Daily review 10/10/2023

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  1. Dennis Frank 1
    10 October 2023 at 6:55 pm

    Our landlord class as a new elite:

    a group of 300 landlords are set to become tax-cut millionaires under National's tax plan. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/10/election-2023-hundreds-of-landlords-to-become-tax-cut-millionaires-under-national-s-plan-analysis.html

    I suspect this bunch will seek refuge in anonymity. Best way to achieve a privileged caste is to game the system then use privacy law to hide your wealth. The neolib caste system, co-produced by left & right, is the 21st century new-age mainstream paradigm.

  2. PsyclingLeft.Always 2
    10 October 2023 at 6:59 pm

    New analysis released exclusively to Newshub shows a group of 300 landlords are set to become tax-cut millionaires under National's tax plan.

    Nats. Looking after number ..1% since forever.

    And at the other end of it all…

    Henrietta Bollinger writes and fights for the disabled community, especially those on a benefit.

    "They deserve the dignity and respect of getting their needs met," Bollinger said.

    But they're worried about what's going to happen under National as the party is proposing to tie benefits to inflation, rather than wage increases.

    A Council of Trade Unions (CTU) analysis has found beneficiaries will be $17,000 worse off after five years of that change.

    "It's a reduction in income that the disabled community can't afford," said Bollinger.

    It is expected to save National $2 billion over the next five years.

    Coincidentally, that's the same amount the party budgeted for a tax cut for landlords by reintroducing interest deductibility rules.

    Slash and steal from the vulnerable…

    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/10/election-2023-hundreds-of-landlords-to-become-tax-cut-millionaires-under-national-s-plan-analysis.html

    National scumbags

    • SapphireGem 2.1
      10 October 2023 at 8:44 pm

      I just read this article. If this prime example of National screwing over the most vulnerable in society in order to give to the most privileged doesn't open people's eyes to what life will be like under a National / ACT / NZ First Government, I don't know what will.

      I would add that people will get what they deserve if they vote for the Right; however, as the brunt of National's cruelty will be borne by the most at-risk groups in our country, that isn't a very fair thing to say.

  3. Dennis Frank 3
    10 October 2023 at 7:02 pm

    One News poll tomorrow night, they said. I predict bad news for some parties & a switch of allegiance of some kind. The mass feelings will be critical all around…

    • Peter 3.1
      10 October 2023 at 7:41 pm

      Are you entering that comment in a competition for the most perspicacious poll comment of the election?

      Bad news for some, switching of allegiance, mass feelings being critical? Well I never!

      • Dennis Frank 3.1.1
        10 October 2023 at 8:06 pm

        Let's wait & see. Normally only a fool would issue a prediction but we live in interesting times… angel

  4. Roy Cartland 4
    10 October 2023 at 7:28 pm

    Chch Press debate:

    GP and Māori are getting massive applauses, more so than ACT and way more than NZF.

    Seymour is wasted, he's wither hungover, crook or simply exhausted. He and Winston are singing the same tune 😱😱

  5. joe90 5
    10 October 2023 at 7:35 pm

    Netanyahu poisoned the well. He told Likud members they needed to back Hamas politically and financially to prevent a Palestinian State from ever becoming viable.

    Effectively, Netanyahu’s entire worldview collapsed over the course of a single day. He was convinced that he could make deals with corrupt Arab tyrants while ignoring the cornerstone of the Arab-Jewish conflict, the Palestinians. His life’s work was to turn the ship of state from the course steered by his predecessors, from Yitzhak Rabin to Ehud Olmert, and make the two-state solution impossible. En route to this goal, he found a partner in Hamas.

    “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” he told a meeting of his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”

    https://archive.ph/ABPWd (Haaretz 9/10/23)

  6. adam 6
    10 October 2023 at 7:52 pm

    I wonder if the civilians in Gaza will be able to dig themselves in and hid from the IDF. In conflicts like this is seems the only option. 112 000 homeless already. Cutting off medical supplies, power and water. Targeting refuge camps by the IDF is filthy.

    https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/warsaw-ghetto-uprising-

  7. SapphireGem 7
    10 October 2023 at 8:59 pm

    Commentary from the Press Leaders' Debate: "Onto the topic of coalition negotiations, ACT leader David Seymour said he stood by his statement Peters was the "least trustworthy" politician.

    Peters said speculation about how the Right would work together was fearmongering.

    "Stop it now and relax," Peters says. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300985406/nz-election-2023-the-press-leaders-debate–watch-live

    Peters claims that speculation about the Right would work together is "fearmongering"…yet Luxon et al caused the speculation and fearmongering themselves by refusing to rule out working with Peters, then u-turning and trying to put people off voting for Peters by wheeling out Chris Bishop and his bamboozingly, scaremongering comments and advertising about the possibility of a second election… not to mention David Seymour floating the idea of a confidence only partnership: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/election-2023/497636/act-s-david-seymour-floats-confidence-only-partnership-no-supply

    The Right have done this to themselves.

  8. Ngungukai 8
    10 October 2023 at 9:19 pm

    Winston NZF hasn't got anything to gain by going on about Maori separatism, Maori health, welfare & prison statistics do not make good reading, Maori have been disenfranchised for the past 180+ years and we need to help the lower socio-economic groups going forward, not keep beating up on them like National and ACT want to do.

    • SapphireGem 8.1
      10 October 2023 at 9:26 pm

      Totally agree yes Peters race baits because race baiting plays into people's irrational fear, nasty resentment, and stupid, ignorant belief that a certain group is somehow advantaged and privileged, when all evidence is to the contrary.

      • Roy Cartland 8.1.1
        10 October 2023 at 10:17 pm

        It's hard to see that he's baiting the whole population, rather than a critical mass (of +/-5%) that will return him to parl. Now he's all for immigration, but against "mandates". Do people actually trust him or are they just holding their noses and hoping?

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