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In the last few days we have seen our government turn from the Neoliberal economics of selfishness to the Keynesian economic solution of Government priming the economy with money in in order to keep the market movng and helping us over this difficult time.
Bill Birch has published his memoirs! A book launch is imminent. Bill BIrch, aka Champion of “Think Big”. Think Big,…
Hearts don’t beat in isolation.
This weekend I was filming with volunteer camerman Conan Fitzpatrick in Titirangi where Watercare want to build a huge treatment plant in the native bush. (The piece will eventually go up on NZPTV as our time and limited resources allow. )
The coronavirus pandemic coming on top of a global economic slowdown fused with climate breakdown will be more than enough to tip the world into depression. And when it happens it will be the last depression. China which produced most of the goods to pull the rest of the world out of the GFC cannot do the same today. Central banks are already on close to zero negative interest rates. Bosses are in a panic and its about their survival, or ours, the working people.
March 15 2019: fifty people are shot dead at two mosques in Christchurch. First reports were one gunman was active at one mosque, two gunmen at another.
Let’s be sensible and caring . But let’s not panic.
The response to the coronavirus pandemic cannot be read in isolation of capitalism in terminal decline.
Yeah right m8. ON THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE. Russia rescues the proletariat from excessive fuel prices during a period most people…
180 years ago this year, Māori across Aotearoa signed the Treaty of Waitangi. The nation building moment that saw 2000 non-Māori come together to negotiate with over 100,000 Māori. Māori held the upper hand at the signing of the treaty and our sovereignty was never ceded away.