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Why Not a Global Ban?

Why Not a Global Ban?

The U.S. Banned Farmers From Using a Brain-Harming Pesticide on Food. Why Has It Slowed a Global Ban? by Sharon Lerner ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. On his first

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Chemical Weapons Are Still a Threat

Dave Patterson National Security Correspondent at LibertyNation.Com. Dave is a retired U.S. Air Force Pilot with over 180 combat missions in Vietnam. He is the former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller and has served in executive positions in the private sector aerospace and defense industry. libertynation.

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NZ’s School Curriculum Is a Disgrace

NZ’s School Curriculum Is a Disgrace

Having a late read of the July 2nd Sunday Star Times, I came across an article written by a young lady by the name of Gabrielle McCullough. I’ll refrain from calling her a journalist in the true sense of the word as reflective of the so-called profession she

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Is it Bad News or Good News?

Duggan Flanakin Duggan Flanakin is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. cfact.org Reports

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Where Are Conservative Voters Going?

Where Are Conservative Voters Going?

Some Democracy NZ supporters have scattered. If they manage to get Winston Peters back into Parliament, perhaps there could be a real shake up. National Party leader Christopher Luxon opens his party’s conference at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington, on Saturday, 24 June 2023. […] From the onset of

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Should We Have a Second Chamber?

Should We Have a Second Chamber?

Thomas Cranmer Thomas Cranmer is a lawyer with over 25 years’ experience in some of the world’s biggest law firms. He divides his time between the UK and NZ. He writes on Substack exploring issues facing NZ under his nom du plume, Cranmer. commonroomnz.com New Zealand’s parliamentary

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Bish, Bosh, Bang = $17K

You may remember during the height of the protest at Parliament in February 2022, a video was circulating of a Police car that ended up wrecked on the bollards at Parliament. Here is the video for your viewing pleasure: The folks at Mana News Live captured that video. Now there

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The Politicization of Banking and the End of Freedom

David Thunder David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society in Pamplona, Spain, and a recipient of the prestigious Ramón y Cajal research grant (2017-2021, extended through 2023), awarded by the Spanish government to support outstanding research activities. brownstone.

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But Where Is the Punishment?

Police Minister Ginny Andersen is back to gaslighting us again. Police Minister Ginny Andersen does “not accept” the Government’s record on crime is a “social and moral failure”. It comes after a pair of hammer-wielding offenders stormed a dairy in Mt Roskill on Wednesday afternoon, injuring two people.

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Stopping Government Grand Theft Auto

Tyler O’Neil Tyler O’Neil is managing editor of The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.heritage.org/, and he is the author of “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center.” PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com More than 180,000 Americans sent

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We Can’t Afford to Be Silent

We Can’t Afford to Be Silent

hobsonspledge.nz Recently, the Minister of Local Government, Kieran McAnulty, disregarded democracy as irrelevant in New Zealand. He commented on the undemocratic Three Waters reforms, stating that they “wouldn’t stand up to a purely academic democratic framework, but that’s not how we work”. Further highlighting this Government’s

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NZ Gets Ready to Embrace NATO

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 on New Zealand’

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Our Energy Must Be Sound

Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura We owe much to our ready access to affordable and reliable energy: it is closely correlated with increases in population, GDP per capita and life expectancy. But we have been putting all this at risk with a focus on sustainability which, while in itself is

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And Then There Are the Social Consequences

And Then There Are the Social Consequences

Don Brash Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 bassettbrashandhide.com There is now a pretty widely shared consensus that inflation is undesirable for a variety of economic and social reasons. And around the world it has been widely

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And the Devil Rides Out
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And the Devil Rides Out

Harry Palmer It’s a great puzzle, and I’m probably going to go to my grave not knowing how it happened. What’s got me intrigued is how, ever since the 1960s, so many people have become so unquestioning of those elected to run the country for them and

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