... a partisan and at times frankly toxic approach that inevitability leads...
So it seems: The GTSEZ is run by the sanctioned Chinese-born gangster-tycoon Zhao Wei, originally from China’s Heilongjiang province, whom the Lao government in 2007 granted a 99-year lease over a stretch of prime paddy land fronting the Mekong River, at ...
Criminal gangs operating at the China/Burma interface taken out by the forces of laura norder: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-68150555 "For a long time, multiple criminal groups... in northern Myanmar have openly organised armed fraud gangs and ...
Performance review from Tova: Not one but two ministerial faux pas including a humiliating correction from the police minister to the House (there was a prime ministerial correction too), a random reshuffle in an attempt to eschew responsibility for ACT’s ...
This here academic has got it right: https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/01/31/new-zealands-legal-obligations-to-the-world-court-ruling-on-israel/ As Newsroom has reported, 15 aid agencies have joined forces to call on the Government to do more to encourage an ...
Do you really have to ask? Surely you can imagine the desperation within Labour if he were to play the pied piper & lead the Labour Maori off to join the Maori Party. Not that he's likely to do so currently whilst they present as radicals. Labour's ...
Slavish adherence to British precedence, yet the neolib hegemony teeters on this slippery demographic slope: According to a report published in July by the rightwing thinktank the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA), younger Britons have taken a decidedly...
As I suspected but well done for researching the fact. They seem to view trans ideology as determinant. It concedes a personal stance as being the effective reality when a critical mass of similar folk attain collective leverage on the democratic process. ...
Most people still see him in that category though. I agree that testimony of personal values doesn't feature much in his style. Who do you rate as a leftist opinionator? Some years back I bought & read What's Left: https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Left-How-...
Labour was promoting this macho dude online but Willie calls it an error: The man who has called himself the “king of toxic masculinity” has 8.7 million followers on X, formerly Twitter. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/labour-uses-gif-of-influencer-...
I never read it - I never found his writing in his political review journal to be particularly impressive altho some of his essays in recent years have been positive contributions and insightful. Never saw him even attempt to explain why & how the NLP ...
Not Green enough?? Former Green MP Catherine Delahunty intimated, as RNZ headlined it, "James Shaw may not have been green enough." "What he has believed to be the best strategy is not necessarily supported by everybody because it's not resulting in ...
A public spat between prominent leftists is always interesting, huh? https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2024/01/31/mediawatch-robert-reid-launches-devastating-strike-against-chris-trotter/ I was quite chuffed that the tweet had 19,000 impressions, 1,120 ...
... of legislation, including things I frankly was not happy with and...
Dennis' 'plungent' criticism of the Nats and their supporters I'm trying to keep an open mind on Lux's fraught prospects, for now. My habitual Nat stance is something like `bunch of hopeless cretins', but that's those in parliament & my view of Nat ...
Heh! A commentator on Stuff's report of Shaw's step-down suggested he join Labour. I immediately imagined him plunging his head into a tub of wet concrete & waiting for it to dry, whilst holding his breathe. Labour tends to have that effect on people.
The political trajectory of the GP seems to have reached a crossroads. Relevance is in question since the broader global context of the overall Green movement captured the avante garde position in western civilisation long ago, and has been steering the ...
Trotter on parliamentary social darwinism: Difficult though it is to admit, the bullying of politicians and their staffers is the most effective way of separating the innocently ambitious – those who just want to make the world a better place – from the ...
Wild card awaits launch opportunity: Sen. Joe Manchin says he “absolutely” can see himself as president. Privately, the West Virginia Democrat has told people that a Joe Biden health scare or a Donald Trump conviction could give him an opening to run as an...
Oz consternation: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-26/examining-the-drastic-downturn-in-nickel-and-lithium-prices/103388902 Both Mr Micheal and Ms King said all proposals — from royalty relief to sweeping royalty reforms — were on the table to support ...
Stuff reporter provides a useful primer for allocating blame, using the technique `spray & walk away': https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/25-01-2024/who-should-i-blame-for-wellingtons-water-shortage-a-users-guide This will suit punters of all shapes & sizes...
Half a century on, I've just got around to reading The Crack in the Cosmic Egg. The author seems onto it, very deep insight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Chilton_Pearce I usually put a marginal sign alongside significant usable points in any book, ...
Ah, a mason: Jellicoe was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet on 3 April 1919. He became Governor-General of New Zealand in September 1920 and while there also served as Grand Master of New Zealand's Masonic Grand Lodge. Following his return to England, he ...
Jellicoe the first or second? If the latter, I see he did well in his maiden parliamentary speech (despite spending 19 years there being too diffident to speak): Like all your Lordships, I felt, and feel, a deep sense of shock, indeed revulsion, at the ...
I read his no-show as a vote of no-confidence in himself combined with pragmatic acceptance that he didn't want his lack of maori solidarity to get more obvious. However, Robert, you are right to point to the scarcity dimension of his tactical move: ...
Yeah, you ain't wrong. Passion is catalytic. Good luck to younger generations doing a global resonance play...
Wait, there's more! That makes the addition of Aotearoa to the title a nice move. It also undermines those who have been using, or misusing, King in their fight against official adoption of the Māori language. This issue goes back to the third chapter in ...
Historians write mythistory by default. They believe they write history, yet their subjective take on the topic makes it interpretive. Readers experience that via relativism since myth is a likely story & accounts by historians trend toward mythologising ...
The ICJ is merely a simulation of global justice. It has issued judgments, but who judges the judges? An ephemeral bunch of global onlookers. The court’s decisions are binding and cannot be appealed, but it has no way of enforcing them. https://edition.cnn...
No time to proof-read that so it's team spirit I was mentioning at the end of the second paragraph. The other triad relevant is voter/party/state. The gist of where I'm coming from on politics in a state of malaise is that the conceptual reframe enables ...
Seems a worthwhile view. I'm in favour of a framing based on triadic structure. Whereas the ancient microcosm/macrocosm binary ruled identity via belief/paradigm, connecting persons into large like-minded group, it makes more sense nowadays to insert ...
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