Ripples in History
Question: What is the difference between Free Trade and Fair Trade?
Answer, later.
neo-liberalism
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The “free” market can’t even build a bloody hotel?!
Our crisis in construction reaches tipping point! According to recent reports in the media, New Zealand is no longer able to build and complete major projects…
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Roy Morgan poll confirms blogger’s prediction – National is in freefall
It’s taken faster than I thought possible, but the first post-election poll – from Roy Morgan – has the Labour-led coalition rising whilst National’s support is falling;
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Observations on the 2017 Election campaign thus far… (toru)
The leaking of Winston Peter’s superannuation over-payment is well known. Also known is that Ministers Paula Bennett and Anne Tolley were briefed by Ministry of Social Development and State Services Commission, respectively, on Peters’ private details regarding the over-payment before it was leaked to the media and made public knowledge.
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The Mendacities of Mr English: the covert agenda of high immigration
Bill English was recently caught on-the-spot when challenged why National was permitting high immigration at a time when unemployment was still high, and rising.
Make no mistake, National has opened the floodgates of immigration because it is an easy way to artificially stimulate the economy. This was pointed out in May 2011, by then-Immigration Minister, Jonathan Coleman, who trumpeted the contribution made by immigration to economic growth;
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An earthquake separates John Key and ‘The Iron Lady’, Margaret Thatcher
Only people, working collectively for the greater good, can achieve mutual support – quite often for no personal benefit or gain.
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When Life is a Lottery
Make no mistake, housing has become a crisis in New Zealand as this May poll for a TV3/Reid Research Poll highlighted;
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MUST READ: The seductiveness of Trumpism
There was a vacuum left by the political establishment, and Donald Trump shrewdly colonised that space. Trump had created the new “reality” that Buffett warned us about.
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Expose: Winston Peters; the 1997 speeches; and neo-liberal tendencies
in a speech made in 1997, when Peters was Treasurer in the National-NZ First Coalition Government, he told the NBR Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Government to Business Forum that he would be pursuing conservative fiscal management; supporting an “open, internationally competitive economy”; lower taxes; and a de-regulated market.
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Andrew Little’s “dangerous” speech – a cunning plan for the Middle and the Left
Speaking to a fully packed downtown conference centre in Wellington, on a cold, gloomy rainy afternoon, Labour-leader, Andrew Little launched into a fiery attack on the current National Government focusing on it’s inarguably lack-lustre track record for the past eight years.