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Stuff and Nonsense

Stuff and Nonsense

Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A recent lengthy article in Wellington’s Post newspaper by Julie Jacobson headed “Council offers rich-lister’s support to secure tenants” left me incredulous. Julie babbled on about the Wellington City Council’s efforts to woo tenants into my company’s central Lambton Quay large retail

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The DOJ’s Coercive Case against Google

The DOJ’s Coercive Case against Google

Kimberlee Josephson Dr Kimberlee Josephson is an associate professor of business at Lebanon Valley College and serves as an adjunct research fellow with the Consumer Choice Center. She teaches courses on global sustainability, international marketing, and workplace diversity; and her research and op-eds have appeared in various outlets. aier.org

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YouTube Acts as Judge and Jury

YouTube Acts as Judge and Jury

Luis Cornelio Luis is the MRC Assistant Editor for Business and Free Speech American. He graduated cum laude with a Political Science and a minor in legal studies from City College of New York. Most recently he served as the English Editor-in-Chief of El American and is an alum of

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Why Do They Cling to Mandates?

Why Do They Cling to Mandates?

Leslie Manookian Leslie Manookian, MBA, M.L.C. Hom is president and founder of Health Freedom Defense Fund. She is a former successful Wall Street business executive. Her career in finance took her from New York to London with Goldman Sachs. She later became Director of Alliance Capital in London

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The UN’s New Declaration on Pandemics

The UN’s New Declaration on Pandemics

David Bell David Bell, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

“The Green Party would phase in five weeks of annual leave. We will provide organisations plenty of notice and ensure the full five weeks is available for everyone by the end of 2025,” [Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson] said. She said Aotearoa is not currently “working for all working people”

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Big Business Get What They Deserve

Big Business Get What They Deserve

Look at them: look at them and laugh. Big businesses thought that nauseating virtue-signalling over an endless parade of Current Things would make the left like them. Now they’ve got a socialist left government in power and they’re quickly learning just how recklessly stupid they’ve really been.

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Snouts in the Most Exclusive Trough in Town

Snouts in the Most Exclusive Trough in Town

Groucho Marx famously didn’t want to belong to any club that would have him as a member. For Australia’s political elites, it’s more a case of desperately wanting the perks of a club they publicly profess to loathe. Forget the Melbourne Club, the Atheneum, or the Tattersall’

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New Zealand Changes Tack in the Gulf

New Zealand Changes Tack in the Gulf

Geoffrey Miller Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s geopolitical analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a learner of Arabic and Russian. He is currently working on a PhD on New Zealand’

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Qantas Told to Clean Up Their Room

Qantas Told to Clean Up Their Room

It’s an odd thing: the very people who wax apoplectic that “corporations aren’t people!” also expect corporations to act like people. Because, here’s the thing: only people can make moral judgements. So, when activists blither about “corporate social responsibility”, “triple bottom line”, and “social licence”, they’re

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Mohamed AI Fayed

Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I was surprised by how much generally favourable attention Mohamad AI Fayed received following his death at 94. I had an amusing exchange with him in the late 1980s. This followed a situation of my own making when I’d arrived in London on a Saturday

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If It Looks Like Debt, Let’s Treat It Like Debt

If It Looks Like Debt, Let’s Treat It Like Debt

Aaron Gilbert Ayesha Scott Auckland University of Technology There are few stores without an Afterpay logo displayed on the door, or that don’t offer Laybuy at their online checkout. And these schemes are particularly popular with younger consumers. But what price might these buyers be paying for the conveniences

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Twiggy May Be Smarter and Greedier Than We Thought

Twiggy May Be Smarter and Greedier Than We Thought

Something happens to the very rich, to their detriment: they lose the presence of people to tell them, “No”. When, as invariably happens, the wealthy and powerful surround themselves with sycophants, there’s no one around them willing to tell them, “That’s a stupid idea. You’re making an

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Disease X Is a Great Business Strategy

Disease X Is a Great Business Strategy

David Bell David Bell, senior scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in

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Fed’s New CDBC Hacked Just Six Days after Its Launch

Fed’s New CDBC Hacked Just Six Days after Its Launch

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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Please Go Away, We Don’t Want to Help

Please Go Away, We Don’t Want to Help

After a week’s worth of skirmishes with customer service providers, I am heavily of the opinion that the idiots I spoke to this week should change their department titles from “Customer Services” to “Please Go Away, We Don’t Want to Help”. Customer service is extinct. Naturally, companies are

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