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Sanders has just walked home in Nevada. Honestly, that should come as no surprise to anyone. He'll probably win most of the remaining states too, and the only question that remains unsettled is whether his support will be such that there will be no brokered…
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Remember the 1960s and 1970s? For those of us around at that time it was a time of pretty well full employment and a time when homelessness was rare and easily fixed. My own personal experience is that my dad, who was a boilermaker and…
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The crucial step in killing US democracy is to achieve a brokered Democratic Convention in July. When asked if the nominee with the most delegates going into the convention should be the nominee, all of the candidates, bar Sanders signaled their willingness to "green light"…
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Two recent news items confirm that we are well and truly in election year.. First up there was this news that NZ First had torpedoed the Green Party's supporting EV policy. The policy itself is sound. Anything that moves the country's fleet from embarrassing gas…
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It appears that National's dream of an alternative Green party that would drive the real Green Party below the threshold is in tatters with news that Sustainable NZ is on the skids. From Sam Sachdeva at Newsroom: Fledgling political party Sustainable New Zealand has been…
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It’s probably time to notice why Jones’ Provincial Growth Fund had to step in and provide several million of funding to patch up the water supply emergency in Northland. We are in the most serious drought the upper North Island has had in recorded history,…
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https://twitter.com/TeAoWithMOANA/status/1229467588339453953 Full interview with Moana Maniapoto from Te Ao with Moana, from Facebook
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National has nothing to fear about the SFO charges relating to two $100,000 undeclared donations made to it. Neither Simon Bridges, nor the National Party have been charged following an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office. Simon had nothing to do with the donations. The…
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Name suppression has been lifted for the four people charged by the Serious Fraud Office over two dodgy donations to the National Party. Three are businessmen: Yikun Zhang, 48, Shijia (Colin) Zheng, 34, and Hengjia (Joe) Zheng, 34. The fourth is National Party bag man…
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Today we may know the identities of three of the four people charged with illegal partitioning of the loan to National. The disclosure that there is a second donation that was partitioned makes you wonder if this is a serial problem for National. I thought…
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Press release from greens.org.nz February 17, 2020 10:43 AM The Green Party are calling for an independent citizens’ assembly to investigate cleaning up political donations, including public funding for political parties during election campaigns. “It’s clear that Parliament is incapable of meaningful reforms to…
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In a dramatic twist in the investigation into the missing $200k donated to National under the table (or possibly under many smaller tables) Simon Bridges told radio station Tragic Dork FM that the leader of the opposition needed to stand Simon Bridges down…
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This November will see the election of the next President of the USA. Assuming the election will be between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump (that's what's stacking up) then a question or three arises about how liberal mainstream media will report on the race. See,…
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Now, you may well think: why does this matter to me? Thousands of households across New Zealand heard the announcement of the complete death of the Holden marque this week, as the death of one of the greatest binaries and one of the most closely…
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Maybe we now know why National's economic policy release was such a fizzer. They were all preoccupied with news of more donation scandal affecting the party about to emerge. I was doing my best to write something deeper about tax cuts when this nuclear bomb…
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This will be a very short post. The big economic policy announcement has been made by National leader Simon Bridges and it is, how do I put this, underwhelming. There are five bulletpoint policies which I have summarised for you: PlatitiudePlatitiudePlatitiudePlatitiudePlatitiude One of them involves…
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We are sprinting into election year and the policies are starting to emerge. And today Simon Bridges and National are going to announce a new policy that will surprise and astound you. Yes we are talking about tax cuts! Who would have guessed? From Derek…
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