Let’s have a look at what goes on behind the scenes and behind the public rhetoric. We begin in June 2021. The ‘water services entities’ [WSE] are the four organisations yet to be created by the Labour Government. Back in June 2021 Cabinet agreed that all delivery and infrastructure
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Fortunately for those of us in New Zealand ‘protected’ from the truth by the Team of $55 million, there is a wonderful world wide web of information available to those who care to look. Unlike our mandarins, there are “open and transparent” bodies in the world who publish real data,
With many devices rushing to connect to the IoT (Internet of Things), security does not seem to get a high priority before roll-out. Later on, the third-party security experts poke around and expose the vulnerabilities and the suppliers rush to slap Band-Aids over their poor programming. A case in point
As George Orwell so accurately predicted in his instruction manual for governments in the 21st century: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength”. A wonderful example of this Orwellian double-speak has been provided for us by the ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Union. In the years following World
The Bedfordshire Fire Service has posted the following on their website to inform people about electric vehicle fires in England’s green and pleasant land. (Apologies to to William Blake.) Causes of an EV Fire Electric vehicles are powered most commonly by a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. The first lithium-ion battery
On 27 August, the WHO published the Technical Specifications and Implementation Guidance for digitally implementing a COVID-19 vaccine passport. Call it “The Great Reset”, “A New World Order”, “Build Back Better” or whatever you like. It is not a good development. An interesting section examines the ethical considerations of what
Dawn Picken is a regular contributor to the Bay of Plenty Times and her columns are often worth a read, when she writes about family and everyday things. However, this week’s effort, Embrace science fact over science fiction, set my teeth on edge. The reason: she ran headlong into
Now that the vaccines have been around for some time there are a few more studies being published about their effectiveness. Do these studies tell us what we really want to know? Does having a vaccination reduce your chances of serious illness, hospitalisation or death? The first paper to look
Israel was held up as the poster-child for the Pfizer jab. They very quickly vaccinated the majority of their population and then got hit by delta. Last month they began their 3rd shot round of booster jabs. A recent UK survey by the University of Oxford and the Office for
All environmental decisions in New Zealand are to be based upon the precautionary approach first outlined as Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration 1992. In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or
With great fanfare and much media mind manipulation, the IPCC has released its long-awaited AR6 report. Surprise, surprise it is all much worse than we thought – or is it? There are a couple of statements that our local and national politicians should think very seriously about. In general, no likelihood
Making predictions of future behaviour based on past behaviour can be very expensive when investment in the share market is concerned, but there is one field of endeavour where such predictions can be made with an almost 100% guarantee of accuracy. Global Warming / Climate Change / Climate Emergency: call it what
As we are so often told, sea level rise will inundate vast areas of coastline. Especially once the tipping point is reached and the positive feedback climate loop kicks in causing runaway melting of the ice caps. Melting the ice in Antarctica will cause 6m of sea level rise, the
Critical Race Theory instruction in schools really should be rapidly replaced with Critical Thinking Theory and Critical Thinking Practice in the halls of power, as our leaders seem woefully short of the ability to engage their brains before acting. Witness the Captain’s Call to ban oil and gas exploration.
A year has zipped by since we last looked at the Alexa rankings for various sites in New Zealand. The last report was when The BFD was a reasonably new site, so how are things going, one year later? A quick recap for the new readers: Google.com has an
