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Look What They Are Saying in Germany

Gary Moller Gary Moller is a health practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance by making use of a key forensic tool – Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis – and administering healthy, natural and sustainable therapies. garymoller.com Peter F Mayer, science journalist in Vienna,

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‘Climate Crisis’ Is an Exercise in Mass Hysteria

‘Climate Crisis’ Is an Exercise in Mass Hysteria

William Kovacs Bill Kovacs has been involved in the nation’s policymaking process for over four decades. He is an award-winning author for his book, Reform the Kakistocracy: Rule by the Least Able or Least Principled Citizens. cfact.org Ever since the Biden administration promised to eliminate fossil fuels, climate

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Politicians Will Always Want to Control the Public Square

Politicians Will Always Want to Control the Public Square

Isaac Schick Isaac Schick is a policy analyst at the American Consumer Institute, a nonprofit education and research organization. fee.org Recently the Supreme Court avoided deciding on where the limits of Section 230 were concerning content algorithms. Many have interpreted this as a positive sign that Section 230 will

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The Young Rupert Murdoch Knew What He Wanted

The Young Rupert Murdoch Knew What He Wanted

Rodney Tiffen University of Sydney theconversation.com Nearly every biographical commentary on Rupert Murdoch notes how he began with a modest inheritance in Adelaide, principally an afternoon newspaper, and built it into a global multimedia empire. Walter Marsh’s book Young Rupert: The Making of the Murdoch Empire has the

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The Sharks Are Circling

Simon Angelo Simon is the Chief Executive Officer and Publisher at Wealth Morning. He has been investing in the markets since he was 17. He recently spent a couple of years working in the hedge-fund industry in Europe. Before this, he owned an award-winning professional-services business and online-learning company in

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Reality Check on Voting for Minor Parties
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Reality Check on Voting for Minor Parties

The Ponderer I and my wider family have been involved in minor party politics for many years. I’ve been the enthusiastic supporter, the optimistic candidate, and am now the wiser realist. I want to simply explain exactly what the minor “freedom” parties can and cannot achieve this election, and

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Can NZ Learn from a Global Outlier?

Michael Mouat Massey University theconversation.com Like most countries over the past three years, New Zealand has tried to manage inflation by increasing interest rates. Japan, on the other hand, has taken a different tack – with clear success. In 2016, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) set the country’s interest

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Sweden’s Long-Held Commitment to Freedom Of Expression

Sweden’s Long-Held Commitment to Freedom Of Expression

Mårten Schultz Stockholm University theconversation.com To people outside Sweden it may seem surprising that police have, on several recent occasions, granted people express permission to burn copies of the Qur’an in public. The incidents have caused upset and triggered a significant debate about the far right co-opting the

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Musk’s Goal for Twitter’s Future

Musk’s Goal for Twitter’s Future

Kristen Schiele Kristen Schiele specialises in the areas of digital marketing and social media, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Marketing Educators’ Association. Dr Schiele is co-author of the Mobile Marketing Essentials textbook, and frequently speaks on current and emerging trends in user experience and human-centred design.

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World Bank De-banks Uganda for Anti-gay Law

World Bank De-banks Uganda for Anti-gay Law

Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.

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The Problem with Teacher Only Days

The Problem with Teacher Only Days

Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1 – 13. alwynpoole.substack.

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Let’s Unpack This Comment by Yadana Saw
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Let’s Unpack This Comment by Yadana Saw

Arthur On Monday the 14th of August that ‘upmarket’ toilet paper news rag, The Post in Wellington, owned by that disinformation site NZ Stuff aka Stuff (the truth), featured an article about Wellington regional councillor Yadana Saw who indulged in the hobby of choice for those few in immigrant minority

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New Zealand Official Birth and Death Figures

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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Paid Parental Leave for Partners Is ‘The Right Thing to Do’

Kate C. Prickett Victoria University of Wellington theconversation.com By introducing four weeks of paid parental leave for partners if re-elected, the Labour Party would move New Zealand out of an undesirable and tiny club of OECD nations. Only the United States and Israel would then not offer something similar

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Why Women Climax Less Than Men

Laurie Mintz University of Florida theconversation.com Imagine a steamy sex scene involving a woman and a man from your favourite television show or movie. It’s likely that both parties orgasm. But this doesn’t reflect reality. Because during heterosexual sexual encounters, women have far fewer orgasms than men.

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Will Banning Cellphones in Schools Work?

Eunice Gaerlan Auckland University of Technology theconversation.com The National Party’s promised ban on cellphones in schools has been touted by leader Christopher Luxon as a “common sense” and “practical” way to address New Zealand’s poor academic achievement. And his claim that “phones are a massive disturbance and

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