“Fake News” is much more – and much more insidious – than just outright making stuff up. In fact, the most damaging fake news is not when the media straight-out lies. “A truth that’s told with bad intent,” as William Blake wrote, “beats all the lies you can invent”. Misleading headlines
Ardern’s globalist position in the standoff with Scott Morrison over thugs, paedophiles, wife bashers and bikies being sent packing back to New Zealand was downright embarrassing. There are a time and place for most things, but Ardern displayed no diplomacy when she publicly insulted the Australian PM, demanding that
Michelle Grattan University of Canberra A foreign intelligence service sent a “sleeper” agent to Australia, who provided logistical support for visiting spies, the head of ASIO, Mike Burgess, has revealed, in a speech pledging to intensify the fight against the threat posed by espionage and foreign interference. Delivering his first
Today’s face of the day is no diplomat. It should have been said behind closed doors but she chose to be rude to a fellow PM in public.
It seems to be taken for granted by the left-media that if anyone is bullying brown people, it just has to be evil “right-wing nutbags” and that the only religion even capable of being persecuted is the cuddly “religion of peace”. The idea that the very public head-kicking dealt out
L. Ron Hubbard famously said that, if you want to make a million dollars, start a religion. Today, he would probably advocate starting a left-wing NGO. As already reported on The BFD, left-wing advocacy groups are raking in the (usually taxpayer-funded) millions and paying themselves quite handsomely. Hey, you didn’
Is it any wonder that people don’t trust the authorities, much less the legacy media, any more? The legacy media’s reputation slides further down the s-bend every day. Almost nobody trusts the government. Even the thin blue line is slipping in the public eye. Maybe they should all
As recently reported on The BFD New Zealand’s very own Duchess of Globalist Elitism, Helen Clark, has published a new report just chock-full of the sort of finger-wagging wokescolding that UN cronies specialise in. Coming from the UN and Clark, the report is short on objective facts but very,
“O’Sullivan’s First Law” states that “any institution that is not explicitly right wing will become left wing over time”. The truth of this adage is repeatedly demonstrated in everything from state bureaucracies to NGOs to service clubs. One consequence of O’Sullivan’s First Law is that the
There are, of course, lots of differences between conservatives and progressives (I hesitate to say “liberals”, because most are, in fact, thoroughgoing authoritarians), otherwise, they wouldn’t be in opposition to one another. But one of the big differences, some argue, is that progressives are more focussed on emotions than
When conservatives in the US first began to talk about the “Deep State”, they were dismissed as conspiracy theorists and cranks. Except that they were right. The past five years and more have seen a slew of revelations which prove that an unelected and deeply embedded bureaucracy is working steadily
As I wrote some time ago, there is a deep moral cognitive dissonance at the heart of the “right-to-die” movement. In our society, suicide is regarded with such horror that its very name cannot be mentioned by the media. Suicide is seen as an overwhelming moral harm. On the other
It was recently revealed that a clandestine group of Australian Labor politicians had taken to meeting and exchanging emails and texts. The group, which includes nine Labor frontbenchers, is determined to unshackle the party from the extreme left. Pandering to the left, they argue, is making the party unelectable. The
When Celeste Barber was making mocking pastiches of celebrity Instagram photos, it was funny and fresh. The problem, though, is that it made Barber a minor celebrity in her own right, and, like all celebrities, she has proceeded to use her fleeting moment in the C-grade sun as a political
“Progressives” just love claiming “expert opinion” for their political conceits – except when actual experts disagree with them. Despite the opposition of doctors’ groups like the AMA and the World Medical Association, the “progressive” Andrews government steamrolled ahead with its legalised suicide euthanasia legislation. Any worries that crossing the Rubicon of
Viv Forbes Viv Forbes has studied geology, physics, chemistry, maths, meteorology, cycles, industry economics and commodity markets. Two green-dream fantasies are heading for a massive and costly collision. Firstly they dream of generating all grid power from wind/solar propped up by battery storage (such as lots of giant Tesla
