In Washington the finance lobby is more powerful than big Oil, big Pharma and Hollywood. In the Federal Reserve senior positions are occupied by alumini from Goldman Sachs and other major investment banks. And, Hilary Clinton, like her husband, is not going to upset these people.
THE GREENS’ DRAMATIC FALL in the latest Colmar-Brunton should be a matter of considerable concern to the whole party. If it continues, then we may see the Greens fall victim to the same political phenomenon that led to the demise of the Values Party.
What needs to be investigated is what was said between the PMs Office and the Cafe owners on the 22nd and who first suggested Rachel as a PR adviser.
Sanders has been expanding his national vote, from around 30% (averaging the main polls) at the beginning of the year to 42% now. As he goes along he is sweeping thousands of young people into his campaign team.
It’s short sighted to market our brand to overseas tourists on our natural beauty and heritage when biodiversity is declining, many of our animal ‘attractions’ are threatened with extinction, and rivers and bays are too polluted for swimming.
Over the weekend, the new Colmar-Brunton poll came out. It codified one truth, and revealed others:
Labour, NZ First and the Greens have every opportunity to form a Government, but with NZ First gaining at Green expense, the progressive clout of a new Government will be economic, it won’t be cultural or environmental.
The capstone achievement of the Savage-led ‘social security’ reform was a genuinely ‘universal’ superannuation that caught the imagination of middle New Zealand; the world’s first explicit demogrant, a ‘universal basic income’ for all older New Zealanders.
That pink dildo thrown at Steven Joyce deserves to be NZer of the Year over & above Richie McCaw. It has more personality than him too.
I read Steven Joyce’s “open letter to the TPPA protesters” with a great sense of incredulity.