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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

The United Nations Human Rights Committee “considers that there are a few, if any, circumstances in which deprivation of the right to enter one’s own country could be reasonable”. Under the Bill of Rights, all Kiwis have a right to come home. But COVID Response Minister Chris Hipkins told

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Stop Greenwashing Socialism

Stop Greenwashing Socialism

Christopher Barnard aier.org Christopher Barnard is the National Policy Director at the American Conservation Coalition (ACC) and the Founder of the British Conservation Alliance. He studied International Relations at The London School of Economics and Political Science. According to a Gallup poll from 2019, around 50% of young Americans

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The Infantilising Myth of Black Deaths in Custody

The Infantilising Myth of Black Deaths in Custody

As I’ve written many times, Black Lives Matter is nothing more than a barking-mad conspiracy theory. Leaving aside its unabashed racism and lunatic Marxist ideology, practically none of its claims of “systemic racism” stand up to serious scrutiny. The Australian left, sheep-like as ever, have naturally flocked

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Jackson Perpetuates Victimhood Mentality
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Jackson Perpetuates Victimhood Mentality

ACT Party ACT’s Social Development and Children Spokesperson Karen Chhour. “Willie Jackson’s inflammatory comments about racism will only perpetuate a victimhood mentality,” says ACT’s Social Development and Children Spokesperson Karen Chhour. This morning, the Maori Development Minister said there is institutional racism ‘in every area of New

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Don’t Be a Technocrat

Don’t Be a Technocrat

Karl D. Stephan mercatornet.com Karl D. Stephan received the B. S. in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1976. Following a year of graduate study at Cornell, he received the Master of Engineering degree in 1977 and was employed by Motorola, Inc. and Scientific-Atlanta as an

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Interview with Retired US Ambassador Part Two

Interview with Retired US Ambassador Part Two

8th April 2021 The Irrawaddy spoke to Scot Marciel, who served as US ambassador to Myanmar from 2016-20, about the unfolding crisis in the country and how the international community and regional powers can help stop the regime’s violence against the Myanmar people. Intellectuals are leaving, civil servants

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Why the Silence in the Face of COVID Tyranny?

Why the Silence in the Face of COVID Tyranny?

Donald J. Boudreaux aier.org Donald J. Boudreaux is a senior fellow with American Institute for Economic Research and with the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University; a Mercatus Center Board Member; and a professor of

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The Madness of Michael Wood

Matthew Hooton has decided to focus his lazy eye on the growing insanity of the tram to Mt Roskill: If the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, then Transport Minister Michael Wood’s announcement of an Establishment Unit for

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New York’s Vaccine Passport Program Is Already Failing

New York’s Vaccine Passport Program Is Already Failing

Jordan Schachter ronpaulinstitute.org Liberty advocates, rejoice! The idiocracy is going to save us from another form of COVID tyranny. Thanks to a combination of bungling authoritarians and decaying legacy corporations, these entities are simply too incompetent to pull off a functioning vaccine passport program. New York’s rollout of

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Now Look What We Made the Left Do!

Now Look What We Made the Left Do!

Despite the Philistine chest-thumping of the CodeBros and “IFL Science” types, the Humanities are essential to saving Western culture. Or, at least, they should be. The problem is that the Humanities have been subjected to a decades-long assault by the Long March left. To the point that Humanities

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Collins’ Comments: Trans-Tasman Bubble Win

Collins’ Comments: Trans-Tasman Bubble Win

Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz It is great to know that many people in Australia and New Zealand are going to be free of the travel restrictions of the past year by mid-April. I know that many of you supported my petition to the government to have

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