In the panel on a knowledge at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand, Maori commentator Carrie Stoddart-Smith, from Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Whātua, talked about the international trade regime from the perspective of maraturanga Maori.
For some time now, I have been writing upon the strong viability of Indian-Iranian geopolitical co-operation; particularly in light of shared security concerns, and a most unfavourable ‘short schrift’ from the Americans meted out towards both on matters economic.
Successive Governments have encouraged the pretence of ‘local control’, while ensuring the control strings are firmly kept in the hands of both Wellington and their private sector health partners, such as the drug and medical equipment supply companies and, in many cases, the insurance companies.
Jacinda has said that this is the year when the fixes will begin. We should see this as a sort of home renovation job. Part by part, room by room, the house, which has been left neglected to weather the storms of neo-liberalism, must now be fixed up, so that the rotten bits are replaced, and the worst bits are brought up to the standard of the best.
The carrying of the resolution thus represented a rare assertion of the interests of private sector workers within the CTU – as well as an important breaking-of-ranks within the usually dominant “Big Four” public sector unions. Together, Wagstaff’s opponents have delivered a stunning blow to his presidential mana, greatly reducing his chances of being re-elected to a second term as leader of the CTU.
It’s the top 20% most wealthy who are thrashing around pretending they are the middle classes – who are now stuck out in the middle of the desert.
Remember how it was preached from newspapers that wealth would trickle down from the wealthy to the poor and for three decades everything slid as the rich got richer and the poor got the picture?
Last week Cardinal George Pell of Australia was sent to prison for child abuse .The American people, having elected a compulsive liar to be their President, are daily watching a real life West Wing show in which corruption piles upon corruption in a White House now covered with the dark slime of greed.
Sensing their slip to under 5%, the Greens seem to have decided that gerrymandering MMP for their benefit in time for the 2020 Election is preferable to dumping the Middle Class Woke Identity Politics that is making them so alienating and unelectable.
Why and how is this spike in armed offending occurring? That answer is the solution, not a gun toting nervous police force.