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GIVEALITTLE UPDATE Today Givealittle released our funds, in only 1 day you raised $40k to go towards our legal fund to fight these ridiculous mandates and to fight the fines! Thank you Danielle for organising this for us, as we felt embarrassed asking for help. She took control and within

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Auckland to Government: We’re Over It

Auckland to Government: We’re Over It

This government seems oblivious to what is going on in Auckland. We are supposed to be in level three but the reality is quite the opposite. There is no level three, apart from the closure of businesses, not even remotely level two. In my neck of the woods around the

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

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Govt grabs Businesses’ RAT tests without compensation

The Government’s confiscation of rapid antigen tests ordered by the private sector has gone from bad to worse, National’s COVID-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “Businesses who have had rapid tests seized by the Government have been told that they will not be able to get access to their

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Government’s COVID Spend Forces Treasury Accounting Change

Government’s COVID Spend Forces Treasury Accounting Change

Yes, I know. Here comes the accountant in all her boring glory. But, try to bear with me on this, because it is important. It demonstrates yet another way in which the government is fudging the numbers, trying to make things look better than they really are. However, if you

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Economic Naivete (Or Gullibility)

Economic Naivete (Or Gullibility)

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Retired Auckland lawyer David Schnauer, instead of taking up line dancing or acquiring a stable of mistresses, has foolishly instead, opted to spend his remaining years pontificating about the economy. In a recent amateurish contribution in the NZ Herald he bemoaned the sale of New

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Multinational Learns the Hard Way: Never Trust a Hippy

Ben and Jerry’s like to tout themselves as old-fashioned hippies takin’ on the man, man. The reality is quite different, of course: they’re really just another bunch of greedy one-percenters, multinationally chasing the Benjamins around the world. In fact, the “hippies” had no compunction in selling their souls

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Are the Jobless Numbers Correct?

Are the Jobless Numbers Correct?

The government is crowing about the drop in the number of people on the Jobseeker benefit, and, to be fair, it is the biggest drop since records began in 1996. With staff shortages everywhere though, I would be surprised if this were not the case; I cannot think of a

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Just a Fancy Word for Confiscation

Just a Fancy Word for Confiscation

The next step on the march towards totalitarianism from this increasingly evil Ardern government is the effective confiscation of private property by a regime that has been outplayed yet again by a ‘tricky’ virus: The Government is seizing private supplies of rapid antigen tests to beef up its own stocks,

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Governments Have Been Screwing up Their Supply Chains for 2,000 Years

Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom,

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Government Confiscates Rapid Antigen Tests

David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s control-freak instincts are on full display, telling people that if you try to do the right thing we will confiscate your property. After Grant Robertson astonishingly told Newstalk ZB last night that the Government had not banned the import of Rapid Antigen Tests,

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Health and Safety Advice for Employers and Employees

Gary Moller garymoller.com Gary is a Health Practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance rather than just treating the symptoms. Information Opinion When this pandemic is over, there will be prosecutions. Thousands of people have lost or had disrupted their jobs,

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Microsoft’s Bid to Rule the Metaverse

Microsoft’s Bid to Rule the Metaverse

It’s one of the biggest business stories in years, but many of you probably slept through it, because it’s just a computer game thing. But computer games are a massive industry — literally bigger than Hollywood, and still growing fast — and Microsoft’s mooted takeover of games company Activision

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Can Microsoft Count On Its Man in Washington?

Can Microsoft Count On Its Man in Washington?

Microsoft’s stunning takeover bid for Activision Blizzard games is not just one of the biggest in the tech industry, but has massive implications for the future of the internet — or more correctly, the “metaverse”. In the short run, Microsoft’s takeover makes them the third-biggest games company in the

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I Love My Job but I Resign

I Love My Job but I Resign

Outspoken psychologist and author Jordan Peterson is a man of principle living in a world where morality is no longer fashionable – if it ever was. Peterson disagrees with the direction academia has taken the social sciences. He recognises that if he does not train his university students, undergraduates and graduates

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