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Big Agrichemical and the Great Food Transformation

Birsen Filip mises.org Birsen Filip holds a PhD in philosophy and master’s degrees in economics and philosophy. She has published numerous articles and chapters on a range of topics, including political philosophy, geo-politics and the history of economic thought, with a focus on the Austrian School of Economics

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Gibberish

Gibberish

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Wellington commercial real estate agent Chris Gollins certainly secures some interesting properties to sell. Currently he’s advertising a strata floor for sale in a multi-level Lower Hutt office building “as is, where is”.  The “where is” clearly implies a capability to shift it elsewhere,

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Bravo, Elon!

Bravo, Elon!

David Stockman brownstone.org David Stockman, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is the author of many books on politics, finance, and economics. He is a former congressman from Michigan, and the former Director of the Congressional Office of Management and Budget. He runs the subscription-based analytics site ContraCorner. Wow, now

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Green Party on the Tax Warpath Again

Green Party on the Tax Warpath Again

Let us go back to the boring subject of tax… except that it is not boring if you have to pay it, and it is anything but boring if you have to pay too much of it. The Greens are out of their box again, determined to tax anyone that

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How Low Can They Go?

Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Sometime after Canada’s Thanksgiving Day on October 10, a 37-year-old woman named Jennyfer was euthanised. A few days later, on October 24, one of Canada’s best-known fashion retailers, Quebec-based La Maison Simons,

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The Truth about Our Low Unemployment

The Truth about Our Low Unemployment

David Seymour ACT Party Leader Today’s low unemployment is actually a Labour crisis. The country is missing about 140,000 people based on normal migration trends. That’s why there is help wanted signs and businesses grinding to a halt from Cape Reinga to the Bluff. Unemployment figures become

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Musk May Allow Users to ‘Select’ Preferred Twitter Feed

Musk May Allow Users to ‘Select’ Preferred Twitter Feed

Autumn Johnson newsbusters.org Elon Musk seems to be toying with a plan that would allow Twitter users to “select” which version of Twitter they prefer. Musk was following up on responses to his Saturday tweet stating that the platform would implement a “content moderation council” with “widely diverse viewpoints.

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Musk and Twitter: Finally Some Fun

Musk and Twitter: Finally Some Fun

Robert Malone brownstone.org Robert W Malone is a physician and biochemist. His work focuses on mRNA technology, pharmaceuticals, and drug repurposing research. Welp, it happened. So, a while back I wrote about the idea that Elon Musk’s vision for Twitter wasn’t all about free speech and that

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Fed Farmers: Farm Sales are Slumping

Fed Farmers: Farm Sales are Slumping

dailytelegraph.co.nz THE LATEST DATA ON FARM SALES HAS SHOWN A FURTHER SLUMP IN VOLUMES AND A DROP IN PRICES, ACCORDING TO THE REAL ESTATE INSTITUTE OF NEW ZEALAND’S RURAL MARKET STATISTICS. There were only 171 farm sales in the three months ended September 2022, down 17.8

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Uber Court Ruling a Major Victory

Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Do you believe that workers deserve basic employment rights and protections against exploitation? Do you think that workers

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Labour Plans an Act of ‘Mega Stupidity’

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. Information Opinion It seems inconceivable

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The War on the Middle Class Is a War on Family

The War on the Middle Class Is a War on Family

Louis T March mercatornet.com Louis T March has a background in government, business and philanthropy. A former talk show host, author and public speaker, he is a dedicated student of history and genealogy. Louis lives with his family in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. An often-overlooked aspect of

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‘People Will Lose Their Jobs’

‘People Will Lose Their Jobs’

Jake Johnson commondreams.org Jake Johnson is a staff writer for Common Dreams. The expert chorus warning that the Federal Reserve is on the verge of plunging the U.S. into a painful recession has grown markedly louder in recent weeks as the central bank plows ahead with large interest

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Google Doesn’t Want to Protect You from Porn

Google Doesn’t Want to Protect You from Porn

Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. In the latest skirmish in the cancel culture wars, Google is booting apps for fighting porn addiction off its app store. In a little-noticed move last month, the internet behemoth removed Covenant Eyes and

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The EU’s Role in Defunding Dissent

The EU’s Role in Defunding Dissent

Robert Kogon brownstone.org Robert Kogon is a pen name for a widely published financial journalist, translator and researcher working in Europe. PayPal appears unsure whether it should participate in the current crusade against online “disinformation” or not. First it closed the PayPal accounts of The Daily Sceptic and the

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