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Melbourne’s CBD is a grim place, so why anyone would want to make it even grimmer is a mystery. Yet this is precisely what the artistic directors behind Rising, Melbourne’s third annual taxpayer-funded arts festival, have set out to do.

For the first time in 30 years, the ruling African National Congress party failed to secure a majority in South Africa’s general election

More importantly, Raisi, hailing from the second generation of Islamic revolutionaries, assumed his lack of charisma almost with pride and missed no opportunity to pay homage to the “Supreme Guide” as a gift to mankind. [T]he “Supreme Guide” may wish to

It’s fascinating how two people can interpret a single image so differently. The same holds true for how homeowners and renters perceive the current economy. According to all the data, it’s clear that the economy is robust. However, the degree of its strength depends on whom you ask. The rent versus buy debate has raged

Gold prices are ‘dramatically outperforming’: Macquarie

The people in the governments, organizations, and companies working on biodefense were involved in interrelated gain-of-function and medical countermeasure research.

The elevator version: The Intelligence Community created the disease, then used the politicians to sell the cure. In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus was constructed to preserve continuity of government and simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director […]

Supply chain disruptions were one aspect of the post-COVID chaos the world was subjected to. Politicians were gobsmacked to learn that shutting down the global economy caused markets to function erratically. They believed that markets operate at thei…

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A closely followed crypto strategist says Bitcoin (BTC) just flashed a signal last seen before the dramatic rallies of the 2017 bull market cycle. Pseudonymous analyst TechDev tells his 452,600 followers on the social media platform X that the Bitcoin versus M1 money supply chart just breached the resistance of the exponential moving average Bollinger […]

Former President Trump attended the Ultimate Fighting Champion (UFC) match on Saturday where the crowd greeted him with welcoming applause.