If COP30 in Belém is remembered as the ‘COP of truth,’ it should be because citizens saw the truth: behind the rainforest backdrop and people-friendly branding, this process is concentrating power far from the people it claims to serve.
Simon Power’s KiwiSaver advocacy is therefore less about retirement savings than about profit, influence and the audacity of a system where cashflow is guaranteed, risk is socialised and reward is private.
According to the Gisborne Herald, the council’s chief executive mused that “another option to slow traffic could be to reduce the speed limit”. After spending a million dollars, they finally think of that.
Go the Breakers. And go the coalition. Please. As crises go, the rot at the top of the cops is a whopper. Use it well.
Venezuela’s five-stage socialist collapse dismantled the rule of law, destroyed investment, and unleashed hyperinflation, long before Washington acted.
Underpinning all these stories is the simple and unpalatable fact that the country is living wildly beyond its means and that political leadership is in crisis with a chancellor sinking into quicksand.
At 411,012 in October 2025, New Zealand has the highest absolute number of beneficiaries ever.
Luxon’s talk of raising the pension age is an act: a political bluff that scapegoats pensioners.
And greedy Western businesses and governments will get singed.
The old fiscal conservative mantra – that cutting taxes restrains government – has failed the test of time. When spending continues on borrowed funds, it’s not the beast that starves, but future taxpayers.
In a land of milk and honey, no one should need to bid for butter.
Gratitude is the first principle of prosperity. Demanding something for nothing misunderstands both economics and human nature.
The hundred million or so Americans who rely on federal spending for their incomes won’t allow any real reform to ever occur. Runaway debt and spending is now baked into the system. These is no orderly or legal way out of this.
