This is my ANZAC Day tribute posting. ANZAC Day means a great deal for me and my family. I suppose it is because we have a connection to the original ANZACS in 1915 and Gallipoli, and to a veteran of a war much fresher in our minds, Vietnam. Firstly, I
Bruce Rottman fee.org Mr Rottman has taught economics in secondary schools for over 40 years and is currently director of Brookfield Academy’s Free Enterprise Institute, in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Social justice. Capitalism. Socialism. Nationalism. Systemic racism. Each of these can be “trigger words”, which describes words that trigger strong
Ancient Egypt has been a regular focus for those wanting to blackwash history. In a way, perhaps, one can understand the determination of the “We wuz kangs n kweenz” mob to try and claim Egypt for their own. Egypt was a civilization which has fascinated outsiders for millennia. Its stupendous
The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect, states a character in 1984. This is the fundamental principle of the fictional language of “Ingsoc” (“Socialist England”), Newspeak: not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc,
Peter J Morgan Peter J Morgan BE (Mech.), Dip. Teaching – professional forensic engineer, retired economics, mathematics and physics teacher Part 13 of 18 The social conditions prevailing in the Kingdom of England and Wales at the very beginning of the 18th century were such that the parliament of the Kingdom
“Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men.” Ron Paul Buying physical gold is a time-proven method of securing generational wealth, and a security measure often taken in times of economic turbulence. Gold investing has long been viewed as a hedge against inflation and a store
Over the weekend, Germany shut down its last three remaining nuclear power plants and experts are mixed on the repercussions, if any. With climate change solutions a top priority and many countries working on expanding nuclear energy, German officials decided to make good on the promise to remove the reactors.
PA Pundits – International The battle is raging across the land. God has something to say about this. I walked past my twin brother’s hospital bed to the end of the ward, not recognizing anyone I had passed. I had asked the nurse at the entrance of the ward for
bassettbrashandhide.com A review appeared at Newsroom on April 5 titled, “Book of the Week: The truth about ‘Maori privilege’.” Despite it containing an attack on Don Brash, he was refused right of reply by Newsroom editor Jonathan Milne who stated, “It’s a book review. Book reviews are meant
Toby Boraman Lecturer in Politics Massey University Most people today are coping with the rising cost of living individually: cost cutting, looking for a better paid job, taking on “side hustles”, and so on. But not so long ago, many workers globally and in New Zealand approached the same problem
Religion, as Marx is often slightly erroneously quoted as saying, is “the opiate of the masses”. Yet, Marx didn’t say those exact words. Nor did he intend what he actually said as the insult that many of his followers have taken it. The (mis)quote is distilled from a
Jeffrey A Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A Tucker is founder and president of the Brownstone Institute. He is also senior economics columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics,
For 2,000 years, the history of Western civilisation has been inextricably intertwined with Christianity. In the last century or so, that nexus has stretched, mostly under the assault of virulently anti-religious Marxism, but the intrinsically Christian bedrock of Western culture remains. Almost no one fails to recognise the
