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Luxon Misses the Boat over Hosking’s Challenge 

Luxon Misses the Boat over Hosking’s Challenge 

Information Opinion Mike Hosking was on a roll last week. With Mallard exiting the House en route to Ireland, he put in a call to Christopher Luxon’s office asking if he would recall Mallard from Ireland when he becomes PM. My immediate thought, with a recent softening in the

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Stop Avi Yemini wrap up smear

It’s Called the Wrap up Smear

Yesterday we broke the story of how Police used a NZ Herald smear article written by an anonymous person to seek further information so that they could ban Avi Yemini from New Zealand. This tactic is known as a “wrap up smear” in political vernacular, and it is precisely what

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Govt Not Improving Children’s Lives

Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Oh dear, the cabinet manual 2.99 says, “No Minister should endorse in any media any product or service.” F**ken don't even like this flavour. But like @WhittakersNZ chocolate. And love #ReoM?ori.@ArohatiaTeReo pic.twitter.com/eoNXknwqb2 — Marama Davidson MP (@MaramaDavidson) August 29, 2022 Ministers aren’

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Dr Paul Alexander on What He Heard and Saw

Brownstone Institute brownstone.org The Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research is a nonprofit organization conceived of in May 2021 in support of a society that minimizes the role of violence in public life. Paul Elias Alexander is the author of many literature reviews on Brownstone. As a scientist

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Why History Can’t Be Left to Institutions

PA Pundits – International Jarrett Stepman papundits.wordpress.com Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation. http://www.heritage.org/ He is also the author of the book, The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past. Arguing for keeping “presentism” out of

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How to Save the Planet’s People

How to Save the Planet’s People

Duggan Flanakin cfact.org Duggan Flanakin is the director of policy research at the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former senior fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas.

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The Battle Against Media Bias

PA Pundits – International Tim Graham papundits.wordpress.com Tim Graham is the executive editor at NewsBusters, and he is the director of  media analysis at the Media Research Center. His career at the MRC began in February 1989 as associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly newsletter of the MRC before

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Moderna and Pfizer: It’s a Bun Fight

Moderna and Pfizer: It’s a Bun Fight

Jeffrey A Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A Tucker is founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and 10 books in five languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of

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Life on the Gravy Train

Information Opinion As Trevor Mallard slinks out the back door of parliament in a few weeks, it would be fascinating to know what his superannuation is. According to the Remuneration Authority website, Mallard (and everyone else) received 16 per cent of his salary as an ‘employer’ contribution from 1993, rising

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Zuckerberg Explains the Censorship of the Laptop Story

Zuckerberg Explains the Censorship of the Laptop Story

Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an editorial fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. In a recent Joe Rogan podcast, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained the chain of events that led Facebook to censor the Hunter

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Let’s Talk about Natural Immunity

Let’s Talk about Natural Immunity

Information Opinion “Social media is awash with medical misinformation”, says Stuff NZ. Brittney Deguara, Stuff reporter writes, “reporting disclosure statement: This post was written with expert advice from Dr Nikki Moreland, Auckland University.” No, you shouldn’t just trust natural immunity to save you from Covid-19 reinfection. Even if

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A Look at Local Government Elections
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A Look at Local Government Elections

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. Local body elections are well

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Stop Avi Yemini wrap up smear

Rebel News Reacts

Rebel News and Avi Yemini have now published their article and video regarding our revelations this morning that the NZ Police sought any information they could use to enforce a decision that they’d already made to stop Avi Yemini and Rukshan Fernando from coming to New Zealand. The Platform

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Leaked: Police Begging Interpol for Intel on Avi Yemini

Last week Australian journalist Avi Yemini was prevented by Immigration NZ from entering New Zealand. Media at the time suggested that the decision was made by Immigration NZ, but an investigation by The BFD suggests that it was in fact the NZ Police who were acting to stop both Avi

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