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Facebook Became Meta – And the Company’s Dangerous Behavior Came into Sharp Focus in 2021: 4 Essential Reads

Facebook Became Meta – And the Company’s Dangerous Behavior Came into Sharp Focus in 2021: 4 Essential Reads

Eric Smalley The Conversation Eric has over 30 years of experience as a science and technology reporter and editor. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, CNet, Discover, Nature, Science, Scientific American, and Wired. Eric co-founded and edited Technology Research News, a weekly online news publication that covered university

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Lazy, Greedy Bosses Want Mass Immigration Back

Lazy, Greedy Bosses Want Mass Immigration Back

Are Australia’s big employers the laziest and greediest in the world? I mean, at least farmers exploiting migrant labour in the US bother to drive their trucks down to the border to pick up a load of wetback wage-slaves. Australia’s lot expect the cheap foreign labour to come

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Why Toy Shops — And Amazon — Are Tapping into Paper Catalogues

Why Toy Shops — And Amazon — Are Tapping into Paper Catalogues

Joanne E. McNeish Ryerson University Joanne’s research takes a unique perspective on exploring innovation adoption. While most research focuses on consumers’ reaction to adopting new technologies, her research focuses on their refusal to give up on incumbent (analog) technologies. Did you receive them? Found in many mailboxes in this

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Vaccine Roulette

Vaccine Roulette

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Politicising Businesses

Politicising Businesses

Tiger For as long as I can remember, conducting business in New Zealand was relatively easy.  There were clear rules, if you had a good accountant, saw a gap in the market and were willing to work hard, away you went.  The growth in the human resources regulation (and HSE)

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Johnson Latest, Send Out for More Popcorn

December 19th, 2021. A couple of letters ago I suggested that we should get popcorn in, sit back and watch the Boris show. Well, I have ordered popcorn by the shedload to see me through the holiday and into the new year whilst we watch the Johnson administration collapse. Today,

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The King of Spending Other People’s Money

The King of Spending Other People’s Money

Grant Robertson has announced that the 2022 budget, due in May next year, will include an additional $6 billion in new operational spending, mainly aimed at funding the government’s proposed health sector changes and also at tackling climate change. More money that we don’t have. More quantitative easing.

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Feeling Quanked by Snollygosters

Feeling Quanked by Snollygosters

And here we go again. Lockdowns are again being threatened by the Deputy Prime Minister. One case of Omicron crosses their leaky border and all bets were off for any thoughts of so-called freedom. Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson, in an interview recorded on Friday and aired on Saturday morning,

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Green Gaffer Shouts at Clouds

Green Gaffer Shouts at Clouds

Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has made his fortune entirely by literally shipping large chunks of Australia over to the world’s largest carbon emitter, to be turned into gigatonnes of carbon belched from steel refineries. But he totally cares about “saving the planet” from “catastrophic climate change”, donchaknow. It’s

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Elon Musk, Person of the Year, Radicalized by Lockdowns

Elon Musk, Person of the Year, Radicalized by Lockdowns

Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of

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Sweden: One of the Freest Countries in the World during COVID

Sweden: One of the Freest Countries in the World during COVID

Andre Bothma sovereignman.com Hailing from South Africa, Andre is a seasoned marketer with extensive exposure to the Residency and Citizenship By Investment (RCBI) Industry. He writes extensively on retirement and passive income visas (including the D7 and Non-Lucrative Visa), Golden Visas and Citizenship By Investment programs. For countless people,

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Wine Bar Owner Who Defied Lockdowns Receives 90-Day Jail Sentence

Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,

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Clareville Bakery: ‘Both Sides of the Story’

Clareville Bakery: ‘Both Sides of the Story’

Remember our Business of the Day – Clairville Bakery? Wairarapa Age has a front-page article stating incorrectly that they are closed to diners. So they replied on Facebook.  There is so much to take away (no pun) from what he says. Meanwhile….cronuts!  WOW! If you have a great Youtube, Rumble

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Mad Musk’s Rocket Fuel Follies

Mad Musk’s Rocket Fuel Follies

Elon Musk seems a strange kinda guy, who generates love and hate in equal measure. For myself, it’s a bit of both, depending on what part of Musk’s empire we’re talking about. I despise the fact that most of his money has come courtesy of the taxpayer.

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YouTube Star Dave Rubin Announces That He’s Leaving California, Heading to This Free State Instead

Brad Polumbo fee.org Brad Polumbo is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Policy Correspondent at the Foundation for Economic Education. Celebrities like Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, and Elon Musk have fled California for greener pastures in recent years, making headlines. But it’s not just individuals: According to a Stanford study,

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