Not only do New Zealanders have to deal with the farce of their local councils jumping onto the Chicken Little Climate Emergency Bandwagon, but now Lincoln University has jumped in gumboots and all as well! In a press release yesterday, Lincoln University stated that it wholeheartedly supports its students’ association
A Michael Moore-backed documentary Planet of the Humans that investigates Alternative Energy makes the startling point that the green energy movement has proven to be counter-productive. Director Jeff Gibbs explains that the green energy movement is “a giant profit center” for environmental groups and for corporations, including those that are
The first Earth Day was in 1970, and back then, many ‘apocalyptic’ predictions were made about the environment. Mark Perry at Carpe Diem AEIdeas blog has gone back and looked at them in order to present us with all the predictions that they got so spectacularly wrong 49 years ago.
New Zealand’s new Race Relations Commissioner is spouting the same dangerous rhetoric as the old Race Relations Commissioner. The face may have changed but the anti-free speech sentiment is still there in spades. To mangle an utterance attributed to Henry II of England, Will no one rid me of
Racism towards non-brown people is insidious. We are told that racism towards the majority is not racism because non-white people have no power (a highly racist statement in itself). When our prime minister declared that “they are us” after the terror attack in Christchurch, the world melted at the inclusive
On an NZ Facebook page about farming this week I came across an interesting post written by a Veterinarian from the Wairarapa. […] Fast forward to 2019 and it feels like agriculture is under attack. It feels like a small number of anti-farming activists have dominated the media in such a
New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters has revealed that New Zealand has not formally suspended funding to UNRWA despite a report by the Israel Institute of New Zealand (IINZ) that said that it had following a report that found “credible and corroborated” allegations of serious ethical abuses, including “sexual misconduct,
The wets in the National party will hate me describing their policy as following in Trump’s deregulation footsteps, but that is exactly what they are doing with their announcement that “National will light a regulations bonfire.” President Donald Trump promised he’d get rid of bad rules. “Remove the
It really annoys me when the racism card is pulled. In this case, the card was pulled by a refugee who was welcomed into New Zealand and given a home. What he has called a racist policy is nothing of the sort. Calling the policy racist is a lazy way
Simon Bridges must have sore balls from straddling the fence over man-made climate change. It has turned my stomach to see National MPs going along with the man-made climate change nonsense. National is supposed to be the practical party and the no-nonsense party. By straddling the climate change issue they
The BFD is here for you all to enjoy and we are really looking forward to the election year because there is nothing we like more than providing entertaining and thought-provoking coverage of NZ politics. Next year promises to be a Game of Thrones-style campaign between House Ardern and House
Hello Everyone, students, Rams, people, They / them / theirs /Ze / hir / hir and Nige. I am so pleased to see all you deplorables this Sunday morning ready to learn how to use inclusive language. Today the lesson is about a term that originally referred to a person, usually a soldier who
We named our new venture the BFD and we knew that everyone would immediately start asking. What does the BFD stand for? Making everyone guess is half the fun and we will neither confirm nor deny what it actually does stand for. What I will do however is fill you
Snopes is at it again. This time they have targeted the Satirical site the Babylon Bee. If you haven’t heard of them before this is how the site describes itself. The Babylon Bee is the world’s best satire site, totally inerrant in all its truth claims. We write
Warning This is NOT satire. I REPEAT. This is NOT Satire In another case where the truth is stranger than fiction Green list MP, Associate Transport Minister and writer of secret letters, Julie Anne “Car Fascist” Genter has been exposed for ordering an investigation into BANNING Petrol car imports by
I want to share a story with you all about heavy-handed behaviour exhibited by a security person at Tauranga airport towards a Russian Orthodox Christian lady who was praying out of the way of others. I expect that it will provoke a discussion about tolerance of those who are religious
