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“While the government pats themselves on the back for the uptake of golden visas, it is important for us to recognise and understand what we have given away. For as little as $5m investment into the sharemarket or a managed fund, New Zealand has provided access to our public infrastructure and services while also providing far more advantageous tax settings than domestic residents enjoy. I would personally like to see an end to these visas. I…

Christopher Luxon had one job this week: explain to New Zealand where the country stands on the biggest geopolitical crisis in a generation. He blew it. Across a disastrous Monday, including a morning radio round on RNZ, an interview with Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking, and then a post-Cabinet press conference that may go down as one of the worst of his tenure, the Prime Minister fumbled, misspoke, contradicted himself, and ultimately left the…

By Utkarsh Sood · The Holden is one of the most mechanically audacious bikes to exist - Bonhams · You’re looking at a motorcycle that predates most two-wheeled engines on the road today. One of the most mechanically audacious bikes of the veteran era is gearing up to be a centerpiece at Bonhams’ upcoming Rex Judd Collection sale in April this year. · Among the headliner lots in the collection is a circa 1902 Holden 'motor bicycle.'…

The White House · Over the past 36 hours, the United States and allied forces have launched a major military offensive referred to as Operation Epic Fury. Officials describe it as one of the largest and most complex coordinated strikes in recent history. · Military Action: · According to U.S. military sources, hundreds of targets inside Iran were hit, including Revolutionary Guard facilities, air defense systems, and naval assets. Reports…

Alex Krainer · On Saturday, 28 February, U.S. and Israeli armed forces launched a coordinated joint military operation against Iran. The U.S. designated its side as the Operation Epic Fury (per Pentagon announcements and multiple reports). Israelis named their campaign as Operation Roaring Lion (or Lion’s Roar). · If you are like me, you are swamped with news reports, analysis and commentary of this event and much of it amounts…

From Iran’s perspective, they’re all complicit in the US’ massive first strike even if the role that US military infrastructure in their countries allegedly played was only indirect in the sense of providing radar or just logistical support, with this perception and its response thereto being totally predictable. · Andrew Korybko · Prior to the joint US-Israeli campaign against Iran, there was a belief among the Gulf States that hosting US…

by Tyler Durden · Authored by 'eugyppius', · Old friends may remember the farce we experienced last May, when outgoing Marshmallow Interior Minister Nancy Faeser pushed her gaggle of goons in the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) to upgrade their political classification of Alternative für Deutschland. · No longer did the BfV consider the national political party to lurk under mere “suspicion of right-wing…

How artificial intelligence is quietly transforming the way we grow food — and why the most exciting opportunity has nothing to do with robots harvesting lettuce. · Dr. Robert W. Malone · The Farmer and the Algorithm · How artificial intelligence is quietly transforming the way we grow food — and why the most exciting opportunity has nothing to do with robots harvesting lettuce. · Picture a farm in central Illinois. About 3,000 acres of…

Stewart Battle- Iran’s President Pezeshkian called the assassination of Khamenei a “declaration of war against Muslims.” Credit: UN Photo/Loey Felipe”Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget / falls drop by drop upon the heart, / until, in our own despair, / against our will, / comes wisdom / through the awful grace of God.” · This quote from Aeschylus’ play Agamemnon was recited from memory by Robert F. Kennedy Sr. the night Martin…

Frank Bergman · A sworn declaration buried in the Trump administration’s recent release of millions of “Epstein Files” documents reveals that an FBI computer system hack resulted in the destruction of roughly 100 terabytes of Jeffrey Epstein-related data. · The September 2024 declaration from FBI agent Aaron Spivack states that a massive breach of the FBI’s New York Field Office (NYFO) systems on Super Bowl Sunday in 2023 led to the…