For the last year or two John Minto, a career activist, and a small band of followers have been protesting against the appearance of Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer at the ASB Tennis Classic in Auckland. The group was protesting against what they see as the oppression of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Apparently,...

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In case you ever needed proof that climate change is not about science, but about propaganda. A great example has just occurred. A few days ago Gavin Atkins of the Asian Correspondent asked the question: what happened to the climate change refugees? Gavin was talking about the UN’s 2005 claim that there would be 50...

Posted by ryal001 No comments Climate Change

There are a lot of blogs in the world, but does anybody read them? Apart from a small percentage of popular blogs, probably not. So why write a blog? I suppose it’s a common human desire to express yourself, to be heard (or in this case read). Even if no one actually reads what we...

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