One thing I really like about living in New Zealand is that I suddenly have access to a whole new vocabulary to…
Interesting all the brouhaha over jailed Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner Lui Xiabo – and Obama’s “demands” that he be released –…
New Zealand’s (conservative) National government has spent the last year trying to implement “National Standards” here. Which is New Zealand’s answer to…
I am a little surprised by all the weeping and gnashing of teeth over the Democrats’ loss of the House on November…
As I stressed in my November 3rd blog, it’s no longer politics and fear of violent crime that are driving America’s phenomenal…
“Terrorist or Fall Guy” by Chris Trotter (in New Zealand we write the day before the month – today is 5/11/10 –…
I first became concerned about America’s growing prison industrial complex as a private practice psychiatrist in California and Washington between 1978 and…
On November 2nd, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales releases his latest book Harmony, which he co-wrote with former Friends of…
In my last (Oct 27) blog, I discussed a YouTube presentation by Richard Heinberg, based on his book Powerdown: Options and Actions…
If I should suddenly develop a fatal cancer, Richard Heinberg, author of Peak Everything, is definitely the person I would want to…
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