The Green Party's first major election announcement is a beautifully conceived social security package based in the concepts of manaakitanga and compassion. It insists on giving people income security and treating them well. It's fully costed, and financed by taxing some of the assets and…
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Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has hijacked a Washington State far right rally, enraging the neo-nazi organisers. https://twitter.com/i/status/1277031411724120064 Cohen had already bought the rights to sing at the rally and his security team stopped the far right organisers from storming the stage when they realised they'd…
We're now seeing a revolution. While many expect logic to prevail and capitalism to overcome, a really successful and very modern revolution has already started in just the last few weeks. It's not the revolution we expected. It's morphing, and its changes are unpredictable. It's…
I've just been reading Andrea Vance's "The brutal business of politics: Judith Collins discusses memoir, John Key, David Bain, and being a survivor", a review of Judith Collin's released biography. One thing that usually infuriates me is whining arseholes. Judith Collins has always been one…
Well done the Greens. https://twitter.com/jamespeshaw/status/1276054571379339265 https://twitter.com/BMHayward/status/1276664404256239616 Green Party press release. Another Green win as climate change considerations inserted into the RMA June 25, 2020 6:09 PM The Green Party is thrilled to see changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA) that mean consents for large…
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Destroy capitalism, right? But what's the replacement? Before anyone thinks this is an argument for not ending capitalism, it's not. It's a post designed to break the false dichotomy that currently exists within the left over capitalism and what to do about it. Capitalism isn't…
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The latest Colmar Brunton poll results have been released and Labour is still remarkably in a position to rule on its own. Results are above. National will breathe a sigh of relief that its support has rebounded. The Greens are on the right side of…
National have partially reverted to the mean in the latest One News/Colmar Brunton poll. Dumping Simon Bridges and the evaporation of the post Covid feel good factor has seen the major parties swap 9% support. However, Labour are still looking good for an historic outright…
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Good apart from every conceivable political angle for the government, granted. The political angles are well covered elsewhere in the NZHerald, Stuff, and TVNZ. Neither the Prime Minister claiming regularly on radio that the NZInfra version would help pay for our retirement, nor a single…
https://twitter.com/matpottinger/status/1273924237007286272 https://twitter.com/VenerableDonkey/status/1273904863869415425 There's no way out of this that doesn't involve the middle classes losing capital. Perpetual housing crisis or some people giving up assets, that's the choice. btw, if the homeless dude who figured out how to get himself into a quarantine hotel room…
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RNZ Labour is conceding defeat on Auckland Light Rail before the election, with Cabinet failing to reach an agreement on either proposal. RNZ previously reported that the project was dead in the water, but until now the government's position has been that negotiations were ongoing.…
Looking at the rises in covid-19 infections worldwide is just damn depressing. So instead National and some of our media choose to focus on the little inconveniences of local life. For anyone who isn't a selfish myopic like your median National voter, concerned only with…
You would think in the midst of a world pandemic that is threatening established countries everywhere that National would do the responsible thing and work constructively to resolve all of government issues. If you do think this you are wrong. It appears that National has…
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Back in the 1990s, in the days when I still had time to pursue sidetracks, I did a remote history course. Never completed it because work broke in on it. However I did write an essay on zoonotic diseases and their effect on history and…
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Well the last week has been a real roller coaster. Aotearoa New Zealand has gone from the ecstasy of we have no Covid to the agony that we, at the time of writing, have eight cases of Covid and the first two went on a…
The Obama 'Hope' inspired Weston Frizzell poster of Jacinda Ardern has been referred to the Electoral Commission. The poster has been pasted in several urban areas. It's a stylised version of the PM, accompanied with the entirely appropriate te reo word "AROHA". It's magnificent. It…
So POTUS thought he should hold a rally. The organisation of the rally was not pristine because he, I am sure accidentally, created the impression he was trying to appear to be a racist Nazi. He wanted to hold his rally on Juneteenth, the date…