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26th October – 1st November 2006
Projected number of seats in the House on the basis of the latest poll results
Number of seats*
Labour 53
National 50
NZ First
Green Party 9
Maori Party 4
United Future 2
Progressive 1
ACT 2
Total seats 121
* These figures are based on Progressive, United Future and ACT winning one electorate
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These values place commerce and money as well as US strategic military interests over the wellbeing, and the very existence, of ordinary, and especially foreign, people.
New Zealand is about to sacrifice what it cannot afford to lose for something it doesn’t need: gambling we can keep the strength and security of our trading relationship with China whilst leaping into the US anti-China military alliance.
This potential all-out conflict is Gramsci’s Interregnum – the old’s final fight for relevance, and the lack of powerful new forces that could serve as alternatives. This is also known as the ‘age of monsters’.
What New Zealand was experiencing earlier this decade was a spike in cost increases resulting from the Covid19 pandemic and from the Russia-Ukraine war. That's not inflation. It was just costs incurred which humanity had to absorb.
So what happens next, now that Joe Biden has finally seen the writing on the wall? A few Democrats (e.g. the Clintons) have already endorsed vice-president Harris.
Is there a difference between patriotism and nationalism? Can you love your country without identifying with it? When does love of one’s country become hatred of humanity?