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Hypocrisy instead of democracy. Today, I got served a trespass order relating to my time at the Wellington protest in February – more than two months later. Peaceful protesting (which is what it was when I was there both times), is allowed in the Bill of Rights. I was clear about

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The BFD Daily Proverb
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The BFD Daily Proverb

Proverbs 3 27 Do not withhold good from those who deserve it    when it’s in your power to help them. 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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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

I don’t think going slow will help in this case. 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 your reading

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Want More Traffic to Your Blog?
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Want More Traffic to Your Blog?

The BFD can help. we have done all the hard work and have already built a huge audience but what we are always looking for more of is quality NZ content. We want to help motivated,  professionally-minded writers who are already writing quality content for their own blog site’

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Psst Want a Free Taste of Silver Membership?

If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Lushington D Brady. Brace Yourselves for Soaring Health Premiums We’ll All Be Paying for COVID Follies. Actuaries may

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Time to Stop Paying the China Price

Time to Stop Paying the China Price

Whenever pundits have blithered about the Rise of China, over the last decade or so, I’m inclined to point out two things. First, remember when the Soviet Union was the rising economic powerhouse? In the early 1980s, chin-stroking analysts were adamant that the Soviet economy was surging past

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“Ministry of Truth” Trends on Twitter

Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,

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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 through the manuka and kanuka between the Rotorua lakefront and Sulphur Point. Please put View From My Window in the subject

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Digital Newsrooms Are Laying off Staff

Last month Buzzfeed News announced that it was cutting jobs in a move described by its staff as “gutting” their newsroom. As a result of the staff cuts, three of their editors resigned. A few weeks after Buzzfeed’s announcement, the parent company for The Intercept revealed that 20 of

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Mmm…a Free Taste of Silver Membership

If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Nathan Smith. The Great Reset Is Inevitable Imagine you are the RBNZ governor. Every time you look at the

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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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Washing Out the Cattle Town

Washing Out the Cattle Town

Capitalist Information Opinion When a political party in opposition changes its leader and replaces a former prime minister with somebody else, it is seldom successful; only Muldoon replacing Marshall has been the exception, due mainly to the personalities of ‘both’ men. The only people who never understand this truism are,

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On the Threats to Free Speech

On the Threats to Free Speech

Karl du Fresne karldufresne.blogspot.com Warning Long read: 4795 words I delivered the following speech (little of which would be new to regular readers of this blog) at a meeting of the Free Speech Union at Victoria University last night. Most of the approximately 80 people who attended were

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