Tag: Viewpoints

Lack of Government Action on Chinese Interference Seems to Be What Led to CSIS Leaks

February 18, 2023
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Commentary I’ll never forget July 18, 1983. It was my first day on the job at the Communications Security Establishment, Canada’s signals intelligence (SIGINT) agency. I was all of 22 years old, days out of an MA from Western University and ready to start my first full-time job as a translator at the Department of…

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A Potential Blow to Australian Religious Schools

February 18, 2023
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Commentary The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has released a consultation paper on the “Religious Education Institutions and Anti-Discrimination Laws,” which proposes the near complete removal of any protections to these organisations. According to John Steenhof, principal lawyer at the Human Rights Law Alliance, “If made into law, these proposals are likely to have radical,…

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Irvine Unified’s ‘Continuous Improvement Council’: A Social Engineering Experiment

February 17, 2023
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Commentary The Irvine Unified School District (IUSD) in Orange County, Calif., has a plethora of advisory committees devoted to advising the board and administration on a wide variety of matters. Intertwined with all these committees is the “Continuous Improvement Council” charged with oversight of the district’s “Continuous Improvement Efforts.” This Council has been in place…

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Media Hysteria Fuels Anti-Gun Panic

February 17, 2023
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Commentary Emotionalism is the worst way to deal with policies. Yet it’s the main force behind the media hysteria pushing gun control. Especially by the Los Angeles Times, the main gun-control force in California. This is shown by two recent opinion articles they ran. Calina Ciobanu, a teacher and writer in Los Angeles, on Feb….

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Who’s Too Old to Be President?

February 17, 2023
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Commentary During the first big interview of her presidential run, Nikki Haley had no response when asked by Sean Hannity how she differed from Donald Trump in even one area of policy. It was an unimpressive performance, considering how long the former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador must have been mulling her White House…

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Why the Russian-Ukraine War Is a Teachable Moment for Southeast Asia

February 17, 2023
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Commentary Sometimes it’s good to get out of town and gain a new perspective on things. In my case, I got out of the United States entirely—to Singapore, in fact, where I recently attended a conference addressing the “lessons of the Russia-Ukraine war.” From the standpoint of Southeast Asia, the war has had several ramifications….

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My Book Is Being Burned

February 17, 2023
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Commentary On Jan. 25, 2023, Ghent University banned the use of my book “The Psychology of Totalitarianism” in the course “Critique of Society and Culture.” That happened in the aftermath of a media storm that erupted in September 2022 following my interviews with Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones. I already wrote about that in a previous essay. Following these media appearances, Ghent…

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3 Years In, How Did the Lockdowns Go?

February 17, 2023
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Commentary Three years ago this month, a very small group of highly guarded ruling-class people from the UK, United States, and Europe, were gathering to figure out how to lock down the country and the world. They held Zoom meetings and went to burner phones and plotted how to convince Trump to betray his own…

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China Lasers Hawaii, Prepares for War

February 17, 2023
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Originally published by Gatestone Institute Commentary On Jan. 28, the Subaru-Asahi Star Camera, which livestreams images from the Subaru Telescope on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, caught images of a shower of green laser beams lasting just seconds. The beams were not, as originally thought, from a NASA satellite. They could have come from only one source:…

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The Risk of CCP Influence on the DOJ for National Security and Legal System

February 17, 2023
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Commentary The Department of Justice (DOJ) is the backbone of the American legal system, responsible for enforcing the law and ensuring that justice is served. Recently, however, there have been concerns about the influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on the DOJ and the potential threats that it poses to the American legal system…

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