The meth hysteria this politician was instrumental in creating, led to an industry of profitable meth abatement companies that took regular kiwis for a ride: hundreds of millions of dollars from regular homeowners in a scam that lasted years.

Free lunch programme Ka Ora ka Ako cut by 50% by cutting out fresh fruit and veges replacing with high sugar processed foods. We already have intractable childhood obesity as bad as US.and T2 diabetes. This is a false economy.

Initial funding was provided by the Royal Foundation created by William and his wife, Catherine, and from a donation by the government from the LIBOR fund, a pool of fines collected from banks that were punished for violating banking rules such as manipulating the LIBOR.

Unsurprisingly, Edward Luce's take on the campus protests is by some distance the best and most sophisticated I have read.

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I enjoyed this podcast on the GLP1 agonists like Ozempic and Moutjaro. Useful positives and some serious concerns. And ultra processed foods aren’t good for most of us pca.st/episode/12d830…

Eric Trump The rapist, serial criminal, cult messiah now faces the first of FOUR CRIMINAL TRIALS for 85 CRIMINAL CHARGES

This first one is exposing his payments to 2 women and 1 man to keep quiet about his sordid affairs and his criminal election interference.

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Health experts warn Kiwis at 'serious risk' of measles epidemic dlvr.it/T6CFWn

20 Days in Mariupol. Those poor people. Never deserved. Could be any of us but the world largely ignores. Watch it

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A couple of things: Luxon looks angry in this interview, and that doesn't help; people don't want to hear it's not easy from someone who's earning half a million and owns seven houses. He and his ministers nearly always look defensive and negative. There's not much aspiration.

All articles from NZ Initiative should declare the vested interests that generously fund their commentaries - Eric Crampton pro-tobacco articles especially! Even if NZI is not voluntarily transparent, media outlets should enforce it.

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