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A Drug Linked to Suicide

bobmccoskrie.com New research is finding an increased connection between cannabis and suicide. Not only are cannabis users more at risk of developing serious mental health conditions that could lead to suicide, they’re also more likely to use cannabis in suicide attempts. The connection between cannabis and suicide attempts

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How Walt Disney Conquered the World

Ben McCann Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide mercatornet.com On October 16 1923, brothers Walt and Roy set up a modest cartoon studio. Their goal was to produce short animated films. They created a new character: a mouse, with large ears. Named “Mickey”, he soon

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If Sweden Won, Why Are Swedish Birth Rates Plummeting?

If Sweden Won, Why Are Swedish Birth Rates Plummeting?

Robert Kogon Robert Kogon is the pen name of a widely-published journalist covering European affairs. brownstone.org It is chapter and verse nowadays among Covid-19 policy dissidents – or at least those who get amplified the most on X – that “Sweden won:” namely, by bucking the trend and refusing

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NZ’s Always-on Culture Has Stretched the 8-Hour Workday

NZ’s Always-on Culture Has Stretched the 8-Hour Workday

Amanda Reilly Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington theconversation.com When Wellington carpenter Samuel Parnell began the struggle for an eight-hour working day back in 1840, he could have never foreseen how modern work culture would evolve. But he would no doubt empathise with the challenges faced by

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The Good Doctor and Cancer Deaths

The Good Doctor and Cancer Deaths

Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior

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Who’s Advising the New National Govt?
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Who’s Advising the New National Govt?

Bryce Edwards Dr Bryce Edwards is the Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz Who will the new National Government listen to when it decides how to govern? An early indication may be seen

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The Origins of the Surveillance State

The Origins of the Surveillance State

Andrew Lowenthal Andrew Lowenthal is a Brownstone Institute fellow and co-founder and former executive director of EngageMedia, an Asia-Pacific digital rights, open and secure technology, and documentary non-profit, and a former fellow of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and MIT’s Open Documentary

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Who Wants the Shots Now?

Who Wants the Shots Now?

Alex Berenson Alex Berenson is a former New York Times reporter and the author of 13 novels, three non-fiction books, and the Unreported Truths booklets. His newest book, PANDEMIA, on the coronavirus and our response to it, was published in November 2021. alexberenson.substack.com (I owe you more

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The Distance between the MSM and the Truth

The Distance between the MSM and the Truth

Nicholas Fondacaro Nick grew up in East Stroudsburg Pennsylvania. He graduated from Binghamton University in 2013 with a degree in Political Science. While at Binghamton he served as the Speaker of the Student Assembly and wrote for the Binghamton Review, where his love for journalism started. newsbusters.org CNN’s

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Spears Speaks Out about Her Abortion

Spears Speaks Out about Her Abortion

righttolife.org.uk In her new memoir, popstar Britney Spears revealed that she became pregnant while dating fellow popstar Justin Timberlake and has described her subsequent abortion as “one of the most agonising things I have ever experienced in my life”. The singers had been dating between 1999 and 2002,

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The Babies: We Must Acknowledge Their Humanity
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The Babies: We Must Acknowledge Their Humanity

In my previous article I wrote about the babies that were reported to have been killed in Israel. I included the following link to an interview with a reporter from Israel: Another victim was mentioned in the interview, that I have left off for this article. I have not been

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Where to From Here?

bobmccoskrie.com Despite the optimism, the significant effort of time and expense, the passion, the utter hard slog, the results are in for the minor parties. Politics is a brutal sport. Good on these parties for putting their hand up and being willing to get involved. We need their voice

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They Shredded Our Social Contract

Jeffrey A. Tucker Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social

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The Tightrope Israel Walks in Gaza

The Tightrope Israel Walks in Gaza

Elliot Mathias Elliot Mathias is Aish’s Chief Operating Officer for Global Activities, as well as Executive Director of Aish New York. Elliot is also the founder of Hasbara Fellowships, a program he created while studying at Aish in Jerusalem, Hasbara Fellowships grew under his leadership to become one of

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NZ Election 2023: Labour Out, National In
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NZ Election 2023: Labour Out, National In

Toby Boraman Massey University theconversation.com For an election ostensibly fought over a “cost-of-living crisis”, there was a strong unspoken consensus between the two major parties: most people’s living standards needed to be reduced to thwart inflation. Regardless of the election result, a form of austerity was

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What Will the Newly Elected Govt Change?

What Will the Newly Elected Govt Change?

Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior

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