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The latest example being Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, a 39-year-old senator who remains in intensive care after he was shot three times - twice in the head - at a campaign event in the capital, Bogotá.
Machiavelli said: “Fortune (luck) rules only half a man’s life; The
other half being their will.”
Born equal as we may be, it’s how one performs as one wanders through this odyssey called life, that determines our fate.
This happened in Australia.(1)
A fundamental
pillar of New Zealand’s system of justice, predicated on the 1215 Magna Carta
is:
We are all innocent until proven Guilty.
Polkinghorne was found Not Guilty.
Across the front-line, breakers of the law, who somehow avoided police intervention during the rule of Commissioner Coster, are now regularly being brought before the Courts.
Most recently, Breakingviews has carried opinions lauding Netanyahu’s response to Lebanon based Hamas-led militant groups surprise attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, which involved a rocket barrage and a few thousand militants breaching the Gaza–Israel barrier, attacking Israeli civilian communities and military bases.
In the western sector of the parliamentary electorate (Hobson), I once served as MP for 9 years, at a glance, I counted 6 English named places and over 30 Māori, between Hokianga and Kaipara Harbour entrances. This ratio appears similar across the country.
Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it’s
the courage to continue that counts,’ extolled Sir Winston Churchill.
Euripides said: ‘I would rather die on my feet than
live on my knees.’
My family coat of arms embraces the Machiavelli dictum:
“Virtu et Fortuna”.
Yet, for they who strive, be it from helot to bourgeois, or those born to the Manor (where bequeathments from they who before them strived, are often squandered), debt is a companion for life – an albatross around one’s neck.
National (NZ government coalition partner) have
decided to appoint an “Anti-Scam” Minister Mr Bayly. Ironically, on a radio platform 19 Nov 2024, Hon
Bayly appeared to “absolve” social media from any liability for scamming.
Recently, Australian banks have begun to shut out crypto currencies (1) (2) which appears to be a policy in conflict with the electioneering pledges of President elect Donald Trump.
November 14, 2024, and atrocity in the
Hallowed Halls of New Zealand’s Parliament, however, was another, Step Too
Far.
As Titewhai Harawira once said, ‘History can be a Bitch’, I say, “It sure can.”
In 1980 Rt Hon Rob Muldoon (as he was then) responding to Bob Jones (as he was then), demonstrated astonishing prescience, when he said that by 2030 the population of NZ (which at the time was 3 million) would be 2 million. (1)
He went on to describe “a future world in which national barriers were virtually non-existent, in which trade and people flowed freely” and the huge cities which at the time were generally regarded as “dangerous and unpleasant, would instead become meccas of excitement”, whereas NZ would become, “a quiet retreat, its youth and its vitally creative people constantly moving abroad, particularly to Australia”.
Eight Hundred jobs to go – in Timaru – meat works.(1)Two hundred jobs to go – Ruapehu – timber mills.(2)
Shop closures and job losses in Auckland CBD.(3)(4)
Hundreds of jobs to be axed in New Zealand media restructure.(5)
The collateral impacts of these job losses, runs deep
affecting thousands of New Zealanders.
Fear not. The
Official Cash Rate tinkering has Interest rates dropping.
Yeah, right mate.
