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I Will Not Be Wasting My Vote

I Will Not Be Wasting My Vote

Dear Editor It has been some time since I wrote the letter concerning the New Nation Party, which was published on the BFD website on Tuesday 8 March. When I originally wrote the letter, I had not heard back from anyone associated with the Party. I have now received my

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Crisis What Crisis?

Crisis What Crisis?

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Open Letter to Iona Holsted, Secretary for Education: Part Two

Open Letter to Iona Holsted, Secretary for Education: Part Two

Alwyn Poole Dear Iona This is the second in a series of three letters that I have considered important to write to you in your role as Secretary for Education. As previously stated, it is an incredibly important position. (The third will delve deeply into 2021 results). I got an

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This Is the Best Time in History to Grow Up

This Is the Best Time in History to Grow Up

Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants innovativeeducation.co.nz Brain science, genuine learning theory, understanding of needed family dynamics and the ability to accurately fund education have all come together to create the most remarkable potential for young people in the history of humanity. This is the best time in history

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When Media Lies, the Truth Dies

When Media Lies, the Truth Dies

Veteran ambulance chaser Carolyne Meng-yee had an article in the NZ Herald yesterday that was heavy on emotion and very light on facts. The regime is obviously shocked by faltering poll results, so they’ve deployed more dis-information about the Wellington protest. Speaking for the first time since

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Govt Your Main Source of Lies!

Government Your Main Source of Lies! I am an anti vaxer I am selfish A conspiracy theorist Full of misinformation I am more likely to die And to be hospitalized I’m also a white supremacist With possible terrorist ties Now that’s not nice! I am actually a Granny

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The Three Things Mother Russia Needs

Nowhere Man Warning Long Read 1753 words “Wow! You ask all of the easy questions, don’t you?” So – how does one answer this? Let’s start with some background. Legal Stuff. There is a thing called Just War theory (bellum justum) which considers the reasons for undertaking a war

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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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Karl Marx Was a Complainer, Not a Visionary

Karl Marx Was a Complainer, Not a Visionary

Daniel Kowalski fee.org Daniel Kowalski is an American businessman with interests in the USA and developing markets of Africa. The Apple Book Store has a lot of classical eBooks that can be downloaded for free with choices that range from all six volumes of Edward Gibbon’s The Decline

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On Planet Jacinda Everything Is Great

On Planet Jacinda Everything Is Great

Just a few days ago the Spectator Australia published a hit piece on Jacinda Ardern and her Government. It’s so scathing that if the Spectator were Putin and Jacinda were Ukraine, Ukraine would be a wasteland. […]However, like so many of the Left, her understanding of how the wheels

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A Mechanism Used to Divide and Conquer

A Mechanism Used to Divide and Conquer

Andrew Mahon mercatornet.com Andrew Mahon is a Canadian-British writer based in London who has written for the Spectator, the Daily Wire, Conservative Woman, New English Review, Brexit Central, Catholic Journal and others. George Orwell invented the term “groupthink” for his dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-Four, first published in

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The Elites Are Easy to Gull

The Elites Are Easy to Gull

Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz A quote from That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis arrived in my inbox yesterday. If you haven’t read it or the rest of the trilogy, I highly recommend you get a hold of them. But back to the quote. One of the protagonists,

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Is Safety the New Religion?

Is Safety the New Religion?

Our planners and bureaucrats and politicians are using safety as a reason, rationale or excuse to help implement many of their changes. These changes to the way we live, drive and work together, may in fact have very little if anything to do with safety. Safety seems to be the

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Two Government Departments Ignoring the Bill of Rights

Two Government Departments Ignoring the Bill of Rights

Arthur The Ministry of Social Development has decided to show some government kindness by going against the Public Service Commission’s call for a halt to job losses for unvaccinated staff as reported in the NZ Herald on Tuesday. It is going to terminate unvaccinated staff regardless of common sense,

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The Best of a Bad Bunch

I am writing in support of the writer of the Letter to the Editor published on the BFD headed “Why You Shouldn’t Dismiss National and ACT”. The basic tenet of the letter I agree with. The writer is making the point that stating that you cannot give National or

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