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The political landscape in New Zealand has just been turned upside down by a devastating new Freshwater poll. National has plummeted to 30 percent while Labor has climbed to 37, creating a nightmare scenario for the government just months out from the election. In this episode, Duncan and the panel break down the "shark-infested waters" National has entered. We look at the very real possibility that Finance Minister Nicola Willis could lose her…

Fail at what you may ask? · The answer is – Fail to follow up on your promises from the last election! · Prior to the last election in 2023, Sir John Key spoke about the coalition government and the National Party’s chances in the polls. · He also spoke about tensions around issues such as Act’s Treaty Principles Bill, the removal of section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act and National’s move to overrule a court decision on the Marine and…

Chris Hipkins delivered his State of the Nation speech this afternoon in Auckland, and the verdict is clear enough: there wasn’t much in it. No new policy. No surprises. No real detail on how Labour would govern differently. It was, by design, a low-key affair. The question now is whether voters see this as strategic discipline or something less flattering. The speech, delivered to the Auckland Business Chamber and hosted by former National…

This is the grand strategic context within which Russia’s talks with the US and Ukraine are taking place. · Andrew Korybko · Casual observers are convinced that Trump is a madman with no method behind his madness, but the reality is that he and his team – collectively known as Trump 2.0 – are slowly but surely implementing their grand strategy against China. Every one of their moves abroad should be seen as a means to this end. They…

Have the high priests of molecular biology unleashed the "Emperor of All Maladies" on the world's young people? · John Leake · At the recent Healing Beyond Covid Conference in Guernsey (Channel Islands) I was mesmerized by the presentation of Angus Dalgleish - Professor of Oncology, St. George’s University, London. I was especially transfixed by the following slide, representing all the ways in which the mRNA COVID-19 shots may cause…

Frank Bergman · A grieving family is sounding the alarm over Canada’s controversial “assisted suicide” system after their 26-year-old son, who struggled with seasonal depression, was euthanized under the country’s expanding death-on-demand laws. · Kiano Vafaeian, a blind man living with Type 1 diabetes, was killed by lethal injection in December through the Canadian government’s taxpayer-funded Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program. ·…

Vladimir Alekseyev was targeted by Ukrainian intelligence, but the plot was supported by the West, Aleksandr Bortnikov has said · FSB Director Aleksandr Bortnikov. ©  Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov · [RT] Britain’s secret services were involved in the attempted assassination of Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, Aleksandr Bortnikov, the Director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), has stated. · Alekseyev, first…

Mountbatten-Windsor lost his royal titles over ties to Jeffrey Epstein, but remains eighth in line to the British throne · FILE PHOTO: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor attends a the funeral of Katharine, Duchess of Kent, at Westminster Cathedral on September 16, 2025. © Getty Images / Karwai Tang/WireImage · [RT]The UK is weighing a law to remove Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the royal line of succession over the scandal…

The state is lecturing its citizens about the supposed danger of their diets, again By Rachel Marsden, a columnist, political strategist, and host of independently produced talk-shows in French and English. https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/rachel-marsden/rachelmarsden.com · ©  Getty Images/Rawpixel · Here comes the 1st battalion of desk jockeys to lecture you about your dinner’s carbon footprint. · Daily life in France used…

The Constitutional Court has approved euthanasia for a 25-year-old woman paralyzed in a suicide attempt  · ©  Getty Images/DIGICOMPHOTO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY · [RT] Spain’s Constitutional Court has rejected an appeal by a father seeking to halt his 25-year-old daughter’s access to euthanasia, effectively upholding her right to die under the country’s legislation. · Spain is one of several EU nations where active…