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It’s All in My Head

It’s All in My Head

I know we are desperate for more funding for mental health services and the latest health concern involving Covid-19 adds more fuel to that fire. Apparently, doctors have to listen to the mad ramblings of patients complaining of racing hearts, breathlessness or lightheadedness following Covid vaccination. It’s a

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NZ Is No Longer a Secular State

NZ Is No Longer a Secular State

Lindsay Mitchell bassettbrashandhide.com Lindsay Mitchell blogs here An ODT opinion piece recently parodied the rapid adoption of Maori names for government departments. It drew attention to the renaming of the Earthquake Commission as Toka Tu Ake EQC which apparently “reflects the whakapapa of our nation.” The name-change decision

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NZ Is an Animal Farm
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NZ Is an Animal Farm

It’s been a common joke, these last few years, to remind the left that 1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual. But if New Zealanders are looking for a novel that really sounds a warning for their country, they’d be better off looking at Animal Farm. It’

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The Case of Baby Will
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The Case of Baby Will

Olivia Pierson oliviapierson.org This New Zealand story of a thoughtful and loving family up against the cold, hard machinery of state health control is nothing short of infuriating to those who still have a pulse, let alone a semblance of spleen. I can only imagine the distress that the

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We’re on the Road to Nowhere
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We’re on the Road to Nowhere

I was reading an article by Steven Joyce at the NZ Herald, that was headlined “Hopelessly marooned on a road to nowhere“. I immediately started humming the Talking Heads song Road to Nowhere. Joyce’s article begins with these two paragraphs: The die is looking increasingly cast for this Government.

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China’s Three Years of Lockdowns

China’s Three Years of Lockdowns

Tao Zhang Nottingham Trent University Protests have erupted across China, initially in response to the deaths of ten people in a fire in an apartment block in Xinjiang in the country’s northwest. The demonstrations represent the biggest expression of public unrest since the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement

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It Really Will Be a Lawyer’s Picnic

It Really Will Be a Lawyer’s Picnic

If Anthony Albanese learned anything from Australia’s 1999 Republic referendum, it’s clearly: Don’t tell them what you’re really up to. The best thing John Howard ever did was to force the Republicans to ‘fess up to the Australian people exactly what they were up to. Confronted

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Why Authoritarian Regimes Can’t Tolerate Free Speech

Why Authoritarian Regimes Can’t Tolerate Free Speech

Jonathan Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Protests erupted across China in recent days as demonstrators have taken to the

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Qatari World Cup Cost Hundreds of Workers Their Lives

Qatari World Cup Cost Hundreds of Workers Their Lives

Brett Wilkins commondreams.org Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams. An Amnesty International campaigner on Tuesday led calls for “truth, justice, and compensation” after Qatar’s World Cup chief admitted that hundreds of migrant workers died during the construction of projects related to the FIFA tournament. “Without

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Medsafe Turns a Blind Eye to Pfizer’s Quality Control Issues

Medsafe Turns a Blind Eye to Pfizer’s Quality Control Issues

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science NZDSOS.com Maria Gutschi is a Doctor of Pharmacology with vast experience in analysing good manufacturing practices. She recently presented an ‘Independent Analysis of Quality Issues of the BNT162b2 BioNTech/Pfizer Vaccine Identified by the European Medicines Agency‘. The 40 minute presentation was

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Co-governance Is a Con Job
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Co-governance Is a Con Job

Co-governance is nothing but a huge, duplicitous fraud being perpetrated by Maori activists, and the victims are the majority of New Zealanders! Hello, it’s All things Political, with John Porter on Bay FM and today I’m advocating that Co-governance is nothing but a huge confidence trick

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No One Seems to Care about Women’s Health

No One Seems to Care about Women’s Health

Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com GLOBE.GLOBAL Dr Guy Hatchard 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 PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a

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Govt Adopts ACT’s On-Farm Sequestration Policy

Govt Adopts ACT’s On-Farm Sequestration Policy

Mark Cameron ACT Climate Change spokesperson It’s promising that the Government has adopted ACT’s long-held policy of recognising on-farm sequestration for climate change. They should adopt the rest of our climate policy and take a practical approach to emissions that doesn’t hammer our agriculture sector.

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They’ve Got Nothing to Campaign On
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They’ve Got Nothing to Campaign On

Richard Prebble explains why it is that Labour has reverted to their Nasty Party schtick and have started attacking Christopher Luxon personally, aided and abetted by the Media Party in their roles as a paid propaganda press for the regime. Governments have to run on their record. Last term, Labour

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BFD December 2022 Political Poll
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BFD December 2022 Political Poll

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