What I would say to you is that there are a lot of very salty Luxo Loyalists who are so out of touch with ordinary kiwi battlers out here in the provinces that they are 100% sure that not only did this not happen, they are sure it COULD not happen
NOPE!!!
#Iran
#Epstein
#EpsteinFiles
Murphy: I have great sympathy for our soldiers and our military leaders they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind. And so it's no surprise that this war is going horribly
I for one want a COVID inquiry into the shifting positions of Winston Peters!
NEWS: The Trump administration just gave Vladimir Putin another break. Treasury issued a license letting countries buy Russian oil already loaded onto ships before March 12, allowing those sanctioned shipments to still reach buyers, handing the Kremlin a financial lifeline.
"Seven years on from what former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described as one of New Zealand's darkest days, some in the community were still grieving wounds that felt fresh with little closure or solace." www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... #nzpol
National/ACT/NZ First: Labour ministers didn't take official advice they didn't see into account when keeping Auckland in lockdown for the last week.
Also them: We're going to ignore all this official advice because we don't like it.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
#nzpol
New followers for Scott Colom seem to have plateaued in the 534 range.
A Democratic candidate for the United States Senate should have at least 1,000 followers on Bluesky.
Let's see what we can do.
First step: Can we get Scott to 600 followers?
Please follow him @scolom.bsky.social!
Brent Crude closed the day above $100 a barrel for the first time in three and a half years.
Bellingcat founder on verifying footage of deadly strike on girls' school in Iran
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Good mornng Mark! (It is morning where I am).
There can be only one master strategist. But I could refer to Donald as "America's unique strategic advantage"...
The big decision to release oil reserves yesterday has had little effect. Price per barrel soared above $100. It’s now hovering in the high 90s. Traders are expecting Trump and Netanyahu’s war to be prolonged.
OTD in 1938 the Austrian Anschluss. A dictator sent his army over the border & later had illegal referendum with rigged result that violated numerous treaties. The West expressed only “concern” which turned out not to be enough to prevent war….
Imagine that happening today.
We asked the US Department of Defense if the US had an agreement to use Iraqi or Syrian airspace for cruise missiles targeting a third country. They told Bellingcat they “had nothing to provide".
Find out more about our investigation 'Tracing Tomahawks' here: youtube.com/shorts/X_Yhz...
There are quite a few cynical and sinister figures in British public life. But Tony Blair is among the very worst. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
In the interview, she states that the first flight will leave on March 7 from Muscat, Oman. According to Flightradar24, multiple A321s departed on March 7 and 8, but none bound for the Netherlands.
The skyline of Dubai visible in the background and details in the depiction of the world’s tallest building, Burj-Khalifa, also include irregularities that suggest the photo is AI-generated.
Her photo includes several discrepancies in the hotel room furniture and details of Harema’s clothing and jewellery.
De Telegraaf headline reads: “Dutch people in the Middle East feel abandoned by the government: We just rented a plane ourselves.” The Dutch minister of foreign affairs was confronted with the headline in a television interview about the efforts to repatriate citizens. npo.nl/start/afspel...
De Telegraaf, the Netherlands’ largest newspaper, recently published an interview with a woman promoting €1,600 seats on private evacuation flights from Dubai. Bellingcat found that her image was likely AI-generated, and flight data suggests no such plane took off. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
“An extraordinary number of senior Trump officials have taken up residence…on military bases, including Bondi, Noem, the secretaries of State and Defense, Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth, and White House consigliere Stephen Miller.
The rest of us just have to keep our fingers crossed. I guess.”
Plumber Hannah Spencer’s victory in last month’s Gorton byelection sent shockwaves through British politics. But why is the built environment media largely ignoring this positive news, asks architecture writer Phineas Harper
www.thenerve.news/p/hannah-spe...
More and more, Trump is making US institutions behave like Putin’s Russian versions. This was an immediate military coverup of something that should have been admitted:
More and more rot.
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Young people need to get their shit together. (gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/o...
Terrible as this situation is, I hope it will be trump's undoing. He's increasingly looking & sounding like a mad king and is a huge danger to the entire globe.
But I guess he's taking cues from his heroes...
The sh*t has hit the fan. A regional war is becoming a global one.
So the question now is simple: who can we actually trust?
And the bizarre paradox the United States now finds itself in, could this ultimately become Trump’s undoing?
My article for LLB
londonlovesbusiness.com/opinion-how-...
