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Political Theatre at Its Best

Political Theatre at Its Best

Seven o’clock on a Sunday night and there she was, Jacinda, looking suitably frowny faced and dressed in black. Always an ominous sign. She had had to forego one of the highlights of her year – the Big Gay Out. Three people, all from the same family, had been found

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New COVID Guidelines: ‘Stay Away from Your Loved Ones’

Simon Black sovereignman.com James (aka Simon Black) is an international investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Sovereign Man. His free daily e-letter Notes from the Field is about using the experiences from his life and travels to help you achieve more freedom, make more money, keep more of it, and

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Vitriol Poured on Landlords

Vitriol Poured on Landlords

As some of you will know, I am a landlord and have been, on and off, for the last 20 years. Currently, we have 2 rented houses, our tenants are really great and we are happy, but it hasn’t always been that way. There were the tenants who completely

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Lockdowns Have Depleted Capital in All Forms

Lockdowns Have Depleted Capital in All Forms

Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research.He is the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and nine books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of

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MediaWorks Machinations

MediaWorks Machinations

What is going on at MediaWorks? First, it was John Banks and now it’s Sean Plunket. It seems as if the company is trying to pre-empt the proposed hate speech laws and get in first. Their CEO Cam Wallace certainly seems to be intent on implementing a woke philosophy.

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A Lack of Jobs in the Future Is a Scary Prospect

Bruce Wilds brucewilds.blogspot.com While many workers are chilling at home or working reduced hours due to COVID-19 lock-downs many are paying little attention to the huge number of job opportunities that are vanishing every day. A lack of jobs in the future is a scary prospect and bad

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Magic Talk Needs a Magic Wand

Magic Talk Needs a Magic Wand

So they have done it. Mediaworks have terminated Sean Plunket’s employment on Magic Talk. There will have been a handsome payout for Plunket, never fear, but the whole thing was an overreaction of epic proportions. It seems it all came down to the conversation John Banks had with a

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Picker Debacle Will Leave a Rotten Stench

Picker Debacle Will Leave a Rotten Stench

ACT Party “The Government’s dismal failure to be flexible and pragmatic about immigration to support the primary sector means hundreds of millions of dollars of losses for apple, wine and other growers is a near certainty,” says ACT Primary Industries spokesperson Mark Cameron. “That a scheme of financial inducements

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Get Woke Go Broke

We have all seen how the Big Tech corporations have started piling on to businesses that support conservative views. The fate of Parler is a very good example, but it is easy to just dismiss all that because it is America and ‘Orange Man Bad’. It is a different story,

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Bowron on CGT

Bowron on CGT

Ok, so I am a tax nerd. I have seen all sorts of taxes come and go during my career, and I can tell you, within reason, what works and what doesn’t. I can tell you with absolute certainty that capital gains tax will not magically fix the housing

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You Can’t Have Your Yuan and Your Sanctimony, Too

You Can’t Have Your Yuan and Your Sanctimony, Too

Call me crazy, but I’m not exactly inclined to take seriously lectures on business ethics from someone who makes billions from a genocidal communist regime. Being subjected to pontifications on slavery from someone who cheerfully deals with one of the most notorious slave-owning regimes on the planet just, I

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Zero Emissions

Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com “Zero emissions” requires no diesel, petrol or gas-fuelled cars, trucks, tractors or dozers and no burning of coal or gas for electricity generation. But without nuclear power or a massive increase in hydro-electricity, green energy will not support metal refining or manufacturing, and domestic electricity usage

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Is This Jacinda’s Showerhead Moment?

Enjoying a few drinks at a Saturday night barbeque with our neighbours, the subject of the Climate Commission’s proposal inevitably came up. These people are originally from Christchurch, generally left leaning (but not rabid lefties), happy with changing all the place names in New Zealand to Maori names and

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Using Batteries to Make Plants Grow

Using Batteries to Make Plants Grow

I recently reported on a promising technology whereby processed spinach plants can be turned into carbon nanosheets, which can in turn be used to make batteries and fuel cells more efficient. In a neat and somehow appropriate twist, old batteries can also be recycled into plant food. An Australian recycling

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