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Jacinda Dog Toys Results in a Visit from NZ Police

Jacinda Dog Toys Results in a Visit from NZ Police

Kay O’Lacey wokejoke.nz Online retail owners Suzy and David Lee were surprised to receive a visit from two detectives investigating a complaint of a possible ‘hate crime’ related to their sale of dog toys. “We’ve been importing pet accessories from China for many years and selling them

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The Seed vs the Harvest

The Seed vs the Harvest

Capitalist On my 16th birthday I walked out of school at 3:30pm and never went back; for all I know I am still enrolled there. The next day, having lined a few things up beforehand, I commenced an oddball ‘cottage industry’ around various farms of undertaking a series of

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Clawing Back $7BN of Corporate Welfare

Bryce Edwards The Democracy Project Disclosure: Bryce Edwards is the director of the Democracy Project, which is the recipient of Victoria University of Wellington research funding, which comes from Grant and Marilyn Nelson’s Gama Foundation. The taxpayer is short of billions of dollars that were overpaid to businesses during

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Lab-Grown Meat Is on the Menu

Lab-Grown Meat Is on the Menu

Gabriella Hoffman cfact.org Gabriella Hoffman is a Media Strategist and Award-Winning Outdoor Writer. She hosts the “District of Conservation” podcast and CFACT’s original YouTube series “Conservation Nation.” Learn more about her work at www.gabriellahoffman.com “This is a watershed moment in the history of food. We started

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The Christchurch Call Comes Undone

The Christchurch Call Comes Undone

As a recent BFD article warned, it’s foolish to venerate Elon Musk as some kind of avenging capitalist demigod straight out of an Ayn Rand novel. When all’s said and done, the guy’s a businessman. Making lots of money is what he does. But if, in the

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The Emperor Elonicus

The Emperor Elonicus

CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org Everyone is going to hate this column. Musk worshipers are going to hate it because I’m going to blaspheme against Elon Musk. Musk demonizers are going to hate it because I am not going to blaspheme against him enough. Everyone else is going to hate

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Surprise of the Day

Used car prices to go up 25 percent under Clean Car Standard, motor industry predicts. […] Dumper said if it had taken three or four years longer, there would have been a lot less pain. Subaru’s most optimistic planning was for sales to crash 20 per cent. “Our sales could

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CBDC Is on Its Way

CBDC Is on Its Way

The Doctor What could be worse than central bank incompetence? Central Bank Digital Currencies. Seventy-five basis points. Wow! The biggest increase ever in New Zealand. Gosh. Four-point-two-five per cent. No way! That Reserve Bank of New Zealand sure is tough on inflation. Or is it? If the cure for inflation

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Why Sam Bankman-Fried Sounded So Much like a Rand Villain

Why Sam Bankman-Fried Sounded So Much like a Rand Villain

Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,

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Employers Are Done with Unis

Employers Are Done with Unis

In a previous life, your scribe was a graphic designer by trade. That included sub-contracting as part of a small, tight-knit team on a burgeoning new company. Very often, we’d receive resumes from new graduates looking for a job. Most of them went straight in the bin. Why? Because

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Food Shortage of the Day

Bad news for Kiwis who love a classic pavlova on Christmas, New Zealand is in for an egg shortage. New egg farming rules coming into force next month and high bird-feed costs are driving huge price increases and rationing of eggs. Newshub The new farming rules have forced small egg

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They’re on Twitch, Too

Some years ago, I read an account of what it was like to be a Facebook moderator. This was, of course, back in the day when they spent less time policing WrongThink and actually tried, at least, to contain the sewer of graphic violence and child abuse. It was a

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Poll of the Day

Poll of the Day

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Luxury Shoe Brand Ad Crosses the Line

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg newsbusters.org Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff shortly there

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One Step Closer to Social Credit

One Step Closer to Social Credit

How do societies slide into totalitarianism? One step at a time. You don’t go to bed one night in an open, free country and wake up the next morning to find yourself under constant surveillance with jackbooted thugs banging on your door and all your civil liberties stripped away.

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