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The latest 1News Verian poll confirms what many on the Left feared: the Right bloc remains competitive and within striking…

As Winston Peters targets the Māori electorates, fractured protest unity may weaken resistance. Is Aotearoa facing a majoritarian reset?
Are media cheerleaders ignoring cracks in New Zealand’s economy? Rising unemployment, weak retail and stalled infrastructure suggest deeper trouble.

New Zealand’s justice system has handed down its sentence in the Grey Lynn feud shooting that left one young man…

Chris Hipkins outlines Labour’s conditions for supporting the India Free Trade Agreement, including migrant worker protections and transparency demands.

NZ First wants ministers to regain Fast Track powers as a $1B LNG terminal is rushed through. Is this energy policy — or corporate welfare?
There are too many things and people to meet Hipkins for you to ever know; and new things constant.
Sorting through Rumsfeld’s knowns and unknowns (on google led me to this):
washingtonpost.com https://www.washingtonpost.com › …
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1 Hūr 2021 — “There are known knowns — there are things we know we know,” Rumsfeld said in February 2002, when asked for evidence that Saddam Hussein…
(In classical Arabic usage, the word ḥūr (Arabic: حُور) is the plural of both ʾaḥwar (Arabic: أحْوَر) (masculine) and ḥawrāʾ (Arabic: حَوْراء) (feminine) which can be translated as “having eyes with an intense contrast of white and black”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houri)
Rumsfeld: We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_unknown_unknowns