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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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That’s just brilliant
“Panama Papers a cyber warning” – PM http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/303111/panama-papers-a-cyber-security-warning-pm
& this gem “You might be a doctor that’s dealt with sexually transmitted diseases, and that information is confidential to that person, then all of a sudden, that information is in the public domain.” He’s a strange man…
well, tax dodgers are comparable to the clap.
Indeed it is a perfect analogy – one which is lost on the prime minister even though he’s the author of it.
How dare you!
A bunch of people with the clap are far more valuable to an economy than a bunch of tax dodgers!
At least all the medical treatment they require creates jobs!
The largest cyber attack at the moment seems to be from Billiam English and his ‘social investment’ program where our personal info is not confidential and private but is there to be “shared”., even with government workers on their smartphones
As Bill has said they have the data , why not use it?
What could be more reasonable? (my words) “Cyber attacks are as nothing to our ‘relaxed’ government, when they are in the attack chair.
http://www.newshub.co.nz/politics/bill-englishs-big-data-grab-2016041918#axzz47Zw0q3C3
Yeah, I’d say that he’s more concerned with the financial details of the rich and the fact that most of them are outright thieves getting out than anything else.
I think I prefer to think of it as thieves can and will be found out.
http://parliamenttoday.co.nz/2016/05/southern-dhb-elections-bill-progresses-2/
Great, it looks like Southland and Otago people won’t be allowed a say at the local body elections this year in who runs our public health services.
Greens and NZF only parties opposing the bill.
Is that what Dunne is tweeting about? “My vote in favour of the Ecan Bill is an error – I have requested it be corrected and be recorded against.”
Edit:
Sorry my mistake I see it’s something else.
Was that tweet today? I’m guessing it’s this, the other piece of legislation that National are using to further remove voting rights from some NZers.
http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/pb/legislation/bills/00DBHOH_BILL64759_1/environment-canterbury-transitional-governance-arrangements
https://twitter.com/PeterDunneMP/status/728083781823827968
https://twitter.com/PeterDunneMP/status/728099734125056001
I can’t find a record of voting on that today.
There is this, the only media on it I can find
https://nz.news.yahoo.com/election/a/-/31528477/cantys-mixed-member-council-bill-passes/
Shouldn’t be surprised – National hates democracy. The idea that everyone having a say, even most National voters, absolutely terrifies them. They’re worried that the general populace will start correcting the imbalances that capitalism creates and actually start having a good and meaningful life rather than one of hard slog and deprivation in service to their betters that’s been set up.
This constitutes headline news in the Herald online.
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11634233
Serco up to their usual tricks, mismanaging a prison, this time it’s Wiri.
Our taxes pay for these clowns.
“Our taxes pay for these clowns.”
In men inside are not laughing.
Africa, India and…….
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/may/05/animals-die-cambodia-worst-drought-decades
The planet’s climate is stuffed.
When will the corporate media in New Zealand explain the weather by saying the words climate change?
As well as the droughts in India and Cambodia,
There is drought in Vietnam
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/vietnam-drought-economic-slowdown-2016-4?r=US&IR=T
and Thailand
http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2016-04-11/forget-the-drought-thailands-national-water-fight-is-on
and Ethiopia
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/may/02/ethiopia-famine-drought-land-restoration
and Malawi and Zimbabwe
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/apr/21/drought-southern-africa-heavy-toll-students-fainting-malawi-zimbabwe
and Venezuela
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/22/475250605/venezuela-announces-daily-4-hour-power-cuts-amid-drought
and North Korea
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-27/north-korea-s-food-supply-imperiled-by-water-shortages-un-says
and Zambia
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/world/africa/zambia-drought-climate-change-economy.html?_r=0
and Haiti
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2016/04/15/3769857/haiti-farmers/
and Canada
http://www.calgarysun.com/2016/04/23/alberta-farmers-pray-for-rain-as-dry-conditions-stoke-drought-fears
and the U.S.
http://theprowersjournal.com/2016/04/april-2016-colorado-drought-update-from-cwcb/
and Indonesia
http://www.indonesia-investments.com/news/todays-headlines/indonesian-research-firm-2016-palm-oil-output-curbed-by-drought-haze/item6737
and Micronesia
https://www.google.co.nz/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=drought+2016&tbm=nws&start=100
and Australia
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-01/farming-death-row-south-australia's-forgotten-drought/7309470
Add Cambodia
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/may/05/animals-die-cambodia-worst-drought-decades
The planet’s climate is fine, life will go on – it just won’t be the life that’s here now as it simply can’t survive in the hotter temperatures.
Many of those countries are experiencing drought because they are fucking with the catchment and groundwater in order to make money. Humans have lived in very dry climates for a long long time, and they do so by working with nature not exploiting it.
Well we won’t take too long to catch up, Weka – we’re doing just that as well – using catchment and groundwater to make money.
Here here, weka
The dry conditions being brought on by climate change are of a different order to those experienced historically. Yes, catchment area and ground-waters are being fucked with sometimes, but that only exacerbates what would otherwise be an intractable problem; not something that will be solved by ‘working with nature’.
Meanwhile, the chance of ‘super droughts’ or mega droughts; droughts lasting a few decades, is expected to increase to 50% from 15% for some regions (eg – the US).
deleting this, have posted it in today’s OM instead where the convo seems to have gone.
….Vietnam, Thailand, Ethiopia, Venezuela, Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Micronesia, Haiti, Zimbabwe, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and the U.S.
The planet’s climate is stuffed.
Wonder when the msm in NZ attributes all these weather patterns to climate change rather than talking about hos nice it is to have a warm May in NZ?
Fools.
Corrupt.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/303158/mps-were-'salespeople'-for-dairy-co-labour
I don’t know why they even bother interviewing Key anymore. Not only is he as slippery as a greased whippet, he routinely mangles the English language in such a way you need a fucking interpreter to understand the disingenuous shit.
As I’ve said elsewhere, many of his former colleagues couldn’t even understand the cnut – until they got their marching orders.
It’s interesting too, how whenever he’s lying blatantly his speech becomes rather (stereotypically) effeminate or drunken. Sssssssssslippery ssssssucking ssssssssshithead
Excellent link.
I hope this becomes a story on The Standard. It’s another scandal brewing.
Congratulations to Labour MP Damien O’Connor. Nice work.
People high up in a bureaucracy and being supportive of a company is selling that company.
Yes it does as that would be the very definition of Conflict of Interest.
“Yes it does as that would be the very definition of conflict of interest.”
Exactly Draco. The previous sentence from key did my head in.
I could only think,” another potty statement from key’s corrupt little mind.”
It’s the ‘nature’ of his being, unfortunate’y for New Zealand.
Sad,very sad.
Has there been a lot of pre-budget releases by this government?
Seems that the money for “cyber-crime”, the suddenly found money for Melanoma drugs, and the 64,000 electric cars were all pre-budget dumps in order to take the heat off dear leader and his lawyer.
I imagine even John Key is happy at the success of the healthy homes bill. It too took some of the heat off him this week.
“Protest never changes anything? Look at how TTIP has been derailed”
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/05/protest-never-changes-anything-derailing-ttip-trade-agreement
Excellent news that the Europeans are unlikely to sign up to a version of TPPA.
That photo at the top is seriously creepy of a man with some bad karma
The rent is still too damn high.
The results
So what did we learn?
First, spending inequality – what we should really care about – is far smaller than wealth inequality. This is true no matter the age cohort you consider.
Take 40-49-year-olds. Those in the top 1 percent of our resource distribution have 18.9 of net wealth but account for only 9.2 percent of the spending. In contrast, the 20 percent at the bottom (the lowest quintile) have only 2.1 percent of all wealth but 6.9 percent of total spending. This means that the poorest are able to spend far more than their wealth would imply – though still miles away from the 20 percent they would spend were spending fully equalized.
https://theconversation.com/weve-been-measuring-inequality-wrong-heres-the-real-story-56179
Yeah, money flows from the bottom to the top. It’s the poor paying for the rich to be rich.