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It’s to Save the Planet, You Know

It’s to Save the Planet, You Know

Harry Palmer With all the talk of a ‘Great Reset’ being needed and the obvious change that has taken place in society over the last decade or so, you know that something way bigger, way more monstrous, is coming. It’s still over the horizon but you can hear it

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They’re Not Supposed to Be Doing That

They’re Not Supposed to Be Doing That

Remember when Barack Obama gave the green light (and a literal billion dollars cash, on a secretive plane flight) to Iran’s nuclear program? With his usual teleprompter sincerity, Obama promised that it would never be used by Iran to manufacture nuclear weapons. But, then, this is the guy who

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NZ’s Dilemma at the WTO’s Big Meeting in Abu Dhabi
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NZ’s Dilemma at the WTO’s Big Meeting in Abu Dhabi

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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Government Investment into Vaccines Hasn’t Paid Off

Government Investment into Vaccines Hasn’t Paid Off

David Livermore David Livermore is retired Professor of Microbiology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. brownstone.org War spurs medical innovation. Ambulances to swiftly deliver the casualties of Napoleon’s armies to field surgeons were the brainchild of Jean-Dominique Larrey. Florence Nightingale established professional nursing in the Crimea. The Kaiser’

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Milei Gives First Surplus in over 10 Years

Milei Gives First Surplus in over 10 Years

Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at FEE. fee.org Argentines witnessed something amazing last week: the government’s first budget surplus in nearly a dozen years. The Economy Ministry announced the figures Friday, and the government was $589 million in the black. Argentina’

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Trump and NATO: Can They Kiss and Make Up?

Trump and NATO: Can They Kiss and Make Up?

Dave Patterson libertynation.com Once again, the far left, elitist progressives, and never-Trumpers are in a manic kerfuffle. To get his point across, the “Don” went after what he sees as NATO deadbeats for not paying for their own defense. Mr Trump said NATO members should pay up or be

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The War on Terror Is Won

The War on Terror Is Won

What would have been the point of the Allied armies defeating Hitler’s Reich, if Nazism had been allowed to become the dominant ideology at home? Yet, that’s exactly what has happened in the “War on Terror”. Osama bin Laden might have been shot in his Pakistani equivalent of

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Stock News to Stoke Your Fires

Stock News to Stoke Your Fires

Critical Thinker Slow news day? Never, with these wee coals to rake over: Plagues of scare-city You can always find a ‘researcher’ to gleefully rain on any parade. Enjoying your everyday consumption of avocado/banana/coffee/X fast-moving consumer-good? Hoover it up while you still can, because by 2057 those

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Success Delivered in Nine Weeks

Success Delivered in Nine Weeks

Peter St Onge Peter St Onge is a Mises Institute Associated Scholar and an Economic Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation.  St Onge received his PhD from George Mason University and was a 2014 Mises Institute Research Fellow. For more content from Dr St Onge, subscribe to his newsletter where

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The Streisand Effect Never Works, Lynda
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The Streisand Effect Never Works, Lynda

The Streisand Effect is named after Barbra Streisand, whose attempt in 2003 to suppress a photographer’s publication of a photograph, taken to document coastal erosion in California, which showed her clifftop residence in Malibu, California inadvertently drew far greater attention to the previously obscure photograph. And it is photographs

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Mountains to Climb, Civilization to Save

Richard Kelly Richard Kelly is a retired business analyst, married with three adult children, one dog, devastated by the way his home city of Melbourne was laid waste. Convinced justice will be served, one day. brownstone.org For reasons I can’t explain, I said ‘Yes’ when asked to join

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What Putin Said About Poland

What Putin Said About Poland

Lawrence W. Reed Lawrence W. Reed is FEE’s Interim President, having previously served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). fee.org Tucker Carlson’s recent, two-hour interview of Vladimir Putin generated massive attention around the world. Carlson deserves credit for the exclusive, although he left the

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In Today’s Good News…

In Today’s Good News…

It may be a bit soon to smile at his obituary, but for now I’ll just enjoy a hearty guffaw at his sickbed. Oh dear, how sad: Yahya Sinwar is very, very ill. Pass me my tiniest violin, Jeeves, and here’s to a shortage of antibiotics. Yahya Sinwar,

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Can NZ Be on Good Terms With Both the US and China?
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Can NZ Be on Good Terms With Both the US and China?

Don Brash Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 bassettbrashandhide.com A week or so ago, Helen Clark and I argued that New Zealand would be nuts to abandon the independent foreign policy which has been a characteristic of

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Hamas Must Surrender or Be Eliminated

Hamas Must Surrender or Be Eliminated

Stephen J. Harper aish.com A two-state solution will not emerge while so many Palestinians still reject the existence of a Jewish state. During the night of Oct. 7, my wife Laureen woke me to show horrifying images from Israel appearing on her cellphone. Like millions in Israel and around

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Why US Gun-Makers Are Being Sued

Why US Gun-Makers Are Being Sued

Timothy D. Lytton Regents’ Professor & Professor of Law Georgia State University The government of Mexico is suing U.S. gun-makers for their role in facilitating cross-border gun trafficking that has supercharged violent crime in Mexico. The lawsuit seeks US$10 billion in damages and a court order to force

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