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EPA Asks for More Input on Asbestos

EPA Asks for More Input on Asbestos

Kathleen McGrory Neil Bedi propublica.org This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The Environmental Protection Agency took an unusual step last week: It opened a new

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Our Unstable, ‘Funny Money’ System

Peter J Morgan Peter J Morgan  BE (Mech.), Dip. Teaching – professional forensic engineer, retired economics, mathematics and physics teacher PART 2 of 18 In PART 1 readers learnt that there is a widespread – but false – belief that banks are financial intermediaries that take in money from savers, aggregate it, and

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Oxfam Bans Mother and Father

Oxfam Bans Mother and Father

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg newsbusters.org Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff shortly there

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A Modern Day View of New Zealand

A Modern Day View of New Zealand

Hello everyone. It’s been a while. I have been busy entertaining my brother and sister-in-law who came to visit at the beginning of February and went home last week. My brother had never been to New Zealand before, so I wanted to make his visit a holiday that he

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Bought and Paid For

Bought and Paid For

Fiona Gill mercatornet.com Dr Fiona Gill is a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Sydney. Her research interests include feminism, the sociology of the body, genocide and forensic anthropology. Current research projects include experiences of women under the Khmer Rouge and the

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Why We Shouldn’t Rescue Bad Banks

Why We Shouldn’t Rescue Bad Banks

Peter Jacobsen fee.org Peter Jacobsen teaches economics and holds the position of Gwartney Professor of Economics. He received his graduate education at George Mason University. By now, you’ve likely heard about regulators closing down Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and now Signature Bank as well. While I’m not

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Where’s the Incentive to Work?

Working means income, but working also means productivity, two very separate outcomes that New Zealand government policy managed to annihilate during the Covid years. Working from home became necessary and popular around the world, although the working aspect can be a misnomer. What’s not to like? Bloomberg reported that

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Reveal of the Day

Reveal of the Day

Finally, Medicines NZ has disclosed data showing how much certain healthcare professionals have been paid by Big Pharma. This data is only for 2021 and is not complete – for example, Pfizer and Merck are not included and the data for Novartis only covers two months. While the big showy entertainment

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Home Filmmaker Motivated by People Enjoying His Work

Home Filmmaker Motivated by People Enjoying His Work

Good News Network goodnewsnetwork.org A home filmmaker has created incredible stop-motion miniature chase scenes using Hot-Wheels toy cars. Director and producer Paul Greer spent six months creating his first stop-motion film in 2013. Stop-motion films are made by taking an image of a scene, before slightly changing the position

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Where Do Stuart Nash’s Loyalties Lie?

Where Do Stuart Nash’s Loyalties Lie?

Post cyclone Gabrielle Hawkes Bay is facing a massive and unprecedented clean-up mission. A crucial component of this clean-up mission is the role government ministers and local MPs are required to play to ensure the region’s immediate and long-term needs are met. That and recent events lead me to

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What Musk Is Not Telling You about Twitter Censorship

What Musk Is Not Telling You about Twitter Censorship

Robert Kogon brownstone.org Robert Kogon is a pen name for a widely-published financial journalist, a translator, and researcher working in Europe. Follow him at Twitter here. He writes at edv1694.substack.com. The “Twitter Files” have exposed numerous contacts between US government officials and Twitter and requests for suppression

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WashPost Columnist Eats Her Words on Musk

WashPost Columnist Eats Her Words on Musk

Joseph Vazquez Reprinted from PA Pundits – International Joseph Vazquez is the MRC Associate Editor for Business & Free Speech America. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science from The George Washington University in 2018. In June, 2019, he completed an exclusive fellowship with the Hertog

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Google Risks Ending Up like Kodak

Google Risks Ending Up like Kodak

Hamza Mudassir Lecturer in Strategy Kamal A Munir Professor of Strategy and Policy Cambridge Judge Business School Google’s parent company Alphabet has lost a hefty US$100 billion (£83 billion) or nearly a tenth of its market value after its new AI chatbot, Bard, botched an answer to a

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The 20-Year Plot

The 20-Year Plot

Paula Jardine brownstone.org Paula Jardine is a writer/researcher who has just completed the graduate diploma in law at ULaw. She has a history degree from the University of Toronto and a journalism degree from the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. When it comes to

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Megyn Kelly Calls Out Disney’s Proud Family CRT Push

Christian Toto NAD Analyst newsbusters.org Disney’s brand took hit after hit last year, and 2023 is off to a similar start. The Mouse House’s decision to inject itself into the Culture Wars sent its stock prices tumbling in 2022. The company’s animation wing also suffered from

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