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What Are We Trying to Escape?

Susan Carland Academic, author and social commentator Whitney Monaghan Lecturer, Communications and Media Studies, Faculty of Arts Davide Orazi Senior Lecturer, Department of Marketing, Monash Business School Michael W Clune Author; Knight Professor of Humanities, Case Western Reserve University Clem Bastow Author and cultural critic lens.monash.edu Everyone wants

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We Need to Regain Our Human Decency

We Need to Regain Our Human Decency

David Bell David Bell, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in

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NZ Police Are Using AI

NZ Police Are Using AI

Alexandra Sims University of Auckland theconversation.com The use of artificial intelligence (AI) by New Zealand police is putting the spotlight on policing tactics in the 21st century. A recent Official Information Act request by Radio New Zealand revealed the use of SearchX, an AI tool that can draw connections

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Who Is Involved in the Solar Industry?

Who Is Involved in the Solar Industry?

Miles Pollard Miles Pollard is an economic policy analyst with the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.heritage.org/ PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com Behind those harmless-looking solar panels harnessing the sun’s power lies a disturbing secret: Roughly 80 per cent of

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Hamas: What Were They Thinking?

Hamas: What Were They Thinking?

In the three and a half decades since it began as an underground militant group, Hamas has pursued a consistently violent strategy aimed at rolling back Israeli rule – and it has made steady progress despite bringing enormous suffering to both sides of the conflict. But its stunning incursion into Israel

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Woman of the Year Award Goes to… Dylan Mulvaney

Woman of the Year Award Goes to… Dylan Mulvaney

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg 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 after. newsbusters.

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Are There Really ‘Cursed’ Movies?

Are There Really ‘Cursed’ Movies?

Is there such a thing as a cursed movie? Actors, tending to be as superstitious as they are ignorant, apparently like to think so. After all, these are the sort of ninnies who not only refuse to whistle backstage, but can’t bring themselves to say ‘Macbeth’, or ‘break a

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Is This the Same as Child Abuse?

Is This the Same as Child Abuse?

McBlog bobmccoskrie.com A new study came out last week that claims that shouting at children or using a raised voice can be as damaging as physical or sexual abuse. It raises a couple of important issues. Let’s check it out. According to media reports, new research published in

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It’s Never Been About Equality

A recent report from Bloomberg revealed that in 2021 and 2022, just 6% of new jobs at S&P 100 companies went to white applicants. Considering that whites make up 77% of the labor force, that means that there was active discrimination taking place at these companies in order

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BLM Made Fools of Many

BLM Made Fools of Many

Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.

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The Slow Train to the Zombie Apocalypse

The Slow Train to the Zombie Apocalypse

Harry Palmer Near the end of my secondary schooling in the late 1950s, my English teacher was Mr Dooley. He was apparently required to also teach what’s now called ‘civics’ – how politics worked, how to take out a mortgage to buy a house, etc – and he gave us a

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

In a lengthy article about NZ First’s deputy leader, Shane Jones, is this gem. “I feel that the purveyors and advocates of indigenous rights are trying to unpick the treaty. There is no native sovereignty, there is no indigenous sovereignty, there is an indivisible citizenship and indivisible sovereignty and

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Family Dinners – Your Kids Want You There for Dinner

bobmccoskrie.com Recent research published in the Journal of Family Psychology continues to endorse just how important the dinner table is, as well as the presence of parents. TRANSCRIPT: I’ve always been aware that the family meal table holds something special. I even wrote a full report on what

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Woke of the Weak

Woke of the Weak

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg 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 after. newsbusters.

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The BFD Food Column: Succoth, Feast of the Tabernacles

The BFD Food Column: Succoth, Feast of the Tabernacles

Jerusalem is a place you might want to visit during the week-long celebration of Succoth/Feast of the Tabernacles. Succoth is a festive holiday: biblical, colourful and full of symbolism that reflects the celebration of the annual harvest and at the same time the fragility and impermanence of wandering and

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