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By Hans-Jürgen Geese  · A few days ago, the media here in New Zealand reported that the price of butter had risen by 50% over the course of a year. In New Zealand, the land of milk and honey. New Zealand is still the second largest butter producer in the world. · The country produces far more butter than its citizens can ever consume. How can prices go up? By 50%! What has happened? Well, nothing really. The cows still give milk, the dairies…

A big, juicy Prawn Mango Avocado Summer Salad!! Tossed with a zesty, fresh lime dressing, this is a magical combination of textures and flavours that’s summer in a (giant) bowl. · A terrific almost no-cook meal option or a great summer salad for a crowd.  · Ingredients · Salad: · - 2.5 cups cooked pearl couscous  or similar - 300 – 400g / 10 – 12 oz cooked peeled prawns / shrimp (~750g unpeeled whole cooked) - 1 large mango , cut 1.5cm / ½”…

Benefit dependency in New Zealand has reached an all-time high, with over 409,000 individuals receiving a main benefit in December 2024. · While seasonal rises are typical due to students entering the system, this figure marks the highest absolute number ever recorded, surpassing even the 1990s peak. · Currently, 12.6% of the working-age population—one in eight people—rely on welfare, the highest percentage since the Global Financial Crisis. ·…

Dr Sue Pavord, a haematologist in the UK, cheerlead the introduction of the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine, even encouraging her daughter to take it. · However, she soon identified a deadly side effect, which was unknown prior to the vaccine’s introduction. · Vaccine-induced thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (VITT) is a condition, which causes severe blood clots and low platelets. These conditions are deadly and rarely seen together. · Nine weeks…

Detailing his experience at The World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, Rebel News founder Ezra Levant showed audiences an energy bar, explaining: · “The word ‘insect’ or ‘bugs’ is nowhere on this. But these are insect protein energy bars, and there was a man giving these out by the hundreds today. They really want you to eat the bugs. This is not a conspiracy theory.” · Instead, the packaging uses the term “Alphitobius diaperinus”…

27 January 1962 · The 23-year-old Olympic 800-m champion (see 2 September) hoped to run the first four-minute mile on New Zealand soil. In fact, he broke Australian Herb Elliott’s 3½-year-old world record by the smallest possible margin, 0.1 seconds. This was an astonishing feat on a 353-m grass track at Cooks Gardens, Whanganui, in a race that did not go to plan. · When the starter’s gun fired, the seven runners dawdled for several seconds…

'Double Standards; the Rudolf Hess Cover-up' · By Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince and Stephen Prior with additional historical research by Robert Brydon. · Published Time Warner Books · ISBN: 978-0751532203 · It is a curious fact that there is a dearth of books written in the German language that have studied in any detail the flight to England on May 10, 1941 of the second most powerful man in wartime Germany and Hitler's cabinet, Rudolf…

Medical journals are increasingly acting as gatekeepers, promoting established narratives while sidelining research that challenges the status quo. · Studies questioning the safety of Covid-19 vaccines, for example, are often dismissed outright, denied the opportunity to undergo peer review. · In some instances, even studies that pass rigorous peer review are later retracted due to external pressures. · One such example involves a study on…

24 January 1865 Lieutenant-General Duncan Cameron set out on what was to prove to be his final campaign in New Zealand with more than a thousand troops under his command. · Governor George Grey and the colonial government had been unable to persuade Cameron to mount a further campaign in Waikato. Keen to make use of imperial troops while they still had them, they turned their attention to south Taranaki, a ‘secondary bastion’ of Māori…

The Christmas leftovers are - finally - done with. You’ve linked arms and sung in the New Year with Auld Lang Syne. And, no doubt, you’ve seen through the festive season with a few servings of your favourite whisky. · Once the echoes of the departing year are over, settling into the new one can feel pretty anticlimactic. But, fortunately, there’s one unmissable reason to enjoy your favourite Scotch, fire up the ovens and gather your nearest and…