One of New Zealand’s most senior Catholics has failed in his last-ditch attempt to prevent a media company from detailing sexual abuse allegations against him. Cardinal John Dew, a former Archbishop of Wellington who was made a cardinal by Pope Francis in 2015, is the subject of a
he word for today is… posse (noun): 1: a large group often with a common interest 2: a body of persons summoned by a sheriff to assist in preserving the public peace usually in an emergency 3: a group of people temporarily organized to make a search (as for a
‘Prepare for change’. The Exposé headline screams – Is Deagel’s 2025 Depopulation Nightmare Unfolding? A Startling Correlation with Shocking Quadruple Vaccinated Mortality Rates Certainly Suggests So… For example, USA – 68.5%, Australia – 34.6%, and Puerto Rico – 68%. In April 2021, the enigmatic intelligence firm Deagel.com quietly erased its
Nikki Haley suspended her presidential campaign on Wednesday after being soundly defeated across the country on Super Tuesday, leaving Donald Trump as the last remaining major candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination. Haley didn’t endorse the former president in a speech in Charleston, South Carolina. Instead, she encouraged him
The word for today is… incipient (adjective): : beginning to come into being or to become apparent Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Incipient describes something that is beginning to come into being or to become apparent, as in “the incipient stages of the process.” And of course a good starting point for
The Black Caps’ first wicket will fall and Kane Williamson will head out to the middle at some stage during the second test against Australia in Christchurch, starting on Friday. Holding his Gray-Nicolls bat, he will loosen himself up, stretching his back and his shoulders, swinging the tool of
The word for today is… futurity (noun): 1: time to come : future 2: the quality or state of being future 3 futurities plural : future events or prospects 4a: a horse race usually for two-year-olds in which the competitors are nominated at birth or before b: a race or
One of these crimes is not like the other… Crime (A) If you haven’t followed the news – last year at the ‘Posie Parker’ event in Albert Park, protests led by trans activists and encouraged by mainstream media, a young man repeatedly attacked a 71 year old woman. The 20
The word for today is… arduous (adjective): 1a: hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult b: marked by great labour or effort : strenuous 2: hard to climb : steep Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Arduous isn’t the type of word one expects to hear in a folk song—it’s a bit
Nikki Haley has won her first GOP Primary… in Washington DC where 92% voted for Joe Biden at the last election. Says it all really. Nikki Haley has won the Republican primary in the District of Columbia, notching her first victory of the 2024 campaign. Her victory on Sunday at
The word for today is… glower (verb, noun): verb : to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger noun : a sullen brooding look of annoyance or anger Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : We send this word, glower, out to the glaring grumps, the scowling scoundrels, and the pouting pessimists of the
On Thursday, nine [Wellington] city councillors voted to bung corporate welfare to foreign millionaires in order to breathe new life into the city’s grubby party strip. The shuttered Reading cinema site had became a symbol of a general malaise settling over the threadbare city. Now it is an allegory
The word for today is… sangfroid (noun): : self-possession or imperturbability especially under strain Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Sangfroid comes from the French term sang-froid, which literally translates as “cold blood.” When describing amphibians and reptiles, cold-blooded means “having a body temperature that is similar to the temperature
In 2004, a renegade sheep that had avoided muster for five years was found in Central Otago, on Bendigo Station near Tarras. He was, as his owner John Perriam remembers, completely wool blind and “the most useless worthless creature.” But he would go on to be worth an estimated $100
The word for today is… chapfallen (adjective): 1: having the lower jaw hanging loosely 2: cast down in spirit : depressed Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : To be chapfallen is, literally, to have one’s jaw in a fallen or lower position, a physical sign of dejection. The chap in chapfallen is
Destiny Church bikers will continue to wear their Tu Tangata leather vests because “they are korowai, not gang patches”, says church matriarch Hannah Tamaki. New legislation on Monday outlawed the wearing of gang patches in public, and offenders who break that ban could be fined up to $5000 or jailed
