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Member Account Access

If you want to update your credit card details click here. **To select Stripe as your payment platform select credit/debit card To upgrade or change your membership click here. You can easily upgrade between membership levels at any time by visiting your account page. When upgrading your membership, it

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Take Our Daily Trivia Quiz
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Take Our Daily Trivia Quiz

Test your trivia knowledge – Select from seven subject categories. General knowledge, Dictionary, Entertainment, History, Food & Drink, Geography, Science & Nature. To Enjoy Our Other Puzzles Become a Bronze Member

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The BFD Daily Proverb
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The BFD Daily Proverb

Proverbs 19 16 Keep the commandments and keep your life;    despising them leads to death. If you enjoyed this BFD Daily Proverb please consider sharing it with your friends.

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The BFD Nightcap
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The BFD Nightcap

If you have a great Youtube, Rumble or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz

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Births and Deaths: Year Ended March 2022

stats.govt.nz Births and deaths releases provide statistics on the number of births and deaths of people resident in New Zealand that are registered during a given period, along with selected fertility and mortality rates. They may differ from statistics presented elsewhere that relate to all births and deaths

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Once again, Stuff writers try to save money by leaving out key words. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make

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MyBFD Makes It Easier for Members to Interact

MyBFD is our second platform that we created to extend the BFD community and to make it easier for members to interact with other members away from the public glare of General Debate and Backchat. The community at MyBFD is open to all members with Bronze level and above. ( **This

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Face Masks and COVID-19: The Foegen Effect

nzdsos.com Face masks have been promoted as a mitigation measure in Covid-19 prevention by governments across the globe. This is despite previously known limitations and concerns about their use and more currently despite up-to-date literature demonstrating that they are not associated with reduced transmission of the

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Would You Do the BFD a Favour?

The BFD‘s Affiliate Programme is just fantastic and its potential is unlimited. To take it to the next level we need organisations with large e-mail lists to promote The BFD using a simple affiliate link in their e-mails out to their readers. What they will gain is

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Weather Eye with John Maunder

Weather Eye with John Maunder

John Maunder For further information on a range of weather and climate matters see my recent book Fifteen shades of climate… the fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect. Available from Amazon. The following is an update on the subject from pages 171 to 173 and 180  to

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Volunteer Writers Wanted

The BFD is seeking motivated, concise, reliable, and professionally-minded writers. Ideally, we prefer articles of 400-600 words in length. If you feel that the subject requires a longer post please keep it under 1000 words, (ideally under 800). Local news stories are as welcome as anything to do

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View from Your Window
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View from Your Window

**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this photo? Yesterday’s view was of Tauranga harbour from Mt Maunganui, looking across to the Port of Tauranga and Tauranga city. Please put View From My

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Slanted Sunday Segment Glorifies Tragedy
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Slanted Sunday Segment Glorifies Tragedy

www.defendnz.co.nz “One woman’s brave story…” was the opening statement to TVNZ’s Sunday programme advertisement for “Esther’s Story” on 15 May. That assertion made it clear from the start what angle the segment would take on Esther Richard’s euthanasia stance. What it really should

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Government Priorities

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BFD Daily Opinion Poll

Take our Daily Opinion Poll, see how your views compare to other readers and then share the poll on social media. By sharing the poll you will help even more readers to discover the BFD. Share this BFD Opinion poll so others can discover the BFD using the share buttons

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Her Mantra is ‘Be Kind’

This Labour Government seems to be in the business of making life more difficult for Kiwis and for anyone wishing to immigrate to New Zealand. The country is alarmingly short of skilled and unskilled workers but PM Ardern is ideologically driven. Labour campaigned on reducing the number of immigrants coming

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