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Your Democracy Monday, July 28, 2025 - 07:22 Source

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.

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Renew Economy Monday, July 28, 2025 - 06:18 Source
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Your Democracy Monday, July 28, 2025 - 05:55 Source

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?

 

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Your Democracy Monday, July 28, 2025 - 05:31 Source

Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, says the chipmaker has won approval from the Trump administration to sell its advanced computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence to China.

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Your Democracy Monday, July 28, 2025 - 04:44 Source

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.”

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MacroBusiness Monday, July 28, 2025 - 00:05 Source

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

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Renew Economy Monday, July 28, 2025 - 00:02 Source
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THE BLOT REPORT Sunday, July 27, 2025 - 22:03 Source

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. 

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Your Democracy Sunday, July 27, 2025 - 21:13 Source

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.

 

         Gus Leonisky

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Renew Economy Sunday, July 27, 2025 - 18:23 Source
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Your Democracy Sunday, July 27, 2025 - 17:58 Source

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.

 

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George Monbiot Sunday, July 27, 2025 - 17:55 Source

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.

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John Quiggin Sunday, July 27, 2025 - 17:25 Source

… 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 ?

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MacroBusiness Sunday, July 27, 2025 - 16:00 Source

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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Renew Economy Sunday, July 27, 2025 - 14:13 Source
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MacroBusiness Sunday, July 27, 2025 - 09:30 Source

Public submissions to the Governments Productivity Roundtable closed yesterday. All that is left for the public to consider are the outcomes. Ultimately the Productivity Round Table is unlikely to achieve all that much because it isn’t set up to achieve anything, and is set up to provide a spectacle in lieu of effective policy. Therein lay

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MacroBusiness Sunday, July 27, 2025 - 09:06 Source

Australian home values reached a new record high in June and are expected to continue growing. The single-best leading indicator of price growth—auction clearance rates—has bounced, suggesting buyer demand is increasing. As illustrated below, final auction clearance rates are tracking at their highest levels in more than a year across Sydney, Melbourne, and the combined

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Your Democracy Sunday, July 27, 2025 - 07:48 Source

China is dumping US Treasuries at great speed as the US continues to overextend itself and weaponising the dollar. Stealing Russian assets was a historic mistake375,300 views… Not bad… 

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MacroBusiness Sunday, July 27, 2025 - 07:15 Source

Ah, The Guardian, home of hypocrisy. Mark Humphries has moved house five times in the past seven years. First was the place in the Sydney suburb of Turramurra he had to vacate because it was, “forgive me for saying this – leaking like a giant breast from the ceiling”. Next came a house so damp,

The post Sold! Just another millennial housing phony appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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Renew Economy Sunday, July 27, 2025 - 07:12 Source
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Renew Economy Sunday, July 27, 2025 - 07:08 Source
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Renew Economy Sunday, July 27, 2025 - 06:58 Source
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Renew Economy Sunday, July 27, 2025 - 06:54 Source
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Your Democracy Sunday, July 27, 2025 - 04:44 Source

Knowledge of Russian language could help NATO members to finally understand that Moscow not planning to attack NATO countries, says Russian presidential aide Nikolai Patrushev.

"Learning foreign languages is a useful thing. Maybe knowing Russian language could help NATO members finally understand the words of the Russian president that our country is not going to attack NATO countries," Putin's aide said.

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Your Democracy Saturday, July 26, 2025 - 17:29 Source

In Part 1 we looked at the official account of the October 7th Hamas Attack. In addition to a rocket barrage on multiple targets and maritime assaults, an estimated 2,900 Hamas-aligned “terrorists” breached the Israeli “Iron Wall” defences surrounding Gaza in 29 separate locations simultaneously.

 

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Your Democracy Saturday, July 26, 2025 - 17:17 Source

Four Major News Agencies Warn Gaza Staff Face Starvation Due to Israeli Blockade

Gaza's Health Ministry said two more Palestinians starved to death under the siege

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THE BLOT REPORT Saturday, July 26, 2025 - 16:31 Source
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Your Democracy Saturday, July 26, 2025 - 10:46 Source

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MacroBusiness Saturday, July 26, 2025 - 09:31 Source

DXY is trying again. The AUD uptrend is intact. Lead boots got heavier. Gold needs more Trump. Metals flamed out. EM too. Junk is bullish. Yields faded. Stocks ATH. The big bear short on CFTC driving price gains reached -81k contracts, which is approaching very bearish terrain. AUD had a down day, but so long

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Renew Economy Saturday, July 26, 2025 - 09:09 Source
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