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I’m not qualified to talk about the medical aspects of the 2019 nCov virus.I think we should all simply do what our public health professionals recommend as they put measures in place and time will tell whether it will wreck the kind of human havoc that many fear.
When Julian Assange is before a British Justice court hearing extradition as an alternative option to rendition to the “Land of the Free”, where are Main Stream media?
In my view, it’s not a question of – a donation. The question is, why?
When we talk about “The Government ” or “The Crown” or “Local Bodies” or “Local Government” we are actually talking about you and me and all of us – we, the People.
I listened to Simon Bridges explaining to John Campbell the other morning why National might rescind Labour’s minimum wage legislation…
So.. the median house price for New Zealand, excluding Auckland, in January, is up 11.7 percent compared to January 2019.
No not all cops are “bad”, but unfortunately too big a proportion of them are power trippers and let the uniform, car, taser, pepper spray, gun go to their heads. They let down all the good cops.
I see Simon Bridges is dangling the “less tax as a vote for me” carrot this election and that Grant Robertson has immediately wanted to know which services Bridges would scrap in order to run a government on less income.
Neoliberal economics , introduced by Labour in 1984 (and still practiced by them ) put on steroids by National and supported today by Greens and NZ First (by virtue of choosing to be in cabinet ) has done enormous harm to the lives of ordinary families in our country and as we head towards the election I’ll be reminding you of the specifics of the damage it has done to the lives of most New Zealanders since its inception and what we must do to change the economic and moral direction of the next government by using your vote to get the best tactical outcome.
It does cause me some concern however that some people want to shout “Xenophobia” and “dog whistling” whenever I mention China in the context of land sales.