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A Healthy Democracy Needs Opposing Ideas

A Healthy Democracy Needs Opposing Ideas

Caleb Anderson Published first on NZCPR Ideas are often difficult to define.  Generally, our understanding of ideas is defined by two things. 1.  By what an idea does (what it produces) 2.  By what it is not (by its opposite) How would you define democracy, for example? Most of us

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What Cost to NZ of Joining AUKUS?

What Cost to NZ of Joining AUKUS?

Sian Troath Postdoctoral Fellow, Political Science and International Relations, University of Canterbury There is little doubt the National-led coalition is showing greater interest in the AUKUS security agreement, with Australian officials due to visit New Zealand later this year to brief the government. So far, much of the discussion

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Was the Rainfall in Jan 2023 Climate Change?

Ron Scott ronscott.co.nz Ron Scott is an elected member of the Bay of Plenty Regional Council and therefore clearly the views in this article do not represent that of the Council. He is an economist and also holds a BA majoring in History and Geography with papers in

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Government Investment into Vaccines Hasn’t Paid Off

Government Investment into Vaccines Hasn’t Paid Off

David Livermore David Livermore is retired Professor of Microbiology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. brownstone.org War spurs medical innovation. Ambulances to swiftly deliver the casualties of Napoleon’s armies to field surgeons were the brainchild of Jean-Dominique Larrey. Florence Nightingale established professional nursing in the Crimea. The

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Milei Gives First Surplus in over 10 Years

Milei Gives First Surplus in over 10 Years

Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at FEE. fee.org Argentines witnessed something amazing last week: the government’s first budget surplus in nearly a dozen years. The Economy Ministry announced the figures Friday, and the government was $589 million in the black. Argentina’

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Trump and NATO: Can They Kiss and Make Up?

Trump and NATO: Can They Kiss and Make Up?

Dave Patterson libertynation.com Once again, the far left, elitist progressives, and never-Trumpers are in a manic kerfuffle. To get his point across, the “Don” went after what he sees as NATO deadbeats for not paying for their own defense. Mr Trump said NATO members should pay up or

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Australians Drop the C-19 Shots

Rebekah Barnett Rebekah Barnett reports from Western Australia. She is a volunteer interviewer for Jab Injuries Australia and holds a BA in Communications from the University of Western Australia. Find her work on her Substack page, Dystopian Down Under. brownstone.org After climbing the world leaderboard during the initial Covid

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Stock News to Stoke Your Fires

Stock News to Stoke Your Fires

Critical Thinker Slow news day? Never, with these wee coals to rake over: Plagues of scare-city You can always find a ‘researcher’ to gleefully rain on any parade. Enjoying your everyday consumption of avocado/banana/coffee/X fast-moving consumer-good? Hoover it up while you still can, because

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Success Delivered in Nine Weeks

Success Delivered in Nine Weeks

Peter St Onge Peter St Onge is a Mises Institute Associated Scholar and an Economic Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation.  St Onge received his PhD from George Mason University and was a 2014 Mises Institute Research Fellow. For more content from Dr St Onge, subscribe to his newsletter where

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Tips For Surviving the End

Tips For Surviving the End

Tani Newton Not to beat about the bush: we are living at the end of Western Civilisation. And not to belabour the point, let me address the question of what we can do to survive. I’ve long lived by the belief that the people most likely to survive the

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The Need for a Comprehensive Health Audit

The Need for a Comprehensive Health Audit

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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Mountains to Climb, Civilization to Save

Richard Kelly Richard Kelly is a retired business analyst, married with three adult children, one dog, devastated by the way his home city of Melbourne was laid waste. Convinced justice will be served, one day. brownstone.org For reasons I can’t explain, I said ‘Yes’ when asked to join

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Embalmers Are Continuing to Find Strange Clots

Embalmers Are Continuing to Find Strange Clots

A Midwestern Doctor midwesterndoctor.com One of the first articles I published here discussed the inexplicable blood clots allegedly being found within the vaccinated by embalmers across the world. I focused on this because: •Having a visual image one can viscerally feel is typically one of the most effective ways

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Donald Trump and Government Theft

Donald Trump and Government Theft

Andrew P Napolitano ronpaulinstitute.org “Where there is a wrong, there is a remedy.” – Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870-1938) Last week, a New York court ordered the Trump Organization and its principals – including the former President – to forfeit nearly $400 million to the state government. This gargantuan punishment was

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This Is Just Asking for Trouble

This Is Just Asking for Trouble

cfact.org Feeling the heat from farmers dumping manure in front of government buildings across the Continent, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is pumping the brakes on a pillar of the European Union’s Net-Zero climate policy and withdrawing an EU-wide bill that would force farmers

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Aspiration Needs to Come from the Top

Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole Founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for year 11–13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1–13. alwynpoole.substack.

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