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		<title>Imagine If Winston had said this instead?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Winston Peters was in the room just before Trump backed down. Imagine if New Zealand had used that moment to speak with principle instead of crawling.]]></description>
		
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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>Wait? What! Trump now says HE will close the Strait of Hormuz??? The old blockade to block a blockade that wasn&#8217;t blocked before being blocked strategy????</title>
		<link>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/wait-what-trump-now-says-he-will-close-the-strait-of-hormuz-the-old-blockade-to-block-a-blockade-that-wasnt-blocked-before-being-blocked-strategy/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Iran threatens to close it. Trump says he’ll close it first. Oil spikes. Markets panic. And somehow this is meant to be strategy?]]></description>
		
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		<title>NZ First is as compromised by corporate mining as they are by commercial fishing &#8211; when are NZ voters going to acknowledge this corruption?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mining. Fishing. Donations. At what point does “policy” start looking like payback?]]></description>
		
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		<title>Um, I&#8217;m pretty sure Shane Jones and Winston Peters just lied directly to our faces</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Winston says he had nothing to do with it. The official report says otherwise. So who’s telling the truth — and why does it matter now?]]></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 National showed us during this fuel crisis was that they will serve us all up to the free market</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When things fall apart, who picks you up — and who tells you to harden up? The fuel crisis gave us the answer.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winston Peters and Judith Collins role in setting up Judge Ema Aitken in kangaroo court fiasco</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martyn Bradbury]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A claim is made. A judge is dragged. Then it’s “disavowed.” But the damage? That sticks.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Don&#8217;t forget National, ACT and NZ First back the war criminals</title>
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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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