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What a Disgrace: Auckland Airport

What a Disgrace: Auckland Airport

After my partner and I had spent nearly 24 hours travelling from Asia to return to New Zealand our last leg from Sydney to Auckland was delayed by two hours. We finally arrived at Auckland Airport on QF143 18 November 2022 only to be advised by the captain they had

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Sounds Like a Social Credit Score to Me

Peter Imanuelsen petersweden.substack.com Do you remember when people were called crazy conspiracy theorists for suggesting that we were heading in the direction of social credit scores? Surely that could never happen in free Western democratic countries, right? Just like we would never have police patrolling the streets and

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The BFD Food Column: Living It Up in Ljubljana

The BFD Food Column: Living It Up in Ljubljana

Old Ljubljana is the picturesque capital of Slovenia, a relatively new Balkan nation state fashioned in 1991 from the western corner of the now disintegrated communist Yugoslavia. Populated in the late sixth century AD by Alpine Slavs (or Slovenes), they have a long history of subjugation by Germanic types: first

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Transportation Mask Mandate Still Pushed in US

Transportation Mask Mandate Still Pushed in US

Brownstone Institute brownstone.org The Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research is a nonprofit organization conceived of in May 2021 in support of a society that minimizes the role of violence in public life. Back in April 2022, a federal district judge in Florida emancipated travellers from the Biden

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Some Solid Information for Your Plan B

Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom,

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Delta Paid Passengers $10,000 to Give Up Flight Seats

Delta Paid Passengers $10,000 to Give Up Flight Seats

Peter Jacobsen fee.org Peter Jacobsen teaches economics at Ottawa University where he holds the positions of Assistant Professor and Gwartney Professor of Economic Education and Research at the Gwartney Institute. He received his graduate education George Mason University and received his undergraduate education Southeast Missouri State University. His research

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Face of the Day

Part of the PM’s visit to Europe has involved encouraging tourists to return to NZ. On a Facebook Live, she said, “We had three main goals for this trip, as had been the case with others so far: really focused on making sure that the world knows we are

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Do Teslas and EVs Equal Big Cost Savings?

Do Teslas and EVs Equal Big Cost Savings?

Arthur Considering all the hype from Tesla, their owners, and wannabe fans, do Teslas stack up as big cost savers in motoring expenses? This of course is the big question about all EVs but it is sometimes difficult to find unbiased studies. Considering this, it was with interest I read

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Letter from the North: Another Day Out

April 6th, 2022. As the Covid restrictions are being removed and life returns to a semblance of normality it was time for another day out. It was a beautiful spring day, a clear blue sky and 15°C when I hit the road. The prospect of a 200-mile drive up

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Chris Knuth was travelling on a two-leg ticket to Fiji, when he flew into Auckland International Airport this week. But instead of turning left to go to transit, he turned right. And he walked through immigration, his passport was scanned, and he went through to the MIQ bus, with nobody

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Hungary for a Break
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Hungary for a Break

Having spent the last couple of years unable to travel overseas due to both Covid and work, I was gifted a small window of opportunity of a few days as one dear employer departed and another prepared to arrive. Scanning the Continental map of where we have and haven’t

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Is the Tide Beginning to Turn?

KSK It is raining.  Again.  It is also the day that, once again, there is another lockdown/lockout/lockup in place.  In yet another diatribe from the lectern of lies, we have been berated by our stern arm-waving, head-rolling, eye-squinching Head Prefect, like wilful children for failing to prevent this

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Kiwis Kept Flightless by Vaccine Passport Go Slow

Kiwis Kept Flightless by Vaccine Passport Go Slow

David Seymour ACT Leader The Government has issued 4.3 million doses of Pfizer vaccine and, as is this Government’s way, forgot to issue any kind of proof. I first asked Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern about the passports allowing New Zealanders to travel internationally in March, and again in

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