I like to start the newsletter with something amusing. I guess this is not amusing, but it is interesting:- “Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart […]
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Newsletter 16 Today’s introductory 2 minute video clip is probably already familiar – it serves as a light entrée to the heavy course of the current Covid-19 crisis and the direction it is taking. Sadly, the neo-liberals’ view of economic reason is starting to prevail in most western economies. A premature easing of restrictions is […]
Thanks to such resolute action by our Prime Minister, we should soon have the opportunity to burst our friends’ bubbles. We have fared so much better than other countries, but, though the sum of bereavements has been kept so low, there will still be a huge economic reckoning for our society to deal with. I […]
Newsletter 14. 20/4/20 We should all watch this promising space: www.bff.org.nz And here we are again after another fortnight of kicking the can down the road. Happily my locked-down sister in the UK, remains in good heart. Yesterday she told me that she was watching a do-it-yourself TV programme on making your own PPE. The […]
Paddle Now Newsletter No 13. No. 13 is appropriate for the times we find ourselves in. Because everyone is at home and has time to read, I have indulged myself by including one or two hyperlinks more than the normal quota. I have a sister in the UK who has a lighter heart than mine. […]
This is to introduce the new, modified version of the Paddle Now website at www.paddlenow.org.nz It is now six months since the original was posted. It was to be the first NZ website devoted to persuading NZ’s political leadership to prioritise questions of global governance. It was intended that this should be done by offering […]
Blog No 10. 24/02/20 I like to start these newsletters with something amusing – so suggest you immediately get in the mood by watching this 2 minute video. It is amusing until you realise that the fake is produced by Canny Al and that Canny Al is a Tel Aviv company funded by Israeli intelligence […]
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday 21st January, dismissed youth climate activist Greta Thunberg’s call for global leaders to address the climate crisis by telling the teenager to come back to him after she “studies economics.” So long that she doesn’t study the US version of how an economic […]
Newsletter No 8. https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/ Good news: we have 40 seconds before we have one minute left! So far this decade: so bad! Australia, our closest ally and neighbour, faces rampant environmental problems that its leaders have long been unwilling, or unable to address. The USA, the other ally to which the NZ Defence Force is […]
The cartoon above is a fairly gross over-simplification! There is so much happening in the world today that it is hard to choose from among the multiple articles and the multiple crises. Choice is restricted by virtue of foreign news in the mainstream media almost all mindlessly repeating the contents of bulletins from just three […]