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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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,
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
Sodom and Gomorrah are perhaps the best known of the five “cities of the plain” which feature so prominently in Genesis — and a byword for God’s destructive wrath. The historic city and location of the cities has long been debated. But, the Biblical and other Hebrew sources are clear
It’s said that “Whenever something eats, something dies”. But this wasn’t always so: the earliest organisms were likely microbes that absorbed nutrients directly from their environment. Even today “extremophile” organisms feast on the chemical soup spewing out of deep-ocean volcanic vents. But, at some point in Earth’s
