America Can Still Lose the AI Race
America and the world risk letting China race ahead in the most significant technological revolution of modern times greatly extending its global influence in the process.
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How the Harvard Drama Continues to Escalate
Histrionics and hypocrisy. The craziness continues at the Crimson.
Greens Telling Porkies About Fish
Anything rather than let an industry in Tasmania thrive,
The Dam That Would Be Built
We’re repeating the same mistake. Again and again. The ‘dam mindset’ is alive and well today. The bureaucratic juggernaut won’t back down.
UK Learns a Hard Truth About ‘Renewables’
‘Net Zero’ is crippling Western defence capability.
What Is a Woman and What Are the Implications for NZ
The decision in the UK should be strongly celebrated here as a huge step in the right direction for women’s rights in NZ.
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This Is a Warning
Comedy plays a more important role in society: the ability to bring people together. Nothing brings people together like laughter.
Regards Free Trade, Did NZ Get Conned by the European Union?
Our trade agreement with it cost our government $280 million a year.
We Need an Political Alert System
Can’t we extend this principle and have the government give us warnings of potential catastrophes in other areas of life? The political realm, for example.
We Are Persecuted and Underfunded but Still Winning
If parents actually had to choose – if they weren’t forced to fund schools pushing values they don’t believe in – many of these secular approaches would die a quiet death in the free marketplace of ideas. They don’t work. That’s why they need to be forcibly subsidised.
We Must Protect the Public Interest
In the interest of national security, the country’s coastal marine area needs to be nationalised in the public interest by repealing the Marine and Coastal Area Act, cancelling the claims, and restoring the 2004 Foreshore and Seabed Act.
News Briefing: 23 April 2025
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