The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
I didn’t get to see this COVID-19 live update which is a shame because it sounds a lot more interesting than the usual updates. Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
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‘A Media Pathogen’
I came across this very useful phrase yesterday: “a media pathogen” – in an article describing the virus of state-sponsored untruths deliberately spread by willing, or naive, accomplices in the news industry. The article discussed the findings of a “nine-month Associated Press investigation of state-sponsored disinformation conducted in collaboration with the
Satirical Image of the Day
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Must See TV: Trump Attorney Van Der Veen Rips CBS Hack – Then Pulls off Mic and Walks Away!
Michaael van der Veen: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! That’s not enough for you? That’s not enough for you? Lana Zak: I’m not a juror… Sir, respectfully, not everyone is following… I have not said it was OK. I want to be clear for our
A Lockdown Too Far?
How much longer will Victorians continue to #StandWithDan? In what can only be regarded as a mass-outbreak of Stockholm Syndrome, Victorians responded to being placed under virtual house-arrest, due entirely to the astonishing ineptitude of the Andrews government, by loudly cheering for the corrupt clowns who locked them up – and
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
Dr Siouxsie Wiles was only one person last time I checked but this headline has turned her into two people. Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
Saint Jacinda the Lucky Dip
Is Jacinda Ardern going to play Lucky Dip with her Climate Change Commision’s lunatic proposals, or is Ardern herself the luckiest dip of all? While the left-media in Australia particularly credit Ardern with everything short of walking across the Tasman Sea, the inconvenient truth is that Ardern is simply
NZ Race Relations Roundup
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com Tuesday 16 February 2021 News: Northland Regional Council working party wants three Maori seats Northland Regional Council’s Te Tai Tokerau Maori and Council Working Party says the council should have three Maori seats. Pita Tipene (Ngati Hine), newly-elected Te Tai Tokerau Maori and Council Working Party
‘New Zealand Is Not North Korea’
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com The following was brought to my attention and is very hard to argue with: Extracted from the Feb 13 Economist’s leading article, How well will vaccines work? : For all these reasons, governments need to start planning for covid-19 as an endemic disease. Today they
Daily News Roundup – 16 February 2021
Covid outbreak: Lockdown decisions Michael Morrah (Newshub): New Zealand’s new COVID-19 outbreak ‘detected later than it could’ve been’ – expert Audrey Young (Herald): Political focus turns to whether lockdown was caused by border failure (paywalled) Stuff: Editorial – Keeping the border secure is paramount RNZ: Lockdown could last weeks if
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
This is a very creative way to exceed shellfish limits. Make up your own. Apparently, it wasn’t that they exceeded the legal limit, it was that their own legal limit was illegal. (SunLive 11/02/21) Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
The NZ Media’s Paymaster
In China, North Korea and Russia they have state-controlled media which, as a result, are obliged to report only what is sanctioned by the State. New Zealand once had an independent media which would investigate events and report their findings without State intervention or censorship. Tragically, no longer. Our Government,
Daily News Roundup – 15 February 2021
Covid: New community outbreak Audrey Young (Herald): The best place to judge Ardern’s lockdown is from a rear view mirror (paywalled) Josh Van Veen (Democracy Project): Ardern’s Year of Reckoning? Richard Harman: The advisors behind today’s lockdown decision Hannah Kronast (Newshub): Police set up Auckland checkpoints to
Another Christian Group Cancelled
Last week I wrote about Twitter cancelling conservative Christian group “Focus on the Family.” This week its YouTube’s turn. ReclaimTheNet reports. The YouTube channel for LifeSiteNews, a non-profit Christian news outlet, has been purged from the platform for “violating YouTube’s community guidelines.” “YouTube just completely removed the LifeSiteNews
MediaWorks Machinations
What is going on at MediaWorks? First, it was John Banks and now it’s Sean Plunket. It seems as if the company is trying to pre-empt the proposed hate speech laws and get in first. Their CEO Cam Wallace certainly seems to be intent on implementing a woke philosophy.