and then Kiwis could be really proud of their Defence Force!
‘The New Zealand Defence Force has been ranked number one in an international study assessing the integration of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender service members…’

Daniel Greenfield:
‘..America’s Two Party system has worked because both parties, for the most part, were not absolutists. The exceptions, like FDR, did a great deal of damage, but their sway was limited. What has changed is the level of mobilization, coordination and integration on the left. Social institutions, major corporations, the media, unions, non-profits and the educational system have been knitted together into a totalitarian entity with an agenda. This state of affairs transcends democracy and cannot be remedied by democratic elections…
…Every area of life is being politicized and this politicization did not take place as a result of elections and cannot be stopped with mere elections. The politicization of everything is the indication of a totalitarian movement at work. To politicize a thing is to claim ownership over it. Universal politicization means absolute power for the politicizers….’

From a link in the inimitable ‘Woodpile Report’:
‘..Many may remember the famed “Millennium Challenge 2002” held just before Operation Iraqi Freedom. Retired Marine general Paul Van Riper, appointed to serve as opposing force commander, quit because the exercise was rigged. ”We were directed…to move air defenses so that the army and marine units could successfully land,” he said. ”We were simply directed to turn [air defense systems] off or move them… So it was scripted to be whatever the control group wanted it to be.” For the U.S. Army to be successful in battle against competent opponents, changes are necessary…’        Armed Forces Journal
Excellent article. Will senior brass insist on more rigorous training and less gender sensitivity before disaster strikes? Nope. Peacetime (and make no mistake, this is peacetime) careers depend on the latter more than the former.

In addition to Wind turbines that James Delingpole brilliantly described as “Bat chomping,bird slicing eco crucifixes” we now have solar thermal power plants being built that birds mistake for the shimmering surface of a water source.Only problem is the mirrors at these plants,and there are a lot of them,heat the air to at or near 1,000*F  effectively frying the birds mid-flight.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304703804579379230641329484?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304703804579379230641329484.html

If the law of unintended consequences smacks a lefty greentard in the face does it make a sound?Not if thier pockets are being stuffed with taxpayer and ratepayer cash it doesn’t.

This article left me throughly depressed about the sorry state of my once great nation.Just more proof that progressive liberalism is a mental disorder.When a group pushes for and forces on their own nation policies that will lead to it’s destruction all so they can rule the over ruins,what more proof does one need?

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/02/a_nation_of_bastards.html

Saw this,quite an interesting tale with all the usual players-

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2561989/Former-US-congressman-arrested-Zimbabwe.html

‘Two ‘petite’ police firearms officers set to receive £35,000 each because their guns were too big for their hands
Victoria Wheatley and Rachael Giles, pictured arriving at the employment tribunal in central London, are set to receive payouts of £35,000 each after complaining their guns were too big for their small hands. The pair won a sex discrimination case on the grounds they could not reach the trigger. Both claimed their reputations were damaged because their unsuitable equipment – a Glock 17 – meant they received lower marks than men in firing range tests.

William Stout has a few words for you, concerning the post below:
“There is a darker current to this story. Such differences are often used as the ignition source for political fires that consume human souls. And yet, it is the left that consistently embraces these ideals. It was the left, or progressives if you prefer, who fathered eugenics. It was the left who invented social Darwinism, it was the left that built the gulags. It was the left that butchered millions in the Ukraine, in China, and in Cambodia. It was the left that created the extermination camps. When the left began, it slaughtered thousands with the Guillotine to the delight of Robespierre, and this river of blood has been flowing strongly ever since.

From the “settled science” of eugenics (where have we heard that term since?) to the closet racism embedded in the left’s DNA, those who subscribe to leftist ideology have been the perpetrators of man’s most horrific crimes against his fellow man in the past 100 years. Have they ever accepted responsibility for that? Of course not, because to accept responsibility is to own it and that would mean that they are less than perfect.

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‘ADVANCES in genetic sequencing are giving rise to a new era of scientific racism, experts have said.
New forms of discrimination, known as “neoracism”, are taking hold in scientific research, spreading the belief that races exist and are different in terms of biology, behaviour and culture, according to anthropologists who spoke at the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Chicago…’  (bold mine)     source

‘Fires show climate change is real: Stern
NICHOLAS Stern has cited recent bushfires in Australia along with current flooding in the United Kingdom to argue climate change is already causing devastating destruction.
The British economist, who authored the influential 2006 study on global warming, says record rainfall and storm surges causing flooding across the UK “are a clear sign we are already experiencing the impacts of climate change”…’
It’s hard to know where to begin attacking this horseshit, uncritically regurgitated by News. com as “news”. So I won’t bother.
Oh, and you’ll notice it’s not “global warming” any more…