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Faces of the Day

Faces of the Day

Thousands of New Zealand students are not enrolled in school and close to a thousand have been absent from school for more than a year. Youth worker Brendon Crompton said the number didn’t line up with the reality of what he was seeing. “Around 1000 children is too low.

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The War on the Middle Class Is a War on Family

The War on the Middle Class Is a War on Family

Louis T March mercatornet.com Louis T March has a background in government, business and philanthropy. A former talk show host, author and public speaker, he is a dedicated student of history and genealogy. Louis lives with his family in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. An often-overlooked aspect

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Virus Most Likely Created in Lab

Virus Most Likely Created in Lab

Guy Hatchard dailytelegraph.co.nz Guy Hatchard PhD was formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID a food testing and certification company (now known as FoodChain ID). Website: HatchardReport.com. A preprint paper published by bioRxiv Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2 confirms what we have

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Chaotic Leadership in New Zealand? (Updated)
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Chaotic Leadership in New Zealand? (Updated)

Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former minister in the 1984-1990 governments When Liz Truss announced her resignation as British Prime Minister some wag observed that she’d achieved a

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crime wave

NZ’s Crime Wave Is Now a Tsunami

Every day the news headlines tell us all of an out of control crime wave that is growing to tsunami-sized proportions. Instead of law and order, we’ve got chaos and mayhem. The problem has only gotten worse under new Police Minister Chris Hipkins. Businesses in the Auckland beachside

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Don’t Allow Government to Curtail Political Speech

Don’t Allow Government to Curtail Political Speech

rutherford.org WASHINGTON, DC – The Rutherford Institute has asked the US Supreme Court to prevent the government from criminalizing non-threatening political speech that may be annoying, embarrassing or unpleasant. In an amicus brief filed in Counterman v Colorado, Rutherford Institute attorneys warned against the ramifications of allowing the government

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The Most Dangerous Man in the World

The Most Dangerous Man in the World

Dan Sanchez fee.org Dan Sanchez is the Director of Content at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the editor-in chief of FEE.org. In 1683, the most dangerous man in the world escaped from England to the Netherlands. He didn’t look very formidable. He was 51

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group of police in the middle of the road

Those Who Fight Monsters Beware

There’s a well known quote from popular culture which goes: “You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain,” which itself is a variation of a quote from the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself

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by-election in Hamilton West
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Face of the Day

Dr Gaurav Sharma explains his side of the story with the Labour government, staff behaviour, bullying, conflicts of interest and the media in this very candid interview uploaded yesterday by Caret Media. (34.32 minutes) Discuss it on The BFD. If you would like to access exclusive Member content or

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This Doesn’t Add Up
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This Doesn’t Add Up

Mariah Turnbull Vannoort oliviapierson.org The recent United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decision to overthrow Roe v Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v Casey (1992) has again reignited the abortion debate.  Many took to either the literal or proverbial streets preaching outrage and brandishing the standard placards. Before spontaneously combusting

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The Liberal Who Saw the Light

The Liberal Who Saw the Light

It was ten years ago this week that former American senator and Ppresidential candidate George McGovern died. McGovern hailed from South Dakota, where his father was a Methodist minister and experienced all the trials and tribulations – from the dust bowl to the Great Depression – that afflicted the American midwest during

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BFD Caption Competition

BFD Caption Competition

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Vaccines Are Doing More Harm than Good

Vaccines Are Doing More Harm than Good

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Information Opinion On September 10 2022 in Melbourne, the Australian Medical Professionals’ Society (AMPS) co-hosted a conference, Reclaiming Medicine, which bought together a magnanimous range of influential and courageous speakers. AMPS was formed as part of movement to bring back

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Legitimate Grievances Must Be Heard
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Legitimate Grievances Must Be Heard

Ananish Chaudhuri Ananish Chaudhuri is Professor of Experimental Economics at the University of Auckland and the author of “Nudged into lockdown? Behavioral Economics, Uncertainty and Covid-19”. Information Opinion I am not a fan of Brian Tamaki. But one does not need to admire or respect Mr Tamaki to concede

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