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Free Speech Means Freedom to Communicate in Any Language

Free Speech Means Freedom to Communicate in Any Language

Stuart Smith MP for Kaikoura Spokesperson for Climate Change, EQC and Viticulture Information Opinion Last week I wrote about the significance of Te Reo as a language in New Zealand. There is also no doubt that Maori culture should be valued and cherished in New Zealand. But it should come

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Thought Police Come Calling in VicSoc

Thought Police Come Calling in VicSoc

Many BFD readers will have seen footage taken by ordinary Kiwis when police turn up on their doorsteps “for a little chat” about their social media posts. “Hold my capsicum spray”, say Victoria police. In footage that has to be seen to be believed, citizens in Australia are sharing with

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Rejecting the Government’s ‘Them and Us’ Scenario

Rejecting the Government’s ‘Them and Us’ Scenario

The BFD Transcript Kerre McIvor Mornings on Newstalk ZB Monday 27 September 2021 11:15, starts 3:11 minutes in. Cam: I just wanted to make a very quick comment. Umm…I’m a Maori myself, married to a Pakeha. Kerre: Yup. Cam: So, we are two peoples coming together

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‘Aotearoa’ Petition Highlights Lack of Press Freedom

‘Aotearoa’ Petition Highlights Lack of Press Freedom

Hobson’s Pledge Trust Our petition calling on the Prime Minister to delete any reference in official communication to any name for our nation other than New Zealand has drawn a big response and has shown the extent to which the mainstream media blacklists anything other than the approved narrative.

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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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A Rubber Bullet to the Soul of Melbourne

A Rubber Bullet to the Soul of Melbourne

I was shocked to see paramilitary police firing rubber bullets on the steps of Flinders Street Station. Words cannot describe what I felt at watching marching ranks of heavily-armoured police, rifles cracking fire, smoke from tear gas grenades swirling around them, swarming onto the steps of the Shrine of Remembrance.

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Germany Wants to Force Gab to Censor, It’s Not Happening

Germany Wants to Force Gab to Censor, It’s Not Happening

Andrew Torba CEO, Gab.com Only Jesus Saves This week we received a huge packet of documents with fines and legal threats from the nation state of Germany. Gab is refusing, and has refused for many years, to comply with the German Network Enforcement Act. Gab is a US company

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Op-Ed: Protecting Your Data during COVID-19

Op-Ed: Protecting Your Data during COVID-19

Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities As I write this column I am thinking about the extra weeks of economic hardship still lying ahead for many Kiwi businesses in the Auckland region during Level 3 and Level 2 in the rest of

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Somehow They Still Can’t Understand Why Nobody Trusts the System

Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom,

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They’re Burning Books Again

They’re Burning Books Again

Radical, racially-obsessive socialists are burning books again. This is as certain to end well as it did when last they “commit to the flames the evil spirit of the past”. As it was in the 1930s, the “cleansing by fire” is being spearheaded by educational institutions. Plus ça change… or

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Left Suddenly Alarmed at Police Cyber-Tracking of Citizens

Joe Schaeffer libertynation.com Political Columnist at LibertyNation.com Joe Schaeffer is a veteran journalist with 20+ years’ experience. He spent 15 years with The Washington Times, including 8+ years as Managing Editor of the newspaper’s popular National Weekly Edition. A vexing thing about slippery slopes: The boulders tumbling

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Academic Intolerance: Professor’s Full Resignation Letter

Academic Intolerance: Professor’s Full Resignation Letter

CFACT Ed cfact.org CFACT — We’re freedom people. Dear Provost Susan Jeffords, I’m writing to you today to resign as assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University. Over the last decade, it has been my privilege to teach at the university. My specialties are critical thinking, ethics

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