Blog No 177. The past week has seen a lot of Trump. The USA is gripped by the prospect of their president’s impeachment. It is a lot of excitement about nothing. This is for two reasons. Firstly, though the Congress has the prerogative to instigate impeachment proceedings, the decision on whether or not to impeach, […]
Blog No 176. Because of the worry that a world government would either start out as, or soon degenerate into a totalitarian dictatorship, advocates of constitutionalised cooperation between states have preferred to use enhanced ‘global governance’ as their stated goal. It is important to distinguish between global governance and global government. Global government inspires visions […]
Perfidious Albion Blog No. 175. Some readers of my past blogs dealing with the activities of the British Government’s Institute for Statecraft and its appendage, the Integrity Initiative, might still be reluctant to accept the full extent of the duplicity of the British government. Such doubts should be finally laid to rest by a reading […]
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Aug
Aug
Blog 174. “Every Kiwi should take up a paddle.” Khakispecs will continue as a blog commenting primarily on global affairs. Its postings will probably become more intermittent and a selection of guest authors will be featured, but its main function will continue to be that of an observer. Social activism will be directed through a […]
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Aug
Aug
Blog 173. “Every citizen should pick up a paddle.” As I indicated in my previous blog, having now returned to my keyboard, I am redirecting my energy. Were I simply to pick up where I left off and continue with the Khakispecs blog unchanged, I would not have been short of themes to write about. […]
Blog 172: Admin. The Khakispecs blog is in the process of making a significant change of direction – from observation & commentary to a more active role. Over the first four years and 170 blogs the site accumulated over a thousand subscribers. A significant proportion of these subscriptions were probably spammers. Others of the current […]
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Jul
Jul
Blog 171 My blog has been dormant for the past four months as I have had to struggle with lymphoma (a type of leukemia.) In April, by the time the diagnosis had been verified and treatment could commence, I was a bag of skin and bone and could hardly stand upright. At the time chemo–therapy […]
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Feb
Feb
Blog No. 170. This will be the shortest blog ever. It is addressed to those who have come to expect a fresh, Khakispecs blog every Saturday fortnight. I apologise that the routine is about to be disrupted. There will now follow a possibly prolonged period of no (or perhaps occasional and erratic) blogs. Basically, what […]
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Jan
Jan
Blog No. 169. In this blog I attempt to answer the second of my two questions. The first question had concerned the way in which senior servants of the state had managed to establish dominance over government ministers in setting aspects of NZ’s foreign policy. The second question concerns the manner and purpose for which […]
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Jan
Jan
Blog No. 168. I concluded my previous blog https://khakispecs.com/?p=4225 with the following two questions: How has NZ allowed a group of senior civil servants to seize control of aspects of its foreign policy? How have they come to adopt a mind-set in which NZ, has to continue fighting what should have been a long-defunct, Cold […]