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Daily News Roundup – 9 February 2021

Daily News Roundup – 9 February 2021

Air NZ work for Saudi Arabia military Benedict Collins (1News): Air NZ has been secretly helping Saudi Arabian military despite its role in Yemen humanitarian crisis RNZ: Air NZ apologises after revelations it helped Saudi Arabian military Herald: The Green Party slams Air NZ after Saudi Arabian military revelations Waitangi

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Is This Jacinda’s Showerhead Moment?

Enjoying a few drinks at a Saturday night barbeque with our neighbours, the subject of the Climate Commission’s proposal inevitably came up. These people are originally from Christchurch, generally left leaning (but not rabid lefties), happy with changing all the place names in New Zealand to Maori names and

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Faces of the Day
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Faces of the Day

Emotions ran high at a public meeting discussing the implementation of Maori wards in Tauranga last Friday with opposing views on racism and approaches that benefit Maori. Hobson’s pledge members Don Brash and Casey Costello were headline speakers at the meeting, along with New Conservative member Elliot Ikilei. […] In

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How They Did It

How They Did It

This is the inside story of the conspiracy to save the 2020 election, based on access to the group’s inner workings, never-before-seen documents and interviews with dozens of those involved from across the political spectrum. It is the story of an unprecedented, creative and determined campaign whose

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A Message from Rush Limbaugh to President Donald J Trump

A Message from Rush Limbaugh to President Donald J Trump

Sundance theconservativetreehouse.com Posted without commentary because words do not suffice.  A Message From Limbaugh: “My days on earth are numbered; But before I fade away, there is something important I need to say. It may not be important to anyone else; but it’s important to me. Win, lose

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“It Feels Like Another World but That’s What’s on the Ground”

“It Feels Like Another World but That’s What’s on the Ground”

During the 2020 election campaign, journalists who bothered to venture any further out on the campaign trail than browsing their Twitter feed or adding to the single figures watching a Joe Biden Zoom snoozeroo were shocked – shocked! – to discover just how much the plebs in flyover country backed Trump. They’

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Leaners Driving Out the Lifters on Campus

Leaners Driving Out the Lifters on Campus

The leaners sure hate the lifters. Australian rock group This Is Serious Mum once described a proposed tour of a Melbourne “Arts” festival, where busloads of Melbournians from the suburbs would be slowly driven along St. Kilda Boulevard, where hundreds of the city’s most cutting-edge arty types would

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Green Zealots Want Your Granny to Die

Green Zealots Want Your Granny to Die

As I’ve written several times, our collective approach to the Chinese virus might be called the “Moloch Option”: sacrificing the health, wellbeing and, in the form of increased suicides, the very lives of the young, in order to save the elderly most at risk from the Wuhan plague. The

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BFD Daily Opinion Poll *UPDATE

Take our Daily Opinion Poll and 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. Update: a reader e-mailed me to let me know that Carmel Sepuloni is

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Myanmar in Trouble – Deja Coup

Myanmar in Trouble – Deja Coup

7th February 2021 It is becoming clear that the coup was planned well in advance and is running according to plan for the military. They had all the likely reactions assessed and shut down means of communication to slow down the planning of internal resistance and to prevent pictures/videos

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The New High Priest of Climate

The New High Priest of Climate

Like the High Priests of old who dispensed their eschatological, imminent destruction, end-of-times world view, the new high priests of Climate dismiss criticism of their faith with all the conceit, arrogance and glibness of their predecessors. We were treated to such a display last week by Dr Rod

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The Naivety of This Government

The Naivety of This Government

We have published a number of articles on this site, notably from Lushington D Brady and more recently from Lionred about the government’s slap in the face to Australia by claiming they should treat the Chinese with more respect. If you hark back a few months, you may remember

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