Those of us who don’t believe in getting vaccinated and wearing masks are a stubborn lot. Despite everything the Labour Government says and does, we refuse to believe we should have to get the jab and wear masks. I’ll admit it. I don’t have much of an
Remember how back in the day methamphetamine was everywhere? And remember Paul Holmes going on a campaign against meth after his daughter got hooked and how he got pseudoephedrine banned from chemists’ shelves? According to the media it was a full-on crisis. Well, here are some graphs. And remember how
As you will no doubt know we now have a new health system. Yes, the old racist, white-man health system is gone and has been replaced by an inclusive, non-racist, non-sexist, non-transphobic health system. Today New Zealand launches a new health system replacing 20 district health boards with a national
Back in the not-so-dark days of 2014 MP Judith Collins found herself embroiled in a scandal involving alleged nepotism. This is how Newshub saw it at the time, deeming it so important as to be “breaking news”: Judith Collins went on a taxpayer-funded visit to China last year. In her
It was once said that New Zealand, oops I mean “Aotearoa”, was five years behind the United States. Now it seems that we’re in lockstep, and not in a good way. In an event organised by Axios, titled “A conversation on battling misinformation”, White House National Climate Advisor Gina
According to Jacinda Ardern, despite a massive increase in armed robberies and gun violence, shopkeepers shouldn’t arm themselves. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said arming business owners is not the answer to the recent spate of crimes the small island nation is currently experiencing, including ram raids by
As you will likely know, Johnny Depp won his lawsuit against Amber Heard. Unsurprisingly, the mainstream media have found a way to somehow turn this into a massive defeat for women everywhere. And now, after seven weeks and dozens of witnesses, the jury in the Johnny Depp v Amber Heard
As you will know, Elon Musk is in the process of buying Twitter. This naturally has caused panic in the Titterverse. Blaze Media explains: During a presentation to woo investors, Elon Musk laid out his plans for what actions he intends on implementing when he takes over Twitter. Musk reportedly
Consider this report by Stuff on the recent Buffalo shooting. Notice how we’re told that the gunman was white, nine out of the 11 victims were black and that the attack was racially motivated. Here’s an excerpt from another report by the mainstream media: A white 18-year-old wearing
You may have noticed that Bitcoin has gone from a high of $69k USD in November, hovering around the $40k mark the last month or so, and sliding to under $30k this past week. The main causes of this have been two: the fall in tech stocks and the failure
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
Tony Hall is a former San Francisco DA. He’s seen the results of prohibition and drug dependency up close. In other words, he knows what he’s talking about. Here’s his solution to the drug crisis, particularly with regard to the black market. The black market supplying drugs
A few weeks I ago I wrote an article for The BFD titled “What Co-Governance Really Means”. As part of the article I wrote the following: If you accept the interpretation [that the Treaty of Waitangi is an unequal partnership] to be the correct one then giving a Maori Health
Information Opinion In the late 1970s, a series of experiments were conducted by Canadian psychologist Bruck K Alexander that purported to show that drug addiction was caused by social isolation. The experiment involved putting rats in small cages with the choice of plain water or morphine. The rats in the
Warning Opinion If you’re anything like me, you’ll look at people wearing masks when walking down the street or driving in their cars and wonder why they are doing it. Well, I have the answer for you. It’s because they genuinely believe that Covid is “in the
Last Thursday The BFD published an article by Dr Muriel Newman called “Call Co-governance What It Really Is…tribal Rule” The core message is that democratically-elected DHBs will be replaced by two agencies, one called “Health New Zealand” and the other a Maori Health Authority, with the Maori Health Authority
