Alastair Thompson
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Climate, Conflict, Politics, Africa. Editor https://t.co/b6HbxvlPDn (NZ) Reporting from France. https://t.co/LNVK0y9b2z #nzpol #DesertRain
Wellington, New Zealand
Joined October 2008
The Rick Wilson & Antony Scaramucci podcasts about American Dysfunction contain extremely valuable analysis about the nature and danger inherent in the current febrile international and U.S. Domestic arenas of public discourse. They are both a bit right leaning but they are
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The Rest Is Politics: US · Episode
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Over the next week --> Arctic Blast 1.0 and Arctic Blast 2.0 merge into Super Arctic Blast that will entomb the Eastern U.S. into a frigid hellscape. Temperatures 35°F to 45°F below normal will cripple 🇺🇸 east of the Mississippi. This is all-time historic vintage cold.
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On The Venezuela issue and the gift of the peace prize to Trump… Trump is using his office and American Prestige to humiliate the leaders of all nations in the world, except his freind Netanyahu.
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The council in Aberdeenshire has declared a major incident as heavy snow batters the area. People have been trapped in their houses since New Year's Day and schools are closed, reports Sky's @ConnorGillies.
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The Senate just killed the resolution to stop Trump’s war in Venezuela, by one vote. JD Vance had to break the tie. 70% of Americans oppose U.S. military involvement, but the Senate ignored us. We keep fighting. Hands off Venezuela. End the Monroe Doctrine.
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NEW: Farage confirms he is in talks with Robert Jenrick about him defecting from the Conservatives to Reform UK. But nothing is “signed”. @SkyNews
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💥NEW: Reform UK Scotland leader Malcolm Offord distances himself from a Reform Holyrood candidate who previously told Sky News that illegal migrants should be “put in camps and deported”. Offord is answering questions before the @SkyNews interview is cut short.
💥EXCL: Sky News gains rare access inside a Reform UK meeting with members as polls suggest they could become Scotland’s second largest party. 🗣️‘Put them in camps & deport them' says one MSP hopeful. 🗣️Claims of Sharia law… 🗣️@JohnSwinney responds. 🔗 https://t.co/1BDcEWsBDz
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For what it’s worth imho Badenoch performed very well in this interview with @ConnorGillies in this interview in Scotland. Connor asks all the right questions as usual.
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch tells Sky's @ConnorGillies that she's "100% confident" that no one else in her top team will defect to Reform. Robert Jenrick joined Nigel Farage's party after she sacked him from the shadow cabinet. Latest 🔗 https://t.co/RXE95qrv43 📺 Sky 501
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Trump is rapidly becoming a facsimile of Vladimir Putin in relation to use of violent executive power to intimidate all Americans. The U.S. is now a failing state. The amount of damage he has done to American prestige is now off the scale. The U.S. under Trump is no longer a
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I interviewed Jewish Iranian children at the synagogue about their life in Iran.
🚨Jews are safer in Iran than in Australia🚨 I've returned from Iran where I interviewed Jewish kids inside a Tehran synagogue. They told me: 'We LOVE living in Iran! We're best friends with our Muslim classmates. ' When I asked about Australia? 'kangaroos!' 😂🐨 Israel will
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I interviewed a rabbi in a synagogue in Iran.
🚨I Travelled to Iran and spoke with a Jewish rabbi in a synagogue about ASIO’s allegation that Iran may be connected to antisemitic attacks in Australia. His answer: "Impossible! Iran would never do that". Now, Israeli Mossad says it's going to try to pin the ISIS #bondiattack
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Trump says Cuba is “extorting” Venezuela. Yet, it was Cuba that sent 250,000 health workers to Venezuela, lowered infant mortality, restored eyesight, and trained local doctors. The true extortionist is Trump.
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This image is still stuck in my mind, how the Israeli occupation soldiers arrested all the patients at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza. We will not forget, and we will not forgive.
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Biggest export...But it keeps coming back .
Under National, exports have grown by $12b in two years. We’re hustling on the world stage to secure more trade deals which means more jobs, higher wages, and more opportunities for Kiwis. Fixing the basics, building the future.
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This growth line is only disrupted by Covid. During which nz was isolated and not trading with anyone : otherwise what it shows is that there has been a consistent performance gain in our trading activity as a country since 2014 due imho to increasing heartland innovation and
Under National, exports have grown by $12b in two years. We’re hustling on the world stage to secure more trade deals which means more jobs, higher wages, and more opportunities for Kiwis. Fixing the basics, building the future.
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Another acute analysis of the rapidly metastasising global order that @realDonaldTrump has now found himself destroying like a rogue elephant - especially NATO & European + Latin American security Feat: Anne Applebaum Russia specialist Playing from 23
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Politics Weekly America · Episode
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Another acute analysis of the rapidly metastasising global order that @realDonaldTrump has now found himself destroying like a rogue elephant - especially NATO & European + Latin American security Feat: Anne Applebaum Russia specialist Playing from 23
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🚨🇮🇷Come Shopping with me in Iran, Tehran!!!! 🛍️ They are lying to you about Iran, and Iranian women, to sell you regime change for Israel!!!
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This appears to be an Iranian counter narrative to threats from Trump & Netanyahu about planning for more bombing of Tehran. Which is, at the very least, utterly unnecessary at this time, there is more than enough chaos & death underway. At the hands of @realDonaldTrump and by
🚨🇮🇷Come Shopping with me in Iran, Tehran!!!! 🛍️ They are lying to you about Iran, and Iranian women, to sell you regime change for Israel!!!
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“Spy adjacent”…. Epstein” British understatement is at times - a work of art. The lesson in this is that if you are rich, influential and foolish - don’t do super dumb stuff with strangers.
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