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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
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,
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
‘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
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
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
EU Is Investigating Vaccine Deals
dailytelegraph.co.nz The European Union prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation into the bloc’s procurement of billions of Covid-19 vaccine doses, amid allegations of corruption and secret backroom dealings from several members of the EU parliament. EU officials announced the probe in a brief statement on Friday,
The Chinese American Gangster Who Was Great at Laundry
Sebastian Rotella Kirsten Berg This story was originally published by ProPublica. How a Chinese American Gangster Transformed Money Laundering for Drug Cartels by Sebastian Rotella and Kirsten Berg ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your
Don’t Get Another Booster, She Isn’t
Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard 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 PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. Information Opinion In an interview on