These Priorities Are Just Wrong
Skilled manufacturers wait in limbo while bureaucracy rolls out the red carpet elsewhere.
Business
NBN: Never Been Necessary
Every now and then an act of government incompetence and waste is so egregious that it’s enough to wake the beast within.
A Polar Plan for Banking
A banking boom is unlikely in Antarctica, but there doesn’t need to be one. What matters is the ability of a people to participate in their micro-economies unsevered from civilization. If the coldest edges of Earth don’t freeze out customers, neither should our financial institutions.
Why Is the WHO Driving This Panic?
There is a path for an organisation such as the WHO to act in an ethical, proportionate manner that serves humanity rather than parasitising it.
Is This Hantavirus a Bioweapon?
If hantavirus is spreading from person-to-person, then it’s been weaponized, and the evil bioterrorists that are responsible need to be held to account for it.
Standover Tactics: $180 Million for a Gold Mine
New Zealand was built on secure property rights and equal treatment under law. Race-based planning has corrupted that foundation. Scrap it. Restore one law for all.
Has Bitcoin’s Moment Now Arrived?
The use of alternative payment methods during periods of conflict is not new. But the direction is becoming clearer. When trust erodes, systems do not collapse overnight, they morph and adapt. Quietly at first and then all at once.
The Air New Zealand Pod Awaits You
What gets me is that the $495 is what you pay on top of your basic ticket price: it’s only for a four-hour period in The Pod and, as you can see, it’s a bunk-bed setup.
