Why Non-Condensable Greenhouse Gases Cannot Have an Appreciable Effect on Weather and Climate Change
Geoffrey G Duffy FRSNZ Why It is Not Possible for … by Juana Atkins on Scribd If you enjoyed this BFD article please share it.
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Vizards, Face Gloves & Window Hoods – a History of Masks in Western Fashion
Lydia Edwards Edith Cowan University Masks have emerged as unlikely fashion heroes as the COVID-19 pandemic has developed. Every conceivable colour and pattern seems to have become available, from facehuggers to Darth Vader to bejewelled bridal numbers. Many show how brevity and style can combine to protect the wearer,
National Has Now Got a Leader Who Can Take the Fight to Ardern
The outcome of the harshest lockdowns in Australasia is now apparent in Victoria and New Zealand. Both placed their citizens under virtual house arrest for many weeks and shut down business on a mass scale. It is no surprise that Victoria and New Zealand are ruled by people representing the
When Your Intellectual Heroes Let You Down
Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org The lockdown upheaval has affected every aspect of life, including intellectual life. People we have never heard of have become some of the most passionate and informative voices against government measures. I’m glad to meet them and interested in seeing how they grow through
Did You Watch David’s Speech?
Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader Did you watch David Seymour’s speech in Parliament on Tuesday? It’s been viewed more than 35,000 times and had Mike Hosking and Peter Williams raving. Here it is in case you missed it. David forensically examined the many failures of the
Pay No Attention To the Facts Behind the Hysteria!
Dhuni Information Satire On Tuesday night the Prime Ninnyster called a press conference to announce that New Zealand was going back into Stage 2 lockdown and Auckland into Stage 3. The cause was one family getting COVID-19. When this was pointed out by reporter Hypo Thetical the Prime Ninnyster
The Government Doesn’t Seem to Realise Business Reality Makes Our Elimination Strategy Untenable
Jeremy Harris Jeremy Harris is a businessman and investor from Auckland, New Zealand. Last Tuesday morning I had a very difficult conversation with my staff. With tears in my eyes, I told them that due to the likely renewed lockdown there was a good likelihood I would eventually have to
Israel-UAE Deal: Arab States Are Tired of Waiting on Palestine
Gary Grappo fairobserver.com The August 13 announcement of normalized relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates breaks the quarter-century standstill in Arab-Israeli relations and shows that Arab states will no longer hold their interests hostage to the long-dormant Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. President Donald Trump
Cannabis Legal Reform – Arguments for and Against: Part 3
James Farmer QC jamesfarmerqc.co.nz LEGALISATION OF CANNABIS SUPPLY AND USE WILL ELIMINATE THE BLACK MARKET The short answer to this proposition, based on North American experience, is no. The longer answer, however, is that there are two effects of legalisation, both of which make the present effects of
It Is Kicking Off in Kerikeri
It has started up again! Nastiness is back. It has only taken a day or so of level two restrictions for nasty behaviour between people to start again. Ardern’s plea for Kiwis to be kind is not working. On Saturday, only a few days into level two, there was
Department of Education or Indoctrination?
Leighton Baker New Conservative Leader Most days, hundreds of thousands of young New Zealanders make their way to various learning institutions where their caregivers assume that they will be developing their young minds and gaining the skills to become fantastic citizens. Adults trust these learning institutions to provide facts and
A Holding Pattern of Hopelessness
As New Zealand moved to “Level 3” (the first time around), clutching our shiny new elimination strategy, it was apparent to me, and a disconcertingly small number of others, that this government had made a Faustian bargain. We had gained a temporary reprieve from the virus, sweetened by a large
Why Americans Should Adopt the Sweden Model on COVID-19
Gilbert Berdine, MD mises.org Gilbert Berdine is an associate professor of medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and an affiliate of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University. Figure 1 illustrates the daily mortality attributed to COVID-19 in Sweden, New York, Illinois, and Texas. The
Postcard from Canada: 18 August 2020
Geoff Corfield Geoffrey Corfield has been active in Conservative politics in Canada since 1976, both federally and provincially. But he won’t always write about politics because he has more experience with writing history and humour. He lives in London, Ontario, frequents used book shops, swims lengths, drinks beer, plays
King Canute and the Virus Tide
Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Nine-hundred years ago, the English historian Henry of Huntingdon wrote down an older Anglo-Saxon story/myth of King Canute who claimed the throne of England in 1016. The story was of appalling arrogance. It resonated in this land where the idea of limited
Cannabis Legal Reform – Arguments for and Against: Part 2
James Farmer QC jamesfarmerqc.co.nz MEDICINAL CANNABIS IS NOW LEGAL AND SO CANNABIS FOR RECREATIONAL USE SHOULD BE ALSO In a separate article from her Herald piece (published in The Irish Times, 16 September 2019), Professor Cannon refers to a book written by a former New York Times journalist,