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		<title>Trump&#8217;s worst geopolitical blunder vs NZ Economy with 7.5% inflation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Trump’s geopolitical madness won’t stay in the Middle East. It’s coming for your groceries, your mortgage, your job and every excuse this Government makes for staying silent.]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Bigger Problem Than Iran</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Curwen Rolinson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If Iran closing Hormuz is extortion, what is America doing? Trump’s plan doesn’t just target Iran — it turns the entire global economy into collateral damage.]]></description>
		
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		<title>BEN MORGAN &#8211; Russia needs a victory this spring but probably won’t get one!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Morgan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Russia needs a win — urgently. But Ukraine is grinding them down, Europe is waking up, and Putin may be running out of road faster than anyone expected.]]></description>
		
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		<title>GUEST BLOG: Seeby Woodhouse &#8211; Is it WW3 yet? Evaluating the Iran war as part of a larger globalised conflict</title>
		<link>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/guest-blog-seeby-woodhouse-is-it-ww3-yet-evaluating-the-iran-war-as-part-of-a-larger-globalised-conflict/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Seeby Woodhouse]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We’re asking the wrong question about Iran. It’s not “will this escalate?” — it’s whether we’re already in World War 3 and pretending we’re not.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The War on News: Trump’s War Crime Threat, Iran Escalation &#038; NZ’s Culture War Distraction</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Daily Blog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Trump starts redefining war crimes. New Zealand starts arguing about culture wars. If that doesn’t alarm you, it should.]]></description>
		
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		<title>MEDIAWATCH: Damien Grant&#8217;s snide Libertarianism can&#8217;t deflect from illegal Iranian War</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bend the logic hard enough and anything looks defensible. That’s the trick. That’s also the tell.]]></description>
		
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		<title>What will destroy the planet first? AI, Climate Change or Trump?</title>
		<link>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/what-will-destroy-the-planet-first-ai-climate-change-or-trump/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s not a race between AI, climate collapse and war. It’s a pile-up — and we’re already in it.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Don&#8217;t forget National, ACT and NZ First back the war criminals</title>
		<link>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/dont-forget-national-act-and-nzf-back-the-war-criminals/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[They won’t call it what it is — but their silence says enough. If this is “defence”, where’s the line?]]></description>
		
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		<title>Trump has forced America into its worst modern defeat &#038; threats of war crime and genocide demand he be removed from office</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Six weeks. That’s all it took to turn a war into a humiliation.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Israel and America are the rogue nations &#8211; not Iran</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Daily Blog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You’re paying more at the pump. So who’s actually responsible?]]></description>
		
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