"And during the few moments that we have left, we want to talk right down to earth, in a language that everybody here, can easily understand" - Malcolm X
Well, happy new year ladies & gents, welcome to our audience here in New Zealand & around the world (Inspired by the opening lines of American news anchor who works for CNN of Wolf Blitzer, but it's my 13th year of blogging under the name Kiwiavenger since it began in 2012), it's Whet here tuning in to this Kiwiavenger blog but first, after our America's Cup (For which was originally known as the Hundred Guineas Cup before changing their name that they're currently using as of today after the winning boat of America, but it is my first post-America's Cup blog now since it ended at race 9 that had taken place in Barcelona when Team New Zealand crossed the line for the win against the true challenger of record of INEOS Britannia as we became the first syndicate to win the Auld Mug on 3 occasions in a row since the reign of the New York Yacht Club (Who had been holders from 1870, until the Aussies had won it 113 years later) had ended in 1983 therefore our America's Cup dynasty as well as our legacy & reputation in the 'Everest of sailing', continues (And I'm still stoked about the result, super stoked that we had therefore continued our dominance in the quest of our defence such as the contest of yachting's biggest prize, the Auld Mug for the 3rd straight time, especially our sailing hero of Peter Burling who cemented his status as the GOAT as well as I label Burling as the self-proclaimed sailing god, compared to the 2 time Rugby World Cup winning captain of the Springboks of Siya Kolisi who is always been the self-proclaimed rugby god) success once more on the water that we had for Emirates Team New Zealand led by none other than master sailor Peter Burling (A Tauranga Boys College old boy alongside 2021 World Test Championship winning captain for the Black Caps of Kane Williamson & last but not least, a 2015 Rugby World Cup winning player for the All Blacks of Sam Cane) & his Aussie co-helmsman Nathan Outteridge who had to complete our 3rd consecutive series win for sport's oldest international competition, the Auld Mug in Barcelona, Spain for another successful America's Cup glory against INEOS Britannia (And the first time we defended the Auld Mug on foreign soil, in which we produced a Mediterranean masterclass (And that fateful weekend of sport in New Zealand will be a weekend long remembered. It has seen the defeat of INEOS Britannia, & will soon see the end of the South Africa women's cricket team) according to the commentary from the current day voice of the America's Cup of Stephen McIvor, but at least we didn't disappoint), so too are the White Ferns who are finally on top of the women's T20 cricket world after our epic win against South Africa in the final in Dubai in the UAE as we turn our attention to the rugby (And the long weekend on the 26th to the 28th (Labour day here in New Zealand) of October last year is all about the rugby because we decided to move on from the success that we had when we triumphed in the yachting yet again as well as the women's T20 cricket) with the AB's side (Who are without the loose forward trio of Ethan Blackadder, Luke Jacobson & Dalton Papali'i as part of the IL (Injury list) for this upcoming test, but one of the rugby players that me & Pops met & took a picture with at Frank Bar of Stevie P (Stephen Perofeta) is returning to the rugby field as he is healthy again & raring to go) have named their team to play against the Brave Blossoms of Japan (Who haven't played since losing the Pacific Nations Cup final against the eventual champions Fiji) there at Yokohama Stadium in Yokohama (Our most recent meeting between the 2 sides was in 2022 where the Japanese almost made history, but they fell short in the end by 7 points which was marred by Brodie Retallick's red card for a sickening high contact which was deemed to be shocking on Japanese loose forward Kazuki Himeno which resulted in a fortnight's ban for Retallick) in which we haven't played at that ground since the 2019 Rugby World Cup semifinal defeat against England, so here is the starting lineup according to Razor:
STARTING XV
FORWARD PACK
FRONT ROW
1 (Loose head prop): Tamaiti Williams (Crusaders/Canterbury)
2 (Hooker): Asafo Aumua (Hurricanes/Wellington)
3 (Tight head prop): Pasilio Tosi (Hurricanes/Bay of Plenty)
SECOND ROW
4 (No.4 lock): Sam Darry (Blues/Canterbury)
5 (No.5 lock): Patrick Tuipulotu (Blues/Auckland)
LOOSE FORWARDS
6 (Blind side flanker): Samipeni Finau (Chiefs/Waikato)
7 (Open side flanker): Sam Cane (Chiefs/Bay of Plenty)
8 (Number 8): Wallace Sititi (Chiefs/North Harbour)
BACK LINE
HALVES
9 (Half-back): Cam Roigard (Hurricanes/Counties Manukau)
10 (First five-eighth): Damian McKenzie (Chiefs/Waikato)
MIDFIELD
12 (Second five-eighth): Anton Lienert-Brown (Chiefs/Waikato)
13 (Centre): Billy Proctor (Hurricanes/Wellington)
OUTSIDE BACKS
11 (Left wing): Mark Tele'a (Blues/North Harbour)
14 (Right wing): Sevu Reece (Crusaders/Southland)
& 15 (Fullback): Stephen Perofeta (Blues/Taranaki)
& REPLACEMENT PLAYERS
16 (Reserve hooker): George Bell (Who comes into the side with Asafo Aumua being drafted to the run-on team to replace Codie Taylor)
17 (Reserve loose head prop): Ofa Tu'ungafasi (Who returns to the bench as he replaces Tamaiti Williams who is promoted to the starting lineup)
18 (Reserve tight head prop): Fletcher Newell (Who returns from injury to be on the pine as he replaces Pasilio Tosi (The Taniela Tupou of New Zealand rugby) who is elevated to the starting lineup)
19 (Reserve lock): Josh Lord (Who returns as he takes Patrick Tuipulotu's spot at the reserve lock position with Tuipulotu earning promotion to the run-on team therefore captaining the side)
20 (Reserve loose forward): Peter Lakai (Who is in line to make his test debut off the pine as he takes the injured Luke Jacobson's spot at reserve loose forward)
21 (Reserve half-back): TJ Perenara (Who is dropped to the bench as he takes Cortez Ratima's spot in the reserve halfback position)
22 (Reserve midfielder): David Havili (Who is expected to wear the number 22 jersey to replace Damian McKenzie who is elevated to the run-on team)
& 23 (Reserve back): Ruben Love (Who is also in line to make his debut for the All Blacks off the bench as he covers the reserve back position once taken by David Havili)
And the latest in the United States that a civil war might break out just like in the early to mid 1860's, even if Donald Trump is defeated in an election to the current US Vice President Kamala Harris, therefore sending the pro-right wing conservative people into a frenzy by starting a riot which would spread all over the place causing fears & concerns of an outbreak of violence (And I told Pops about it on the 25th of October last year in which we were on our way back home after having dinner at BK (Burger King), but I always play the GTA IV game (For which is my 2nd most standout video game that I've ever played behind Gran Turismo 7) & it's expansion pack of the Ballad of Gay Tony every day & my favourite part of the gameplay is the shooting system which is the best ever since the 2005 version of Star Wars Battlefront II, as well as engaging in a police shooting/shootout reminds me of I haven't seen combat like that since either Kyiv or Rafah (Which is during my experiences of watching both terrible wars that are still going on the news channels of CNN (The left wing American news channel that Aunty Tan usually watches) & Al Jazeera (Also the news channel based in Qatar that Carole always watches due to her Middle Eastern roots that is non-biased compared to CNN) about it, but I've now got the Call of Duty game on both PS4 & PS5 versions that I've never played due to me experiencing both sickening but shocking wars that they're still currently having that I've seen on both news outlets), but it's like being back in either that dreadful invasion that has been going since 2022 (In which Pops told me before to keep it clean about not mentioning that horrible war in full on my blogs which is prohibited (I originally posted stuff about it, but Pops says that it's deemed to be both objectionable & sensitive to avoid being offended to the country who started it, but is it fine to mention the Middle East war on my blogs? I'll probably get rid of it once the Israeli invasion in both Gaza & Lebanon ends) or the Israeli invasion of Hamas (For which I label Israel's war on Hamas as the worst tragic stuff that I have ever seen of my lifetime, since that awful terrorist attacks unfolded in the United States on September 11th way back in 2001 (A year before the US government's decision to establish the Department of Homeland Security also way back in 2002 following the 9/11 tragedy), you are wasting my time), & it was at one point that I took aim at either at one of the Russian, North Korean or Chinese gangsters with a gun in the game, then they shoot at the protagonist of TBOGT, Luis Lopez before police arrive, then I shoot at cops (Along with either NOOSE or FIB officers if it's four stars or above) & keep shooting at them (And Pops alluded to me before about that I'm always playing the Xbox 360 version of GTA IV via backwards compatibility on my Xbox Series X console in which he describes the horrible police shootings/shootouts as war stuff, like the ones in Gaza) until I reach the six star wanted level rating when Luis hops on in a good, correct fast car like the Grotti Turismo, the Vapid Bullet GT or the Ocelot F620 which are the main examples before law enforcement reinforcements arrive by evading the authorities until I lose that wanted level rating, similar to & inspired by both Gone in 60 Seconds & the Fast & the Furious movies respectively, unlike in the GTA IV game during the mission Three Leaf Clover (For which I have mentioned a story inspired by the controversial GTA games again, but the 'Three Leaf Clover' mission which was inspired by the Hollywood movies of both Heat, Point Break & the Italian Job was by far, the most standout mission in the history of the Grand Theft Auto franchise, & the most intense above them all, as well as the most during the High Definition era of the Grand Theft Auto series, & one of the greatest but if not the greatest mission of all time) were Patrick 'Packie' McReary said to one of the robbers during a heist that "Ireland's not the only thing that's green, dollars are too", & then Derrick McReary (Whose best line is that he tells him what to do, when he stop shoving half of Bolivia up his nose every Saturday night prior to Michael getting shot by an armed hostage who killed or murdered him should I say before he was shot dead by the robbers) said to both Niko Bellic & Packie that he has not seen combat like that since Belfast & also that he said that it's like being back in the Troubles (For which were a ethno-nationalist war in Northern Ireland in the UK colloquially known as the Northern Ireland war that lasted for about 3 decades from the late 1960s until long ago in 1998 in which the conflict concluded with the Good Friday agreement), by crikey & also that Derrick was saying that he hasn't been there at Chinatown in Liberty City since Frankie threw him a farewell dinner when he was going to Ireland because that was a lifetime ago.
And in rock music related news that I'm an Alanis Morissette, Avril Lavigne, Michelle Branch & Evanescence follower from now on as of today according to the previous blog that I did last year, because it used to be of my big 7 of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Linkin Park (Who now have a female lead singer of Emily Armstrong who replaced the late Chester Bennington, but I should be a fanatic of that band it again just like the main 4 women in rock musicians & bands now), Incubus, a Perfect Circle, our own Kiwi rock band Shihad & Filter, but the famous American pop punk band of the Offspring who have recently have released a new single already called 'Make It All Right' (In which the song gives you Blink-182 vibes back in 1999/2000 as it sounds closer to 'All the Small Things' as well as back in the high school days in the United States, especially the movies that they made about it like American Pie for example, during the late 90s/early 2000s heyday period, but actually 'Make It All Right' is by far, one of my fave songs from the Offspring from now on) from the album Supercharged as part of the old time rock bands releasing new material or new stuff should I say last year & in 2023 along with Franz Ferdinand (Who released their new song 'Audacious' that I heard recently on Brian FM from the album the Human Fear which is due to come out this month which is this year), Kings of Leon (Who the band released Can We Please Have Fun on May 10th last year), Pearl Jam (Who the band also released Dark Matter on the 19th of April also last year a month before Kings of Leon had most recently released their new album) & Linkin Park (Their album From Zero came out on November 15th last year) as well as Sum 41 (Also their album had been released on the 29th of March also last year), Green Day (Whose album Saviors was released last year on January 19th) & of course, Blink-182 (One of their albums called One More Time... came out on the 20th of October in 2023).
And finally the entertainment world is in mourning on September the 9th as famous American actor James Earl Jones, better known as the voice of the iconic villain/bad guy of Darth Vader in the Star Wars original trilogy which instantly gained him recognition in both the United States & around the world, then he appeared in Episode III: Revenge of the Sith in which he had an uncredited role, has passed away aged 93 due to mainly old age so all thoughts, prayers & heartfelt condolences go to the family of James Earl Jones, RIP (Rest in power), but there is also Liam Payne who is the member of the famous boy band One Direction (Which features other members including Zayn Malik & Harry Styles, but are no longer together as of today) who lost his life so rest easy to him (And all thoughts, prayers & heartfelt condolences go to the young man who is gone but not forgotten).
James Earl Jones
1931 - 2024
& Liam Payne
1993 - 2024
So that is my 577th blog of the year 2025 (MMXXV) & my 1st of this year, viva Ukraine & Palestine.
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