Key meets in secret with Chinese donors to raise money for flag change??? If you’re not angry yet you’re not paying attention!
I don’t think this latest evidence of abuse of political power by Key will be so easily shrugged off.
politics
-
-
The Palestine Marathon – Asserting the Right to Move Around
The fourth Palestine Marathon took place in Bethlehem last Friday and I was lucky enough to be among the 4,300 participants running a 10km, a full marathon or a half-marathon in my case. The event is organised by the Palestine Olympic Committee and a group called Right to Movement,
-
KiwiBank another privatisation by stealth – Robbing Fred to bribe Dagg to pay John
Another privatisation of a State Asset to prop up charter schools, irrigation for failed dairy intensification and the barest infrastructure investment possible.
-
Why we are obliged to see beggars on our streets
Nothing sums NZ up better than beggars outside luxury stores on Queen Street
-
Sanders again exceeds expectations, this time in Wisconsin
Hillary Clinton’s backers keep announcing that she has the Democratic presidential nomination in the bag. But Bernie Sanders keeps shrinking her lead.
-
The Past Future of Work: 1928 and All That
I didn’t once hear the words ‘Keynes’ or ‘Keynesian’ at the Future of Work conference. The issues we face today were all apparent and widely discussed in the late 1920s. The debate in 1928 was equally off the mark. Then, as now, we responded to a crisis of inequality and environment by, as individuals, trying to be more ‘competitive’ and arguing about immigration.
-
Shrugging-Off The Panama Papers
Key’s “ … what? …” reaction to the colossal data leak which has already claimed the scalp of one prime minister and put the careers of many other world leaders at risk is rather perplexing. Is he not able to predict the impact the Panama Papers are bound to have on the privileged privacy of the global elites
-
A Modest Proposal
Governments and capitalists are always banging on about how the private sector is more efficient than the public sector., so I’ve got a modest proposal for them.
-
Is Westpac an enemy of activists and journalists in NZ?
while I have Westpac’s attention, did you hand over to the Police any other activist, journalist or blogger’s details the way you did with Nicky Hager?
-
Key’s Colonial Daze
Somehow, NZ’s PM has convinced himself that, constitutionally, his country remains a colonial appendage of the United Kingdom. That the granting of Self-Governing Dominion status in 1907 never happened. That the 1931 Statute of Westminster, which the First Labour Government adopted in 1947, thereby signalling this country’s emergence into full and independent nationhood, is but a figment of our historians’ imaginations.