Is 1984 Becoming a Reality? – George Orwell’s Warning to the World
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The Lasting Relevance of Confucius
Yu Tao mercatornet.com Yu Tao is a Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Western Australia (UWA), where he teaches contemporary Chinese society, politics, language, and culture. Trained as a political sociologist, Yu’s primary academic mission is to make sense of the social foundations and mechanisms
Was It Really Humans Wot Dun the Mammoths In?
Here’s a weird time-perspective for you to consider: we live closer in time to Cleopatra than she did to the building of the great pyramids. The Great Pyramid of Giza was more than 2600 years old when Cleopatra was alive. By contrast, she lived less than two thousand years
The BFD Food Column: Chocolate Mousse Torte
It would seem that all things good and rewarding come packaged as a tort/torte. Tort law is there to redress a wrong done to a person and provide relief, something beneficial… while the German torte is there not only to provide relief and make a person feel great but
AMA Leader’s Nasty, Unethical Arrogance
Imagine the career-lifespan of a doctor who didn’t want to treat AIDS patients, because he didn’t want to “get the gay on him”. Or a surgeon who refused to operate on a motorcycle crash victim: “they’re only organ donors, anyway”. On the other hand, liberal Hollywood has
Who Are We?
Tom O’Connor MNZM, JP. SEPARATISM This is the first of a series of articles on inter-ethnic relationships in New Zealand in the early 21st century and the development of an informal duality of citizenship, the acceptance of that duality by community leaders and the long-term potential for dis-harmony. An
The ‘New Normal’ Is Revolting
Thornton Blackmore Protests are erupting worldwide in the wake of mandatory vaccination orders being handed down by our would-be dictators. Scenes of Melburnian tradesmen holding their ground against the riot squad at the Shrine of Remembrance while singing the Australian National Anthem, and defecting policemen in Europe throwing aside their
The Only Tool You Need to Break Down a Wall
Donald Digby When most people think of the fall of the Berlin Wall they think of November 9th, 1989 and the chaotic scenes outside the Brandenburg Gate. Well, did you know the real fall of the Berlin wall started 3 months earlier and began with a picnic? The Pan-European Picnic
God Defend New Zealand
Olivia Pierson oliviapierson.org Dear Reader, If New Zealanders have not yet tumbled to the realisation that what we are watching unfold is spectacularly sinister, then we’re in deep shit and we’ve already lost the spirit of our ANZAC camaraderie, in fact, it’s worse than that for
Gantz Bans 6 Palestinian PFLP NGO’s
John McCormick Chairman Hawkes Bay Friends of Israel Kiwi girl Killed in Israel. In what I believe to be our first victim of terrorism 19-year-old Miss Judith Sinton of Auckland was shot dead on Kibbutz Shamir in northern Israel on June 13 1974. She was a tourist working on the
Who Do I See about Reparations?
Back in Australia’s Bicentennial, Aboriginal Australian Burnum Burnum famously planted the Aboriginal flag at Dover and claimed England in the name of his people. It was a superb piece of satire, provoking reflection on the basic issue of, by what right did one people claim the land of another?
The BFD Food Column: Joojeh Kebob
Little good news comes out of Iran these days. It was once the seat of the Peacock Throne and the home of a glorious long line of shahs. A fascinating tourist destination that any of us would have given our right hand to spend time travelling in; it features unbelievable
How Could This Happen in a Modern Society?
Rebecca In the Balkans conflict in the early 1990s, people who had lived together peaceably for generations suddenly acted like psychopaths. The undesirables were not just denied medical treatment should they dare to survive the onslaught; they were then pursued to death by formerly congenial village dentists who now appeared
China’s Hypersonic Missile Test Is Another Obvious Warning Sign…
Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom,
Not Just ‘Paul’s Granny Music’
John Lennon was never one to hold back an opinion. Lennon’s comments famously ranged from witty to ascerbic: his How Do You Sleep? is one of the most brutal “diss tracks” ever put on vinyl. But Lennon didn’t just reserve his acid tongue for his former bandmate. His