Utopia, you are standing in it!

At the latest count, 93 people died in the Maui fire that also burned most of the town of Lahaina. The blame for this fire can be traced directly to Hawaii’s 62-year-old land-use law, which was written to protect Hawaii’s agricultural industry but had the opposite result. The land-use law … Continue reading →

Land-Use Law Kills Nearly 100 People in Maui

By Paul Homewood   The Government is facing an uprising in its own Tory heartlands against a key element of its net zero climate policy. From 2026, it will be illegal to buy a new oil boiler, and households will be encouraged to switch to heat pumps. This is especially problematic in rural areas that […]

The Tories are trapped by net zero legislation

+++CONTAINS SOME GRAPHIC IMAGES++++++ When Dwight D. Eisenhower entered Ohrdruf Concentration camp, after it was liberated he had the foresight to document the horrors he saw there with his own eyes. Ohrdruf was liberated on April 4, 1945, by the 4th Armored Division, led by Brigadier General Joseph F. H. Cutrona, and the 89th Infantry […]

Protecting the Truth of the Holocaust.

As the Nazis did in Europe, the Japanese Imperial Army had concentration camps in the Pacific. The Asian camps were nearly as horrific as the European ones, and the conditions were inhumane, nonetheless. This is just a side note, but I did notice, while researching, none of the Pacific camps were referred to as camps […]

Concentration Camps in the Pacific

The Green Party wants to facilitate the transfer of more public (or “Crown”) and private land to iwi, hapū, and whānau.  The intent is to address inequities arising from Māori land loss, especially in the 19th century.  The New Zealand Constitution Act 1986 marks the point that Parliament became sovereign and the British Crown’s role […]

The Green Party’s plans for public and private lands

In 2020, New Orleans planned to install bike lanes on 75 miles of streets, reducing the capacity of those streets to move cars. The residents of the first neighborhoods where they were installed strongly protested and are happy to report that, in late July and early August, all newly installed … Continue reading →

New Orleans Dismantles Bike Lanes

With the new disclosures in the Biden corruption scandal, the media has, again, pivoted to avoid acknowledging the obvious. It now has a new demand before it will fully recognize or report on the scandal. Of course, after long repeating denials of Joe Biden that he ever knew about his son’s foreign business deals, the […]

“Illusion of Influence”: The Media Moves the Goalpost Again on Biden Corruption Coverage

The Prime Minister is beginning to look like a lame duck   However, he left co-governance in Three Waters and elsewhere untouched. With the media rooting for him — including blithely ignoring the fact he had been a lynch pin in Ardern’s Cabinet — Hipkins’ administration had an immediate bump in the polls. Suddenly Labour […]

GRAHAM ADAMS:  Hipkins’ Government enters election season in disarray

Reading the hardcopy Herald over lunch I spotted an article under the heading “Ministry boss apologises over spend-up”, referring to Mr Leauanae, the chief executive of the Ministry of Culture and Heritage (MCH) as regards the events surrounding his farewell from his previous role as head of the Ministry of Pacific Peoples (MPP) and his […]

Laxity, or worse

An estimated 42% of adult Japanese women may end up never having children, the Nikkei newspaper reported, citing a soon-to-be-published estimate by a government research group. In a more optimistic scenario, a quarter of women born in 2005 may end up not having offspring. The midpoint estimate by Japan’s National Institute of Population and Social Security […]

Japan estimate of the day

Posted by Sara M. Butler, 10 August 2023. Chris Newman / Kirkconnel Church & Cemetery, Springkell. Wikimedia. Burial of the dead was a grave matter in medieval England. Last rites, a funeral mass, burial in consecrated ground – all were mandatory rituals intended to assist in the soul’s journey from the earthly realm to Purgatory and then […]

Legislating Sanctity: Protecting the Graveyard in Medieval England