NZ Politics
The Worm Really Is Turning
I have now been back in Wellington for two weeks, after a fairly lengthy stay in the South Island. One of the things I desperately wanted to do was catch up with family, friends and a few clients. Some of these are the clients who like to meet up in
A Concerning Anti-free Speech Trend
Freedom of speech and movement are fundamental rights in a liberal democracy and many New Zealanders fought and died so that we may continue to enjoy them. The lockdowns have seriously challenged these rights and we largely accepted these without question until the Prime Minister chose to use daily media
Blacks Not Allowed to Eat Here
Darryl Betts darryllrbetts.wordpress.com Darryl is a businessman and a post-graduate student in Philosophy at the University of Auckland, with particular interests in the philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic, and AI. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a BA in Philosophy, Logic and
Signs of the Times
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2021: Year of Labour’s Lacklustre Lightweights
The year 2021 will be looked upon as the year the lightweights in the Labour Government shone – as lightweights. I don’t think I can remember a government where not one person in the team has been up to the task. This Labour Government can thank its lucky stars for
The Compulsion of Myths
Guy Hatchard Guy Hatchard PhD is a former senior manager at Genetic ID and author of Your DNA Diet Our modern education system, the popular digests of science, the exciting film fantasies have created a dream vision of the future that rests easy with imagination and longing. We could sum
New Zealander of the Year Awards
Information Opinion Once again the New Zealander of the Year Awards are upon us and the semi-finalists have been announced. Despite Maori being 17% of the population six out of ten of the finalists are Maori. Also, all the nominations except one are about helping a bro – hungry bro,
ACT’s Illegal Firearms Bill Needed Now More than Ever
Nicole McKee ACT Justice Spokesperson ACT is calling on all other political parties to support my Member’s Bill due to be debated next year that will crack down on gangs and illegal firearms use. Gang numbers have exploded under this soft on crime Government. With more gang members comes
New Zealand’s Tragedy: The Ardern Government
Jim Cable Odds are that, given the unprecedented levels of internal strife it has created, Ardern’s Government simply cannot last another two years. Damage to race relations, the economic shambles incarnate and the never-before-imagined mountains of debt incurred in the space of a single year are the
Prohibition could Divert Police from Serious Crime
Centre of Research Excellence: Indigenous Sovereignty and Smoking The Centre of Research Excellence: Indigenous Sovereignty and Smoking has an international focus on reducing tobacco related harms among Indigenous peoples globally. www.coreiss.com Researchers who studied store robberies for tobacco are calling for the police to step in before the
BFD Mail Box
Dear Cam I recently read your article The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. This article was such a breath of fresh air from the relentless fear-inducing propaganda that I am constantly exposed to on the mainstream media. It said exactly what I have always instinctively felt about Jacinda
NZ Rises Up
With the exception of Mr Tait’s crowd estimate, all the other quotations were sourced from the speeches. Just over a month ago, Jacinda Ardern said that the thousands of people who were protesting for freedom outside Parliament were “not representative of the vast bulk of New Zealanders.” The public
Knock, Knock who’s there? Omicron
Thanks, to an increasingly irresponsible media—Omicron has now terrified the civilised world, setting off cries for more lockdowns and general harum-scarum, even though the international “death toll” of this bug is so far a grand total of… one (maybe). Omicron is a very mild strain of Covid 19
Shocking Matters of the Heart
Dr Anonz Dr Anonz is an NZ-registered medical doctor Information Opinion On Wednesday, the New Zealand Ministry of Health issued an urgent update to doctors regarding COVID-19 vaccine-associated myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the sac containing the heart). In the letter, signed