I'm slightly curious about all the bellicosity revolving around China's "increasingly aggressive stance" so I held my nose and clicked through a couple of your Guardian links. They seem to amount to closing a US embassy, a deadly border dispute with India,...
I would say that the problem with the UN "allowing" this to happen is the same as the UN "allowing" the humanitarian disaster in Yemen and the anexing of Palestinian land by Israel. If the event is backed by a state with veto powers then the UN is powrless...
Exactly weka. Any medical intervention has risk attached and should only be pursued after careful thought. Both my children had most vaccinations but their are enough cases of damage to make you look carefully at what you are exposing your children too. To...
I take your point and agree that protesting empire on all fronts is the best idea. I wonder however how much principal can be attached to an action that is most likely the result of arm twisting by a bully that requires a united front against a designated ...
The whole uighur millions in concentration camps story was kicked off by one of Mike Pompeo's religious fundamentalist nut case mates on a mission from god to bring China to its knees. He interviewed a grand total of 8 people and then extrapolated their ...
Thats very good Ed1. You missed your calling. It would have been a good independent way of framing the whole question.
All that from the one that trashed Julian Assange? Writing that was the epitomy of authoritarian and antidemocratic. Kettle. Pot. Black? [Please stick to addressing the contents of the OP and comments rather than focussing on who wrote them and what else ...
All well and good except that its difficult to escape the perception that China is being singled out. I dont believe there are any examples of an NZ minister of foreign affairs directly criticizing US policy let alone abandoning extradition treaties. Video...
"So far the experiment of the deregulation of electricity supply in NZ looks more like an excuse to take profits from scarcity rather than something that fuels our economy." Yes and this isn't just limited to the likes of Rio Tinto but also applies to the ...
Thank goodness for the Greens. Looks like I'll be renewing my membership after all
Unless of course parasitism is a result of a materialist point of view. If materialists are unable to investigate non material phenomenem then how will they ever know how much of what happens is influenced by mind? I dont know the answer to this either but...
The post above by Obtrectator says revolution is mostly concerned with destruction. I would say that this is true and that mmp is quite a good indicator of where the general population sits on the revolutionary scale. It would be a far better indicator if ...
There's an interesting bloke by the name of Rupert Sheldrake who as a scientist is trying to move science away from the materialist determinist no free will position that it has been in for the last 400 years or so. In some respects science has become the ...
And tied up with Clearview is all kinds of far right low life including an NZ citizen by the name of Peter Thiel and the compay, Palantir, that he founded. https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5e7d028bc5b6cb08a92a5c48
Oh great. So Colombia and Honduras are now great places to live. Sure. If you say the right things. But if not your death is not a pretty affair..
Yes I suppose they could have just bit the bullet and accepted something like Colombia or Honduras. Interesting tbat even after a successful coup against Chavez the people took to the streets and succesfully got him released. Funny thing to do if you ...
In Venezuela its that lovely man Abrams who is in charge. Think Oliver North and Contras
Thanks for the update.
Not to mention the hearing in the UK where the judge, Baraitser is pretty determined to make Assanges remaining time in the UK a living hell. If you scroll to the bottom of this page and read up you will get a pretty good idea of what it means to be a ...
And heres a good article comparing the results from the neighbouring state of Veneto where the threat was recognised and immediate action taken. Pretty much gives the difference between she'll be right individualism and the active measures that can only be...
Having successfully silenced Julian Assange, the UK government is now trying to do the same to Craig Murray. If you feel strongly about supporting his voice then click this link. https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/04/craig-murray-defence-fund-...
I can'thelp thinking that all the debt in the shale oil industry is going to be way too much for anyone to be interested in the near term. Production flow tapers way faster than anywhere else. My reading is that break even is closer to $50 than 40 and is ...
Oh. Well. That will be interesting. What do you expect to happen to the US dollar when in your scenario Saudi Arabia becomes a failed state?
If the Saudi pockets were so deep they would not be so desperate to end their war in Yemen. Oil is their only revenue. The shale oil industry in the US is dead and will not be able to be resuscitated. The US recognises this which brings us to Venezuela. ...
I think that one of the takeaways from all this is the need to have a high level of self sufficiency built into your local area on a neighbourhood, town, city and national level. Some people may point to the extreme low price of oil as a disincentive to ...
Hi. There are some quite good economic theories that give the opposite results to what you suggest here. In these views tax is seen as a means to discourage the accumulation of dead money in stagnating pools of wealth. If accumulated wealth is hit ...
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