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Politicians Will Always Want to Control the Public Square

Politicians Will Always Want to Control the Public Square

Isaac Schick Isaac Schick is a policy analyst at the American Consumer Institute, a nonprofit education and research organization. fee.org Recently the Supreme Court avoided deciding on where the limits of Section 230 were concerning content algorithms. Many have interpreted this as a positive sign that Section 230 will

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Dumb Buggers
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Dumb Buggers

Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Why do newspapers publish letters from dumb buggers? Hopefully, it’s to amuse us but knowing the newspaper world I suspect the answer is more likely sloth. Take a recent one in the Herald from a Joy Edwards of Albany. First, assuming it was not maliciously

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Reality Check on Voting for Minor Parties
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Reality Check on Voting for Minor Parties

The Ponderer I and my wider family have been involved in minor party politics for many years. I’ve been the enthusiastic supporter, the optimistic candidate, and am now the wiser realist. I want to simply explain exactly what the minor “freedom” parties can and cannot achieve this election, and

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water dew
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Our Water Rights Have Been Stolen

So: they’ve done it. If there’s anyone left that didn’t believe this is the most arrogant, despicable and anti-democratic government our deteriorating country has ever endured, they have their proof now with the Water Services Entities Amendment act. The mongrels have now claimed, seized, appropriated, call

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Replay Radio: A Political Agenda
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Replay Radio: A Political Agenda

This week’s Political Agenda with Paul Brennan, Cam Slater, Olivia Pierson and Marty Gibson. Help Fund Our NewsDesk We are building a NewsDesk, hiring journalists and taking the fight to the mainstream media. Will you help fund our NewsDesk? * For security reasons, credit card donations require Javascript. Please enable

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Replay Radio – The Crunch
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Replay Radio – The Crunch

This week’s guests were Sandra Goudie, political Svengali and master of the political dark arts Simon Lusk and Rob Ballantyne. Enjoy the replays! Help Fund Our NewsDesk We are building a NewsDesk, hiring journalists and taking the fight to the mainstream media. Will you help fund our NewsDesk? * For

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Sweden’s Long-Held Commitment to Freedom Of Expression

Sweden’s Long-Held Commitment to Freedom Of Expression

Mårten Schultz Stockholm University theconversation.com To people outside Sweden it may seem surprising that police have, on several recent occasions, granted people express permission to burn copies of the Qur’an in public. The incidents have caused upset and triggered a significant debate about the far right co-opting

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Oh No! Albo’s Here to Help Housing

Oh No! Albo’s Here to Help Housing

Poet A. D. Hope famously described Australia as a land of “five cities, like five teeming sores”. If Anthony Albanese has his way, it will be teeming sores from sea to shining sea. What little of Australia that isn’t buried under a “forest of windfarms” or “endless arrays of

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World Bank De-banks Uganda for Anti-gay Law

World Bank De-banks Uganda for Anti-gay Law

Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.

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So Much for ‘Not a Threat’

So Much for ‘Not a Threat’

Sometimes a hard dose of reality salts can work wonders on a politician’s utopian delusions. Unfortunately, though, it’s almost always other people who pay the heaviest price. Especially when it comes to the demented virtue-signalling of the open borders fanatics. Back in May, Erie County Executive Mark

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Dan a No-Show for Tractor Convoy

Dan a No-Show for Tractor Convoy

As I wrote recently, wealthy Greens and Teal voters in the expensive suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne are quite happy for other people to pay to “save the planet”. Who cares if country people have to watch their environment be buried beneath, and I quote a Climate Cultist scientist, “Forests

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We Hear You New Zealand
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We Hear You New Zealand

There are only eight weeks to the election, and smaller parties are still popping up with the hope of drawing the attention of voters. With National and Act polling well, a coalition between them seems the obvious outcome. The question is will they have sufficient numbers to form a government

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Let’s Unpack This Comment by Yadana Saw
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Let’s Unpack This Comment by Yadana Saw

Arthur On Monday the 14th of August that ‘upmarket’ toilet paper news rag, The Post in Wellington, owned by that disinformation site NZ Stuff aka Stuff (the truth), featured an article about Wellington regional councillor Yadana Saw who indulged in the hobby of choice for those few in immigrant minority

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selective focus photo of brown and blue hourglass on stones

New Zealand Official Birth and Death Figures

Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior

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‘It’s Not about Me’
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‘It’s Not about Me’

Christopher Luxon has been criticised for constantly pointing out that the election is not about him, or about Chris Hipkins. This criticism came from the wonderful Tova OBrien, who was roundly rebuffed for her efforts by Chris Penk. In an amusing tweet, Penk pointed out that Tova was in no

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Their Fixation with Culture Is a Crock
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Their Fixation with Culture Is a Crock

Lindsay Mitchell Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio, tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits

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