A letter to Checkpoint from Bob Rigg, a former OPCW official retired to Wellington. I doubt there will be a reply. “Why did the NZ police pick on a tiny group of elderly humanitarian activists who had offended the US by sending the princely sum of $2000 to North Korea? The answer: although the US […]
Author Archives: Hugh
The recent UN summit of world leaders showed a world in total disarray. The Western ‘rules based system,’ based on social inequality, is now in open conflict (war by other means) with a Chinese communalist alternative that is challenging its economic and political supremacy. The Americans use the term ‘ communist’ as a pejorative instrument […]
Newsletter 25 Trump in Paradise, Calif. The recipients of this newsletter are NZ activist groups that are reliant on multilateral cooperation if they are to achieve their aims. The main aim of the newsletter therefore, is to spread information about global developments. New Zealand’s interaction with such matters is largely dependent on whichever government is […]
Actually, it is just checking the eggs it laid in a shallow hole! That doesn’t mean that it runs no risks while distracted. The organisations listed in the Paddle Now Directory have been selected because, at a time of increasing nationalism and attacks on multilateralism, they cannot achieve their aims in isolation. For them, success […]
Blog 23 “Imagine a twenty-first century piece of software trying to run on a twentieth-century computer, and you have a fair picture of the New Zealand democratic system”. Max Rashbrooke. We are fast approaching a general election during a time of both national and international crisis. These multiple crises have been brought about by flawed […]
Revisionist historians, such as Carroll Quigley and more recently, Gerry Doherty and Robin Brown, convincingly argue that WWI was long planned and deliberately instigated by a small group of British power-brokers. This elite group of aristocrats were inspired by Cecil Rhodes’ vision of a whole world profitably ruled as an Anglo/American Empire. Anglo-American Establishment The […]
Newsletter 21 At first sight Biden is Trump lite. His molestation of available females seems restricted to entering too far into their personal space uninvited, whereas Trump admits to having seized them by the genitals. The world’s leading democracy excels itself in its ability to pick unsavoury and dysfunctional leaders to inflict on its own […]
Newsletter No. 20. New Zealand has a major problem with its defence policies. At a time of heightened international tension and nuclear danger NZ is about to be faced with a choice which, if wrong, could well destroy our society. The USA, to whose military alliance and through membership of the Five Eyes alliance NZ […]
There is no denying that the current POTUS is becoming ever more erratic (and obnoxious) as his re-election grows increasingly in doubt. The above cartoon, like so much from the USA, is too USA centric. Alongside the blasted Uncle Sam, should be ranged the blasted Earth and the countless other blasted ‘foreigners’ whose lives have […]
Newsletter No. 18 Can Superman save us? Superman is beaten 2 minute fun watch. Global Governance When we compare the fervour with which NZ approached the threat of nuclear weapons in the 1980’s, with the almost total lack of concern shown today, one realises that there must no longer be a nuclear threat hanging over […]