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Friday Fact – Mound Becomes Mountain

Today’s Friday Fact is brought to you by The Facts. Did you know that this Government’s Net Core Crown Debt doubled in just three years? The debt mound has become a mountain. Are we OK with this increase in government debt? Notes: * The data series provided by Treasury

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to vax or not to vax

To Vax, or Not to Vax?

Paraphrasing Shakespeare’s Hamlet: To vax, or not to vax, that is the question. In order to answer that question, I give you a very stark image out of Germany, where those in the former West Germany dutifully rolled up their sleeves for jab after jab, and those in the

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BFD July 2022 Political Poll
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BFD July 2022 Political Poll

Take our Monthly Political Poll and then share the poll on social media. By sharing the poll you will help even more readers to discover The BFD. If you enjoyed this poll please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would

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Face of the Day

Epidemiologist Michael Baker calls for mandatory isolation for people with the flu Newshub My experience of having flu is that you normally are too sick to feel like going out. Surely we don’t need the State to force us to stay home? It is time for Michael Baker and

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Double Veterans on the Long March

Double Veterans on the Long March

Do the left actually hate children? We know that they like to use children — as political voodoo dollies. Whether its the Twitter leftist making up an obviously fake story about a preternaturally woke child, the hebephilic fetishisation of retarded Swedish teenagers, or the marching morons in private school blazers at

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He Can’t Say He Wasn’t Warned

He Can’t Say He Wasn’t Warned

Darroch Ball Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust “Less than a month ago Floyd Du Plessis, the President of the Corrections Association (CANZ), wrote a letter to the Chief Executive warning of more assaults against prison officers if things didn’t change,” says Darroch Ball Leader of Sensible Sentencing Trust. “Today

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After 49 Years, SCOTUS Strikes Down Roe v Wade
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After 49 Years, SCOTUS Strikes Down Roe v Wade

Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. The US Supreme Court has struck down two of the most famous decisions in American history, Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which declared that a woman’s right to abortion was

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How Biden Bollixed US Oil

How Biden Bollixed US Oil

Way back in 2015, Foreign Policy magazine dubbed the Obama administration’s foreign policy, “Operation Charlie Foxtrot”. By which it meant that Barack Obama’s “strategic incoherence” was a “cluster-fuck” of “bad choices, mismanagement, and faulty diplomacy”. G. W. Bush was bad enough, the august publication wrote, but Obama

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Messages for Jacinda, a Film by FreeNZ

Messages for Jacinda, a Film by FreeNZ

Olivia Pierson oliviapierson.org The Kiwi Covid Experience at its most raw. Thank you Liz Gunn and FreeNZ for such a well-made documentary about the experience of far too many New Zealanders during this historically tragic atrocity. If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons

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Every Self-Respecting Western Nation Should Launch a Public Covid Inquiry

David Thunder mercatornet.com Can democratic institutions recover from the excesses of pandemic policies, which uncritically aped the extreme and counter-productive interventions of the Chinese Communist Party, unleashing a cascade of collateral harms in their wake, from an escalation in mental health illnesses to untreated cancers, an educational deficit,

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Why the Huntly Power Station Will Be Needed for Years
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Why the Huntly Power Station Will Be Needed for Years

Bryan Leyland Bryan Leyland MSc, DistFEngNZ, FIMechE, FIEE(rtd) is a power systems engineer with 60 years experience in New Zealand and overseas. He and his wife are majority shareholders in a small hydropower scheme that benefits from the shortcomings of the electricity market. Power prices are skyrocketing overseas: will

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Treatment for Trans Children Should Be Reviewed

Treatment for Trans Children Should Be Reviewed

Family First In a significant development, the UK’s Tavistock transgender clinic is to be shut down by the NHS after a review found it is “not safe” for children, and that there is insufficient evidence to recommend puberty blockers. According to media reports, NHS England will move young people

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Letter from the North

June 28th, 2022. The decision of the Supreme Court of the USA on Roe vs Wade has reached the UK, and the usual people on both sides of the argument have surfaced. I see that in the USA the pro-choice (or anti-life, choose your own position), have been

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Want to Read Something Really Funny?

Want to Read Something Really Funny?

As I’ve been reporting, at least some of the legacy media here in Australia are putting down their rose-tinted binoculars and taking a jaundiced look at their one-time progressive fairy-princess. Jacinda Ardern’s fall from her pedestal is so dramatic, though, that even the doyen of

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Disinformation  Promoted by Our ‘One Source of Truth’
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Disinformation Promoted by Our ‘One Source of Truth’

Guy Hatchard hatchardreport 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. Jacinda Ardern, who has escaped the continuing

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