As property investors/speculators; assorted financiers; and their political-wing, the National Party, ramp up their opposition to a capital gains tax to a stridency approaching hysteria, current party leader, Simon Bridges, has used the mainstream media to push his highly propagandised (and highly emotive and misleading) messages;
Boutique travel parks in our national parks, electric car subsidies, litter campaigns, tech fixes we are no where close to fixing, gene editing pest controls and proclaiming our natural reserves are ‘birth rights’ are all very well and good, but they don’t set out a radical enough plan to combat climate change”.
As the paywall gets closer and closer at the NZ Herald, we all hope there are things that go behind the pay wall and things that stay outside it.
Baby Boomers were lucky enough to live under Governments who rebuilt their societies post World War Two with the lesson of what happened if citizens weren’t protected from the sharp boom and busts of capitalism foremost in their minds. Those Governments inoculated their citizens from Fascism and Communism with a Democratic Welfare State and investment into their hopes and aspirations.
New Zealand is a tiny country and it is incredibly easy to manipulate the narrative and seed the debate the way vested interests want it seeded. We are seeing some incredible propaganda campaigns being run in NZ right now and it’s worth reminding people about them as we pick our way through the minefield of fake news.
The rise of high cost debt in Aotearoa is purely a response of the successive political movement to keep the bottom third of families living below the poverty line. No-one actually worried about the families at the time that Ruth Richardson’s mother of all budgets came in. The only goal of decreasing benefits then was to provide a gap between benefits and wages, so that wages could be pulled down.
E tū members at Fuji Xerox offices around the country will take strike action today (Monday, 25 February) in support…
Alarming new research from FinCap reveals the high occurrence of unsafe credit amongst those on low incomes in Aotearoa, and…
Labelling people socialists and communists is rife while the government starts to make the big changes that selfish, privileged nation wreckers are damned they will see happen, as long as they can enjoy the inequity of their ill gotten gains at the expense of all our great grandchildren and a more egalitarian future.
“The government already knows the solution to the problem, they talked about it in opposition, it’s simple: scrap the PTOM…