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Michelle Makori, Lead Anchor and Editor-in-Chief at Kitco News, interviews Cory Klippsten, CEO of Swan Bitcoin, who discusses Argentina electing its first Libertarian President, Javier Milei, on the promise of shutting down the country’s central bank. Klippsten discusses the chances of Argentina adopting Bitcoin as a legal tender, with Milei being decidedly pro-Bitcoin. He also describes Bitcoin as the sixth technological revolution and…

Interview with Geoff Neal MJ: Welcome back, we’re returning with Geoff Neal, who has been very, very insightful in creating these most incredible websites and transparency for the Government at Large. Now I’ll say at large because we have got a very large Government and they need to be more transparent about everything, even when they do say they are the most transparent government we’ve ever had. So Geoff, it’s really nice to have you back…

Interview with David Wilson MJ: Welcome David, it’s great to see you again. We’re going to talk about banking today. I sent you a very interesting piece by Senator Rennick in Australia and one of the commentaries he’s made in the central bank digital currency space on a bill of legislation which he does not agree with. · And I thought what we might do is we might just go through that and get your commentary along the way. And how does that…

Interview with Sue Grey Lawyer MJ: Hi everyone, today we have the delightful, Sue Gray, lawyer once back again and we’ve got so much to talk about. It’s great to see you. Look, it’s so exciting. I mean, we had the coalition, the agreements in place, And we’ve finally got someone who can actually stand up, which as I’m referring to Winston Peters, if you saw him the other day with his inaugural speech, he’s actually starting to flex, hey, this…

December 13, 2023 While staff at Te Papa museum in Wellington ponder what to do with the treaty display that was defaced by protesters on Monday, I suggest that the Busby February 4 document, which is also known as the Littlewood treaty, is the perfect fit. · The protestors want a direct translation of the Maori text added to the display so that visitors could understand clearly what the Te Tiriti actually says. After all, Te Tiriti was the…

Tomato and Avocado Salad · Beetroot & halloumi salad with pomegranate and dill · Cucumber Radish Salad Tomato and Avocado Salad This tomato, onion, and avocado salad is the prime definition of fresh and simple. There’s no tossing involved, just layers of 3 main ingredients in their most natural form. Slices of juicy, on-the-vine tomatoes are layered with punchy onions and creamy avocado slices. For dressing, all you need is a drizzle of…

With the New Year having been brought in by any number of ways, its highly probably that you will have sung a familiar favourite at least once. That song is Auld Lang Syne and is a song written by Robert Burns in the 1780s, and today has become an anthem sung the world over at New Year. In 1788 Robert Burns sent the poem ‘Auld Lang Syne’ to the Scots Musical Museum, indicating that it was an ancient song but that he’d been the first to record…

With one marmalade sandwich, two Hollywood blockbusters (and a third one coming), a TV series and 70 books in 30 different languages under his hat, few icons of post-war Britain have been so enduring as the magnificent Paddington Bear. But did you know, that one of the world’s most beloved characters has an amazing Jewish backstory? The original Paddington Bear started out in life as an ordinary stuffed toy at the UK-based department store…

The Te Ora report stated that the number of hospital admissions that could have been prevented by access to timely and competent general practice care (Ambulatory Sensitive Hospitalisation – the ASH figure) were 2171/100,000 for the non–Maori population, and 3686/100,000 for the Maori population between the years of 2007 and 2018. Taking the population at 5,000,000 with Maori being 16.5%, and non-Maori 83.5%, then the number of possible…

The blue whale has long been considered the largest animal to have ever existed, even dwarfing the biggest known dinosaurs. But now a new species threatens to steal the crown, and upends what we thought we knew about whale evolution. In the Ica valley in Southern Peru, paleontologists discovered 13 vertebrae, four ribs and a hip bone that were absolutely gigantic. They belonged to a previously unknown species of ancient whale that lived about…