Thursday, 18 March 2021, 9:13 am
Radio New Zealand’s plan to defenestrate its Concert FM
classical music network, stillborn and hastily withdrawn at
the start of last year, was the surprisingly mute elephant
in the middle of the select committee room when the public
radio broadcaster’s chairman and chief executive turned up
at Parliament for this year’s annual financial
review.
Contained within the Trojan Horse of a new
youth-oriented music strategy, the plan would have taken the
concert programme off its dedicated national FM network and
replaced it with a “brand” or “platform” targeted at
18-34-year-olds. It was met by angry protests from
Ahem.
Yeah, so, that s the news.
According to the US intelligence cartel, the nations which
sought to interfere in the outcome of the US election
include Russia, Iran, China, Lebanese Hizballah, Cuba, and
Venezuela. Interestingly, exactly zero nations aligned
geopolitically with the United States are listed as having
interfered in its electoral process. We assess that
Russian President Putin authorized, and a range of Russian
government organizations conducted, influence operations
aimed at denigrating President Biden s candidacy and the
Democratic Party, supporting former President Trump,
undermining public confidence in the electoral process, and
exacerbating sociopolitical divisions in the US, the report
The
Gordon Riots June 1780 [witnessed] the worst mob
riots of the eighteenth century. Lord George Gordon was a
born incendiary of extreme, almost insane, views. … He
established an association , in the style of the time, and
the Protestant Association soon came to include men of
property, artisans, London apprentices and those elements of
the city that were known as the
mobile vulgus or more
colloquially the mob .
Peter Ackroyd,
The History of
England, Volume IV
The year 1780 was well after
the religious wars – the reformation and especially the
counter-reformation – were over. But England was then an
economic tinderbox, and was in the midst of a losing war to
The hallmark of any institution is the ability to withstand ironic dysfunction. The United States under the stewardship of that unintentional comic George W. Bush made John Bolton ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton had loathed the body, wishing .
We are all one. A lucid perception of reality reveals that our entire experience of what we call the world is inseparable from the awareness in which it appears, and that this awareness is boundless, timeless, and head-over-heels in love with .