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Lockdowns Must Stop

New Conservative Ted Johnston New Conservative Spokesman New Conservative states the Labour government’s Covid 19 response strategy of ongoing lockdowns must stop. New Zealanders are tired of these continued restrictions on movement and freedom.  Businesses are suffering with people digging into their retirement and other savings just to stay

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Tova Eats Humble Pie

Many a politician or their ilk has been ‘wasted’ on Newshub Nation by Tova O’Brien so Judith Collins was right to be wary of suffering the same fate when asked to go on Nation. She said ‘Not Tova’, and Tova crowed about this comment on Newshub. Anyway a compromise

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Prime Minister, a Little Less Conversation Please

Prime Minister, a Little Less Conversation Please

While the rest of the “Team of $55 million” in Big Media were dribbling over a video of Jacinda Ardern walking in Wellington, claiming it went viral, they missed the real viral explosion all over her Facebook page. Quite why she decided to offer up unsolicited medical advice on Facebook

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Just a PPE Dream

Just a PPE Dream

Chris Penk First published by The BFD 28th June 2020 The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Just a PPE dream As we’ve seen, the perception of widely available testing proved, on closer inspection, to be a

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Will Teflon Dan Ever Be Held to Account?

Will Teflon Dan Ever Be Held to Account?

The madness of crowds is one thing, but a state of more than six million people succumbing to Stockholm Syndrome is quite another. Yet how else to explain the mad enthusiasm of so many Victorians for their odious, corrupt, incompetent socialist premier? Easily the worst premier in the nation, especially

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This 10-PAGE Book Could Improve Your Mental Health in a Pandemic

MichelleWheeler particle.scitech.org.au Michelle is a former science and environment reporter for The West Australian. Her work has seen her visit a snake-infested island dubbed the most dangerous in the world, test great white shark detectors in a tinny and meet isolated tribes in the Malaysian jungle.

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Just Who Are the ‘Vaccine Hesitant’?

Just Who Are the ‘Vaccine Hesitant’?

Who are the “vaccine hesitant”, and why? If you were to believe the mainstream media and smug social media vaxholes, it’s all about white, male, foil-hatted conspiracy theorists and “Karens”. Like all mainstream media narratives, of course, it’s a sneering lie. The fact is that people who

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‘Those Who Torment Us for Our Own Good Will Torment Us without End’

Hendrik van der Breggen mercatornet.com Hendrik van der Breggen, PhD, is a retired philosophy professor (formerly at Providence University College, Canada) who is double vaccinated, is inclined to think vaccinations are wise (especially if one has a high-risk profile for Covid-19), but probably wouldn’t have gotten

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Computer Models: Garbage In = Garbage Out.

Computer Models: Garbage In = Garbage Out.

Angus Aardvark Computer modelling is very useful: I developed models and used them for many years of commercial prediction work. They are a really powerful tool. But ONLY if you have plenty of feedback and constantly update the model so it can tweak itself to match the real world. Essentially

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Trendsetter Siouxsie

Trendsetter Siouxsie

September at a sunny Auckland beach. Two weeks later at a sunny Auckland beach. Please share this article so that others can discover The BFD

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Letter to the Editor: Stuff Sells Out

Letter to the Editor: Stuff Sells Out

Dear Editor This latest Stuff campaign might be of interest to you: interactives.stuff.co.nz/2021/the-whole-truth-covid-19-vaccine This Stuff campaign has received funding from the Google News Initiative * newsinitiative.withgoogle.com/intl/en_gb/covid-vaccine-counter-misinfo-fund/how-to-apply/#faqs How

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