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		By: Kiwiana		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kiwiana]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The key date here is 9 June.  Iran needs this war to last right up to at least the opening ceremony of the Fifa World Cup. It will want to present itself as a credible threat to LA to the point that the public is too frightened to even go out to watch a football game.  The closer we get to 9 June, the more Trump gets on his hands and knees to beg Iran for forgiveness.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The key date here is 9 June.  Iran needs this war to last right up to at least the opening ceremony of the Fifa World Cup. It will want to present itself as a credible threat to LA to the point that the public is too frightened to even go out to watch a football game.  The closer we get to 9 June, the more Trump gets on his hands and knees to beg Iran for forgiveness.</p>
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		By: Immortan Joe		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On a cinematic side note, mentioning Mad Max is somewhat nostalgic. I can still remember sitting at the theatres watching the following iconic opening which stuck in my head. A tad eerily prescient today.

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Narrator: &quot;My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos... ruined dreams... this wasted land. But most of all, I remember The Road Warrior. The man we called &quot;Max.&quot; To understand who he was, you have to go back to another time... when the world was powered by the black fuel... and the desert sprouted great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now... swept away. For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war, and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel they were nothing. They&#039;d built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men. On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed... men like Max... the warrior Max. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything... and became a shell of a man... a burnt-out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again.&quot;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On a cinematic side note, mentioning Mad Max is somewhat nostalgic. I can still remember sitting at the theatres watching the following iconic opening which stuck in my head. A tad eerily prescient today.</p>
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<p>Narrator: &#8220;My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos&#8230; ruined dreams&#8230; this wasted land. But most of all, I remember The Road Warrior. The man we called &#8220;Max.&#8221; To understand who he was, you have to go back to another time&#8230; when the world was powered by the black fuel&#8230; and the desert sprouted great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now&#8230; swept away. For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war, and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel they were nothing. They&#8217;d built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men. On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed&#8230; men like Max&#8230; the warrior Max. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything&#8230; and became a shell of a man&#8230; a burnt-out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again.&#8221;</p>
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		By: Grant		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Grant]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 04:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://thedailyblog.co.nz/mediawatch-why-hootons-mad-max-apocalypse-is-far-more-likely-than-you-think-it-is/#comment-356244&quot;&gt;Grant&lt;/a&gt;.

Correction  - Ayesha]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://thedailyblog.co.nz/mediawatch-why-hootons-mad-max-apocalypse-is-far-more-likely-than-you-think-it-is/#comment-356244">Grant</a>.</p>
<p>Correction  &#8211; Ayesha</p>
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		By: Grant		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Grant]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://thedailyblog.co.nz/mediawatch-why-hootons-mad-max-apocalypse-is-far-more-likely-than-you-think-it-is/#comment-356235&quot;&gt;Patrize Garden&lt;/a&gt;.

Speaking of &#039;going&#039;....it&#039;s 25th Amendment time....for Luxon, Willis Seymour and Winston.

Possums in the headlights...way in over their heads.

Where&#039;s the steady heads and hands of Jacinda, Robertson, Chippy and Aisher when you need and want them?

Oh wait!!!... they&#039;ve either been voted out or run out of town.

Yeah ..Kiwis really know how to pick a winner... who will ...&quot;get the country back on track&quot;.

Such an intelligent savvy lot those Kiwis!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://thedailyblog.co.nz/mediawatch-why-hootons-mad-max-apocalypse-is-far-more-likely-than-you-think-it-is/#comment-356235">Patrize Garden</a>.</p>
<p>Speaking of &#8216;going&#8217;&#8230;.it&#8217;s 25th Amendment time&#8230;.for Luxon, Willis Seymour and Winston.</p>
<p>Possums in the headlights&#8230;way in over their heads.</p>
<p>Where&#8217;s the steady heads and hands of Jacinda, Robertson, Chippy and Aisher when you need and want them?</p>
<p>Oh wait!!!&#8230; they&#8217;ve either been voted out or run out of town.</p>
<p>Yeah ..Kiwis really know how to pick a winner&#8230; who will &#8230;&#8221;get the country back on track&#8221;.</p>
<p>Such an intelligent savvy lot those Kiwis!</p>
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		By: Joseph		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Even if farmers can get deisel at the ramped price, 35% of the worlds urea is currently not being produced as the gulf&#039;s LNG and ammonia plants have been destroyed.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Even if farmers can get deisel at the ramped price, 35% of the worlds urea is currently not being produced as the gulf&#8217;s LNG and ammonia plants have been destroyed.</p>
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		By: Patrize Garden		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrize Garden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hooton&#039;s Mad Max apocalypse, especially under this inept CoC, is scary but thanks both of you for your honesty. When you talk with family and friends you realise just how few of them really comprehend what the worst case scenarios would be. I would encourage folk to keep some cash, keep their tanks full, store long-term food and water and &quot;hope&quot;! The only way this madness can go away is for Trump to be jailed or put into a mental asylum, while Netanyahu needs to &#039;go&#039; permanently. Only then can we all return to something resembling &#039;normal&#039;.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hooton&#8217;s Mad Max apocalypse, especially under this inept CoC, is scary but thanks both of you for your honesty. When you talk with family and friends you realise just how few of them really comprehend what the worst case scenarios would be. I would encourage folk to keep some cash, keep their tanks full, store long-term food and water and &#8220;hope&#8221;! The only way this madness can go away is for Trump to be jailed or put into a mental asylum, while Netanyahu needs to &#8216;go&#8217; permanently. Only then can we all return to something resembling &#8216;normal&#8217;.</p>
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