Reply of @NZTreasury to my Privacy Act request for a statement of correction to be attached to incorrect personal information
04 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, macroeconomics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice
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Vapor products, harm reduction, and taxation: More questions than answers for a young and dynamic product market
04 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
@NZPSA should have killed my op-ed with silence. Now have another chance to go at them again.
04 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
After 1000s of spam emails, I finally received real DHL delivery pending emails
04 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in administration, economics Tags: Armen Alchain
Are claims of the lack of moderate muslims fair?
04 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of religion Tags: Age of Enlightenment, political correctness, regressive left, war against terror
Here’s hoping Guyon Espiner now grills Callaghan Innovation about its OIA practices…
04 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
Before exposing his moral indignation about the Taxpayers’ Union using false names to file Official Information Act requests, Radio New Zealand’s Guyon Espiner should have consulted the publisher of No Right Turn.
This blog and the Taxpayers Union are poles apart, ideologically.
But political commentator Malcolm Harbrow – who blogs under the nom-de-plumeis an indefatigable champion of the public’s right to request information from public agencies under the OIA and a stern critic of agencies which fail to meet their legal obligations to provide the information requested.
He was astonished by the thrust of an article, published by the New Zealand Herald under the byline of one David Fisher and beguilingly headed How right-wing lobby group NZ Taxpayers’ Union used false identities to make OIA request – and how it got caught.
This article was the prompt for Espiner, on Morning Report today, grilling Taxpayers Union chief…
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Jonn Cochrane Says Allowing European Defaults `Best’ for Euro
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in budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, Euro crisis, financial economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights Tags: sovereign defaults
Adult Twins, Separated at Birth, Have an Emotional Reunion
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State-sized object beyond Pluto hints at hidden Planet X
03 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
Credit: NASA
Meet ‘The Goblin’. This body’s maximum distance from the Sun is a massive 2300 times further out than Earth’s.
A newly spotted dwarf planet, 2015 TG387, adds to the mounting evidence that an unseen super-Earth prowls the edge of the solar system, reports Cnet.
Astronomers have found a small object far beyond Pluto that orbits the sun in a lonely, oblong loop, a discovery that supports the notion of a larger, more distant planet — often referred to as Planet X — wandering the edge of our solar system.
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BBC Gaza ‘documentary’ makes no pretence of impartiality
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The September 22nd edition of the documentary series ‘Our World’ aired on the BBC World News channel and the BBC News channel was titled ‘Gaza Dreams’.
“With nearly two million people living in miserable conditions in Gaza, the Israeli blockade has taken its toll on mental health there.
Against the backdrop of the border clashes earlier this year this film goes deep inside the minds of the people of Gaza to explore the mental health issues affecting many there.”
Produced by Christine Garabedian of BBC Arabic, the film is remarkable for the fact that it fails to mention the all-important context of Hamas terrorism even once – despite opening by telling viewers that:
“Gaza has been under a strict blockade for eleven years. Israel and Egypt say that the blockade is in place for their security.”
Garabedian, however, failed to provide audiences with the information which would help them…
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Environmentalists Oppose Trump’s Border Wall
03 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
Environmentalists decry President Trump’s border wall as an environmental disaster. But this Fox News report demonstrates there is more to the issue than wildlife species being disturbed resulting from the wall being built. Naturally, they are seeking to stop its construction.
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