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The TDB Daily 19th March 2024 – Best NZ Left, Independent and Progressive Politics opinion daily reading list

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Best NZ Left, Independent and Progressive Political opinion daily reading list

Because so much of the mainstream media is polluted by right wing free market ideologues pushing corporate interests:

TDB daily collates the best NZ Left Wing, Independent and Progressive Political Opinion and includes the best international voices.

Unlike Victoria University’s The Democracy Project, this will never be behind a Paywall.

We promise we will never link to The Spinoff.

DOMESTIC:

The Knightly Views – Kensington Palace’s family snap did the world a great service

Gordon Campbell on Dune 2, and images of Islam

Against the Current – what is happening in Gaza is March 15 many times over

No Right Turn – Don’t run your business like a criminal enterprise

Newsroom – Frictions not far from surface in NZ-China talks

Waatea News – Disable Māori missing out

RNZ – Media minister Melissa Lee says interviews would have been ‘boring’

Otaihanga Second Opinion – Funding new cancer drugs – good but….

Bryan Bruce – Winston Peters’ comparison of the idea of cogovernance to Nazi Germany

Chris Lynch Christchurch Newsroom – Labour: Disabled community entitled to spend money their own way

The Daily Blog – And then Chris Bishop came for the State Tenants

The Daily Blog – Tim Selwyn – Winston and the use of the N-word

The Daily Blog – WINZ threatening dying beneficiaries is sick

The Daily Blog – Luxon gets police wage wrong and responds by calling Stuff tabloid

The Daily Blog – ACT Party Farmer Thug goes rogue and Trans National Mining interest believes in magic

The Daily Blog – GUEST BLOG: Jamie Dally – Migrant Exploitation

 

INTERNATIONAL:

Information Clearing House – Depression, thy name is Biden/Trump

Crikey – Australia’s new environment laws are being drafted behind closed doors

Caitlin Johnstone – You Can’t Trust Any Part Of This Dystopia If You Want Health And Sanity

Jacobin – Yes, Trump Really Is Dangerously Dehumanizing Migrants

The Washington Post – Before Bernie Sanders, Richard Nixon championed the 4-day workweek

Haaretz – Israel-Hamas War Day 165 | White House: Netanyahu to Send Team to Talk Rafah Invasion; Top Hamas Militant Chief Killed in Israeli Strike Last Week

The Guardian – In the busy waters between China and Taiwan, the de facto border is being tested

 

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SailGP Marine Mammal Management Plan A Farce That Puts ‘dollars Before Dolphins’: Dolphin Defenders – Maui and Hector’s Dolphin Defenders

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The SailGP Marine Mammal Management Plan (MMMP) released late last week is a farce, say advocates.

“Hector’s dolphins are in crisis” says Māui and Hector’s Dolphin Defenders Chair, Christine Rose.

47 Hector’s have been reported dead since November 2021, and 17 since November last year. Most of the reported deaths have been in Canterbury. “Yet race organisers are putting dollars before dolphins with this high speed boat race in the heart of Hector’s home, which is in fact, a marine mammal sanctuary”, says Rose.

The new plan, released late last week, is a farce”, says Rose. The 2024 SailGP Marine Mammal Management Plan builds on last year’s plan. However Rose says “That was not robust, not complied with and was not enforced, so it’s hard to give this version much credit.”

“Even the Plan’s author admits it doesn’t eliminate the risks of this race to the dolphins, and he accepts no responsibility for impacts on dolphins that occur.”

The MMMP says the race organisers will stop the boats if dolphins are seen in the race area or buffer zone. But Rose says it’s almost impossible to keep track of the dolphins in real time. The Plan relies fully on land and boat based observers yet the dolphins are very small and hard to spot.

Rose says “The process to prevent dolphins being hit during race times is a farce. The Observer reports a sighting to the Hector’s Dolphin Observer manager, who reports it to the MMMP facilitator who reports it to the Event Control room manager who reports it to race management. This long chain of command works against the rapid response needed to avoid any collision risks.

The consequences of a boat strike for Hector’s would be fatal – especially for calves, who spend more time on the water surface and are slower to dive.

Boat strike is not just a problem during active races but also during training, with race support boats and the spectator fleet creating much more traffic, wake and hazards right where the dolphins and calves live.

“The Lyttelton Marine Mammal Sanctuary, Hector’s habitat, is no place for a high speed boat race” says Rose.

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Uber Drivers To Rally As Appeal On Contractor Misclassification Begins – FIRST Union

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WHAT:

Uber drivers are holding a rally outside the Court of Appeal in Wellington tomorrow, as the company begins its appeal against 2022’s Employment Court verdict (in a case taken jointly by FIRST Union and E tū) that four drivers were permanent employees, not contractors.

Background:

“Uber drivers win employment rights in historic court case”

“Hundreds of drivers lodging backpay claims with Uber”

“NZ Uber drivers initiate bargaining for first ever collective agreement”

WHEN:

Tuesday 19th March, 09:00

WHERE:

Outside the Court of Appeal, corner Aitken and Molesworth Streets, Wellington

WHY:

“Drivers are fighting for the same rights the rest of us take for granted – minimum wage, sick leave, holiday pay and collective bargaining,” said Anita Rosentreter, FIRST Union strategic project coordinator.

“The Court’s finding that Uber drivers were being wrongfully denied employment rights and protections had huge implications, not just in the so-called ‘gig economy’, but for tens of thousands of workers facing exploitation as misclassified contractors and being denied basic rights by employers.”

“Uber has made a global practice of exploiting lax local labour laws and enforcement that were unprepared for their cavalier arrival into the market, and they are keen to maintain the practice of misclassification that underlies their business model – hence this appeal.”

“Uber drivers earn less than minimum wage, and despite the promises of flexibility and freedom, many tell us that they have no control over their working hours and have to spend significant unpaid time and personal money on the basics required to do the job, like the car, fuel, maintenance, insurance and so on.”

“The Government will also be watching the appeal with interest – they are so keen to shut down a person’s right to test their employment status in the Employment Court that they say they intend to change the law to stop this legal right in future.”

“We have to stand up for our country’s legal sovereignty, our shared history of industrial struggles, and our right to challenge predatory multinationals like Uber who have no regard for workers’ wellbeing or our country’s.”

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Kiingi Tuheitia Holds Audience With Green Party – Te Tari o te Kiingitanga

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Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII has hosted members of the Green Party Caucus at Tuurangawaewae Marae in Ngaaruawahia.

The audience follows the King’s Hui-aa-Motu on 20 January, where more than 10,000 people gathered to discuss national unity and the ongoing struggle for Maaori self-determination.

Kiingitanga spokesman Ngira Simmonds says the audience with the Green Party MPs was focused on the same issues.

“Kiingi Tuheitia is keen to understand how all political representatives will uplift te Iwi Maaori and enable mana Motuhake. That was the essence of the discussions today.”

Mr Simmonds says it’s time for political parties to find new ways of working together in Parliament, instead of the traditional adversarial approach.

“While it’s the job of Opposition Parties to hold the Government to account, they can also work collaboratively to get better outcomes for the country and for our people.

“It’s been done before and we think it can be done again on a variety of issues, provided the will is there.”

Kiingi Tuheitia will continue to hold audiences with all political representatives to discuss their policies and approaches for advancing the wellbeing of te Iwi Maaori and enabling mana Motuhake.

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Coalition Of Cruelty Punishing People For Being Poor – Green Party

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Kicking the most vulnerable people out of state housing and pushing them towards homelessness will result in a proliferation of poverty and trauma across our most vulnerable communities.

“In true National Party fashion, the Government is seeking to define a category of undeserving poor people. Ignorant to the consequences of poverty, people living in state housing are now in the Government’s firing line,” says Green Party housing spokesperson Tamatha Paul.

“Today’s announcement that the Government will evict more state housing tenants, despite there being nowhere else for them to go, marks the latest episode in the coalition’s series of assaults against people and communities who need support the most.

“It is particularly cruel for the Government to look to punish state housing tenants for struggling to pay rent at a time when it is actively reducing benefits and the income of struggling households.

“Poverty is a political choice and during the campaign we showed that it is possible to clear the public housing waitlist by building 35,000 new healthy, affordable, public houses over the next five years.

“Having access to housing is fundamental for people to reach their full potential, to be able to raise a family and have a stable income. We need to build more houses and lift all incomes to liveable levels.

“We’ve made great progress over the last six years in building up our state housing stock and treating tenants with dignity. This move completely undermines that.

“Rents are through the roof and it is unreasonable to expect those living below the poverty line to miraculously endure the cost pressures and discrimination within the private rental market.

“Everybody deserves a home, regardless of who they are or where they come from. Housing is a basic human right and to deny someone that right because the Government deems some tenants as unworthy will exacerbate homelessness and social deprivation.

“The Government must commit to building more homes, not just lining the pockets of landlords.

“This politics of punishment from the coalition must come to an end before it does irreparable damage to communities who have historically been let down, time and time again, by successive Governments,” says Tamatha Paul.

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Waititi Writes To Parties Asking Them To Support Removal Of GST From Food – Māori Party

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Te Pāti Māori co-leader and MP for Waiariki, Rawiri Waititi has penned a letter asking MPs to support his members bill to remove GST from all food. The bill is expected to go through its first reading in parliament this Wednesday.

“I’m calling on all political parties to support my bill to remove GST from kai,” said bill sponsor and Te Pāti Māori co-leader, Rawiri Waititi.

“It shouldn’t matter where you sit on the political spectrum. Removing GST from kai should be a no brainer for any party who is serious about supporting whānau during a cost of living crisis.

“Food is a right and a necessity that shouldn’t be taxed. We know that GST hits lower income whānau the hardest.

“We should not be relying on people who are struggling to feed their tamariki to prop up our tax system.

“On some kaupapa, parties must put the rubbish politicking aside and come to a mutual agreement for the wellbeing of our mokopuna.

“I would think the removal of GST from food is one of those kaupapa. It will give some real relief to the pockets of whānau and should be one of those instances where all political parties see eye-to-eye.

“The coalition said they’d do something to address the cost of living. This bill is an opportunity for them to have a positive impact after a terrible start to their governing term.

“Removing GST from kai is only one of the changes needed to rebalance our tax system and ease the burden on whānau. It is a change that can be made over night that will have an immediate impact,” Waititi said.

The letter was sent to all party leaders today requesting them and their parties to support the bill.

 

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Political Caption Competition

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Kick a ball like this into my garden from a state house and I will evict you bottom feeder

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The Daily Blog Open Mic – 19th March 2024

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Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.

The Editor doesn’t moderate this blog,  3 volunteers do, they are very lenient to provide you a free speech space but if it’s just deranged abuse or putting words in bloggers mouths to have a pointless argument, we don’t bother publishing.

All in all, TDB gives punters a very, very, very wide space to comment in but we won’t bother with out right lies or gleeful malice. We leave that to the Herald comment section.

EDITORS NOTE: – By the way, here’s a list of shit that will get your comment dumped. Sexist abuse, homophobic abuse, racist abuse, anti-muslim abuse, transphobic abuse, Chemtrails, 9/11 truthers, Qanon lunacy, climate deniers, anti-fluoride fanatics, anti-vaxxer lunatics, 5G conspiracy theories, the virus is a bioweapon, some weird bullshit about the UN taking over the world  and ANYONE that links to fucking infowar.

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And then Chris Bishop came for the State Tenants

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A game for all the grateful Renters

Kāinga Ora tenants face eviction for ‘persistent antisocial behaviour’ – Housing Minister Chris Bishop

The Government is making it easier for Kāinga Ora tenants to be evicted if they exhibit “persistent antisocial behaviour” and wants to crack down on the level of debt owed by tenants.

The move comes as figures show state house tenants’ debt has increased from $1 million to $21m between 2017 and 2023 and more than 450 Kāinga Ora tenants each owed more than $10,000 in rent at the end of last year.

This is a Party that previously misused Housing NZs own data to claim state tenant were making meth and kicked entire families out onto the street.

It was so appalling that the Science God had to step in and kick the filthy National Party and Paula Bennett in the face over the issue…

Meth house contamination debunked by PM’s science advisor

The country’s top scientists say New Zealand has been gripped by hysteria and are recommending people do not test their homes for meth – unless the Police specifically indicate it was a meth lab.

A new report by the Prime Minister’s chief science adviser Sir Peter Gluckman found there’s never been a documented case of someone getting sick from third-hand exposure to meth.

Sir Peter said there has been an inexplicable leap in logic in New Zealand in which clean-up standards for meth labs jumped to become a measure for passive exposure.

“There’s absolutely no evidence in the medical literature anywhere in the world, of anybody being harmed by passive exposure to methamphetamine at any level,” Sir Peter said.

“We can’t find one case in the medical literature, we can’t find one case by talking to experts where there is evidence of harm … it makes no sense.”

 …all National’s ridiculous meth testing scam did was needlessly cost us $100 million and create homelessness during a homelessness crisis!

National are going to do the same thing with this new crack down on State Tenants.

There are 2 issues here:

1 – What do you do with difficult tenants with extreme social problems 

2 – Lending the poor money to pay rent and then stopping that while demanding repayment of the debt.

The problem with the first issue is that redneck Kiwis don’t give a fuck.

With so much pain in peoples existence they have no patience or energy for those with severe mental issues or anti-social behaviour and Pakeha get sexually aroused hating unruly Kāinga Ora tenants. All this policy will do is generate more homelessness as National kick Kāinga Ora tenants out onto then street with no help whatsoever.

On top of this the Government will kick Tenants out who are borrowing money to stay in the State House!

These are the poorest people, borrowing money from the State to pay their rent and these numbers have spiked because of the economic turn down and cost of living crisis, so National will kick these people out onto the street ALONGSIDE THEIR DEBT!

So this policy will not only create more damaged homeless people with severe behavioural issues AND they will be made homeless alongside being inn crippling debt they can’;t pay back?

This isn’t a social fucking housing policy, it’s a recipe for social carnage in the communities of the homeless!

Remember, this Government can afford $2.9billion in tax breaks for the richest landlords while kicking state tenants onto the street for not being able to afford their rents while the PM was taking a $52000 housing allowance! he didn’t need!

Nothing sums up where we are as a people and a country right now quite like the manner in which Christ Bishop rewarded his staff for these 100 days of social carnage.

After slashing budgets and taking from the poor to give to the rich, Chris Bishop rewarded his staff with Crayfish…

…Crayfish for them.

Austerity for the rest of us.

$2.9billion for landlord tax breaks.

Debt and homelessness for State Tenants.

This Government loves bashing the people their right wing voters despise.

This isn’t social policy, it’s a revenge fantasy.

 

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Winston and the use of the N-word

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Nazi is such an epically evil brand that almost 80 years after that German party’s demise it just has to be uttered once and it is – according to the New Zealand media – the most important thing to come out of an hour-long speech. Allude to Nazism, if ever so briefly, and it eclipses everything else.

If Godwin’s Law is that the longer a dialogue continues it will eventually get round to comparisons with the Nazis then Godwin’s Law by proxy is that the first thing to be reported on by the news media, no matter how long the dialogue, will be the bit about comparisons with the Nazis. It has been this way for 80 years. Winston Churchill was comparing the British Labour Party to Nazis while the blood in the Führerbunker was still wet. His namesake Winston Peters was comparing the Maori Party to Nazis in his State of the Nation speech at the weekend. And then as now the media have dutifully headlined the news-bait spook word. Then as now everyone in polite society is presumed to be aghast at the invocation of the boogey man. As Olivier’s unrepentant, sneering Nazi character says to Hoffman in ‘Marathon Man’ in the end scene: “You’re all so predictable!” (followed by a hoiking great spit in the direction of his face).

Winston Peters has such good timing I checked out of curiosity – his State of The Nation speech was one hour… exactly. On the button. From the moment he got to the lectern and the awful Chumbawumba music stopped to the moment he delivered his punch line slogan and the awful Chumbawumba music began again was precisely one hour and Winston filled it all with his Trumpian mix of script and digression like it was thirty years ago. A swaggering, hostile sortie of missives and invective, a denunciation of social misfits, delivered without missing a beatnik. Hard to believe the guy’s nearing eighty. How many other leaders could deliver down to the second like that? None have this capacity, but Winston does, and he does it with ease.

As far as State of The Nation speeches go, Winston is incapable of giving anything other than an opposition-style speech. He is firmly establishment and conservative but realises the tension necessary for political traction comes from challenging – thus he casts himself as a populist reactionary. This is his stock and trade – no matter whether he is in or out of government or in or out of parliament – a pin-striped suit, a coiffed hair-do, homilies from the 1950s and a barrage of insults against the media. While Winston has never changed his audience may have.

The event at Palmerston North was clearly overflowing. From the responses you may have thought he was chucking out meat packs from the back of a ute to party members, but I believe him when he says the 600+ were mainly public. The crowd at his Opotiki election meeting I went to (and wrote about here on The Daily Blog) were very much members of the public and he got a similar strongly positive response. The difference in audience from the 2020 campaign could be discerned from gauging what landed and what didn’t. The Covid points and pharmaceutical repeal met with great applause.

Watching various commentary following Winston’s speech that wasn’t from the Nazi-fixated mainstream media it seems clear that he has successfully attracted a sizeable number of Covid anti-vaccine, anti-mandate “truthers”. By sizeable I mean somewhere between one and two percent of the voting population – enough that if he keeps faith with them to the next election they could get NZ First over the 5% line again without the normal sub-5 decline they have previously been prone to.

The audience (and voter bloc) situation was probably best summed up by a ‘Counterspin’ bunny, Samantha Edwards, on Vinny Eastwood’s show (I’ve kept in the beginning ramble to give a flavour of where things are at in that dimension):

 “That’s how these things are done. They don’t come in and are going, ah, ‘We want to cull you! Come over here so we can cull you!’ – they do these things subtly. […] The truth is they don’t know what we are up against. For example […] I was at Winston’s State of the Nation […] yesterday and – good people. My goodness you could hear the hope in the room. It was like a religious experience, you know, it was like Church. Because he was giving them so much hope, and when he says ‘no more Covid-19 mandates’ everyone cheers the loudest so you know this room is full of hundreds of people who are aware of that – who know the danger of that; but all the other stuff they’re not aware of it […] and so they are gravitating to the voice that’s giving them that hope.”

They have gravitated, across the flat plane of the Earth, criss-crossed by chem trails, to the voice of hope.

‘Hope’ was the word she used, but that was a vacant blonde take on the matter. ‘Hate’ and ‘fear’ are more applicable for the buttons he was pushing. She may have sensed hope, and there was an element of relief that the would-be colonial calvary was on the way to defeat the would-be Te Kooti’s of Te Pati Maori, but the reversal of liberal permissiveness Winston was cataloguing was not hopeful. His tone makes it clear the motivation is resentment. That said, if he can extend that feeling of salvation from the Covid enraged for the whole term his chances for re-election look promising.

Winston swivelled to attack the media just before halfway. His point on the Public Interest Journalism Fund having a mandatory Treaty ideology was well made. Positions are so entrenched however that concessions are impossible. The media and the Left are blind to the damage the Treaty ideology prerequisite has done to the perception of bias when it comes to the PIJF. Even Willie Jackson was shocked the officials had recommended such an overt politicisation (but went along with it anyway, I mean whaddyagonnado?).

The remedies appeared more like revenge for the most part – putting a stop to things, making things shittier for minorities, turning back the clock, applying “the handbreak” gleefully. The crowd was fully engaged by the end. The unmistakable voices of the women kept chiming in: “yes” after each threat, “yes”. He was going to get the whole darn NZ First slate of coalition promises through too, no matter what. He got two more pages of stuff out of the Nats than Rimmer did, so there’s more to manage. The cynic would say this is a set up for breaking the coalition at the first moment the rest of the Cabinet tries to stymie NZ First – keep a hardline, refuse to compromise, then play victim.

I thought it interesting that there were only four (maybe five) microphones on the stand. Was it a media boycott or is that all the media that remain in 2024? Winston addressed the crisis in media with some hope – at least it sounded like hope, he wasn’t specific at all – but funding might be forthcoming if they do their jobs properly. He can’t even offer hope without it being in the form of a menacing Muldoonist taunt.

Reviewing the coverage Winston’s SOTN it may be that rather than his rhetoric being extreme it is that journalists, and time, has moved on while he has stayed the same. Sure he has been completely consistent in everything he has said since the 1970s, but that’s the problem. Those things are just, increasingly, unacceptable forms of public discourse and the media will frame his words and sentiment in a contemporary context, not as he would prefer on an NZBC newsreel.

Winston said virtually nothing on the other two legs of the governing trifecta. We would expect nothing less – it was all about him and always will be. So when he was interviewed on The Platform with Sean Plunket on Monday about it he refused to answer if Luxon ‘was a good leader’ only saying when pressed that he was easier to deal with than previous leaders. So Luxon is not a good leader then – and a push-over to boot – glad Luxon’s deputy isn’t out of step with everyone else’s thinking on this issue.

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Political Caption Competition

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Spot the fake

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WINZ threatening dying beneficiaries is sick

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I despise WINZ.

It is a weapon used to beat the poorest and weakest amongst us.

They degrade people and are purposely obtuse to deny beneficiaries  their full entitlements while lending money to the poorest people to buy essentials.

How corrupt is that as a social policy…

Beneficiaries owe record $2.1b to Govt as cost of living soars

Low income New Zealanders now owe more than $2 billion to the Ministry of Social Development as they continue to have to borrow money to survive.

…this is the neoliberal welfare industry for you.

The madness is that MSD sees this debt as an asset!

They have a vested interest in loading more debt up on beneficiaries! We have loaded up billions in debt to the poorest amongst us creating debt slaves.

The state are acting like a drug dealer peddling desperation and entrapping people into literal debt coffins.

When MSD aren’t dealing in desperation loans, they are using vast mass surveillance powers to trawl through beneficiary social media accounts to catch them out in what MSD decides as ‘relationships’, and then claim beneficiaries are committing benefit fraud and then put them in debt to MSD!

MSD don’t tell beneficiaries what exactly amounts to a relationship and they do so on purpose to trap beneficiaries into a never ending debt cycle that makes them debt slaves until death,  and this is all fine according to Labour.

461,000 Kiwis are struggling with MSD debt, this is a disgrace yet WINZ still manage to show a level of cruelty that stuns you…

Work and Income threatens to cut benefits of dying man if he receives money from Givealittle page set up in his honour

Twenty-six-year-old Nykala Garrett was forced to quit her job at the end of last year to care for her partner Rikki Tako, who has terminal cancer and less than six months to live.

Since then, the couple and their five children have been relying on a Work and Income Supported Living Payment.

“We want to enjoy the time we have left together, and be positive, and have experiences, and do things that bring us joy, and then, instead, my days are consumed with trying to organise all of this,” Garrett said.

…firstly this is another example of how important Newshub are, secondly how evil of WINZ.

It says something about the way they see the people they are supposed to help.

I despise WINZ.

When the revolution comes, let’s bomb all the WINZ offices first!

 

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Luxon gets police wage wrong and responds by calling Stuff tabloid

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‘It incites rage’ – Police verdict on Luxon interview

Soon after our interview with the Prime Minister for the Tovapodcast, the messages started coming in from Police and from their partners.

Some described what they called his “arrogance”, another said “tone deaf”.

 

This is just extraordinary.

After giving rich landlords a $2.9b tax break, Luxon can’t offer Police decent wages and when asked by Tova how much he thinks Police wages start, he says $90 000 when it’s $50,834.

It’s less than the $52 000 he was claiming for accommodation.

When he gets caught out not knowing this, he marches off and is caught on mic attacking Tova and saying, “Classic tabloid stuff from Stuff”.

Couple of things here.

1 – He’s giving his Real Estate Pimp Donors a $2.9billion tax break while Police get a pittance.

2 – He’s so rich thinks $90 000 is a starting wage.

3 – When his privilege and arrogance gets busted, he attacks the media as ‘tabloid’.

 He is out of touch and he is a condescending arsehole at the same time!

He is incapable of acknowledging he is wrong!

Meanwhile the cops aren’t properly funded so Luxon can give his Real Estate Donor Class an obscene tax break.

At some point National voters who hated Jacinda for saving 20 000 lives are going to have to wake up to what they have actually elected here.

This is what you have elected:

This is what you have elected:

This is what you have elected:

This is what you have elected:

This is what you have elected:

 

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ACT Party Farmer Thug goes rogue and Trans National Mining interest believes in magic

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ACT Party Farmer Thug

ACT Party Thug Farmer tells Councils to ignore the law and then is forced to retract it because he’s a stupid redneck thug…

Andrew Hoggard walks back SNA announcement experts say is unlawful

An associate government minister has walked back advice to councils that they can ignore a set of rules protecting the environment.

Legal experts have said the government is breaking legal precedent, and asking councils to break the law too, by suspending the requirements.

Associate Environment Minister Andrew Hoggard announced on Thursday the government was suspending rules around Significant Natural Areas, known as SNAs, for three years while it replaces the Resource Management Act.

The statement said: “For now, the government has agreed to suspend the obligation for councils to impose SNAs under the NPS Indigenous Biodiversity, and we’re sending a clear message that it would be unwise to bother”.

On Friday, he released a statement saying his comment had been misunderstood:

There was no misunderstanding you dumb redneck Farmer Thug, you told Councils to ignore the law and you got caught out and you are desperately trying to back peddle.

Meanwhile, the Trans National Mining interests believe in magic…

Seabed miner Trans-Tasman Resources say imagined ‘crystal ball’ system will avoid pollution

All sounded rosy until Slyfield delivered the bombshell.

“Now the point about the OSPM is that it doesn’t exist yet — it hasn’t been developed.”

…Farmer Thugs and Mining Interests that believe in magic.

This is what NZ is becoming under this hard right racist climate denying beneficiary bashing Government, a country of Thug Farmers and Magical Mining Companies with leaders like this…

…God Defend NZ, because the voters sure as Christ didn’t!

 

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GUEST BLOG: Jamie Dally – Migrant Exploitation

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The latest allegations of potential migrant exploitation had me reflecting on the current Darleen Tana situation for starters those hybrid Ebikes that weren’t paid for are worth $5,000 each.

I think there is a massive rort going on in this country – all migrants are coming in having been set up with jobs, which when they get here aren’t available or last only a very short period. I believe that the local businesses that have accreditation to hire migrant workers are collaborating with the overseas recruiters and getting a kickback.

Let’s say a business here gets approval to hire 5 migrants and over in India or Phillipines or Argentina etc the employment agency finds these “workers” and charges them say $30,000 or more NZD to set them up to come to NZ then the business back here gets maybe a kickback of 30% so in the instance of 5 workers the business gets $50,000 – then the workers arrive in NZ and there is no job – but at least they got into the country using this process.

There is no way that this country has absorbed 125,000 migrants into this country over the last 12 months!

Imagine if my thinking is correct and say 40,000 of them got in and kickbacks paid – it could be as much as $400m of kickbacks.

Every migrant worker should be tracked from the day they arrive and followed up fortnightly by some govt organisation to make sure these cons don’t happen.

The situation with Darleen I can’t understand why they don’t  focus on employing young Maori? I can only assume it’s so lucrative to use migrants or just dupe them into paying cash and other entitlements.

If the migrant loses the job with the accredited employer that they originally came here for they cannot move to another employer very easily – the system is totally flawed.

Then they end up broke, they can’t afford rent and they can’t afford to fly home. Respective property managers I’ve canvassed, are seeing people applying for say a 4 bedroom house and asking if they can put 16 people in them – I suspect these people take a head lease on a 4 bdrm house for say $800 per week then charge the migrants $200 per week each ie $3,200 per week and they pocket the difference – the poor migrants don’t know any better.

There are some very dodgy people involved in these migration scams.

Im of the strong view that a huge amount of this mass immigration is dodgy involving kickbacks and schemes

The economy here is bad – the jobs aren’t there, mass layoffs are happening it’s not good – if you are a migrant that has been duped then once you lose the job you are in a dreadful position especially if you signed a 12 month fixed tenancy

Property managers I’ve spoken too are renting a house to say a migrant couple with a kid then when they do the first inspection there’s 10 people living there – they are crafty – think they can be a head tenant and sublet and put tenants in bunks in bedrooms and garages

There is a serious illegal underbelly around all this migration
But will this govt do anything about it or are they an enabler?

 

Jamie Dally is a political commentator on Waatea News

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