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COPping a Well Deserved Belting

COPping a Well Deserved Belting

Rule of thumb: if the climate cultists are whinging, then it can’t be all bad. In fact, it’s usually downright hilarious. COP28, the latest of the annual climate cult beanos, has delivered the goods in spades. Particularly delicious is that Australia’s ‘Climate Change and Energy Minister’ has

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Taiwan’s Election Is a Month Away

Taiwan’s Election Is a Month Away

Rebecca Strating Director, La Trobe Asia and Associate Professor La Trobe University Taiwan is gearing up for important presidential and legislative elections next month. How to manage “cross-strait” relations with China is not surprisingly emerging as the critical issue of the campaigns. Taiwan first held competitive presidential elections in 1996.

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Summing up the Israeli Mood

Summing up the Israeli Mood

John Strawson Honorary Professor of Law and director of LLM programs University of East London “The attacks of October 7 continue until all the hostages return home.” So said an Israeli citizen called Guy Lenman speaking to me in Tel Aviv last week. His father-in-law Dror Kaplan is held hostage

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Shock! Balanced News From the ABC!

Shock! Balanced News From the ABC!

I had to duck out this morning, just to check that the sun hadn’t turned to sackcloth or the moon to blood. But even those would have been secondary portents to the shattering miracle that really did occur. The ABC ran an entire article on Javier Milei without using

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What’s up with COP28?

What’s up with COP28?

Craig Rucker Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. Widely heralded as a leader in the free market environmental, think tank community in Washington, DC, Rucker is a frequent guest on radio talk shows, written extensively in numerous publications, and has appeared in such

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New Normal Reich

consentfactory.org Well, 2023 is almost in the books, and things couldn’t be going better for the New Normal Reich. It’s been a long, strange seven years, but we’re finally back to the Global War on Terror, which, as you may recall, was abruptly preempted in 2016

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This 1930s Revival Is Getting Out of Hand

This 1930s Revival Is Getting Out of Hand

This 1930s revival is getting out of hand. We’ve got war erupting on three continents, weak Conservative leadership in Britain, a doddering president and a left-wing administration in the US and black-shirted thugs bashing and burning in cities across the West… And, boy howdy, do we have unbridled anti-Semitic

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Cop 28: The Money Machine

Cop 28: The Money Machine

Bonner Cohen, Ph. D Bonner R. Cohen is a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, where he concentrates on energy, natural resources, and international relations. He also serves as a senior policy adviser with the Heartland Institute, senior policy analyst with the Committee for a Constructive

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How Dare They Call Themselves Feminists

How Dare They Call Themselves Feminists

Christian Toto newsbusters.org Feminists have a funny way of supporting women. * They rage against sexist jokes but stand down when Republican women are mocked. * They cry “MeToo,” but fall silent when a Democrat is accused of sexual assault. * They rally behind Hollywood starlets getting equal pay but hid when

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What We Can Learn From Argentina

What We Can Learn From Argentina

Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org Argentines elected 53-year-old political outsider Javier Milei as their new president on Sunday. Milei, an economist and self-described libertarian, pulled in nearly 56% of all votes counted in his runoff

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Winston Peters Sets a Change Agenda
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Winston Peters Sets a Change Agenda

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 at the University

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Is it Slowly Swinging the Other Way?

Is it Slowly Swinging the Other Way?

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. A brief history

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Massive Social Change Brings Repression

Joe Schaeffer libertynation.com There are two essential takeaways from the rioting in Ireland triggered by the stabbings of three children by an Algerian-born immigrant. First, the escalating violence that is a feature, not a bug, of rapid massive demographic upheaval in Western nations will be used as a pretext

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Israel and the Right to Self-Defence

israelinstitute.nz Rex Ahdar, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Otago No one can approach the Israel/Palestine debate without hesitation. It is fraught with emotion, rhetoric and deeply-entrenched positions. Despite this, I wish in this short article to bring attention to an open letter and to endeavour to answer

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Argentina’s Future ‘Economic Citizenship’ Program Could Be Best

Argentina’s Future ‘Economic Citizenship’ Program Could Be Best

Simon Black Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Sovereign Letters, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom, more opportunity, and more

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