[...] The Big Lie this summer is that the catastrophic bushfires ravaging Queensland and New South Wales are “the worst ever” and “unprecedented”.

[...] What was it that drove these changes? The facts of dispossession had been known for centuries. Indigenous peoples held their histories close. Local historians could describe in vivid detail every battle/massacre. It was just that no one else gave much thought to the wet-work incidental to modernity’s advance.

[...] With aggravated robbery levels up, daily smoking rates stagnant and, in the case of our poorest New Zealanders, tax levels having little relevance to consumption, Smokefree 2025 was at risk of being added to the large pile of political dreams turned nightmares.

[...] The New Conservatives seem to understand what the most essential role of government is - to secure and maintain the natural rights of citizens:

Snopes began when David and Barbara Mikkelson met online at the Usenet discussion group alt.folklore.urban, where David posted under the username snopes, from a William Faulkner novel, and was simultaneously one of AFU’s most notorious trolls and prolific researchers. This origin story needs to be firmly kept in mind: the team behind Snopes were complete amateurs using Google, and as far from journalists as it’s possible to get.