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National's Finance Minister Nicola Willis has launched a direct challenge to Labour, claiming the opposition party has accumulated an $18.2 billion gap between its spending commitments and identified revenue sources. At a Sunday press conference in Wellington, Willis released a document she says compiles Labour's publicly announced spending commitments and compares them against the party's proposed revenue measures, most notably its capital…

Clandestine · One thing I am still waiting on, is for Trump himself to address the US-funded biolabs in Ukraine. · Tulsi, RFK Jr., Elon, and many other prominent individuals in his administration, have talked about this, but Trump has never mentioned it. · I’m sure there’s a very good reason for him not addressing it yet, but I’m still waiting for the day, because this bridge must be crossed eventually. · I’d imagine it’s because this is a…

Authored by Stephen Green via PJMedia.com, · In George Orwell's 1984, Great Britain was just a province of Oceania named "Airstrip One" as a none-too-subtle nod to the U.K.'s role as host to the heavy bombers of U.S. Eighth Air Force during World War II. · Four decades past the real 1984, and there's still no Oceania. But Britain looks more and more like Airstrip One as Parliament considers a bill opening up everyone's smartphone to government…

By Tyler Durden · Via Remix News, · Six years ago, in 2020, French political leader Marine Le Pen described the Migrant Pact, which was then in the planning stages, as the “suicide of Europe.” She said it would bring 60 to 70 million new migrants to Europe, as Remix News reported at the time. · Europe is about to find out just how prophetic its critics have been. On June 12, the highly contested EU Migration Pact officially came into force,…

Israeli air strikes take aim at the suburbs of Beirut. Three are reportedly killed as the IDF carries out orders from Benjamin Netanyahu keeping his war on Lebanon in high gear. · A peace deal between Iran and the US is on shaky ground as Tehran says the Israeli attack on Beirut was blessed by Washington. The world waits if a deal will be signed this Sunday or the coming days. · Russia's Yaroslavl region comes under a mass attack by Ukrainian…

Russian President Vladimir Putin wished his US counterpart, Donald Trump, a happy 80th birthday during a phone call, presidential aide Yury Ushakov has told journalists. Trump was “touched” by the greeting, and the two leaders spoke for about an hour in a “friendly and open” manner, the official added. Trump was particularly appreciative of the gesture, Ushakov said, noting that Putin was the first foreign leader to call and congratulate him on…

US President Donald Trump has not scheduled an official bilateral meeting with Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky at the upcoming G7 summit in France, Bloomberg reported on Saturday, citing senior US administration officials. Since returning to office in January 2025, Trump has held several formal and informal meetings with Zelensky in an effort to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Zelensky has reportedly sought to use the encounters to finalize…

Israeli officials feel sidelined by the emerging US-Iran peace deal and are furious with what they believe amounts to a “catastrophe” that fails the objectives set prior to the war, according to a report by the Israeli outlet Ynet. According to the reported terms, the agreement would reopen the Strait of Hormuz without a toll regime, lift the American naval blockade on Iranian ports, ease sanctions on Tehran, and defer nuclear talks to later.…

University of Arizona historian Dr David Gibbs believes many of the major conflicts of the modern era cannot be understood through official narratives alone. · Appearing on the World Affairs In Context podcast with host Lena Petrova, Gibbs outlined a sweeping critique of American foreign policy, arguing that covert intervention, NATO expansion, economic sanctions and proxy wars have become central tools for maintaining US global dominance Report…

By Andrew Korybko · Outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s disclosure that the US funded some Ukrainian biolabs exactly as Russia claimed sent social media into a frenzy. While some MAGAs led by Laura Loomer claimed that this supposedly proves that she and other people who can be broadly described as “MAGA dissidents” are part of a “Russian influence operation” (RIO), which was discussed here, others are proud of what she…