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Biden Is Doing All He Can to Lose a Winning Hand

Paul Driessen cfact.org Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for CFACT and author of Cracking Big Green and Eco-Imperialism: Green Power – Black Death. Presidential candidate Joe Biden repeatedly promised to end fossil fuels in America. There’ll be “no more drilling, including offshore,” he said. “No ability for

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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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They Don’t Care About the Environment

Bill Kocacs cfact.org The apocalyptic talk about climate change is nothing more than a diversion tactic by the government, the radical Left, and their mainstream press. The many laws, the trillions in federal appropriations and tax credits, and the unworkable proposals to address climate change will not slow the

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Why Are We Paying More for Less?
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Why Are We Paying More for Less?

Our welfare system is less responsive than ever as phone wait times for the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) surge, National’s Social Development and Employment spokesperson Louise Upston says. “Whether it’s superannuitants, students, people out of work, or a family who needs help to cope with soaring living

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Good Ideas Don’t Require Bribery to Get Them Over the Line
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Good Ideas Don’t Require Bribery to Get Them Over the Line

Simon Court ACT Local Government spokesperson Labour has resorted to bribing councils and ratepayers to get its deeply unpopular Three Waters policy over the line. With a majority of councils refusing to take part in the Government’s Three Waters reforms, $2 billion in taxpayers’ money is now being doled

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Psst Want a Free Taste of Silver Membership?
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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 Promise of ‘Social Cohesion’ Will Win National the Next Election The Horns of Discord. I

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You Couldn’t Make This Stuff Up

You Couldn’t Make This Stuff Up

It’s coming up to three weeks since I last put my finger to the keyboard as family circumstances have led me to be somewhat busier than usual. I have however managed to keep tabs on most of the political machinations. The last two words of my headline succinctly cover

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Your mask is as useless as Jacinda

Your Mask Is as Useless as …

Following on from yesterday’s article about useless masks, I thought I would expand a bit on the actual data contained in the British Medical Journal study on the effectiveness of masks. The reality is that your mask is as useless as Jacinda Ardern. The tyrant Jacinda Ardern misrepresented the

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Isn’t She Lovely?

Isn’t She Lovely?

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Albo Wants His Happy Ending Now

Albo Wants His Happy Ending Now

The polls might all be going Anthony Albanese’s way on the eve of Australia’s federal election — but then, they also did for Bill Shorten, last time. Despite the certainty of the punditry, there were nagging issues for Shorten that bubbled away from the gaze of pollsters. The same

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Tova and the Maori Elite

Tova and the Maori Elite

Dear Editor New Zealand already has Co-Governance. When Kiwis go to the polls on election day, they as individuals elect a Government. That is Co-Governance. The Treaty gave Maori Chieftainship over their own private land. It also gave them the right to sell their private land, which they

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Concrete in Pipes Fake News

Concrete in Pipes Fake News

Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura We live in interesting times. Last week Winston Peters put out a press release stating that Refining New Zealand (RNZ) were filling the pipes at their Marsden Point refinery with concrete, and this understandably generated a lot of concern. It was however fake news, and

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How to Protect Our Civil Liberties

How to Protect Our Civil Liberties

David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. The events of the past two years have been a wake-up call to those of us who naïvely believed our liberties were more or less secure under

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The Big Lie of 2020 Exposed

The Big Lie of 2020 Exposed

Remember Hunter Biden’s laptop? If you only got your news from Twitter, Facebook, or the legacy media, you almost certainly don’t. Big Tech banned users from even sharing the story. At most, you might be aware that it was all Russian disinformation. Lies, “illusion”, a “farcical retread” of

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Would They Lie to Us about Ukraine?

Would They Lie to Us about Ukraine?

As journalist Abby Martin recently observed, “For my entire life I’ve watched the corporate media sell us war after war… every single time it turns out they lied”. What unwarranted cynicism! I mean, it’s not like they lied about Weapons of Mass Destruction, or Iraqi soldiers throwing Kuwaiti

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Govt’s Should Unite People Not Divide Them

Govt’s Should Unite People Not Divide Them

Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura Vaccine mandates will eventually end, but will the divisions in society created by Covid restrictions be as easily overcome? What steps do you think we need to take as a society to heal? Stuff ** The below article is Stuart Smith’s response to the above

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