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Albo: High Life, Low Polls

Albo: High Life, Low Polls

Seeing as he likes to prate about his love of Aussie bands, I’ll let the Cruel Sea do the talking to Anthony Albanese: The honeymoon is over, baby, it’s never gonna be that way again. Whatever goodwill the PM might have been able to rely on after the

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Disney Blames Woes on Fans

Christian Toto newsbusters.org Few would deny Disney is in serious trouble. Stock woes. Box office flops (Wish, Haunted Mansion, The Marvels). Theme park struggles. Beloved brands struggling for relevancy after years of culture dominance (Indiana Jones, Pixar, Star Wars, the MCU). There’s a cottage industry of alternative media

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The Washington Post’s Hidden Love of Authoritarianism

The Washington Post’s Hidden Love of Authoritarianism

Jeffrey Lord Jeffrey Lord is a Contributing Writer for NewsBusters. newsbusters.org As is increasingly frequently the case with the so-called “mainstream media” — you can’t make it up. Take this recent headline from, yes indeed, the Washington Post: How Trump is becoming more authoritarian The story, written by reporter

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NZ’s Dilemma at the WTO’s Big Meeting in Abu Dhabi
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NZ’s Dilemma at the WTO’s Big Meeting in Abu Dhabi

Geoffrey Miller Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s geopolitical analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a learner of Arabic and Russian. He is currently working on a PhD at the University

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A Year on the Recommendations Still Stand

A Year on the Recommendations Still Stand

Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1 – 13. alwynpoole.substack.

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A Healthy Democracy Needs Opposing Ideas

A Healthy Democracy Needs Opposing Ideas

Caleb Anderson Published first on NZCPR Ideas are often difficult to define.  Generally, our understanding of ideas is defined by two things. 1.  By what an idea does (what it produces) 2.  By what it is not (by its opposite) How would you define democracy, for example? Most of us

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What Cost to NZ of Joining AUKUS?

What Cost to NZ of Joining AUKUS?

Sian Troath Postdoctoral Fellow, Political Science and International Relations, University of Canterbury There is little doubt the National-led coalition is showing greater interest in the AUKUS security agreement, with Australian officials due to visit New Zealand later this year to brief the government. So far, much of the discussion and

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Govt Backs Police to Crackdown on Gangs

Govt Backs Police to Crackdown on Gangs

Hon Paul Goldsmith Minister of Justice Hon Mark Mitchell Minister of Corrections The coalition Government is restoring law and order by providing police with new tools to crack down on criminal gangs, says Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith and Police Minister Mark Mitchell. “Over the last five years, gangs have recruited

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I’m Not Sure He Was a Real Bloke Either
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I’m Not Sure He Was a Real Bloke Either

Heather du Plessis-Allan thinks Grant Robertson was a great bloke, but a poor Finance Minister. I’m not sure he was what I’d call a great bloke, but she’s right, he was a poor finance minister. Commentators find it difficult to criticise Grant Robertson. It’s because pretty

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Government Investment into Vaccines Hasn’t Paid Off

Government Investment into Vaccines Hasn’t Paid Off

David Livermore David Livermore is retired Professor of Microbiology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. brownstone.org War spurs medical innovation. Ambulances to swiftly deliver the casualties of Napoleon’s armies to field surgeons were the brainchild of Jean-Dominique Larrey. Florence Nightingale established professional nursing in the Crimea. The Kaiser’

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Milei Gives First Surplus in over 10 Years

Milei Gives First Surplus in over 10 Years

Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at FEE. fee.org Argentines witnessed something amazing last week: the government’s first budget surplus in nearly a dozen years. The Economy Ministry announced the figures Friday, and the government was $589 million in the black. Argentina’

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Trump and NATO: Can They Kiss and Make Up?

Trump and NATO: Can They Kiss and Make Up?

Dave Patterson libertynation.com Once again, the far left, elitist progressives, and never-Trumpers are in a manic kerfuffle. To get his point across, the “Don” went after what he sees as NATO deadbeats for not paying for their own defense. Mr Trump said NATO members should pay up or be

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DEI Strikes the US State Department

DEI Strikes the US State Department

James Hickman James Hickman (aka Simon Black) is an international investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Sovereign Man. His free daily e-letter Notes from the Field is about using the experiences from his life and travels to help you achieve more freedom, make more money, keep more of it, and protect

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Australians Drop the C-19 Shots

Rebekah Barnett Rebekah Barnett reports from Western Australia. She is a volunteer interviewer for Jab Injuries Australia and holds a BA in Communications from the University of Western Australia. Find her work on her Substack page, Dystopian Down Under. brownstone.org After climbing the world leaderboard during the initial Covid

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Stock News to Stoke Your Fires

Stock News to Stoke Your Fires

Critical Thinker Slow news day? Never, with these wee coals to rake over: Plagues of scare-city You can always find a ‘researcher’ to gleefully rain on any parade. Enjoying your everyday consumption of avocado/banana/coffee/X fast-moving consumer-good? Hoover it up while you still can, because by 2057 those

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