In the first part of this series, I looked at just how flawed assumptions lead to wrong answers about how Australia and New Zealand should shape their strategic response to the “Rise of China”, especially its increasingly blatant efforts to turn the Pacific into a Chinese lake. Australia and New
In a previous series of articles (here and here), I examined the “hard strategic choices facing New Zealand” (and Australia), as outlined by national security academic Hugh White. As I noted in those articles, while many of White’s assumptions were dubious at best, he at least brings into sharp
Sheila Gunn Reid of TheRebel.media reports: Earlier this year Justin Trudeau announced a 650 million dollar bailout package to mainstream media companies. The handouts are going to be administered by a panel of journalists hand-selected by Liberals and then divvied out amongst media companies who have no idea
One of the most memorable characters in Michael Crichton’s climate-thriller State of Fear is the pompous, egotistical actor-activist Ted Bradley. Bradley, who serves as both the avatar of Hollywood’s ignorant self-importance and as a foil for the book’s skeptic-heroes, comes to a hilariously
As I wrote recently, the leftist “Golden Trio” of Jacinda Ardern, Emmanuel Macron and Justin Trudeau have all been lumbered with feet of clay. By calling a general election for Canada in October, Trudeau will be the first of the three to face the judgement of voters. Trudeau has been
Slavoj Žižek is a ‘Continental’ philosopher and a Marxist (which is more or less a tautology), and he lives up to it. Like other famous ‘thinkers’ of that ilk, his stock-in-trade is avoiding anything like clarity of thought. Instead, they dance about, throwing verbal gesticulations around like so
Although Clive Hamilton has been dismissed by some as a paranoid crank for his polemic, Silent Invasion: China’s Influence in Australia, he is being rapidly vindicated by events. Not only did many publishers refuse the book explicitly because they feared reprisals from Beijing, recent events have indeed shown just
Hayman Capital founder and CIO Kyle Bass is back. In this riveting conversation, he tells Raoul Pal exactly how, why, and when China’s economy will come unraveled. As China’s growth declines, Bass says that its currency is at the heart of a coming crisis. And with growth rates
Everyone by now should be familiar enough with Martin Niemöller’s famous, post-WWII lament, but just in case, it runs like this: First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I
The biggest problem for the left-elite class, all across the Western world, is their inability to pull their heads out of their collective arses and realise that there is a whole other world of people outside their quinoa-proof fence. People who not only don’t think like they
In all the undeserved hoo-hah about the grifting illegal immigrant Tamil family and their anchor babies, “refugee advocates” oddly avoid one key issue: why, exactly, is it supposedly “unsafe” for the parents to sod off back home? It’s not as if at least their father hasn’t gone
Not long ago, Germany’s car industry was a driving force of innovation. Today, it’s struggling to keep up. Its hesitant embrace of electric vehicles could prove an existential mistake. Because around the world, the market for e-cars has picked up speed. Not long ago, Germany’s car
You genuinely have to wonder whether the contemporary left are just completely blind to their cognitive dissonance, or if they really are the cynical hypocrites they’d have to be, to believe and act as they do. As one Twitter user notes, abortion-loving feminists tout The Handmaid’s Tale,
The new way Hong Kong protesters deal with tear gas /content/media/u4kytuk.mp4
Here’s why Salvini and Lega will be back WITH A VENGEANCE If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
When my better half watched a documentary on solar flare, which is a sudden unpredictable flash of increased brightness on the sun, we talked about the possible correlation between the sun’s variability and global warming. It just makes sense. We are curious people but not scientists, and Wikipedia says
