Jeffrey A Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker, founder and president of the Brownstone Institute, is an economist and author. He has written 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He writes a daily column on economics at The Epoch Times,
CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org So, Elon Musk’s new free-speech Twitter appears to going extremely well. Critics of the official Covid narrative and the official Ukraine narrative and Elon Musk are still being deplatformed, censored and defamed, but, otherwise, you can tweet whatever you want! If you want to tweet
Jeffrey A Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A Tucker, Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute, is an economist and author. He has written 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He writes a daily column on economics at The Epoch Times
Peter Thompson Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington Broadcasting Minister Willie Jackson’s announcement of planned legislation requiring big online platforms such as Google and Meta/Facebook to “pay a fair price” to New Zealand news media for their content was welcomed by many as much-needed support for local
So, the second tranche of the Twitter Files have dropped, and confirmed what everybody knew: Twitter was actively shadowbanning accounts, and lying about it. (And confirming what we also knew: the legacy media are going to ignore this story as hard as they can.) For the uninitiated, “shadowbanning” is the
Mark Zuckerberg really does seem determined to make a goose of himself. He’s back, huffing and puffing and pushing out his skinny little chest, swigging from the barbecue sauce bottle and trying to intimidate lawmakers in the US and Canada. Word to the wise, Zuck: when you’re in
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. Elon Musk’s announced “general amnesty” week has come and gone and there has been no sign
Kay O’Lacey wokejoke.nz Online retail owners Suzy and David Lee were surprised to receive a visit from two detectives investigating a complaint of a possible ‘hate crime’ related to their sale of dog toys. “We’ve been importing pet accessories from China for many years and selling them
Capitalist On my 16th birthday I walked out of school at 3:30pm and never went back; for all I know I am still enrolled there. The next day, having lined a few things up beforehand, I commenced an oddball ‘cottage industry’ around various farms of undertaking a series of
Bryce Edwards The Democracy Project Disclosure: Bryce Edwards is the director of the Democracy Project, which is the recipient of Victoria University of Wellington research funding, which comes from Grant and Marilyn Nelson’s Gama Foundation. The taxpayer is short of billions of dollars that were overpaid to businesses during
Gabriella Hoffman cfact.org Gabriella Hoffman is a Media Strategist and Award-Winning Outdoor Writer. She hosts the “District of Conservation” podcast and CFACT’s original YouTube series “Conservation Nation.” Learn more about her work at www.gabriellahoffman.com “This is a watershed moment in the history of food. We started
As a recent BFD article warned, it’s foolish to venerate Elon Musk as some kind of avenging capitalist demigod straight out of an Ayn Rand novel. When all’s said and done, the guy’s a businessman. Making lots of money is what he does. But if, in the
CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org Everyone is going to hate this column. Musk worshipers are going to hate it because I’m going to blaspheme against Elon Musk. Musk demonizers are going to hate it because I am not going to blaspheme against him enough. Everyone else is going to hate
Used car prices to go up 25 percent under Clean Car Standard, motor industry predicts. […] Dumper said if it had taken three or four years longer, there would have been a lot less pain. Subaru’s most optimistic planning was for sales to crash 20 per cent. “Our sales could
The Doctor What could be worse than central bank incompetence? Central Bank Digital Currencies. Seventy-five basis points. Wow! The biggest increase ever in New Zealand. Gosh. Four-point-two-five per cent. No way! That Reserve Bank of New Zealand sure is tough on inflation. Or is it? If the cure for inflation
