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Open mike 20/06/2025

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  2. Phillip ure by r 2
    20 June 2025 at 10:29 am

    Note to moderator:

    I am in moderation..?

    For why..?

    [Yes, your comment was caught by the automated SPAM trap (aka Pre-Moderation) because you made an error in your user name, as you can see, which made you appear as a new user who needs to be manually approved by a real Mod. Correct your user name in your next comment, thanks – Incognito]

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  3. Incognito 3
    20 June 2025 at 10:53 am

    From the side menu: https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/20/the-secret-diary-of-luxon-in-china/ [by Steve Braunias]

    This resulted in this:

    Oops! That page can’t be found.

    It looks like nothing was found at this location. Maybe try a search?

    I’d love to read it!

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    • Drowsy M. Kram 3.1
      20 June 2025 at 11:45 am

      smiley So would I – the opening line is tanalising tantalising:

      Our great helmsman gets cold feet on a historic trade mission.

      Censored by an over-sensitive AI bot? Ah well, how about Mike Hosking – me(an)time.

      The Secret Diary of .. Mike Hosking’s struggle [14 June 2025]
      A poignant diary of the right-wing’s struggles without end

      Luxon is almost as quick out of the blocks as Ardern when she made her trip to China 17 months after becoming PM, so perhaps give him credit for that.

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  4. Incognito 4
    20 June 2025 at 11:21 am

    Farmers know that to get strong growth, year-on-year, takes effort, investment, and patience (and a bit of luck). Providing an uncultivated plot of land and yelling at the weather is not going to magically transform into rich harvests. The Coalition is full of shit but doesn’t know shit and it beggars belief that farmers allegedly support this bunch of ignorant amateurs that cannot grow anything but misery and misogyny.

    The government talks about science as a cornerstone for economic growth, but it is unwilling to put its money where its mouth is …

    https://www.science.org/content/article/new-zealand-betting-innovation-and-economic-growth-cuts-existing-science-funds

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  5. Dennis Frank 5
    20 June 2025 at 12:00 pm

    See how this expert uses a triad to frame contemporary warfare: https://www.csis.org/analysis/ungentlemanly-robots-israels-operation-rising-lion-and-new-way-war

    Israel’s Operation Rising Lion offers three takeaways about joint military campaigns in the twenty-first century. First, deep integration of special operations forces (SOF), autonomous drones, and AI-enabled intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance is now the baseline for theater entry because these “ungentlemanly robots” overwhelm air defenses and disrupt command loops faster than any single strike package. Second, layered defenses must also assume insider threats, as pre-staging shows that distance is largely psychological and physical depth becomes porous when loitering munitions can hide inside something as ordinary as a commercial truck.

    Finally, the fusion of covert emplacement with long-range fires erodes strategic warning, compressing decision timelines for defenders and allies and shrinking crisis-management windows from hours or days to mere minutes, paralyzing the adversary.

    His second prong in that triad is insider threats, which were mentioned in other reportage I have seen, but without clarifying if regime opponents were working with Mossad. His third prong seems to combine novelty with speed to alchemise confusion.

    Benjamin Jensen is director of the Futures Lab and a senior fellow for the Defense and Security Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C.

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  6. Muttonbird 6
    20 June 2025 at 6:56 pm

    The small-minded incompetence of Nicola Willis, and the petty reactionism of Winston Peters suddenly dawns on Mark Brown.

    I'm sure he knew New Zealand would become childish upon the election of a three-headed ideologically austere and racist government but the reality must hit hard.

    Thanks CoC, you lost the Cooks. Their government functions no longer have the support of the New Zealand people, and tens of thousands of middle class NZ families are going to find harder to book their privileged winter escape.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific/564705/mark-brown-slams-new-zealand-for-its-patronising-approach-over-china-deal

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