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Why Pedos Flocked to Mastodon

Why Pedos Flocked to Mastodon

When Elon Musk bought Twitter, thousands of loud-mouth Twitter “progressives” trumpeted that they were leaving the platform and migrating to Mastodon. Unlike their previous threats to move to Canada, nearly half a million of them made good on it. Not that they abandoned Twitter of course: they were mostly

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Drinking and Excess Deaths in lockdown

Tom Jefferson Tom Jefferson is a Senior Associate Tutor at the University of Oxford, a former researcher at the Nordic Cochrane Centre and a former scientific coordinator for the production of HTA reports on non-pharmaceuticals for Agenas, the Italian National Agency for Regional Healthcare. Here is his website. Carl

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Doctors Stand Up to the Powerful State Medical Boards

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Further to New Zealand’s concerns about the Federation of State Medical Board’s (FSMB) overarching and unethical domination of medical care, a recent Epoch Times episode of Crossroads with Joshua Philipp discussed the issue from an American perspective. Philipp interviewed

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Chris Hipkins Fails First Test

David Seymour ACT Party Leader Former Education Minister and now Prime Minister Chris Hipkins must front up and explain the poorly communicated overkill decision to close every Auckland school. Mayor Wayne Brown has been smashed for late decision making and poor communication during the Auckland floods. The Prime Minister is

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The Covid Narrative Is Unravelling at Speed

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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Kindness and Empathy Don’t Win Elections
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Kindness and Empathy Don’t Win Elections

Saturday morning is one of routine for me. Having completed the ablutions and taken the vast array of medications needed to enable me to continue to write for the BFD I venture out to purchase the Weekend Herald. This paper is the closest the publishers get all week to what

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Anonymous Threats
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Anonymous Threats

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Last Tuesday week a non-descript politics lecturer Chris Wilson joined in the nonsense being written about the pressure on Jacinda through social media abuse and death threats. Specifically, he claimed in the Herald it was massively higher than other prominent political figures copped. That’

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A Coup by Stealth

A Coup by Stealth

Were you worried about 3 Waters? Were you worried about a separate Maori health authority? Were you worried about The Canterbury Regional Council (Ngai Tahu Representation) Bill? Were you deeply worried about Co-Governance? I have good news for you! The good news is there is no need to worry

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Civil Defence Too Little Too Late
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Civil Defence Too Little Too Late

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. How much confidence should the public have in authorities managing natural disasters? Not much, judging by the farcical way in which the civil defence emergence

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Polls: A Dead Cat Bounce?
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Polls: A Dead Cat Bounce?

Both 1News/Kantar and Newshub/Reid Research have released polls yesterday. Predictably they show a small rise in Labour’s fortunes, just a week after Chris Hipkins took over. But will these polls just be a dead cat bounce? He’s been prime minister less than a week, and so

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BFD Caption Competition

BFD Caption Competition

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How Close to a Totalitarian West?
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How Close to a Totalitarian West?

Joakim Book brownstone.org Joakim Book is a writer and researcher with a deep interest in money and financial history. He holds an MSc from the University of Oxford. The West can never again go totalitarian. We saw it happen generations ago. We fought two of humanity’s most destructive

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Gold’s Rise as Freedoms Decline

Gold’s Rise as Freedoms Decline

Egon von Greyerz goldswitzerland.com Egon von Greyerz is the founder and managing partner of Matterhorn Asset Management AG. Born with dual Swiss/Swedish citizenship, Egon’s education was mainly in Sweden. Egon von Greyerz began his professional life in Geneva, Switzerland, as a banker and thereafter spent 17 years

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The CIA and its Concern for China

The CIA and its Concern for China

Debbie Lerman brownstone.org Debbie Lerman, 2023 Brownstone Fellow, has a degree in English from Harvard. She is a retired science writer and a practising artist in Philadelphia, PA. On January 24, 2023, Dr Michael V Callahan published an opinion piece in The New York Times entitled “The Indirect Ways

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On the Brink: Russia’s Doomsday Weapons

On the Brink: Russia’s Doomsday Weapons

Michael endoftheamericandream.com In a game of ‘nuclear chicken’, one of the potential outcomes is that everybody loses. We have reached a point where nuclear annihilation is just one mistake away, and that should deeply alarm all of us. But as I discussed in a previous article, most people don’

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