GUEST BLOG: Geoff Simmons – Three reasons why I am the only choice in Mt Albert
A vote for The Opportunities Party is a vote for business with heart, but certainly not business as usual.
New Zealand Politics
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Last day of Mt Albert by-election – WHAT PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT STAND FOR:
What people before profit stands for…
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The fascinating ability for NZ Corporate media to ignore why Peter Thiel was granted residency
Our mainstream corporate media refuse to remind you of the possible billions in damages the Kim Dotcom case has opened us up to, they refuse to acknowledge the role of Corporate Hollywood in the extradition case against Kim Dotcom and they refuse to touch the real reason why Peter Thiel was granted residency in NZ.
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Labour’s Not Burning Crosses – It’s Gathering Votes
If Jackson’s recruitment encourages other Maori to speak out in similarly blunt terms about the true agenda of the Maori Party and the Iwi Leadership Group, then the electoral dividend for Labour will be substantial.
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Dear NZ – The sooner we realise National have no interest in solving the Housing Crisis, the sooner we can organise to vote them out
…Folks, I appreciate that it’s difficult to admit that you’ve been duped, but you have been. National have zero, let me say that again, ZERO, interest in fixing the Housing Crisis.
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It’s supposed to be a broad church, not a cross burning one – Labour’s tin ear towards the Maori Party and MANA
From Labour’s perspective, the Māori Party’s desire to sit at the table with National means they are a threat and it’s a tactical position that has seen the Māori Party being accused by many Māori for being sell outs, but this election could end up creating a very different kind of Government.
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Corporate Welfare – Whose rules rule?
The new data on inequality from Oxfam shows an even more obscene disparity than previous reports – 8 billionaires owning more than half the world’s population and two billionaires in New Zealand owning more than the poorest 30% of New Zealanders. This is not inevitable. It results from rules that favour the rich and penalise the poor.
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Why you should care about the Kafkaesque abomination that is the legal case against Kim Dotcom
And the madness that is this Kafkaesque case against Kim Dotcom continues, this time the Court rules that the Police had no cause to have arrested Kim on the charges of Copyright infringement, but have given our legal sovereignty over to the United States by instead finding trumped up fraud charges as the excuse to trigger extradition.
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The horror of our Suicide Nation laid bare
This is why it sickens me when the National Party promise tax cuts to the already rich and wealthy property speculating middle classes. We have a 30% jump in suicide attempts on top of the horrific levels of suicide and what is the Government promising to do?
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Prosecuting a beneficiary for claiming he was homeless when he wasn’t is a new level of spite in NZ
Christ almighty we are becoming a terribly mean country.