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Minorities Rallied to Trump & All the Experts Are Baffled
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Minorities Rallied to Trump & All the Experts Are Baffled

Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a teacher, freelance writer, and the Features Editor of the Canberra Declaration. He contributes regularly at the Spectator Australia, Caldron Pool and The Good Sauce. He hosts his own blog ‘Cross + Culture’ at kurtmahlburg.blog We’ve been assured for the last five

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Electoral Fraud: What We Know So Far
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Electoral Fraud: What We Know So Far

President Donald Trump is furiously adamant that the widespread electoral fraud that he warned about for months has indeed come to pass. The left and the mainstream media just as furiously deny it. Even supposedly “conservative” journalists like the Australian’s Caroline Overington categorically claim that there is “no evidence”

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Letter to the Editor: A Message for the ACT Party
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Letter to the Editor: A Message for the ACT Party

Dear Editor This is a screenshot of the ACT Party’s November 9th e-mail to supporters. My response to ACT’s November 9 Free Press e-mail is that I am so sick of the lies. If you want to lose a voter keep calling Trump a tyrant. Trump had four

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BFD Daily Opinion Poll
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BFD Daily Opinion Poll

Take our Daily Opinion Poll and see how your views compare to other readers and then share the poll on social media. By sharing the poll you will help even more readers to discover The BFD. If you enjoyed this BFD poll please share it.

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NZ Media’s Headline Editorialising of US Election Shows Blatant Bias
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NZ Media’s Headline Editorialising of US Election Shows Blatant Bias

So biased is our media reporting around the US election (with disappointing premature responses from both the PM and the Leader of the Opposition), that I refuse to read past the sensational headlines like “Trump falsely alleges counting fraud”. As this is being investigated, we don’t yet know the

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Not a Silver Subscriber Yet? This Is What You Are Missing Out on

If you don’t have a Silver level subscription yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles and podcasts. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by Olivia Pierson that was first published October 29th 2020. It’s Trump or a Green Government Commie Take

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Daily News Roundup – 10 November 2020
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Daily News Roundup – 10 November 2020

New Government Josiah Banbury (Democracy Project): Labour won the election battle, but National won the ideological war Emile Donovan (RNZ): Why is Labour putting the brakes on its own political capital? Chris Trotter (Interest): Spring of hope? Winter of despair? Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Tax changes legislated by Christmas, as Government

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If You Are Going to Cheat, Be Smart: Part 2
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If You Are Going to Cheat, Be Smart: Part 2

Yesterday there was an article about a curious artefact in the results for one district in the recent US Presidential election.  It used a statistical test called Benford’s Law. A commenter rightly pointed out a paper which called into question the utility of Benford’s Law for such purposes

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Is It More Than Just A Social Dilemma?
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Is It More Than Just A Social Dilemma?

The docudrama The Social Dilemma on Netflix should be mandatory viewing for anyone concerned with societal changes and especially for parents of teens and pre-teens. Wikipedia provides this synopsis: The documentary examines the effect that a handful of companies, including but not limited to Google, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter have

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