The BFD Video: How Bill Gates Monopolized Global Health
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The BFD Video: Answering Your Marijuana Questions
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From Moloch to Tlaloc: The Tears of the Young
As I wrote recently on The BFD, governments’ approach to the Chinese Virus pandemic might well be termed the “Moloch Option”, referring to the ancient Mediterranean practice of sacrificing the young to placate malevolent forces. Human sacrifice and especially child sacrifice was a nasty enough business, but some were worse
Reason Number Four: Dope Is Addictive & Harmful – It Wrecks Lives
‘WRECKREATIONAL’ DRUGS “Recreational” drug use is a misnomer – put a ‘w’ on the front and you’d be closer to the truth Former Wellington coroner Garry Evans As commercialisation increases in legalized states, false advertising of marijuana products as being “natural” and “healthier than alcohol and tobacco” have greatly decreased
Mean Age of COVID-19 Death Equal to Average Life Expectancy
Simon Thornley covidplanb.co.nz To understand the risks of ending lockdown, it is useful to think of a worst-case scenario. What would happen if ending lockdown led to a fate like Spain, Italy and New York? A well-known epidemiologist has calculated the answer. For individuals aged less
Reason Number Three: Cannabis Will Be More Than Just Smoking a Joint
saynopetodope.org.nz JOINT GUMMI BEAR When you think about “marijuana”, you probably immediately think about a joint. But legalising marijuana will be far more than that. People will be popping it between classes, sucking on it while driving, drinking it before work, chewing on it while they talk to
Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com We’re about to enter the greatest economic depression in our history. But make no mistake, it’s not been caused by the coronavirus but instead is entirely man-made, singularly attributable to cop-out mismanagement by the government. From time to time we all
The BFD Nightcap
Perspectives on the Pandemic – Episode 6: When Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi held a press conference on April 22nd about the results of testing they conducted at their urgent care facilities around Bakersfield, California, the video, uploaded by a local ABC news affiliate, went viral. After reaching five
The BFD Video: What NZ Needs To Understand About The Marijuana Debate
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COVID-19: The Moloch Option
It was an apparently widespread practice in the ancient Mediterranean basin to sacrifice children in order to placate the wrath of the gods. In Carthage, such sacrifices were made to Cronus (echoed in the Greek myth of Saturn devouring his sons). More famously, the Canaanites sacrificed their children to Moloch.
Reason Number Two: We Have Been Lied to Before
saynopetodope.org.nz Tobacco companies lied to New Zealanders and the world for more than a century about the dangers of smoking. They based their market on addiction. They deliberately targeted kids. They even had doctors promote cigarettes as medicine. And today we are paying the price. The conversation is
You Can Shove Your Kindness Where the Sun Don’t Shine
A newspaper reported “Oliver Christiansen’s dad lay dying and asking: “Where is my boy? Where is my boy?” Oliver Christiansen was prevented access to his dying dad by the Ministry of Health. The Director General fronted on the AM show Tuesday morning to apologize for getting it totally wrong
Lockdown Will Cause Thousands of Additional Deaths in NZ
Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com When the government compelled New Zealand into lockdown on March 24th most New Zealanders, desperate for any kind of decisive action, were relieved. Whether you believe the government’s decision to lock down the country was justified (I argue here and here it was not)
COVID-19 Update: 4 May 2020
We are at Level 3 of New Zealand’s four-level COVID-19 alert system. New Zealand moved to Alert Level 3 at 11:59pm on Monday 27 April. We will stay in Alert Level 3 for two weeks, before Cabinet reviews how we are tracking and makes further decisions
COVID-19 Update: 1 May 2020
We are at Level 3 of New Zealand’s four-level COVID-19 alert system. New Zealand moved to Alert Level 3 at 11:59pm on Monday 27 April. We will stay in Alert Level 3 for two weeks, before Cabinet reviews how we are tracking and makes further decisions