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Facebook, Google to Be Forced to Pay for News Content

Australia is set to pass world-first laws to force tech giants to pay for the content they’ve so far been scraping for free from media companies, as well as sharing their data-collection methods. Is this the last gasp of a dying legacy media – or the first push-back against the

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Protests across Ireland Following Late-Term Abortion Report Release
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Protests across Ireland Following Late-Term Abortion Report Release

righttolife.org.uk Pro-life protests have taken place across Ireland in response to the shocking revelations about the nature and extent of the late-term abortions now occurring in Ireland. Published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, September 2020, a report confirmed that babies are being aborted via foeticide,

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Daily News Roundup – 10 December 2020

Daily News Roundup – 10 December 2020

Speaker Trevor Mallard’s rape allegations Jason Walls (Herald): MPs challenge House Speaker Trevor Mallard over timing of his false rape accusation apology Zane Small (Newshub): Speaker Trevor Mallard comes under fire from National, ACT over ‘rape’ comments Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): MPs call for a vote of no confidence in

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Chuck Yeager, the most famous test pilot of his generation, who was the first to break the sound barrier and, thanks to Tom Wolfe, came to personify the death-defying aviator who possessed the elusive yet unmistakable “right stuff,” died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 97. Read the full

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Daily News Roundup – 9 December 2020

Daily News Roundup – 9 December 2020

Royal Commission into terrorist attack: Commentary and analysis Luke Malpass (Stuff): Lots of apologies for March 15 terror attack, but no-one to blame Audrey Young (Herald): Christchurch mosque shootings: Royal Commission avoids simple answers about mass surveillance (paywalled) Richard Harman: The confusion of the state; what went wrong with our

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Are You a Retired Journalist?

Are You a Retired Journalist?

The BFD is seeking journalists to write news articles for us in a voluntary capacity. We are looking for News stories without spin, just the facts. The BFD is a Conservative site opinion wise but real news shouldn’t have a political view, its job is to inform not to

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Closures, Cuts, Revival and Rebirth

Closures, Cuts, Revival and Rebirth

Merja Myllylahti Auckland University of Technology When Bauer Media announced the closure of its New Zealand magazine operation just a week into level 4 lockdown in early April, things looked ominous for local media. Revenues and newsrooms were already contracting. It was hard to see things improving. However, while the

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Premium Payment for Inferior Product

Premium Payment for Inferior Product

Dear Mr Kirkness As you are the editor of the NZ Herald I am writing to you just in case you might be (although probably are not) interested in why I am not a premium subscriber to your daily publication. If I did subscribe my main reason for doing so

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Stuff Stuffed

Stuff Stuffed

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Every morning for half a century, receiving my natural human right of breakfast in bed, a morning ritual wherever we are, my partner lays everything out on the side table, and hands me the morning paper. And as always in Wellington, I first glance at

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Daily News Roundup – 8 December 2020

Daily News Roundup – 8 December 2020

1News Colmar Brunton poll TVNZ: 1News Colmar Brunton poll: Judith Collins slips further as Labour maintains big election lead RNZ: Latest TVNZ poll has Labour up 7 percentage points Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Judith Collins down as Labour holds strong lead in first poll since election Jason Walls (NewstalkZB): First poll

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The Global Guinea Pig

Micha Gartz aier.org The Covid pandemic and precautions has undoubtedly been stressful for everyone — albeit in different ways. Fortunately, our brave leaders have been there to guide us through. And we now see the light at the end of our dark, unpredictably windy tunnel: the heralded end to all

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Governor Wants Kids to Rat Out Their Parents’ COVID Violations

Team Sovereign Man Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile sovereignman.com Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Monday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. 90 year old

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Pakistan to Introduce Tougher Punishment for Rape—Including Chemical Castration

Pakistan to Introduce Tougher Punishment for Rape—Including Chemical Castration

R Umaima Ahmed globalvoices.org Pakistan’s government approved in-principle on November 24 tougher laws against sexual assault which will include chemical castration for repeat offenders. The laws, called the Anti-Rape (Investigation and Trial) Ordinance 2020 and the Penal Code (Amendment) Ordinance 2020, have been approved by Pakistan’s Federal

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Daily News Roundup – 7 December 2020

Daily News Roundup – 7 December 2020

Housing Andrea Vance (Stuff): Why New Zealand needs to change how it thinks about housing Bernard Hickey (Stuff): How past generations pulled up the property ladder on today’s youth Susan Edmunds (Stuff): House price drops: Be careful what you wish for? Georgia Forrester (Stuff): The housing crisis: What’s

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