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Media’s New Scapegoats for Rising House Prices

Media’s New Scapegoats for Rising House Prices

The march of the dullards through our society, most obviously reflected in the falling standards of our ‘news’ organisations, continues apace. They are guided not by the rational, but by the emotional, which is hugely subjective and responsive more to one’s own world view and political outlook than reality.

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Capital Gains Tax Will Not Fix Housing
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Capital Gains Tax Will Not Fix Housing

It seems that every journalist in this country believes that the introduction of a Capital Gains Tax will miraculously fix the overheated housing market, yet no one ever bothers to explain exactly how this will happen. Apparently, it just will. It won’t. Here are some of the reasons why.

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More Bah Humbug Reporting from the Left

More Bah Humbug Reporting from the Left

Claire Trevett, writing in the NZ Herald, has joined Audrey Young by getting into the Christmas spirit with some Bah Humbug nonsense of her own. Her reporting on the Mallard select committee hearing was about as accurate as Mallard’s answers to National Party questions. Claire dons her rose-tinted

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Daily News Roundup – 21 December 2020

Daily News Roundup – 21 December 2020

Parliament, and end of year reviews Claire Robinson (Guardian): Jacinda Ardern should make Speaker Trevor Mallard pay the price for his costly ‘mistake’ Tova O’Brien (Guardian): It’s been an ugly year for New Zealand politics but there are grounds for optimism in 2021 Henry Cooke (Stuff): Green Party

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Police Abandon the Catch Part of Catch and Release

Police Abandon the Catch Part of Catch and Release

In an effort to stop having to incarcerate criminals only to have them released under this Government’s criminal friendly law and order policies, the Police have now abandoned the catch part of their catch and release strategy. Police will no longer pursue drivers who are speeding, acting suspiciously or

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Is Obama an Anti-Semite?

Is Obama an Anti-Semite?

As readers of The BFD would know, I’m hardly Barack Obama’s greatest fan. I regard him as a deeply dishonest, superficially smooth snake-oil salesman, who constantly resorted to blatant race-baiting – with a decade of devastating consequences for the Republic. But is Obama an anti-Semite? Despite

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Giant US Financier: Get Woke, OR Go Broke

Blackrock is a huge American financial company. It’s also very woke and is putting pressure on other US companies to be woke as well. Breitbart reports. The retirement savings and investment accounts of millions of Americans are being used to pressure corporate Americans into adopting the left’s climate

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Kraken The Courts

Kraken The Courts

MY,MY,MY, MICHIGAN, Sydney Powell has had a BIG BREAKTHROUGH with the courts. After an OBAMA appointed Judge sat on it for days her MICHIGAN case is finally on the docket for SCOTUS. Remember CARDBOARD CITY in DETROIT, MICHIGAN not for the homeless, but to keep out prying eyes

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More Kiwi Families in Hardship

National Party While many families across the country will be looking forward to the summer break, the number of people on a benefit is a stark reminder that many Kiwis are struggling to make ends meet and are anxious to find work, National’s Social Development spokesperson Louise Upston says.

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

Shelly Bay: Group discontinues High Court bid, ‘not ruling out’ other options Iwi subgroup Mau Whenua has discontinued a High Court bid challenging the sale of land at Wellington’s Shelly Bay, but says it is not ruling out other options. Mau Whenua spokeswoman Kenny-Jean Sidwell confirmed to Stuff

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The Democrats Really Want Their Wars Back

The Democrats Really Want Their Wars Back

Joe Biden’s not even in the White House and the Democrats are already slavering for another war. Welcome back to the “presidential normal”. “Normal presidency” brought America decades of pointless wars – none more so than under Barack Obama, who holds the odious distinction of the longest time at war

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