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UN Calls for Contraction and Convergence to Low Living Standards

UN Calls for Contraction and Convergence to Low Living Standards

David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. The UN just published its first ever environmental synthesis report, with the expectedly scary title “Making Peace With Nature: A scientific blueprint to tackle the climate, biodiversity and pollution

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The Great Reset Is Much More Than a “Conspiracy Theory”

The Great Reset Is Much More Than a “Conspiracy Theory”

Bringing up the topic of the “Great Reset” might send New Zealand’s deputy prime minister into a fit of the vapours over “conspiracy theories”. But aren’t conspiracies generally supposed to be secretive and clandestine? It’s hardly a “conspiracy” that the global elite wants to impose a post-COVID

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Matariki Almost a Half Billion Dollar Tax on Business

Matariki Almost a Half Billion Dollar Tax on Business

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “Official advice to the Government says an extra public holiday at Matariki could cost almost $450 million,” ACT Leader David Seymour can reveal. “This is a perfect example of the Prime Minister doing what’s popular versus what’s responsible. “The bill is more

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Tenants Are Being Evicted

Tenants Are Being Evicted

I admit I still use Facebook, but only to keep in touch with family and friends overseas. I do, however, subscribe to a Lower Hutt Community page, mainly for local information, particularly if there has been an earthquake, or there is bad weather. However, I have been surprised to see

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“Net Zero” Is a Jobs-Destroying Monster

“Net Zero” Is a Jobs-Destroying Monster

The fairy-tale mythology of “green energy” is easily demolished with some simple, back-of-the-envelope calculations. “Renewable” energy, green fantasies aside, simply is not, cannot be, a viable replacement for fossil fuels. Anyone who argues otherwise is either lying or deluded. Firstly, there is the gross inefficiency of “renewables” – inefficiency that translates

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Making Cars Green Means Closing Engine Plants

Sir John Redwood MP johnredwoodsdiary.com John Redwood won a free place at  Kent College, Canterbury, and graduated from Magdalen College Oxford. He is a Distinguished fellow of  All Souls, Oxford. A businessman by background, he has set up an investment management business, was both executive and non-executive chairman of

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Climate Commission’s Radical Plan

Climate Commission’s Radical Plan

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Earlier this month the Climate Commission released their draft report to the Government. It is so extreme that even typically conservative economists are expressing alarm. Without any exaggeration, if implemented, the Commission’s plan would radically transform New Zealand, from a country which is still

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Vitriol Poured on Landlords

Vitriol Poured on Landlords

As some of you will know, I am a landlord and have been, on and off, for the last 20 years. Currently, we have 2 rented houses, our tenants are really great and we are happy, but it hasn’t always been that way. There were the tenants who completely

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Lockdowns Have Depleted Capital in All Forms

Lockdowns Have Depleted Capital in All Forms

Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research.He is the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and nine books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of

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Renewables Troughing Pushing Energy Grid to the Brink

Renewables Troughing Pushing Energy Grid to the Brink

If the Greens and the ALP were to be believed, Australia is just one solar panel away from banishing those nasty fossils fuels for ever. Electricity will come free from the sun, there’ll be no more bushfires and we’ll all hold hands and skip into the glorious green

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A Lack of Jobs in the Future Is a Scary Prospect

Bruce Wilds brucewilds.blogspot.com While many workers are chilling at home or working reduced hours due to COVID-19 lock-downs many are paying little attention to the huge number of job opportunities that are vanishing every day. A lack of jobs in the future is a scary prospect and bad

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Picker Debacle Will Leave a Rotten Stench

Picker Debacle Will Leave a Rotten Stench

ACT Party “The Government’s dismal failure to be flexible and pragmatic about immigration to support the primary sector means hundreds of millions of dollars of losses for apple, wine and other growers is a near certainty,” says ACT Primary Industries spokesperson Mark Cameron. “That a scheme of financial inducements

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Nonsense from David Seymour

Nonsense from David Seymour

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In his self-described state of the nation address to Party members last weekend, ACT leader David Seymour came out with some world-class tosh. Referring to the housing supply crisis, he said, “…you’ve just overseen the greatest transfer of wealth from those who work to

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Bowron on CGT

Bowron on CGT

Ok, so I am a tax nerd. I have seen all sorts of taxes come and go during my career, and I can tell you, within reason, what works and what doesn’t. I can tell you with absolute certainty that capital gains tax will not magically fix the housing

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