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King Tut’s Coffin Is on the Move

King Tut’s Coffin Is on the Move

When you think of Tutankhamun, you almost certainly picture his fabulous, solid gold and lapis lazuli death mask. But that mask was but the innermost of layers upon layers of coffins and sarcophagi which housed the pharaoh’s remains. Tutankhamun’s tomb was in fact something like a Russian Matryoshka

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Australia’s Big-Arsed Dinosaur

Australia’s Big-Arsed Dinosaur

Like most boys, I was absolutely fascinated by dinosaurs. But I never really grew out of that fascination. For a long time, in high school, I aspired to be a paleontologist. I went on fossil digs in my school holidays. My prize discovery was the massive femur of a Diprotodon,

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Govt Lies and Hyperbole on Climate Change
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Govt Lies and Hyperbole on Climate Change

Owen Jennings Former National President of Federated Farmers Yesterday Prime Minster Ardern claimed that action on the Climate Commission’s recommendations was “a matter of life and death”. There is zero truth in that statement. It is outrageous and dangerous. All the evidence shows that climate-related deaths – both from heat

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The Boomers Are Not Okay

The Boomers Are Not Okay

Who are the real “Snowflake Generation”? Boomers might not like the answer suggested by a new study. Older folks like to deride “young people these days” as over-sensitive, narcissistic cry-babies, but are they really yelling at their own, wrinkled reflections? The new study suggests: yes. A study has found that

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Filmmakers Take Aim at Lockdowns in ‘Follow the Science’ Documentary

Filmmakers Take Aim at Lockdowns in ‘Follow the Science’ Documentary

Rebecca Day fee.org Rebecca Day is an independent musician and writer, and enjoys applying the principles of Austrian economics to her businesses. More information about her music and writing can be found at thefreemarketmusician.com. For the arts industry, 2020 was an unprecedented year. Musicians saw incomes instantly wiped

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‘Fauci Under The Bus?’

‘Fauci Under The Bus?’

Daniel McAdams Executive Director Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity A little over a week ago I honestly was not sure whether my Fauci-as-Icarus metaphor would bear itself out. The attention-seeking bureaucrat, lionized and canonized by what has become essentially a religious cult centred around a new virus that

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Sam Bailey Critiques NZ Media Coverage

Covid Plan B Dr Sam takes her gloves off in this video! Watch her rebuttal against a stuff.co.nz character assassination attempt on Dr Simon Thornley. To watch the full video click here. Note also: Stuff promotes Covid shots: Stuff Wins Funding to Counter COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation https://web.

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Prehistoric Warfare Was Brutal and Bloody

Prehistoric Warfare Was Brutal and Bloody

Ever since Rousseau fondly imagined “noble savages”, it’s been fashionable among certain types of people to imagine that primitive peoples wafted about like hippies with flint tools. Surviving paleolithic cultures are patronised as “at one with their environment” and peaceable and “Zen like”. The truth is brutally different. As

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‘You Save as Long as You Have To’

Catherine Rentz propublica.org **This story is the second of a three-part series. “You Save as Long as You Have To” by Catherine Rentz; Illustrations by Isabel Seliger, special to ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.  Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this

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Stuff’s Pink-Shirt-Hypocrisy

Stuff’s Pink-Shirt-Hypocrisy

Amanda Vickers voicesforfreedom.co.nz On pink shirt day, Stuff published a long-form piece dedicated to ridiculing and denigrating one of NZ’s leading epidemiologists, Dr. Simon Thornley. Pink shirt day aims to create communities where people feel valued and respected. Stuff’s language includes phrases such as:  “feverishly embraces

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