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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-zealand-well-being-budget-happiness-economy_n_5cf4f7e1e4b0e8085e3cf4b0
https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/14318/hilary-long-gdp-no-match-happiness
https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/in-perspective/an-environment-for-the-self-738106.html
https://www.7sur7.be/monde/que-signifie-le-budget-bien-etre-de-la-nouvelle-zelande~a7bf6ad2/?referrer=https://www.google.com/
http://www.sggp.org.vn/new-zealand-quyet-can-dai-gia-cong-nghe-tron-thue-597362.html
and last but not least…..
'…. Eingeborenensprache Te Reo Māori und modernem Thrash Metal ……. von Neuseelands Regierungschefin Jacinda Ardern mit den ……'
https://www.metal.de/news/alien-weaponry-thrash-meets-maori-kultur-auf-deutschlandtour-377091/
Haaaaaa ——– these news geeks are real nutters ——– no wonder the world is in such mess.
Next we will have Jacinda pregnant again !
An added value societal global trading partner is what makes NZ strong in the global market place.
With the US going full oppositional on both Russia and China, imagine what would happen to the world if China made Russia a proper ally.
https://www.dw.com/en/vladimir-putin-and-xi-jinping-talk-russia-china-relations/a-49060041
With the US increasingly divided from Europe and alienating just about everyone else, a Russia-China bloc, well, that would be a fair old shift for the world to get their heads around that they haven't had to do since the Sino-Soviet split of 1956.
Sure, too much distrust from the Russian elite to make it work yet, but all it takes is a singular enemy to forge common interest.
If you have 17 minutes well worth the watch. Except for left centerists, who may just cry, as it seems your approach to politics is an utter failure… Social Democrats on the other hand, should rejoice.
Good stuff – thanks for that.
The Picketty article is here: http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2018.pdf
https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/113231978/survey-how-should-stuff-cover-climate-change
How should stuff cover cc
"What one thing should we write about (paraphrased)
Gave them ten suggestions and told them to read How to Get There.
Regarding the Chch Mosque attacks, many people saw it as a commentary on NZ and on the state of our race relations etc yada yada, despite it being a result of a foreigner coming into our country and killing New Zealanders. Some people say Australian, so no diff.
Well now another Australian has shot four people in a rampage in Darwin.
To all those people who saw the Aussie attack as pretty much being carried out by us – you best get your apologies going again to deal with the Darwin attack. Same thing.
But then the French came into NZ and killed a person and sunk a ship. By same argument that was by us too. Yet none of us dreamed that was carried out by us, or our government.
gobshite all round
slack thinking and too quick to the knee and jerk
A very Happy Meal!
I got this quaint old doll with the deal.
Hehehe – It truly is an Art!
Laugh away. You've got five and a half more years of this chump to go.
so have you idiot
Sadly, you're correct, marty. It didn't have to be like this of course. The Democrats had the chance in 2016 to select the most popular politician in the United States, but Wasserman Schultz and her cronies made sure they installed the worst possible candidate instead.
Do you think those brilliant Democratic Party strategists will have any luck in linking Trump to those dastardly, all-powerful Russian puppeteers? So far it's two and a half years of wasted effort. And quite a bit of comedy….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrKKPGhh-ZU
yep I'm sure vlad and the don are laughing about it all the way to the dacha
You really need to get your head out of your ass marty mars, the russia gate conspiracy theory, is just that – a conspiracy theory. Look at this http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2018.pdf the whole centre left project is dead.
The only answer to these crazy right demagogues is solid social democratic candidates. Otherwise, the voters will go for the likes of trump and co.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/?ex_cid=rrpromo
You're quite correct, Macro. Trump is more heinous and more horrific than anyone could have imagined. His "popularity" is tenuous at best.
So why are the Democrats even considering a chump like Biden? And—more to the point—instead of pursuing the chimera of "Russian collusion", why don't they talk about Trump's massive, radical attacks on education, his dismantling of environmental regulations, his backing of dastardly regimes in Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, and Israel?
Five and a half more years. Then there'll be four, maybe eight years of Pence. And the "Democrats" and their media stooges will still be pushing Russian fantasies.
Because it's not even remotely a chimera. There's as much evidence of collusion by Trump as there was against the Rosenbergs. The only reason he won't go to the chair is the size and activity level of the rightwing machine.
You mean he's too big to fall?
A very Happy Meal!
So how come they both look like they're chewing razor blades?
Look at the paper bag Trump has in his hand. A Happy Meal! It's photoshopped but that is what he likes for his dinner. So he is not looking forward to his dinner which will probably be roast beef of old england and suet pudding with mushy peas. lol Queenie on the other hand is not looking forward to having to spend the evening at the dinner table with a narcistic blowhard and certified idiot. Notice that even with 45 bedrooms in Buck House they were unable to put him up for the night!
He would probably have claimed his right to what passes for Royal privilege in the Utter State of America, and pinched the towels if they had Royal crests on them.
Trump's just learnt there's going to be a big protest against him the next day, and the quaint old doll is thinking… when is this nightmare going to be over?
And they're proud of their stupidity.
This is nothing new, of course. Ever since the late 70s when Paul Weyrich and others in the Reagan Revolution/Conservative movement discovered they could make big bucks by bilking little old ladies and guzzling from the billionaire's trough, it's been a dominant feature of Republican politics. But the money has gotten huge in recent years (for obvious reasons — there are more billionaires than ever funding their grift) and it's become something they really can't avoid talking about anymore.
Here's Jim Geraghty of National Review:
https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2019/06/oh-my-somebody-on-right-notices-gops.html
Meanwhile back at Trump Tower:
With commercial tenants fleeing his Trump Tower, President Donald Trump continues to spend $37,500 a month of campaign money for office space there — with some of that cash destined for his own wallet ― even as thousands of square feet go unused at a newly opened office in northern Virginia.
No more than “four or five” campaign staffers work at Trump’s Manhattan base, according to an informal adviser close to the White House, where the campaign rents a few thousand square feet as its “headquarters.” The per-square-foot cost is likely at least triple what the Republican National Committee pays for the much larger space it shares with the campaign in Arlington, according to a HuffPost analysis.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-tower-campaign_n_5cf572e2e4b0e346ce82d3eb?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90YWxrLndoYXR0aGVmdWNranVzdGhhcHBlbmVkdG9kYXkuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALNsPDHll5S41VQ6aIwU5GIM1YTYdXomZzUjvW8MKIlV5uNh_38hQQ297q73V8_Y_r-rdDZfCqnxpxym8jaRNMnFOnGVX-nAatfV0ncac-xCJajkaWDPTjTqeo68Ac_V3VsZhapC1bKD6-38E2NfZtdIa5JzKwAxF30bPkTlY2n1
Sorry about the massive link
You can shorten addresses by deleting everything past the question mark.
Anyhoo, tRump tentacles.
DONALD J. TRUMP SIGNATURE COLLECTION
New Zealand
2018-2019 Income: $222,053
TRUMP
New Zealand
2018-2019 Income: $0
New Zealand
FARA Spending: $354,958
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/06/trump-foreign-business-interests/
"The world’s greatest rainforest – which is a vital provider of oxygen and carbon sequestration – lost 739sq km during the 31 days, equivalent to two football pitches every minute, according to data from the government’s satellite monitoring agency."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/04/deforestation-of-brazilian-amazon-surges-to-record-high-bolsonaro
Tough read if you believe in justice
Dude was 42.
https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1136044855610789890
They need someone to keep voicing that sort of thing not just claiming greatness so that the finer details of unselfishness and compassion get a chance to bed themselves in and grow.
The dead deserve nothing more and nothing less than to have the truth told about them. Here's someone who actually tells the truth about Robert Kennedy, as opposed to the overweening propaganda and mythos….
http://johnpilger.com/articles/the-kennedy-myth-rises-again
Why is there so little coverage of the full blown tyranny that is ScoMo's government in New Zealand?
The timing is so cynical, SocMo over in Europe for the DD 75th hiding from accountability while the blatant attempt to suppress the free media occurs.
"Defence" and Home Affairs (Ministerial boss of their police) stymied from spying on the Oz public also want to suppress media investigation of their military – similar to Hager "Hit and Run" here.
Want to get real?
oh and
“Garth Illingworth of the University of California, Santa Cruz, is the leader of the team that assembled the Legacy image. He pointed out in a statement that, “The Legacy Field is a pathfinder for WFIRST, which will capture an image that is 100 times larger than a typical Hubble photo. In just three weeks’ worth of observations by WFIRST, astronomers will be able to assemble a field that is much deeper and more than twice as large as the Hubble Legacy Field.””
There are 5000 people in Letterkenny. These are their problems.
OMG on the first one – are they all like that? Anyone who has smpled further and finds it amusing….informative…entertaining….a slice of the real world world (with hopefully blunt knieves)…?
Re-Discussion bottom of today's Open Mike https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-05-06-2019/#comment-1624821 here
https://twitter.com/NaomiOhReally/status/1136189899672084480
Sigh.
Yup Stuff stuffed up rehashing this fake news. It's a sign of second rate media that whatever prejudice is flavour of the month gets passed around so much without anyone checking before publishing.
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