Heh, not everyone likes a know it all…Ms Harris will do ok imho.
Overturning of Roe v Wade, womens reproductive rights, is not popular with women of all stripes.
Ms Harris will likely do well with women and younger voters who are essential to denying Mango Mussolini. The last thing needed is another “coot in a suit”.
Great to see the Natzos get a slap down from the ERA. There may well be appeals, and it would be good to see new class left leaderships at the PSA and NZCTU that support direct action rather than dreaming for tripartism.
Bravo!! What more can one say-an excellent piece.
No shit… lets see…State Sector Act, Reserve Bank Act, SOEs, contracting out, flogging off the people’s infrastructure, cap on debt to GDP, penetration of the public sector by private capital… Indeed MMP has not changed the neo liberal state yet, it just ...
Yes fair point, I looked at some of the maps, and the roof where Thomas Crooks shot from was just 120 metres away from Mr Trump’s platform. The Yanks love their drones, perhaps they should have run one around the perimeter.
So much more to emerge on this one. The memes and speculation are zooming up. One thing not addressed yet as far as I know, is how did the shooter get a fire arm onto the site? unless the dickhead had previously placed it, given there was allegedly ...
Yes, the Natzos may well end up presiding over the dismantling of viable Maritime and Rail transport links between our two main Islands.
There will likely be a lot more revealed on this episode. Americans seem to be experts at mass shootings every few days, specialising in blasting away school kids. So how did someone just a few metres away miss the fat bastard? All may be revealed perhaps ...
Sunny is your basic opportunist. The small traders he purports to represent are at the bottom of the capitalist retailing eco system, often buying their stock from Pak’n’Save or (near) expired goods merchants. They sell liquor, tobacco, vapes and related ...
The weird thing is even if these dickheads want to end “roll on roll off” rail freight between North and South Islands, and destroy rail in favour of their trucking mates–guess what–new vessels will still be required to enable their double and triple ...
NATO, formed in 1949 in the wake of WWII and the new Cold War by US & UK, and the precursors of 5 Eyes, against the USSR should now be dissolved and retired. A shooting war of the Ukraine type is obviously not needed by anyone in 2024, but…the last gasp of...
Heh, no worries on that score Barfly. Was at Takaparawhau (Bastion Point), winter of ’81 Springbok tour protest front rower, helped lead a 10 week strike in South Auckland car industry and many other second tier bargaining strikes, supported Nuke Free NZ ...
I love it how a cycle riding internationalist with an allotment still winds certain people up. Mr Corbyn thrashed Labour in Islington. Labour originally put him up as a sop candidate, he won the leadership, increased the membership–but made crucial ...
This Minister is bad news, mimicking sirkey’s avoidance strategy. She is embarking on the most significant union busting since the 1991 Employment Contracts Act (which decimated union membership density) and the “Hobbit Law” that Key, US Studios, Lord ...
Go Jeremy! Heh, rare is the day you see a class left MP in a bourgeois Parliamentary setting… read and weep Rogernomes, and opportunists… https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/05/jeremy-corbyn-re-elected-in-islington-north-for-first-time-as...
Private developers and building component suppliers and “Tradies” prefer the high margin jobs–which is why they effectively went on strike over “KiwiBuild”–albeit a flawed Labour initiative. Relaxed regulation like Bishflap’s proposal is what developers ...
That “Joe has to go” becomes more obvious by the minute–not to forget multi thousands of butchered Palestinians, that he could have saved with a phone call if so inclined. The Yoo Ess Ayy is on a dark road towards authoritarianism given the millions of ...
To put it another way…structurally since 1984 the neo liberal state remained substantially intact whichever party was in office or which group of parties under MMP. State Sector Act, Reserve Bank Act, debt to GDP cap, contracting out, privatised power ...
Same as ever…the ideological struggle is often dominated by the ruling class via the media channels–heh, ZB and such like–and state force is there to surveil, jail, bash and run up MSD debts as required. 40 years of a neo liberal state, union busting, and ...
Well hopefully that old trope fades. Determinism, fatalism and defeatism are not the way to go for the working class. Fight, fight & fight.
Maybe giving a shit? My son said to me when younger…“no one’s into sticking it to the man anymore dad…” Now in early 30s with workplace and life experience he is a staunch supporter of Palestine and numerous other issues. Generation student loan and ...
You can pull your head in too… https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/labour-delivers-12000-more-public-homes
Exactly what is possible with the political will. When I had the misfortune to live in Whangārei for several years we had a hell of battle to get a 37 dwelling state house development–mix of duplexes and smaller apartments etc–built in the ostensibly ...
While Labour were never going to build enough state houses and apartments for my liking–or the actual need–they did actually complete a few thousand some of which are “still in the pipeline” and will be finished. In 2020 they should have gone for broke and...
Homeless and hungry people in our land of plenty? “The Standard” veterans will likely know why…40 years of a neo liberalism, State Sector Act, Reserve Bank Act, the breakdown of collectivism, union busting, contracting out, PPPs, state asset sales, winding...
Bernie still has his marbles, unlike Joe. Joe’s lack of action over Palestine is quite enough to count him out in many peoples view. It is cruel indeed to subject a frail failing codger to such a process. Most of my life in NZ until MMP, electoral politics...
Not a huge Julian fan, but he was treated outrageously for doing the world a great service. Hope he is able to enjoy the rest of his time, but…the yanks hold a grudge so would not count on it.
Agree, it is time to start gut punching the CoC Govt. These vandals may well oversee the severing of significant maritime/rail links between North and South Islands, unthinkable really with the geography of our nation.
Recent Comments