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Your Democracy Monday, December 29, 2025 - 15:13 Source

The telephone conversation between the Russian and US presidents was held at the initiative of the US side, and lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said.

Key takeaways:

— Trump wanted to discuss a number of issues ahead of his meeting with Zelensky

— The tone of the Putin-Trump call was friendly, constructive, and business-like

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Peter Martin Monday, December 29, 2025 - 13:04 Source

Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

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Your Democracy Monday, December 29, 2025 - 11:00 Source

BREATHING THE AIR INSIDE A MICROWAVE OVEN ISN'T GOING TO KILL YOU... BECAUSE YOU CANNOT CLOSE THE DOOR... SHOULD YOU BE ABLE TO CLOSE THE DOOR AND TURN THE MACHINE ON, YOU WILL BOIL TO DEATH... THIS IS WHAT MANY PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND. DENIALISTS OF GLOBAL WARMING ARE THUS DANGEROUS...

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xkcd.com Monday, December 29, 2025 - 11:00 Source

 Ask a crew member to show you how to use the ISS food warmer.

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Your Democracy Monday, December 29, 2025 - 08:11 Source

There is a moment in every civilization’s collapse when the instruments of its destruction become visible to those paying attention. We are living in that moment now. But the warning signs are not carved in stone or written in prophecy—they are embedded in source code, amplified by algorithms, and funded by men who speak openly of human extinction while racing to cause it.

 

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Your Democracy Monday, December 29, 2025 - 06:55 Source

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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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