mercatornet.com Having recently returned ‘down south’ from almost a year spent living and working in the Northern Territory, I could not be more opposed to the proposed voice to Parliament. Like many other Sydneysiders, I used to support the idea. I was persuaded by slick messaging from public figures,
Mamela Fiallo Flor mercatornet.com Mamela Fiallo Flor is a university lecturer, translator, and columnist for the PanAm Post. She lives in Ecuador. On February 12, 2015 occurred one of the most dramatic of the many atrocities committed by the Islamic State at the height of its power. Kneeling in
Did you hear Ginny Andersen get eviscerated by Mike Hosking on Wednesday morning? It was a train wreck. It also preceded National’s launching their slogan “Let’s Get New Zealand Back on Track”. Maybe Christopher Luxon was referring to Ginny Andersen and her train wreck interview. If you haven’
The increasingly alarming statistics around education failure and youth crime is tempered by the work begun by one South Auckland mother concerned about the future of its youth. A life of crime and drugs for many appeared inevitable until Sue Dickens decided she had seen enough failure in their lives
One of the most disgusting aspects of the demented “transgender” fad is that it so assiduously panders to the disgusting fetishes of some of the creepiest men on the planet. Not just the groomers who use “family friendly” events to peddle Queer Theory and expose themselves to children — all under
Do you buy this explanation? Police are putting the latest spike in crime down to an increase in reporting rather than an increase in actual crime. Superintendent Phil Taikato told AM on Wednesday […] “What we need to understand is, this type of activity and behaviour happens in ebbs and flows,
As I’ve reported several times before, the second-biggest Big Lie of transgenderism — the first being, of course, that gender and sex are not synonyms — is that “trans” people are under unique threat of violence from the rest of us. In fact, if anything, the reverse is true: transgenders are
Debra Wilson Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canterbury Over the last 12 months, multiple young sex offenders have been given home detention for sexual assault. Time and time again, the argument has been that these men were too young to fully understand the consequences of what they were
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has acknowledged that business owners “have reason” to be “fearful” He said the “spike” in retail crime is “undeniable”. Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD. If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The epidemic of youth crime has gotten to the point where New Zealand’s news headlines could be straight out of the L.A. Times – ram raids, stabbing threats, brazen robberies. It’s past time for youth offenders to start facing real consequences. Yesterday morning
The Titirangi Post Shop is closing down permanently due to constant attacks, but don’t worry, according to the government we are all just imagining the crime anyway, so it’s all good. A West Auckland community will lose its only NZ Post shop after repeated ram raids and break-ins
Have you heard the latest shocking revelations about the Biden family and its corrupt business dealings? Well, you’re a BFD reader, which already means you’re a more-discerning news consumer, so you might have. But not if you were to rely on the mainstream media. Certainly not the local
mercatornet.com The squalid court case just ended over an alleged sexual encounter in the mid-90s between Donald Trump and a saleswoman in a shop fitting room was always likely to end badly for him. Bizarre as the episode sounded, any accusation would seem credible given Trump’s own record
The man who narrated Police Ten 7 for 12 years – and who became a walking thesaurus with his descriptors of “morons”, “scumbags”, “murderous thugs”, “mindless lowlifes” and “gutless goons” – has three more words to summarise the show’s demise – “wokeness” and “political correctness”. […] The show has been cited by police
Citizens of Rockhampton gathered for a Traditional Acknowledgement of their own, this week. In what may be called a smoking-out ceremony, they paid their respects to local criminals, past, present and emerging. It was quite the Welcome to Rough Justice. Police are calling for calm as tensions over crime reach
propublica.org ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Last winter, Dr Gail Van Norman sat on the witness stand in the federal courthouse in Oklahoma City, testifying as part of a trial that
