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18 Breathtakingly Wrong Environmental Predictions
The first Earth Day was in 1970, and back then, many ‘apocalyptic’ predictions were made about the environment. Mark Perry at Carpe Diem AEIdeas blog has gone back and looked at them in order to present us with all the predictions that they got so spectacularly wrong 49 years ago.
View From Your Window
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Wednesday Nightcap
Copenhagen Consensus Centre Director Bjorn Lomborg says the world is getting “virtually nil” impact from the $240 billion spent subsidising green energy every year.
View From Your Window
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Map of the Day: Countries where land combat between Allied & Axis armies took place during WW2
This map only includes countries where LAND combat took place. If a country was only bombed (such as Australia) then it does not count. An explanation for some of the countries included: UK: Channel Islands were occupied and a couple of skirmishes occurred during Commando raids. Georgia: The village of
View From Your Window
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Why Should Christians Support Israel?
Amir Tsarfati and Pastor Mike Golay LIVE with a Middle East Update from Calvary Chapel East Anaheim. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
Millennials Are the Saddest Generation
We all love to make fun of Millennials. Such intergenerational baiting is easy enough, for sure, with such a generation of apparently spoiled, entitlement-mentality snowflakes. But it should also be borne in mind that the Millennial generation has more than a few problems of their own. Like all young generations,
View From Your Window
Where do you think today’s photo was taken? window@thebfd.co.nz Please put View From My Window in the subject line Yesterday’s view was of Portsmouth Historic Boatyard and it was taken from Emirates Spinnaker tower located in Portsmouth England. NOTE: We prefer photos to be from
NZ Suspends UNRWA Funding
Israel Institute of New Zealand: New Zealand has now joined the the Swiss, Dutch, and Belgium governments in suspending donations to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) following an internal report that found “credible and corroborated” allegations of serious ethical abuses including “sexual misconduct, nepotism, retaliation, discrimination and
The BFD BONUS World News Quiz
Today is the last day that our volunteer Person-of-color is doing the World News Quiz. We need a replacement asap. Full training will be provided but be assured that Apester is very easy to use. Please make contact today if a weekly quiz is something that you would enjoy creating
Conservative Opinions Not Welcome
Last week I wrote about how Wokeness has infected Miss Universe New Zealand. It seems that the Ms America pageant is not immune either. Katie Williams is disappointed that just days before the Ms. America pageant she was stripped of her Ms. Nevada State 2019 title and denied the chance