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How I Fought Power and Won Big

Eye Patch Jack pacificnarrations.substack.com This one has been simmering for a while. It’s a difficult subject to approach. I am after all just an anonymous, amateur writer on the internet, not an expert (or even an expert™) with a reputation at stake. As such it would be

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Discrimination of the Day

Discrimination of the Day

Currently, we have publishers in New Zealand that are open to manuscripts from all authors regardless of race, sex or religious belief. This is what is called equality of opportunity. Recently a new publisher called Tatau Publishing has emerged that has described publishers who accept manuscripts from EVERYONE as following

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Another Nice Pandemic Earner for Some

Another Nice Pandemic Earner for Some

For most of us, the pandemic has been an utter disaster. But for some, it’s been two years of non-stop win. Oddly enough, the big winners from the pandemic — or more correctly, the response to it — are those with exactly the means and motivation to keep it going as

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Traffic Lights Nail Small Businesses

Traffic Lights Nail Small Businesses

Not only have our small businesses in Auckland had to suffer through a completely useless 3-month lockdown but, all over New Zealand, all businesses are also now having to negotiate their way through an even more futile and impossible system of traffic lights. And all for a vaccine that pretty

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Don’t Bank on Getting a Loan

Don’t Bank on Getting a Loan

Over the years, I have done a large number of applications to IRD on behalf of clients for payment arrangements for unpaid tax. IRD would inevitably ask for copies of bank statements (3 months, or even 6 months), even though we had filled in an application form, giving details of

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Discrimination of the Day

Discrimination of the Day

Joint TPK, MBIE letter to CEs re Maori Progressive Procurement Policy (1) (1)Download Let’s highlight the racism and discrimination inside New Zealand together because it is NOT OK! There is NOTHING positive about discrimination. If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the

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Why the Kiwi Dream Has Failed

John Ling wealthmorning.com John is the Chief Investment Officer at Wealth Morning. His responsibilities include trading, client service, and compliance. He is an experienced investor and portfolio manager, trading both on his own account and assisting with high net-worth clients. In addition to contributing financial and geopolitical articles to

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Police Bullying and Threats against Bluff Publican

Police Bullying and Threats against Bluff Publican

Yesterday we published a letter to the editor from a Bluff publican about an incident with Police regarding our now infamous “Gulag” image. We have now obtained further background information, video from the tavern and a recording of an interaction with Police at Bluff Police station. What is revealed is

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Media Witch Hunt of the Day

Media Witch Hunt of the Day

Not content with hounding a doctor out of her business for the crime of providing medical exemptions to people desperate to avoid losing their jobs because of government and business mandates, NZ media are now trying to destroy her new business as well. This Media cancelling and hounding of her

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Ice Cream Exporters Frozen Out

David Seymour ACT Leader A media release from Economic Development Minister Stuart Nash talking up New Zealand ice cream exports is ridiculous when New Zealanders are frozen out of going overseas to promote their products. Nash thought he was giving journalists a scoop but he doesn’t understand the realities

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Supporting Businesses That Care

Supporting Businesses That Care

Gary Moller garymoller.com Several weeks ago, Alofa and I attended a private meeting of small and medium business owners to discuss surviving the new Traffic Light system. We expected a dozen attendees. But, instead, the hall was standing room only with at least 200 hundred in attendance. There were

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Robots Are Coming for the Lawyers – Which May Be Bad for Tomorrow’s Attorneys but Great for Anyone in Need of Cheap Legal Assistance

Elizabeth C. Tippett University of Oregon Charlotte Alexander Georgia State University Professor Tippett writes about ethics, employment law, and the intersection of law and technology. Charlotte S. Alexander holds the Connie D. and Ken McDaniel WomenLead Chair as an Associate Professor of Law and Analytics at the Colleges of Business

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Shortages Will Continue, but for Some Sellers the Problem Will Be Too Much Stock

Sarah Schiffling Liverpool John Moores University Nikolaos Valantasis Kanellos Technological University Dublin Sarah Schiffling is a Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Management at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, and an International Research Fellow with the HUMLOG Institute in Helsinki, Finland. Nikolaos Valantasis Kanellos is a Lecturer in Logistics, and Program

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The Problem with COVID Incentives

Matt Judd You may wonder like me, how a country with as many resources, with enormous wealth, and with supposedly, the World’s best hospitals and most highly trained Doctors and medical staff could fare so badly in the fight against Covid-19 as did the United States. https://www.statista.

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Faces of the Day

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