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A Step Towards a Borg Future?

A Step Towards a Borg Future?

Simon Marvin Director, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield Allan McCay Academic Fellow, University of Sydney Law School, University of Sydney Elon Musk’s company called Neuralink, launched in 2016, aims to implant a piece of technology in people’s brains that would allow them to control a computer or phone

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New York Times’ Trump Derangement Syndrome

New York Times’ Trump Derangement Syndrome

Jeffrey Lord Lord is a former White House political director in the Reagan White House and aide to  HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. After graduating from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania he went on to work for the Pennsylvania State Senate Majority Leader, then going on to serve on

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What Google’s AI Failure Shows

What Google’s AI Failure Shows

Bret Swanson Bret Swanson is president of the technology research firm Entropy Economics LLC, a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and writes the Infonomena Substack. brownstone.org When the stock markets opened last Monday morning, February 26, Google shares promptly fell 4%, by Wednesday were down nearly

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Will China Be Treated as a Friend or Foe of New Zealand?

Will China Be Treated as a Friend or Foe of New Zealand?

Geoffrey Miller Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s geopolitical analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a learner of Arabic and Russian. He is currently working on a PhD at the University

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NZ Society Is Not Consistent When It Comes to Free Speech

NZ Society Is Not Consistent When It Comes to Free Speech

Simon O’Connor onpointnz.substack.com 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. When it comes to free speech in New Zealand, the hypocrisy (or at best, inconsistency) of many

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Dear Royal Commission of Inquiry (2)
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Dear Royal Commission of Inquiry (2)

Tani Newton Two very simple questions: 1. Looking back – what would you like the Inquiry to know about your experiences of the pandemic? 2. Moving forward – what lessons should we learn from your experiences so we can be as prepared as possible for a future pandemic? There’s a limit

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NZ’s Chat With China This Week

NZ’s Chat With China This Week

Simon O’Connor onpointnz.substack.com 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. Dear Winston As we now all know, China’s Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, is visiting New Zealand

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They Should Have Done Better

They Should Have Done Better

Rev John F Naugle Reverend John F Naugle is the Parochial Vicar at St. Augustine Parish in Beaver County. BS, Economics and Mathematics, S. Vincent College; MA, Philosophy, Duquesne University; STB, Catholic University of America. brownstone.org In honor of the fourth anniversary of the tyrannical overreaction to a largely

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UK Football Fans Feeding Those in Need

Jack Sugden Christopher Faulkner Liverpool John Moores University theconversation.com It’s 9am in December on Tiber Square, a community space at the centre of one of Liverpool’s most diverse postcodes. The temperature is -5°C. Braving the cold, a small crowd is forming, sharing jokes amid anxious glances

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AI Chat Bots Will Change the World

AI Chat Bots Will Change the World

David Wojick David Wojick is an independent policy analyst and senior advisor to CFACT. As a civil engineer with a PhD in logic and analytic philosophy of science, he brings a unique perspective to complex policy issues. His specializes in science and technology intensive issues, especially in energy and environment.

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Unrealized Gains Tax Is an Economic Fallacy

Unrealized Gains Tax Is an Economic Fallacy

Vance Ginn Vance Ginn, PhD, is founder and president of Ginn Economic Consulting, LLC and an Associate Research Fellow with AIER. He is chief economist at Pelican Institute for Public Policy and senior fellow at Americans for Tax Reform. He previously served as the associate director for economic policy of

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Will Germany Be Honest re the Pandemic?

CJ Hopkins CJ Hopkins is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and political satirist. His plays have been produced and have toured at theatres and festivals including Riverside Studios (London), 59E59 Theaters (New York), Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), Belvoir St Theatre (Sydney), the Du Maurier World Stage Festival (Toronto), Needtheater (Los Angeles), 7

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And the Energy Prices Soar in California

And the Energy Prices Soar in California

Steve Goreham Steve Goreham is a speaker, author, and independent columnist on energy, sustainability, climate change, and public policy. More than 100,000 copies of his books are now in print, including his latest, Outside the Green Box: Rethinking Sustainable Development. cfact.org Energy prices are skyrocketing in California. The

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Seth Dillon speaking with attendees at the 2021 Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Tampa Convention Cen

Reuters Fact Checks the Babylon Bee

Christian Toto newsbusters.org The Babylon Bee lives rent free in the minds of too many journalists. How else do you describe constant fact checks on a site that churns out satirical news stories a la The Onion? USA Today once fact checked a Bee piece saying President Joe Biden

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Of Drug Regulation and the Biotech Future

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 PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior manager

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More Integrity Problems for the Greens

More Integrity Problems for the Greens

Bryce Edwards Political Analyst in Residence, director of the Democracy Project, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.substack.com Is another Green MP on their way out? And are the Greens severely tarnished by another integrity scandal? For the second time in three months, the Green Party has

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