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Breathtakingly unscrupulous. I had no idea that Simon Watts had gone so far to destroy NZ's contribution to avoiding Climate change. Thank goodness for Marc Daalder in Newsroom.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/govts-climate-strategy-let-it-burn/?utm_source=Newsroom&utm_campaign=32807dd76c-Week+In+Review+08.11.2025&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_71de5c4b35-32807dd76c-95522477&mc_cid=32807dd76c&mc_eid=88a3081e75
This has to be a One Term Government.
Well done Mark Daalder. Thanks Ianmac-I shared to fb.
So the repug bombshell that turned out to be made up and had ties to Russia, the fossil fuel industry and oligarchy cash has tRump’s stickies all over it, too.
Russia hoax!
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An FBI informant convicted of lying to the Bureau about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Donald Trump any moment.
Alexander Smirnov, who has multiple business ties to Trumpworld, was sentenced on January 8, days before Trump became president. He had pleaded guilty to fabricating a story that former President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, had received millions in bribes from Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, as well as to a $2 million-plus tax evasion offense.
Yet despite Smirnov being judged a flight risk, with ties to Russian intelligence and foreign assets, the U.S.-Israeli citizen has been mysteriously missing from prison for at least the past four months, Disaster Girl can reveal. Following reports in April that the Trump administration was reviewing the case, concerns have now arisen that the president is considering an imminent pardon.
https://jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-informant-who-lied-about-bidens