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Wear a Face Mask, Send a Message
A hapless Auckland commuter says she was accosted not once, not twice but three times (by five different people) for not wearing a face mask inside the Britomart train station. The use of masks or face coverings is mandatory for: * people travelling on public transport services in, into and out
Face of the Day
Minister for Waiting? New Foreign Affairs Minister called out for not fronting for interviews Read the full article here. Comment on it on The BFD.
Dominion Voting Shares Office with Far-Left George Soros Linked Group
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Labor Union Bosses Buy Into Climate Fight
Back when I still punching the clock every day, I was a member of my relevant union. Not because of ideology, but from simple, practical consideration. Union membership brought a raft of benefits, from discount movie tickets to free legal representation. These were the basic worker benefits that unions were
Technology and the Truth
Nicholas Coppel lens.monash.edu Since the advent of web-based social media platforms, the creation and dissemination of information is no longer in the hands of a few. Citizens can now simultaneously be creators, consumers and spreaders of content. The analytics and algorithms of social media mean citizens have
Things That Make Me Go Hmm
Here’s a great comparison of capitalism vs communism: The Australian government offers incentives of $2000 for Kiwis and $6000 for Australians to pick fruit and vegetables in Australia. In response, Jacinda Ardern threatens that people should not take up Australia’s offer, because she will severely punish them on
Trump Gets Kraken
You know the GAME IS UP when Democrat Liberals like Alan Dershowitz admit that Trump’s campaign lawyers Giuliani and Powell could win in Pennsylvania, followed by the other swing states which could go down like dominoes. On election night Trump was ahead in Pennsylvania by 800,000 votes with
The Misinformation about the “Misinformation”
Kerry Grant banana-boat-boy.com On the weekend I read two cleverly written articles by New Zealand’s Pandemic Guru Siouxsie Wiles – “The astonishing, life-saving power of immunisation” and “Koch’s postulates, Covid, and misinformation rabbit holes.” To her credit, she appears to know her stuff, but I
How the Thought Police Are Using Social Media to Spy on Us
Short of modern China’s mass surveillance society, communist East Germany was perhaps one of the most spied-upon in history. Combining typical communist paranoia with Teutonic efficiency, the Stasi secret police deployed twelve times as many secret police officers per head as the Gestapo. Worse, with an informal network
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Lower (Average) Birth Rates Are A Good Thing
I was struck by two stories this week. The first that abortions are up by 9% and the second that the nation’s fertility rate dropped to its lowest ever of 1.63 children per woman. The “fertility rate” is a lie as the nation’s innate fertility isn’t
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Daily News Roundup – 20 November 2020
Housing Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Meeting the overwhelming quantum of need – A modest proposal for ending New Zealand’s housing crisis Richard Harman: “This crisis is too big; we cannot wait any longer” Zane Small (Newshub): Green MP Julie Anne Genter questions Jacinda Ardern ruling out capital gains tax while
The Transgender Murder Epidemic That Never Was
Michael Cook MercatorNet Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet Tomorrow is Trans Day of Remembrance, “an annual observance on November 20 that honours the memory of the trans lives lost to acts of transphobia and discrimination”. It’s an international event. One headline summed up gruesome international figures: “Murdered,