Karl Popper, in a much-misunderstood and abused footnote to his The Open Society and Its Enemies, wrote of the “paradox of tolerance”. It’s not a very clear or well-developed argument, but its essence is that, if a society extends tolerance without limit, that will inevitably lead to tolerating the
Brett Wilkins commondreams.org Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams. One of the psychologists paid tens of millions of dollars by the US Central Intelligence Agency to oversee the interrogation of prisoners in the so-called War on Terror provided new details […] about the torture of a Guantanamo
Christian Jordan Howell University of South Florida David Maimon Georgia State University It is common to hear news reports about large data breaches, but what happens once your personal data is stolen? Our research shows that, like most legal commodities, stolen data products flow through a supply chain consisting of
Time and again we are finger-wagged that “Groomer” is an “anti-LGBT slur”. Why on earth would that be? Why would anyone hear a charge of sexually-grooming children into pedophile activities and immediately thinking “LGBT”? I mean, it’s not as if “LGBT” groups are hunting-grounds for predatory groomers, is it…
Police in the UK arrest a woman for silently praying: "Are you praying?" "I might be praying in my head." pic.twitter.com/7Q8UnKmfa1 — Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) December 22, 2022 Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD. If you would like to access exclusive
Remember when the left vehemently asserted that transgender laws would never lead to perverts lurking in women’s change rooms and attempting to sexually assault little girls? Yeah, we all know how that has ended. A transgender person wanted for exposing their naked, half-erect penis to women in two separate
An activist, hard left, High Court judge has decided that constitutional conventions separating the judiciary and Parliament don’t matter one iota, as she hands down a criminal friendly judgment: A 501 deportee had several human rights breached by the Government and his treatment was unlawful, the High Court has
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio, tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under
You have to really wonder just what Waikato Police Area Commander, Superintendent Bruce Bird was thinking when he admitted that youth crime is “out of control”. Police were allegedly fired at from a passing vehicle in the wake of youth arrests linked to a string of overnight ramraids and burglaries
Dr Ashley Bloomfield’s next career move has been revealed – and he’s making a jump to academia. The University of Auckland says the former Director-General of Health has been appointed a professor at its School of Population Health. Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD. If you would
righttolife.org The Nigerian military has been running a secret illegal mass abortion programme since at least 2013 that has resulted in at least 10,000 abortions, according to a Reuters report. The Reuters report is based on interviews with Nigerian women and girls, a number of civilian healthcare workers
FreeNZ freenz.org Liz received this text from a person at Stuff today. We are presenting her statement in full for your awareness. Stuff: “Hi it’s tony wall here from Stuff. We are doing a story about the Queensland shooters referencing the [Baby W] case and other anti-vaccine videos
Are we really ready to have ED-209 patrolling our streets? ED-209, as some of you may recall, was the terrifying military robot from Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 classic, Robocop. Sporting twin heavy-calibre machine-gun arms, ED informs a make-believe armed robber at a corporate demonstration, to Please put down your weapon.
Monday’s slaughter of two police officers and a civilian in rural Queensland, and the subsequent shootout where three suspects were also killed, has sent shockwaves across Australia and New Zealand. Where it happened, though, is less shocking to anyone who knows such areas. First, the horrifying events. The dramatic
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young
As the ongoing release of the Twitter Files shows, there was a good reason the Left Establishment were so determined to try and stop Elon Musk’s takeover: there’s too much dirty laundry they wanted to keep hidden. Not just its collusion with the Deep State to suppress information
