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Domain released its Q2 house price report last week, which showed that the median Sydney house was valued at an extraordinary $1,722,443 at the end of June, up 2.6% over the quarter and 4.2% year-on-year. This was the fastest quarterly rise in two years and the third straight gain in median house prices. Sydney unit

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The United States and the European Union have agreed on a new trade deal, which envisages, among other things, a zero tariff on US imports to the European markets and a 15% baseline tariff on all EU goods coming to the US, including cars, US President Donald Trump said on Sunday.

DXY was up Friday but will be down today as Trump strikes a tariff deal with Europe at 15% tariff. Bloomberg. Von der Leyen and Trump also differed on some of the key terms of the deal they announced. The US president said the tariff level would apply to “automobiles and everything else,” but not

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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.”

CEFC committed and deployed record sums in the last year - mostly for transmission - but Australia needs to ramp up investment to meet renewables and net zero targets.

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

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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… 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 ?

Envision Energy has completed the world’s first green ammonia bunkering operation, using fuel from its Chifeng plant, the largest of its kind.

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