Hello everyone. It’s been a while. I have been busy entertaining my brother and sister-in-law who came to visit at the beginning of February and went home last week. My brother had never been to New Zealand before, so I wanted to make his visit a holiday
Fiona Gill mercatornet.com Dr Fiona Gill is a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Sydney. Her research interests include feminism, the sociology of the body, genocide and forensic anthropology. Current research projects include experiences of women under the Khmer Rouge and the
Peter Jacobsen fee.org Peter Jacobsen teaches economics and holds the position of Gwartney Professor of Economics. He received his graduate education at George Mason University. By now, you’ve likely heard about regulators closing down Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and now Signature Bank as well. While I’m not
Working means income, but working also means productivity, two very separate outcomes that New Zealand government policy managed to annihilate during the Covid years. Working from home became necessary and popular around the world, although the working aspect can be a misnomer. What’s not to like? Bloomberg reported that
Finally, Medicines NZ has disclosed data showing how much certain healthcare professionals have been paid by Big Pharma. This data is only for 2021 and is not complete – for example, Pfizer and Merck are not included and the data for Novartis only covers two months. While the big showy entertainment
Good News Network goodnewsnetwork.org A home filmmaker has created incredible stop-motion miniature chase scenes using Hot-Wheels toy cars. Director and producer Paul Greer spent six months creating his first stop-motion film in 2013. Stop-motion films are made by taking an image of a scene, before
Post cyclone Gabrielle Hawkes Bay is facing a massive and unprecedented clean-up mission. A crucial component of this clean-up mission is the role government ministers and local MPs are required to play to ensure the region’s immediate and long-term needs are met. That and recent events
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 “Twitter Files” have exposed numerous contacts between US government officials and Twitter and requests for
Joseph Vazquez Reprinted from PA Pundits – International Joseph Vazquez is the MRC Associate Editor for Business & Free Speech America. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science from The George Washington University in 2018. In June, 2019, he completed an exclusive fellowship with the Hertog
Hamza Mudassir Lecturer in Strategy Kamal A Munir Professor of Strategy and Policy Cambridge Judge Business School Google’s parent company Alphabet has lost a hefty US$100 billion (£83 billion) or nearly a tenth of its market value after its new AI chatbot, Bard, botched an answer to a
Paula Jardine brownstone.org Paula Jardine is a writer/researcher who has just completed the graduate diploma in law at ULaw. She has a history degree from the University of Toronto and a journalism degree from the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. When it comes to
Christian Toto NAD Analyst newsbusters.org Disney’s brand took hit after hit last year, and 2023 is off to a similar start. The Mouse House’s decision to inject itself into the Culture Wars sent its stock prices tumbling in 2022. The company’s animation wing also suffered from
Kevin Homer brownstone.org Kevin Homer, MD has practiced anatomic and clinical pathology at a community hospital in Texas since 1994. The American Medical Association (AMA) urges physicians to promote Covid-19 vaccines and bivalent boosters. The AMA even supplies members with social media talking points and strategies to deal
Renata Kiss newsbusters.org Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) said the quiet part out loud at Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing on The Twitter Files. The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability held its first Twitter Files hearing Wednesday morning. The hearing featured testimony from former Twitter Head of
Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an Editorial Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. On the morning of June 14, 2022, a new mural was unveiled above the entrance to Leavitt’s Country Bakery in the
