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Book Review: Pilgrim, by Bruce Logan

Book Review: Pilgrim, by Bruce Logan

We have lost our way. We lack gratitude, humility and forgiveness. We lack brotherly love. We lack meaning and purpose. We can see it most clearly in our parliament with TPM and the Greens. There is no gratitude: just an endless whine of victimhood.

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The Gene Tech Bill: Profit Over People

The Gene Tech Bill: Profit Over People

The implications are chilling: home gardeners saving seeds, small-scale farmers maintaining heritage breeds or families keeping backyard hens could find themselves in breach of new bioengineering compliance rules.

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We Cannot Keep On Going Like This

We Cannot Keep On Going Like This

The politicians most likely to get us out of this mess are Peters and Jones. These two need our support. We need them to have enough clout in the next coalition to force Luxon to stop his lunacy.

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This Is Embedding More Co-Governance

This Is Embedding More Co-Governance

We shouldn’t have a regulatory regime based on race and rent seeking. As it stands, the bill is a recipe for expensive rent seeking from those who will see it as an opportunity to hold up or ‘tax’ applications for gene and crop technology.

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Hmm, Let Me Think About That

Hmm, Let Me Think About That

In New Zealand, we have gone from a country that produced electricity with internationally competitive pricing, electricity that was available, affordable and was an attractive incentive to new businesses. Now we face unaffordable pricing that is causing business closures.

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The NZ Drug Foundation and Overdoses

The NZ Drug Foundation and Overdoses

Of course the report will be ignored by the government, as is any call to overhaul drug laws. One of the stated purposes of the Misuse of Drugs Act is to get users into the system where supposedly they can get help, etc, etc.

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