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How to Make Things Even Worse

Leon Salter Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation, Lisa Vonk Doctoral Candidate, School of Humanities, Media and Creative Communication Massey University The number of number of people aged 65 years or older living in New Zealand is likely to hit one million by 2028, according

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5 Reasons Young People Should Look at Gold

5 Reasons Young People Should Look at Gold

Joshua Glawson fee.org Joshua D. Glawson writes about politics, economics, philosophy, and personal development. He has Bachelor’s in Political Science from University of California Irvine. This article was originally published on FEE.org. Read the original article. In 1946, when the Foundation for Economic Education was founded, an

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Nobody Someone – ‘Politically Homeless’ Song Release

Nobody Someone – ‘Politically Homeless’ Song Release

Nobody Someone “We’ve got five parties of death currently sitting in The Beehive” The hundreds of thousands of Kiwis who are currently disillusioned, need to vote strategically in the 2023 election. New Zealand’s politically homeless are the only chance to save our country from wokeism, an unrepairable racial

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Christians Targeted as a Hate Group

Michael endoftheamericandream.com Christianity is rapidly becoming synonymous with “hate”, and that puts us in very dangerous territory.  Because once a certain class of people becomes classified as a “hate group”, they become targets.  Unfortunately, Christians are already being systematically targeted right now.  Matt Taibbi and his colleagues just put

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Death of the EV Dream, ER, Nightmare

Death of the EV Dream, ER, Nightmare

Duggan Flanakin cfact.org Duggan Flanakin is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. A

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Chief Coroner’s Reply to NZDSOS
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Chief Coroner’s Reply to NZDSOS

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Chief Coroner Anna Tutton has responded to our recent letter to her.  We expressed our grave concerns about the state of the Coronial Service, which is, in effect, being expected to provide a pharmacovigilance function for covid 19 vaccines, but without

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Pumped Storage at Lake Onslow
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Pumped Storage at Lake Onslow

Earl Bardsley Research Associate at the University of Waikato and the originator of the idea of pumped storage at Lake Onslow. The economic aim of pumped storage at Lake Onslow is to provide a sustainable dry year solution that will not send electricity prices through the roof. The fuel of

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Twisting the History to Fit the Narrative

Twisting the History to Fit the Narrative

mises.org In history classes (in public or private schools, colleges, and others), state propaganda and mainstream history, a historical fiction has been spun that allegedly debunks any notion of noninterventionism. This is the myth of American isolationism. The assertion usually goes that America was extremely isolationist prior to World

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Conscription in Russia, Ukraine… and the US

ronpaulinstitute.org One of the interesting aspects of the Russia-Ukraine war is that the regimes in both countries have resorted to conscription to get soldiers to “serve their country”. One would think that if a war is just, citizens would not have to be forced to fight in it.

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The Rise of Disinformation and the Ministry of Truth

The Rise of Disinformation and the Ministry of Truth

libertynation.com There is a word with which we have all become acquainted over the past few years. That word is disinformation, and, as many politicians assert, it is indeed a danger to democracy. When voters are misinformed, they make bad decisions – and sometimes those decisions are catastrophically bad. Unfortunately,

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Meet GARM, the WEF’s Swiss Army Knife

Meet GARM, the WEF’s Swiss Army Knife

mercatornet.com Sales of Bud Light beer tanked by 21.4 per cent in the fallout of the Dylan Mulvaney saga. Apparently frat boys don’t particularly relate to a creepy man prancing about in pink teenage girl costumes. While big brand Anheuser-Busch has claimed their Bud Light blunder

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Palestine Continues to Attack, Despite Israel’s Response

libertynation.com The Israeli government has wasted no time in retaliating to a continuous and intense bombardment by Islamic jihad militants from the Gaza Strip, fighting back with successful airstrikes. In recent days, along with accurate air defense protecting Israeli cities from the Palestinian rocket fire, Israeli defense forces have

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What Happened to Looking at Costs and Benefits?

What Happened to Looking at Costs and Benefits?

Fred Too A basic plank of public policy work is cost/benefit analysis. You might not be able to quantify all the costs and benefits of a proposal, but you should certainly be able to identify what they are and give them a weighting. You use these to assess if

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Trials on Prozac’s Safety and Efficacy Fudged

brownstone.org A new analysis finds that Prozac (generic name fluoxetine) is unsafe and ineffective for treating depression in children and adolescents. Regulatory documents show that trial participants attempted suicide after taking fluoxetine, but these events were excluded from the final journal publication. I notified the journal of the new

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Believe All Women, or Just Some?

Believe All Women, or Just Some?

mercatornet.com The squalid court case just ended over an alleged sexual encounter in the mid-90s between Donald Trump and a saleswoman in a shop fitting room was always likely to end badly for him. Bizarre as the episode sounded, any accusation would seem credible given Trump’s own

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Mother’s Day: For Some It’s Painful

lens.monash.edu Mother’s Day is a time when we acknowledge and honour mothers and motherhood. But for many women who have experienced miscarriage, Mother’s Day can be one of the most difficult days of the year, bringing with it a kaleidoscope of feelings and questions. “Since becoming

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