By Jolie McCullough The Texas Tribune “He spent a month in Texas jail accused of hauling 3,350 pounds of marijuana. But lab results say it was legal hemp.” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public
Graham Williamson Professor Nerilie Abram ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes Dear Professor, I refer to your article, “Australia’s Angry Summer: This Is What Climate Change Looks Like”. No doubt like most people who are drawn to your article, I am interested in solutions or effective preventative actions,
Bryan Leyland climatescience.org.nz About 30 years ago I was working in Australia on the Kiewa Hydro scheme in the mountains south of the Snowy River. They had a huge potential bushfire problem and devoted a large amount of resources and people to preparing to fight fires. But they
Rosemary Williamson University of New England Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been harshly criticised for being on holiday in Hawaii as the catastrophic bushfires were burning Australia. Since his return, he has visited stricken communities – most recently, on Kangaroo Island yesterday. He has acknowledged the emotional toll on victims and
Leighton Baker New Conservative Leader 2020 has started with a boom, literally, and the world now waits, with apprehension, the ramifications of the elimination of Qasem Soleimani, and the subsequent targeting of US bases. One question that the US top brass must have been asking themselves is, “How long do
Terry Dunleavy climatescience.org.nz Did legendary Australian poet Henry Lawson call his country’s bushfires climate change? He most certainly did not. It’s nothing more than Mother Nature at her fiery worst. Tragic as it may well be, it’s happened before and it will happen again. It’
Barbara Crossette PassBlue Amid a busy December, when the United Nations was focusing on important conferences on climate change and migration and year-end holidays loomed, a case of harassment that never got the traction it arguably deserved ended in a traditional UN way: it disappeared. On Dec. 14, the
Smoke & Mirrors So I have been reflecting on how the CoL (and the Media Party) do their propaganda campaigns in relation to tax in general; a real gem is when they call them ‘levies’ not taxes and do so with straight faces. The most recent example was when Jacinda
James M. Taylor PA Pundits – International James M. Taylor is an American lawyer, senior fellow for environment and energy policy at The Heartland Institute and a CFACT contributor. James Taylor is a keen analyst of science and public policy and a competition level poker player. U.S. and global crop
Michael Snyder endoftheamericandream.com Be very thankful that you don’t live in China. Approximately one out of every seven people on the entire planet lives in China, and it has become one of the most dystopian societies that the world has ever seen. Surveillance cameras, government spies and facial
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com New Year seems to be a time when predictions are checked. In September 2017 I predicted Jacinda Ardern would increase child poverty if she became Prime Minister. On 7 of 9 measures introduced under the Child Poverty Reduction Act, to June 2018 poverty had increased.
I want to tell you a story of how New Zealand is, with the best of intentions, failing its own people. Five days ago I was contacted in the early hours by “Mary”, a girl I fostered 6 years ago when she was 15. She was distressed so I went
Ben Waimata In the mid to late 1980s, there were over 60,000 SKS and SKK rifles imported to New Zealand from China. I had one of these rifles, they were cheap and effective, and most of them will be still serviceable. This one half-decade of imported rifles 30
David Wojick, Ph.D. PA Pundits – International The stage is set for a big fight between two green Titans — the Green Party of Germany and Greenpeace Germany. They sound similar and used to be so, but no longer. When it comes to climate change, Greenpeace is a leading Action Now!
Viv Forbes Executive Director, The Saltbush Club Viv Forbes has been an explorer and pastoralist in Queensland and NT for most of his long life. He has lit fires (accidentally and deliberately), and he and his wife have fought fires and had their camps, fences and pastures wiped out by
Brent Bozell Tim Graham PA Pundits – International The secular media greet Christmas as a shopping season, and not as a special time for Christianity. They can devote hours of December “news” on which hot toys or gadgets would make great gifts, but not to segments on Christ and his birth.
