A Confession.
I confess that I wear underpants and that my body is exactly like Dan Carter’s – except maybe for some details around shape and size.
Bill
“For the good of all, the poor come first.”
Those were the words spoken by Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) during yesterday’s Presidential inauguration where he promised to end Mexico’s disastrous neo-liberalism.
Schools Out?
…in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Australia, Canada….
No sense, nonsense and a dearth of common sense.
We wouldn’t tie a rope to a heavy load and then push on the rope with the expectation of achieving anything, right? So why is the Guardian’s Environment Editor entreating that we do just that? Is he merely stupid? Or is there something more cynical at play?
Worrisome Centrist Clowns.
I don’t generally have a problem with clowns. But these clowns are dangerous. When mainstream media promotes centrist clowns promoting fascist clowns….
We’re All Penguins Now.
To jump or not to jump? Is “not jumping” about to mean “left behind”?
Auckland’s got a Bridge.
London’s bridges were closing down.
Climate Action Heating Up.
Yet another front opening up in the demand for action on global warming…
Israeli Cabinet Resignation.
Avigdor Lieberman has resigned his position as Israeli Defense Minister because he can’t endorse the government’s “surrender to terrorism”.
Alaska or New Zealand?
That’s the big question ‘big’ people are asking these days.
Disestablish the establishment.
Politics can be soap, or politics can be real. This post comments on some of the soap and offers an example of something that’s real
Rude ‘n Terrible?
Trump’s…I don’t actually have words for this little escapade.
Easy Climate Action
Another promising front is opening that might help encourage people to sit up, take notice, and act.
A Democratic Cakewalk.
Cenk Uygur might be said to have “skin in the game” when it comes to the US Mid-terms, and given that much of this post revolves around, or bounces from his commentary and analysis – which may not be quite as objective as he thinks – that should be borne in mind when reading this post.
KiwiBuild doesn’t fly.
More than that, it needs to be torn down before it makes a serious bid at flight.
Brazil, Brexit, Trump…with more to come.
When orders collapse, it doesn’t have to be a bad thing. We’re making it a bad thing.
Media Thriving on its Own Shit.
When purveyors of propaganda come to believe their own spin and start entertaining really quite idiotic conspiracy theories and abandoning any pretense of being in possession of rational thought, then we’ve got a problem.
Green Growth
Shade it any colour you like…
Power and Knowledge.
We say that knowledge is power…
Duped?
Were you just taken for a ride?
The Mariana Trench Fix.
The Mariana Trench is pretty huge. And deep. And if the idea is to fill a hole in the ground with ‘stuff’, then it’s a fair sized hole to be filling, right?
Censorship again.
I’m not a great fan of George Monbiot. And Alex Jones is rubbish. But …
Khashoggi
A counter to the “heroic dissident” narrative.
A Bigger Better Budget!
An odd detail or change was buried within the IPCC report that came out last week.
Reprehensible People.
“Kavanaugh” – the name lends itself to being enunciated with a certain pluminess, don’t you think?
Concert Woes.
Compensation for not getting to see someone in concert? $12 000. Compensation for being imprisoned in a big bloody compound and shot at by snipers if you go anywhere near the perimeter fence? Nothing. But…
Carbon Truths
An antidote to half truths, misleading statements and outright lies.
Zionism: Protestant Tosh.
I’m willing to bet you probably didn’t know that.
Will there be a Brexit?
In short, I think not.
Quite a day or two then!
A quick smorgasbord of reported news from Syria, to China and Sweden, to antisemitism and (hidden behind the links) an interview with (hopefully) the first woman who will serve as President of the USA.
Updated
Paranoia, Bullshit and Ordinary Lives.
It seems that for some, trashing out the lives of ordinary people is fine, because “Russia bad”. It’s not fine…
“That day” in September.
Towers bore me.
Tilting at Windmills
The Donald found a real one!
Ardern and Pelosi.
There is something very wrong with “our” media when it takes a stand-up comedian to alert people to important stuff. But anyway…
A Tale of Two Protests
I stumbled across two protests in Dunedin today. They offered up a few telling contrasts.
And the antisemites are…?
UK Labour adopted the IRHA definition of antisemitism in full, and…