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The @WHO's track record is poor. Giving them the power to force rules and regulations on the rest of us is a mistake. #originofcovid #stopthetreaty pic.twitter.com/gaYs9vjURH — Matt Ridley (@mattwridley) May 17, 2022 If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the

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The WHO Changes Guidelines to Favour Lockdowns

The WHO Changes Guidelines to Favour Lockdowns

Will Jones brownstone.org Will Jones is editor of the Daily Sceptic. The World Health Organisation intends to make lockdowns and other non-pharmaceutical interventions intended to curb viral spread part of official pandemic guidance. The revelation comes in a report scheduled to go to the WHO’s World Health Assembly

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Companies Should Stay Out of Politics

Dirk Matten York University, Canada Dirk Matten is a Professor at the Schulich School of Business, where he holds the Hewlett Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility and is the Associate Dean of Research, a role he previously served from 2014 to 2018. This week, McDonald’s announced its final

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What Does the Pandemic Treaty Do?

Michael Senger brownstone.org Michael P Senger is an attorney based in the United States. He has been researching the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on the world’s response to COVID-19 since March 2020, and previously authored China’s Global Lockdown Propaganda Campaign and The Masked Ball of

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this photo? Yesterday’s view was taken on approach to Nelson in an Air NZ ATR72. Please put View From My Window in the subject line. window@

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this photo? Yesterday’s view was the Gates of Haast bridge – Haast Pass – heading north west towards Haast on SH6. Please put View From My Window in

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Do you remember how Christian sportsman Israel Folau was attacked and cancelled because of his answer to a question on social media about homosexuality? Well, now it is the turn of Idrissa Gueye – a Muslim soccer player for French team Paris Saint-Germain. Unlike Folau who was cancelled for what he

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this photo? Yesterday’s view was of Tauranga harbour from Mt Maunganui, looking across to the Port of Tauranga and Tauranga city. Please put View From My

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this photo? Yesterday’s view was taken from an upstairs bedroom window in Half Moon Bay, Auckland, just before sunrise. Jupiter and Venus are in shot at

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Consumer Sentiment Dives in May

Robert Hughes aier.org Robert Hughes joined AIER in 2013 following more than 25 years in economic and financial markets research on Wall Street. Bob was formerly the head of Global Equity Strategy for Brown Brothers Harriman, where he developed equity investment strategy combining top-down macro analysis with bottom-up fundamentals.

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Schools to Provide Tampons in Boys’ Bathrooms

Simon Black sovereignman.com 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, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom,

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this photo? Yesterday’s view was of the garden towards the upper end of the Titahi Bay mall, from just outside the excellent T Bay Cafe. Please

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Selling Voyeurism: Companies Create Value from Taboo

Selling Voyeurism: Companies Create Value from Taboo

Trish Ruebottom McMaster University Madeline Toubiana L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa Maxim Voronov York University Canada Sean Buchanan University of Manitoba Trish Ruebottom is an associate professor of HR and management at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University. Madeline Toubiana is associate professor and the Desmarais Chair

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this photo? Yesterday’s view was from the top of the hill, SH25 Tairua to Whitianga Rd, Coromandel Peninsula. Please put View From My Window in the

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