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After several weeks of irregular movements and tighter scheduling windows, the latest shipping activity is starting to resemble a more stable and normal fuel distribution pattern around New Zealand. What stands out in this latest update is the clear reappearance of two separate but co-joined distribution routes moving product around the country. That is generally how a healthy import-based fuel network should operate. · The northern route…

Russia says Ukraine's latest terror attack which left 21 students dead was the last straw, announcing it will now carry out a series of systematic strikes on Kiev's military industrial complex. · Russian Federal Security Service clearly lays out what's happening in Ukraine, saying the nation is being used as a testing ground for new types of warfare under a foreign flag. · Tehran says the US is violating the ceasefire, as Donald Trump…

A growing online discussion is once again reviving theories surrounding cyclical global catastrophes, ancient civilization collapses and what some researchers believe may be recurring planetary reset events tied to cosmic or geological cycles. By INR International Desk · The discussion, presented by Greg Reese, pulls together decades of alternative research, historical speculation and fringe scientific theories that claim humanity may…

Fuel prices have rapidly climbed into one of the biggest political and economic concerns facing New Zealanders, according to a new Ipsos Issues Monitor survey that paints an increasingly uneasy picture of household confidence heading into the next election cycle. By elocal Political Desk · Fuel prices have rapidly climbed into one of the biggest political and economic concerns facing New Zealanders, according to a new Ipsos Issues Monitor…

As New Zealand enters the colder months of the year, more than a million Kiwis have begun receiving their government-funded top-ups to help pay the power bill. Since it was introduced in 2018, the Winter Energy Payment has helped pensioners, beneficiaries and others on fixed incomes cover heating costs. It has also seen debate about who should receive it and whether it should be more tightly targeted. · Student associations have proposed…

by Clandestine · We were promised the US uranium from Uranium One would never leave the US, but it did. · Some was sent to Canada, which was then sent to Europe and Asia, namely the UK, France, Germany, and Japan. · After that, we don’t (officially) know where it went. · Uranium laundering. · I think Trump’s animosity towards Canada/EU/NATO, might have something to do with Uranium One. He’s been showing us they aren’t our allies for a reason.…

by Andrew Korybko · Putin is either “escalating to de-escalate” with the expectation that Trump will pressure Zelensky into complying with more of Russia’s terms for peace, namely withdrawing from Donbass at minimum, or as a “last hurrah” before speculatively freezing the conflict for political and strategic purposes. · Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov notified his US counterpart Marco Rubio that Russia will conduct “systematic strikes”…

Susan Kokinda analyzes President Trump's suggestion that Iran could someday join the Abraham Accords, arguing it reflects a foreign policy built on “real physical economics” rather than geopolitical rules. She contrasts this approach with criticism from figures like Mike Pompeo and highlights White House Communications Director Steven Cheung's sharp rebuttal. by Susan Kokinda · Kokinda points to the National Security Strategy's focus on…

by Andrew Korybko Source: Andrew Korybko Substack · Three waves of Ukrainian drones struck a dormitory in Starobelsk, a town in Russia’s formerly Ukrainian Lugansk Region, last week in an attack that killed nearly two dozen students. Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN brought it up at an emergency meeting only to be met with denials by Ukraine that any attack had even taken place despite indisputable evidence to the contrary. About…

The Free Speech Union is calling on Parliament to narrow the Summary Offences (Move-on Orders) Amendment Bill, warning it hands police open-ended discretion to move people on, and prosecute them, for peaceful conduct in a public place. The Bill lets an officer order anyone aged 14 or over to leave a public place for 24 hours on grounds as vague as “disorderly” or “disruptive” behaviour, or for begging. Whatever you think about begging, the Free…