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China’s Use of Coal-Fired Power Dwarfs Rest

Donn Dears cfact.org Donn is an engineer and retired senior executive of the General Electric Company who spent his career in the power sector. He led organizations that provided engineering services for GE’s large electrical apparatus and spearheaded the establishment of GE subsidiary companies around the world. The

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The Role of Media in Censorship

The Role of Media in Censorship

Scott Morefield Jordan Schachtel Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Scott Morefield spent three years as a media and politics reporter with the Daily Caller, another two years with BizPac Review and has been a weekly columnist at Townhall since 2018. Jordan Schachtel is an independent investigative journalist. Jeffrey A Tucker

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Shills
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Shills

Let’s face it: New Zealand comedy hasn’t been funny since Flight of the Conchords. But it’s worse than that. Comedians have become government shills. For instance, in the past, comedians would think nothing of making fun of the prime minister and others in power. These days you

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Iran on Brink of Creating Nuclear Bomb

Dave Patterson libertynation.com Dave Patterson is a retired US Air Force pilot and the former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller. In addition to Liberty Nation, his articles have also appeared in The Federalist. Iran claims it is on the brink of creating an atomic bomb, while the

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An Abortion and LGBT Dilemma

An Abortion and LGBT Dilemma

I don’t usually get into moral debates like abortion. My focus has always been on culture and foreign interference. I admit I am pro-life because I came out of a culture that practised sex-selective abortions and were willing to kill kids if they were in the ‘wrong

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Full Firearm Registration – Colossal Waste of Taxpayers’ Money
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Full Firearm Registration – Colossal Waste of Taxpayers’ Money

Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc. www.sportingshooters.nz Recent claims made to the effect that the implementation of a firearm registration system will contribute to a reduction in violence with firearms is nonsense. Comparison with motor vehicle registration reminds us of the 20,000 motor vehicles reportedly stolen

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It’s Ok When They Do It

It’s Ok When They Do It

I remember when the Democrats just loved a good, old stolen election conspiracy. That is when they weren’t busily stealing elections themselves. No, I’m not talking about 2020. I’m agnostic on that one: there was undoubtedly low-level fraud all over the place, but an actually-stolen

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A Global Wave of Media Silence

A Global Wave of Media Silence

Remember when the media were working themselves into a lather about the so-called “Pink Tide” of socialism in South America in the 1990s and 2000s? From writing open letters of fawning adoration to Hugo Chavez, the legacy media have gone awfully quiet about all that. They’ve stopped jabbering

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Facts Don’t Lie: Academics Do

Facts Don’t Lie: Academics Do

The pursuit of science is in deep, deep crisis. One of the crowning achievements of the human intellect is on a possibly terminal trajectory back into the darkness of the “demon-haunted world”, as Carl Sagan called it. Everywhere, superstition is displacing scientific reason. Nowhere more so than in the

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From the Desk of a Male Pale and Stale

Taking a short break from my series of articles about “Methane, and Hot Air”, which could have a lengthier title, e.g. “Who says that the Greens and Labour can’t multi-task? They are ruining NZ’s energy sector and farmers’ livelihoods, both at the same time!” I thought

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Madness
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Madness

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The government on our behalf, has issued court proceedings against itself, in the process costing tax-payers a fortune in legal fees. I refer to the state agency Worksafe, suing the police after a gang leader, arrested for drug offences, died in his cell from

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Govt Masking Our Children’s Ability to Learn

Govt Masking Our Children’s Ability to Learn

Here we go again with mask madness. “The Government is “strongly” recommending schools review and “enforce” a mask-wearing policy as COVID-19 cases rise and children prepare to return to classes after the holidays.”   “Associate Education Minister Jan Tinetti has written to school boards “outlining the Government’s strong

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NZ First Foundation Wins against SFO

Yesterday morning Judge Pheroze Jagose delivered his judgment in the SFO’s very public prosecution of two people connected to the NZ First Foundation. Media were all over this case, hungry to smear NZ First even more than they already do. But the judge was having none of the prosecution’

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You and I Have Been Banned from the Local Govt Conference

You and I Have Been Banned from the Local Govt Conference

Information Opinion I am sure you would agree that this despicable move to silence any criticism from a responsible political watchdog group was likely instigated by the office of the Minister for Local Government, Nanaia Mahuta or her sister. You can bet a bag of money that Willie Jackson or

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What the NZ Public Think About Political Donation Reform
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What the NZ Public Think About Political Donation Reform

Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Is it ironic that the Government is reforming rules around secret political donations in a very secretive way?

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More Front Than Myers in Spring Street

More Front Than Myers in Spring Street

As I wrote yesterday, Victorian premier Dan Andrews has delivered a masterclass in the sorry-not-sorry insincerity stakes common to petulant teenagers and politicians. In the same breath that he supposedly “takes full responsibility”, he’s also not going to do a damn thing that will actually make a

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