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Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor Thursday night after a busy day meeting lots of business owners I got the chills and a massive headache. I was not too surprised as several of my meetings in the last two days had missing staff off at home recovering. I didn’t get jabbed, I don’

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Remember the Battles of Grozny 1994-5 and 1999-2000

Remember the Battles of Grozny 1994-5 and 1999-2000

Dear Editor Putin is now waiting to see if reason plus force works.  Like a cat toying with a mouse. Russia destroyed Grozny to subdue the Chechen revolution.  When reason didn’t work, they tried force.  When force didn’t work, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin succeeded with total annihilation.  To start,

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What Is Happening in My Country

What Is Happening in My Country

Dear Editor I am a Covid Exile, having returned to my birth country (USA) due to the closed borders in NZ preventing us from being able to see relatives here for the past 2 years. I miss my home (NZ) very much, but current government plans make it look like

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Letter to the Editor: Freedom Protests

Letter to the Editor: Freedom Protests

Dear Editor There’s a palpable absence of any news journalists walking amongst the Wellington protestors, interviewing them and asking them probing questions about their cause.  There is no in-depth reporting on the other protests happening either. Nothing.  Zilch. Where has our media gone? What we are left with is

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The Pressure to Get a Booster

The Pressure to Get a Booster

Dear Editor “Go get the booster” demand all our politicians, yet not one single one of them have acknowledged my issue. I watched Chris Luxon speaking with reporters a week or so ago about our traffic light system. Whilst he came across well and seemed to have given a lot

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Aotearoa or New Zealand?
NZ

Aotearoa or New Zealand?

Dear Editor The increasing use of Aotearoa or Aotearoa New Zealand and a corresponding drop in the use of  New Zealand, without any mandate from the people, is of concern. We had a referendum a few years ago on changing our flag and that is how such changes should be

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Council Scared of Paper Cuts?

Council Scared of Paper Cuts?

Dear Editor It looks like the Ashburton District Council is doing its best to exacerbate the country’s housing crisis by applying the brakes to their consent process. Subject: ADC Update under Red Traffic Light Setting Good morning, The following is an update to council’s position under the Red

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Report from the Front

Report from the Front

Dear Editor Yesterday I went to offer my support to the TFRC vigil outside Mt Eden prison and on the way I initially thought I’d offer to get them takeaway coffees or something; thinking maybe there would be a few people under a gazebo. When I got there I

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Those Times Are Gone Forever Now

Those Times Are Gone Forever Now

Dear Editor It was good to catch up with my daughter and her children the other day. It was a lovely sunny afternoon and the kids were excitedly playing in the garden as she told us about their recent trip to Rotorua. My daughter apologised for being a bit late

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Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, Season’s Greetings and thanks to all BFD staff for sterling work building up the site in tremendously difficult circumstances during 2021. On the 16th of December, fed up with our New Zealand Ministers of Parliament’s inability or unwillingness to confront Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s repeated

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Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor The Australian government’s high-handed treatment of Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic because of his refusal to have the Covid vaccination not only highlights the weakness of the case for the jab but also suggests that Djokovic’s state of health is not the real reason for threatening

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Letter to the Editor: Clause 9

Letter to the Editor: Clause 9

Dear Editor Hi there I just read the article about the Oliver MMA business.  I have sent the business the below link, which is an interview with Auckland lawyer Liz Lambert discussing how Work Safe have no authority to impose fines, and that the mandate regulations have Clause 9 that

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Letter to the Editor: Snitch Culture
NZ

Letter to the Editor: Snitch Culture

Dear Editor New Zealand is becoming a ‘Snitch Culture’ (or perhaps it is ‘Aotearoa’ that is the snitch culture?), in ways that go beyond Covid. Many aircraft now transmit digital position and altitude information, and there are websites that display the IDs, tracks and altitudes of aircraft. All good for

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Letter to the Editor: Dangerous Extremists
NZ

Letter to the Editor: Dangerous Extremists

Dear Editor I think we would be better off without all these dangerous extremists. You know who I’m talking about: the kind of fringe nutters who think everyone should be allowed to just waltz into a cafe or a bar whenever they feel like it without showing their papers.

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