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Sanctions Against Russia: Far Reaching Consequences

Dr. Mihai Macovei (macmih_mf@yahoo.com) is an associated researcher at the Ludwig von Mises Institute Romania. Warning Long read: 1,745 words Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was met with unprecedented economic sanctions by the United States and its allies in order to cripple Russia’s capacity

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Ministry of Health: What’s the Score?

Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. HatchardReport.com Warning Long read: 1,457 words Almost every day the Ministry of Health holds a live press briefing at 1 pm to announce the daily Covid statistics. [Thursday] was the 300th briefing of the pandemic,

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Stepping Down for Health Reasons

Stepping Down for Health Reasons

For a moment, let us put aside our dislike of Ashley Bloomfield. Being a Wellingtonian, I know a number of people who have worked with him and all say that he is a good guy. For me, he became too politicised, and that was his downfall. But look at the

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Nudge Unit

The Media and the Nudge Unit

You may not have heard of the ‘Nudge Unit’, but I can assure you that it exists and I believe our own government has one. The original ‘Nudge Unit’ was set up in the UK and called the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), also known unofficially as the “Nudge Unit“. Described

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Concerning her resignation, outgoing Labour MP Louisa Wall says: “I’m not a minister because the Prime Minister told me I would never be in her cabinet. […] “[Y]ou’re going to have ask her about why she thought there was no place for someone like me in the Labour

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Your mask is as useless as Jacinda

It’s Not in the Air!

Warning Opinion If you’re anything like me, you’ll look at people wearing masks when walking down the street or driving in their cars and wonder why they are doing it. Well, I have the answer for you. It’s because they genuinely believe that Covid is “in the

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$21 Million Worth of Vaccines Down the Drain

$21 Million Worth of Vaccines Down the Drain

Health Minister Andrew Little is failing to protect New Zealanders after allowing $21 million worth of vaccines to expire, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “In the last few weeks Health Minister Andrew Little has been exposed for allowing a large amount of vaccines to expire: $8 million

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Tell Us about Life in Your Country

Here at The BFD we currently have writers based in New Zealand, Australia, Israel, Hong Kong and the UK but we have readers from many other countries. This article is a shout out to writers in other countries asking you to please consider writing an article for The BFD telling

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China’s Nightmare Is Our Nightmare Too

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. The virus that locked down the world has returned to China in full force. And I don’t mean the Wuhan coronavirus. Nearly every

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Psst Want a Free Taste of Silver Membership

Psst Want a Free Taste of Silver Membership

If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer Chris Trotter. Why the Woke Re-Write History It would be fascinating to know what the Woke think the

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Wokeness ‘Hasn’t Been Easy for the Greens’

Wokeness ‘Hasn’t Been Easy for the Greens’

Family First familyfirst.org.nz It must be exhausting for the Green party to try and juggle their confused woke ideology. They currently have male and female co-leaders under their constitution. Sort of like marriage. (Sooooooo bigoted!) But now they wanna get rid of the male. (‘Males’ are very

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NATO and the War in Eurasia

NATO and the War in Eurasia

The background of the Russian-Ukraine Conflict… and Oceania. Information Opinion By JM White NATO was established during the Cold War in response to the threat posed by the Soviet Union. That threat ended when the Berlin Wall came down 33 years ago, yet the NATO alliance has remained in

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Our Academics Do Not Feel Free to Speak Their Minds

Our Academics Do Not Feel Free to Speak Their Minds

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Warning Long Read. 1634 words. “Cancel culture”, “callout culture” or “woke politics” – these trends are often accused of reducing political debate and diversity of thought in society. And it’s on university campuses where this is said to occur the most. Yet until now, it hasn’

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