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Why You Need to Get Rid of TikTok

And that includes removing it from your kids’ devices. On Thursday, TikTok’s CEO, Shou Zi Chew, will be opening a lion’s mouth and placing his own head into it. He’s giving testimony in the US Congress for the first time: a scary thing to do. And at

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EPA Asks for More Input on Asbestos

EPA Asks for More Input on Asbestos

Kathleen McGrory Neil Bedi propublica.org This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The Environmental Protection Agency took an unusual step last week: It opened a

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The Friendship between China and Russia

The Friendship between China and Russia

Liberty Nation News libertynation.com During meetings in Moscow, President Xi Jinping of China and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin went to great lengths to impress the rest of the world with their “friendship without limits”. It was obvious Putin was sparing no expense to lavish ceremonial pomp on the

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French Protests are “Out of Control”

French Protests are “Out of Control”

Daily Telegraph NZ dailytelegraph.co.nz Police Clashed with over a Million Demonstrators Opposed to President Macron’s Pension Reform. French authorities struggled on Thursday to suppress the protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform. Over a million demonstrators took to the streets across the country in what some

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Have Medical Ethics Been Thrown Out?

Have Medical Ethics Been Thrown Out?

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com As with almost every health service worldwide now, UCSF Health in California appear to have abandoned medical ethics and critical analysis at the altar of Big Pharma, with mask rules and Covid industry propaganda front and centre on their homepage. Californian

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The Real State of the Nation
NZ

The Real State of the Nation

Rt Hon Winston Peters New Zealand First Leader St Andrews Presbyterian Church 11 Vincent St Howick 2pm Friday 24 March 2023 Good afternoon. Thank you for the invitation to speak with you today and in your busy lives turning up to this meeting. Forty five years ago, in Howick, often

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A Minister Committed to Her Silver Bullet
NZ

A Minister Committed to Her Silver Bullet

Stuart Smith http://stuartsmith.national.org.nz/ A silver bullet solution is hard to resist: it is easy to promote and potentially the stuff that legacies are made of. Last week we saw Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods succumb to this, when she doubled down on the Lake Onslow

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Voters United: for Informed Voting Options

Voters United: for Informed Voting Options

Mark Freeman Collective, strategic voting is the way to get a minor party into Parliament in the upcoming general election, says a group that’s offering to advise voters on how to do that. Voters United are a Wellington-based group concerned about government overreach and the direction the elected

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Free Speech or Transphobia?

Free Speech or Transphobia?

Cranmer cranmer.substack.com Lawyer with over 25 years’ experience in some of the world’s biggest law firms. I divide my time between the UK and NZ. This Substack explores issues facing NZ at present under my nom du plume, Cranmer. Kellie-Jay Keen is yet to land in

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Ferals of the Day

Ferals of the Day

After the horrific events of yesterday, Stand Up for Women NZ sent out a press release: Today in Albert Park as women were punched, kicked, spat at, trampled and overrun by a violent mob, New Zealanders have seen the true colours of some of those who, ordinarily, cloak themselves in

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Biden Turns Gun Owners into Felons

Biden Turns Gun Owners into Felons

Olivia Rondeau fee.org Olivia is a 21-year-old political commentator, strategist, and journalist hailing from the Washington, DC area, and currently based in Los Angeles. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has followed through on their plan to turn millions of lawful gun owners into

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Vic Chief Commissioner Put On Notice

Vic Chief Commissioner Put On Notice

It’s becoming more and more obvious that last week’s neo-Nazi gatecrash of the Let Women Speak rally in Melbourne was a grubby, politically-motivated stitch-up. From the very moment the LARPing edgelords in their silly masks were ushered through the police cordon and allowed to do

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Chalk Another Win for Lockdowns

For some odd reason, Brits have an almost fetishistic dependency on the NHS, despite it being frankly pretty crap. And it’s getting worse: the percentage of people waiting more than sixty days for treatment for cancer, for instance, has got steadily worse in the past decade. Yet, almost in

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Why the Mandates Made No Sense
NZ

Why the Mandates Made No Sense

Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Just to clarify things in view of this RNZ article on 21 March 2023, NZTSOS will be in the Court of Appeal in Wellington on 19 April 2023 (i.e. ‘later this year’).  Their appeal will challenge the outcome of the Judicial Review

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money, profit, finance
NZ

The OCR Doesn’t Affect Banks as Much as You Think

Peter J Morgan Peter J Morgan  BE (Mech.), Dip. Teaching – professional forensic engineer, retired economics, mathematics and physics teacher PART 4 of 18 When an EFTPOS payment or a cheque from a customer of one bank is deposited with a competing bank, not only is money transferred from the payer’

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Luxon Is Woke, Wet and Weak
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Luxon Is Woke, Wet and Weak

Christopher Luxon waded into the Posie Parker debate, and when I say waded I mean it literally: he was so woke and wet he almost drowned in his puddle of weakness. National leader Christopher Luxon wants Kiwis to be able to express their sexuality or identity “without any persecution”, but

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