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Professor Blainey Is Right, Just Admit It

Professor Blainey Is Right, Just Admit It

So-called “fact-checkers”, as anyone with a functioning critical faculty is well aware, have very little interest in actual facts. Instead, they function almost universally as narrative-confirmation machines. Contrary to the media’s self-serving palaver about “speaking truth to power”, “fact-checkers” are in the business of

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Are We Applying the One-Flag Rule, Still?

Are We Applying the One-Flag Rule, Still?

As New Zealand’s panjandrums of “combatting extremism” like to babble, “If there’s just one Nazi flag at your rally, it’s a Nazi rally”. Worse, we’re finger-wagged, “If nine people sit down at a table with one Nazi without protest, there are ten Nazis at the

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Cathedral Replaces Stained Glass Windows With BLM

Cathedral Replaces Stained Glass Windows With BLM

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. newsbusters.org The National Cathedral in Washington D.C. replaced its once-beautiful stained glass

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Did Antifa Just Stay Home on J6?

Did Antifa Just Stay Home on J6?

Do you think that people in countries that historically sank into authoritarianism realised it, as it was happening? Generally, the answer seems to have been that nobody at the time really grasped what was bearing down on them. When the Maoists seized power in China, crowds in large cities like

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Malware Is Not Ok, No Matter Your Cause

Malware Is Not Ok, No Matter Your Cause

If you think it’s a clever idea to send out a malware bot as a major recruitment campaign and still barely manage to suck in more than a couple of thousand confused Boomers, you just might be a “youth climate activist”. The “clever” online campaign was the brainchild of

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If You Are Feeling Under the Weather, You Need to Read This

If You Are Feeling Under the Weather, You Need to Read This

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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The Questions They Didn’t Ask

The Questions They Didn’t Ask

Rod Kane I have no idea who the winner was Wednesday night but it’s fairly obvious who the losers were: us. This wasn’t a debate, it was a badly choreographed yell fest. Hipkins came off the blocks shouting like an enraged parrot and he never really stopped until

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The Problem With Welfare ‘Loans’

The Problem With Welfare ‘Loans’

Hanna Wilberg University of Auckland The National Party’s pledge to apply sanctions to unemployed people receiving a welfare payment, if they are “persistently” failing to meet the criteria for receiving the benefit, has attracted plenty of comment and criticism. Less talked about has been the party’s promise to

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Could the Dam Be About to Break?

I remember a radio discussion a couple of weeks before the 2002 general election between the respective party Presidents – Mike Williams, and (You-Know-Who) for National. Williams delivered what probably turned out to be a king hit by lisping “National cannot win the election so supporting them is a

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Potentially Good News for Auckland Central

Potentially Good News for Auckland Central

Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1 – 13. alwynpoole.substack.

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Media and Hipkins Handing Winston Free Hits

Media and Hipkins Handing Winston Free Hits

In the unseemly debate on Wednesday night Chris Hipkins used a quote from NZ First candidate Rob Ballantyne out of context. It allowed Winston Peters to have a free hit and get free publicity across all the media at once, hijacking the news cycle brilliantly. New Zealand First leader Winston

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Wondering What All the Political Terms Mean?

J D Wealth Tax: A tax that should be paid, by anyone who has more money than I have. Capital Gains Tax: See above. Rich Prick: See above. Free Speech: Anything I say. Hate Speech: Anything you say that I don’t agree with. Racism: The idea that anyone should

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Leaders’ Debate

Leaders’ Debate

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A Good Old-Fashioned Political Party Rally

A Good Old-Fashioned Political Party Rally

Mark Freeman An estimated 2,000 or more people took part in the Abandon Agenda 2030 protest march and rallies in Wellington on Thursday. The event was timed to coincide with the United Nations Association of New Zealand’s one-day conference Advancing Agenda 2030. However, in an overblown reaction

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Freedoms NZ Protest Photos September 28, 2023

Freedoms NZ Protest Photos September 28, 2023

Thanks to a BFD Citizen Photo journalist we have these photos from yesterday’s Freedoms NZ protest. By 10.30, only about twenty people had gathered to protest, while about one hundred police, Maori wardens, and parliamentary security were present. They were largely dispersed around the fenced perimeter but were

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Fines of up to £2,500 for Offering to Help From Friday

Fines of up to £2,500 for Offering to Help From Friday

righttolife.org.uk Censorship zones that could make praying and offers of help near an abortion clinic illegal with fines of up to £2,500 are set to be introduced in Northern Ireland this Friday. The Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Bill was passed by Members of the Legislative Assembly

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