Can't disagree with much of the above. However, we need not to forget that the multiple "threats" facing the United States are largely of its own making - from post-World War II Indo-China down to today. And the slide to general war increases. We need to ...
After reading feijoa's and others contributions I was moved to write the following. Reciprocity is needed between leadership and membership. Good leadership is that which encourages & enables members to join together in furtherance of some global goal(s). ...
Some commentators are justifiably bitter about our defeat. But the measure of a potentially good team is how sustainably can it rebuild a cooperative winning culture. This takes time and cannot be rushed. We have seen the breakdown of Cabinet collective ...
Random Questions & Thoughts The list below is that written in my head during 2023. During this year I and many others sleep-walked to defeat. After becoming PM and, of necessity needing to fulfill prior international obligations, (of virtually zero concern...
I'll be diplomatic and suggest that Chris Hipkins has been mis-advised as to current U.S. policy toward the war in Ukraine. U.S. policy includes the following requirements: To keep Russia occupied and reduce threats in other zones To keep NATO united ...
RNZ News Sunday 17th of June at 0700hr. The new wisdom is that listeners to RNZ News are losing confidence in the supposed even-handed, fairness, and neutrality of RNZ news. This wisdom is being declared in response to the discovery that news editorial ...
Years ago there was a TV documentary, entitled A Nation of Waiters. It was about Fiji, an economy even then overly dependent on foreign tourism. In the meantime, we've progressively gone down the same path. The tourism industry is dominated by overseas ...
Mike Smith is reliably skeptical about the motives of the USA and its compliant allies. New Zealand under a Labour government took the correct action when declaring nuclear-free status 40 years ago. Any back-sliding on that stance is a betrayal of our ...
Thanks again to Mike Smith. He's always at the forefront of calling out the mostly under-ground US foreign policy. In my lifetime, in late 1949 when the Chinese Communist army defeated the right-wing Nationalists under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek, he...
Kia kaha, Kelvin. The quiet voice of reason who get's the profound messages across. That's why he's there; and so respected by all who meet him.
Is that a tinfoil hat?
It is internationally recognized - including by the USA, China, Japan, Taiwan - that Taiwan is an integral part of China. China does not need to attack Taiwan. What is in dispute is the legitimate government of China. What all the above states, except ...
Gangs are not the problem; they are the symptom of the problem. Still waiting to hear Christopher Laxative seriously propose workable policies to address social and economic problems felt every day by poor people in Aotearoa, particularly tangata whenua. ...
I know next to nothing about Poto Williams. But I have seen Kelvin fronting up on issues where he's articulated a less popular but more principled position. He has been elected to represent a Maori seat and I'm sure he has the confidence of the Maori ...
The Big Lie technique was practiced consciously by the Nazi Party, particularly by the Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels in the 1930s. It has been used by many politicians since, most recently by Donald Trump.. The National Party in New Zealand is a ...
As the current Chair of the Avondale Branch of the New Lynn LEC I would feel bad if I didn't recognise Louisa Wall as a former Chair of this Branch - then within the Mt Albert LEC. Louisa was always well liked here and admired for her energy and ...
Two factoids I noticed in the NZH not long ago: in England vaccination of all children against smallpox has been compulsory for 150 years; in the 50 US states vaccination against MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) is compulsory for all school children. Anti-...
Good on Mike for firing up a discussion on foreign policy. Listening to the drum-beats of wars in the South China Sea and the Black Sea coasts, fueled by the barely disguised big-lie propaganda issuing from the US State Department and military, mindlessly ...
Rio Tinto probably the number one resource extraction stand-over merchant worldwide. Our Labour government has four years to get our country into a position where we can tell them to get lost, and don't come back.
There is a tale re-told about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, after an audience with a group of ordinary citizens seeking relief during the Great Depression, saying: "I agree with you. Now go out there and make me do it." We can all write our own wish...
Nothing more than you'd expect from a hard-line anti-union representative of the corporate class. Stewart McCrotchrot is a Tory administrator who can be relied on to brush inconvenient truths under his plush carpet. He's up for a night-hood next time ...
Postal voting was touted as likely to reverse the ever-decreasing turn-out in local government elections. It hasn't done that. Turnout is low because a majority of working people have concluded that voting for local government will achieve no change to ...
We do want a central and local government which serves the people, And even more, enables the people to serve themselves as much as practicable. This can't happen in 5 minutes, but the way could be opened to facilitate local citizen power over areas of ...
Gotta keep in mind that the Trumpeters are there to action the world dominance fantasies of that section of the US capitalist class. Simple. Like a school-yard bully, Trump and his fan club want to slap any serious opposition, be it China, North Korea, ...
Recall the persistent international pressure (read USA) to demolish the state monopoly system pre-exisiting. This consisted of regional Coop Dairy Companies owned by farmers coordinated by the NZ Dairy Board owned by the Crown. The Dairy Board also ...
All the evidence from the twentieth century tends to show that poverty is reduced in direct proportion to public services delivered to everyone as needed with no cost (or administered pricing) at the point of need. Such as: Universal free medical care ...
Greg's got an impecable Labour pedigree; he's worked hard for Labour out here in the West for a long time. He's an all round good bloke with a wide experience of local issues. He's a proven vote winner in local elections. What's not to like. Deborah's got ...
While the elites are worried about Brexit, the masses are worried about breakfast. Whoever acknowledges that will garner support from ordinary working people.
Answer to your question Bryan? Almost certainly the same route as Rogernomics, Ruthanasia, or indeed the half-hearted social policies of the Clark/Cullen government - via a neo-liberal conduit from either the UK or the Good old USA. The NZ leadership ...
The Talleys have always operated as if they were in Mississippi or Alabama. With the Northland by-election coming up we need to link the political campaign against this National government with the solidarity of meat workers at Affco Talley's Moerewa plant...
Good on you Lynn for your continuing materialist analysis of one of the mainstays of our agricultural economy. Selling products of the land and sea, in one form or another, earns much of our foreign exchange - which we can either invest to improve ...
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