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Reaping What You Sow

Tho Bishop Tho is editorial and content manager for the Mises Institute, and can assist with questions from the press. Prior to working for the Mises Institute, he served as deputy communications director for the House Financial Services Committee. His articles have been featured in The Federalist, the Daily Caller,

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Has the DOD Thought through Weaponized Robots?

Has the DOD Thought through Weaponized Robots?

Dave Patterson National Security Correspondent at LibertyNation.Com. Dave is a retired US Air Force Pilot with over 180 combat missions in Vietnam. He is the former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller and has served in executive positions in the private sector aerospace and defense industry. In addition

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BLM Made Fools of Many

BLM Made Fools of Many

Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.

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Where Is the Debate about Immigration?
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Where Is the Debate about Immigration?

Paul Spoonley Massey University theconversation.com The concerns of various pundits and politicians earlier this year that New Zealand might struggle to attract immigrants turned out to be premature. In fact, the country’s population has been boosted to the extent it should be a bigger election issue than it

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In Remembrance of a Hubris Past

In Remembrance of a Hubris Past

I have been in Ashburton for the last few days. One of the strange things about Ashburton is the lack of election hoardings. I saw a mere one in the main street for the soon-to-be-MP National candidate, and another for the New Nation Party, but that is

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

In a lengthy article about NZ First’s deputy leader, Shane Jones, is this gem. “I feel that the purveyors and advocates of indigenous rights are trying to unpick the treaty. There is no native sovereignty, there is no indigenous sovereignty, there is an indivisible citizenship and indivisible sovereignty and

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Biden: What We Know So Far

Biden: What We Know So Far

As I’ve already written for The BFD, the NZ mainstream media seem determined to keep their dwindling numbers of readers completely ignorant of the Biden impeachment proceedings. Even if they have to grudgingly admit that the potentially severest sanction against an American president is hanging over Biden’s head,

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What Is the UN’s Agenda 2030?

What Is the UN’s Agenda 2030?

nznewsessentials.com In brief * Agenda 2030 is the UN framework of 17 “sustainable development goals” (SDGs) supposedly aimed at saving the planet by 2030. * Many are suspicious SDGs are a ploy to bring in socialism and a restriction on freedoms. * The MSM have been largely silent on how domestic policies

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Keep Dogfights for Pilots, Not Desk Jockeys

Keep Dogfights for Pilots, Not Desk Jockeys

When the Biden administration came to office, one of its first acts was to institute a thoroughgoing purge-and-re-education of the American military. Of course, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin justified it as “rid[ding] our ranks of racists and extremists” — but then, Stalin justified his purge of

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The Mounting Threats From AI –

The Mounting Threats From AI –

Andrew Lensen Victoria University of Wellington theconversation.com As the 2023 election campaign enters its final days, there is an elephant in the room that politicians seem keen to ignore: the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and what it will mean for New Zealand’s economy, politics and society. Developments

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It Is Even Bigger Than We Thought

It Is Even Bigger Than We Thought

Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior

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Replay Radio: The Crunch

Replay Radio: The Crunch

This week’s guests were Maurice Williamson, talking about his own polling calculations and Winston Peters talking about media bias and the final days of the campaign. Enjoy! Help Fund Our NewsDesk We are building a NewsDesk, hiring journalists and taking the fight to the mainstream media. Will you help

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I Can’t Believe They Are Not Requiring Voter ID to Vote

I Can’t Believe They Are Not Requiring Voter ID to Vote

nznewsessentials.com In brief * Voters can enrol to vote and cast a “special vote” in the general election without having to provide ID. * Some safeguards prevent people voting under the same name twice or voting without being enrolled. * But how safe is the system if you can enrol under a

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Seymour Cops a Kick in the Goolies

Seymour Cops a Kick in the Goolies

David Seymour’s erratic and abusive behaviour over the past few days has made some of us wonder what is going on. Well, we need guess no more, it’s because his attacks on Winston Peters are working…for Winston. The latest Taxpayers’ Union/Curia poll has Act slumping a

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It’ll Work This Time! They Gibber

It’ll Work This Time! They Gibber

Insanity is said to be doing the same thing, over and over, and expecting different results. In which case, Australia’s ruling elite are barking mad. Well, we knew that anyway. But it’s one thing to “know” something, quite another to have it demonstrated beyond all denial. Because, despite

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Labor Gung-Ho for Sharia in Aus

Labor Gung-Ho for Sharia in Aus

Once again, we have a government pandering to religious minorities in a transparently mercenary attempt to stitch up a powerful voting bloc. No, I’m not talking about so-called “theocons” and conservative Christians. Despite the left’s obessive gibbering about Scott Morrison’s and Tony Abbott’s religious faiths,

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