Thursday November 7, 2024
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Whatever - we know enough now from the votes that have
been counted to surmise that the final vote will look like a landslide with
Trump doing what no Republican candidate has done for decades - win the popular
vote by a sizeable margin.
We can read a number of things from this incredible victory.
I expected the USA to sink immediately beneath a tsunami of
blood. I’m not exactly sure why, just that it seemed that the democratic
process had slumped to the level of a TV game show. Of course, that that was
before Ardern was elected.
I say I was shocked, but I was not surprised. It was obvious to anyone who listened to anything out of the States beside Oscar acceptance speeches, that John and Jane Doe wanted something done about the creep of the rust belt, the war on traditional values and the deluge of illegal migrants through its porous border.
To the Treaty Principles Bill.
Despite David Seymour's best efforts to pretend that there's absolutely nothing to see here, there is no doubt in my mind that the government is planning to introduce the Treaty Principles Bill tomorrow to try to hide it - because they know full well, we're all going to be completely obsessed and distracted by the US election.
They know that if they get it out on Thursday, tomorrow, it's before the planned Hikoi even sets off on Monday.
“My bill would repeal the monopolies held by the Invercargill, Mataura, Portage and Waitakere Licensing Trusts. It would break these communities free from silly rules and give entrepreneurial locals the ability to sell alcohol under the same rules that apply nationwide.
A group of PÄkehÄ is embracing the opportunity to honour Te Tiriti, saying that a commitment to tino rangatiratanga strengthens, rather than divides, Aotearoa.
The PÄkehÄ Project is an organisation of tangata Tiriti leaders who run programmes and workshops for PÄkehÄ, aimed at deepening their understanding of the constitutional foundations of Aotearoa. …
This article outlines three key reasons for Rotorua’s reversion to pluralistic majoritarianism and situates them within the wider national and international context.
The latest thing that isn't a big deal but will have a big deal made of it - because it's the Prime Minister - is that Chris Luxon has called us voters 'customers'.
He did it in a sit down interview where he was asked about being seen as out of touch, and he was saying he was because he talks to people all the time. He said -“It’s been a belief system of mine, talk to the customer, to the public, to the people and the voters."
When Labour launched their failed Three Waters scheme in 2021, which aimed to confiscate council water services and amalgamate them into me...