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Where Did This All Come From?
Talk about more front that Myers: despite notching up the lowest vote in a century, Anthony “Mr 30%” Albanese is claiming a “clear mandate” to “change Australia”. And he’s getting right to it, signalling an attempt to foist at least two fundamental constitutional changes on the nation. Indeed, there’
Was the PM Promoting NZ or Herself on Her US Tour?
Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc. sportingshooters.nz Headlined as a trade mission, the Prime Minister’s tour of the USA seems to be more focused on what she has done with respect to gun laws and climate change than trade. The door opened for her as her arrival
You Need to Hear This, Chris Luxon
Tony Abbott is just one of four Liberal leaders to win government from opposition. He came within one seat of consigning Labor to just the second one-term government in Australia’s history (and beat them in a landslide at the following election). Clearly, then, he knows a thing or
The New York Times Explains Why Mask Mandates Don’t Work
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. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
The Tangled Web of Dr Fauci
As we all know, suggesting that anything contrary to whatever the media-political class have currently decided is The Science™ is crazy conspiracy-stuff. Of course The Science™ is apt to change to whatever the media-political class need it to be, faster than you can say “Hunter’s laptop”
The ‘Great Replacement’ Is Nothing New, Just a Matter of Scale
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. Warning Long read. 1540
Guess Who Believes in the Great Replacement?
To paraphrase the great H. L. Mencken, for any and every event that happens, the legacy media will invariably latch onto an explanation that is “neat, plausible, and wrong”. Lately, the legacy media have an all-purpose, no-thinking-needed explanation for absolutely anything and everything: racism! In the case
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black
Mark Freeman The Disinformation Project’s latest paper is itself shown to be disinformation by a classic book on propaganda that the paper is partially based on. The three-person Disinformation Project (TDP) is an ‘independent’ New Zealand research group whose funding is not publicly disclosed but whose findings are
Talking Fiction and Claiming It as Fact
Richard Prebble bassettbrashandhide.com Richard Prebble CBE is a former member of the New Zealand Parliament. Initially a member of the Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under Roger Douglas in 1996, becoming its leader from 1996 to 2004. Prime Ministerial international travel is necessary,
Ardern Our Best Ambassador By Far
This week the Labour Party gloated about their ‘amazing’ leader doing wonderful things overseas on our behalf. As you may know, our amazing PM has wrapped up a landmark White House meeting with President Biden, capping her hugely successful first trip to the US since COVID. I’m emailing just
The Danger of Co-governance
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. Warning Long read. 2110 words.
More Gang Members on the Street
As gang crime escalates and the gang war in Auckland sees almost a shooting a day, we can wonder no more as to why this is happening. It is Labour’s soft on crime law and order policies which have seen the number of hardened gang members in prison drop
‘Democracy, Disinformation and Kindness’
Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern became leader of the Labour Party and the NZ Prime Minister in 2017. The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Harvard commencement speech, in full. Warning Long read. 3011 words. **Illustrations added by BFD Editor Juana Atkins. E oku manukura, nga pou haemata o te
Labour Don’t Care What the Community Wants
Labour has confirmed the worst fears of local communities by tabling a Bill to ram through its Three Waters Agenda, National’s Local Government spokesman Simon Watts says. “Local government is in open revolt, and the public overwhelmingly opposes these reforms. Labour is unleashing hell on local government, putting their