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37 Percent of Truckers Will Not Comply with Vaccine Mandate

Sundance theconservativetreehouse.com A very interesting interview with Chris Spear, president and CEO of the American Trucking Association. During a House Transportation Committee hearing on supply chain issues, CEO Chris Spear shares an internal survey showing that 37% of truck drivers “not only said no, but said hell no” to

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Why the Groundswell Protests Matter

Why the Groundswell Protests Matter

I watched the Groundswell protest in Westport this weekend. Westport is a small place, and didn’t even run a Groundswell protest last time. But this time, they were there in spades… tractors, trucks, utes, even large articulated vehicles from the local carrier. And the best part was the support

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Business of the Day

Business of the Day

Business of the Day is a new segment on The BFD where we promote businesses who have the strength of character to stand up for the basic human rights of their fellow human beings. Red Bridge Coffee redbridgecoffee.co.nz Over the Red Bridge, located on a farm paddock in

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Why Is Auckland Still Restricted?

Why Is Auckland Still Restricted?

David Seymour ACT Leader While people ask whether the Government will ‘let’ Auckland go to Alert Level 3 Step 3, a better approach is to cast off the Stockholm Syndrome and ask why hairdressers and hospitality should stay shut. The restrictions are not there to help social cohesion. People follow

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Time to Talk about the Economy

Time to Talk about the Economy

In June of this year, government debt had ballooned to $102 billion, from $58 billion in 2019. Yes, there has been a pandemic, and the cost of wage subsidies, business support, medical equipment and setting up testing stations and MIQ has been considerable, but this was a huge jump by

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Business of the Day

Business of the Day

Business of the Day is a new segment on The BFD where we promote businesses who have the strength of character to stand up for the basic human rights of their fellow human beings. The Black Shed Location: The Black Shed Napier is located at 36 Awatoto Road in Meeanee,

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Cyberattacks to Critical Infrastructure Threaten Our Safety and Well-Being

Jason Jaskolka Carleton University Dr. Jason Jaskolka is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering and the Director of the Cyber Security Evaluation and Assurance (CyberSEA) Research Lab at Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada. What would happen if you could no longer use the technological systems

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Last Nail in the City’s Coffin

Last Nail in the City’s Coffin

Vera Stanton I’m an ex-pat Kiwi currently living in Hong Kong where I have been for more than a decade. I’m writing about what I see as the complete politicisation of the Covid response, to the point where it threatens the existence of Hong Kong as I have

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Business of the Day

Business of the Day

Business of the Day is a new segment on The BFD where we promote businesses who have the strength of character to stand up for the basic human rights of their fellow human beings. The Skin Spot Clinic in Tauranga is non-discriminatory and welcoming. Their ad says: “Everyone who is

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Newsflash: Huge Drop In Jobseeker Numbers!

Newsflash: Huge Drop In Jobseeker Numbers!

Lindsay Mitchell Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio, tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits

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Letter to the Editor: Grant Robertson the Glib

Letter to the Editor: Grant Robertson the Glib

Dear Editor Are we really supposed to believe that Grant Robertson was not previously aware and had to be told, upon condescendingly visiting the exiled Auckland kingdom, that hair salons could not open but beauty therapists could; that these locked down hairdressers were suffering, being forced out of business or

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Strong Support For Testing To Keep Jobs – Poll

Strong Support For Testing To Keep Jobs – Poll

Family First A nationwide poll has found significant support from New Zealanders for regular testing to be allowed as an option so that kiwis can keep their jobs. In the poll of 1,000 New Zealanders surveyed by Curia Market Research, respondents were first asked: Do you support or oppose

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Is David Fisher Wrong?

Is David Fisher Wrong?

Information Opinion David ‘Tainted‘ Fisher, hack journalist for ‘A Newspaper‘ and all around (allegedly) duplicitous scumbag, has been paid (presumably) to write a piece for his employer where he waxes lyrical about the probability (he wishes?) that there will be a domestic terrorist attack in our fair land some time

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Government’s Plan Creates Summer of Chaos

Government’s Plan Creates Summer of Chaos

Yesterday’s announcement by the Prime Minister of a decision and an announcement that may happen in December is just the latest sign the Government has utterly lost the plot, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. “This is an announcement that in two weeks’ time there will be an

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Tell Us about the Border

Tell Us about the Border

David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s announcement on boosters showed how all announcements should be done. Cabinet made the decision; the Prime Minister immediately shared the information with the public. People now know what the Government will do, and when. We now know that if you had your vaccine

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