Political Caption Competition
Who knew Gerry Brownlee was such a beer pong expert?
Year: 2019
-
-
The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 22nd February 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
-
NZ has always been at war with Oceania, NZ has never been at war with Oceania – 5 truths about China hysteria the NZ media are not covering
With screaming headlines and pundits claiming Winston Peters is dragging us into a conflicting foreign policy and examples of Chinese passive aggression turning up weekly what is actually happening here?
-
GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Fran’s Fake Wedge about Winston is all sour cream
Fran is a member of the New Zealand China council and has all her fingers in the sour cream.
-
GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Why do women have better sex under Socialism?
Ghodsee cites the work of a number of scholars of sexuality before she makes the argument that whatever terrible things were going on in East Germany before the wall came down – the Stasi, the food shortages, and all the brutality and deprivations of that totalitarian regime – East German women enjoyed better sex than West German women.
-
Dying In A Ditch For A Capital Gains Tax That Half The Country Doesn’t Want
THE LABOUR-GREEN TECHNOCRATIC LEFT is clearly preparing to die in the very same ditch in which the Right hopes to bury the proposed Capital Gains Tax (CGT). This is unfortunate, since one of the more annoying, if unintended, consequences of such folly is likely to be the fall of the Coalition Government. Assuming, of course, that Winston Peters and NZ First are willing to die alongside their Labour and Green comrades. The sheer improbability of that happening is really the only ray of hope illuminating what is otherwise a pretty dreary situation.
-
The Tax Working Group Report: The Good, The Bad and the Predictable
The Good Let’s start with the good stuff, and there is a bit of that, mainly around the environmental tax…
-
Humanitarian concerns abused to promote regime change in Venezuela
The US government has done everything within its power to cause the Venezuelan economy to suffer a deep recession combined with high inflation as the price of oil fell. This began under US President Obama and have been intensified by Trump.
-
Capital Gains Tax bare minimum to start reducing wealth gap – AAAP
The Tax Working Group recommendations, which include a revenue-neutral Capital Gains Tax, are the absolute bare minimum changes the Government…
-
GUEST BLOG: Russel Norman – climate change and free trade
The panel on a sustainable world at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand argued for major changes to address pressing environmental issues. Executive Director, Greenpeace NZ, and previous co-leader of the Green Party, Russel Norman, urged us to adopt the identity of global citizens.