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This foul beast of despondency and despair affects people in different ways when it shows up. For some, it lurks in the shadows and nips at their subconscious when they least expect it while for others it is there front and centre, all bristling, energy sapping malice
My Leap Day gift this year was an interview with Radio New Zealand’s personable Kate Newton !
Tuesday , I have my TVNZ interview
If anyone wanted conclusive proof that Syria has become the battleground between the two main imperialist blocs collaborating to smash the Syrian revolution all they have to do is look at the fate of Aleppo.
We might like to shrug all that off as American politics where we know super big money and the Israel lobby are so influential. Surely things are different in Europe.
The Star Chamber has swung into action over my TV3 interview. They want to video TV3 personnel as they carry out the interview, but TV3 isn’t having a bar of it .
I have just toured the North Island of NZ with U.S. climate and methane researcher Jennifer Hynes author of “ The Arctic Methane Monster” and “ The Demise of the Arctic”, raising the alarm about the methane discharges from the melting permafrost and sub-marine clathrates which threaten to completely destabilise the energy balance of our biosphere
Last Thursday, Auckland CBDs tarmac roads swelled under the heat and weight of mass protest, roaming blockades and restless collective energy. An estimated 20,000 took to the streets in opposition to the signing of the TPPA.
In past centuries when a country coveted anothers’ resources, and wanted to subjugate that country’s interests to its own, it might have used, or threatened to use force. That is what wars were all about.
So where does one begin with a first stab at becoming a leftie political blogger in the current local and…
“ this is nothing unusual Arthur. This is cronyism and is rife and if you are connected , you will get ‘favourable’ treatment”.