An expert has called for more decentralisation of New Zealand’s governing structures as the growing power of the central government in the capital city, Wellington is leaving the country unable to meet growing regional demands. Economist Oliver Hartwich told The Epoch Times that New Zealand already, a highly centralised country, is growing more so and many…
New Zealanders Not Aware the Country Is Run Like a ‘Socialist’ State, Says Economist
Extreme Policies for Organic Farming Ignore Soil Science: Former USDA Soil Scientist
July 26, 2022
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Under pressure from environmentalists, some governments have implemented extreme nitrogen fertilizer restrictions that ignore the time needed to restore a depleted soil microbiology, resulting in protests from some scientists and farmers who are seeing the concerning impacts of such restrictions. According to organic farming proponent and former U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) soil scientist Kelly…
Poke and Sniff: A Lesson From 1906
Commentary In 1906, Upton Sinclair came out with his book “The Jungle,” and it shocked the nation by documenting the horror of the meat-packing industry. People were being boiled in vats and sent to larders. Rat waste was mixed with meat. And so on. As a result, the Federal Meat Inspection Act passed Congress, and consumers…
Why Won’t They Admit Failure?
May 10, 2022
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Commentary It seems strange that one of the world’s richest men would feel the need for a book tour to boost sales. But that is what Bill Gates is doing, granting a series of interviews with deferential journalists. The thesis of his book and his interviews is that we should have locked down harder, sooner, and more…
Governments Giveth and Taketh Away
Commentary The jobs report on May 6 seemed like good news (3.6 percent unemployment) until you look at the details: “The U.S. labor force shrank by 363,000 people in April from a month earlier, the Labor Department said Friday. The labor force participation rate, or the share of American adults working or looking for a…
Consumer Financial Protection Gone Awry
Commentary The crises of recent years tend to erase from memory those that preceded them. One, as you may recall, was the financial collapse of 2008—a collapse deemed by many as the worst since the Great Depression. That collapse swept into power a government like the one we have now—the White House and both houses…
Can Elon Musk Defeat the Censors?
Commentary A remarkable and truth-telling post appeared over the weekend from the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey. Despite how the platform went to heck under his leadership—presuming he really ever had control—he has done good for the world. For years, he has seemed to object to how his own company was operating….
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