Compelling, horrifying, but bells ring everywhere. Thanks too for the reminder about Anne Appelbaum, haven't read her excellent stuff for years.
There is something quite poisonous here, a kind of crass brutality that doesn't give a damn. It's beyond ugly or ignorant.
Trying to fathom it, it feels like the pinnacle of culture and the optimum role model in these folks' world isn't the consummate artist, the heroic peacemaker or the protector of humankind. It's the guy who has $250 billion. Nothing else figures. This kind of power makes him a kind of god , he can seemingly dismiss everything of value. Trump everything with a stroke (sic).
And while it's appalling, perhaps a comfort is that for these folks, I don't think that ultimately it ends well.
I would have to agree to disagree on your contention that we are not yet a Kleptocracy.
Via private banking network abuses of their franchise over the money supply of our nation, by hook or by crook, we have been a Kleptocracy for centuries.
For those that don't have a clue what I am on about, track down and read Prof Robert Hockett - Finance Franchise.
Rest assured, the private bank franchising of our money supply model this most highly qualified commentators details in this paper, is the model New Zealand suffers under.
About 13 years ago, when 'The Passionless People' was re-released, it felt as though little had changed since 1976, aside from the devastation brought about by Roger Douglas and co, then the rest up to John Key. Complacency has always seemed to be a recurring theme in our country, with too many in charge (or their slippery sidekicks) hesitant to confront the shortcomings of an obviously incompetent management. I still reckon there remains a great deal of potential for NZ. Ego, greed and incompetence and dishonesty left and right remains a disease. What to do?
Compelling, horrifying, but bells ring everywhere. Thanks too for the reminder about Anne Appelbaum, haven't read her excellent stuff for years.
There is something quite poisonous here, a kind of crass brutality that doesn't give a damn. It's beyond ugly or ignorant.
Trying to fathom it, it feels like the pinnacle of culture and the optimum role model in these folks' world isn't the consummate artist, the heroic peacemaker or the protector of humankind. It's the guy who has $250 billion. Nothing else figures. This kind of power makes him a kind of god , he can seemingly dismiss everything of value. Trump everything with a stroke (sic).
And while it's appalling, perhaps a comfort is that for these folks, I don't think that ultimately it ends well.
So is the Waiperera Trust funding John Tamihere'mayoral bid and TPM a case of" casting your bread upon the waters" or politically corrupt?
The latter.
I would have to agree to disagree on your contention that we are not yet a Kleptocracy.
Via private banking network abuses of their franchise over the money supply of our nation, by hook or by crook, we have been a Kleptocracy for centuries.
For those that don't have a clue what I am on about, track down and read Prof Robert Hockett - Finance Franchise.
https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2660&context=facpub
Rest assured, the private bank franchising of our money supply model this most highly qualified commentators details in this paper, is the model New Zealand suffers under.
About 13 years ago, when 'The Passionless People' was re-released, it felt as though little had changed since 1976, aside from the devastation brought about by Roger Douglas and co, then the rest up to John Key. Complacency has always seemed to be a recurring theme in our country, with too many in charge (or their slippery sidekicks) hesitant to confront the shortcomings of an obviously incompetent management. I still reckon there remains a great deal of potential for NZ. Ego, greed and incompetence and dishonesty left and right remains a disease. What to do?
Look back at Keith Hay homes and land being rezoned
Kleptocracy is surely preferable to 'thievocracy', an appalling barbarism.