The NBN Overbuild and Labor’s Determined Monopoly
They’re fighting a rigged game where government sets the rules, funds the competition, and defines success through political rather than economic metrics.
Business
The Moral Cost of Transplants
The medical profession is not a manufacturing line. Our job is not to optimize supply chains – it is to protect life and, when necessary, honor death.
Old Fart Plays Hardball, Loses
Old bastard in his early 90s gets offered 2.5m for basically some land where he’s got an old clapped-out house on a clapped-out street. Says no and decides to hold out for more money.
The Cone Cartel Has Morphed Into the Hi Vis Cartel
Behind the rhetoric of ‘health and safety’, there lies a deeply entrenched commercial machine. Like the cone industry, this isn’t about genuine risk mitigation anymore: it’s about compliance culture, contractor billing and corporate profit.
Surprise: Trougher Wants to Keep the Trough Filled
Rich, aggrieved women are stuck in a permanent cycle of whining.
Wall Street Isn’t Daycare: Interns Meet the Real World
Many college graduates are discovering they don’t want the high pressure or long hours that white-collar finance firms demand.
First Do No Harm
When confronting the failures of corporate medicine, reversing the disastrous course of the mercenary business model built on the suffering of patients requires a revolutionary approach.
Trump’s Tariffs Gives New Zealand Plenty to Think About
On the wider geopolitical front, the US tariff decision will raise questions over New Zealand’s strategy for handling Donald Trump’s United States.
Not a Crisis for Those Who Profit
So when austerity is demanded and rates rise, it’s not just financial necessity – it’s the machinery of a profit-driven system operating on the city’s lifeblood. The question remains, are we managing our city for the public good or for private profit?
And the EV Promises Are Being Exposed
Perhaps the love affair with the EV is a projection of Western guilt and idealism in the Church of Climate – a topic for experts on Western ‘mass formation’ psychology.
NZ’s Involvement in the Trans Industry
The people and corporations who ‘win’ in the trans industry won’t be happy for our children and youth to stop at social transition. Where’s the money in that? The goal can only be the medicalisation and mutilation of our children, which the ‘health’ industry calls “gender-affirming healthcare”.
This Govt’s Commitment to Climate Silliness
Repeal the Zero Carbon Act and end the Emissions Trading Scheme and all other climate-focused taxes, subsidies, and regulations.
