Politics
Everything about politics
Time to Pull the Plug on Three Waters
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Three Waters is a proposal developed by Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Government that will effectively ‘confiscate’ billions of dollars’ worth of local authority water infrastructure and assets from ratepayers – without fair compensation – and transfer them to four mega water authorities over which councils will have
The Velvet Gloved Media
It always strikes me as a terrible indictment of the NZ media that, if you want to find unbiased reporting of the performance of our government, you have to look overseas to find it. I am sure there are other countries whose media pack do nothing but praise the government;
Former Seal Robert O’Neill Talks Biden, Leadership, Afghanistan, and More!
The Joe Pags Show is a nationally syndicated talk radio show broadcast on stations all over the USA with an audience of around 5 million. Here in New Zealand you can listen on iHeart radio or as I prefer to do, view it on Twitch TV. The show is on
ACT Proposes Law Changes Following Terror Attack
David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party is today proposing three law changes in response to the Lynnmall terror attack. ACT stands with all New Zealanders in condemning what happened in Auckland. We now need a careful and considered response to balance preventing attacks like this on the one hand,
What the Vaxholes Don’t Get
Forget kangaroos, surfers and Crocodile Hunters. Australia is, apparently, the Land of the Vaxholes. Led by the nose by a shameless media pack, Australians have swung from panicking that Covid vaccines were going to kill us all, to insisting they’re the absolute greatest thing, ever. Now it’s anyone
Aussie Gives up the Ghost
Our neighbour Australia has woken up to the fact that trying to get rid of Covid doesn’t work. Even places like NSW and Victoria have woken up. NZ Herald reports. There have been 107 Covid-related deaths since the Sydney outbreak began in mid-June, and there are currently
Violence in the Name of Ideology Is the Polar Opposite of Free Speech
Free Speech Union Two years ago in Christchurch, New Zealand was subjected to a horrific act of extreme violence, in the name of ideology. Now another terrorist attack has been carried out, this time in Auckland. Both of these despicable acts of terrorism on New Zealand soil were committed by
Castrophizing for Fun and Profit: How Bureaucracies Increase Their Control
Joe Woodard mercatornet.com Joe Woodard earned a PhD in Political Theory at Claremont, then spent 10 years as an academic (Brock, UCSB, USCCR, Bethany), 15 as a journalist (Alberta Report, Calgary Herald), and 11 as a Canadian federal tribunal judge (EI, Citizenship). He helped his wife Kathy raise their
Satirical Gif of the Day
If you enjoyed this Satirical image please share it so others can discover The BFD
How Does a Dangerous ISIS Sympathiser Get Granted Bail?
Darroch Ball Co-leader Sensible Sentencing Trust. The problem with governments is that, more often than not, a tragedy has to occur before any meaningful laws are changed. Then, for some strange reason, those law changes can bypass all the bovine scatology and happen overnight. The issue with the terrorism
Is the Left/Right Divide Becoming Blurred?
Dark Jester For some time now, politics has always been divided on partisan lines and specifically can be easily divided based on the political continuum. On the left you had people who believed that the state provided better goods and services and therefore they favoured bigger government and more state
Business of the Day
Auckland butcher Richard Hogg says he’s offering click-and-collect services to customers because he is fed up with the “unfair rules and lack of change since last lockdown” and wants to serve his Remuera community. Under alert level 4, butchers can operate contactless delivery services, but not click-