Forum Archive Index - January 2004

["David & Jill Stevenson" <djstevo@quicksilver.net.nz>]

Baa Baa (Hard to get a handle on who I am addressing)

 

             You make good points . It has become not PC to be financially pessimistic about the forces and people in charge of our lives .These are subtle pressures .

In NZ it seems to me we are let down by our journalists - financial and other . They should devote their writing more to predictive reporting rather than back water issues

like where Winston Peters had his last meal.

             We should be told what steps International Financiers and other movers and shakers are taking to protect their interests -okay it requires more investigative skills than simple reporting of past events. America is led by an ineffective crusading  puppet President (all stetson and no action) with little concern  as to the fiscal time bomb his tax and spending policies help exacerbate in the world community . We are expected to remain non thinking and oblivious to the obvious fact that the Emperor (International Monetary system / wild currency fluctuations) is wearing no clothes . Simply because our press does not dutifully inform us which should be their primary role. Perhaps we can`t blame individual journalists. The ultimate controlling editorial  desk dictates what Joe public should know . That Editor,in turn, is controlled by media magnates with their own political agenda particularly when reliant upon the US Administration  for graces and favours.

            In NZ this Government having given up on our once proud defence forces  is prepared to keep us ignorant as well and totally impotent  to international tidal wave consequences of mal administration of the world economy by those we are supposed to look up to.

 

                                         David Stevenson