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Bank for International Settlements and the Everest of debts
19 July 2017
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by Humphrey McQueen
A presentation given to Solidarity Breakfast on Radio 3CR, 9 JUly 2017
As promised last time, we’re going to look into the 2016-17 Report from the Bank for International Settlements.
Since we can’t assume that all our listeners have heard all our discussions over the past ten years, I’ll risk offending those who can remember every one of them by darting back to this time in 2007.
2007
I’d stumbled upon the Bank’s Report for 2006-7. At the time, I didn’t know what the Bank for International Settlements was. We’ll say a bit about its history in a moment.
Australia is more than Anzac - and always has been
David Stephens and Alison Broinowski (eds) The Honest History Book New South 2017 PB 344pp $34.99
What the book is about
The Honest History Book is collective history written by 19 authors. It is an argument about Australia’s past, present and future (‘Australia is more than Anzac – and always has been’) and about the difference between history and myth (honest history is interpretation robustly supported by evidence, myth lacks evidence or distorts it). These are themes that the Honest History coalition and website have pursued for more than three years.
Independent & Peaceful Australia Network media release 23 June 2017
"The situation in Syria is deeply concerning, as the world edges closer to a military confrontation between the US and Russia.
"Such a confrontation, alongside the tension points in eastern Europe on the Russian border, makes the possibility of stumbling into an extended or even nuclear war closer than it has been for decades," says Annette Brownlie, spokesperson for the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network.
"This is reflected in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists recently moving their Doomsday Clock to 2-and-a-half minutes to midnight - the closest since the beginning of the full-scale nuclear arms race in 1954.
As promised last time, we’re going to look into the 2016-17 Report from the Bank for International Settlements.
Australia is more than Anzac - and always has been
"The situation in Syria is deeply concerning, as the world edges closer to a military confrontation between the US and Russia.