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The government’s plan has ignited fierce political debate as anti-immigration sentiment hardens across Europe · FILE PHOTO. African migrants and refugees arrive in Spain by rescue boat in August 2018. © Getty Images / Europa Press · [RT] Spain’s government has passed a decree to legalize approximately half a million undocumented migrants, igniting fierce political debate as anti-immigration sentiment grows across the…

Berlin has already “done disproportionately much” for Kiev’s air defense, Boris Pistorius has said · FILE PHOTO. ©  Global Look Press / dpa / Kay Nietfeld · [RT] Germany is unable to provide Ukraine with any more US-made Patriot air defense systems out of its stocks, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has said. Berlin has already done more than its fair share to support Kiev, he told a press conference on Monday. ·…

No one is safe from the ‘Russian propaganda’ sanctions – even those who never touch Russian sources By Eva Bartlett, a Canadian independent journalist. She has spent years on the ground covering conflict zones in the Middle East, especially in Syria and Palestine (where she lived for nearly four years). https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/eva-bartlett/@evakbartlett · European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. ©  Antonio…

Inflation has moved back above the Reserve Bank’s target range, driven less by discretionary spending than by unavoidable household bills. Council rates and electricity costs are now biting hardest, pushing inflation higher even as families cut back elsewhere. Summarised by Centrist · Statistics New Zealand figures show the consumer price index rose 0.6 per cent in the December quarter. · This has lifted annual inflation to 3.1 per cent. That…

The picture is firming up, and it’s devastating. Six people are dead at the foot of Mount Maunganui because, over four critical hours on the morning of 22 January, New Zealand’s emergency management system failed. Not just failed, but failed repeatedly, in ways that now look systemic. And what’s becoming clearer with each new revelation is that this wasn’t just bad luck or an unforeseeable tragedy. This was a disaster waiting to happen, built…

Despite talk of cross-party cooperation, polling suggests Te Pāti Māori may not be needed to form the next government, leaving the party pitching flexibility from a position of diminished leverage ahead of the 2026 election. Summarised by Centrist · Speaking at Rātana, co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer said she could work with Winston Peters and New Zealand First, floating the idea of cooperation across ideological lines. · The comments come as…

Erin Gourley left New Zealand in 2024 for Europe, and says there's a 'huge risk' of New Zealanders forgetting to vote _ even if they're politically minded. Former local government reporter Erin Gourley forgot to vote in last year’s council elections. She was living in Sweden, where she moved to study law in 2024. Now registered as an overseas voter, Gourley says she won’t be making that mistake again. “It’s crazy, because I used to be a local…

A new documentary might be the most mind blowing report we've ever seen on the covid vaccine. If took the shot your body is acting as a transmitter. One of the most eye opening scenes from the trailer shows signals being received... and then camera pans back and you realize the signals are coming from underground... in the corpses in the graveyard... people that had taken the shot... now dead... but still sending a signal. Clayton Morris of…

Dietary vitamin C rapidly enters skin tissue and improves structural density and epidermal renewal within 8 weeks. · by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH · Vitamin C (ascorbate) is present in every major compartment of human skin, and its biology is well established: it supports collagen-related processes in fibroblasts, helps buffer oxidative stress, and can influence keratinocyte behavior. Most of the popular conversation focuses on topical…

Alex Krainer · Only two weeks ago the TrendCompass report headline read, “Silver breaks to new all time highs.” The opening paragraph: “On Friday, 9 January COMEX silver futures closed at $79.34/tr.oz., slightly below the all-time high reached three days prior. Then this morning, with the silver price chart looking almost vertical, silver opened gap up, more than $4 higher than Friday’s close and is now trading at around…