San Franciscans : A view from far away
Published: 14 Feb 2025
San FranciscansA view from far away I suspect that history is not going to be kind to the curre...
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Abraham Lincoln and the Treaty of Waitangi
Published: 28 Nov 2024
Abraham Lincoln and the Treaty of Waitangi In 2005 I went on a pilgrimage with a group of Ameri...
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Peter Ellis Case Blows Up New Zealand - Twice
Published: 01 Nov 2024
Peter Ellis Case Blows Up New Zealand - Twice.In the 1980's and 1990's there were sporadic hysterias...
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What's To Be Done About Climate Change?
Published: 31 Oct 2024
What's To Be Done About Climate Change? The world has been colder and warmer than it is now, an...
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Everybody Hates Me
Published: 01 Oct 2024
Everybody Hates Me When I was a little nipper we did a family trip to Mt Cook - 1958 in an Aust...
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Cultural Revolution in the West
Published: 01 Aug 2024
Cultural Revolution in the WestOver time, a technocratic ruling elite has established in Western cou...
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How will this Cultural Revolution End?
Published: 01 Jul 2024
How will this Cultural Revolution End? There is a cultural revolution underway in Western count...
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The New Urban Elites
Published: 01 Nov 2023
The New Urban Elites A cultural movement in mainly Western countries post WW2, broadly characte...
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Cultural Revolution in New Zealand
Published: 01 Jul 2023
Cultural Revolution in New Zealand New Zealanders have wonderful lives by comparison to what us...
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Allenton School 125th Reunion
Published: 28 Oct 2022
Allenton School 125th Reunion I attended Allenton School (Ellington in the vernacular) from 195...
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Am I Wrong About This?
Published: 01 Aug 2022
AM I WRONG ABOUT THIS? For a long time, Elwyn and I have had a growing sense of unease about th...
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A Parable
Published: 01 Jan 2022
A Parable Around the year 1300 CE, a Polynesian voyaging canoe arrived at the 790 sq.km C...
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The New Zealand Government is a Bully and a Thief, Sometimes.
Published: 13 Aug 2013
The New Zealand Government is a Bully and a Thief, Sometimes. And by this I don't mean that tax...
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Strengthening of Commercial and Industrial Buildings after the Christchurch Earthquakes
Published: 31 Dec 2012
Strengthening of Commercial and Industrial Buildings after the Christchurch Earthquakes And now...
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More Beneficiaries than Tax Payers
Published: 01 Jan 2011
More Beneficiaries than Tax PayersWhy is it that at a certain age (mine) there arises an increasing ...
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What's Next?
Published: 01 Mar 2010
What's Next? Our survival may be a larger issue than many of us may realise.This universe appea...
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Prejudice, Bigotry and Racism
Published: 20 Feb 2010
Prejudice, Bigotry and Racism.I'm prejudiced.And so are you- unless you're not yet born, in which ca...
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The Green Armageddon
Published: 01 Feb 2010
The Green Armageddon.The great thing about pessimism is that you're either proven right or pleasantl...
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Religion
Published: 01 Feb 2010
Religion. There are thousands of exclusive faith- based belief systems; sure, they have some fe...
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Going Down
Published: 01 Jul 2009
Going Down New Zealand has been slipping by comparison to other OECD countries for at least 30 ...
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The State of New Zealand's Electricity Generating and Supply System.
Published: 01 Oct 2008
The State of New Zealand's Electricity Generating and Supply System. &n...
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New Zealand; My Part in its Decline
Published: 01 Jan 2008
New Zealand; My Part in its Decline. 40 years ago, I thought that NZ had a great future.Sure, t...
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The Great Age of Exploration
Published: 01 Nov 2000
The Great Age of Exploration It was during the great age of exploration with new continen...
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