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
In what must be one of the most stunning events relating to state handling of the Covid pandemic (unreported by the mainstream media of course), none other than the European Parliament has savagely denounced Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of vaccine mandate protests. The Blaze reports: Canadian Prime
There is no doubt that Covid death counts have been grossly exaggerated not just here but the world over. One particular example is in Massachusetts. The Blaze explains. The Massachusetts Department of Health announced this week that it would be tweaking its health tracking methodology after the approach led to
Just a few days ago the Spectator Australia published a hit piece on Jacinda Ardern and her Government. It’s so scathing that if the Spectator were Putin and Jacinda were Ukraine, Ukraine would be a wasteland. […]However, like so many of the Left, her understanding of how the wheels
Information Opinion At the Wellington protest that was forcibly ended by the Labour Government and its enablers on Wednesday, there were a variety of voices. Some people were there because they were against mask or vaccine mandates. Others were there because they had lost their jobs or their businesses. Some
What do the Wars on Drugs, Climate Change, and Covid all have in common? Answer: they can all be expressed as follows: We must do X in order to prevent Y where Y is a threat of biblical proportions and X is taking extreme action to prevent the threat, most
It’s now official. Canada under Trudeau is now a dictatorship. On Monday, the Canadian government announced drastic plans to freeze the bank accounts of protesters associated with the Freedom Convoy – a movement that’s standing against vaccine mandates. However, the government document containing these plans, which was published by
Imagine playing against a team that was split, inferior, and that had no clear strategy. And you still lose. Imagine also that the team says that you cheat and don’t play fair. And to prove them right you go ahead and cheat and play unfairly. And you still lose.
Information Opinion Do you believe that men can have babies? Apple apparently does. Fox News reports: A “pregnant man” emoji and “pregnant person” emoji are coming to Apple iPhones with its latest update, iOS 15.4 sparking controversy. The pregnant emoji aren’t new for some, since they arrived as
Throughout history there have been tyrants. What they all have in common is that in some way they have all been defeated. Below is a list of tyrants and how they were defeated and the advantages and disadvantages of each method. If you happen to be under the rule of
Well, I’m shocked. According to a study reported in The Guardian, face masks actually make you make more attractive. There have been precious few positives during the Covid pandemic but British academics may have unearthed one: people look more attractive in protective masks. Researchers at Cardiff University were surprised
In the UK in the early 1990s, the rave culture was making incursions into licensed venues and young people were abandoning alcohol in favour of the “party drug” known as Ecstasy. In short, the UK alcohol market was shrinking. What was a poor but mega-rich alcohol industry to do? Ecstasy
