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Daily review 09/07/2025

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, July 9th, 2025 - 11 comments
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11 comments on “Daily review 09/07/2025 ”

  1. Kat 1

    Dame Jacinda Ardern showing her long range capabilities, political nous and sincerity……..still as popular as ever with voters who have a functioning brain…………much to the chagrin of the likes of Seymour and his futile witch hunt………….

    https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360751460/dame-jacinda-ardern-says-she-will-give-evidence-covid-19-inquiry

  2. Sanctuary 2

    Just watching the news, has Shane Jones had some kind of medical event, like a stroke or something? He was totally wierd.

  3. Incognito 3

    Bots will be bots.

    But regular readers might have noticed oddities, including stories lingering in spaces high up on the site, certain themes securing prominence almost irrespective of the news agenda, local yokel articles from NZME papers, and a surfeit of regional crime, court and catastrophe.

    https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/02/stuffs-humans-winning-early-audience-battles-vs-heralds-robots/

    Good article that contains an insider’s [Tim Murphy] insights into the brewing media war [not his words] in NZ.

  4. joe90 4

    There goes separation of church and state.

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    The I.R.S. said on Monday that churches and other houses of worship can endorse political candidates to their congregations, carving out an exemption in a decades-old ban on political activity by tax-exempt nonprofits.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/politics/irs-churches-politics-endorse-candidates.html?unlocked_article_code=1.U08.EzJP.VWMx2QcYZ_gy&smid=url-share

  5. Anne 5

    It is the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Rainbow Warrior Bombing (10 July 1985) and yet… hardly a murmur from the Corporate Media. Silence is golden some might say, but what if the govt. have made it clear to their corporate media servants they are not to mark the day.

    I watched a replay of the State Banquet for the French President out of curiosity which took place this morning our time. The speeches by King Charles and President Macron were devoted almost entirely to the everlasting ‘entente cordiale’ between the two countries. That's fine, but oh the irony that it should occur on the eve of the state sanctioned terrorist act on NZ soil by the French. I know they paid a miserable pittance in reparation, but did they ever properly apologise? Not to my knowledge.

    • Obtrectator 5.1

      Britain colluded with 'em …. sin of omission (to warn NZ something was brewing) rather than commission, but a sin nonetheless.

      • Heather Grimwood 5.1.1

        Britain and France were most certainly colluding at that time regarding nuclear matters. A cartoon showed the two P.M.'s in bed together, while a large demonstration at the CHOGM meeting in Auckland had banners on the subject.