History
From the Desk of a Male Pale and Stale
In my previous piece regarding the Reserve Bank (RBNZ) I outlined how the cultural changes overtaking the RBNZ were also overtaking its primary mission and probably did not, ironically, reflect a good return on investment (ROI). The recent release of commemorative coins by the RBNZ, coupled with a consumer complaint,
The Myth of ‘Right of Return’
So far in this series we’ve debunked the following ‘pro-Palestinian’ propaganda: that the rapist butchers of Hamas are ‘resistance fighters’, the obvious stupidity of the Marxist claim that Jews are ‘settler colonialists’ in their own homeland, the obnoxiously false claims that Israel is an ‘apartheid state’ that is
An Epic Case of Wind
When it comes to the weather, a change is as good as a holiday. One winter some years back, here in Tasmania, we had several months of continual rain, with only a handful of rain-free days. It was maddening. At the other end of the scale, friends who’ve
Particle 101: Manuports
Michelle Aitken Michelle is interested in the relationships between science, culture, and policy. She has a background in performing arts and hospitality, and is a MEAA member. particle.scitech.org.au If you look around your bedroom, or in the door pocket of your car, you may have a cool
They Have a Case of Beltway-itis
The 1960 US presidential race was interesting for various reasons. On the Democratic Party side the race to become its presidential candidate was characterised by a couple of hard-fought primary elections between John Kennedy and a man called Hubert Humphrey (basically forgotten by history these days) but the other
Three Radical Writers Who Are Celebrated Today
Aditi Upmanyu, PhD candidate in English Literature University of Oxford The onset of the French Revolution, at the end of the 18th century, had a seismic impact on British thinking. Ideas of the nation were being hardened through xenophobia, an unquestioned reverence for institutional authority and a vocabulary of English
The Greatest Scientist They’ve Never Heard Of
If you ask people who watch a lot of television who the smartest scientist in history was, they’ll almost certainly say either Stephen Hawking or, God help us, Neil deGrasse Tyson. If you’re lucky, they might recall Albert Einstein. But, while at least Hawking was undoubtedly very smart,
The True History of Public Health Colonialism
David Bell David Bell, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in
The UK Is Hellward Bound
Harry Palmer Though people from Britain’s colonies have always been welcomed to the heart of the Empire, the trickle became a stream following WWII when a number of shiploads of immigrants from the Caribbean, notably Jamaica, arrived, many of them on board the HMT Empire Windrush, which was in
The Amazing True Story of the Real St. Patrick
Michael Michael Snyder’s extremely controversial new book entitled Chaos is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written seven other books that are available on Amazon.com including End Times, 7 Year Apocalypse, Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America, The Beginning Of
Not the Vessel They Were Looking For
As I recently reported for The BFD, a claimed new lead in the case of vanished airline MH370 claims to have drastically narrowed the likely crash site. The Malaysian Airlines flight disappeared shortly after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur in 2014. All evidence points to the plane crashing somewhere over the
Jews Are Not ‘Settler Colonists’ in Their Own Land
In the first part of this series debunking the lies of the ‘pro-Palestinian’ lobby, we dealt with perhaps the most loathsome: feting the rapist butchers of Hamas as ‘resistance fighters’. In this second part, we’ll look at the most self-evidently silly: that Jews are somehow ‘settler colonialists’
The Power the Treaty Gives Maori
Dominic O’Sullivan Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, and Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University This week parliament acted urgently to disestablish the Maori Health Authority. The hurry was to circumvent an urgent Waitangi Tribunal hearing on whether the proposal breached te
Why the Meiji Restoration Was Pivotal for Japan
Lawrence W Reed Lawrence W Reed is FEE’s interim president, having previously served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008–2019). fee.org Isolation, feudalism, and military dictatorship governed the Asian nation of Japan from 1603 until 1868. Known as the period of the Tokugawa Shogunate, its