I guess I must have blinked and missed the coverage of this on the local news. Surely there were New Zealand reporters in Paris having a bit of r’n’r after their strenuous coverage of the global worship of our Lady of the Internet who could have brought us
Today, 21 May 2019 a team entered the Pike River mine drift tunnel. Was Winston Peters there as he promised in 2016 and reaffirmed in 2018? Nope! Just another failed empty promise from the master of failed empty promises. Quote. Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters is sticking by his promise
The fair dinkum Aussie voters did not buy into the hype of the climate emergency as Shorten snatched defeat from the jaws of certain victory by promising to save the planet. Quote. Against all the polls, the money, advertising, and the non-stop media coverage, against all expectations and the betting
In a twist on the normal ‘I can neither confirm nor deny’ ploy, National Party leader Simon Bridges seems to want to both deny and confirm the rumours swirling around parliamentary circles about a deal with Alfred Ngaro. On Friday Bridges was distancing himself from it all – nothing to see
This time next year (14 May) will be the 150th anniversary of the first game of rugby in New Zealand. “Why not give it a try,” he said. Nek minit – world champions! Quote. Around 200 people were on hand at Nelson’s Botanic Reserve to watch a new version of
The week was still waking up when today’s roastee stepped into the roasting dish. Poor old Paddy, he really cooked his own goose when he decided to interview Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux. Icarus of old flew too close to the bright light of the sun and has forever
More settled science! This startling reversal was even reported by the BBC, one of the world’s champions of man-made climate change. “It’s a complete reversal in behaviour and it wasn’t predicted.” One day, hopefully, they will realise that the planet is going to do what the planet
I can’t quite put my finger on it but I am sure that there is a group missing from those mentioned in this meeting of students, academics and police who met at the University of Waikato in Hamilton to discuss ways of combating violent extremism. Maybe the reporter just
Possibly satire. Not so long ago there was much cheering and backslapping when the Paris Accord was signed. The thought occurred that since there was such ready agreement to that accord, that a simple re-write update could be used for the Christchurch Call. This would have saved all the greenhouse
There seems to be a fairly constant stream of papers published that shine a new light on one part of the climate or global circulatory systems. Without fail, and without irony, they suggest that this new discovery will enable better climate models and a better understanding of the role of
Karl du Fresne’s recent piece in Stuff examines the exclusivity of the current inclusivity craze. ‘Diversity’ seemingly includes everyone except the great majority of ‘us’, white middle-class conservatives with a Christian background to our culture and upbringing. Quote. Something’s not quite right here. The 21st-century buzzwords are diversity
Popular Alarmism Science has printed an article with the disturbing picture of a cloud. The header is, “There’s more carbon in the atmosphere now than there was before the dawn of mankind.” That, of course, is a straight out lie. Carbon is a solid in the forms diamond, graphite
It really does not have the same headline click-bait qualities as ‘Ocean Acidification’ now, does it? Acidification is defined in the Cambridge Dictionary as ‘the process of becoming an acid or the act of making something become an acid.’ Remember that definition as you read on: Quote. As the stretch
In a rare burst of real investigative journalism, A Newspaper has published a fine piece by Jared Savage looking at the effects of meth on a small rural town, Kawerau. It is well worth a read to see what locals can achieve. The local constable was being stonewalled by his
Over on The Daily Blog, poor old Martyn is feeling a little threatened as he sees through the ‘hate speech’ agenda and wonders about the impact on free speech. He is concerned that he has already been categorised as a heteronormative patriarchal cis-male war criminal. Quote. So the panel advising
Well, here’s another ‘inconvenient truth’: A cat parasite, Toxoplasmosis, is a significant cause of death among Maui and Hector’s dolphins, killing more dolphins than commercial fishing. Eugene Sage has ordered a cull of all cats within a 10km distance of any waters inhabited by Hector’s or Maui
