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Roadmap to a Trump Re-election

Roadmap to a Trump Re-election

Robert Bridge www.strategic-culture.org By this time it would appear that a Biden-Harris presidency is a foregone conclusion. Despite multiple allegations of election fraud put forward by Trump’s legal team, the Democrat Joe Biden has been officially recognized by the Electoral College as the President-elect.

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Just Itching to Cancel Christmas

Just Itching to Cancel Christmas

Another day, another COVID “hot spot” – and another round of state governments and bureaucrats slamming their iron fists down on the Panic Button. Call me a cynic, but I’m beginning to suspect that the Little Hitlers in our state capitals and health bureaucracies just about wet themselves at every

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Globalists Would like to End Private Property by 2030

Duggan Flanakin cfact.org Duggan Flanakin is the Director of Policy Research at the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas.

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Councils: The Other Side of the Story
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Councils: The Other Side of the Story

BFD contributor Andrew B loves thumping Councils and while some Councils deserve a jolly good thumping, is tarring all Councils with the same brush either honest or fair? His latest piece claimed “Core services now account for just 40% of rates spending.”  Andrew B may well be able to find

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Sayers Whistle Blows: Fuel Tax Rip Off
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Sayers Whistle Blows: Fuel Tax Rip Off

Greg Sayers Councillor for Rodney facebook.com Have you wondered why Auckland’s roads look patchy and seemingly not that well maintained? Even sealed roads are falling apart at different locations around the district. Have you ever wondered to yourself if that is the roading contractor’s quality of workmanship,

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Daily News Roundup – 22 December 2020

Daily News Roundup – 22 December 2020

Parliament, and end of year reviews Chris Trotter (Interest): How the state was reclaimed for the people Richard Shaw (The Conversation): 2020 hindsight: can New Zealand apply the political lessons of COVID-19 in the year ahead? ‘Stuff political reporters’ (Stuff): How good were our political predictions for 2020? Well

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New Zealand Joins the Bullies against Israel Again at the UN

IINZ israelinstitute.nz Many things changed in 2020 all around the world. However, the disproportionate attack on Israel at the United Nations continued. There were 17 resolutions passed by the General Assembly that singled out the Jewish state, while only 8 other countries were mentioned in 7 other resolutions. Those

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NZ Has Become a Nation of Beneficiaries

NZ Has Become a Nation of Beneficiaries

Britain was once famously hailed as a nation of shopkeepers, perhaps not by Napoleon himself, but certainly by the classical liberal Adam Smith, who published The Wealth of Nations in 1776 and laid the foundations for free-market economic theory. By the eighteenth century, the United Kingdom was an essentially

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Employers Are Not the Enemy
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Employers Are Not the Enemy

ACT Party “Labour must stop seeing employers as the enemy and avoid doing further harm to the productive sector,” says ACT’s Small Business spokesperson Chris Baillie. “The Government was told its latest minimum wage hike will have a ‘disproportionately large’ negative impact on the number of jobs created over

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