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Controlling Our Free Speech Was Wrong

Controlling Our Free Speech Was Wrong

Aaron Kheriaty Aaron Kheriaty, Senior Brownstone Scholar and 2023 Brownstone Fellow, is a psychiatrist working with the Unity Project. He is a former Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California at Irvine School of Medicine, where he was the director of Medical Ethics. brownstone.org I am one of

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Big Pharma’s Influence on Irish and British Schools

Big Pharma’s Influence on Irish and British Schools

Gavin O’Reilly ronpaulinstitute.org On Thursday it was announced that the southern Irish state would roll out flu jabs to all schoolchildren under its jurisdiction, despite the fact that children are an age group at absolute minute risk of becoming seriously ill from seasonal illnesses such as flu and

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One Person, One Vote

One Person, One Vote

Mark Freeman Fifty people braved a wintery southerly wind to take part in Wellington’s first Stop Co-Governance street march on Saturday. The number was down on attendance at the Christchurch and Auckland marches, which had been more than 200 and more than 300 respectively. Escorted by police, marchers

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Taking a Look at the BRICS Expansion

Antonio Graceffo Antonio Graceffo, PhD, has spent more than 20 years in Asia. He earned a PhD at Shanghai University of Sport, holds a China-MBA from Shanghai Jiaotong University, and studied national defense at American Military University. mises.org At the conclusion of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg on

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From the Desk of a Male Pale and Stale

Summer can be a bit perplexing. According to NIWA, “meteorological summer” begins on 1 December. But “astronomical summer”, marked by the summer solstice, falls on 22 December. Usually, natural summer, determined by weather patterns and the warmest 90-day period of the year, starts around 14 December. Yet, it can

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Scientists Speak at Senate Hearing, September 2023

Scientists Speak at Senate Hearing, September 2023

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com South Carolina senators recently held a meeting to hear from health and scientific professionals highly concerned about significant problems with Covid injections. Below we mention three of the presentations. Plasmid: Small circular, double-stranded DNA molecules able to replicate independently of

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Not Protecting the Common People’s Treasure
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Not Protecting the Common People’s Treasure

As the opinion polls show Labour continuing to languish in the mid 20s, around 15 per cent behind the National party, we need to cast a glance at our old friend Machiavelli to understand why. Just as you ignore Adam Smith’s laws of economics at your peril (like Britain

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Labour and Our School System

Labour and Our School System

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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Not with Your Lot, No
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Not with Your Lot, No

Shane Te Pou has an article in the NZ Herald questioning whether we can have politics without division. He suggests we can all learn how to do politics from Maori. Naturally, he begins his article by attacking those who oppose the Labour Party. So much politics seems to be about

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Policies of the Day

Policies of the Day

Yesterday the Green Party released its main policies, including income, housing and climate change. Its income and tax plans include: * $385 a week guaranteed for students and anyone looking for work, with an extra $135 each week if you are caring for kids at home on your own. * Top-ups

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A Pandemic of Lockdown Denialism

A Pandemic of Lockdown Denialism

Jeffrey A Tucker Jeffrey A Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social

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Qantas Is Likely to Continue to Take Us for Granted

Qantas Is Likely to Continue to Take Us for Granted

Mel Marquis Mel is an internationally recognised scholar in the field of competition law and policy. Prior to joining Monash he taught law for 10 years at universities in Italy. He has lectured and taught law courses in many countries, including Europe and Asia. Neerav Srivastava Neerav’s thesis investigates

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Stop Trying to ‘Contain’ China

Jeremy Powell Jeremy Powell is a blogger on Substack. His X (formerly Twitter) handle is @jpowell145. mises.org It was a laughable moment when President Joe Biden said at a press conference during his visit to Hanoi that the United States wasn’t seeking to contain China. Despite efforts by

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ACT Wants the Public to Set the Terms of Reference

ACT Wants the Public to Set the Terms of Reference

dailytelegraph.co.nz “ACT WILL TAKE THE POLITICS OUT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION INTO THE GOVERNMENT’S COVID-19 RESPONSE BY ALLOWING ALL NEW ZEALANDERS TO HAVE THEIR SAY ON WHAT SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED THROUGH A NEW CROWDSOURCED TERMS OF REFERENCE,” SAYS ACT LEADER DAVID SEYMOUR. “There is always a

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Poppa Piccolino from Sunny Italy

Poppa Piccolino from Sunny Italy

Harry Palmer The metaphorical walls of the Catholic Church have fallen after the debacle of Vatican II in the 1960s. Perverts and shysters now overrun its ruins and the Pope kicked the last few true believers in the cojones when he finally and ruthlessly banned the Latin Mass. Does Pope

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