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Today in Rock History
Today in Rock History is a music orientated segment where we would like to encourage readers to share their thoughts and tastes in music and discuss the various aspects of any music topic. This post is not limited to rock music. You are encouraged to bring anything music-related along
Trump Compares Starmer’s Britain to Communist China
If governments can compel tech companies to break encryption, digital privacy risks becoming a privilege reserved for the ideologically compliant – not an inalienable right.
The Other Thing He Got Called Out On
Abducting people and sending them to fight and die in a military campaign they clearly don’t believe in enough to join voluntarily is one of the worst, most tyrannical things a government can do.
New Study Reveals DEI Training Increases Hostility
DEI culture has become toxic and counterproductive – so much so that it exacerbates the very problems it claims to resolve.
Big Surprise: Aus Kids Fail Civics
Our kids are being taught to be ignorant and indignant.
The Parliamentary Process and the GMO Bill
The challenges that we face result from the distorted and incomplete understanding of biotechnology. To combat this we need to understand more fully what is at stake and find the fulcrum points where we can leverage a deeper understanding.
The Suspension of Intelligence Sharing With Ukraine
Kiev would likely miss out on time-sensitive and high-value intelligence it needed to strike moveable Russian targets.
Soulless Bureaucrats Destroy Priceless Australian Heritage
Two-hundred-year-old collection burned because the paperwork wasn’t to their satisfaction.
Wellington Has Become a Waste of Time
Whether it’s Richard Prebble’s Waitangi Tribunal, or a whole bunch of other Wellington formerly prestigious institutions, it’s best to have nothing to do with the place anymore.
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The Spell Seems to Have Been Broken
The heaviness of a woke agenda, DEI and other absurdities have been knocked clean off their perch and thrown in the garbage truck.