I have a relative who was born in Germany, Peter Moses. He has lived in New Zealand for a couple of decades and works as an Immigration lawyer in Auckland. He wrote this for the Tuesday Club notes: Political parallels He was a right- wing politician with a difference. He claimed to be an … [Read more...]
Garry Writes 10 November 2020
Apologies from the cancellation of last weeks speaker from Mike Greer Homes at the last minute. Like most of the readers of Tuesday Club notes I have been soaking up each torturous step of the USA elections. There’s lots of friends in USA who receive the Tuesday Club notes. To you all our best … [Read more...]
Van Jones weeps after Biden’s win: ‘It’s easier to be a parent this morning’
I found this interview on Sunday morning on CNN pretty impressive. Here a black commentator started to cry as he was asked what the election result meant to him. Watch it here This reaction by this commentator is exactly how I felt as Trump went down in a screaming heap. Literally. His … [Read more...]
A fascinating article on family breakdown over pro and anti-Trump:
Our society is being fragmented. Particularly there are debates close to election time. However, where society has its ugly side on display when it has a President like Trump, things can get pear shaped quite quickly. In this fascinating article … [Read more...]
Dying in a Leadership Vacuum in the USA
The Editors: From the New England Journal of Medicine which has not taken sides in a Presidential election in 208 years. Now it has. The journal has many editors and they all signed it: Covid-19 has created a crisis throughout the world. This crisis has produced a test of leadership. With no good … [Read more...]
A warning about USA politics:
Ann Hornaday wrote in the Washington Post recently: As Andrew Breitbart famously said: Politics is downstream from culture. The right has watched with alarm over the past generation as such liberal values as feminism, gay rights, anti-racism and cultural pluralism became normalized on screen. … [Read more...]
Beirut:
I was sent this article by Hester Moore, who spoke to the Tuesday Club last year: Around the end of 2018, my friends opened a cozy bar – Tenno - in a lively elbow of our Beirut neighborhood, Mar Mikhail. It edges the city’s historic Armenian quarter, and the main artery of Armenia Street that … [Read more...]
75 years ago today the second nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki:
I attended a memorial ceremony at the Peace Bell in Hagley Park this morning. There were more people attending than there has been for years. It was led by young people and was really moving. At one stage I was international vice-President of Mayors for Peace. The Mayor of Nagasaki, Mayor Ito, … [Read more...]
This Week Helen Marieskind
This week we have a Christchurch ex-pat who is staying with Diana Shand. Her name is Helen Marieskind. Helen has lived in USA ever since she went there on a scholarship as a young woman. She has had many interesting jobs and completed a PhD in Public Health and ran a number of Health Care … [Read more...]
How Tiktok sank Trumps Rally
I really enjoyed this... The way political campaigns are organised has changed for ever. Gone are the days of door knocking and finding out how people are going to vote. Now much of it is electronic. I’m not sure whether or not it’s true but I really liked the story that TikTok Teens and K-Pop … [Read more...]