Blog posts about this, that, and the other – stuff that doesn’t fit under any other category (who knows what you might find)…
Prime minister in waiting Chris Luxon has proposed lifting the foreign buyer ban on real estate. If he goes ahead with this he will not be serving the interests of the majority of New Zealanders.
With the UK government having brought forward it’s Covid booster campaign by one month this week, and asking for children aged six months and older to get the jab, Dr John Campbell has warned of a global health certificate network being rolled […]
C40 is a global network of mayors from the world’s leading cities, and includes Auckland mayor Wayne Brown. The aim of C40 is to “confront the climate crisis” by actively working to limit global heating to 1.5 degrees C, and build “healthy, […]
It wasn’t so long ago that callers to talkback stations in New Zealand were sumararily cut from the air moments after they dare utter the phrase ‘Agenda 2030’. This stifling of debate on the nation’s MSM airways and across other media loyal […]
In July (2023) senior officials gave testimony to the US government during a Congressional Hearing about UFO sightings and UFO crash retrievals dating back decades. Except, they don’t call them UFOs any more – unidentified flying objects are now called UAPs (unidentified […]
In the mid 1980s I started to become what one might call ‘politically aware’. I can’t say I was ever politically active as I never took part in a protest. In fact, I have made it a point to never join any […]
Yet another story in the NZ Herald at the weekend about drink drive limits, this time featuring a former policemen calling for the limit to be lowered – meaning people should further limit how much alcohol they consume if they want to […]
There’s probably been a 10-year gap between visits to a KFC store. But after a long day my wife and I visited KFC Silverdale, north of Auckland. It’s a soulless store bereft of any atmosphere. No music. Just the clatter from the […]
What did we lose when the development of electric cars was abandoned 100 years ago? Possibly a century of research, development and innovation that would have likely led to every household having more electricity than they could use today. A world where […]
There are still plenty of people who haven’t managed to sit through all 17 episodes the 60s British cult TV series The Prisoner. On one hand I can understand their frustration as the show doesn’t follow the ‘normal’ hero-beats-the-baddy formula with everything neatly tied up with a bow at the end of the show.
If you listened to Alan Freeman’s Pick of the Pops on Britain’s Radio One you would have heard the Australian DJ present a tightly formatted radio show featuring the week’s top 30. It was compelling listening for anyone wanting to know the […]
Play your part in breaking the cycle of fear. Don’t scare the children, empower them.
Roger Moore has entertained me since I was a child and being a Bond fan anyway, I was as pleased as punch to see him take on the role. he was a gentleman, a top chap, and an all-round nice guy.
When you first hear that banks create money by typing numbers into a computer you can’t quite believe it. When you hear that this free ‘money’ is lent out with interest added, you dismiss it as lies because the banks would be no […]
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Don Richards heads up Positive Money in Wellington. The Positive Money campaign began in the UK post 2018 GFC and campaigns to take money creation away from banks and place it with the Reserve Bank. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand creates New […]
