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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff reporting on National’s Budget. Grant Robertson says there is a $537m hole in National’s fiscal plan. He says their tax plan doesn’t add up, and the only conclusion he could take from tit is there will be more cuts to the public services that New Zealanders

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What the Media Missed Out

What the Media Missed Out

Trevor Stammers Trevor Stammers was a GP and a clinical teacher for over twenty years. He has worked in academia for the last fifteen years and was the editor of The New Bioethics from 2011 to 2022. He currently volunteers as a Public Policy Associate with CMF. mercatornet.com The

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Controlling Our Free Speech Was Wrong

Controlling Our Free Speech Was Wrong

Aaron Kheriaty Aaron Kheriaty, Senior Brownstone Scholar and 2023 Brownstone Fellow, is a psychiatrist working with the Unity Project. He is a former Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California at Irvine School of Medicine, where he was the director of Medical Ethics. brownstone.org I am one of

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

NZ Herald forgetting to do some research and leaving the placeholder in instead of the actual number. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove

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From the Desk of a Male Pale and Stale

Summer can be a bit perplexing. According to NIWA, “meteorological summer” begins on 1 December. But “astronomical summer”, marked by the summer solstice, falls on 22 December. Usually, natural summer, determined by weather patterns and the warmest 90-day period of the year, starts around 14 December. Yet, it can kick

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A Pandemic of Lockdown Denialism

A Pandemic of Lockdown Denialism

Jeffrey A Tucker Jeffrey A Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Oh Herald, where is your “o”? If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more enjoyable click here

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

NZ Herald gets their Northbound and Southbound confused – the car in the picture is definitely on the southbound side of the motorway If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive

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Labour Is Putting Globalists in Charge of the High Seas

Labour Is Putting Globalists in Charge of the High Seas

There has been no public announcement or discussion of the Minister’s intention to sign this agreement. In short, the Minister is signalling before the next government is even elected, an intention to ratify. Labour is putting globalists in charge of the high seas, and from here the NGOs will

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Professor Blainey Is Right, Just Admit It

Professor Blainey Is Right, Just Admit It

So-called “fact-checkers”, as anyone with a functioning critical faculty is well aware, have very little interest in actual facts. Instead, they function almost universally as narrative-confirmation machines. Contrary to the media’s self-serving palaver about “speaking truth to power”, “fact-checkers” are in the business of telling lies for power. The

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

NZ Herald making it impossible to fail this question in their quiz. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff doesn’t disappoint when it comes to lowering the bar for proofreading. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Someone was typing too fast (the m is next to the comma on the keyboard). A proofreader would have caught it.  NZ Herald. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access

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The Only Nazi the Media Won’t See

The Only Nazi the Media Won’t See

Imagine if Donald Trump had welcomed a former Nazi SS soldier with a standing ovation in Congress. The media would have gone nuts. They lost their minds badly enough over imaginary Nazis, the sheer, catastrophic meltdown over the Donald being seen in company with an actual, WWII-vintage Nazi would still

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University Degrees

Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The degradation of university degrees over my life-time, is tragic. Readers familiar with my novel of 20 years back, “Degrees For Everyone” will understand. Consider this. A regular contributor in the NZ Herald is a Canterbury University sociologist, (a bogus subject lacking any intellectual element) namely

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