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The Battle for Our Minds

Ramesh Thakur mercatornet.com Ramesh Thakur is a former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, and emeritus professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. An important takeaway from the last four years for many governments is the surprising ease of winning public compliance with demands for

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Life after Lockdown: Foreword by Rand Paul

brownstone.org [The following is Senator Rand Paul’s foreword to Jeffrey Tucker’s book, Life after Lockdown.] In Life after Lockdown, Jeffrey Tucker paints a picture of the living hell that was the government lockdown and outlines a roadmap for never again allowing such a police state to occur.

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Angel Investors Are Enriching Themselves and Society

Saul Zimet fee.org Saul Zimet is a Hazlitt Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education and a graduate student in economics at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. In Dallas, Texas, an assortment of particularly risk-tolerant graduate students sat around

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Is This the Way to Eliminate Poverty?

Is This the Way to Eliminate Poverty?

Kimberly Ells mercatornet.com Kimberly Ells is the author of The Invincible Family. Follow her at Invincible Family Substack. I just got back from the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations. The theme of the Commission this year was ending poverty. I spent a week listening

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The Jury Is Out on Pro-Natalist Policies

The Jury Is Out on Pro-Natalist Policies

Meaghan Whyte Meaghan became a staunch anarcho-capitalist after a collection of life experiences that left her disabused of any vestige of goodwill towards the state and its attendant institutions. Notable experiences included university gender studies, and living under social democracy. Now, she writes to advocate for the abolition of

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Just Devastating News for Thousands of Kiwis

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science NZDSOS.com Mary Hobbs photographer, writer and publisher provides a detailed commentary on the devastating news that Pharmac is proposing to withdraw funding for the Medtronic 780 monitor and pump used by type one diabetics to manage their health. Access to this advanced

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Are Rugby Stadiums Really Worth It?

Robert Hamlin Senior lecturer in marketing, University of Otago A multi-billion dollar stadium precinct has been proposed for Auckland, one of three proposals in front of Auckland Council for a new stadium in the city. The council is also considering revamping Eden Park. But is a new stadium really

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Update on the Murder of Angela Blackmoore

Update on the Murder of Angela Blackmoore

Chris Lynch Chris Lynch is a journalist, videographer and content producer, broadcasting from his independent news and production company in Christchurch, New Zealand. chrislynchmedia.com David Hawken and Rebecca Wright-Meldrum have received “life sentences” for their roles in the almost 30-year-old murder of Angela Blackmoore. Detective Sergeant

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Is This Selling out Our National Security?

Is This Selling out Our National Security?

Simon O’Connor Husband, step-father, and longtime student of philosophy and history. Also happen to be a former politician, including chairing New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Committee. onpointnz.substack.com In a recent New Zealand Herald article, former MP Richard Prebble argues that New Zealand should

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President Biden Must Not Encourage Illegal Mass Migration from Haiti

Senator Marco Rubio Marco Rubio is a U.S. Senator from Florida. The views expressed are the author’s own. realclearwire.com “It’s better to be the United States’ enemy than its friend.” Foreign officials tell me this is their perception under the Biden Administration, which has a strange

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The Polish Midwife Who Delivered 3000 Babies at Auschwitz

The Polish Midwife Who Delivered 3000 Babies at Auschwitz

Michael Cook Michael Cook Is Editor of Mercator mercatornet.com Fifty years ago died one of the most remarkable women of the 20th century. You have probably never heard of Stanistawa Leszczynska. Few people have. Yet she was a model of heroism and humanity who should be acclaimed around the

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The Importance of Hope

Simon O’Connor Husband, step-father, and longtime student of philosophy and history. Also happen to be a former politician, including chairing New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Committee. onpointnz.substack.com I am a great believer in hope. In fact, I think of myself as a rather

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Why AI Chatbots Have a Free Speech Problem

Why AI Chatbots Have a Free Speech Problem

Jordi Calvet-Bademunt Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar of Political Science Jacob Mchangama Research Professor of Political Science Vanderbilt University Google recently made headlines globally because its chatbot Gemini generated images of people of colour instead of white people in historical settings that featured white people. Adobe Firefly’s image

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Anti-establishment Feeling Is Rising From Both Sides

Bryce Edwards Political Analyst in Residence, Director of the Democracy Project, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.substack.com Two-thirds of the country think that “New Zealand’s economy is rigged to advantage the rich and powerful”. They also believe that “New Zealand needs a strong leader

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What Is Killing the MSM

What Is Killing the MSM

Simon Anderson Simon Anderson is a technology consultant from Auckland, New Zealand. He believes in the fundamental right of all people to exercise their democratic rights peacefully, particularly with regard to free speech. Simon came into public consciousness as a video-documentarian during the trans-rights counter protests in Auckland

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When It’s Biden He Turns a Blind Eye

When It’s Biden He Turns a Blind Eye

Paul Sperry Paul Sperry is an investigative reporter for RealClearInvestigations. He is also a longtime media fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Sperry was previously the Washington bureau chief for Investor’s Business Daily, and his work has appeared in the New York Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times,

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