PeterBale
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PeterBale
@PeterBale
Journalism background at Reuters, FT, News, Microsoft, CNN, CPI, https://t.co/fyCJVzkqim. Also, and experimentally, on Mastodon at: @[email protected]
Auckland, New Zealand Katılım Mayıs 2007
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@NMowbray23 @franks_lawyer I produce 3 hours of talk radio a morning with 1 other person. Twice as efficient as Zb
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Generally speaking I think this ratio is about right - a private company is 3-4 x more efficient than anything public.
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@EylonALevy “Millions of Iranians hoping to mark Iftar seek shelter from another Israeli attack”.
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Millions of Israelis just got up from their Shabbat dinner tables to seek shelter from another Iranian ballistic missile attack
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@EdwardGLuce @JohnJHarwood Alphaville has several brilliant and darkly witty writers.
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Desperation, thy name is Scott Bessent.
"The Trump administration, which definitely carefully planned its war on Iran and thought through all the potential implications, seems to be getting increasingly worried about the completely unforeseeable rise in gas prices." ft.com/content/2b002c…
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You laugh but once ChatGPT launches porn mode this is going to be 90 per cent of what’s left of what we used to call news.
life enjoyer@coolestdudeva
Catching up on the news
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Look, the only rational option for Iran’s surviving leaders is to defect for immunity. We can keep doing this all day, picking them off one by one. If they won’t do the rational thing, that only reinforces the need to bomb their weapons and ultimately bring it down.
Iran International English@IranIntl_En
Iran’s Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib was the target of overnight strikes in Tehran, Iran International has learned. No information was immediately available about his fate. iranintl.com/en/202603189971
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Jonathan Powell is a far more experienced national security negotiator than anyone on the US side. This is further confirmation that Starmer was right to refuse to take part in the assault on Iran. What a wasted opportunity. I will be discussing @TimesRadio at 1600.
Pippa Crerar@PippaCrerar
EXCL: UK national security adviser Jonathan Powell attended final talks between US and Iran - and judged Tehran's offer on its nuclear programme was significant enough to prevent rush to war @patrickwintour & @julianborger reveal theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…
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@carlworker It should be a much bigger story if the gallery and specialist reporting hadn’t been denuded.
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"The Mark Lynton Prize for History, a $10,000 award for combining “literary grace, commitment to serious research & social concern,” administered by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, was given to William Dalrymple's “The Golden Road.”
washingtonpost.com/national/2026/…
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New Zealand cannot afford a crank foreign minister a day longer. We are starting to look in the world as weird as he looks to all of us at home. Time for a change.
Helen Clark@HelenClarkNZ
NZ rejects new #IHR. “We’re in fringe territory. This is not what people expect of NZ. We’ve been seen as a good international citizen. We adopt conventions, we play by the rules. This is reputation-wrecking. People will think that we’ve lost our mind.” newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/18/nz-…
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President Trump said Monday that he spoke to a former president about bombing Iran.
• An aide for George W. Bush says that “they haven’t been in touch."
• An aide to Bill Clinton says that whoever Trump was referring to was not Clinton.
• An Obama aide says “no recent conversations” have taken place between Barack Obama and Trump.
• A source familiar with the matter said the former president Trump was referring to was not Joe Biden.
nbcnews.com/politics/donal…
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Extraordinary 👇🏽
Joe Kent@joekent16jan19
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.
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What’s the answer, @Keir_Starmer?
Zack Polanski@ZackPolanski
Trump has just held up a model of a B2 fighter plane and declared these are dropping the biggest bombs on Iran you’ll ever see. B2s are reportedly taking off from British bases. Keir Starmer must answer my simple question. Are these planes attacking Iran?
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@secondzeit Nope. I suspect he is going to get stuck on the hypocrisy hook.
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Hipkins in 2023, saying his family were off limits (he hoped) smh.com.au/world/oceania/…
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🟡 Jerusalem 🇮🇱 - Legacy media must have missed this.
A Iranian Islamic Shia regime missile debris lands on the most the Holy Church of Sepulchre. ✝️
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@herbofchch @LeeStewartNZ @nzfirst @ChantelleBakerr Presumably, you are what David Seymour recently described to me as a "Christchurch skinhead". I am familiar with the WEF.
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@PeterBale @LeeStewartNZ @nzfirst @ChantelleBakerr You know wef global leaders are spreading hate and corruption all over the world, you know like comrade ardern
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Netanyahu, Mojtaba Khamenei and Kim Jong-un meet at Sataf Café in Jerusalem
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@MichaelFieldNZ @NewZealandMFA I am very opposed to those globalist bastards at the WTF!
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