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MacroBusiness Monday, December 29, 2025 - 00:05 Source

My latest podcast with Martin North at Digital Finance Analytics (DFA) explained why Australia is experiencing its worst rental crisis in living memory. To summarise, Australian rents have soared by 44% over the past five years, according to Cotality, adding around $10,600 to the annual cost of renting the median home. As a result, rental

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Your Democracy Sunday, December 28, 2025 - 10:53 Source

On its final day, St. Anna's is almost full again. A choir is singing and the small organ is supporting them. But this is the last mass in the small Catholic church in Gildehaus, a district of Bad Bentheim near the German-Dutch border. In future, the building will no longer be a place of worship.

 

Germany's empty churches repurposed as congregations shrink

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Your Democracy Sunday, December 28, 2025 - 07:49 Source

In 2020, Dutch lawyer Arno Van Kessel realized that Covid-19 was being used by governments to exercise malign influence on populations and began vocally opposing both the Dutch government's pandemic response measures and the subsequent Covid-19 'vaccines'.

 

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Your Democracy Sunday, December 28, 2025 - 06:55 Source

 

The Israel President cannot be welcomed in Australia. The government he represents has been found by the International Court of Justice to have breached international law: the Netanyahu regime has committed a range of international crimes against humanity including war crimes, apartheid, illegal occupation and ethnic cleansing.

 

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Your Democracy Sunday, December 28, 2025 - 05:44 Source

 

A key reason why China has, for decades, had the highest annual increases in per-capita GDP PPP (standard of living as experienced by the country’s population — as opposed to pure per-capita GDP, which reflects ONLY the investors) is the Chinese Communist Party’s relentless war against corruption.

 

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Your Democracy Saturday, December 27, 2025 - 12:08 Source

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Your Democracy Saturday, December 27, 2025 - 09:44 Source

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has given a positive assessment of a conversation he had with US envoys on how to end the Russia-Ukraine war.

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Your Democracy Saturday, December 27, 2025 - 06:55 Source

Australian law enforcement and intelligence agencies are to be reviewed, in the Albanese government’s latest response in the wake of the Bondi tragedy. 

But Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is still resisting calls for a national royal commission. 

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Your Democracy Saturday, December 27, 2025 - 05:44 Source

While browsing through the magazine section at Barnes and Noble recently, for fun, I picked up the September issue of the John Birch Society’s publication The New American.

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MacroBusiness Saturday, December 27, 2025 - 00:05 Source

My latest podcast with Martin North at Digital Finance Analytics (DFA) explained why now is a particularly risky time to be utilising the federal government’s 5% deposit scheme for first home buyers, given that the market is so expensive and risks following Canada and New Zealand with a severe housing correction. The long and short

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Your Democracy Friday, December 26, 2025 - 18:11 Source

Across the United States, Democrats and Republicans are demanding that their leaders come clean with the Epstein files and the truth finally be told. What they are getting instead is a massive redaction campaign.

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Your Democracy Friday, December 26, 2025 - 15:12 Source

Ukraine is a “viper’s den” rife with corruption, Hunter Biden, the son of former US President Joe Biden, has said, as he reflected on his time as a board member of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.

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Your Democracy Friday, December 26, 2025 - 11:57 Source

While western publics are being demonised as racists, the technology and strategies used today against Palestinians will become the walls of tomorrow’s prisons for us all

Western establishments’ fear of the phrase “Globalise the intifada” has little to do with any danger supposedly posed to Jewish populations from its use.

 

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MacroBusiness Friday, December 26, 2025 - 11:00 Source

  Peter Ziehan and the throttling of Venezuela and shadow oil fleets Sam Harris and Peter Ziehan on nation states DW on Trump and Venezuela Mearsheimer on oil Trump and Venezuela Yanis Varoufakis and Gillian Tett on demise of globalisation Rest is politics on the same ABC Australian Housing Morgans Australian economy Leith and Martin

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xkcd.com Friday, December 26, 2025 - 11:00 Source

Building Inspectors HATE This One Weird Trick

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