Ramesh Thakur: Have the West’s Elites Declared War on the People?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2024
- Michael Law talks to Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy Ramesh Thakur - Have the West’s elites declared war on the people?
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All nations should remain independent sovereign entities
That's the big battle ahead
the same as we the people need to stay sovereign . allowing people to rule us is how we got here .
just look at history , nothing the ruling class has done has made life better , 40 years ago you could by a house , have a family , all on one parents wage
As to the title of this episode. YES they have. The gloves are all but off.
I agree with you. My gloves came off when the people I pay to protect the rights of New Zealanders started telling us what experiments we must enter and what drugs we must take. We have a real fight on our hands.
This gentleman's analysis nails it on every point.
A good interview, confirming growing suspicions everywhere.
Very good Michael…very good sir…
Great interview. Legend.
Now that's a breath of fresh air and a tour de force of common sense and reality.
Excellent interview verbalising a lot of people's concerns. I live in Ireland we have a government who ignore the citizens and who are run by the EU . If anyone dares to question the way the government are handling the illegal immigration crisis they are painted as being far right. There are a lot of concerned citizens who's communities are being radically changed by this government's policies. The WEF have a God complex they are unelected and are trying to change the western world unfortunately they seem to be making progress to the detriment of us all.
Gary Stevenson - economics of inequality - former citi bank trader
Boom
One of your best interviews in a while
Hiw about professor Dalgleish as a guest in the future?
Great interview! Thanks
Yep
Very well explained.
A regrettably sort and truncated interview. After meandering about on tedious reminiscences from Otago days, we got to the point, then the interview just trailed off like a1960s pop record
The Platform thinks it can gain paywall subs by posting part interviews, they really dont understand how the internet works as they dont have enough subscribers to behave like this towards the Utube audience lol
the rest of the interview will be on the platform's website.
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Thanks for hosting Ramesh Thakur. I encountered his research on NZ's nuclear free policy while studying at Otago Uni. Interesting to hear his concerns about international elites taking power from national governments.
I did Political Science 1 & 2 at Otago in 1975-76 and did well enough to be offered a place in the Honours school put preferred to complete the BA at Vic in 1977-78 because I then intended to be a civil servant. But I discovered Wellington, had no real night life, and the public service considered my interests Railways, Public Transport and Defence as sunset industries, on which every dollar was spent was wasted and that attitude was generally shared by most Labour and National politicians and Wellington was a cold windy place and the white proletariat were as savage as their Dunedin brothers. The rehabilitation of Keith Murdoch is intolerable to me and it was the thuggery of the 71-3 All Blacks that destroyed the games reputation in my view not the later Springbok tours. My view of Ann Hercus centred on my negative attitude to Mark Sayers, who cunningly avoided selection for the 1970 and 1976 tours, while supporting Keith Murdoch on the 72-3 tour..
So my introduction into Otago Political Studies was a couple of years earlier than Laws and Thakur and in 1976 Political Studies 2, it was Joe Atkinson back from Harvard and Yale teaching US Politics, and at that time teaching standard US right wing, democratic bloc vote, realpolitik, political science and I actually found thrilling how Mayor Daley controlled Chicago, controlling the voting machines, Union vote and regimented black estate vote and segmented the white suburbs and the CBD loop (Kennedy Family Merchant Mall) by using the motorways to maintain race divisions and the hard class lines in New Haven, Connecticut. I have never known if, Randy Newman or Political Scientist Nelson Polsby ( 22 stone like, David Lange in 1978) was the originator of the lyrics of ' Political Science' Stuart Grief took a course on totalitarianism and Cruikshank gave an awesome apocalyptic view of deterrent theory and international relations which on some ways was right wing but viewed the previous 35 years as the gradual spread of communist military power thru the world. My own view is now that nuclear deterence and MAD was abandoned by JFK and McNamara in McNamara's 1962 Michigan State Ann Arbor commencement speech with a return to legal warfighting with the SSBNs rapidly largely reduced to Mach 6 MIRV tactical nuclear warheads to really hit multiple targets around Murmansk and Archangel and secondly the cumulative damage to the biosphere from thermo nuclear hydrogen bombs testing made mega bombs unusable.
In those days I saw Micheal Laws as a target for the elite social conservatives at Knox because the Doctors sons all hated the new Social Medicine and any education liberal and as the Headmaster of major secondary schools like Michaels father who was Head at Waitaki Boys and Scott's, god help you Ramesh then was one of few NZ academics studying and talking about Defence and Foreign policy with any insight at all.
I mean today it's not really a case of the Courts taking over. It more a question of another elite, the Doctors dishonest assertion Doctors are the most intelligent people, and therefore rule and decide along with the bofins and scientists. They claim the UN made war illegal in 1946 and they tell the general socialist, communist lie were all inherently equal and the most important thing is to stand up for the most useless, and provide universal employment, that is the great Neo Marxist lie.
WTF?
The last 6 lines would have sufficed
Ramesh makes very good sense with regard the individual safeguards and sovereignty free of constant mass manipulation. BTW, Australia has just passed the Digital ID Bill and we are just weeks away from the same position. Agreeing to this bill will be the start of our loss of all freedoms.
Hi New Zealand,Its Time To Decriminalise Cannabis
This is a problem that goes right back to Plato, who thought we should be ruled by kings and the kings appoint experts to manage.
I didnt need an academic to tell me that I only needed half a brain
In a democracy Parliament should be the highest court in a country not quangos and e.g. the Waitangi Tribunal which now has 10,000 claims before it which would bankrupt New Zealand.
Guess Ramesh does not see the irony in his work on the Responsibility to Protect, let's call it a "mandate", starting principled, cautious, and moderate on paper, got turned into a "Right To Regime Change" in the Libyan intervention in 2011.
A bit like a public health and disease control system which is principled, cautious, and moderate ... on paper.
Reserve powers of the state need intense scrutiny and monitoring. Because power and expediency demand they grow.
Yes, last century
Who is he, never heard of him .
There is a global elite - no doubt - but the ICC is not part of it. And the chief prosecutor's decision to seek arrest warrants for both Netanyahu and the Hamas leader does not necessarily mean there is a "moral equivalence" between the two. It suggests a behavioural equivalence - ie, that they have, or may have, both behaved in a way or ways which breach international criminal law. If you have breached the law then you may be liable to legal consequences, no matter how morally correct your actions may seem to you and others. That is a simple truism and in effect that is all the prosecutor is saying.