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In the end, the issue is less about the Treaty Principles Bill haka, which is sideshow puffery, than it is about achieving a reasonable balance between Parliament’s historical traditions and contemporary tikanga. That will only be achieved through constructive engagement by all sides, not more of the game-playing seen so far.
No matter how much planning and “premeditation,” the plague of mass murderers in the USA is the ultimate expression of pathological individualism. People, mostly young men, “choose” to kill random people because their mental, emotional and social life is so sick that they strike out in horrific reaction to the internalized evil of society.
There were many reasons that the U.S. and its allies were defeated in Vietnam. First and foremost they were beaten by an army that was superior in tactics, morale and political will.
The global uncertainty being triggered by the US tariff wars has been motivating India to speed up its bilateral trade dealings with NZ.
Curious events are unfolding as a result of Trump’s carnivalesque approach to trade and markets. While the value of the greenback has fallen, the returns from 10-year US government bonds have risen.
It’s distressing as a paediatric nurse, to see the horrors humans create for civilians, out of thirst for power or in reaction to attacks. During ANZAC week, let’s not be seduced into ‘unseeing’ decades of manipulation of foreign policy by military industry (MIC) promoting enemy ideology, confrontation, perpetual war and ‘enhanced lethality’ - deadly for targets; profitable for weapon producers.
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