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The Central Planning Strategies at COP

The Central Planning Strategies at COP

Peter Murphy cfact.org Peter Murphy is Senior Fellow at CFACT. He has researched and advocated for a variety of policy issues, including education reform and fiscal policy, both in the non-profit sector and in government in the administration of former New York Governor George Pataki. He previously wrote

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What’s Missing in Britain’s Economic Recovery Plan?

Patrick Barron mises.org Patrick Barron is a private consultant to the banking industry. He has taught an introductory course in Austrian economics for several years at the University of Iowa. He has also taught at the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin for over 25 years

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UN Climate Conference Loves Our Cash

UN Climate Conference Loves Our Cash

Craig Rucker cfact.org Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. CFACT is at the big UN climate conference in Egypt where we are engaging in climate diplomacy with a far different perspective than most. CFACT questions fearlessly, informs diligently and communicates relentlessly.

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Affordable Energy, Food vs Climate Change Policies

Affordable Energy, Food vs Climate Change Policies

Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura World leaders are meeting at the latest UN climate conference COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. These meetings are a gathering of the great and the good in the climate change world. Some will fly to Egypt in their private jets to lecture us all

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‘And Yet It Moves’

‘And Yet It Moves’

voicesforfreedom.co.nz In 1633 Galileo was convicted of suspected heresy for providing support to the Copernican theory that the Earth moved around the Sun, a position which contradicted the teachings of the then ‘pulpit of truth’, the Catholic Church. In the centuries that followed, the Catholic Church attempted to

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How National Can Win Big in 2023
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How National Can Win Big in 2023

If the National Party want to win big next year, they need look no further than the American midterm elections. There was supposed to be, according to the polls, a red wave with a substantial Republican majority in the House and a workable majority in the Senate. This turned out

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The Road from Rome to Melbourne

The Road from Rome to Melbourne

It’s almost like something out of a Dan Brown thriller: a web of corruption, conspiracy, frame-ups and murder, reaching all the way from the Vatican to the halls of power in Melbourne. Even cardinals aren’t safe, if they get too close to unmasking the conspiracy. If that

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The Rainbow Bullies of Tas

The Rainbow Bullies of Tas

How do you know when the ABC approves of a campaign, and when it doesn’t? If it’s described as “grass-roots activism” or “community campaign”, it means the ABC approves. If not, it’s “a targeted campaign”, or an “extremist takeover”. When can you trust the ABC to

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A Mom-Led Rebellion

Emily Burns brownstone.org Emily Burns lives in Newton, Massachusetts and is running for Congress. She is a graduate of Sweet Briar College in Biochemistry and Music, and did studies toward a PhD in neuroscience at Rockefeller University. She is the founder of Learnivore and other ventures, and works with

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Taxes Are for You, Not Them

Taxes Are for You, Not Them

The Greens and the left in general have been making an awful lot of noise about billionaires (they notably shut up about millionaires as soon as they amassed their first millions) and mega-corps not paying tax, lately. But they’re strangely selective in who they get outraged about. If

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Left's Night Mayor
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Mayor Brown Has Some Good Support

Information Opinion There is a lot to like about Mayor Wayne Brown’s first few weeks in office. Already there is a stark contrast between the incumbent and the man he replaced. Brown, a man of action, has only served to highlight the inertia of the previous wearer of the

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What’s Wrong with the NZ Green Party?

What’s Wrong with the NZ Green Party?

Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org Barbara McKenzie has a PhD in German Literature. Information Opinion In August 2022 Wellington mayoral candidate Tory Whanau, along with other Green and Labour candidates and sitting councillors, attended a counter-demonstration organised by the Wellington section of Antifa, a worldwide organisation known for its chosen

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It’s Time to Peacefully Stand Up

Mary Hobbs freenz.substack.com Information Opinion “You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because

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bad news for Labour
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More Bad News for Labour

The latest Taxpayer’s Union/Curia poll is out and it delivers yet another data set that shows Kiwi voters are tiring of the Ardern regime. It certainly delivers more bad news for Labour as they press ahead with their divisive and racist policies. PartySupportChange from last monthNational37.6%down

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Face of the Day
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Face of the Day

Despite strong, negative public reaction in more than 88,000 submissions on the controversial topic of co-governance, a deaf ear has been turned to the public feedback on Three Waters reform. As they have voiced in the past, National and Act have opposed the implementation of co-governance as

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They Printed $7 Trillion in 30 Months. What Did They Think Would Happen?

They Printed $7 Trillion in 30 Months. What Did They Think Would Happen?

Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,

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