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Stuff Decides to Become More Woke

8wire 8wire.news Information Opinion The girls at femmo propaganda rag ‘Stuff’ have willingly signed up for the B Corp movement. B Corp is an organization that issues a wokeness certificate to any company wishing to leverage it as a marketing or virtue signalling tool. It measures things such as

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Why They’re Afraid of Elon Musk

Why They’re Afraid of Elon Musk

Ron Paul ronpaulinstitute.org Any doubt that many progressives have abandoned their commitment to free speech was erased by the hysterical reaction to Elon Musk’s effort to purchase Twitter and return the company to its roots as a free speech zone. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich and “woke” neocon

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Taking Away Your Right to Choose

Would you allow the State to decide what is misinformation and what isn’t, to suppress speech it considers “dangerous”? Well that is exactly what is happening. In an interview on CNN’s State of The Union, anchor Dana Bash asked DHS [United States Department of Homeland Security] Secretary Alejandro

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Musk Calls Out Keyboard Bullies

Musk Calls Out Keyboard Bullies

In the latest of her Please Explain cartoons, Pauline Hanson tackles the keyboard warriors. As the class tries to enter the room to hold a debate, they’re blocked by three keyboard warriors, who accuse them of hurting their feelings. Hanson ultimately shows the class that they can simply walk

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Why Does Elon Musk Trigger the Left?

Why Does Elon Musk Trigger the Left?

On the surface of it, it surely seems strange that the left are so triggered by the idea of a tech billionaire buying Twitter. I mean, it’s not like Twitter’s founding owner is a billionaire. Or that Facebook is also owned by a billionaires. Or that mainstream media

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How Free Is Our Free Speech Really?

How Free Is Our Free Speech Really?

Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002 and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 A speech prepared for delivery at Massey University, 5 May 2022 Warning Long read. 3405 words. Ladies and gentlemen This was supposed to be the third speech in

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Hypocrisy instead of democracy. Today, I got served a trespass order relating to my time at the Wellington protest in February – more than two months later. Peaceful protesting (which is what it was when I was there both times), is allowed in the Bill of Rights. I was clear about

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Illusion of Freedom: We’re Only as Free as Government Allows

John W. Whitehead Nisha Whitehead rutherford.org Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president The Rutherford Institute. His books Battlefield America: The War on the American People and A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State are available at www.amazon.com. Warning Long read:

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On the Threats to Free Speech

On the Threats to Free Speech

Karl du Fresne karldufresne.blogspot.com Warning Long read: 4795 words I delivered the following speech (little of which would be new to regular readers of this blog) at a meeting of the Free Speech Union at Victoria University last night. Most of the approximately 80 people who attended were

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Critics Raise Alarm over New DHS ‘Speech Police’

Casey Harper (The Center Square) thecentersquare.com Casey Harper is a Senior Reporter for the Washington, D.C. Bureau. He previously worked for The Daily Caller, The Hill and Sinclair Broadcast Group. A graduate of Hillsdale College, Casey’s work has also appeared in Fox News, Fox Business and USA

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The Battle for Control of Your Mind

The Battle for Control of Your Mind

Aaron Kheriaty brownstone.org Aaron Kheriaty, former Professor of Psychiatry at the UCI School of Medicine and Director, Medical Ethics at UCI Health, is a Senior Scholar of the Brownstone Institute. In his classic dystopian novel 1984, George Orwell famously wrote, “If you want a picture of the future, imagine

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Musk May Make Twitter Bully Proof

Musk May Make Twitter Bully Proof

Michael Tracey brownstone.org Michael Tracey is a roving journalist who posts at Substack. It’s always been easy to slag off Twitter. When I first joined the platform 13 years ago, if you ever tried to explain what “Twitter” is to people, they’d respond with something like, “So

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How to Begin to Save Science

How to Begin to Save Science

Throughout the pandemic, the constant refrain from the ruling elite and their hangers-on and camp-followers has been “trust the science”. The only problem is that “the science” increasingly isn’t science. Instead, it’s a corrupted, broken system of groupthink, cronyism and willfully blind ideology. The problems with “science” so-called,

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Chinese Censorship a Step Too Far

Chinese Censorship a Step Too Far

Oiwan Lam globalvoices.org Oiwan Lam is a media activist, researcher and educator currently based in Hong Kong. A six-minute video on the lockdown in Shanghai titled “Voices of April” went viral and sparked a rare showing of large-scale online protests after the Chinese censor handed down a comprehensive content

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Elon Musk Wants to Make Big Changes

Elon Musk Wants to Make Big Changes

Although my Lushington Brady persona was banned from Twitter long ago, I do keep a strictly non-political presence on the platform, under another nom-de-plume. It’s remarkable, actually, what a pleasant place Twitter is without politics: there’s probably a lesson in there. Anyway, being on Twitter has allowed me

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