Operation Paperclip was the American mission to smuggle Nazi war criminals out of Europe after WWII and take 88 brilliant Third Reich scientific minds to America to drive technological advancement in rocketry, space search and biological weaponry. Writer Annie Jacobsen wrote about that mission, and a dozen or so of
Alana Piper University of Technology Sydney In the first decade of the 20th century, Australians were focused on the future. It was the dawn of a new century, and of a newly formed nation. Perhaps this forward outlook was part of why fortune-telling was being heralded as the latest
Jacinda Ardern and Winston Peters can whinge all they like about Australia exercising its sovereign rights and deporting New Zealand-citizen crims, but legal scholar Mirko Bagaric has some very simple advice. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern publicly has scolded Scott Morrison and Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton for
The anniversary of the dreadful March 15 mosque attacks approaches, and we all expect this to be an opportunity for Jacinda to grandstand, don a headscarf, hug people and delight the international media with her kindness and fairy dust. She will also be hoping that it will help her flagging
It’s no secret that we are being subjected to a rash of fake “hate crimes”. Jussie Smollett is only the most famous example of a trend across the Western world. What’s also obvious is that almost all of these hoaxes are deliberately intended to actually foster hate – in
There’s nothing quite like a story of a speeding teenager getting let off by a Dud Judge to get the opinions flowing. This week we hear of Kingston Webb, a resident of Napier (hmm, just what do you call that, a Napierian, a Napierite?). Anyway, young Kingston is a
More than 4000 firearms have been stolen, between the start of 2015 and November 2019 from four of New Zealand’s twelve policing districts and the cops have had their firearms stolen as well! 1. In Canterbury, there were 241 thefts 2. In the Bay of Plenty, there were 228
Simon Bridges made a big song and dance about reciprocity for how New Zealand deals with Aussie criminals in New Zealand. He said loud and long that we should be sending them home like the Aussies do to Kiwi criminals. When asked about the one obvious case, that of loopy,
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
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Press Release: New Conservative When a four-year-old boy is so badly bashed that the only two foreseeable options are death or permanent brain injury, then someone must be held accountable. New Conservative have long held the view that parents are responsible for their children, so then in a
Dear Editor Can the long-suffering taxpayer expect full recovery costs from these low lifes? Police and emergency services costs? Hospital costs, security costs, legal costs and prison costs? Or will it be another hug and a cuddle? While these queue-jumping vermin are wasting scarce resources I know of
Gary David is more-or-less forgotten, these days, but there was a time when he dominated news and politics as Public Enemy Number One. David was institutionalised, in orphanages, boys’ homes and ultimately prison, for 33 of his 38 years. From a life of petty crime, David graduated to
If you were to believe the green movement’s propaganda, they are the only squeaky-clean troupe of ideologically pure, selfless servants of the people in the entire Australian polity. Graft, corruption, secrecy, dirty politics…there’s none of that kind of goblin mischief going on, down in Fairy Dell.
I know I’ve written many times about “leftist paedophilia” and, look, to be honest, even I sometimes think I’m just being paranoid. But, then, stuff like this just keeps rearing its ugly head: Scotland’s finance secretary has quit after it was revealed he sent up to 270
