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If there's one good thing to come out of this financial mess, it's a potential shift away from the speculation economy that has effectively cartellised NZ's housing market, and possibly even the affluenza pandemic.
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George D:
Chinese and Indian settlers were inevitably pushed to the bottom of the pile by white Australians, and then throughout the 20th Century immigrants with varying degrees of 'whiteness' were imported to provide labour, and each in turn attracted the opprobium of whites who were up the ladder, or attempting to climb there. The Wog, anyone not "anglo" was the major object of racism during the mid-late 20th century, and still is.
On the flip side, 'model minoritarianism' can be just as counter-productive as traditional racism, as it refuses to acknowledge the plight or even existence of 'involuntary minorities'. It wasn't just shops and cars that went up in smoke in Los Angeles in 1992, but also the very notion of model minority itself.
But a large part of this is the way in which racism is used against them, to turn them against the men who will steal their jobs and women.
A classic case of "hiring half the working class to kill the other half. The Lindsey Oil Refinery dispute nearly came to that.
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Who needs the National Party when we have this class Act. Creep.
Wagging. The. Dog.
Then again, they probably didn't count on the country's top unionist monkeywrenching free trade talks with the US. No big loss anyway, better no deal than a bad deal - just ask Australia's farmers and tech experts.
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Back with the creepy party. Like fleas on a dogs tail. No actually, more like around the arsehole. I knew this would happen.
I've mentioned it before, but this could very well lead to the NZ edition of Livingstone vs Thatcher, if the people of Auckland elect Len Brown. It'd be darkly funny and ironic - not to mention hypocritical - if Mr Hyde abolished the local body system he designed, out of sheer sour grapes.
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Not so much owned as kicked them in the shins, and then while they were lying on the ground kicked them again between the legs. Some of their best work:
While their pants were down, too.
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I think the word you're after with respect to Fay and Richwhite isn't "bailed". It's "jailed".
How feasible would it be to declare them 'terrorists' and freeze their assets?
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Muldoon's single biggest mistake - a lot more so than Think Big and the 1981 Tour combined - was the cynical evoking of the Dancing Cossacks as an excuse to abolish the Kirk Govt's compulsory super fund. It's on a par with, if not worse than, Nigel Lawson pissing away Britain's North Sea oil wealth in tax cuts. Whereas Norway planned ahead and never looked back.
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It's actually quite amusing. I would think there would be more hard right economic liberals that started off as socialists than not.
There's nothing unusual there, especially the ones who start their political life as Marxists with a capital M. Even though many become middle-aged neo-cons, their zealotry remains constant. And so too, it seems, their bitter factionalism.
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Not until summer, sorry, but Wellington and Christchurch are on the list.
Woot.
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I still have my Peoples Republic of Christchurch T-shirt from the late 1990s. It's worn down slightly, but still in good nick.