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The Climate Crisis Is The Crisis Of Man’s Consciousness Within Us
Monday, 13 May 2024, 2:12 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The decimation of the viability and diversity of the earth is both a manifestation and mirror of the crisis of man’s consciousness. More >>
Eurovision 2024: Make Colonialism Cool Again
Monday, 13 May 2024, 2:03 pm | LKTranslator
Ordinarily, Eurovision is a woke nightmare, a non-binary kaleidoscope of garish outfits, glitter showers, and they/them pronouns, but steps were taken to rectify the situation this year when organisers did their utmost to Make Colonialism Cool Again. More >>
A Clubbable Admission: Palestine’s Case for UN Membership
Sunday, 12 May 2024, 2:04 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Some clue of what will happen when the matter comes up for discussion in the Security Council can already be gathered by the sinking of a previous resolution for Palestinian admission last month. More >>
A Modest Proposal: The UN General Assembly and Palestinian Recognition
Saturday, 11 May 2024, 1:08 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Despite being described in some circles as such, the latest vote in the United Nations General Assembly on Palestine’s status is hardly extraordinary. For one, it does not vest the Palestinian territories with statehood but burnishes its credentials ... More >>
Confused Or Playing For Time? 3 Possible Reasons NZ Is Taking So Long To Make A Call On AUKUS
Friday, 10 May 2024, 6:09 pm | The Conversation
If countering the perceived threat of China’s growing assertiveness is the central purpose of AUKUS, the means to achieve this are also plain: join AUKUS. On the face of it, this should not be a particularly difficult decision. So why is it taking ... More >>
Is New Zealand Slurping The AUKUS Kool-Aid?
Friday, 10 May 2024, 3:30 pm | Eugene Doyle
The greatest risk New Zealanders face is that a momentous decision may be made to our security settings – with potential knock-on effects to our economy and, eventually, our non-nuclear stance – without any popular oversight, scrutiny or electoral mandate. More >>
Man’s Original Psychological Separations
Friday, 10 May 2024, 1:50 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Human beings can end man’s destruction of the earth and humanity by awakening a true order of consciousness, flowing from direct perception, insight and wholeness. More >>
On Miserly School Lunches, And The Banning Of TikTok’s Gaza Coverage
Friday, 10 May 2024, 10:38 am | Gordon Campbell
The school lunches programme is to be downgraded by $107 million, and women need bother their heads no longer about pay equity, let alone expect ACC to provide adequate sexual violence prevention services. Meanwhile, the government is keeping up its ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Beware The All-Knowing Controller And Auditor-General
Thursday, 9 May 2024, 8:02 am | Peter Dunne
According to the legislation, the role of the Controller and Auditor-General is to make sure that public sector organisations are spending public resources well and making good decisions. That is as it should be and consistent with what might be ... More >>
Israel Wants To Destroy Gaza, Annex The West Bank: But What Does Gaza Want?
Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 8:06 pm | Ramzy Baroud
What is taking place in occupied Palestine is not a conflict, but a straightforward case of illegal military occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and outright genocide. More >>
Endangered Bats Heard In Wellington Region For First Time In Years
Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 7:36 pm | RNZ
The animals are the rarest mammals in New Zealand and were feared to be extinct in the lower North Island. More >>
'Not Good Enough': Defence Force Staff Left Stranded In Antarctica For A Month
Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 7:17 pm | RNZ
Bad weather and aircraft availability left 12 Defence Force staff stranded in Antarctica for a month with a rapidly closing window to get out before winter. More >>
Ngāti Toa Rallies Against Fast Track Approvals Bill
Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 7:10 pm | RNZ
Hundreds of people gathered on the forecourt, met by Crown Ministers Chris Bishop and Tama Potaka, as well as MPs from Labour, the Greens and Te Paati Māori. More >>
Group Of Bangladeshis Denied Entry For 'Attempting To Board Flight Inappropriately'
Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 7:00 pm | RNZ
Twenty-five Bangladeshi men who tried to enter the country without a visa are likely victims of people smugglers, Immigration New Zealand (INZ) says. More >>
Enchanter Sinking Trial: 'The Whole Boat Turned Upside Down'
Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 6:04 pm | RNZ
A deckhand on the ill-fated fishing boat Enchanter has revealed for the first time what happened in the hours after the vessel capsized - and his desperate efforts to save some of the passengers. More >>
Israel’s Battle Against Free Speech: The Shuttering Of Al Jazeera
Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 4:39 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Going after the motley press and news outlets while claiming to be a card-carrying member of the democracy club is far from prudent and more than a touch foolish, bound to make the critics croak and other fellow members decry. More >>
An Outsider On The Inside: How Ans Westra Created New Zealand’s ‘National Photo Album’
Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 4:18 pm | The Conversation
Westra produced what amounts to a national photo album, in which a vast span of the country’s everyday existence was documented with unrivalled skill and perception. More >>
Living Up To The Name We Gave Ourselves
Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 1:38 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s a “New Cold War,” or “The Age of Unpeace.” Or it’s “a new Age of Revolutions,” in which we can learn something from the French, Industrial and American revolutions. More >>
On The Hamas Ceasefire Offer, And Mark Mitchell’s Incompetence
Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 9:27 am | Gordon Campbell
With hindsight, it was inevitable that (a) Hamas would agree to the ceasefire deal brokered by Egypt and Qatar and that (b) Israel would then immediately launch attacks on Rafah, regardless. More >>
Forces Of Impunity: The US Threatens The International Criminal Court
Tuesday, 7 May 2024, 11:19 am | Binoy Kampmark
Far from threatening democracies of whatever flavour, the actions of the ICC can serve the opposite purpose, holding individuals in high office accountable for egregious crimes in international law. More >>
How The Fast-Track Law Could Expose Future NZ Governments To Expensive Trade Disputes
Tuesday, 7 May 2024, 8:57 am | The Conversation
Foreign investors wanting to protect their gains under the controversial new law could hold the country to ransom by threatening a dispute. As a result, they would constrain New Zealand’s democratic ability to exercise its sovereignty, and to ... More >>
Download Weekly: Another Pacific cable for NZ by 2026
Monday, 6 May 2024, 3:08 pm | Digitl
An Auckland link will be added to the trans-Pacific submarine cable being built by Vocus and Google. Spark uses MBNZ technology to highlight fixed wireless performance. 2degrees appears to be winning mobile market share. More >>
Luxon’s Leadership Test: What Would It Take To Win Back Unimpressed NZ Voters?
Monday, 6 May 2024, 3:01 pm | The Conversation
Based on those poll numbers, the National-led coalition would be out of office if an election were held now. And Luxon’s “preferred prime minister” rating fell further to 23%. More >>
As New Zealand CBDs Evolve Post-pandemic, Repurposing Old Or Empty Spaces Should Be On The Drawing Board
Monday, 6 May 2024, 2:37 pm | The Conversation
So, what can be done with the empty buildings and unleased floors scattered through cities everywhere? In our new book, Architectural Exaptation: When Function Follows Form, we examine the process by which existing structures or features are re-imagined ... More >>
Painful Echoes For A Generation That Quit On Our Conscience
Monday, 6 May 2024, 1:29 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Many things are contributing to the downfall of the United States, at home and abroad. More >>
Nesting In Australia: Indian Spy Rings Take Root
Monday, 6 May 2024, 1:21 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Given the recent exchanges between the Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, and India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, all efforts to pursue the sacred cows of prosperity and security, this was something of an embarrassment. More >>
Pezzullo: The Warmonger Who Won’t Go Away
Sunday, 5 May 2024, 1:48 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Close attention should be paid to the disfiguring way Pezzullo uses history. More >>
Biden Will Lose If He Can’t Stop Netanyahu From Attacking Rafah
Friday, 3 May 2024, 2:41 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
If Biden cannot prevent Netanyahu from attacking Rafah, where the IDF has driven over a million Palestinian refugees, his weakness and complicity will bring down his presidency. More >>
American Intifada For Gaza: What Should We Expect?
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 7:05 pm | Ramzy Baroud
The mass protests at dozens of US universities cannot be reduced to a stifling and misleading conversation about antisemitism. More >>
Policy Vacuum Enables For-profit Corporate General Practice Ownership By Stealth
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 4:29 pm | Ian Powell
In 2014 nearly 40% of GP respondents were practice owners. By 2022 it had declined to 31%. The number of GPs working in GP-owned practice has also fallen from 73% in 2015 to 64% in 2022. Partially filling the practice ownership gap is the for-profit ... More >>
When Safety Is A Fiction: Passing The UK’s Rwanda Bill
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 2:25 pm | Binoy Kampmark
On April 14, 2022, the government of Boris Johnson announced the Asylum Partnership Arrangement with Rwanda, which was intended “to contribute to the prevention and combating of illegally facilitated and unlawful cross border migration by establishing ... More >>
On unemployment, Winston Peters’ low boiling point and music criticism
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 2:08 pm | Gordon Campbell
The rise in unemployment numbers for the March quarter was bigger than expected – and especially sharp amongst young job seekers. The surge in migration has boosted the ranks of the jobless, and is depressing wage growth. As usual this government ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: MPs Unusually Quiet On Pay Rise
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 8:21 am | Peter Dunne
This week’s announcement of pay raises of around 2.8% backdated to last October could hardly have come at a worse time, with the economy on the brink of recession, massive cutbacks in public expenditure, public sector redundancies and rising unemployment. More >>
University Investments: Divesting From The Military-Industrial Complex
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 12:54 pm | Binoy Kampmark
The rage and protest against Israel’s campaign in Gaza, ongoing since the October 7 attacks by Hamas, has stirred student activity across a number of US university campuses and beyond. Echoes of the Vietnam anti-war protests are being cited. The ... More >>
On The Coalition’s Awful, Not Good, Very Bad Poll Results
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 10:19 am | Gordon Campbell
Over the past 36 hours, Christopher Luxon has been dong his best to portray the centre-right’s plummeting poll numbers as a mark of virtue. Allegedly, the negative verdicts are the result of hard economic times, and of a government bravely set out on a perilous ... More >>
Cuba And New Zealand: A Relationship Worthy Of Strengthening
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 6:00 am | Ian Powell
Ian Powell discusses building on the constructive relationship between Cuba and New Zealand in the context of the Unites States economic warfare (embargo) against Cuba and the recent UN Rapporteurs findings. More >>
Anzac And The Pageantry Of Deception
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 11:27 am | Binoy Kampmark
This occasion is often seen as one to commemorate the loss of life and the integrity of often needless sacrifice, when it should be one to understand that a country with choices in war and peace decided to neglect them. The pattern risks repeating itself. More >>
Martin LeFevre - Meditations: We Need Not Be Black Boxes To Ourselves
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 11:14 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Self-knowing is a very different animal than self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is the intellectual recognition of one’s patterns and tendencies from the past, whereas self-knowing is firmly grounded in the present. More >>
27 Years In Captivity. Free Palestine’s Mandela
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 10:49 am | Eugene Doyle
Marwan Barghouti – known to many as “the Palestinian Mandela '' – has spent more time in captivity than Nelson Mandela did. More >>
On Iran Killing Its Rappers, And Searching For The Invisible Dr. Reti
Monday, 29 April 2024, 11:11 am | Gordon Campbell
Health Minister Dr. Shane Reti has been only a ghostly presence of the government’s front bench, in a case of the incredible shrinking Minister. Meanwhile, leaked documents reveal planned funding cuts of over $100M to public hospitals that are already sinking ... More >>
Israel’s Anti-UNRWA Campaign Falls Flat
Sunday, 28 April 2024, 2:17 pm | Binoy Kampmark
UNRWA was found to have, in place, “a significant number of mechanisms and procedures to ensure compliance with the humanitarian principles, with the emphasis on the principle of neutrality, and that it possesses a more developed approach to neutrality than ... More >>
Liz Truss And The West: A Failed Former Prime Minister Speaks
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 2:17 pm | Binoy Kampmark
From the outset, the premise of Ten Years to Save the West is confused. The aggrieved memoirist, rather than a sound political thinker, dominates the narrative. More >>
Feeding War, Killing Peace: Why The US Vetoed ‘Palestine’?
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 6:08 am | Ramzy Baroud
Though European countries are becoming increasingly supportive of a Palestinian state, the United States is not yet ready for this commitment. More >>
Revisiting New Zealand's Policy Approach: The Nuances Of Equality And Equity
Friday, 26 April 2024, 4:42 pm | D C Harding
While the coalition government of Aotearoa/New Zealand has taken strides to distinguish between 'equality' and 'equity' in its policy framework, this approach is not without its challenges and criticisms. More >>
The Ideological Coup: How Disciples Of Kahane Became The New Face Of Israel
Friday, 26 April 2024, 11:08 am | Ramzy Baroud
Throughout history, fringe religious Zionist parties have had limited success in achieving the kind of electoral victories that would allow them an actual share in the country’s political decision-making. The impressive number of 17 seats won ... More >>
Dunne's Weekly: Luxon Gets Out His Butcher's Knife - Briefly
Thursday, 25 April 2024, 8:08 am | Peter Dunne
The Prime Minister may have flashed his butcher’s knife and laid down Ministers Lee and Simmonds for his life this week, but the wider context strongly suggests that he, like other New Zealand Prime Ministers before him, still has some way to ... More >>
Warring Against Encryption: Australia Is Coming For Your Communications
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 12:59 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Those at X, and its executive, Elon Musk, begged to differ, choosing to restrict general access to the graphic details of the video in Australia alone. Those outside Australia, and those with a virtual private network (VPN), would be able to access ... More >>
On bird flu, AUKUS entry fees and Cindy Lee
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 11:36 am | Gordon Campbell
Bird flu – often deadly to humans - is not only being transmitted from infected birds to dairy cows, but is now travelling between dairy cows. And, Aukus members are all being pressured by the USA to devote at least 2% of their GDP to Defence ... More >>
1st Autistic Maori Woman To Run For Whangarei Mayoralty 2022 Calls For Positive Leadership & Diverse Representation
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 6:12 am | Fiona Green
Former 2022 Whangarei Mayoral and Whangarei Urban Councillor Candidate Fiona Green (Ngapuhi) has spoken out about the recent decision to disestablish Maori wards in the region. Green believes that there is a need for more diverse representation in ... More >>
Censorship Wars: Elon Musk, Safety Commissioners And Violent Content
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 11:39 am | Binoy Kampmark
Platforms such as Meta and X engage in their own forms of censorship and information curation, their agenda algorithmically driven towards noise, shock and indignation. All the time, they continue to indulge in surveillance capitalism. More >>
Cambodia & China, Diverting The Mekong River
Monday, 22 April 2024, 3:49 pm | Richard S. Ehrlich
Cambodia wants to divert Southeast Asia's Mekong River into a planned $1.7 billion, Chinese-financed shipping canal to reach a deep-sea port at Kep near Sihanoukville on southern Cambodia's Gulf of Thailand coast. More >>
On Fast Track Powers, Media Woes And The Tiktok Ban
Monday, 22 April 2024, 2:53 pm | Gordon Campbell
Feel worried. Shane Jones and a couple of his Cabinet colleagues are about to be granted the power to override any and all objections to projects like dams, mines, roads etc even if: said projects will harm biodiversity, increase global warming More >>
NATO’s Never-ending War: The 75-Year-Old Bully Is Faltering
Monday, 22 April 2024, 8:33 am | Ramzy Baroud
It is time for NATO to re-examine its 75-year-old legacy, and be courageous enough to change directions altogether - instead of opting for a state of non-peace, actually seeking real peace. More >>
Universities For AUKUS: The Social License Confidence Trick
Sunday, 21 April 2024, 2:34 pm | Binoy Kampmark
All in all, a clear wall of separation between the civic goals of learning and knowledge should be built to shield students and staff from the rapacious, murderous goals of the military industrial complex that continues to draw sustenance from deception, ... More >>
Joining AUKUS Not In NZ’s National Interest
Friday, 19 April 2024, 4:33 pm | Eugene Doyle
Helen Clark, oh how we miss you. The former New Zealand Prime Minister – the safest pair of hands this country has had in living memory – gave a masterclass on the importance of maintaining an independent foreign policy when she spoke at an AUKUS ... More >>
The Australian Defence Formula: Spend! Spend! Spend!
Friday, 19 April 2024, 12:06 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Not only will Australians be paying a bill up to and above A$368 billion for nuclear powered submarines it does not need; it will also be throwing A$100 billion into the coffers of the military industrial complex over the next decade to combat a needlessly ... More >>
Exodus To Zionistan: Willfully Or Woefully
Friday, 19 April 2024, 11:12 am | Abukar Arman
If you grant a man unchecked power you will in due course discover his true character. And if you grant him absolute impunity, he will gladly showcase the most evil aspect of his values. Since its founding in 1948, Israel has been granted both unchecked ... More >>
Cruelty Of Language: Leaked NY Times Memo Reveals Moral Depravity Of US Media
Friday, 19 April 2024, 7:08 am | Ramzy Baroud
Though such language control is, according to the NYT, aimed at fairness for 'all sides', their application was almost entirely one-sided. More >>
New Hospital Building Trumps ‘Yes Minister’ Hospital Without Patients
Friday, 19 April 2024, 7:05 am | Ian Powell
Ian Powell discusses how New Zealand’s vertically centralised health system led to a new hospital surgical building without staff and its similarity with the ‘Yes Minister’ comedy and the hospital with no patients. More >>
Prices Are Still Rising - It's A Cost Of Living Crisis
Thursday, 18 April 2024, 4:57 pm | Mike Treen
New Zealand’s consumers price index increased 4 per cent in the 12 months to the March 2024 quarter, according to figures released by Stats NZ April 17. This was higher than the Reserve Bank prediction of 3.8%. The 4 per cent increase follows ... More >>
