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Here Is A Big Idea

Here Is A Big Idea

Dr Muriel Newman Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. nzcpr.com “The bedrock of any successful

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It’s a Quack!

It’s a Quack!

Harry Palmer I was born in 1944 in Manchester, UK, four years before the introduction of the National Health Service. At the age of two or three, I entered into a relationship with the medical profession when I was taken to a doctor’s surgery by my mother. Though no

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The Betrayal of the Environment by Environmentalists

El Gato Malo brownstone.org el gato malo is a pseudonym for an account that has been posting on pandemic policies from the outset. AKA a notorious internet feline with strong views on data and liberty. I am an environmentalist. I value clean air, clean water, forests, rivers, lakes, jungles,

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A Supporter Unloads about Long COVID

A Supporter Unloads about Long COVID

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com We are barraged just now with articles and reports on the apparent scourge of long covid. We suppose it keeps the scary c-word in the news and might drum up a few more takers for the failing booster program. Long

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How the Soviets Stole Nuclear Secrets and Targeted Oppenheimer, the ‘Father of the Atomic Bomb’

How the Soviets Stole Nuclear Secrets and Targeted Oppenheimer, the ‘Father of the Atomic Bomb’

Calder Walton Assistant Director, Applied History Project and Intelligence Project, Harvard Kennedy School “Oppenheimer,” the epic new movie directed by Christopher Nolan, takes audiences into the mind and moral decisions of J. Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the team of brilliant scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico, who built the world’

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Hands off Our Children

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there will be any fruit. But that

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3 Ways IRD Could soften the Impact of Failed NZ Businesses

3 Ways IRD Could soften the Impact of Failed NZ Businesses

Lisa Marriott Professor of Taxation Victoria University of Wellington It feels like there is a high-profile liquidation every other week. Media coverage has included stories on the collapse of tiny home companies, construction firms and homeware retailers, among many others. In just the past week, a failed pool company

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Assisted Suicide Promoted to Healthy Patients

Assisted Suicide Promoted to Healthy Patients

Right To Life News righttolife.org.uk A chilling slideshow promoting assisted suicide has caused uproar after being sent to a group of healthy patients in Canada. One of the largest healthcare providers in the Canadian province of British Columbia, Fraser Health Care, emailed the shocking slideshow to a group

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Barbie Is Stunning in Stilettos but Could She Ever Be a Mother?

Barbie Is Stunning in Stilettos but Could She Ever Be a Mother?

Kimberly Ells Kimberly Ells is the author of The Invincible Family. Follow her at Invincible Family Substack. One of the brightest moments of my young life was when I got TWO Barbies (one blonde, one brunette) for Christmas. So on wings of nostalgia but feeling undercurrents of dread, I set

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The 2nd Anniversary of World Ivermectin Day

The 2nd Anniversary of World Ivermectin Day

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Drug repurposing is defined as “the process of finding new therapeutic indications for existing drugs“. World Ivermectin Day: 29 July 2023 Origins of World Ivermectin Day The inaugural World Ivermectin Day was commemorated on 29 July 2021 as a way to

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Can David Parker Get Labour to Tax the Rich
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Can David Parker Get Labour to Tax the Rich

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is the Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Cabinet Minister David Parker recently told the Spinoff he’s reading “The Triumph of Injustice – how the wealthy avoid paying tax and how to

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A Turning Point in Our Nation

A Turning Point in Our Nation

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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Why We Can Never Do Away with Oil

Ronald Stein cfact.org Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book “Clean Energy Exploitations.” Two of the greatest inventions of all time are the incandescent light bulb and the telephone. Both the light bulb and

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Idaho Christians Win $300,000 in Court

Brownstone Institute brownstone.org The Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research is a nonprofit organization conceived of in May 2021 in support of a society that minimizes the role of violence in public life. Just how untethered to the rule of law did the United States come during the

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Israeli Army Moves to Centre-Stage in Judicial Reform Controversy

Israeli Army Moves to Centre-Stage in Judicial Reform Controversy

Ran Porat Affiliate Research Associate, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University. lens.monash.edu Over the weekend, protests in Israel against the government’s controversial judicial overhaul reached boiling point. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets in processions, and businesses, medical and workers’ unions jointly threatened

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Can NZ Avoid Culture Wars?

Camryn Brown Political Commentator commonroomnz.com This article was first published by The Common Room History could not be more clear: when politics become pointless, violence often follows. So, let’s talk about culture wars, how they turn politics into an ineffective sideshow, and the danger we face in New

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