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“Among all the vaccines I have known in my life (diphtheria, tetanus, measles, rubella, chickenpox, hepatitis, meningitis and tuberculosis), I have never seen a vaccine that forced me to wear a mask and maintain my social distance, even when you are fully vaccinated. I had never heard of a vaccine

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Trust Starts with Truth and Ends with Truth

Trust Starts with Truth and Ends with Truth

Trust   To believe that someone is good and honest and will not harm you, or that something is safe and reliable.   TRUST | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary “Trust is the foundation for the legitimacy of public institutions and a functioning democratic system. It is crucial for maintaining political participation

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When the Mob Lynches the Lynchers

When the Mob Lynches the Lynchers

Richard Hume Information Opinion Last week I read that Shaun Hendy and Siouxsie Wiles are bringing a legal complaint against Auckland University (their employer) for not adequately protecting them from the mob response to views they have expressed. Case for Sympathy: They Are Victims of Their Conscience. The cornerstone of

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Is the Answer ‘Yip Yip Yip’?

Is the Answer ‘Yip Yip Yip’?

The wheels are falling off the global war on Covid trolley faster than the experts can hammer them back on again and New Zealand is blind and deaf to overseas developments that should be turning the way we wage war on Covid on its head. The prime minister has been

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Siouxsie Wiles’s Beach Buddy Revealed

Siouxsie Wiles’s Beach Buddy Revealed

As I suspected, the mainstream media have studiously ignored the rank hypocrisy of Siouxsie Wiles and her fellow traveller. Yesterday we published a video of Siouxsie Wiles ignoring her own advice regarding masking and congregating or socialising with friends. She has been strident about these topics. Her own actions, though,

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Discrimination of the Day

Discrimination of the Day

Joint TPK, MBIE letter to CEs re Maori Progressive Procurement Policy (1) (1)Download Let’s highlight the racism and discrimination inside New Zealand together because it is NOT OK! There is NOTHING positive about discrimination. If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the

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One Step Forward, Two Back in NSW

One Step Forward, Two Back in NSW

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” W. B. Yeats classic poem could hardly have summarised the behaviour of Australia’s politicians during the covid pandemic. The worst — “Dictator Dan” Andrews, Mark “Sneakers” McGowan, and Annastacia “Pluckachook” Palaszczuk — have seized the dire opportunities of

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Where There Is Risk, There Must Be Choice

Where There Is Risk, There Must Be Choice

Robert W Malone MD, MS rwmalonemd.substack.com I actually do have a personal life. In fact, my wife of 42 years and I are actually pretty private. Sharing personal history is not something I do every day. However, as many of you know – I was vaccinated with Moderna twice

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COVID and the Eureka Flag

COVID and the Eureka Flag

Balding multimillionaire leftist Peter FitzSimons, who is as much a historian as the Fifty Shades books are great literature, recently had quite the dummy-spit over Australia’s Freedom protesters adopting the Eureka flag. With his characteristic grasp of historical fact, FitzSimons blustered that the protesters “know nothing of Eureka”

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Chemistbusters

Chemistbusters

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Super Spreader Events in the Eye of the Beholder

Super Spreader Events in the Eye of the Beholder

Ananish Chaudhuri ananishchaudhuri.com Ananish Chaudhuri is Professor of Economics at the University of Auckland and the author of Nudged into lockdown? Behavioural Economics, Uncertainty and Covid-19. Among the many foibles of human nature exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic is the hypocrisy that lies at the heart of

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Why the Kiwi Dream Has Failed

John Ling wealthmorning.com John is the Chief Investment Officer at Wealth Morning. His responsibilities include trading, client service, and compliance. He is an experienced investor and portfolio manager, trading both on his own account and assisting with high net-worth clients. In addition to contributing financial and geopolitical articles

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Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, Season’s Greetings and thanks to all BFD staff for sterling work building up the site in tremendously difficult circumstances during 2021. On the 16th of December, fed up with our New Zealand Ministers of Parliament’s inability or unwillingness to confront Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s repeated

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Why I Don’t Want to Get Vaccinated for COVID: Part Three
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Why I Don’t Want to Get Vaccinated for COVID: Part Three

Tim Ordei Information Opinion Everything in this series of articles is my own opinion. My decisions are my own and not recommendations to anyone else. While at this stage I have chosen not to vaccinate against covid, I have taken a considerable amount of time and effort to help improve

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