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Democracy, It Was Nice Knowing You

Ever since Plato got his aristocratic knickers in a bunch at the idea of letting the hoi polloi (an ancient Greek expression, meaning “deplorables”) have a say in running things, certain groups have been unable to let go of the conceit that everything would be just fine if they were

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WHO Should Control New Zealand’s Sovereign Rights?
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WHO Should Control New Zealand’s Sovereign Rights?

Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. Warning Long read. 1624 words. Information

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Economics Does Not Diverge from Public Health

Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and 10 books in five languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of

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The New Rift between WHO and China

Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of

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Biden Just Made the Gas Crisis Worse

Biden Just Made the Gas Crisis Worse

Hannah Cox fee.org Hannah Cox is the Content Manager and Brand Ambassador for the Foundation for Economic Education. Americans are already struggling under the weight of crippling inflation, from skyrocketing gas prices to exorbitant grocery bills. And even if few Americans thought the Biden Administration had a plan to

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The Red Dawn Email Dump: February-March 2020

Brownstone Institute brownstone.org The Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research is a nonprofit organisation conceived of in May 2021 in support of a society that minimises the role of violence in public life. The gigantic mess called lockdown began with an email thread called Red Dawn in early

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Govt Cannot Be Trusted With Emergency Powers

Paul Elias Alexander brownstone.org Dr. Paul Alexander is an epidemiologist focusing on clinical epidemiology, evidence-based medicine, and research methodology. He has a master’s in epidemiology from University of Toronto, and a master’s degree from Oxford University. Warning Long read. 1818 words. In the last week, some

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What Wellington Has in Common with Berlin

What Wellington Has in Common with Berlin

What does Jacinda Ardern’s New Zealand have in common with Germany? No, it’s not just crappy weather and a reflexive urge to follow rules and obey orders, and you wish it was the beer. No, what New Zealand and Germany have in common is that they’re both

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The Rise of the New Normal Reich

The Rise of the New Normal Reich

CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org DISCLAIMER: The essay is entirely the work of our in-house satirist and self-appointed political pundit, CJ Hopkins, and does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the Consent Factory, Inc., or its staff, or any of its agents, subsidiaries, or assigns. If, for

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Hypocrites Back to Digging for Coal

Hypocrites Back to Digging for Coal

Duggan Flanakin cfact.org Duggan Flanakin is the Director of Policy Research at 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.

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Can China Buy Friends Forever?

Can China Buy Friends Forever?

God damn Mark Steyn: he always steals the best lines. Especially about China. It was Steyn who, pointing out China’s inescapable demographic trajectory, wrote that unless it’s “planning on becoming the first gay superpower since Sparta”, what’s it going to do with all its un-paired young

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Will Reverence for Rules Be the Lasting Legacy of Covid?

Will Reverence for Rules Be the Lasting Legacy of Covid?

David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. A significant part of the world has by now accepted that Covid-19 is part of the normal cycle of flus and colds and, as such, should not

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Will a Good Ol’ Nuclear War Make Hillary Feel Better?

Will a Good Ol’ Nuclear War Make Hillary Feel Better?

As I pondered more than a month ago, is NATO, the US especially, exploiting Ukraine to fight a proxy war against Russia? Well, we don’t have to wonder any more, because that’s exactly what they’re telling us. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has openly admitted that

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Taking Away Your Right to Choose

Would you allow the State to decide what is misinformation and what isn’t, to suppress speech it considers “dangerous”? Well that is exactly what is happening. In an interview on CNN’s State of The Union, anchor Dana Bash asked DHS [United States Department of Homeland Security] Secretary Alejandro

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