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Are We Being Set Up?
Could New Zealand be setting itself up as a testing ground or safe place for a biotech industry that is facing intense opposition elsewhere?
Pot Is Bad, Ok?
How people can take something that has a psychoactive effect without having even a little understanding how it impacts the brain I will never understand.
Still the Land of the Tax and Home of the Tip
Reflections on a trip to Trump’s America.
But Those Guys Are the Real Fascists
But do not be confused. Tamaki’s enemies are communists and they have power.
This Will Be Safe and Effective, Right?
If the Gene Technology Bill is passed by parliament, will this or other PC2 labs be primed and ready to start working on GMOs, also without the public’s knowledge or comment?
No, This Won’t Raise NZ Productivity
Although our top two politicians have never heard of the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle, and would no doubt label it a bit of silly academic economics, it is actually an observed fact which may be the undoing of the coalition’s ambitions.
How the Left Could Ratf*ck Luxon
This is a fairly simple play but the Labour Party is filled with exceptionally simple people who fail to make the simple plays time and time again. It is almost as if they want to maintain Luxon in place.
News Briefing: 27 February 2025
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards CITIZEN’S ARREST POWERS, CRIME, JUSTICE Andrew Geddis and Henry Benson-Pope (Spinoff): The many, many problems with the plan to expand citizen’s arrest powers RNZ: Police Association slams beefed-up citizen arrest powers AJ Hendry: New arrest laws: Negligent & dangerous Adam
Couldn’t Lead a Trail of Ants to a Jam Jar
After the train crash interview with Mike Hosking, it seems certain that Luxon’s time as prime minister may have come to an end.
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Face of the Day
Palma’s visa expires on Friday, and Associate Immigration Minister Chris Penk has, so far, refused to intervene in the case.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… harfang (noun): : snowy owl Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Swedish harfång, literally, hare catcher, from hare (from Old Swedish hari) + fånga to catch, from Old Swedish fanga, from Middle Low German vangen; akin to Old English hara hare and to Old High German fāhan to catch
The Good Oil Daily Proverb
A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but the resentment caused by a fool is even heavier.
