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Rewriting Books: We’ve Been Here Before

Rewriting Books: We’ve Been Here Before

MP for Kaikoura stuartsmith.national.org.nz It is undeniable that we are living in a fascinating era. Unfortunately, there are those who are emulating Joseph Goebbels, the former Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, under Hitler’s regime. Goebbels worked to create a totalitarian society in which the state

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UK MPs Fail to Stop Thoughtcrime Law

UK MPs Fail to Stop Thoughtcrime Law

Right To Life News righttolife.org.uk MPs have voted against an amendment that was introduced by a group of MPs led by Andrew Lewer MP to lessen the negative impacts of the buffer zone clause that was added to the Public Order Bill. The Public Order Bill includes a

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Don’t Pray in the UK

Don’t Pray in the UK

Right To Life News righttolife.org.uk The day before MPs vote on whether to introduce nationwide censorship zones, a woman has been arrested for praying silently outside a closed abortion clinic just three weeks after she was acquitted on similar charges. Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, a pro-life volunteer, was arrested in

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No Thoughts, No Prayers, No Hope

No Thoughts, No Prayers, No Hope

As I reported some months ago, ThoughtCrime is officially an offense in Ingsoc, now. To that, we can now add that Christianity is an “offense”. Never mind if spittle-flecked men in dresses chant that they want to “Kill TERFs” (i.e., women). Thousands of Muslims can threaten to “behead those

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Have You Had Too Much to Think?

Have You Had Too Much to Think?

Back when I were a young’un, there was a Melbourne newspaper of some notoriety, Truth. Not unlike it’s late NZ cousin, Truth specialised in salacious sensationalism that would make a Street of Shame hack blush. In its heyday in the 50s and 60s Truth also ran a good

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How the Supreme Court Could Break the Internet

Elijah Gullett fee.org Online free speech has been under fire from Congress, past presidents, and pundits from both sides of the political aisle. Now, it faces a new threat: the Supreme Court. Two upcoming Supreme Court cases, Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh, will present a significant challenge

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NZ’s Ministry of Truth Pt 4: Case Studies

NZ’s Ministry of Truth Pt 4: Case Studies

As we’ve shown in previous posts in this series, the New Zealand government’s most efficient – and secretive – response to Covid was not lockdowns or vaccination, but the establishment of a panopticon apparatus of spying and information control. This Orwellian Ministry of Truth starts at the PM’s office

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NZ’s Ministry of Truth Pt 3: “The Whole of Society”

NZ’s Ministry of Truth Pt 3: “The Whole of Society”

So far, we’ve established that, firstly, the New Zealand government has, with breathtaking speed and stealth, established an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth” which is not only spying on Kiwis with breathtaking thoroughness, but weaponising the entirety of New Zealand’s civil society as tentacles of state propaganda. We’ve

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Nz’s Ministry of Truth PT 2: All the Way to the Top

Nz’s Ministry of Truth PT 2: All the Way to the Top

In the first part of this series, we reported how an OIA request had led to the release of two government documents has uncovered a staggering, Orwellian project of domestic spying and information control. What the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet’s briefing, Strengthening New Zealand’s Resilience to

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This Week in Free Speech in Australia

This Week in Free Speech in Australia

It’s been an interesting week in free speech versus cancel culture, here in Australia. While three separate incidents each garnered plenty of attention on their own, few people seem to have joined the dots and considered what they collectively mean for free speech. The clearest issue that two of

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NZ’s Ministry of Truth, Part 1: Land of the Long, Dark Shadow

NZ’s Ministry of Truth, Part 1: Land of the Long, Dark Shadow

New Zealanders like to think of themselves as resourceful, egalitarian, independent and free. Much of that is, it might surprise many of you, a comforting lie. Far from being independent, more and more New Zealanders are signing up for generational dependence on the state. A goodly slab of what used

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Cry Babies of the Day

Cry Babies of the Day

Just more died-in-the-wool Labour supporters who want hate speech laws specifically to prevent any criticism of their beloved party, and criminalise dissent. slanderous and mayhap venal attempts to denigrate and undermine the status and power of the government of Aotearoa / New Zealand […] Any reasonable society would label this for what

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The Witches Go after Roald Dahl

The Witches Go after Roald Dahl

I grew up reading Roald Dahl. I enjoyed the adventures of Charlie Bucket as he explored Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. I enjoyed following James on his voyage on the Giant Peach. I was entertained by the shenanigans of Mr Fox and was charmed by the Big Friendly Giant. However,

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Free Speech: SCOTUS Grants Police Immunity

Free Speech: SCOTUS Grants Police Immunity

rutherford.org The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties organization, defends individuals whose constitutional rights have been threatened or violated and educates the public on a wide spectrum of issues affecting their freedoms. WASHINGTON, DC – The US Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of an Ohio man who

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Books and the Censorship War

Books and the Censorship War

CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org So, here’s a “conspiracy theory” for you. This one is about the global-capitalist thoughtpolice and their ongoing efforts to purge society of “insensitivity”. Yes, that’s right, insensitivity. If there is anything the global-capitalist thoughtpolice can’t stand, it is insensitivity. You know, like making

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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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