The United Kingdom could resort to military force against China in the event of an escalation over Taiwan, British Defense Secretary John Healey has said, though he emphasized that London continues to prefer a diplomatic resolution.
David Milne is an Aberdeenshire local who lives beside Trump's golf course. He won a bitter battle to stop Trump kicking him out his home and famously raised a Mexican flag above the course during the President's last visit.
Martin Ford was a councillor at the time and drew the future President's ire by casting the deciding vote to block his course getting built there.
Israel’s key enablers, the G7, plus Australia and New Zealand, have succeeded in muscling Israel back onto the invite list for the commemorations in Nagasaki on 9 August. Last year Israel was excluded, triggering a refusal by these countries to attend in 2024. Does the ‘personal’ invitation that Nagasaki has just sent to Israel represent a triumph of Western diplomacy or a sick joke?
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino boldly declared Saturday that he made recent discoveries about government corruption and weaponization that shocked him down to the core.
Without elaborating on what he found out, Bongino teased that investigations into those discoveries are ongoing and being done “by the book.”
A wise man once said that “Hope is not a strategy.” But that isn’t entirely correct. As the chart below of historic Reserve Bank wage growth forecasts reveals, hope can be a strategy; it’s just not a particularly good one. The latest hope from the Reserve Bank is that the market economy can generate sufficient
I was wading through some of the facebook posts I received after a day or so of doing other stuff, and I came across a meme that stated that the idiotic antivaxxer who is Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Service, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, has now turned his attention to ‘chemtrails’1.
Soviet Star Trek IV: The Wrath of Elon Musk (AI Trailer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVZqh_DnAj8
The fourth instalment in the cursed Soviet Trek Series. A prequel of sorts!
YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.
In this powerful and eye-opening talk, Professor Jeffrey Sachs breaks down the core of U.S. foreign policy through the lens of imperial dominance. Sachs argues that the United States views countries like Russia and China as threats—not because of ideology or aggression, but because they are large, successful, and challenge American global supremacy.
The government’s proposed new rules will allow a flood of toxic chemicals to be sold in the UK.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 23rd July 2025
It’s what the extreme right of the Tory party wanted from Brexit: to tear down crucial public protections, including those that defend us from the most brutal and dangerous forms of capital. The Conservatives lost office before they were able to do their worst. But never mind, because Labour has now picked up the baton.
… as long as they are healthy, well fed and well educated
Much of the panic about falling birth rates can be dispelled once we realise that (barring catastrophe) there will almost certainly be more people alive in 2100 than there were in 2000. But what about the distant future? Dean Spears, co-author of After the Spike has kindly provided me with projections showing that with likely declines in fertility the world population will decline by half each century after 2100, reaching one billion around 2400. Would that be too few to sustain a modern civilisation ?
By Lucinda Jerogin, Associate Economist at CBA The Minutes of the July RBA Monetary Policy Board Meeting re-enforced a cautious Board who wanted to wait and see quarterly inflation data before resuming its rate-cutting cycle. News offshore was dominated by trade headlines as nations worked to secure deals with the US before the August 1
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