The relics business can be a weird one. The fad for relics of Christian saints led to the preservation of the supposed remains of everything from Jesus’ foreskin and Mary’s breast milk, to the tongue and jaw of St. Anthony. Lest you think that’s all just religious nuttiness,
Jon Queally Jon Queally is managing editor of Common Dreams. commondreams.org Despite years of protest and warnings from environmentalists, the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog on Tuesday approved a plan by Japan to release tens of millions of gallons of water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into
Topics: Education, Media, Government Last week a Northland school librarian hurriedly removed history books from a high school library lest student minds become contaminated by the “racist” propaganda. Why the panic, you ask, and how did the books get there? 2023 is the first year that NZ history is a
Ramesh Thakur Ramesh Thakur, a Brownstone Institute Senior Scholar, is a former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, and emeritus professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. brownstone.org Earlier this week, both houses of Australia’s Parliament adopted a resolution to hold a referendum on a
Harry Palmer I saw a pic of Erika Eleniak in the UK’s Daily Mail the other day. She was apparently quite famous in her day when she starred with David Hasselhoff as the character “Shauni McLaine” in the TV series Baywatch (original series 1989 to 1999). She looked quite
Sure, the idea of a space elevator just sounds too stupid to be true. But then, people once said the same thing about satellites. When Arthur C Clarke first proposed the idea of communications satellites, newspapers smirked and asked what would hold them up. As it happens, ol’ Arfur was
Imagine that changes to the All Black jersey were to be foisted on us. Nothing would be announced publicly, but the fundamental change would be obvious and all the more remarkable because nobody was officially discussing it. Our uninquisitive fourth estate would be prevented from discussing the changes by conditions
Louis March Louis T March has a background in government, business and philanthropy. A former talk show host, author and public speaker, he is a dedicated student of history and genealogy. Louis lives with his family in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. mercatornet.com There’s been a lot
Simon Black Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Sovereign Letters, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom, more opportunity, and more
I enjoyed my time at university. It was definitely a time to develop my skills and grow. It helped me to strengthen my critical thinking, as well as the ability to research and analyse information. Of course, university did not turn me into a woke social justice warrior who changes
David Thunder David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society in Pamplona, Spain, and a recipient of the prestigious Ramón y Cajal research grant (2017-2021, extended through 2023), awarded by the Spanish government to support outstanding research activities. brownstone.org
Despite all that we don’t, and may never, know about the origins of Covid, a number of tantalising clues and hard-won intelligence point to at least one alarming conclusion. That’s that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was collaborating with both foreign and Chinese agencies on incredibly dangerous research
Lipton Matthews Lipton Matthews is a researcher, business analyst, and contributor to Merion West, The Federalist, American Thinker, Intellectual Takeout, mises.org and Imaginative Conservative. mises.org The scourge of poverty wounding citizens in the developing world has provoked much discussion in affluent countries. Quite unreasonably, rich countries have been
As we’ve seen in the earlier instalments of the latest investigations into the origins of Covid, the Wuhan Institute of Virology was doing all sorts of research on SARS-like coronaviruses between 2012 and 2019. It was helped along by Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, which funnelled millions of dollars
Archaeological evidence suggests that tobacco was discovered in the Americas and was being cultivated and used by the indigenous culture as early as 5000 BC. It was introduced to Europe in the 16th century and became popular as smoking was often associated with a certain level of status or sophistication.
