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Your Democracy Sunday, November 24, 2024 - 07:27 Source

Keir Starmer and David Lammy have the “blood of Palestinian children on their hands” for supporting Israel, a lawyer from Gaza has said.

Ahmed Abofoul, who has seen over 60 members of his family killed by Israel, said the UK prime minister and foreign secretary are “monstrous war criminals”.

 

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Your Democracy Sunday, November 24, 2024 - 06:30 Source

There is more to the eye in the official photo and video of Indonesia President Prabowo on the phone to President-elect Trump. Australia misses the vital details.

It’s a carefully composed and staged official photograph and video that says it all. No, it’s not the ‘where’s Wally’ photo that has President Biden wandering behind a palm tree at the G20 official group photo.

 

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Your Democracy Sunday, November 24, 2024 - 05:58 Source

Donald Trump has selected Mike Huckabee, Governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007 and a right-wing evangelical preacher with a messianic view about Israel, as U.S. ambassador to Israel.

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Your Democracy Sunday, November 24, 2024 - 05:42 Source

Nothing to see here. Just a hypersonic demo. Well, not really. The average American is only capable of making (some sort of) sense of the world through movies. So let’s go back to a classic: the opening sequence of Coppola’s Apocalypse Now – the Vietnam war counterpart to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, set in the Congo.

 

BY PEPE ESCOBAR

 

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Your Democracy Saturday, November 23, 2024 - 22:38 Source

Simeon Boikov on his 700 days 'imprisonment' in the Russian consulate in Sydnay. And how the Zelensky regime is tearing down the statues of partisans

INTERVIEW: Aussie Cossack rides on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=800ld2vh4MU

 

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The Tally Room Saturday, November 23, 2024 - 20:28 Source

There will be a by-election for the Victorian state seat of Prahran coming up soon, likely at the start of 2025.

Sam Hibbins won the seat for the Greens in 2014, and again in 2018 and 2022. He quit the party earlier this month after revelations of an affair with a staff member.

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Your Democracy Saturday, November 23, 2024 - 15:34 Source

A banana duct-taped to a wall was sold for $6.2 million at a New York auction. Mauritzio Cattelan is the artist who came up with the $6.2 million banana which is titled "Comedian." The banana art comes with a 14-page instruction manual that serves as proof of authenticity. It tells you how to "refresh" the work by buying a new banana and new duct tape. Inside Edition's Alison Hall has more.

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Your Democracy Saturday, November 23, 2024 - 13:53 Source

At a moment in time when lost causes could lead to the annihilation of all life on our planet, the big genocide coverup in Gaza draws to an end. The imagery of Pope Francis kissing an Ukraine flag and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strolling through Gaza tell us the end is pretty near. Here are some relevant thoughts.

 

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The Australian Independent Media Network Saturday, November 23, 2024 - 12:37 Source

The Australian government is being run ragged in various quarters. When ragged, such a beast is bound to seek a distraction. And what better than finding a vulnerable group, preferably children, to feel outraged and noble about? The Albanese government, armed such problematic instruments as South Australia’s Children (Social Media Safety) Bill 2024, which will…

The post Fencing the Ocean: Australia’s Social Media Safety Bill appeared first on The AIM Network.

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Your Democracy Saturday, November 23, 2024 - 12:33 Source

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky is acting like a child after Moscow conducted a strike with a new hypersonic missile this week, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claimed on Friday.

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Your Democracy Saturday, November 23, 2024 - 12:05 Source

Donald Trump has nominated Scott Bessent to lead the US Treasury Department, a post with wide oversight of tax policy, public debt, international finance and sanctions. 

The selection ends what has proven to be one of the more protracted decisions for the president-elect as he assembles his team for a second term.

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Your Democracy Saturday, November 23, 2024 - 09:16 Source

Stealth and surprise are related tactical characteristics that are key to a submarine’s success in battle. They are also, it seems, key tactical characteristics for the Government advancing a highly controversial AUKUS submarine program. Ex-submariner Rex Patrick explains.

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New Politics Saturday, November 23, 2024 - 07:55 Source

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MacroBusiness Saturday, November 23, 2024 - 07:36 Source

DXY has torn a hole in the roof of its range. EUR is toast as PMIs sag. AUD is EUR. North Asia has not yet even begun to devalue. You can’t keep a good gold bubble down. Oil hanging in. Dirt is breaking down. Miners are on the treadmill to hell. EM yawn. Junk is

The post Australian dollar 50s by inauguration? appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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Your Democracy Saturday, November 23, 2024 - 07:35 Source

Hyacinths, peonies, cornflowers, and carnations aren't just wonderful, sweet-smelling flowers; they're also the names of some of Russia's deadliest weapons systems. On Thursday, Russia added the Oreshnik (lit. Hazel) hypersonic missile system to the list.

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