Sometimes, declarations of victory are, like rumours of Mark Twain’s death, not just greatly exaggerated but ludicrously premature. Who can forget George W. Bush triumphantly declaring “Mission accomplished!” in 2003 — when 18 years of grinding insurgency, including the rise of ISIS, lay ahead? Then there’s the Chicago Daily
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Was political corruption involved in the dishing out of millions of dollars by government ministers to tourism businesses? We can’t know, because the Government didn’t keep sufficient records or have proper processes for the handouts. That’s the obvious question arising from a scathing
The polls are showing that people don’t love the tyrant any more. People now openly despise her and there are even banners being flown around the skies of Auckland telling the tyrant we don’t love her anymore. What is a tyrant to do when the populace won’t
Mt Hobson Academy At the start of 2022 Mt Hobson Academy Connected (Online) was launched. It was done in the midst of all of the uncertainty and loss of learning due to covid but the real motivation was to make high-quality academics available across the whole nation and to significantly
Stuff has reported on the extent of media bludging from government troughs. It is eye-watering just how much taxpayer coin some media organisations have availed themselves of. Media companies large and small claimed funding from the Government’s media package last year. In April 2020, Broadcasting, Communications and Media Minister
If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer John Black. The Two Winstons Like a bear that couldn’t stand his hibernation a moment longer, Winston Peters
FreeNZ Editorial Warning Long Read. 1421 words. As I sit here pondering the announcement from the ‘pulpit of truth’, I feel somewhat aggrieved by it. I have struggled while observing how the mandates, and this vaccine, have affected the attitudes of New Zealanders over the past few months. I cannot
Capitalist Information Opinion As I write under the pen name of ‘Capitalist’ (chosen because ‘Sex God’ seemed unlikely to result in anything being published) it is appropriate to discuss profit-making undertakings and issue a word of caution about something which has troubled me for a while. When you invest money
NZDSOS New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science This presentation is based on information that was given to the members of the New Zealand Health Select Committee and the New Zealand Police. Feel free to print out or download this presentation to a USB drive and distribute it. We are
If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer John Black. Time to Be the National Party One of a few treasured photographs from my undistinguished university career
There must be a public poll coming. How do I know? Easy, the tyrant Jacinda Ardern is posting inane rubbish on social media and her lickspittles in the media slavishly leap on the posts and create ‘news’ out of it. It’s a shell game she loves playing with you
We are running another fantastic giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of A Jab in the Dark: Covid Vaccines and the new Health Dictatorship by Ron Asher. On the 1st of May, we will give away three copies to three lucky BFD members. We will use an
Victims of crime missed out on support they were entitled to because Justice Minister Kris Faafoi failed to sign off the criteria for a $3 million victim support fund for more than five months after the fund was announced, National’s Justice spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Earlier this month it
