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Con-Man’s ‘True-Life’ Story Allegedly All a Con

Con-Man’s ‘True-Life’ Story Allegedly All a Con

Australian celebrity criminal, Mark “Chopper” Read famously said, “Never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn”. Read was referring to the string of “memoirs” (ten in all) he wrote. Read notoriously mixed the astonishing truth, such as his almost comical effort to abduct a Victorian County

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The BFD Food Column: Garden of Eden Cheesecake

The BFD Food Column: Garden of Eden Cheesecake

Garden of Eden Cheesecake From childhood memories, Mum’s baked cheesecake used to be for my siblings and me a fanciful dream, a cake dream that only came a few times a year. Our mother Hinda used to make the same baked cheesecake for the family four times a year

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David Lange Would Support Maori Separatism, Says Ardern

David Lange Would Support Maori Separatism, Says Ardern

Ardern’s view of Maori independence, or separate government, is not new at all. The ink was scarcely dry on the Treaty when Maori chiefs challenged British sovereignty. Little good it did them because they were captured in the first article of the treaty. “The chiefs of the Confederation and

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Where Are the Vikings Today?

Where Are the Vikings Today?

Let us just imagine for one moment, if the Vikings, who left Scandinavia during the Dark Ages and travelled to a number of countries,  pillaging and conquering wherever they went, had never integrated into the societies that they conquered. Where would we be, 1,400 years on, if they had

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Are We Indigenes Yet?

Are We Indigenes Yet?

Viv Forbes The UK has seen many waves of invaders and colonisers – Neanderthals, Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, Norsemen, Normans and more recently Indians and Pakistanis. Only Irish, Welsh and Scottish inhabitants have had the strength to get special recognition today. No human race evolved in Australia – several races

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The Biggest Scam in History

The Biggest Scam in History

Macca Things are really starting to heat up over in the US regarding the stolen election. President Trump is becoming more vocal each day as more and more diamond-hard evidence comes to the fore that the Democrats tried to pull off the biggest scam in the history of the world!

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Telling Lies for Gold

Telling Lies for Gold

Over the past decade, gay marriage moved from a fringe issue that not even most gays took seriously to supposedly being the great Civil Rights crusade of our times. More recently, transgenderism went from a marginal fetish for men in dresses to being the biggest fad for teenage girls since

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The Blackwashing of Australian History

The Blackwashing of Australian History

You have to admire Geoffrey Blainey’s courage. His academic career was practically ended when he dared to stick his head ever so slightly above the parapet in the 1980s and murmur that perhaps unending mass immigration might be a strain on social cohesion. Perhaps appropriately for a historian, Blainey

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The BFD  Comment of the Week

The BFD Comment of the Week

As part of our drive to keep our comment section the best in New Zealand we showcase each week an example of a top-notch comment that adds value to The BFD. Today’s comment was written by George Thank you George for taking the time to craft such an interesting

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Maori Science? Without Writing?

Richard Treadgold climateconversation.org.nz Richard has studied climate change for over 17 years and operated the Climate Conversation Group* since 2004. He remains what he calls ‘a staunch climate amateur’ with much to learn. This article makes a rare foray away from climate change due to important local moves

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American History, Ex

American History, Ex

It’s not coincidental that Karl Popper titled the first volume of his The Open Society and Its Enemies, “The Spell of Plato”. While indisputably one of the greatest of Western philosophers, Plato’s politics left a lot to be desired. Not least his loathing of democracy and urging of

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The Religious, Grass-Roots Origins of ANZAC Day

The Religious, Grass-Roots Origins of ANZAC Day

As the draft Australian history curriculum graphically demonstrates, the academic elite are intent on blackwashing Australia’s history of all things white and Christian. The draft curriculum focuses obsessively on Aboriginal history. Islam is mentioned more than Christianity. White men are only mentioned in the context of violence and oppression.

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