Björn Höcke, the chair of the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD) in the eastern state of Thuringia, stands accused of intentionally deploying a slogan used by the Nazi party's paramilitary wing in a speech at a campaign rally.
Asian stock markets are trying to rebound from a bad trading week so far following the escalation in conflict across the Middle East, with yet more hawkish Fedspeak overnight not helping risk sentiment . The USD remains strong against most of the undollars but had a small retracement while bond markets calmed down as well.
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Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson announced on Wednesday that he is sticking with his plan to send a series of foreign aid bills to the floor, including those for funding for Ukraine and Israel. Johnson said in a note to legislators that they'll vote on these on Saturday evening.
In all the discussion of Leif Wenar’s critique of Effective Altruism , I haven’t seen much mention of the central premise: that development aid is generally counterproductive (unless, perhaps, it’s delivered by wealthy surfers in their spare time). Wenar is quite clear that his argument applies just as much to official development aid and to the long-standing efforts of NGOs as to projects supported by EA. He quotes burned-out aid workers “hoping their projects were doing more good than harm.”
The Useful Idiot is up to its old tricks again today: They’re close to the city, public transport, schools and parks – and Melbourne’s leafy eastern suburbs should be shouldering the burden when it comes to new housing, according to a new report. The report, by housing advocacy group Yimby Melbourne and published on Thursday, recommends
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By Bert Hetebry Having worked for many years with a diverse number of people from different ethnic groups and religions, and some with no religion, I was impressed that despite the differences, everybody seemed to get along. Being interested, I asked people about their faith, and found that people held their faith and cultural traditions…
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AEP with his take on why gold has decoupled from traditional drivers. There is a strong suspicion among gold experts that China is behind the surge in buying, building up a war-fighting bullion chest through state-controlled banks and proxies. But others, too, can see that we are living through a fundamental convulsion of the global
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Rex Patrick has dug into how Pistol Pete Dutton reached his nuclear conclusions. In September 2020, the Morrison Government released a Low Emissions Technology Statement that placed Small Modular Reactors (SMR) on a list of watching brief technologies. SMR developments were to be monitored to see if they might play a part in Australia’s energy
Australia falls out of global top 10 solar countries, risks losing spot in leading PV research group
The inaugural chair of the Productivity Commission, Gary Banks, has joined the pile-on against the Albanese government’s “Future Made” subsidies for low-emissions manufacturing. In a speech to the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), Banks described the subsidies as a “fool’s errand” that would embed waste and lower the nation’s productivity: “Seeking to obtain benefits to
Statistics Canada released the consumer price index (CPI) for the March quarter. The CPI rose 2.9% year-over-year in March, up from a 2.8% gain in February. Excluding gasoline prices, CPI slowed to a 2.8% year-over-year increase, down from a 2.9% gain in February. The below chart from Justin Fabo at Antipodean Macro compares Canada’s core
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