The Over 50s Running Revolution in Asia
Maggie Kim Hong Goh and Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : The running revolution came to the ‘Western World’ during the 1980s when the great mass marathons like London, New York, Boston, Chicago, Melbourne, and...
View ArticleThe New Rules of Running for the Over 50s
Maggie Kim Hong Goh & Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : With such a large group of over 50s runners in the world today, there is a need to take a new look at some of the basic rules of running that have been...
View ArticleThe Professor as a Pretender. How do they affect the quality of public policy?
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : The perceptions of what a professor is thought to be tends to be wrapped up in the narratives of public images around certain ‘pop’ individuals who have developed through...
View ArticleIs it time for the rise of local currencies?
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : It’s an almost long forgotten historical fact that most trade was undertaken by local based currencies right into the 20th Century. Australia had a number of colonial currencies...
View ArticleRevitalizing manufacturing enterprise in the post-industrial void: A new...
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : The growth of the neoliberalism school in the 1990s, with zealous implementation through variations of Thatcherism, Reaganomics, Rogernomics, and economic rationalism in...
View ArticleMigration: Humanity Beware!
High population densities in the third world and the exponential rise in cross continental migration are symptoms of the biggest problem humanity has ever faced. Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : Due to rapid...
View ArticleAustralian Federal Police used ‘cyberweapons’ supplied by company supporting...
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : A few days ago a cache of over 400GB of documents, files, and source code purportedly from Milan based company Hacking Team was dumped on the internet. Hacking Team sells...
View ArticleMalaysia: The making of a kleptocracy
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : The post independence Malaysian economy grew out of a mixture of an agro-mercantile and Chinese business domination to what it is today. Successive post independence governments...
View ArticleEconomic gloom for Australia?
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : On many scales, Australia is one of the most expensive places in the world to live in. With over 750,000 people unemployed in Australia, and rising, a potential bout of...
View ArticleMuslim Australia and the search for a solution to the “War on Terror”
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : There are almost 500,000 Muslims in Australia, with 400 mosques serving them. According to the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) 2012-103 Annual Report to the...
View ArticleThe Danger of Climate Change Evangelism
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : We have been conditioned with the belief that human activities are increasing the incidence of CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, which is the prime cause...
View ArticleThe financialization of the art world and the cannibalization of creativity
Kovach Imre & Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : For most people, the art world is an area of sophistication, finesse, and creativity, which takes a high moral ground in today’s society. It s acknowledged...
View ArticleThe plight of academic freedom in Malaysia
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : The Malaysian Government is trying to develop the country into an education hub. Most universities seek awards of excellence and to get their institutions into the rankings....
View ArticleSeeking a new vision for Malaysia
Murray Hunter & Azly Rahman (nsnbc) : “ … I am indeed proud that on this, the greatest day in Malaya’s history it falls to my lot to proclaim the formal independence of this country. Today as new...
View ArticleHow bureaucracy is destroying Malaysia’s agricultural sector
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : Over the last 30 years, Malaysia has miraculously grown into a middle income country, transforming itself from a primary producer of minerals and commodities, to a multi-sector...
View ArticleWill Cabals, Feudalism, and Apartheid damn Malaysia’s future prosperity?
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : “I am a businessman, not a politician”. Tajuddin Abdul Rahman, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry at the opening of Herbal Asia, Matrade Exhibition Centre,...
View ArticleThe Islamization of Thailand
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : The perceived relative homogeneity of Thai culture and society is being challenged on multiple fronts today. So much has been said about the socio-economic division within Thai...
View ArticleMalaysia in political stalemate
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib is facing accusations of fraud with the 1MDB fiasco, and the murder of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaaribuu, while the economy is going into a...
View ArticleIncest, rape and paedophilia within the Malay Heartlands
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : Over recent years Malay kampong life has witnessed a massive rise in drug use, crime, domestic violence, incest, and rape. The rural heartland of Malaysia has a dark-side, with...
View ArticleThe execution of Bernard Then during APEC shows impotence to terrorism
Murray Hunter (nsnbc) : The world is still in mourning for the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris a few days ago. The execution of a Malaysian citizen Bernand Then, snatched from a restaurant in...
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