This is a great tweet @2covet

Unfortunately nz is a colony of London and New York. We do not really have any agency, our housing Ponzi scheme pseudo profits enrich the super wealthy in the old world for the most part.

40-50 % of housing belongs to the super wealthy and as this recession deepens they will use their excessive wealth to increase their slices of the nz property rentier sector at the expense of thousands of struggling families chances of being able to achieve house ownership

As always foxy you have a way with words :)

I suspect it’s a consequence of being an egg.

A reference would be nice - good question what did he do ?

It’s also a wonderful and inspiring stepping off point towards the question of what to do with AOTEAROA to fix things here & also see a better kind of politics for the planet as a whole.

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In state Department lore Bolton is a bird of a feather (imo) with the so called “angel of death” of State Victoria Newland” of Ukraine/Maidan “Fuck Europe” fame.

The coup plot failed, thankfully and from recollection then Secretary of State Colin Powell was seriously embarrassed by the Bush administration (likely by Bolton) due to the fact that he seemingly was not in the loop on the coup plot.

As a result of this wealth it is in a position to significantly cripple the Venezuelan economy and has done so via the @StateDept with sanctions for decades. Including an attempted coup attempt against Hugo Chavez in 2002 just before the gulf war.

The KOCH empire is somewhat remarkable for its sheer scale. “Overview: Koch Industries is the second-largest privately held company in the United States, with annual revenues exceeding $125 billion.”

Back then John Bolton was on Trump’s side trying to install Juan Guaidó share.google/EfIPLWkYox6E... as President of Venezuela through a colour revolution plan on behalf of the more than somewhat evil Koch Industries refining company.

It is somewhat ironic that John Bolton who worked hard on the Venezuela / Koch Industries account during the last Trump administration is now subject to attack from Trump.