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What to Expect in 2023? More of the Same

What to Expect in 2023? More of the Same

John Whitehead Nisha Whitehead Constitutional attorney and author John W Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His most recent books are the best-selling Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the award-winning A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, and a debut

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The Govt Is Funding the Media and Fake Science Brigade

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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The Scraps on the Editor’s Floor

The Scraps on the Editor’s Floor

Voices for Freedom voicesforfreedom.co.nz Hot on the heels of a wee video featuring VFF’s Tane Webster encouraging people to – shock horror! – get involved in their local communities, a couple of Stuff reporters got in touch with their long lists of questions. They wanted to know the reasons

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Can the Greens Keep It Together This Year?
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Can the Greens Keep It Together This Year?

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. The Green Party has a habit of sabotaging their election-year campaigns, risking electoral oblivion. Could the same thing happen in 2023? The last two

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Is He Talking about This Palmer?

Is He Talking about This Palmer?

Jim Cable Adrian Rurawhe’s summer reading list perfect for political nerds Does your break involve reading or watching or anything? ‘‘Yes, I’ve got three books waiting. The first is Kawai by Monty Soutar, he’s a historian, Maori professor. He wrote Nga Tama Toa, about Maori in the

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A $0.25 TRILLION Monthly Deficit: Not a Big Deal?

A $0.25 TRILLION Monthly Deficit: Not a Big Deal?

Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the founder of Sovereign Research. He is an international investor, entrepreneur and a free man. His daily e-letter, Sovereign Letters, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom, more

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Chaos and order: the weather and climate

Joe Bastardi cfact.org Joe Bastardi is a pioneer in extreme weather and long-range forecasting. He is the author of The Climate Chronicles: Inconvenient Revelations You Won’t Hear From Al Gore – and Others, which you can purchase at the CFACT bookstore. His new book The Weaponization of Weather

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Torture by the CIA: Psychologist describes vividly

Brett Wilkins commondreams.org Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams. One of the psychologists paid tens of millions of dollars by the US Central Intelligence Agency to oversee the interrogation of prisoners in the so-called War on Terror provided new details […] about the torture of a

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Zinc Is Essential to Life

Andy Weiss Caitlin Murdoch Vanderbilt University Andy was born and raised in Germany and received his diploma, the German MS degree, from Dresden University of Technology. Caitlin grew up on Merritt Island, a barrier island on Florida’s Space Coast. After receiving her BS in Microbiology from the University of

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Eight Ideas That Will Teach You to Think like an Economist

Eight Ideas That Will Teach You to Think like an Economist

Ninos P. Malek fee.org Ninos P Malek is an economics professor at De Anza College in Cupertino, California, and a lecturer at San Jose State University in San Jose, California. He teaches principles of macroeconomics, principles of microeconomics, economics of social issues and intermediate microeconomics. His previous experience also

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PD James’s Novels Still Relevant Today

Ralph Wood mercatornet.com Until his recent retirement, Ralph C Wood had served as University Professor of Theology and Literature at Baylor since 1998. He holds the BA and MA from Texas A&M University-Commerce as well as the AM and PhD from the University of Chicago. PD

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Inside the Adolescent Brain

Tim Vernimmen knowablemagazine.org Tim Vernimmen is a freelance science journalist based near Antwerp, Belgium. His own adolescence theoretically ended in 2010. Adolescence is often portrayed as a period of struggle and friction, filled to the brim with exhilarating ups and depressing downs. Young people’s behavior tends to be

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A Most Interesting Family Squabble

A Most Interesting Family Squabble

Louis T. March mercatornet.com Louis T. March has a background in government, business and philanthropy. A former talk show host, author and public speaker, he is a dedicated student of history and genealogy. Louis lives with his family in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Toiling away in the

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Our Fifth Most Popular article from 2022
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Our Fifth Most Popular article from 2022

The BFD’s fifth most popular article of 2022 was Media Council Busts Stuff, Wiles for Lying by Cam Slater. So far this article has been read 19,200  times. You can read it here. If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the top

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The Awake Ape: Why People Sleep Less than Their Primate Relatives

Elizabeth Preston knowablemagazine.org Elizabeth Preston is a freelance science journalist who lives in the Boston area with her husband and two small, vigilant primates. On dry nights, the San hunter-gatherers of Namibia often sleep under the stars. They have no electric lights or new Netflix releases keeping them

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What China’s Hyperinflation in the 1940S Can Teach Americans

Lawrence W. Reed fee.org Not so long ago, when the dollar was “as good as gold” and so were many other currencies, economists spoke of paper money that wasn’t connected to a precious metal as “irredeemable,” “inconvertible,” “unbacked” or “fiat.” None of those adjectives were complimentary. The world

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