Business
What Y2K and COVID-19 Have in Common
Justin Knight For anyone too young to remember Y2K, it was a very expensive non-event invented by IT charlatans to scare the world into paying them a significant amount of money to fix precisely nothing. The argument went that when the year 1999 ticked over to 2000, all the computers
On Moving When You Don’t Want to Go.
Greg Moore It‘s always difficult to remain positive when everything that surrounds you seems to be taken away from under you. Today I am having one of these moments. In the Queenstown southern lakes area where we are, there were 19,345 people on the payroll at last census.
An Orchestrated Litany of Lies
Kathleen Horne COVID-19 has given Jacinda Ardern, Grant Robertson and their government colleagues the opportunity to take lying, hypocrisy and scapegoating to a whole new level. Let’s examine the case for lying about cash support for businesses via a make-believe court case with a judge interrogating the defendant (the
Our Country is in the Hands of a Few Bumbling Fools
Making decisions on the trot is never a good way to do anything. Ask any small business owner. They don’t just blindly bumble along adjusting what they do to fit whatever the flavour of the day might be. Even the smallest business venture does cash flow projections and measures
Capitalism 101: Adapt and Survive
Socialists may be celebrating the economic havoc caused by the Chinese virus, but if anything, it’s highlighting the failures of socialism and the robustness of capitalism. In the first place, this pandemic is entirely the work of a repressive communist regime (I apologise for the tautology). The economic devastation
The BFD Video: Let’s Stop Bashing Landlords
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The Covid-19 Witches Brew
Bubble bubble toil and trouble, the witches brew beckonedWe jumped right in and we stayed there to rotAlthough corpses eighty-eight thousand would not be our lotHow fast we did move, how quick we did leapThe government was on it, Covid death we’d not reapThe WHO had us worked up
NZ – the Little Engine That Couldn’t
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com New Zealand has always been ‘the little engine that could.’ It’s endearing imagery but also powerfully symbolic. But thanks to our leadership and their reckless decision-making now compounded by dogmatic digging-in, we are fast becoming the little engine that couldn’t. Today exactly what
Deborah Russell
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com New Labour MP Deborah Russell copped a social media backlash, typical of the mob mentality when in full flight. Deborah is a former philosophy academic. She suggested to a Parliamentary select committee that if only a few weeks out of action caused the demise of
Lessons From History
Simon Black Sovereignman.com Nearly seven centuries ago in the mid-1300s, the first major outbreak of the Bubonic Plague forced Europeans into some of the harshest social distancing measures in history. As Boccacio wrote in The Decameron in 1353, the hysteria was so extreme that “brother abandoned brother. . . fathers and
An End to Red Tape? Not On Your Life
Just before we went into lockdown, I heard how the Department of Health was recruiting retired health workers. Most of these people had allowed their registrations to lapse, but the Health Department was able to deal with that. It seemed that they were able to effect the re-registrations in most
The Jacinda Junta Kindly Bans Books
In a chilling scene in Chernobyl, soldiers tasked with shooting animals in the exclusion zone pause to take note of a communist propaganda banner drooping from a deserted building. “Our goal is the happiness of all mankind,” they read. They derisively remark on how happy they are – and go back
A Dose of Reality about the Future
Some people seem to think it’s all going to be OK out there if we sit tight for another couple of weeks. They think that everything is going to suddenly be just fine. We will have ridden out the storm and before we know it, we’ll be back