Bruce Johnston

Great news. The BSA's attempted power grab will go down as one of NZ's worst examples of organisational suicide.

Another powerful story the mainstream media buried: In 1995, NYC’s Veterans Day Parade was on the brink of cancellation, broke, with zero corporate donations after asking 200 companies. The then-businessman Donald Trump stepped up: he wrote a personal check for $200,000, helped raise another $300,000, and marched with over 25,000 veterans down Fifth Avenue. Parade director Tom Fox (a Vietnam vet) said it plainly: “Donald Trump saved the parade.” This wasn’t for votes or headlines; it was pure respect for our warriors and love for America. Long before politics, Trump showed where his heart is. The MSM won’t tell you this side of him. Share if you stand with Trump and our veterans.

A single bird has just accomplished one of the most extraordinary feats in the animal kingdom — flying nearly one-third of the way around the Earth without stopping to eat, drink, or rest. The record-breaker is a five-month-old Bar-tailed Godwit that flew nonstop from Alaska to Tasmania, Australia. Covering 8,425 miles in just over 11 days, it set a new record for the longest nonstop flight ever documented in any bird. What makes this journey even more astonishing is that it was the young godwit’s very first migration. The entire route took place over the open Pacific Ocean, with no chance to land. Despite that, the bird navigated thousands of miles of featureless water with pinpoint accuracy. This incredible endurance is made possible by remarkable physiological adaptations. Before takeoff, the godwit packs on enormous fat reserves — nearly half its body weight — to fuel the flight. At the same time, many of its internal organs, including parts of the digestive system, temporarily shrink to lighten the load and maximize energy efficiency. Unlike many seabirds that depend heavily on gliding, this godwit flapped continuously for the entire journey, battling shifting winds and weather systems the whole way. Researchers at the Pūkōroro Auckland Shorebird Centre say discoveries like this are transforming our understanding of migratory birds. Their astonishing endurance, navigation skills, and energy management demonstrate biological capabilities that can match — and in some ways surpass — even the most advanced human engineering.

A little history for those frauds wanting to “restore Palestine”: 1: Before Israel, there was the British Mandate, not a Palestinian state. 2: Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state. 3: Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state. 4: Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayyubid Arab-Kurdish Empire, not a Palestinian state. 5: Before the Ayyubid Empire, there was the Frankish and Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state. 6: Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there were the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, not a Palestinian state. 7: Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state. 8: Before the Byzantine Empire, there were the Sassanids, not a Palestinian state. 9: Before the Sassanid Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state. 10: Before the Byzantine Empire, there was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state. 11: Before the Roman Empire, there was the Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state. 12: Before the Hasmonean state, there was the Seleucid Empire, not a Palestinian state. 13: Before the Seleucid Empire, there was the empire of Alexander the Great, not a Palestinian state. 14: Before the empire of Alexander the Great, there was the Persian Empire, not a Palestinian state. 15: Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state. 16: Before the Babylonian Empire, there were the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, not a Palestinian state. 17: Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state. 18: Before the Kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state. 19: Before the theocracy of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, not a Palestinian state. 20: Before the agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, there was God. The Kingdom of David — a historic map for those wondering how the region looked over 2,000 years ago.

"Unprocessed meat is fine. Processed meat is bad." Quick question. What is it about the processing that makes it toxic? Is it the act of grinding? Is the mince in your fridge a public health emergency? Is pemmican, the food that kept Arctic explorers alive on three-month sledging journeys, a slow-acting poison? Is the salt-cured ham hanging in a Spanish farmhouse for two years killing the family that has been eating it for generations? Or is it the nitrates? The nitrates that do not survive your stomach acid. The nitrates your own salivary glands produce in larger quantities than a slice of bacon contains. The nitrates that beetroot is celebrated for and bacon is condemned for, in the same magazine, on facing pages. Or is it the WHO classification? The one that lumped every cured meat on earth, regardless of ingredients, regardless of source, regardless of preparation, into a single category based on relative risk increases so small that the same statistical method would flag drinking tea, sitting near a window, and being Welsh. In reality, if you find a sausage with three ingredients, all of which your grandmother would recognise, you are eating one of the most nutrient-dense, shelf-stable, convenient foods ever invented. Pemmican kept entire civilisations alive. Biltong runs on salt and air. A decent butcher's sausage runs on the pig. Processed is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Most of it dishonestly. Read the ingredients. That is the whole test.

I'm sorry, but Nolan casting Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy has completely killed all immersion in this epic for me. Homer’s Odyssey was never some diverse melting pot. Helen was a fair skinned, golden-haired Spartan queen, daughter of Zeus, the ultimate beauty in an epic built by European blood and gods. Yet i'm meant to believe her face was the one who launched a 1,000 ships? It's very sad to see Nolan go down this route. Ancient Greece wasn’t full of Sub Saharans, yet they’re flooding Ithaca with dei and tokenism. This destroys what could’ve been a incredible Epic. Tragic.

Is it possible to have a family on one income? This gentleman explains how to make it work

Cognitive tricks Navy SEALs use under extreme pressure: 1. When their mind says they are done, they know they have only used 40% of their real capacity. Quitting is always a mental event before it becomes a physical one. 2. They never think about the whole mission. Only the next step. Then the next. Breaking the impossible into small pieces keeps the brain functioning when others shut down. 3. In chaos, they find the one thing that matters most right now and lock all focus there. Everything else disappears. 4. They control panic through breathing alone. Slow the breath and you manually slow the brain's fear response within seconds. 5. They embrace discomfort instead of fighting it. Resistance to pain costs more energy than the pain itself. 6. They make decisions fast with incomplete information. Waiting for certainty in a crisis is the most dangerous choice of all. 7. They detach emotionally from outcomes during execution. Emotion clouds judgment. Clarity wins missions. 8. They use positive self-talk as a weapon. The internal voice either kills you or carries you. They choose carefully. 9. They train in conditions harder than real missions deliberately. When reality feels familiar your brain stays calm. 10. After every mission they review what went wrong without ego. Continuous cold honest feedback is their greatest weapon.

Suicidal white leftist lady wearing LGBT rainbow earrings argues that Australia should bring ISIS members stranded overseas back to Australia, while Yazidi refugee who was personally tortured by ISIS begs for them to be blocked. Absolute perfect example of Western suicidal empathy. Credit @AussieEgyptian

She challenged this guy to a match, just to find out she had 0% chance

The statistics that nobody in the UK wants to discuss: -24% of British Muslims openly support Hamas -22% support the Iranian Revolutionary Guards -16% support Islamic State (!) -14% support al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan -62% say burning the Quran should be a criminal offence -52% want to make showing images of Muhammad a criminal offence -50%+ say Jews have ‘too much power’ in banking, politics, media -48% support banning all Israeli tech from the UK health service -36% favour severing ALL political & economic ties with Israel -32% want more segregation between men & women in public spaces in Britain -26% want to reverse same-sex marriage -26% want to ban dogs in outdoor public spaces -24% say violence is ‘legitimate’ if somebody burns the Quran/makes images of Muhammad -22% think Muslim men should be able to have multiple wives -63% put their Islamic identity first; but only 12% put their British identity first All these numbers come from a new poll from JL Partners. We are not talking about small numbers of people here. We are talking about millions. And as Britain’s Muslim population is forecast to rise from 6% to 17% by the year 2050. And to then 26%+ by the end of the century, these attitudes, which are often more strongly held among younger Muslims, will only spread. Somebody in politics or media has to start a national conversation about what Muslims in Britain think and what it means for our country in the years ahead.

We’ve all dreamed of doing this at least once.

.@garyplayer: "I've never seen a President that loves the country as much as you do, and I say thank you, because I've traveled more miles than any human being before... and I've never seen a country like this — the freedom that exists, which is so important to all of us..."

Imagine demoting Eric Clapton from the top ten guitarists of all time to 35!! All because he spoke out about his vaccine injury 5 years ago. Rolling Stone’s a joke and the last laugh’s on them. Clapton knew the risk he was taking and didn’t care. As he put it - ‘The best bit about it for me is that I might be becoming a nuisance for those guys. I’d love to be an annoyance to some of them .’ Talent like Clapton’s echoes louder every time they try to silence him !!

Three Quotes. Three Prophets. One Funeral Pyre. In 1968 Enoch Powell was sacked from the shadow cabinet within twenty four hours of delivering the speech that ended his political career. He had warned that Britain was permitting the annual inflow of tens of thousands of dependents who would become the material of future demographic growth. He compared it to a nation heaping up its own funeral pyre. He was denounced as a racist, driven from public life and spent the remaining thirty years of his career in the wilderness. He was also right. In 1972 Rudi Dutschke, the German Marxist student radical, described the mechanism by which the left would achieve its objectives without revolution. Not through the seizure of power but through the patient capture of the institutions that shape how people think. Schools. Universities. The civil service. The media. The judiciary. The cultural establishment. A long march, he called it, through the institutions. Change the assumptions of the next generation before they reach the polling booth and the revolution becomes unnecessary. The ballot box does the work. Dutschke died young. His strategy did not. In 2006 Muammar Gaddafi, speaking in Timbuktu, identified the third strand of the same process. We have fifty million Muslims in Europe, he said. There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe, without swords, without guns, without military conquest. The fifty million in Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades. He was not predicting an invasion. He was describing a demographic and political process already underway. A process that requires no army because the host country's own institutions, captured by Dutschke's long march, will accommodate it, facilitate it and denounce anyone who names it. Three men. Three traditions. Three vantage points. One convergent prediction. Now look at the evidence. The Policy Exchange poll showing that sixty three percent of British Muslims prioritise religious identity over British identity, that Muslim support for Labour has collapsed from eighty percent to thirty three percent and that the United Kingdom is, in the words of the lead researcher, far from being a stable multi-faith democracy. The Henry Jackson Society identifying 171 sectarian style candidates standing across 31 councils in Thursday's local elections, concentrated in Birmingham, Bradford, Blackburn, Tower Hamlets and Rochdale. The Green Party's own former deputy leader describing his party as a danger to society following an Islamist membership surge of 150,000 under a single leader. The parliamentary arithmetic showing Muslim populations a hundred times the size of Labour majorities in Bradford West, Birmingham Yardley, Rochdale and Ilford North. Fourteen percent of Muslim voters reporting their postal vote collected by a campaigner, almost double the general population figure and a practice courts have prosecuted for election fraud. The funeral pyre Powell described is now well alight. The long march Dutschke theorised is reaping its dividend at the ballot box, in the university, in the civil service and in the media organisations that still cannot report these poll findings without a paragraph of mitigation. And the Muslim continent Gaddafi foresaw is not a distant prospect but a visible trajectory in the cities and boroughs of a country that was once proud to call itself a stable democracy. None of these men agreed on anything else. Powell was a British Conservative. Dutschke was a German Marxist. Gaddafi was a Libyan dictator. When a Conservative intellectual, a Marxist revolutionary and a Libyan dictator reach the same conclusion from irreconcilable vantage points, dismissing all three without engaging with the substance becomes considerably harder than taking them seriously. And there is a fourth voice. Not a prophet. Keir Starmer stated that Britain risks becoming an island of strangers. He was right. Wasn't he?

The most Green Party story I’ve ever read. The Greens reparations officer, Antoinette Fernandez, who supports the idea of Britain paying trillions of pounds in slavery reparations, is descended from a Nigerian royal family that traded slaves. One of them owned 1,400 slaves.

Reminder that the Iranian Revolution started as a student-led leftist Marxist movement to overthrow the Shah. Then Muslims joined in, presenting themselves as ‘anti-imperialists’ too. Once the Islamic regime took power, those same leftist students and their progressive ideals were the first to be killed. Leftist students in American and Western universities are literally making the same mistake right now. They never learned the lesson.

Eduardo took eleven minutes to cross the field this morning. The field is approximately 130 metres long. Eduardo, if he had wanted to, could have crossed it at a brisk alpaca walk in about three minutes. He did not want to. He stopped at the gorse bush. He stopped at the small section of clover near the gate. He stopped at the place where the badger crosses, which is not currently active but which Eduardo, by some assessment of his own, considers worth checking. He stopped at the dip where the rainwater pools, drank slightly, walked on. He stopped at the eastern fence post for ninety seconds and looked, by every visible indicator, at nothing in particular. He arrived at the far gate at 7.46am. The farmer, watching from the kitchen, made a cup of tea. The farmer's wife, who has watched Eduardo cross this field most mornings for seven years, said: "He's slow today." The farmer: "He's slow every day." The wife: "He's slow on purpose." The farmer: "...Yes." This is the thing about Eduardo. The eleven minutes is not inefficient. The eleven minutes is the work. The work is to walk the field, attend to it, notice what has changed, register the gorse and the badger crossing and the dip and the fence post, and finish at the far gate having processed the morning. Most useful animals, and most useful humans, work like this. The work is in the noticing. The noticing requires time. The time looks, to the casual observer, like the animal is doing nothing. The animal is not doing nothing. The animal is doing the most important part. The phone in your pocket has, in the last decade, optimised the noticing out of most modern lives. The walk to work has become the scroll on the bus. The lunch has become the working lunch. The slow look at the eastern fence post has become the answered email. Eduardo has not, at any point, optimised the noticing out. This is, in the long run, why Eduardo is fine and you are tired. Walk the field slowly. Notice the gorse. Be the alpaca.

The Plymouth Pilgrims accidentally ran the first documented socialist experiment in America three centuries before Marx scribbled his manifesto. Governor William Bradford's "common storehouse" system from 1620-1623 delivered textbook collectivist results: mass shirking, crop failures, and near-starvation. Bradford recorded the disaster in detail. Young men "complained that they were oppressed" when forced to work for others without reward. Productive colonists watched lazy neighbors receive equal rations despite contributing nothing. The system "was found to breed much confusion and discontent" because it violated basic human incentives. People starved while fertile Massachusetts soil lay underworked. The turnaround came swiftly in 1623 when Bradford abandoned the collective model and assigned private family plots. Production exploded overnight. Women and children voluntarily joined field work when their families directly benefited from extra effort. The same colonists who nearly died under socialism suddenly produced abundant harvests under private property. Bradford explicitly credited private ownership for saving Plymouth Colony. He documented how individual responsibility transformed human behavior within a single growing season. Individual effort cannot be separated from individual reward without destroying both. Every socialist experiment since Plymouth has repeated this identical pattern. Different century, different continent, same predictable collapse when planners ignore the reality of human nature. No matter what they call it, whenever and wherever collectivist ideas are put into practice, disaster soon follows.

Immigration Shouldn't Be a Moral Issue