Ummm, shouldn’t Gerry Brownlee be doing what Gerry Brownlee does best?
So Gerry Brownlee is now an apologist for Australian torture camps that the Australian’s have walked away from on Manus Island?
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Denis Tegg – No New Mines on Conservation Land – says New Government
After nearly 40 years of protesting, lobbying, direct action, media, and general political and social pressure the new government has announced that there will be no new mines on conservation land throughout New Zealand! Yeah !
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Capitalism, tax and New Zealand
It was sad reading Stephen Hickson’s defence of capitalism in the Press (25 October 2017). Sad because capitalism has delivered so much outright misery to so much of humanity over the last 300 years that it’s hard to believe anyone could be so blinkered.
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How National destroy the new Government through Select Committees over the next 3 years
National will call on massive public engagement from their voters and their financial backers to slow down the Select Committee process and scream about democracy being under attack if they aren’t allowed to have every Farmer and rich property owner in front of the Select Committee to complain about any new law.
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Jacinda dodges a TPPA bullet – elites search for next economic trigger to sabotage new Government
What the Right wanted more than anything was Jacinda to march off to APEC trumpeting resistance so that when it fell over, they could blame her for the impending economic slump. What these forces desperately want is to spook the market so interest rates go up which would give every NZer with a mortgage an extra couple of hundred dollars a week in mortgage repayments for Christmas.
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Labour largely endorses National’s TPPA, but it’s not all over. What now?
The bad news is that the Labour government has endorsed the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, with the suspension of a limited range of items, at the ministerial and leaders’ meetings in Da Nang, Viet Nam.
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Democratic Engineers, Or Neoliberal Mechanics?
If our new Cabinet Ministers are working independently of their “officials”, then that is not, automatically, a bad thing. On the contrary, in a democracy: the spectacle of officials working for politicians, who are, in their turn, working for the people; offers welcome proof that the system is working exactly as it should!
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National crying wolf over claims NZ First legal action amounts to bad faith
The outrageous manner in which public servants alerted their political masters to a situation this large and for those Senior Ministers who have a history of leaking personal details like this to the media to get away with an obvious abuse of power demands justice.
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Why New Zealand Is REALLY Under Pressure Over Russian Trade From Atlanticists With An Agenda
Well this is interesting, isn’t it. No sooner does New Zealand start talking openly about pursuing a trade policy that is more independent of the Atlanticist E.U.-American block, than the threats start being issued unto us by their diplomats and local mouthpieces; with pliant domestic (yet invariably foreign-owned) media haplessly buying into the hysteria.
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Answering right-wing dogmas against increasing the minimum wage
Bosses and their paid servants in the so-called economics “profession” are already screaming about the proposed minimum wage hike in New Zealand to $20 an hour by April 2021. Most of their objections amount to the repetition of dogma which they want us to believe is some sort of science. Usually, very few facts are ever advanced to support their views.