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NZ – the Little Engine That Couldn’t

NZ – the Little Engine That Couldn’t

Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com New Zealand has always been  ‘the little engine that could.’ It’s endearing imagery but also powerfully symbolic. But thanks to our leadership and their reckless decision-making now compounded by dogmatic digging-in, we are fast becoming the little engine that couldn’t. Today

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National Party Leader Poll Results: Newshub vs The BFD
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National Party Leader Poll Results: Newshub vs The BFD

Newshub * First place Judith Collins * Second place Mark Mitchell * Third place Paula Bennett * Last Simon Bridges The BFD * First place Judith Collins * Second place Simon Bridges * Third place Mark Mitchell * Fourth Todd Muller * Last Paula Bennett

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New Zealand’s Democratic Vacuum

New Zealand’s Democratic Vacuum

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The Government’s state of emergency has created a dangerous political vacuum. Decisions that profoundly affect everyone’s lives are being undertaken in an autocratic fashion without any attempt at democratic involvement. Even the typically reserved Law Society has raised concerns about the lack of

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No One Has a Monopoly on Being Right

No One Has a Monopoly on Being Right

Dr Michael Jackson covidplanb.co.nz Dr Michael Jackson is a postdoctoral researcher at Victoria University of Wellington. As a scientist, I am trained to think critically, to evaluate evidence, and ask questions – lots and lots of questions. That’s my job. In March 2020 the World Health Organization predicted

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Trump Puts Unemployed Americans First

Trump Puts Unemployed Americans First

Fred Lucas papundits.wordpress.com Fred Lucas is the White House correspondent for The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation and he is the co-host of “The Right Side of History” podcast. “We have a solemn duty to make sure these unemployed Americans regain their jobs and their livelihoods.

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Epidemic Response Committee | NZ Parliament – 23 April 2020

Epidemic Response Committee | NZ Parliament – 23 April 2020

Live meetings of the Epidemic Response Committee of the New Zealand Parliament. The Epidemic Response Committee was established on 25 March 2020 to consider and report to the House on matters relating to the Government’s management of the COVID-19 epidemic. Learn more about this committee and browse committee

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The Jacinda Junta Kindly Bans Books

The Jacinda Junta Kindly Bans Books

In a chilling scene in Chernobyl, soldiers tasked with shooting animals in the exclusion zone pause to take note of a communist propaganda banner drooping from a deserted building. “Our goal is the happiness of all mankind,” they read. They derisively remark on how happy they are – and go back

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Key National People Still Sucking up to the Chinese
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Key National People Still Sucking up to the Chinese

Thomas Coughlan from Stuff tweeted: You’d think they’d have learned from their donorvirus scandal that being associated with key Chinese Communist Party linked people isn’t a good look, and especially now after what that government inflicted on the world. It clearly shows that they’ve learned nothing.

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Bridges is a Dead Man Walking

Bridges is a Dead Man Walking

Simon Bridges is the walking dead. His performances are getting so bad he is making Joe Biden appear cogent. Take this train wreck of an interview with Susie Ferguson at Radio NZ: The pause at the end was large enough to drive a road train through. His whiny and cringy

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The Lack of Any Serious Transparency

The Lack of Any Serious Transparency

Michael Reddell croakingcassandra.com People can agree or disagree with the government and its official agencies on the various numerous specifics of the handling of the coronavirus, up to and including yesterday’s decisions. But whether you or I, agree with individual choices that have been made –  and I’m

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Simon Briges with Guo Shengkun
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China’s Influence on NZ before the ‘Chinese Virus’

Long before the Chinese Communist party gifted the world the “Chinese virus” they had already infiltrated New Zealand’s political immune system. As lockdown has brought thousands of new readers to the BFD I thought that now would be a good time to bring the following series of articles about

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A Government Bereft of Reality

A Government Bereft of Reality

With Monday’s announcement on moving to level three next Tuesday the adding of an extra week to level four shows complete ignorance of how business operates, the overheads involved, staff costs, compliance costs and the slim margins they operate on. As Bob Jones has pointed out in his last

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What If the Experts Were Wrong – Really Wrong?

What If the Experts Were Wrong – Really Wrong?

Dave Pellowe davepellowe.com In 2001 Professor Neil Ferguson, professor of mathematical biology and director of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London, predicted up to 150,000 could die in the U.K. alone from mad cow disease. Panicked politicians and ballistic bureaucrats ordered

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