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After his concert in Wellington on Thursday night, Sheeran said in another Instagram story that he wanted chocolate from Whittaker’s. “Whittaker’s NZ chocolate, you made a bar of chocolate with my face on it, I’ve just seen the memes,” he said. “I’m in Wellington for one

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Parts of Auckland May Become Too Expensive to Insure

Michael Naylor Senior Lecturer in Economics Massey University The clean-up from Auckland’s devastating floods last week is just beginning but insurance companies will need to start thinking about what the record-breaking weather event will mean for future coverage. Over 24 hours, 249mm of rain fell across the Auckland region

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It Started before the Outbreak

It Started before the Outbreak

Robert Kogon brownstone.org Robert Kogon is a pen name for a widely-published financial journalist, a translator, and researcher working in Europe. Follow him at Twitter here. He writes at edv1694.substack.com. The bizarre Project Veritas “sting” videos that have gone ultra-viral on Twitter have undoubtedly confused the public

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The Biggest Story of the Decade

The Biggest Story of the Decade

Peter Imanuelsen petersweden.substack.com I’m Peter Imanuelsen | Swedish journalist | Political commentator | Supporter of freedom, kindness and liberty | It’s hard for me to put into words just how big this story is. This is a scandal of epic proportions. This is THE biggest news story not only of

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Walt Would Never Have Imagined This

Unfortunately, it’s a myth that Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen when he died. Unfortunate, because, had we the technology, it’d be awesome to fix his thawed head into a gigantic robot body, and send him rampaging like Futurama’s Robot Nixon through the degenerate circus that has been

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How Govt Regulation Will really work

How Govt Regulation Will really work

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 Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior

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Influencers Who Lie to Their Audiences

Influencers Who Lie to Their Audiences

Catalina Goanta Associate Professor Law, Economics and Governance Utrecht University In the age of vloggers, influencers and content creators it might seem hard to imagine a world without YouTube. But back when the first ever video was uploaded in April 2005, showing a man visiting a zoo, it was not

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Inflation and the Reserve Bank: Part Two

Inflation and the Reserve Bank: Part Two

Last week I wrote about how the Reserve Bank has got it wrong by reducing interest rates to close to zero, and then pushing them up at a rate of knots when inflation, that they created, started to hit. Some of you disagreed with that opinion, and in particular some

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Realities about the Davos World Economic Forum

Realities about the Davos World Economic Forum

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The above conference as always, will attract much media attention. It’s all fairly predictable. Some show-pony rich attendees will call for wealth taxes solely to get publicity as to their goodness, but safe in the knowledge that no one present will agree. Various predictable

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What Facebook Promotes and What It Kills

Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics,

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Twitter Is Not a Public Square

Karl D. Stephan mercatornet.com Karl D. Stephan received the B. S. in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1976. Following a year of graduate study at Cornell, he received the Master of Engineering degree in 1977 and was employed by Motorola, Inc. and Scientific-Atlanta as an RF

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What the Twitter Files Reveal

What the Twitter Files Reveal

Gabriela Pariseau newsbusters.org Gabriela is a writer and researcher in the Media Research Center’s Free Speech America division. She is a graduate of Christendom College where she earned a B.A. in History. Gabriela has also contributed to The Catholic Register, Students For Life of America and Iowa

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The Reserve Bank Caused the Inflation

The Reserve Bank Caused the Inflation

Economists and business writers are sending us dire warnings about the inflationary outlook for the coming year. They are mostly likely correct. After creating the biggest asset bubble in decades by lowering interest rates, ostensibly to stimulate the economy – and making assets particularly cheap – the Reserve Bank is now hiking

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It’s a Win for the Environment!

It’s a Win for the Environment!

They’re a strange mob, the Greens. They’ll chain themselves to the gate six-deep to a mining site if word gets out that a wallaby fell in a tailings dam and drowned. But the same gaggle of smelly unemployables and pious nosey-nannas are nowhere to be seen while wind-farms

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Real Change Needed to Improve Lowest Ever Business Confidence

Real Change Needed to Improve Lowest Ever Business Confidence

David Seymour ACT Party Leader With the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research’s (NZIER) latest quarterly survey showing the lowest business confidence in the survey’s history, it’s clear that real change is necessary to make New Zealand a prosperous country that is open for business. NZIER reports

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Another Green Scheme Goes Bust. Oh Dear…

Another Green Scheme Goes Bust. Oh Dear…

To paraphrase Clarence Darrow, I have never wished a private enterprise to fail, but I have smiled at a great many financial reports. Especially when they concern painfully woke billionaires whose latest “renewable” scheme has gone bust. A fall out between two of the nation’s richest men has led

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