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We Want Action and We Want It Now
Rod Kane The 100 days have come and gone and we can now sit back and wonder what’s next on the menu. Quite a bit we hope. For my money, I would like to see the coalition repeal every single piece of legislation that the last corrupt mongrel ‘government’
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, There has recently been a lot of serious discussion about the state of the economy, in particular as a result of the declining birth rate which, although it is a good thing carbon-wise, nevertheless creates challenges due to the subsequent ageing of our population. As we know, as
Why I Don’t Trust the Reserve Bank
The Doctor G. Edward Griffin’s A Creature from Jekyll Island is a book that had a great influence on me. It is the story of the creation of the US Federal Reserve system in 1913. Its creation signalled the final defeat of the people of the USA in a
Go On, Campaign on a Capital Gains Tax
Chris Hipkins has suddenly decided that a capital gains tax is a good idea after all. He kept that quiet before the election, actually saying no to it. We can now be under no illusion that had Labour won the election they would have rammed through a capital gains tax
The White House Makes Good on Its Antitrust Threats
Jeffrey A Tucker Jeffrey Tucker is founder, author, and president at Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Life After Lockdown, and many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social
Media Go AWOL on Biden Trials
Tim Graham Tim Graham is Executive Editor of NewsBusters and host of the NewsBusters Podcast. His career at the MRC began in February 1989 as associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly newsletter of the MRC before the internet era. newsbusters.org For the first two years of Joe Biden’s
When MSM Shoots Down its Own Credibility
Jeffrey Lord Jeffrey Lord is a Contributing Writer for NewsBusters. Lord is a former White House political director in the Reagan White House and aide to HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. After graduating from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania he went on to work for the Pennsylvania State Senate
Kiwis Don’t Use MSM for News
The headline to this article will probably surprise very few. For quite some time now the news media in this country have decided that they are not interested in providing or presenting news in a way that is digestible for the majority of Kiwis. Their aim is to polarise the
Migrant Hiring Push Has Tyson Foods Reeling
Joe Schaeffer libertynation.com American meat processing giant Tyson Foods is about to get the Bud Light treatment. As the backlash plays out, a valuable window is being opened onto the ugly reality that the massive illegal immigration “migrant” crisis in this nation is fueled to a startling degree by
Challenging the Views on the Gaza War
Duncan Du Bois An article published by the Gatestone Institute of New York this past week provides alternative perspectives on the war in Gaza that challenge views routinely expressed in and by the mainstream media. Michael and Leonard Hochberg, respectively of Cambridge University and the Hoover Institute, unpack the cause
NZ Is in Recession – Now What?
Grant Duncan Visiting scholar in politics, City, University of London If you live in New Zealand and you’re feeling poorer, you’re not imagining it. Stats NZ has revealed the economy was in recession over the second half of last year. GDP fell in the September and December quarters
A Legacy Media Person Who Gets It
Heather du Plessis-Allan is the only legacy media person who seems to get what it was that Winston Peters was trying to say, even as those around her were losing their collective minds. There is a saying on the internet known as Godwin’s law. Basically everyone misquotes it. The
Face of the Day
[Sir Russell Coutts] hit out at the “extreme” marine mammal management plan “forced upon” SailGP and said New Zealand was “handcuffed” by bureaucracy and red tape. […] “In addition to our normal marine mammal protocols, SailGP has had this extreme marine mammal management plan forced upon us in Lyttelton, demanded by
Emissions Rule Will Speed Auto Makers’ Demise
Ronald Stein Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations. cfact.org For one of the wealthier countries on this planet, America, with 330 million people representing about four per cent of the world’