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You Need to Question Them All

You Need to Question Them All

Thi Thuy Van Dinh Dr Thi Thuy Van Dinh (LLM, PhD) worked on international law in the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Subsequently, she managed multilateral organization partnerships for Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund and led environmental health

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The CNN Presidential Debate: Is This a Trump Trap?

Jeffrey Lord newsbusters.org The inevitable quadrennial debate announcement has been made. There will be two presidential debates, and Donald Trump let Joe Biden set the rules. This time around CNN will host the first, and ABC the second. And the CNN selection –  with the announcement of moderators as CNN’

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Who Is Funding the Campus Protests?

Susan Crabtree Susan Crabtree is RealClearPolitics’ national political correspondent. realclearwire.com Billionaires Funding Protests Donate Millions to House Dems By Susan Crabtree May 17, 2024 For President Biden and congressional Democrats, the fierce party division over the campus protests and the war in Gaza is full of warning signs during

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NIH Admits Funding Gain-of-Function Research

NIH Admits Funding Gain-of-Function Research

dailytelegraph.co.nz ANOTHER SO-CALLED COVID CONSPIRACY THEORY HAS COME TRUE, AFTER YEARS OF DENIALS FROM GOVERNMENTS AND THEIR ‘EXPERTS’. In a major development, Lawrence Tabak, principal deputy director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), acknowledged to Congress on Thursday that US taxpayers had funded gain-of-function

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Winston and the Four Knights
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Winston and the Four Knights

Rex Ahdar The Rt Hon Winston Peters, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, likes to trace his political lineage back to the pioneers of parliamentary Maoridom. I will refer to these as the ‘big four’ or better still, the Four Knights. Just as boxing had its celebrated ‘Four

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Emiratis Fear Iran More

Emiratis Fear Iran More

Dave Patterson libertynation.com There has been a growing tension between the United Arab Emiratis (UAE) and the US during the Biden administration. Recently, the UAE leadership seems to be more afraid of Iran and the terrorist state’s proxies than it is secure in the knowledge the US would

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The Left Want to Increase Tax While the Right Want to Cut It

The Left Want to Increase Tax While the Right Want to Cut It

Two articles in the Weekend Herald highlighted the stark difference between the left and the right when it comes to looking at tax. One article was written by Thomas Coughlan and the other by Steven Joyce. One talked about introducing a new tax; the other concerned cutting the existing ones.

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Health System Revamp for Disease Surveillance Delayed

Health System Revamp for Disease Surveillance Delayed

dailytelegraph.co.nz AUTHORITIES HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE URGENT OVERHAUL OF THE HEALTH SYSTEM, AIMED AT ENHANCING THE DETECTION AND CONTROL OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IS BEHIND SCHEDULE. The improved surveillance system, initially set to be in place by next month, now awaits a final independent report due in September, according

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Covered by the Green Shield of Sanctimony
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Covered by the Green Shield of Sanctimony

Chloe Swarbrick went on Jack Tame’s show on Sunday as the Greens seek to influence, by their handmaidens in the media, the outcome of the looming Privileges Committee hearing into Julie Anne Genter’s misbehaviour both inside and outside the House. The matter of privilege arose when she crossed

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Every driver knows that too many of those road cones set out on our highways aren’t actually connected to any active roadworks. This leaves drivers to decide if that 30kph sign and those cones represent a reason to slow down or not, so we all carry on as if

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The Way to Gain a ‘Permanent Majority’

The Way to Gain a ‘Permanent Majority’

Kelli Ballard libertynation.com Illegal immigration seems to be on everyone’s mind – especially as the 2024 presidential election draws near. This polarized issue has only grown more intense as migrants flood the border and the number of illegal crossings continues to break records. President Joe Biden has felt the

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People Need Euthanasia-Free Health Care

People Need Euthanasia-Free Health Care

Gabrielle Peters Gabrielle Peters is a disabled writer, policy analyst and the co-founder of Disability Filibuster. mercatornet.com “On the question of religious hospitals, despite being a lesbian couple, Patricia and I would tolerate life-size crucifixes in the treatment room if it meant being safe from MAiD.” Catherine

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Surviving Winter without Your Gasoline Car

Surviving Winter without Your Gasoline Car

Steve Goreham Steve Goreham is a speaker, author, and independent columnist on energy, sustainability, climate change, and public policy. More than 100,000 copies of his books are now in print, including his latest, Outside the Green Box: Rethinking Sustainable Development. cfact.org January of this year brought near-zero

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The Rise of Gut Politics

J. Peder Zane J. Peder Zane is a RealClearInvestigations editor and columnist. He previously worked as a book review editor and book columnist for the News & Observer (Raleigh), where his writing won several national honors. Zane has also worked at the New York Times and taught writing at Duke

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