I have no wish to belittle Biden’s attempt to lead his country back into the [...]
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Russian forces concentrate on the Ukrainian border. Four weeks ago, I dedicated the ‘editorial’ to [...]
Newsletter No. 37 大道之行也，天下为公，选贤与能，讲信修睦。故人不独亲其亲，不独子其子，使老有所终，壮有所用，幼有所长，矜、寡、孤、独、废疾者皆有所养，男有分，女有归。货恶其弃于地也，不必藏于己；力恶其不出于身也，不必为己。是故谋闭而不兴，盗窃乱贼而不作，故外户而不闭，是谓大同。 To translate in English: “ The Great Way is— the world [...]
Semenivka, Ukraine, 2016. A house destroyed in the fighting. Red Cross the International Red Cross [...]
Newsletter No 35. The Earthly Paradise by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Museo del Prado The [...]
The end of January saw the annual pilgrimage of an average of forty or so [...]
As the world bade farewell (or ill) to Trump it welcomed Biden as the new [...]
“Generally speaking, would you say things in this country are heading in the right direction, [...]
Drones Scottish Style Scottish Hogmanay celebration 5 minutes of brilliant viewing. The start of a new [...]
Paddle Now Newsletter No.30. Leadership 3 minute read. Why are we surprised that the dogs of [...]
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Given that all the recipients of this newsletter either have, or should have a keen [...]
Palestinians having to bend over backwards to assert their rights It is too early to [...]
A letter to Checkpoint from Bob Rigg, a former OPCW official retired to Wellington. I [...]
The recent UN summit of world leaders showed a world in total disarray. The Western [...]
Newsletter 25 Trump in Paradise, Calif. The recipients of this newsletter are NZ activist groups [...]
Actually, it is just checking the eggs it laid in a shallow hole! That doesn’t [...]
Blog 23 “Imagine a twenty-first century piece of software trying to run on a twentieth-century [...]
Revisionist historians, such as Carroll Quigley and more recently, Gerry Doherty and Robin Brown, convincingly [...]
Newsletter 21 At first sight Biden is Trump lite. His molestation of available females seems [...]
Newsletter No. 20. New Zealand has a major problem with its defence policies. At a [...]
There is no denying that the current POTUS is becoming ever more erratic (and obnoxious) [...]
Newsletter No. 18 Can Superman save us? Superman is beaten 2 minute fun watch. Global [...]
I like to start the newsletter with something amusing. I guess this is not amusing, [...]
Newsletter 16 Today’s introductory 2 minute video clip is probably already familiar – it serves [...]
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Thanks to such resolute action by our Prime Minister, we should soon have the opportunity [...]
Newsletter 14. 20/4/20 We should all watch this promising space: www.bff.org.nz And here we are [...]
Paddle Now Newsletter No 13. No. 13 is appropriate for the times we find ourselves [...]
This is to introduce the new, modified version of the Paddle Now website at www.paddlenow.org.nz [...]
We are entering a period of rapid change. In such a period, it is more [...]
Blog No 10. 24/02/20 I like to start these newsletters with something amusing – so [...]
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday 21st January, dismissed [...]
Newsletter No 8. https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/ Good news: we have 40 seconds before we have one minute [...]
The cartoon above is a fairly gross over-simplification! There is so much happening in the [...]
Blog No 6. For release on 1st January 2020 Given the fall of fortnightly intervals, [...]
Paddle Now www.paddlenow.org.nz Newsletter No 5 16/12/19 This will be the final Paddle Now newsletter [...]
Paddle Now www.paddlenow.org.nz Newsletter No 4. 2/12/19 The times are indeed changing at an increasing [...]
Keeping Informed No 3. This fortnight’s newsletter starts with a hyperlink that offers a call [...]
Khakispecs Blog. No 179. 8/11/2019 Colin Keating was New Zealand’s Permanent Representative to the United [...]
Dabbling in the blogosphere: Newsletter No 2. This is the second Paddle Now blog pointing [...]
Paddle Now’s civil society group supporters can be categorised under four main headings: peace & [...]
This will be a short blog. I ask readers to read this article after having [...]
By Khakispecs 28/9/19 The past week has seen a lot of Trump. The USA is [...]
Shifting the bean pod! New Zealand is not a nation given to activism. Compared to [...]
It is now two weeks since this site was launched . What is the progress [...]
POSTED ON 02/09/2019 BY KHAKIS5_WP Because of the worry that a world government would either start out as, [...]
It seems an unusually appropriate time to launch a movement designed to achieve more effective [...]