Lying propaganda has a shelf life, columnist told
Give yourself an upper cut Bruce Bisset. Time to wake up to the fact that lying propaganda has a shelf life.
The climate change apocalyptic forecasts from the IPCC designed to lead us into a world order worse than anything the Bolsheviks or Mao could dream about is coming to an end. Professing to be from the “left”. how can you be so gullible? Perhaps that is your problem? Many are sick and tired of being “gored by a load of bull”.
A public contributor at the Port forum at regional council offices on October 29 commenced by saying “If you have read the latest IPCC report”, which brought my retort, “which is bovine excrement” (used the vernacular).
Perhaps “left hook” is appropriate title for your column? People who are “hooked” are of course addicted and frequently don’t know it. As example, the misinformation we have been fed for decades about “heart healthy whole grains”. As cardiologist William Davis, author of Wheat Belly (2011), its
Wheat Belly Total Health and Undoctored (2017) says, “modern wheat is an opiate — doesn’t give you a ‘high’ in the usual sense but attaching to the opiate receptors in the brain makes you hungry”. Examples of grain addicts abound.
John Smith
Napier
Sacrifice
On Sunday at both services St
Andrew’s
Presbyterian Church Waipukurau marked its contribution to New Zealand in WW1 by remembering the 67 men who went to war from 51 families and remembering the 16 who did not return.
One family sent four sons and only two returned.
One family sent two sons and neither returned. Twelve other families lost sometimes the only member sent to war.
The church’s memorial board was on display in the foyer. Prayers were said for the men. John McCormick Waipukurau
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Lack of respect
The article in HB Today November 8 under the heading “Raucous cheers to break silence”. I am appalled to hear of that abuse of the Remembrance Day Service. I had four uncles who served in WWI, and at 11am I observe in silence for two minutes remembering all those who served and died. I then silently thank God for those who returned.
Would those that instigated that thoughtless action appreciate it if attendees at the funeral of a loved one took that sort of action immediately following the end of the service. I hope not, it would show a total lack of respect and feeling. Philip MWard Taradale