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Book Review – Charles Bean, If People Really Knew

Book Review – Charles Bean, If People Really Knew

Tiger Charles Bean – If people really knew – one man’s struggle to report the Great War and tell the truth by Ross Coulthart, Harper Collins. Censorship is nothing new.  Censorship by whom we might call the “good guys” is nothing new either. By censoring the message, the truth can be

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From the Vault: ‘US Hypocrisy on Ukraine’

From the Vault: ‘US Hypocrisy on Ukraine’

Ron Paul ronpaulinstitute.org President Bush said last week that, “Any election [in Ukraine], if there is one, ought to be free from any foreign influence.” I agree with the president wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, it seems that several US government agencies saw things differently and sent US taxpayer dollars into Ukraine

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The Good, the Bad and the Weird

The Good, the Bad and the Weird

I’m not a huge fan of Nietzsche, but he was right on the money when he said, He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. The CIA, and its predecessor the WWII-era OSS, was created to fight some truly fearsome

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What Ethiopia Won’t Talk About

What Ethiopia Won’t Talk About

No one living in America today has ever legally owned a slave. No one living in America today was ever legally a slave. No one alive in America today can remember slavery. Virtually no one in America today defends slavery. There are many other countries who cannot say the same.

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How Did the Apostles Meet Their Maker?

How Did the Apostles Meet Their Maker?

As anyone who’s endured Mel Gibson’s pious snuff-movie, The Passion of the Christ, knows, Jesus died a brutally violent death. But the majority of his disciples didn’t get off much easier. Of the 12 apostles, 10 died violent deaths. Some of them, extremely violent. First off the

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The Libertarian (and Whig) Heritage of America

The Libertarian (and Whig) Heritage of America

Dan Sanchez FEE.org. Dan Sanchez is the Director of Content at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the editor-in-chief of FEE.org. Follow him on Substack and Twitter. Should America embrace libertarianism? Many would regard such a prospect as recklessly experimental. This is partly because they regard libertarianism

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Book Review: Regaining a Nation; Equality and Democracy

Book Review: Regaining a Nation; Equality and Democracy

Rob Paterson REGAINING A NATION EQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY (2022) 238 pages Author: Dr John Robinson PhD Main Topic: The Benefits of Colonisation for New Zealand Publisher: Tross Publishing (RRP $35 incl. postage) Email : trosspub@gmail.com Rating 5 Star ***** Target audience: All Kiwis Reviewer: Rob Paterson, Retired Lawyer, Tauranga Book

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Can a Bad Person Be a Great Man?

Can a Bad Person Be a Great Man?

For weeks, Australian politics has been dominated by one of the silliest beat-ups imaginable: a political leader, decades ago, went to a party dressed in “offensive” costume. The leader in question is NSW premier Dominic Perrottet, whose 21st birthday party was themed on “Heroes and Villains”. Perrottet dressed as a

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Building the Cathedrals of Europe… the Climate Factor

Building the Cathedrals of Europe… the Climate Factor

John Maunder When I was in Canada about 30 years ago, I listened to a lecture about Medieval Warming, the building of the Gothic Cathedrals and the freemasons. It appears that there was no theological reason why the cathedrals were built at that time but there is an interesting link

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Cloudy with a Chance of Rain – For a Million Years

Are there sparkly vampires in Strachan, Tasmania? In Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight books, the bedazzled bloodsuckers of the Cullen family set up home in the Pacific Northwest town of Forks because the town experiences rain on an average 212 days of the year. Tasmanians likewise say that, in Strachan, on

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Did a Serial Killer Stalk London’s Tube?

Did a Serial Killer Stalk London’s Tube?

The serial killer as a pop culture phenomenon could be said to have begun with London’s Jack the Ripper, but serial killers really began to grip the popular imagination in America in the late 1960s. Dirty Harry was the first blockbuster entry in the serial-killer-hunting genre (Psycho didn’t

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CRT: Coming to a School near You

CRT: Coming to a School near You

Caleb Anderson breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com Caleb Anderson, a graduate of history, economics, psychotherapy and theology, has been an educator for over 30 years, 20 as a school principal. The final version of the New Zealand History Curriculum contained no significant changes in spite of widespread concerns. The consultation process was

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Nuclear? The Regulation Has to Be Reformed

Nuclear? The Regulation Has to Be Reformed

Duggan Flanakin cfact.org Duggan Flanakin is the director of policy research at the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former senior fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas.

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Taking Advantage of the Believers

Taking Advantage of the Believers

Religion intrinsically requires a certain degree of willingness to suspend disbelief. That can cover a spectrum from openness to inspiration (literally, the “breathing in” of divine influence) to the most dangerous brainwashing that leads millennial cults to mass suicides on the word of a charismatic leader. In between there’s

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What Viking Was That? A Field Guide

What Viking Was That? A Field Guide

Viking: the very word conjures up images of brawny blond men with horned helmets and battle-axes, foaming at the mouth in beserk rage and pillaging and looting across Dark Ages Britain. Although we tend have a pretty homogeneous concept of ‘Vikings’, not all the Scandinavian sea-raiders of the ninth and

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