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As the US De-racializes, Australia Moves to Re-racialize the Constitution

Ramesh Thakur / July 12, 2023 / Policy, Society / 14 minute read

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Permanently codifying racial grievance into the Constitution will guarantee it is weaponised sometime in the not too distant future by activists making increasingly radical demands and stoking resentment and backlash. If approved, the Voice will not mark the end of a successful process of reconciliation but the beginning of fresh claims for co-sovereignty, treaty and reparations, using the constitutional voice as the enabling mechanism.

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The Future of Traditional Farming and Healthcare in the Netherlands

Carla Peeters / July 9, 2023 / Government, Policy, Public Health, Society / 15 minute read

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The Netherlands has been chosen as a pilot area in the EU to be climate neutral with a transition in protein food and a transformation of healthcare into a telemedicine, data, and AI-driven connected system approach led by Public Private Partnerships. A closure of 55-70 percent of traditional farming is foreseen to be replaced by tech-driven vertical farming, gene-edited crops, edible insects, veganism, 15-minute cities and a CBDC passport covering personal health data.

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The Hubris of Bending Modernity to Fauci’s Will

Justin Hart / July 5, 2023 / Policy, Technology / 3 minute read

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One might wonder, are they suggesting that we trade our modern conveniences and urban landscapes for a romanticized past where disease still ravaged populations, but we were more “in harmony” with nature? Were stay-at-home orders a proxy for keeping us from trodding foot on nature?

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Essential Reading for the Dissident, the Disenfranchised, the Disillusioned

Richard Kelly / June 29, 2023 / History, Policy / 5 minute read

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Stapleton’s book is a tale of supreme political hubris and arrogance, enough arrogance to imagine that a riot squad can control an airborne virus. Lewis brought in the gods to resolve the finale; Stapleton, too, brings the supernatural out into the open, spirits portentously looming over the future of our once free land.

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The Australian Gulag Archipelago

Paul Frijters,

Gigi Foster,

Michael Baker / June 28, 2023 / History, Policy / 7 minute read

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John covers all the important elements of the disaster befalling Australia: the arrogance of power, the delight of the bullies at having so many victims, the panic over trivialities, the desire for destruction, the suffering of the children and the lonely, the absurdity of the ever-changing rules, the corruption, the lies, and the oppressive sensation of being in a slow-motion disaster.

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A Look Back from Canadian Wildfires to Australian Bushfires and Floods

Ramesh Thakur / June 22, 2023 / History, Law, Policy / 20 minute read

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Reports and videos of the smoke and haze from the intense wildfires enveloping Canada and drifting down south into the US bring back vivid memories of Australia’s two-month long bushfires (in the Australian vernacular: Canberra is the country’s bush capital) three and a half years ago and floods last year. And so does the claim that the fires and floods validate the apocalyptic warnings and the ensuing impassioned debate over how much this is evidence of a climate emergency owing to anthropogenic global warming.

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Defining Dictator Down Won’t Make Us Free

James Bovard / June 20, 2023 / History, Law, Policy / 4 minute read

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Perhaps Biden could satisfy his gender-fluid supporters by coming out publicly and personally identifying as “non-dictator.” But other Americans will continue wryly watching the political rascality, laughing at the media’s snit-fits, and awaiting the next judicial demolition of Biden’s decrees.

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A Genealogy of Corporatism

Jeffrey A. Tucker / June 16, 2023 / Economics, Policy / 12 minute read

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Corporatism abolishes the competitive dynamic of competitive capitalism and replaces it with cartels run by oligarchs. It reduces growth and prosperity. It is invariably corrupt. It promises efficiency but yields only graft. It expands the gaps between rich and poor and creates and entrenches deep fissures between the rulers and ruled. It dispenses with localism, religious particularism, rights of families, and aesthetic traditionalism. It also ends in violence.

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Kennedy, DeSantis and a Covid Reckoning Election

Ramesh Thakur / June 16, 2023 / Government, Policy, Society / 17 minute read

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The political implications of DeSantis and Kennedy’s successful challenge against the establishment narrative on all things Covid would reverberate in many other Western democracies and encourage other major parties to differentiate themselves from the ruling establishment as lockdown and vaccine sceptics and opponents.

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Paying the Price for Campus Closures

Rob Jenkins / June 14, 2023 / Education, Policy / 7 minute read

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Could all this pain have been prevented if campuses had just reopened fully in the fall of 2020? Perhaps not—but much of it could have. At worst, we would have continued our gradual downhill roll toward the 2026 cliff, giving legislators and administrators plenty of time to prepare.

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The Meaning of the Cape Byron Lighthouse Declaration

Julie Sladden / June 14, 2023 / Policy, Public Health / 5 minute read

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Since its launch, the declaration has received international attention and signatures from around the world including France, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, the UK, and the US with numbers increasing daily. Healthcare, nor the people it serves, cannot thrive in the presence of censorship, coercion, and unethical behaviour. So, the time has come to remind ourselves, our governments, and our leaders of the core foundations.

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Bad Policy Assures a Perpetual Sense of Burning Crisis

el gato malo / June 13, 2023 / Policy / 8 minute read

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So yes, this is 100% a political issue, but it’s not the one it’s being represented as. This is a policy fail. That which worked was abandoned for that which sounded good to a few eco-rubes, and now we are all paying the price. Reality is not optional, and ecology denial is a very expensive foible. It’s time we stopped pretending that there are no trade-offs here and begin (once more) doing the sensible thing.

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