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An Open Letter to Jacinda Ardern

Annabelle Borne out of my frustration from not being heard, I published the following open letter to Jacinda Ardern on my Facebook page. Online and by email, I have asked MOH and Unite Against COVID 19 questions but have not received answers regarding reporting on deaths and hospitalisations. My hope

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ISIS Are Now China’s Problem

ISIS Are Now China’s Problem

As I wrote recently, China is hopping into the recently-vacated “graveyard of empires” with astonishing haste. The last US helicopter had barely lifted off when China’s foreign minister was hosting the Taliban and preparing to sign a series of deals in order to get at Afghanistan’s valuable

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Totalitarianism, Violence against Women and an Overdue Olympic Boycott?

Totalitarianism, Violence against Women and an Overdue Olympic Boycott?

MacIntosh Ross Biao Teng mercatornet.com MacIntosh Ross is an assistant professor in kinesiology at Western University in Ontario. Biao Teng is Pozen Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. On Nov. 2, 2021, Chinese tennis pro Peng Shuai took to Weibo — a Chinese microblogging site — to recount her alleged

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Simpsons and Disney Grovel and Self-Censor

Simpsons and Disney Grovel and Self-Censor

Despite its self-serving revisionism, Hollywood took its sweet time deciding that “Nazis are bad, mmkay?” For the whole of the 1930s, Hollywood explicitly refrained from criticising or satirising the Nazi regime in any form. It wasn’t until 1940 that the Three Stooges released You Nazty Spy!, the first

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COVID-Variants

COVID-Variants

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Why Are So Many Choosing a Life in a Cage?

Why Are So Many Choosing a Life in a Cage?

Brownstone Institute brownstone.org The Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research is a nonprofit organization conceived of in May 2021 in support of a society that minimizes the role of violence in public life. Dr. Julie Ponesse is a professor of ethics who has taught at Ontario’s Huron

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French Rise against ‘Le Wokisme’

French Rise against ‘Le Wokisme’

It was probably inevitable the French would fiercely resist the slide into pronoun wokeism — or wokisme, as they call it, across the Channel. After all, not only are the French fiercely protective of their language, but the whole nonsense of “gender theory” is an academic lunacy dreamt up in that

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‘Nu Variant’ Hysteria Is Déjà vu

‘Nu Variant’ Hysteria Is Déjà vu

Jordan Schachtel ronpaulinstitute.org What a small world we live in. The “Nu variant” scare you keep hearing about is coming from the same people and institutions that spawned the last COVID scare, and the one before that, and the one before that one, dating back all the way to

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The Moral Panic over Absinthe Lasted 100 Years

The Moral Panic over Absinthe Lasted 100 Years

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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Norway Runs Out of Other People’s Money for EVs

Norway Runs Out of Other People’s Money for EVs

Electric cars are supposedly the wonder-transport of the future. Except that, as I’ve previously posted, the reality falls far short of the hype. On an environmental analysis, there’s little support for the claim that EVs are “better for the planet”. Nor is there much of a moral

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Pathologized Totalitarianism 101

Pathologized Totalitarianism 101

CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org So, GloboCap has crossed the Rubicon. The final phase of its transformation of society into a pathologized-totalitarian dystopia, where mandatory genetic-therapy injections and digital compliance papers are commonplace, is now officially underway. On November 19, 2021, the government of New Normal Austria decreed that,

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A False and Malicious Charge

A False and Malicious Charge

Dr Sheree Trotter israelinstitute.nz Apartheid is a potent term and one that occupies a special place in New Zealand’s social and political memory. Many New Zealanders remember the passion of the 1981 Springbok tour protests. Rugby lovers grumbled about sport and politics being mixed, while many students enthusiastically

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No Diplomatic Win for China at ASEAN

No Diplomatic Win for China at ASEAN

If the Australia-China relationship for the past two years was a David-Goliath diplomatic war, a winner is slowly emerging. As in the Biblical fable, it’s not the giant. China’s international image has been tainted enough by its lies and obfuscations over the origins of the Wuhan

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President Herzog Calls for Tougher Action against Iran

President Herzog Calls for Tougher Action against Iran

bicom.org.uk What happened: President Isaac Herzog completed his trip to the UK with a meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson. * Herzog implored Johnson to take a tough stance in nuclear negotiations with Iran, due to restart in Vienna next week.  Herzog said: “We are looking forward for our

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