HR Hi everyone. The BFD is humming even more than usual with 1.7 million or so people being in lockdown until recently and highly likely to be locked down again. The hot topics are, of course, covid, the government and the media. Emotions are high and commenters obviously want
Bree McEwan University of Toronto Bree McEwan is an associate professor at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology where she researches the intersection between interpersonal and communication technology. In the midst of the scandals of the Facebook papers, Facebook rebranded the company as Meta. The new name was
Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more
Nathan Mech fee.org Nathan Mech is the Program Outreach Project Manager for the Acton Institute. COVID-19 is the most deadly global pandemic since the 1918 influenza outbreak, claiming more than 5 million lives worldwide and counting. Well over 700,000 of these deaths occurred in the United States,
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Hannah Cox fee.org Hannah Cox is the Content Manager and Brand Ambassador for the Foundation for Economic Education. A Wisconsin jury on Friday reached a verdict in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, finding the teen not guilty on all counts, including homicide charges. America loves nothing more than a
Darroch Ball Leader of Sensible Sentencing Trust. There is a bit of an inside joke doing the rounds in some circles about the reporting of gun crimes in the media. Most of the articles that have involved a firearm incident say that it is ‘gang linked’ – the joke being that
familyfirst.org.nz From bobmccoskrie.com When a public service doesn’t want people to see a publication, they release it late on a Friday when the media are celebrating the end of the week and have all but checked out. It’s a common well-known practice. On Friday,
Simon Thornley Aleisha R. Brock covidplanb.co.nz Re: Brock AR and S Thornley. 2021. Rapid Communication Spontaneous Abortions and Policies on COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Use During Pregnancy. Science, Public Health Policy & the Law 4:130-143. As the authors of the above paper, we have asked the
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Jason Jaskolka Carleton University Dr. Jason Jaskolka is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering and the Director of the Cyber Security Evaluation and Assurance (CyberSEA) Research Lab at Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada. What would happen if you could no longer use the technological systems
Vera Stanton I’m an ex-pat Kiwi currently living in Hong Kong where I have been for more than a decade. I’m writing about what I see as the complete politicisation of the Covid response, to the point where it threatens the existence of Hong Kong as I
John Maunder The chart below shows that since 1979, when reliable satellite observations became available, there has been an overall warming trend in the average tropospheric temperatures, apart from, at times, milder temperatures since about 1999, but with three significant warm periods associated with the El Nino events in 1998
John Rofe Earth’s two most important Endowments are Water [H2O] and Carbon Dioxide [CO2] – Add light, we get Oxygen [O2] Despite being an investor in renewable energy technologies, materials and systems and therefore a beneficiary of the Glasgow COP26 Charade, I was horrified at the blatant hypocrisy on show.
Rachel Tate Our world is divided Like never before The need to be right Turned this plight into war Traditional weapons we sideline in favour Of words as an art form To one-up we savour Our friends are as foes Our whanau oppose This self righteous need For agreement
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