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Alex Krainer · I was hoping to round up President Trump’s speech in Davos, Switzerland in this report today, but as I write this, Trump is still speaking and it looks like he’s gone off script: he’s not looking at teleprompters but at the audience and he’s clearly ad-libbing which could go on a while. · The prepared remarks - the part Trump appears to have read off the teleprompters - was interesting but not surprising in substance.…

“New Zealand should learn from the problems emerging in Australia's new anti-hate legislation, not seek to replicate them, says the Free Speech Union. "Australia's Parliament passed sweeping new laws in an emergency late-night session with barely three days of public consultation," said Jillaine Heather, Chief Executive of the Free Speech Union. · The Bondi tragedy was horrific and antisemitism is a genuine problem. But when legal experts,…

If the first step is exposing neo-piracy, the second is asking a harder question: what replaces it? Critics of the current monetary order are routinely dismissed with the same lazy retort — “fine, but what’s the alternative?” The implication is that debt-based, privately issued money is the only system possible, and any deviation would mean chaos. That is simply false. In Part One of this series, Neo-Piracy, we traced how modern financial…

That is the day New Zealanders will decide whether this country stays on the course of common sense, stability, and national interest or whether it risks sliding back into the chaos, ideological excess, and economic recklessness we are still recovering from after the last Labour government. New Zealand First entered government to restore balance. And, after just two years, we are delivering. · Michael, we have stood for common sense when it was…

Newly published research papers demonstrate that gain of function research designed to investigate the effects of deadly pathogens is still continuing. In the course of research, live mice are being exposed to deadly doses of lab-built recombinant synthetic H5N1 viruses with codon optimisation which boosts expression in human cells and cleavage site enhancement linked to viral virulence. Lethal doses of synthetic viral material containing…

Putin might accept Trump’s invitation to participate in order to avoid offending him and not lose a seat at the table where members provide input on US policy towards settling various conflicts. · Andrew Korybko · Kremlin spokesmen Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the US invited Putin to join the Board of Peace, which refers to the UNSC-endorsed Trump-chaired group for implementing his Gaza peace plan. Interestingly, Gaza isn’t mentioned anywhere…

Plans to sell La Repubblica and La Stampa have sparked concerns about a loss of editorial control, Simona Mangiante has told RT · FILE PHOTO. © Getty Images / franckreporter · Plans for two of Italy’s leading newspapers to be sold to a foreign media group amount to a “transfer of narrative power” and risk putting control of the country’s public debate in outside hands, journalist and former legal…

The US president has called Britain’s deal to lease back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius an act of “total weakness” · US President Donald Trump. ©  Alex Wong/Getty Images · US President Donald Trump has criticized the UK’s decision to hand over control of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, calling it a “great stupidity” and a threat to US national security. · The Chagos Archipelago,…

Christopher Luxon is back from holiday. And if his State of the Nation speech is anything to go by, it might actually be a very boring election year indeed. The Prime Minister delivered his first big set-piece address of 2026 on Monday to a 700-strong business audience at Auckland’s newly opened International Convention Centre. Hosted by the Auckland Business Chamber and former National leader Simon Bridges, the speech was long on slogans but…

Threats to seize the autonomous Danish territory have raised fears for the future of sovereignty and international law, Alain Berset has said · RT: Secretary General of the Council of Europe Alain Berset. © Getty Images / Thierry Monasse / Contributor · Any US move to annex Greenland would undermine the post-World War II international legal order and challenge the principle of state sovereignty,…