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We Need Defiance Not Compliance

We Need Defiance Not Compliance

I learned something yesterday, when talking over Zoom with my physiotherapist. Under the current nonsensical rules applied by the morons currently running this country, a dentist can work under level 3 but a physiotherapist cannot. I found this out because I have now experienced nine weeks without any physiotherapy and

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Project 90%? Let’s Discuss

Project 90%? Let’s Discuss

Kevin Stitt Board Chair New Conservative New Conservative says it is time we had an open discussion in relation to the “one size fits all” prevention and treatment mandated by this government for Covid 19. A year ago we were told many times that the “Vaccine is not the silver

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Mayor Sandra Goudie said her vaccine decisions were a matter of personal choice, and people should respect each other’s opinions. Goudie told a local newspaper she favoured Novavax, a vaccine which is yet to be approved for use in New Zealand. […] “I’m not about to start to debate

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Hipkins Scapegoats the Un-Vaxxed

Hipkins Scapegoats the Un-Vaxxed

“It’s not just overall rates of vaccination, we’ve got to look at where the pockets of unvaccinated people are, ‘cause they does create risk” @TheAMShowNZ pic.twitter.com/MSWoOpJ08t — Viewspot (@viewspotnz) October 12, 2021

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This ‘New Norm’ Is Baloney

Eliora It is baloney to think that the way we are currently living – critical, divided, angry at the unvaccinated, afraid, mask-wearing and social-distancing – is the ‘new norm’. On radio, TV, newspapers and mainstream media, New Zealanders have been subjected to persistent voices instilling the idea that the way

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Winston’s Back
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Winston’s Back

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com It’s clear NZ First will go into the next election with Winston Peters at the helm. He’s been here before, notably after 2008 when for the first time since he formed his Party nearly three decades back, it was out of Parliament. He’

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Prime Minister, Why Are Midwives to Be Trained to Kill?

Prime Minister, Why Are Midwives to Be Trained to Kill?

Ken Orr Spokesperson Right to Life righttolife.org.nz Right to Life defends the duty of midwives to be the protector of the lives of unborn children and their mothers. For thousands of years civilisation has upheld the duty of midwives to be the guardian of the womb and the

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PM Accidentally Reveals the Truth

PM Accidentally Reveals the Truth

It is important to read between the lines and to look for accidental revelations when listening to announcements from the Podium of Truth and now more recently the Lectern of Lies. A question from Marc Daalder from Newsroom to the Prime Minister received an answer that revealed far more than

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The Debate over the $55 Million Media Fund Erupts Again

The Debate over the $55 Million Media Fund Erupts Again

Graham Adams Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer who has written for many of the country’s media outlets including Metro, North & South, Noted, The Spinoff and Newsroom A week ago, the NZ Taxpayers’ Union posted a short

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We Are Living in a Distorted Reality

KSK I’m not quite sure how I felt about the insurgents who infiltrated Northland being chased down to own up to their transgressions and end their continued silence. It felt like the entire country was baying for their blood. It seems an appalling state of affairs that there was

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Labour MP Phoning People about Getting Jabbed

Labour MP Phoning People about Getting Jabbed

In a disturbing development yesterday The BFD learned that a Labour MP, Marja Lubeck, was using robo-calls, automated messages to call people in the Kaipara ki Mahurangi electorate suggesting they should be vaccinated, which then gave them options to connect to make a booking or to find locations where

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James Shaw Moves from Climate Tsar to Economic Controller

James Shaw Moves from Climate Tsar to Economic Controller

James Shaw needs to urgently push pause on his plans to reach into every aspect of Kiwi lives in the name of climate change, says National’s Climate Change spokesperson Stuart Smith. James Shaw has released a discussion document on a so-called emissions reduction plan that reaches into every

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Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word for Ardern

Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word for Ardern

David Seymour ACT Leader With 55 new cases and the inevitable extension of Northland and Waikato lockdowns, Jacinda Ardern needs to admit the Government has made mistakes and reset the response. Like the short sharp beginnings of the nationwide lockdown announced on August 17, four days for Northland was always

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