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An Extraordinary and Dedicated Monarch

An Extraordinary and Dedicated Monarch

Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura Below is Stuart Smith’s response. Her majesty Queen Elizabeth II spent virtually her entire life in the service of others. I cannot think of any other leader or head of state who was as devoted, pragmatic and fair in their reign as the Queen

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Australian Schools are Introducing Bug-Based Foods

Australian Schools are Introducing Bug-Based Foods

cfact.org CFACT’s Marc Morano, director of communications and editor of Climate Depot pretended to eat an insect on One America News (OAN) TV to highlight the folly of Australian schools beginning to incorporate insect based-foods. Morano: “What’s happening in Australia, and you’re absolutely right the World

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If We Were Truly Virtuous
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If We Were Truly Virtuous

Information Opinion If there is one thing I dislike about New Zealand politicians, it is cultural cringe: a disease that is seemingly universal and invariably leads to embarrassing behaviour. The most obvious signs of this affliction is the feeling of ‘Big Time’, of having ‘Made It’. Unfortunately when a politician

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to vax or not to vax

Adverse Effects of the Vax Covered Up

Yaffa Shir-Raz brownstone.org Yaffa Shir-Raz, PhD, is a risk communication researcher and a teaching fellow at the University of Haifa and Reichman University. Her area of research focuses on health and risk communication, including Emerging Infectious Disease (EID) communication, such as the H1N1 and the COVID-19 outbreaks. The Israeli

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Hypocrite  of the Day

Hypocrite of the Day

#TrudeauMustGo #TrudeauMustGoNow https://t.co/bAF0DnRSpH — Unacceptable Paul (@MPA_Rotten) September 23, 2022 Discuss it on The BFD. If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more enjoyable click here to browse our Membership options.If you enjoyed this

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It’s Time to Let Canada Heal

Mary Dawood Catlin brownstone.org Mary Dawood Catlin is a Canadian writer, historian, pianist, and advocate for human rights and liberties. Her work has been published in various outlets and in the peer-reviewed volume Making Sense of Music. Studies in Musical Semiotics. There’s a new, significant movement on Canadian

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The Ardern and Trudeau Show
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The Ardern and Trudeau Show

JL As I write this I wonder if there is a chance Jacinda Ardern will be publicly shamed at the United Nations General Assembly for her attacks on our democracy. After the Queen’s funeral Ardern flew to the United States for the high-powered ‘meet and greet’ and will give

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Biden Again Indicates That US Will Defend Taiwan ‘Militarily’

Biden Again Indicates That US Will Defend Taiwan ‘Militarily’

Meredith Oyen University of Maryland, Baltimore County Meredith Oyen teaches courses on U.S. History and U.S. Diplomatic History. She specializes in the history of Sino-American relations, focusing her research on the role of migrants, transnational networks, and nongovernmental organizations in bilateral relations in the twentieth century. President Joe

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An Interview with a Very Dangerous Man

Thomas Harrington brownstone.org Thomas Harrington, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, where he taught for 24 years. His research is on Iberian movements of national identity and contemporary Catalan culture. His essays are published at Words in The

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The Truth about Sanctions

The Truth about Sanctions

Ron Paul ronpaulinstitute.org A Swiss billboard is making the rounds on social media depicting a young woman on the telephone. The caption reads, “Does the neighbour heat the apartment to over 19 degrees (66F)? Please inform us.” While the Swiss government has dismissed the poster as a fake, the

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They Knew Exactly What They Were Doing to Us

CJ Hopkins cjhopkins.substack.com Well, gosh, this is kind of embarrassing. For approximately the last two and a half years, I have been documenting, analyzing, and occasionally satirizing the so-called “New Normal,” i.e., the new, pathologized, official ideology that has been rolled out all across the planet by

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Using Land for Agriculture is Good

Using Land for Agriculture is Good

Kristoffer Mousten Hansen mises.org Kristoffer Mousten Hansen is a research assistant at the Institute for Economic Policy at Leipzig University. He received his PhD from the University of Angers and is a former Mises Institute research fellow. Earlier this year, Our World in Data celebrated the fact we have

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Lighting the Wick: World on Fire

Lighting the Wick: World on Fire

Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A Tucker, founder and president of the Brownstone Institute, is an economist and author. He has written 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He writes a daily column on economics at The Epoch Times

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The Hypocrisy of “Pray for Ukraine”

The Hypocrisy of “Pray for Ukraine”

Laurence M. Vance ronpaulinstitute.org The latest empty cliché that one hears out of the mouth of Christians is “Pray for Ukraine”. But do Christians who utter this pious platitude even know what they mean when they say it? I suppose that it is supposed to mean that we should

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How Israel’s Green Pass Policy Eroded Trust

How Israel’s Green Pass Policy Eroded Trust

Shirly Bar-Lev brownstone.org Shirly Bar-Lev received her PhD from Bar-Ilan University. She is the Head of the Dror (Imri) Aloni Center for Health Informatics, at Ruppin Academic Center. Her research interests include: implementation of health technologies, knowledge management, organizational politics, gift-giving, and organizational trust relations. She is a member

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Stunning Defeat for ‘Progressives’ in Chilean Vote

Stunning Defeat for ‘Progressives’ in Chilean Vote

Ignore the stupid memes from internet edgelords: Augusto Pinochet was a brutal prick and a greedy trougher. But, like the also-brutal Chiang regime in Taiwan — and utterly unlike every communist dictator — Pinochet eventually relinquished power. Today, Taiwan is a free, prosperous democracy. To damn him with faint praise, Pinochet likewise

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