Israel Uses Sex to Whitewash Genocide

 

ALAN MACLEOD, MINTPRESS NEWS

 

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Renew Economy Saturday, August 23, 2025 - 07:36 Source
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MacroBusiness Saturday, August 23, 2025 - 00:15 Source

In the wake of the Economic Reform Roundtable Gunnamatta and Deep T discuss the submission made by Deep T to the event.   Recorded last weekend (prior to the meet) the discussion ranges over the financialisation of Australian housing, from the way rising prices of houses mean that the banking system doesnt need to raise

The post A submission too far for the Economic reform roundtable appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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MacroBusiness Saturday, August 23, 2025 - 00:05 Source

International Reading: Sony Hikes PlayStation 5 Price To Cover Tariffs And Gamers Are Furious: ‘Trump Is 100% To Blame’  – Fortune Texas hit by another round of layoffs across tech industry – Chron Americans can afford only 28% of homes on the market – News Week Elon Musk Just Won His War on Labor Unions

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Your Democracy Friday, August 22, 2025 - 19:32 Source

In the wake of the much-anticipated Anchorage summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian philosopher and nationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin ignited controversy with a social media post on X.

Dugin claimed that Putin had handed Trump “solid, considerable documents on Russian history proving that Ukraine is a fake.”

 

 

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Your Democracy Friday, August 22, 2025 - 17:42 Source

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Renew Economy Friday, August 22, 2025 - 16:41 Source

Woodside Energy’s North West Shelf (NWS) gas project Western Australia

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MacroBusiness Friday, August 22, 2025 - 16:30 Source

Asian share markets are generally doing better although local shares are falling back on probable profit taking as other risk markets sentiment remains neutral going into tonight’s Jackson Hole conference. The USD is pushing slightly higher against the majors with Euro breaking below the 1.16 handle while the Australian dollar remains very weak at its

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Renew Economy Friday, August 22, 2025 - 14:54 Source
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MacroBusiness Friday, August 22, 2025 - 14:00 Source

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand cut the official cash rate (OCR) by 25bp to 3.0%, a decision widely expected by economists and markets. This meant that the OCR has fallen by 2.5% from its 5.5% peak in mid-2024. The above OCR track published by the Reserve Bank is projected to end the year at

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MacroBusiness Friday, August 22, 2025 - 13:30 Source

Platitude one. Treasurer Jim Chalmers has opened the door for an assault on superannuation concessions and other wealth taxes in exchange for lower income tax, by declaring intergenerational equity will drive reforms that could be taken to the next election or implemented beforehand. Wrapping up the three-day Economic Reform Roundtable on Thursday, Chalmers said while there was no clear

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MacroBusiness Friday, August 22, 2025 - 13:00 Source

James Campbell from the Daily Telegraph reported on the explosion in bogus asylum seekers under the Albanese government: When Labor came to office, there were roughly 68,000 people who had been told they must leave who were still here. By the end of July, this number had reached 98,979, which without a doubt will be

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Renew Economy Friday, August 22, 2025 - 12:56 Source
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MacroBusiness Friday, August 22, 2025 - 12:30 Source

I am philosophically opposed to using scarce taxpayer funds to subsidise private car purchases. Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are heavily subsidised in Australia. Every year, the federal government loses more than $500 million in tax income due to the Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) exemption for BEVs, a figure that will rise as the number of

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MacroBusiness Friday, August 22, 2025 - 12:00 Source

The Herald Sun has another frustrating gas debate today. Gas exports from the east coast could be brought under a new licence scheme to protect supplies for Aussie users, under a plan backed by industry groups and manufacturers. But the looming overhaul is dividing the states, with Queensland blaming the southern states for looming gas shortfalls.

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