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Your Chance to Win a Copy of ‘Hoani’s Last Stand’

Your Chance to Win a Copy of ‘Hoani’s Last Stand’

We are running another yet fantastic giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of “Hoani’s Last Stand The Real Story of Rangiaowhia” by Piers Seed Summary: Using all the available accounts written by eye-witnesses, the author has written the most detailed account of the skirmish at Rangiaowhia

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Ships and Planes Needed to Support World’s Eight Billion

Ronald Stein cfact.org Ron Stein is an engineer who, drawing upon 25 years of project management and business development experience, launched PTS Advance in 1995. He is an author, engineer and energy expert who writes frequently on issues of energy and economics. In 1904 Christian Bohr, a Danish biochemist,

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Where Did the Black Death Come From?

Where Did the Black Death Come From?

It’s almost impossible today to comprehend the sheer scale of the horror of the Black Death. Even a relatively minor pandemic, after all, has been enough to send much of the Western world scurrying for the imaginary safety of lockdowns, masks and forever-boosters. As one mediaeval historian recently tried

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Putting a Radical in Charge Is Never a Good Idea

Putting a Radical in Charge Is Never a Good Idea

The appointment of a radical to a position of such sensitivity as Director of He Whenua Taurikura – New Zealand’s National Centre of Research Excellence for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism – bothers me, as it should you. Given her lack of background in intelligence or extremism, except her own, our

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Does ‘Wokeism’ Aim to Destroy?

Does ‘Wokeism’ Aim to Destroy?

familyfirst.org.nz Wokeism – The Marxist Cult That Aims To Destroy? Wokeism is everywhere, especially in the media, academia, politics, our education system and Big Tech. It’s become so pervasive and assertive that it seems cult-like. But where did ‘woke’ come from? Is it something new or simply a

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From the Desk of a Male Pale and Stale

Warning Long read. 1378 words. I see Justin Trudeau as something of a ‘Big Brother’ figure to Jacinda in more ways than one. Not only is he older (50 years old, born 25 December 1971) than Jacinda (41 years old, born 26 July 1981) but he is also taller (1.

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A ‘Right’ With No Constitutional Foundation

A ‘Right’ With No Constitutional Foundation

Helen M. Alvaré mercatornet.com Helen M. Alvaré Helen Alvaré is the Robert A. Levy Endowed Chair in Law and Liberty at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, where she teaches and writes in the areas of family law, and law and religion. Today, nearly 50

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A Helpless People, Weary and Traumatised

Thomas Harrington brownstone.org Thomas Harrington, senior scholar at the Brownstone Institute, is an essayist and Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College in Hartford (USA) where he taught for 24 years. Warning Long read: 1566 words When most people hear the terms “shock and awe” and “full-spectrum dominance”

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Seventy Years Ago Children Recorded the Coronation

Seventy Years Ago Children Recorded the Coronation

Cherish Watton University of Cambridge Cherish is a PhD candidate in Modern British History at Churchill College, Cambridge. She studies the history of scrapbooks in Britain during the 20th century, funded by the Wolfson Foundation. She also produces The Scrapbook History Podcast. In 1953, Margaret, an 11-year-old pupil in Huntingdonshire,

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The BFD Food Column: Machaneh Yehudah

The BFD Food Column: Machaneh Yehudah

Traditional produce markets were an important part of every town and city down through the ages. Once upon a time cities, often because of their sea ports and produce markets, grew around vibrant commercial hubs that were significant sources of commerce and employment and the beating heart and being of

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The Backstory of the Great Reset

Michael Rectenwald mises.org Michael Rectenwald is the author of 11 books, including Thought Criminal (2020), Beyond Woke (2020), Google Archipelago (2019), Springtime for Snowflakes (2018), Nineteenth-Century British Secularism (2016), and others. As should be clear by now, Francis Fukuyama’s declaration in The End of History: The Last Man

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Is This the Coolest Dinosaur Ever?

Is This the Coolest Dinosaur Ever?

True story: when I was a kid, I wanted to be a paleontologist. Sure, most kids go through a dinosaur phase, but mine went a lot deeper than that. I actually went on legitimate fossil digs, and everything. Somewhere in the bowels of Melbourne Museum is a massive bone that

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Uvalde: Is Gun Control the Answer?

Uvalde: Is Gun Control the Answer?

Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. You would have to be insane not to want some form of gun control after 10 days in which 10 people were gunned down in Buffalo, a church service attacked in San Francisco with

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There Is Nothing New under the Sun

There Is Nothing New under the Sun

Information Opinion August 1973: Prime Minister Norman Kirk returned from a virtue-signalling overseas trip spent pontificating to everyone about how morally wicked they were compared to him by demanding a nuclear weapons ban (or some such twaddle). A few hours later he was interviewed by some press gallery hack asking

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