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Daddy Elon v Fauxcahontas, Round 2
Yeah, yeah, mega-rich corporation dudes are evil and all, but, seriously, how can we not be entertained by Daddy Elon? Sure, Tesla sucks, but SpaceX has done more for space travel in just the last few years than NASA has done in decades. Not only has SpaceX slashed the cost
ACT Has Some Rapid Advice for Jacinda
David Seymour ACT Party Leader With 12,000 cases in the community and just 19 at the border ACT has all the rapid advice the Prime Minister needs about isolation and MIQ. Jacinda told Newshub Nation this morning that “We’ve actually asked our team of advisers we’re using,
End Mandates Now: the First Domino Falls
After yesterday’s significant High Court judgment declaring the Ardern regime’s draconian vaccine mandates for Police and Defence Force personnel unlawful, there is now no legal reason to maintain the mandates. We already know that there is no scientific reason to maintain mandates. The judge was very clear, saying,
Finally, the NZ Bill of Rights Is Worth Something
The Freedoms & Rights Coalition Team After seeing our NZ Bill of Rights kicked around like a trash can over the past two years, today gives us all hope that it’s actually worth something in the NZ Court of Law. Don’t know about you…but we could kiss
We Pay for Elite Green Fantasies
The left like to blatherskite about their “compassion” for the poor, the underprivileged and the working classes. The gap between their rhetoric and reality is directly proportional to how far they have their heads jammed up their own digestive tracts. Because the harsh truth is that, time and again, the
The Pandemic Exposes NZ’s Supply Chain Vulnerability – Be Ready for More Inflation in the Year Ahead
Rahul Sen Sadhana Srivastava Auckland University of Technology Rahul Sen brings a considerably rich experience of university teaching & learning, research and scholarship, as well as service to the profession in the field of international trade theory and policy, over his career spanning nearly 15 years. He is presently working
China Is on Course to Build the Best Cars in the World
Tom Stacey Anglia Ruskin University Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain and Project Management, and module lead for Sustainable Transportation and Environmental Practice at the faculty of Business and Law at Anglia Ruskin University. Europeans and other western nations have dominated automotive excellence for over a century. Whether it is the
It’s Time for the World Health Organization to Call For a Worldwide Ban on Commercial Surrogacy
Pinki Virani mercatornet.com Pinki Virani is a writer, journalist, and human rights activist. She is the author of five books. She was India’s first woman editor of an evening newspaper. Last month the Government of India promulgated two important laws which were many years in the making about
NZ Has Crossed a Rubicon
Matt Judd Information Opinion We crossed a Rubicon a few years back. What year? I can’t really say. Maybe it happened gradually. Maybe it just happened all at once, while we were watching Australian Married At First Sight, or British Big Brother or something equally voyeuristic and empty. But
Face of the Day
Keith Jacques is an absolute legend. He should be well supported for his heroic actions in feeding the masses at the protest. Donut Express, unlike most other businesses, moved closer to the protesters by setting up a food truck on Molesworth St and giving away free doughnuts. General manager of
Cookies: I Looked at 50 Well-Known Websites and Most Are Gathering Our Data Illegally
Asress Adimi Gikay Brunel University London Dr. Asress Adimi Gikay is a Lecturer in AI, Disruptive Innovation, and Law at Brunel University London since September 2019, with his research focusing on Artificial Intelligence, Law, and Policy. The owners of Google and Facebook were both heavily fined for using cookies illegally
Washington, DC Shut Down This Restaurant over Vaccine Passports. I Showed up to Protest along with Senator Rand Paul
Hannah Cox fee.org Hannah Cox is the Content Manager and Brand Ambassador for the Foundation for Economic Education. I arrived in Washington, DC early this week to provide testimony before the US Senate. Over two years into the pandemic, the city still feels muted. There’s fewer people, less
Go Fund Yourself
I stopped giving to charity years ago but the final straw was, after donating $100 to the Red Cross for the Australian bushfires in 2020, learning that the charity decided to take its usual 10% for “administration fees”. In this case, those amounted to $10 million, in a country with
The Schvartzes Bite the Hand That Coddled Them
As I recently wrote, America’s racial Cultural Revolution is, much to their shock, now coming for America’s Jews. Worse still for America’s left-voting Jews, they’re suddenly realising that they’ve been sharpening the cultural pitchforks for a leftist progrom in the heart of the citadel that
The Tipping Point of Closing the Doors
“Every time a business closes, that’s lost wealth, health, relationships and sometimes lives as well.” – Geoff Neal, NZ Business Consultant. How much more pressure can businesses in New Zealand take? Many have had their profit margins slashed. Customer and staff levels were reduced as Ardern’s vaccine mandates came