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James Wilkes's avatar

You’ve been reading my mind Tadhg. NZ’s political system has been captured by special interest groups and can no longer course correct. From here, it gets ugly.

Tadhg Stopford's avatar

It’s been getting ugly for a long time bud. It’s approaching existential now

Steve Wellwood's avatar

You do not think a change of government will help . This is the worst outside influence regime for a New Zealand government I have ever seen . It feels like the main players have been hired for there willingness to ignore the population and follow whoever their masters are

Ryan Ward's avatar

Nice find. They’ve moved onto a much more brazen form of corruption.

Tadhg Stopford's avatar

All credit to Bryce Edwards; who inspired my brief polemic this morning read his work here https://open.substack.com/pub/democracyproject/p/integrity-briefing-banking-lobbyists?r=59s119&utm_medium=ios

Mike Friend's avatar

Totally agree!

Wil Baillie's avatar

Hitting the nail right on the head Tadhg as usual!

Tadhg Stopford's avatar

Thank you bud! Please spread the gospel!

Elliott's avatar

I want change. A lot of people I know want change. We're all so fragmented now, at a time when we need community and solidarity. Where can we rally to? A sum of individual voices won't fix it.

Tadhg Stopford's avatar

Hi Elliott.

Regarding community, I don’t know. Www.thehempfoundation.org.nz is my offering. That’s the vehicle I’m investing my energies in; in tools to raise the consciousness and our action potential. The sites old, but the work is being done, and news will be coming soon. Sign up?

Let me know if I can help

Best,

T

Judith Paulin's avatar

Easy for us all to see how how quickly we have been hoodwinked!

Sasha's avatar

We need electoral funding reform. We already have laws we just need to plug all the loopholes and tighten it up....a lot. I'd like to think it's not to late for us.

And surely there's a loophole that can be used to make lobbying illegal

Tadhg Stopford's avatar

Or at least more transparent.

I’d like to see use celebrate tax payment too, as a vital action of citizenship. Without taxation, our currency lacks legitimacy. Without a sovereign currency, our civilisation becomes a farm. Citizens are demoted to consumers, another word for stock units. For a farming nation, we seem slow to realise we are being farmed

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Janine's avatar

Perhaps something like “NZ Coalition government changes law to protect banks and their profits undermining justice for the people”.

Tafhg, thanks for your article it was news to me that the govt was doing this to assist the banks. Gutting! Totally agree with your assessment of our demise. Is it really too late to course correct? Is there any way the current chaos in the US could be used as a cautionary tale for the future of Aotearoa if we keep sitting idly by while Luxon and Seymour et al sell us out?

Tadhg Stopford's avatar

Hi bud. Thanks for your message.

The single most important thing for us to understand is our monetary system. …which everyone lies to us about.

Social credit / public finance is called modern monetary theory (magic money tree! It does exist!)

It’s 5000 years old; and its absence from Nz political economy suggests ignorance, incompetence or corruption

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Also: all credit to Bryce Edwards for breaking the story

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Bless. If you want to title it that, go for it! Pretty sure I can’t edit it