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Elon Musk is suing the Center for Countering Digital Hate as they have released research that says that Twitter doesn't act on 99% of Twitter Blue accounts tweeting hate that breaches Twitters own terms and conditions. Musk says that their research appears to be "calculated to harm Twitter generally". +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠#BHN...

Finally National confirms that money from China is "absolutely" okay. We wonder how Chinese investment in other countries infrastructure has worked and what China has wanted in return. +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠ #BHN⁠ ⁠ https://www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/BigHairyNews Follow us on Twitter. @patbri...

24 hours later National would still not confirm if China will invest in our roading but they spent a lot of time telling us what a great investment it would be for any investor. Why would a Government give away such a great investment to someone else rather than NZ money? National also attacks the CTU posing questions around if attacking a group being critical of you is a way for a political party...

National releases roading plan, critics say there's a huge financial hole. Brooke van Velden says we should build more roads to ease climate change. Luxon wouldn't confirm if he'd take Chinese investment in NZ +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠ #BHN⁠ ⁠ https://www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/BigHairyNews Fo...

Martin 'Bomber' Bradbury joins us to talk about voting strategically versus voting ideologically. We might also bounce off Bomber the latest Performance Ratings for Luxon and Hipkins and maybe even look at what the government is focused on Elon Musk is suing the Center for Countering Digital Hate as they have released research that says that Twitter doesn't act on 99% of Twitter Blue a...

Christopher Luxon would "absolutely" take money from China for investment in NZ infrastructure while calling Anna Burns-Francis from TVNZ Breakfast "xenophobic". Would National take money from anyone? Is National going to sell NZ too the highest bidder? And what is the history of China investing in countries in the Pacific? Trump indicted...again. In the indictment, brought by...

From the Working Group Podcast and The Daily Blog Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury joins #BHN to explain why National's tax policy announcements are "outrageous' and "disgusting" and might make him "throw up in the back of his throat a little" +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠#BHN⁠ www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Like us...

The latest Roy Morgan Poll appears to paint an ominous picture for Labour and their supporters. We'll take a look at the results and if the current poll is the doom and gloom that many on the right are saying it is today. Ambulances have spent lots more time 'ramping' patients, which simply means there are not beds and/or staff for them to be taking in emergency departments so ambulanc...

Rev Scottie Reeve was removed from a Julian Batchelor anti co-governance meeting in Wellington. We want to know why Scottie attended and what happened after the cameras were off. Labour has released their List today for the 2023 election with some MPs looking shaky to get re-elected this year as under current polling Labour will drop about a third of their MPs. Who's up, who's down? We&#39...

Protestor Victoria Jacobs appeared to be assaulted by members of a Julian Batchelor anti co-governance klan rally. We'll take a look at the whole story, and make an assessment based on the visual evidence. +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠#BHN⁠ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/BigHairyNews Follow us on Twi...

Kiri Allan was arrested which led to her resigning as a minster of the crown. We take a look at the situation and break down what we know and how it might impact election 2023 +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠#BHN⁠ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/BigHairyNews Follow us on Twitter. @patbrittenden @Chewie_NZ

Julian Batchelor is speaking to media attempting to distance himself from the actions of men at his recent meeting where protestor Victoria Jakobs was assaulted. He is claiming the events happened one way, when the evidence is clear they did not. It seems that he is attempting to make himself less culpable for the actions and one imagines this may be a tactic as he may be worried about legal actio...

After Victoria Jakob was assaulted at a Julian Batchelor meeting, we spent the next 24 hours 'debating' what was assault, what was free speech, what was trespassing, so we took a look at the law and cleared some things up +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠#BHN⁠ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/BigHairyN...

Evolutionary biologists Brett Weinstein and Heather Heying are shocked that people they know, people who agree with them and they agree with and people who have defended them...are literal Nazis as defined by Brett himself. We take a look at this in-real-time realization then how both Brett and Heather attempt to explain it all away including blaming the left for making Nazis. The circle that peop...

Joining us live at 9pm is Victoria Jakobs. Victoria is the protestor who was assaulted at the Julian Batchelor event in the weekend. Victoria has sustained several injuries from the assault and we will document her full story at 9pm We've also got Hannah Joy Blake, also known as @ExFundyFeminist on Twitter coming on to support Victoria and tell her perspective as the person who organised the e...

Brett Weinstein, one of the founders of the International Dark Web, was shocked to find out that "some people I know" were in fact actual Nazis. In a livestream he admitted to being astounded that many people he knew, people who have defended him and his wife, were also very active on what he calls "Nazi Twitter". This brings up the question about why some of these groups, like...

There is still some mystery around the final details of the accident that led to Minister Kiri Allan resignation as Justice Minister. What does this mean for Labour and the upcoming election? What questions does this raise for the mental and emotional health and well being of MPs? Victoria Jakobs protested one of Julian Batchelor's co-governance meetings and was dragged out of the meeting by h...

TVNZ did a poll on how race relations were currently in NZ and we'll go over the results. Are race relations bad? Is it that the media and political parties are blowing up the issue and making it appear disproportionately worse than it is...or is it a genuine concern to NZers +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠#BHN⁠ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/BigHairyN...

The Australian women's football team have released a video asking for pay parity. We take a look at the numbers around the beautiful game, as well as the moral question of income and see if we think the women's team should be paid as much as the mens +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠#BHN⁠ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Like us on Facebo...

What is happening in the US with the writers and actors strike? We'll explain it to you and show you how SOA star Ron Pearlman responded to an anonymous producer who wants to wait out the actors until they lose their houses +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠#BHN⁠ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/BigHairyNew...

National is completely ignoring the issue with housing affordability and going straight to getting lower income Kiwis to ransack their Kiwisaver to ensure wealthy landlords can continue to inflate rents and bonds. As a financial decision this is dumb as when withdrawing for bong losing compounding interest that dwarfs the benefits of a bond. On a moral standing this is also questionable as we all...

An horrific shooting occurred in Auckland. We go over the event timeline and have a look at how political figures responded to the shooting. National claims not to play politics today...then goes on play politics and Labour, through the Prime Minister, kept pretty much to the facts and Green MP Chloe Swarbrick communicated directly with her constituents in Central Auckland while the shooting was h...

TVNZ released their latest poll and many in the media were saying it was fantastic news for National. While it's not amazing news for Labour, selling the narrative that this is amazing for National is a pretty big stretch as this poll shows pretty clearly that there is still no real movement from either side over the last few months and statistically it's anyone's game. Interestingly a...

Alf Filapaina is an Auckland Councillor and a former Police Officer and joins us to talk about Labour's announcement on youth crime. Alf is very experienced in the area of youth crime and brings a perspective from the community where many of these issues are happening and from someone who used to work in the justice system as a police officer. Two of the interesting points that Labour is promo...

Robert Kennedy Junior has gone off the deep end making a claim that could easily be interpreted as COVID has been designed to eliminate Caucasian and people of African descent and spare Jews. He's walking it back, but we'll leave you to decide what you think he's saying. +++++++++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠ #BHN⁠ ⁠ https://www.patreon.co...