Seeing as most of our Civil Defence systems seem to be a confused mess of volunteers trying to do the best they can, perhaps we should be seriously considering moving the Capital away from Wellington before we have to?
I asked you for help a long time ago as a ratty little 13 year old and you put your big strong hand on my small weary one and told me it would be OK, you told me to come back anytime and ask for pastor Brian if I ever needed help.
If you want to tell the University of Auckland that the real fight is supposed to be to save the planet we love, instead of being a war on procrastination, please do. After all, it’s supposed to be a fight for all our futures.
The so-called “defence industry” with their war-mongering expo on at the same time is an affront to all of humanity. Their profiteering from human misery, death and destruction makes them arguably the most depraved human beings of all.
Past the earthquake and shock at Trump’s win, last week another disturbing lapse into dirty politics was undertaken again by NZs largest newspaper, the NZ Herald.
In 1973, NZ PM Norman Kirk sent our frigate, the HMNZS Otago, to the French nuclear testing site of Mururoa Atoll. On board was the Kiwi Cabinet Minister Fraser Coleman. The stated – and, indeed, officially mandated – purpose of those two hundred and forty three men was to put themselves in the path of foreign military activity, on a ship, as a protest action.
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Of all the people God could talk to, why would it be a shallow fart like Tamaki? Why isn’t God having conversations with Stephen Hawking, Michelle Obama or the new Pope?
Some would say that bearing witness against the horrors of war and calling to account arms manufacturers is, unquestionably, a good thing to do. Others would argue that this is a quasi-religious position which takes no account of public opinion and is, therefore, both apolitical and unhelpful.
Anyone who is surprised by the result of the recent US presidential election should take a close look at WrestleMania, an annual sport entertainment event created by the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). The show’s content and its format explain a lot about Trump’s triumph in the US presidential election.