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What Is the Definition of Unprovoked?

Jacob G Hornberger ronpaulinstitute.org Note the following sentence in a New York Times news story Thursday by Michael Schwirtz and Anton Troianovski about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: “Mr Putin’s attempt to put a veneer of nobility on an unprovoked invasion that has killed thousands of civilians and

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The Creep of China into American Life

The Creep of China into American Life

Dave Patterson libertynation.com Keeping the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) out of Americans’ everyday affairs is becoming more challenging. We’ve seen Beijing-backed businesses purchase real estate and other US enterprises. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has scientists embedded in America’s most sensitive research facilities. Liberty

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Stop Police from Using Excessive Force

Stop Police from Using Excessive Force

rutherford.org WASHINGTON, DC In the wake of a spate of incidents involving the use of excessive force by police against unarmed individuals, including the brutal killing of Tyre Nichols by members of a Memphis SCORPION police unit, The Rutherford Institute has called on the US Supreme Court to narrow

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Climate Change and Red Herrings

Climate Change and Red Herrings

Collister Johnson cfact.org Johnson has spent the last four decades working in the public and private sectors in Virginia, primarily in the fields of project finance and maritime transportation. He began his career in public service as Chairman of the Board of the Virginia Port Authority. He was appointed

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Can We Live without 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. The few wealthy countries pursuing the generation of electricity from wind turbines and solar panels while simultaneously moving to rid the

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Things Are Hotting Up

Things Are Hotting Up

Michael endoftheamericandream.com We are getting dangerously close to a point of no return. For months, both sides have been continuously escalating the war in Ukraine, and now it appears that we are on the verge of the biggest escalation of them all. As I have been repeatedly warning my

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Not Too Late to Protest against CBDCs

Connor O’Keeffe Writer and Video Producer mises.org Connor O’Keeffe is a writer and video producer at the Mises Institute. He has a masters in economics and a bachelors in geology. Whether you like it or not, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are coming. That’s the message

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Lots of Lovely Words but Were Any of Them True?

Martin Hanson On February 8, a convoy of protesters began to set up camp in Parliament’s grounds. The camp grew into a mini-village, with portaloos and child care with on-the-hoof schooling. The protesters demanded that Prime Minister Ardern meet them to discuss concerns, but were met

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Fed Farmers Says RMA Will Be Worse under Govt Reform
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Fed Farmers Says RMA Will Be Worse under Govt Reform

Simon Edwards simonedwards.nz dailytelegraph.co.nz Simon Edwards is a communications advisor for Federated Farmers, a current Hutt City councillor and former editor of the Hutt News. “Farmers agree the costly, slow and unpredictable processes under the RMA need fixing, but in getting rid of the old dog the

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How the ‘Unvaccinated’ Got It Right

How the ‘Unvaccinated’ Got It Right

Robin Koerner brownstone.org Robin Koerner is a British-born citizen of the USA, who currently serves as Academic Dean of the John Locke Institute. He holds graduate degrees in both Physics and the Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge (U.K.). Scott Adams is the creator of

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Netflix’s Pamela, a Love Story Overturns Stereotypes

Sarah Tatton PhD Candidate and Associate Lecturer in Criminology Sheffield Hallam University Pamela Anderson’s Netflix documentary is worth watching for many reasons, but one of the greatest lessons it has to offer is what a victim-survivor of intimate partner abuse looks like: resilient, resourceful, eternally optimistic and compassionate.

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The Six Ways Your Car Spies On You

The Six Ways Your Car Spies On You

Rachael Medhurst Course Leader and Lecturer in Cyber Security NCSA University of South Wales You can tell a lot about someone from the car they drive. The data that many vehicles now collect can reveal the patterns of our daily lives and provide insights into our behaviour, actions and even

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Free Speech Is Dead in Britain

Free Speech Is Dead in Britain

Harrison Griffiths fee.org Harrison Griffiths is Communications Officer at the Institute of Economic Affairs, a free-market think tank in London. For the past decade, freedom of speech has been at the forefront of America’s culture war, and it should not be controversial to say that both sides

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Why the Storm Caused So Many Landslides in Auckland

Why the Storm Caused So Many Landslides in Auckland

Martin Brook Associate Professor of Applied Geology University of Auckland The January 27 storm that hit Auckland broke all previous rainfall records and has caused widespread damage, mostly from flooding and landslides. But while climate change helps explain the intensity of the rainfall, the way land has been used and

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Lots of Lovely Words but Were Any of Them True?

Lots of Lovely Words but Were Any of Them True?

Martin Hanson While still at the height of her popularity, “Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy”, a biography of the New Zealand Prime Minister, was published. It was described by the publisher as “a major biography of one of the most important and inspirational leaders of the twenty-first century”. 20

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