A new book has been published by John Pilger about how Gough Whitlam the Australian Prime Minister between 1972 and 1975 was rolled as Prime Minister by forces, led by the CIA. Whitlam was an incredible reformer and led an inexperienced Labour team to achieve great things. The book is called “A … [Read more...]
USA the land of the Free??
It’s easy to visit places like San Francisco and New York and revel at the pace, and the excitement, of life. It’s easy to throw a coin in a beggar’s bowl, and feel that you have done something small for that person’s life. It’s possible to walk past people on the streets and not realise how bloody … [Read more...]
Buy NZ, See NZ
From the Spinoff on Friday: A survey has been undertaken of New Zealander’s proposed spending patterns post Covus 19. It is really gratifying what people are planning. I hope we don’t slip into our old ways of using whatever is cheapest and continuing to purchase junk from China in vast … [Read more...]
A report from a Kiwi in Sweden:
Here’s a wonderful article which was in the Spinoff from a New Zealander studying there. It was fashionable, for a time, for some people who were baulking against our lock down to say “why aren’t we like Sweden”? Well here is a graph which shows why: New Zealand is the Blue. Sweden is … [Read more...]
American politics
I apologise for covering Trump again, but this guy is having a serious impact on the world, not just America. I feel so sorry for all of my American friends, even those who voted for the idiot. He isn’t just destabilizing USA he has the potential to destabilise the world. His behaviour is impacting … [Read more...]
Garry’s reading from around the world this week:
From the New York Times: But in trying to destroy the administrative state — in trying to make government small enough to “drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub” — conservatives left the country vulnerable to a deadly disease that has undermined that project and galvanized its … [Read more...]
Addressing the virus, an article by Bill Gates:
This was an interesting article in the Washington Post written by Bill Gates, who has had considerable experience with pandemics through the Gates Foundation. If you look at his list of three actions to take NZ has really got two correct and the third is beyond a small country like NZ. Or is it? … [Read more...]
We even made it onto the front page of the Washington Post this week:
We beat ourselves up for all sorts of things but the leadership in this country, both political and bureaucratic, has been world class. This week it was recognised written about and printed on the front page of the Washington Post. Here’s the article: … [Read more...]
A message from the Secretary general of the United Nations about ceasing all wars
Our world faces a common enemy: COVID-19. The virus does not care about nationality or ethnicity, faction or faith. It attacks all, relentlessly.Meanwhile, armed conflict rages on around the world.The most vulnerable — women and children, people with disabilities, the marginalized and the displaced … [Read more...]
A note from Eileen Hennessy:
I received this epistle from Eileen Hennessy who is an attendee at the Tuesday Club when they come to NZ each year. From the porch of a little wood house in the Tennessee, America- countryside. Met by an early am birdsong. I opened your letter and read David’s poem. How fitting after a night … [Read more...]
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