GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Spy vs Spy
Make no mistake. The State Capitalism of China is in a trade war with the capitalists of other states (especially in the USA) They are locked in a battle for the resources of the planet and the quest to rule it
New Zealand Politics
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Māori Climate Commissioner: National Party MP promotes woeful fake news on methane
“Facebook is a breeding ground for climate denial and to have a a Politician give such naked ignorance oxygen by reposting fake news is dangerous. If we are serious about combating climate change, pretending it isn’t real and caused by human pollution is counter productive in the extreme”.
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Dave Macpherson: DHB Halts CEO appointment process in midst of chaos caused by leadership decision to reopen Nicky Stevens coronial hearing
Waikato DHB’s announcement this morning that it is halting its appointment process for a permanent CEO “due to current challenges facing the Board” is further evidence that the bad publicity arising from their attempt to reopen the Nicky Stevens Coronial process is causing a chaotic leadership situation in the organisation.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Why are Transactivists Hostile to Radical Feminists?
As a natural born male, heterosexual Marxist who supports SpeakUp4WomenNZ I am no doubt called a TERF (Trans Exclusive Radical Feminist) lover. TERF is the slur used by transactivists who promote trans-ideology to justify the right of transgender people to be legally recognised as biological men or women (Sex Self-ID), and who characterise those who are critical of transgender people’s right to change their birth sex as transphobic.
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Just Like “Rogernomics”, A Capital Gains Tax Would Traumatize The New Zealand Economy
LATER THIS WEEK, the recommendations of the Tax Working Group will become public. It is highly likely that a Capital Gains Tax (CGT) of some description will be near the top of the Working Group’s “To Do” list. How should Labour handle this extremely hot potato? The tax which all the experts tell us we have to have has much to recommend it theoretically, but, in the bluntest of practical political terms, it could very easily destroy this government.
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One Network News Poll shock for National
It’s official, TV3s Poll was not a rogue poll, there really has been a large fundamental shift within the electorate towards Jacinda & Labour.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – The Second Charles Dickens Era
If the C19th author Charles Dickens were alive today he’d have much to write about, because the old wealthy and the new wealthy have managed to recapture our economy and take us back to those dark times before the social welfare system was created.
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GUEST BLOG: Dennis Maga – Migrant workers
At the panel on sustainable work, at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand, Dennis Maga talked about the issues for migrant workers.
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Dave Macpherson: Request by Nicky Stevens whanau to address public section of Waikato DHB Board meeting on 27 February
By agreement with the previous Board Chair and CEO, my whanau was given permission to make a brief presentation to the Board of Waikato DHB shortly after our son Nicky’s death in 2015. The presentation was principally in support of a request to the DHB to fund legal representation for our whanau in respect of the Coronial Inquest into Nicky’s death.