Juana Atkins
History always repeats
Last week I came across a fascinating website where I was able to read newspaper pages from a newspaper established in 1917. I love to read original historical sources as the bias of a historian hasn’t been applied and the reader can decide for themselves what inferences can be
I’m on a crusade so saddle up!
The past six months my focus has been simply on keeping Whaleoil going despite Cam’s absence after his stroke. I am proud to say that with the support of our incredible Whaleoil team we have not only kept Whaleoil online, we have increased the number of regular readers as
What is missing from our PM’s statement?
Below is the press release in full. In the comments please discuss what is missing from this statement. Prime Minister sends condolences to Sri Lanka Sunday, 21 April 2019, 10:05 pm Press Release: New Zealand Government Prime Minister sends condolences to Sri Lanka Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has extended
Our part-time PM
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is paid handsomely by the taxpayer to essentially work part-time. The left used to mock John Key for his holidays, but they never seem to mock Ardern for all her time off. Not only is our ‘part-time’ PM paid handsomely; she is the seventh highest-paid leader
In a parallel universe far, far away…
**Satire Mr Speaker, God bless you all Peace be with you. Mr Speaker the 21nd of April will now forever be a day etched in our collective memories. On a quiet Easter Sunday, men detonated bombs inside multiple churches and took away the lives of 215 people, injuring 450 others.
Facebook comment of the day
Christians are NOT Easter worshippers. I will NEVER worship Easter. I worship, love and serve the risen Lord. Jeepers, for a group of people that pride themselves on being educated, how do the political leaders of the left, not know the difference between the name of a festive season and
Be scared: Internet companies with the power to erase you from the internet
A movie trailer that I once watched explored the fictional life of a man who had his online life wiped from the internet. He could no longer access his bank accounts, all his online access had been deleted and evidence of his existence such as online records of his birth
Things that make me go hmm
Readers have noticed that both Marama Davidson and her activist cohort Golriz Gharaman have been deleting tweets from their twitter feeds this week.
Reading between the lines of ProjectLoveNZ
My questions to ProjectLoveNZ failed to get many satisfactory answers. They said no when I asked if they see themselves as a New Zealand version of the Southern Poverty Law Centre, but they were unable or unwilling to tell us what actions they intend to take and how they will
The two faces of the NZ Human Rights Commission
More and more people are starting to notice the two faces of the NZ Human Rights Commission, currently led by Commissioner Paul Hunt. Hunt, before he became Commissioner, supported Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who is infamous for his antisemitism. Paul Hunt has chosen to remain silent on antisemitism within UK
We need to speak out while we still can
Censorship can and does happen overnight. All over the Western world, including here in New Zealand, left-wing activist groups are monitoring non-left-wing sites looking for examples of what they deem to be ‘hate speech’. They are joined in their hunt by Big Tech who are keen for international laws to
A response from ProjectLoveNZ
Last month I wrote to the media team of the University of Canterbury to ask them for some information about a joint project between the NZ Herald and some of their academic members. As you all know from my previous articles on ProjectLoveNZ I am highly suspicious of their motives.
The history and origins of Good Friday
With Christians and Christianity under attack all over the world I felt the urge to post this. Whether we are Christians or not, we owe Christianity a debt for the most important parts of our Western civilisation. Christianity is under attack because Western civilisation itself and its values are under