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AT’s Rubber Has Met the Road

The lead article in the Weekend Herald should have taken nobody by surprise. ‘PERFECT STORM’, it blared. ‘PUBLIC TRANSPORT ON BRINK OF COLLAPSE’. Auckland Transport is running out of money to operate its buses, ferries and trains. Who would have thought? The answer is anyone driving around Auckland in a

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Wall Promoted to Head LG-Bee-Guy

How does a manager deal with their, shall we say, “less gifted” underlings, if they can’t sack them outright? Easy — “promote” them to a cushy, made-up job for simpletons, somewhere in the basement. Keep them occupied, preferably with something shiny but inconsequential, out of sight and out of

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Black Mark Up against Your Name

As you will recall, the most popular post ever on The BFD was the now infamous article called ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly‘. It got David Fisher‘s knickers in a bunch so much that he singled it out as an example of a terrible thing that I

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

He wants to kill our dairy cows but he doesn’t want us to eat meat. Today’s face of the day Green co-leader James Shaw won’t rest until we are all eating mung beans and chowing down on insects while living in caves. The Climate Change Minister

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When Good Police Do Nothing

When Good Police Do Nothing

NZDSOS New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Worldwide many thousands of deaths and vaccine injuries are linked to the use of Pfizer Comirnaty products. New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS) has compelling laboratory microscopy evidence, outlining significant contamination of the Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty COVID19 Vaccine.

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The Tauranga By-Election Just Got More Interesting
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The Tauranga By-Election Just Got More Interesting

New Conservative New Conservative has consulted its members in Tauranga and has decided it will stand a candidate in the Tauranga By-Election. The members there have overwhelmingly supported New Conservative Co-Leader, Helen Houghton, as their first choice, and look forward to backing her in her campaign. While Helen

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Freedom of Speech Is Worthless without a Right to Be Heard

New Conservative Co-leader Ted Johnston “Freedom of speech is worthless without a right to be heard.”  Says Ted Johnston Co-leader of New Conservative. The large media organisations turning a blind eye to the minor parties helps prevent the proper functioning of New Zealand’s democracy. The public in

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

With Andrew Little’s drive to create a separate health system for Maori, I thought it would be interesting to see how ethnicity is defined. Its clear in section 2.1 that one’s ethnicity is self-determined, and also your ethnicity can change over time! People will be able

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New Zealand Throws Away Its Energy Advantage

New Conservative New Conservative observes that since the advent of the Russia/Ukraine war, countries of the world have been rushing to restore and improve their energy independence and resilience.  Especially as regards oil and gas. Meanwhile, our government goes blindly in the opposite direction.  First, they imposed a moratorium

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Did Louisa Wall Get a Fair Deal from Jacinda Ardern?

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Scores are being settled at the moment, with Labour MP Louisa Wall going out in a blaze of media interviews to air the dirty laundry of her party. These surprising red-on-red attacks are going to be damaging for all sides. Wall’s media blitz

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You Really Need to Trust the Science!

One thing we have constantly been told during this pandemic is that we must always follow and trust the science. Of course, it has never helped that the science was always changing, but at all times we’ve been implored to follow the science. Take masking…first, they were useless,

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Are the C-19 Mandates Still Legal in New Zealand?

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS) nzdsos.com On the day that Justice Cooke upheld the legality of the mandates for healthcare workers and teachers, we bring you information that few in New Zealand know about the governments obligations to its citizens. The failure to end the mandates

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If You’re Maori, You Have No Privacy

If You’re Maori, You Have No Privacy

Here’s a turn-up for the books: the Ministry of Health and Ashley Bloomfield were right. Right to try to withhold Maori vaccination data. The High Court was wrong to rule against them. After all, would you want your personal medical information handed over to any quango that asks?

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