Author: David Boyd

Health-An Update

For all those who over the last 12 months have expressed concern and support with my health issues, I would like to say a very heartfelt thank you.For the record, I was diagnosed with bowel cancer on 9th October last year. I had some 11 inches of my colon and rectum containing three malignant tumours … Continue reading Health-An Update →

Lomborg and Realistic Optimism

Just because it sounds good …BJORN LOMBORGTHE AUSTRALIANJULY 11, 2014 12:00AMPrintSave for later12THE world has generally become a much better place during the last half-century. Sceptics will scoff, but the numbers don’t lie. The task now is to make the world even better.In 1960, 20 million children under the age of five died. In 2011, with … Continue reading Lomborg and Realistic Optimism →

Health

Last year I published three posts titled "Oh What a Feeling", "Cricket and Chemo" and "Contemplation" which gave the brutal facts of my flirtation with bowel cancer. The pathology tests on the eleven inches of removed bowel (sigmoid colon and upper rectum) revealed no less than three malignant tumours and a highly suspicious polyp. They … Continue reading Health →

Climate Change-Essay Summary From Nigel Lawson

Share this newsletter:     HOME     WHO WE ARE     LATEST POSTINGS     GWPF REPORTS     PRESS RELEASES     GWPF TV    CONTACTCCNet 27/05/14Nigel Lawson: The Trouble With Climate ChangeClimate alarmism is a belief system that needs to be evaluated as suchThere is something odd about the global warming debate — or the climate change debate, as we are now expected to call it, since global warming has for the … Continue reading Climate Change-Essay Summary From Nigel Lawson →

"When Will They Ever Learn"

"The Budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled,public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome will become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance." - Cicero, 55 BCSo, evidently we've learned bugger all … Continue reading "When Will They Ever Learn" →

Tandou

Cotton crop transforms a dry lake bedSUE NEALESTHE AUSTRALIANMAY 17, 2014 12:00AMPrintSave for laterAerial view of the Tandou property, showing the scale of the operation. Picture: Stuart McEvoy Source:News Corp Australia< PrevNext >•••••••THE fluffy fields of white cotton stretch endlessly towards the distant red sandhills as six giant green harvesting machines march relentlessly across the flat dry … Continue reading Tandou →