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Is Kiri Tamihere-Waititi’s Expletive-Laden Video a National Security Threat?
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Is Kiri Tamihere-Waititi’s Expletive-Laden Video a National Security Threat?

Chris Lynch Chris Lynch is a journalist, videographer and content producer, broadcasting from his independent news and production company in Christchurch, New Zealand. chrislynchmedia.com OPINION: It is possible that security agencies will be closely monitoring Kiri Tamihere-Waititi, the wife of Maori Party Co-Leader Rawiri Waititi. Her expletive-

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Te Pati Maori’s Integrity Under the Microscope

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.substack.com Illegal and corrupt practices are alleged to have occurred in the way that Te Pati Maori has been running election campaigns, abusing their use of state-funded processes. Allegations revealed Saturday about the way the party colluded with a South Auckland marae and John Tamihere’

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Breaking All the Rules
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Breaking All the Rules

It’s an unfortunate sign of the times that public broadcaster RNZ ‘News’ gave significant editorial space for the acting head of a governmental organisation to openly criticise the Government with a politically skewed and misconstrued rant the day after the budget announcements. This was made worse when the individual,

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How Social Engineers Put Auckland City on Life Support

Michael Bassett Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments bassettbrashandhide.com Beware of ministers and mayors with simple solutions to any city’s problems! A series of snake-oil

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Chloe, Sweetie, Your Pants Are on Fire
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Chloe, Sweetie, Your Pants Are on Fire

Chloe Swarbrick is getting the soft-soap treatment from legacy media again. It seems that the media aren’t interested in the ongoing scandals involving the Green Party and instead are enabling them with hagiographic interviews. When Chlöe Swarbrick first won a seat in Parliament at 23 years old, she

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How Covid-19 Stress Is Affecting Our Sleep

How Covid-19 Stress Is Affecting Our Sleep

Dr Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior

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WHO Street Theatre in Wellington

WHO Street Theatre in Wellington

Mark Freeman A Wellington drama troupe took to the streets at the weekend to satirise and raise awareness of the World Health Organization’s pandemic treaty. The Freedom Improv Group wrote and performed the light-hearted eight-minute sketch, whose main message was to “Give the WHO the shoe”. In

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Are Blood Transfusions No Longer Safe?

Are Blood Transfusions No Longer Safe?

Gary Moller Gary Moller is a health practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance by making use of a key forensic tool – Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis – and administering healthy, natural and sustainable therapies. garymoller.com What would you rather – the injection or

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And the Stats Get Even Stranger

Tani Newton The results of the 2023 census are out. New Zealand’s population is now 4,993,923. Which invites the question: Does that include the million people who didn’t take part in the census? Come to think of it, if they need a census to find out

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Questions Loom over the Christchurch Call
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Questions Loom over the Christchurch Call

Chris Lynch Chris Lynch is a journalist, videographer and content producer, broadcasting from his independent news and production company in Christchurch, New Zealand. chrislynchmedia.com The New Zealand Government may have replaced the Christchurch Call with the creation of a foundation, but questions remain about its relevancy. In May, Prime

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Dodgier than a Week Old Chicken Wing
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Dodgier than a Week Old Chicken Wing

When the Maori party aren’t race baiting, or blagging the systems they are troughing from in the order of millions of dollars, they seem to be doing increasingly dodgy things to remain at the colonialist trough they so hate: A Te Pati Maori MP and the marae she once

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BFD June 2024 Political Poll
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BFD June 2024 Political Poll

Take our Monthly Political Poll and then share the poll on social media. By sharing the poll you will help even more readers to discover The BFD. If you enjoyed this poll please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

The urban marae was part of a Whanau Ora Commissioning Agency drive to promote last year’s census, between March and June last year. It then became a polling booth at last year’s general election, a controversial decision because of Kemp’s candidacy for the Maori seat. Te Pati

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Nah, Wellington Is a Hole
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Nah, Wellington Is a Hole

Looks like at least one Wellingtonian gets it, kind of. Now if you’re anything like me, you hate filling out the census. […] Well the results of the 2023 census came out yesterday and there was one pretty shocking result for Wellington. […] Well, it was revealed yesterday that the only

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