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Is Government Debt Really Out of Control?

Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 I suspect that most New Zealanders don’t give a lot of thought to the size of the government debt. But every now and then the media reports

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They Pile Lie upon Lie

They Pile Lie upon Lie

They all fool and defraud each other; no one tells the truth. With practiced tongues they tell lies; they wear themselves out with all their sinning. They pile lie upon lie and utterly refuse to acknowledge me,” says the LORD. - Jeremiah 9, verses 5-6 Jacinda Ardern has constantly implored

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Is This the Death Knell for Pfizer or Kiwis?

Is This the Death Knell for Pfizer or Kiwis?

Marie Loretta A USA court, ruling on Freedom Of Information, recently ordered the release of a Pfizer document that contains damning evidence of Pfizer’s huge numbers of vaccine adverse effects which should be the death knell to vaccine rollouts worldwide. “5.3.6 CUMULATIVE ANALYSIS OF POST-AUTHORIZATION ADVERSE

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Spare Us the Follies of Spoiled Rich Kids

Spare Us the Follies of Spoiled Rich Kids

Thomas Sowell has written that one of the most destabilising forces in modern times has been second-generation-bourgeois “intellectuals”. These are people who inherited the hard-won wealth of parents or grandparents, and who are often the first of their families to attend university. Lacking any real struggle in

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Fixing up Another of China’s Messes

Fixing up Another of China’s Messes

Who can forget the unedifying sight of Jacinda Ardern, pontificating and mugging for the adoring press, at the 2019 Pacific Islands Forum? But Ardern wasn’t only playing to the cameras: watching with smirking approval as she lambasted Australia was the Chinese delegation. The Pacific panjandrums just held their hands

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Tan Chick with Funny Name Gets Her Knickers in a Twist

Tan Chick with Funny Name Gets Her Knickers in a Twist

As you should all be aware, Lushington Dalrymple Brady is a nom de plume, and it’s a lot more interesting than my real name, believe me. But, despite its ordinariness, it’s amazing how many people manage to misspell it. Especially baristas. Mostly, this just amuses me. But, according

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Ampeln Macht Frei

Ampeln Macht Frei

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Firearms Delays Go from Bad to Worse
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Firearms Delays Go from Bad to Worse

Nicole McKee ACT Firearms Law Reform spokesperson Law-abiding firearms users are facing even more delays as the Police fall even further behind on processing applications. The waiting times for applications to be processed have extended further and further as the Police have struggled to process the new and more

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Public Health Advice Means Roadblocks Should Be Torn Down

Public Health Advice Means Roadblocks Should Be Torn Down

David Seymour ACT Leader The public health advice to Jacinda Ardern that we no longer need the Auckland border proves the controversial Northland roadblocks are not needed. There are not enough cops in Auckland city. There have been ram-raids, robberies, burglaries and muggings because crims know that Police are

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PM ‘Following the Health Advice?’ Yeah, Right

PM ‘Following the Health Advice?’ Yeah, Right

David Seymour ACT Leader Nobody will ever believe the Prime Minister again when she says “she’s following the public health advice”. Jacinda Ardern should today implement the public health advice she received – that the Auckland border should be lifted and the whole country, bar Auckland and Northland, should be

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Road Block Law a Recipe for Disaster

Road Block Law a Recipe for Disaster

Hobson’s Pledge Trust hobsonspledge.nz Changing the law to allow Maori tribes to stop citizens to scrutinise vaccine passports and Covid-19 status is bad governance, Hobson’s Pledge spokesman Don Brash said today. Section 22 of the COVID-19 Public Health Response Amendment Act (No 2) 2021, that

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