Let’s be honest: Klaus Schwab is one creepy, creepy dude. With his thick Kraut accent, bald dome, and predilection for appearing on jumbotrons in front of adoring assemblies of the world’s elite, he’s been rightly described as “just a Persian cat away from being a Bond villain”
In his classic adventure novel, Glory Road, Robert Heinlein’s narrator reflects on his service in an unnamed war in South-East Asia: It wasn’t a war – not even a “Police Action.” We were “Military Advisers.” But a Military Adviser who has been dead four days in that heat
You really have to engage with the Climate Cult to understand just how crazily immune to evidence and reason they really are. They make Flat Earthers and QAnon look like the epitome of rational debate. I’m not joking when I say that these people are truly, utterly demented. It’
Olivia Pierson oliviapierson.org Dear Reader, Many oil refineries around the world are closing. Marsden Point in Northland is just one, but it happens to be New Zealand’s only one, capable of delivering 70% of our country’s fuel needs to a small population of just 5 million. Twenty
Election advertising is not exactly noted for its impartial accuracy, but the Coalition’s 2022 slogan is starting to look all-too real. It won’t be easy under Albanese. Just a few months in, and Mr 32% is giving even Joe Biden a run for his money as an
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Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. Information Opinion This week the public
Alwyn Poole alwynpoole.substack.com Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in-person private school for Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1
Family First media@familyfirst.org.nz A new nationwide poll has found significant concern about the cost of living and its effect not only on personal budgets but also the effect on other families in the community. More than half of New Zealanders are very concerned about the cost of
The annual inflation rate, revealed last week, has purportedly been 7.3 per cent. This is the highest inflation rate in over 30 years and yet something doesn’t seem quite right. Inflation was 6.9 per cent in March 2022. That was a big increase from December 2021, although
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former minister in the 1984-1990 governments. Have you noticed the ways in which New Zealand’s mainspring seems gradually to be unwinding with Jacinda
Stephen Hickson University of Canterbury Stephen Hickson is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics and Finance at the University of Canterbury. He is currently the Director of the Business Taught Masters Programmes. An entire generation has never experienced life with high inflation. But that is set to
Chelsea Follett Malcolm Cochran fee.org Chelsea Follet works at the Cato Institute as a Researcher and Managing Editor of HumanProgress.org. Malcolm Cochran is a research associate at HumanProgress.org Last week, a group of Sri Lankan protestors took a refreshing dip in President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s pool. It
Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. It’s ordinary people who are suffering the most from the current cost of living crisis. In other
