The goss is that the Wellington Street design proposals did not get up. It wasn’t from a lack of trying. 90 people got up at the Council meeting and most of them supported the design changes. However, only two councillors…
Category: Politics
The bigger picture
The news has been pretty bad for a while. And all the things that have been happening lately are further consolidating the resources of the uber rich, to the detriment of the people and our planet. It feels like the…
While Trump parades tanks and deploys the troops, where are they?
This Saturday, Donald Trump will parade tanks through Washington D.C. for his birthday while 4,700 troops occupy Los Angeles and protests spread to dozens of cities across the country. He’s spending $45 million on this authoritarian spectacle while threatening protesters…
The distressing reality of what is actually happening today
Please be advised that the following clip is very distressing to watch. I am not sure what can be gained by writing about it on a tiny site that no one reads, but it is the smallest step I can…
Sleep walking into it
The not so nice thing is that we are walking straight into it – into the collapse of civilisation. Because our systems are so incapable of changing course. We have already passed quite a few ecological tipping points. And from…
Avoiding news media (somehow)
One of the problems with a Trump presidency is that it wears the rest of us down. It is so depressing reading all these ridiculous headlines day after day. But it is impossible to avoid it in the news media.…
this time on wednesday
The US election, hey? It feels so tight for a situation where so much is at stake. A truly terrifying moment in history. I was pondering the consequences today. Yikes!
For everyone a home
What is the scenario in Australia’s housing market right now. I read the news. I read the article twice actually. Housing affordability has never been worse. Particularly for first home buyers. . . The interesting point that I could not…
more housing less expensive
what is the story for renters? it is one thing, I think to want to cover your costs. Another thing entirely is to just keep raising prices in our economy for fun, or greed, or because EVERYONE else is doing…
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
When Austria visited my page a couple of weeks ago, I was in a period of vulnerability. And it felt like my blogs were a battlefield, or at least that is what I perceived. From the reams of paragraphs on…