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We are deeply concerned at government proposals to spend the bulk of our post-Covid 19 investment on large infrastructure projects to match corporate priorities.
So for the past 48 hours, I’ve witnessed a lot of excited chatter about the alleged incapacitation of Kim Jong Un.
It has been interesting to see the increasing fractiousness in the USA and UK over the question of when to re-open the economy.
This year ANZAC Day parades were cancelled for the first time ever. Instead we were invited to stand at dawn and remember the war dead. For this one day of the year we were called to think of the cost of war. We’re called to be mindful of suffering, conflict, the forging of a nation, and Trans-Tasman solidarity.
April 25: Day 31 of living in lock-down…
April 23: Day 29 of living in lock-down…
Here then, in the spirit of Devs, is one of the infinite number of histories of the Covid-19 virus and the global pandemic which it spawned.
We need a priority list of steps that the government can and should take immediately to help protect working people from the immediate devastation associated with what seems will be an inevitable deep recession. (I have stolen a few of these ideas from Greenpeace)
So earlier this week, two things happened. Winston got his lawsuit result back … and the National Party started demanding that he pay for it.
DEPOSING SIMON BRIDGES as Leader of the Opposition would cause the National Party more problems than it would solve.