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Could We Lose Airbnb and Uber?

Kirk Hope CEO of BusinessNZ commonroomnz.com This article was first published on The Common Room Kiwis enjoy being free to earn some extra cash to supplement their income with app-based enterprises, including ridesharing, food delivery or short-term rentals. We also love to make use of the latest international services

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Liquidators sifting through the crumbled wreckage of Eric Watson’s business empire have instructed lawyers to begin bankruptcy proceedings. Watson, formerly New Zealand’s most famous businessman, has suffered a series of catastrophic setbacks in recent years – major court defeats against the New Zealand taxman, wrangles with his former business

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The Pandemic Started a Medical Gold Rush

Dr Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior manager

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A Rose in Every Cheek

Hannah Viney Hannah Viney works for the Old Treasury Building Museum. This research was originally conducted for an upcoming exhibition at the Museum. lens.monash.edu There are roughly 22 million jars of Vegemite manufactured in the original Melbourne factory every year. According to the Vegemite website, about 80 per

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Hypocrisy the Flavour of the Month at Ben & Jerry’s

Ben Terangi mercatornet.com Ben Terangi is a freelance journalist writing from Milwaukee. Popular ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s served up a delicious dose of irony last week. The Vermont-based brand used the United States’ national holiday, July 4th, to tweet their belief that “stolen” land should be

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Spark NZ Won’t Tolerate TERFS

Spark NZ Won’t Tolerate TERFS

familyfirst.org.nz This article was first published on The Daily Examiner Spark NZ and One NZ (previously Vodafone) have engaged with controversial far-left trans-activist Shaneel Lal in extraordinary engagements to attack women’s rights. The bizarre commentary appears to support Mr Lal’s call to suppress Kiwis’ voices based

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Threads: New Twitter Rival Looks Like a Shrewd Move

Threads: New Twitter Rival Looks Like a Shrewd Move

Wasim Ahmed Senior Lecturer in Digital Business University of Stirling Mariann Hardey Professor Digital Culture, Business and Computing at Durham University Business School and Advanced Research Computing (ARC), Durham University, Durham University theconversation.com Mark Zuckerberg’s new social media platform, Threads, has been released in smartphone app stores (although

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Telcos of the Day

Telcos of the Day

It seems Spark and Vodafone (One NZ) haven’t seen the Go Woke, Go Broke memo. Misogynist Shaneel Lal, who incited violence at Albert Park against people who turned up to hear Posie Parker speak, took to Facebook’s new app Threads to call to keep “TERFs” off the platform.

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How ‘Drinkflation’ Affects the Price of Your Pint

How ‘Drinkflation’ Affects the Price of Your Pint

Colin Angus Senior Research Fellow in the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group University of Sheffield The cost of living crisis has seen the prices of many goods and services rise sharply in the past 18 months, but food and drink prices have been particularly hard hit. Some food producers have responded

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Why the ‘Super Wealthy’ Are Fleeing Norway

Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The Federalist,

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Affordable and Environmentally Friendly? Not EVs

Andrew Moran Economics Editor at LibertyNation.com. Andrew has written extensively on economics, business, and political subjects for the last decade. He also writes about economics at The Epoch Times and financial markets at FX Daily Report. libertynation.com The House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on June

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An Acceptable Excuse to Commit Tax Fraud

An Acceptable Excuse to Commit Tax Fraud

Simon Black Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Sovereign Letters, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom, more opportunity, and more

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A State of Emergency for LGBTQ+?

A State of Emergency for LGBTQ+?

Sarah Cowgill National Columnist at LibertyNation.com. Sarah has been a writer in the political and corporate worlds for over 30 years. As a sought-after speech writer, her clients included CEOs, US Senators, Congressmen, Governors and even a Vice President. She’s worked as Contributing Editor at Scottsdale Life, a

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I’ve Cancelled My Sub to the NBR

I’ve Cancelled My Sub to the NBR

Don Brash Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 bassettbrashandhide.com I have subscribed to the National Business Review for many years and try to read their daily emails most days. Sometimes they have had some good articles, and

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Clerical Corpses

Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Almost 20 years back a Finnish Government officeworker sat undisturbed for two full days amid his colleagues, despite being dead. Commenting on this recent revelation Britain’s Daily Telegraph noted that his absence of activity had no effect on the Department’s output and was testimony

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A Look at China’s Lithium Mines and BRI

A Look at China’s Lithium Mines and BRI

Dave Patterson National Security Correspondent at LibertyNation.Com. Dave is a retired US Air Force Pilot with over 180 combat missions in Vietnam. He is the former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller and has served in executive positions in the private sector aerospace and defense industry. In addition

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