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Texas Ended Lockdowns and Mask Mandates

Ryan McMaken mises.org Ryan McMaken is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. Send him your article submissions for the Mises Wire and Power&Market, but read article guidelines first. Ryan has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado and was a housing economist

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Science Trashed Yet Again by Transgender Ideology

Science Trashed Yet Again by Transgender Ideology

Transgenderism is one of the most dangerous fronts in the woke war against science and reason. Not only is it blatantly being used as a wedge for all manner of creepers to get their slimy claws into a generation of children and slither their way into women’s protected spaces,

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ACT’s Risk Based COVID Approach Finally Adopted
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ACT’s Risk Based COVID Approach Finally Adopted

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “A risk-based approach for overseas arrivals is what ACT has been calling for since August last year”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “In ACT’s Response Plan we call for ‘Risk management: it should aim to be a world leader on risk management,

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Local Government Needs to Get Back to Basics
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Local Government Needs to Get Back to Basics

ACT Party ACT’s Local Government spokesperson Simon Court. “The review from Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta completely misses the mark of what is important to ratepayers,” says ACT’s Local Government spokesperson Simon Court. “Our communities want their councils to get back to the basics. Water, rubbish, housing and

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Christopher Luxon – Review an Opportunity to Strengthen Local Govt
NZ

Christopher Luxon – Review an Opportunity to Strengthen Local Govt

A review of local government is timely and necessary but it must not become the latest plank in the Labour Government’s centralisation agenda, National’s Local Government spokesperson Christopher Luxon says. “National supports the Future of Local Government review announced today. “The framework of considering what local government does,

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I’m Sure It’s Just Another Conspiracy Theory…

I’m Sure It’s Just Another Conspiracy Theory…

Remember “two weeks to flatten the curve”? Somehow, as we are all too well aware, that morphed into weeks, months and now nearly two years and counting of lockdowns, restrictions, mandatory masks and plainclothes coppers kicking down the doors of pregnant mums in Ballarat and slapping them in cuffs. At

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America on the Verge of Dystopia – Part II

America on the Verge of Dystopia – Part II

Mark Angelides libertynation.com Mark Angelides is Managing Editor of Liberty Nation.com. Hailing from the UK, he specializes in EU politics and provides a conservative/libertarian voice on all things from across the pond. During the Brexit Referendum campaign, Mark worked to promote activism, spread the message and secure

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Nicola Willis – Emergency Motels Making Millions and Set to Grow

Nicola Willis – Emergency Motels Making Millions and Set to Grow

New figures show the multi-million dollars being netted by top-earning emergency motels with the Government expecting this to continue for at least the next few years, National’s Housing spokesperson Nicola Willis says. “Emergency Housing should be about getting people back on their feet and into stable housing

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Labour’s Housing Policies See Rents Jump Massively

Labour’s Housing Policies See Rents Jump Massively

The Government shouldn’t be surprised at this news. The sad part is that they are: The median asking price for a rental increased 6 percent in the year to March, new data from Trade Me shows. It’s the highest year-on-year increase since 2018, and the figure

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The Darkening Clouds of Totalitarianism

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com “Totalitarianism: form of government that theoretically permits no individual freedom and that seeks to subordinate all aspects of individual life to the authority of the state.” – Encyclopaedia Britannica Under Jacinda Ardern’s stewardship, New Zealand is becoming a totalitarian state. Another giant leap down that

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Daily News Roundup – 23 April 2021

Daily News Roundup – 23 April 2021

NZ-China-Australia relations Chris Trotter: The Kangaroo encounters the Taniwha Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Speculation Five Eyes will become Four Eyes is completely ridiculous Richard Harman: Mahuta has to defend her Five Eyes comments Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Commentators need to calm down over Five Eyes, NZ

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Why the Current Path Is Failing Gun Owners

Why the Current Path Is Failing Gun Owners

Yesterday I received an email from the Antique Arms National President, Andrew Edgecombe. In the email, he has a crack at me (Note to Andrew: I don’t use minions) and my messages about the failures of COLFO. I will address his email in this article on the points that

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