Housing crisis solved!
I don’t like to boast, but I have solved the housing crisis.
Key launches war on P
“My message to the gangs is clear. This Government is coming after your business and we will use every tool we have to destroy it. We will be ruthless in our pursuit of you and the evil drug you push.”
Who is behind the New Zealand Initiative?
The New Zealand Initiative has produced a research paper attacking the proposal for a sugar tax. But who is it and who is it speaking on behalf of?
NRT: Bill English wants to end your privacy
I/S at No Right Turn the “data supermarket” and privacy concerns. “The government wants to be able to effectively spy on and database everyone, so they can save a few dollars here and there.”
Open mike 22/04/2016
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Daily Review 21/04/2016
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Trying to spin the Hagaman donation
Little is doing his job. Dirty Politics Farrar is spinning like mad. The real questions are – who knew about the donations, when did they know, and were they involved in awarding the contract?
Oravida and the water that no one owns
Oravida is in the news again. It is exporting hundreds of millions of dollars of fresh water and the cost to the authorities of $500 per year.
Leftie Kiwis
Received political wisdom is that NZ is a conservative country, tending to the right. Interesting then, to see this data on our voting preferences re American presidential candidates.
John’s Key’s “lawyer” is not a lawyer
John Key, explaining why he had an account with tax avoidance specialists Antipodes Trust Group, said he used the firm because his long-term friend, Ken Whitney, is a principal at the firm and has been his private lawyer for many years. The flaw in that theory is that Whitney is not currently a lawyer.
Open mike 21/04/2016
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Daily Review 20/04/2016
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Gould on Nats’ sleaze and corruption
Bryan Gould has some choice words on the latest Nat donations scandal.
Stalled global economy and helicopter money
The global economy has been stuck in an ongoing crisis since 2008. Printing more money won’t fix it, but it looks like we’re going to try it anyway.
National gets a smacking on the housing crisis
Fair to say that Simon Bridges’ claim that there is no housing crisis has – not gone down well. National – you have a problem.
Open mike 20/04/2016
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Coming Down To Beijing
Our Glorious Leader John Key Il is considering a formal extradition treaty with China. No doubt some genuinely bad people will be sent back, but China’s definition of ‘criminal’ is very, very broad. Why are we sucking up to a country lacking both democracy and a legitimate judicial system? Could it be the money? Could it be the pandas?
We used to be better than this. And not so long ago. Where did we go wrong?
Daily Review 19/04/2016
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Going electric
Old Zeeland showing New Zealand the way.
The whiff of corruption follows McCully around
There is a clear conflict of interest in the Niue resort case.
Saving the town
What do you do for a town when the company that provides all the jobs shuts down?
Housing crisis
Housing is very much in the news again. Short term profit and bugger the consequences!
Open mike 19/04/2016
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Daily Review 18/04/2016
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Bowron on a tired government
Jane Bowron writes in the Dominion Post: “Two things happened this week that could signal the beginning of the end of John Key and his government.”
McCully, the National Party donation and the Niue resort
Murray McCully has assured New Zealand that there is no link between the granting of valuable rights to manage a luxury resort in Niue and the making of large donations to the National Party.
Climate change – that ship has sailed
Our models and our plans for responding to climate change are already out of date.
What tax evasion robs us of – in NZ
Gareth Morgan estimates that NZ could be missing out on up to 25% of total income tax because the rich aren’t paying their fair share. What could a government do with an extra $7.5bn a year?
Open mike 18/04/2016
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London – tens of thousands march against austerity
In the UK, Cameron’s latest cuts have provoked a very public response.
Opinion pieces on Labour
Two opinion pieces on Labour this weekend offer a full spectrum from insight to inanity.
Towards a new economic order
George Monbiot in the Guardian gives a precise and accurate description of neoliberalism and asks the question why has the left not come up with a modern alternative?
Open mike 17/04/2016
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Michael Wood standing for Mt Roskill
Michael Wood has announced his candidacy to be nominated as the Labour candidate for Mt Roskill when Phil Goff vies for the Auckland Mayoralty. I can’t think of anyone better for that role or for winning the electorate for the left. Go young Michael. This is an unsolicited and possibly unwanted endorsement from me.
A big thank you to IDG from thestandard.nz
Why we all, readers and authors, should praise IDG Communications for the generous gift of shortening this sites domain name.
Job losses everywhere
Brighter Future. Cusp of Something Special. Tell it to the newly jobless.