by Cimino | 19 Sep 2007 | Local, Sedimentation
The editor is looking forward to it. A gathering with prospects for more human and meaningful exchanges—after two ‘meet the candidates’ meetings, with several more to come. Purposeful, positive, discussion one-on-one or in small groups in the civilised environment of...
by Cimino | 16 Sep 2007 | Local
My first action was to seek advice. I was considering standing for Rodney District Council, and sought the counsel of Graham Nielson who was my supervisor when I was employed by the council to computer-model Helensville’s water reticulation—the good old days when the...
by Cimino | 31 Jan 2006 | Parliament
Failure to embrace a new flag in the past bought Aotearoa a power of trouble. When the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, by default the national flag became the Union Jack. Eight years earlier, in 1832, the group of northern tribes that became known as the United Tribes...
by Albert Einstein | 1 Oct 1947 | Global democracy
As I see it, this is the way for the nations of the world to break the vicious circle which threatens the continued existence of mankind, as no other situation in human history has ever done. We are caught in a situation in which every citizen of every country, his...
