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Darryl Betts Recently I made some new acquaintances and had the opportunity to spend some time talking with them on a rainy Saturday. Three intelligent, successful women who love their children, and also care about other people and their children. Like millions more throughout New Zealand – with strong ties to

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A Matter of Life and Death

A Matter of Life and Death

righttolife.org.uk Almost 1,500 women did not go through with their abortion after an initial consultation and a three-day consideration or waiting period, newly released data in Ireland has revealed. As part of a response to a parliamentary question in Ireland last week, it was revealed that there

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The BFD Word of the Day

The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is… doomsday (noun): 1 : a day of final judgment 2 : a time of catastrophic destruction and death Source : Online Etymology Dictionary Etymology : In medieval England doomsday was expected when the world’s age had reached 6,000 years from the creation, which was thought to have

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A Bit of Common Sense Would Go a Long Way

A Bit of Common Sense Would Go a Long Way

A new Ministry for Disabled People was announced on 29 October 2021. “Minister for Disability Issues Carmel Sepuloni and Health Minister Andrew Little announced the plans this afternoon, saying the government was delivering on its promise to reform disability systems. The planned reforms include: * Establishing a Ministry for Disabled People

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The BFD Word of the Day

The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is… gambol (verb): to skip about in play Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : In Middle French, the noun “gambade” referred to the frisky spring of a jumping horse. In the early 1500s, the English word gambol romped into print as both a verb and a noun. (The

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Drink Spiking: Why So Little Is Still Known about This Horrifying Trend

Lata Gautam Anglia Ruskin University Lata’s research interests and expertise lie in the chromatographic and mass spectrometric analysis of drugs of abuse and pharmaceutical compounds from different sample types (blood, urine, hair). The reopening of clubs and pubs has been accompanied by alarming reports of drink spiking – deliberately adding

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Veteran’s Body Used for Grisly Hipster Sideshow

Veteran’s Body Used for Grisly Hipster Sideshow

Someone who donates their body to scientific research might have a reasonable expectation their remains will be put to some useful purpose. Training medical students, perhaps. Even being turned into a crash-test dummy might ultimately save lives. Whatever the science-minded deceased might have expected, being turned into a grotesque sideshow

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Peterson Blasts COVID Mandates

Peterson Blasts COVID Mandates

Sarah Taylor from Blaze Media reports on what Jordan Peterson thinks about Covid mandates. In an interview with Dave Rubin, Peterson said that he believes the U.S. is quickly moving to a state of totalitarianism due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “The thing that surprised me the most, probably,

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The BFD Word of the Day

The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is… steampunk (noun): science fiction dealing with 19th-century societies dominated by historical or imagined steam-powered technology Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : “I think Victorian fantasies are going to be the next big thing, as long as we can come up with a fitting collective term for [Tim]

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Tidal Turbines Could Generate 11% Of the UK’s Power – New Research

Tidal Turbines Could Generate 11% Of the UK’s Power – New Research

Danny Coles University of Plymouth Danny is a Research Fellow in the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Engineering). He works on the INTERREG Tidal Stream Industry Energiser (TIGER) project. His research investigates aspects of tidal stream energy such as cost reduction, system integration, and resource

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Who Are We?

Who Are We?

Tom O’Connor MNZM, JP. SEPARATISM This is the third of a series of articles on inter-ethnic relationships in New Zealand in the early 21st century and the development of an informal duality of citizenship, the acceptance of that duality by community leaders and the long-term potential for dis-harmony. An

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The BFD Word of the Day

The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is… coeval (adjective): of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Coeval comes to English from the Latin word coaevus, meaning “of the same age.” “Coaevus” was formed by combining the “co-” prefix (“in or to the same degree”) with Latin

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The BFD Word of the Day

The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is… responsive (adjective): 1 : giving response 2 : quick to respond or react appropriately or sympathetically 3 : using responses Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Responsive comes from the joining of Latin responsus with the suffix -ivus, which gave English -ive. That suffix changes verbs into adjectives, as in

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Misinformation

Misinformation

Let me take you back to September when the great Siouxsie Wiles was caught out breaking Level 4 lockdown rules by sitting on a beach with a friend, who then went swimming. In spite of there being a video of these very events, Wiles responded by warning people about ‘misinformation‘

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