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We all know, and have known for years, that the ‘Ruthanasia’ slashing of benefits by one-third in the 1991 budget was the most pernicious and harmful policy of the whole generation of neo-liberal policies.
The hate-filled and indefensible attacks, waged by the Zionist lobby and its hangers-on to silence critics, relies utterly on falsehoods and the suppression of truth.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED to Jacinda Ardern?
Earlier this week, we had ourselves some chilling news. A new case of Covid-19 community transmission – without a clear link to a quarantine or isolation facility. Worse, it turned out that the worker in question had gone to work whilst infectious.
In just a few days thousands of Kiwis have signed a petition to give migrants stuck in New Zealand who had made New Zealand their home a pathway to residency.
Something which occurred to me in light of the American Presidential electoral results … is that Trump is having a Pinochet moment.
THE THIRD AMERICAN REVOLUTION has been postponed, but it has not been cancelled.
The US election didn’t deliver the resounding rejection of Trumpism we might have hoped for.
Looking back, I think that we now have to consider this period the phony war. While it seemed at the time that cases were raging, and there were many deaths, the numbers have been dwarfed already by the second wave.
So here’s what’s going to happen. Assuming there’s not some sudden eleventh hour reversal with the count … the Trumps and the Trump wing of the Republican Party are going to find themselves escalatingly high-and-dry with regard to the rest of their own party.