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Once Upon a Time on the BBC

Once Upon a Time on the BBC

The Yes Minister programme actually poked fun at Global Warming back in 2013.  There is little chance of this happening now on the BBC. The phone rings. They all look at it. Claire Hello? It’s the BBC again. I see. Thanks. (She hangs up.) Piling on the agony. A

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WHAT? All That Virtue and Not a Mention!

WHAT? All That Virtue and Not a Mention!

COP25 has wrapped up and the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Patricia Espinosa, has issued a statement about the lack of results achieved.  It is “an honest and realistic assessment.“ Several days have passed since the closing of the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 in

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Housing Stress: Part Three
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Housing Stress: Part Three

Information True stories from the Te Puke area about housing stress. Names changed, naturally. Stories quoted from a December 2019 report prepared by the Te Puke Co-Lab Housing Working Group. “Actually getting food into you, finding somewhere to have a wash and get into your clothes actually takes up a

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Housing Stress: Part Two
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Housing Stress: Part Two

Information True stories from the Te Puke area about housing stress. Names changed, naturally. Stories quoted from a December 2019 report prepared by the Te Puke Co-Lab Housing Working Group. “There is no property manager so we can’t get anything fixed. We are really lucky to have it so

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Housing Stress: Part One
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Housing Stress: Part One

Information True stories from the Te Puke area about housing stress. Names changed, naturally. Stories quoted from a December 2019 report prepared by the Te Puke Co-Lab Housing Working Group. “My daughter took me in… She is under so much pressure to keep her rental because her whole family relies

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COP’s a Flop
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COP’s a Flop

The annual CO2 emission party when all the anti-fuel greens fly around the world and stay in expensive hotels on our dime has drawn to a close with the usual failure to agree. At least St Greta’s yacht got her to Madrid on time for her guest appearance, so

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I think I’ll Stick With Petrol

I think I’ll Stick With Petrol

The Daily Mail reports: (Emphasis added) Dozens of Tesla drivers in California were forced to wait in an extensive line after what should’ve been a quick stop at a Supercharger station turned into an hours-long ordeal. Shanon Stellini was travelling through Kettleman City on November 30 when she stumbled

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We’re So Sorry, Darling Students …

We’re So Sorry, Darling Students …

We’re so sorry if we caused you any pain (With apologies to the Beatles) because last week, The Daily was not the paper that Northwestern students deserve. Apparently, on November 5, there was an utterly traumatic event perpetrated at Northwestern University in the US.  The college newspaper The Daily

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Finally, a Resolution to ALL Treaty Issues

Finally, a Resolution to ALL Treaty Issues

It seems that the lefties have finally done something useful and worthwhile. The Universities and Colleges Union in the UK has declared that anyone should be allowed to ‘identify’ as black (or, presumably, Maori) regardless of the colour of their skin or background. The union, which represents 120,000 academics,

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The Five Scary New Rules of Upside-Down Capitalism

The Five Scary New Rules of Upside-Down Capitalism

Information Extract from an article by Simon Black at Sovereignman.com Roughly 23,000 years ago in modern-day Israel, a small tribe of ex-cave dwellers built a tiny village near the Sea of Galilee that may have been one of the earliest agrarian societies in human history. Archaeologists discovered the

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Will New Zealand Join This List?

Will New Zealand Join This List?

Information Extract from an article written by Patrick Buchanan When the wildfires of California broke out across the Golden State, many were the causes given. Negligence by campers. Falling power lines. Arson. A dried-out land. Climate change. Failure to manage forests, prune trees and clear debris, leaving fuel for blazes

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11,258 Scientists?

11,258 Scientists?

Of those 11,258 ‘scientists’ (including Mickey Mouse) who declared that the world was going to hell in a handcart due to a climate emergency, 195 were from New Zealand.  What were their fields of climate science expertise that lead them to this conclusion? With a bit of jiggery-pokery, the

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A New Way to Look at Global Temperature Rise

A New Way to Look at Global Temperature Rise

In a recent post at WUWT, Thomas K. Bjorklund, University of Houston, Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences suggests that from 1850 to the present, the warming of the surface of the earth is less than 0.07 degrees C per decade which does not correlate with the rate of

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Your Tax Dollars Hard at Work
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Your Tax Dollars Hard at Work

Dr Megan Woods (Minister of House Building and Windfarms) recently announced the results of the latest handouts to boffins from the Marsden Fund. “Climate change is long-term challenge that requires out-of-the-box thinking and that’s why the Government has made more progress in two years than the last Government did

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Simon’s Man Responds

Simon’s Man Responds

Paul Hunt, Simon Bridges’ Correspondence and Research Assistant has responded to an email from a reader about National voting for the Zero Carbon Bill as follows: On behalf of Hon Simon Bridges, Leader of the Opposition, thank you for your email regarding the Zero Carbon Act. National supported the Zero

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