Looking for the ‘Smoking Gun’
In New Zealand there are very few regulations to ensure the public can find out about what influences government decision-making. Therefore, we shouldn’t be surprised that no smoking gun has yet emerged.
In New Zealand there are very few regulations to ensure the public can find out about what influences government decision-making. Therefore, we shouldn’t be surprised that no smoking gun has yet emerged.
Essentially, our politicians have done the equivalent of running a business whilst falsely inflating profits, pretending the firm was doing well, until it reached the point where everything broke
So far, over 250 scientists, researchers, ethicists, doctors, and patients have signed an open letter addressed to BBIL, ICMR and the editor at Drug Safety, demanding the lawsuit be withdrawn, and the study remains published.
Profitable businesses are frequently targeted by politicians in an obscene exercise of vote gathering. However, unlike politicians, profitable businesses are absolutely essential to economic prosperity for everyone.
Nurses, teachers and police to leave for Australia and mass unemployment in Wellington.
It isn’t their money being used: it is yours and you get to wear the day of reckoning.
Assuming you already have a tribe, the correct way to approach life in a market state is to focus on looting the treasury by any means necessary.
The real news is not to be found at six o’clock on One or Three but elsewhere in places such as YouTube.
Most people serving in parliament earn more than they would get elsewhere. That is a powerful influence on their behavior.
Will it happen here? Probably. Eventually. So far we’ve been lucky.
If iwi keep inventing new privileges under Article Two of the Treaty, then the Crown should use Article Three which says that Māori rights and duties are the same as those of everyone else.
The most basic current flaw in the New Zealand economy lies with our low wage levels.
Government bonds are designed to be ‘safe’, not complicated, but stick to places run by people like us.
A succession of National and Labour governments have turned NZ into one of the planet’s worst performing economies.
Forcing Americans into EVs was always a bad idea economically, but it now appears to be a bad idea politically, too.