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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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An interesting essay on the nature of denialism:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/03/denialism-what-drives-people-to-reject-the-truth
The Guardian is in denial of its sell out to neoliberalism.
Or an enlightened entity pretending they don’t long for enlightenment? May they surprise us next week with evidence of evolution, and give us an essay on how to obtain the sufferings of post-denialism.
Oh no it’s not! (couldn’t resist 😛 )
I liked this bit:
The essay then meanders through Irving-style traditional denialism (lots of research that supports bunk) into post-denialism (“Whereas denialism explains – at great length – post-denialism asserts. Whereas denialism is painstakingly thought-through, post-denialism is instinctive. Whereas denialism is disciplined, post-denialism is anarchic”).
Something to mull over.
If it’s better for counter-revolution to incite revolution, then Trump is a really effective Trotskyist.
Once the mid-terms are over I am definitely going to write the Hillary Clinton Presidency counterfactual history, together with all the epistemic reverses.
The National opposition obviously believes in tedious repetition….. woof woof woof….bark bark bark…..”oh look another passing car, quick”…… woof woof woof…..bark bark bark………
Claire might object to being called a passing car, she is very important you know
Clare
Opleasegod give us a reshuffle by Christmas.
Note the fun Winston provides when questioned by the new slim Paula as she labours away at having her tedious questions ridiculed. She thinks that she is going to Wow. Winston thinks that she is just setting herself as a Target. Chuckle. Chuckle.
Question Time can be entertaining. Q1
https://www.parliament.nz/en/watch-parliament/ondemand?itemId=202377
Sorry. Wrong track. Winston V Paula:
https://www.parliament.nz/en/watch-parliament/ondemand?itemId=202454
Its the “gotcha” mentality, Bennett is doomed along with most of the entire Nat front bench. The Nats firmly believe that Jacinda Ardern and the coalition govt can be ousted in 2020 and all they have to do is “get them” as many times as possible. Sadly for the Nats (happily for the rest of us) nine years of neglect in govt means at least nine years of being in opposition.
Sadly for you not all the “rest of us” Actually agree with you.
That’s why national poll so high.
Fuck off James, it’s tribal and you know it. It’s like Trump’s core support, unthinking, tub thumping, slogan waving and unwavering allegiance.
Winston really enjoyed that. Not sure who could coach Paula, but Wayne could tell her, and someone needs to.
That was great fun. Paula was obviously not expecting Winnie to be back and in top form. I think she thought she was going to walk all over Kelvin Davis, and she just does not have the flexibility to adjust her questions to changing situations. Interesting that Simon was missing yesterday and no news of him today. Seemed to be struggling with a sore throat on Tuesday, though.
PMs are never at QT Thursdays.
Was the forced debate on Clare Curran after QT Tuesday a chance for Bridges to strut his stuff? Yes and what a shouty shambles that was. 15 minutes of incoherant rubbish from Bridges rambling all over and away from the topic. (Wonder if they were not prepared for their own forced debate because they didn’t expect Trevor to approve it?)
https://www.parliament.nz/en/watch-parliament/ondemand?itemId=202326
As you say, I had not expected to see the PM, but I also not expected to see Peters either, as they both left Nauru together (with officials and press people) on the B757 at about midnight Weds for the 5 -6 hour flight back to NZ. (NZ and Nauru time/dates are the same.) Peters has also been on the move on overseas trips almost continuously since JA returned from maternity leave.
Re the urgent debate, it was Bridges who called for it – but as you say, a shambles. LOL. You’re probably right that they thought Mallard would not allow it.
Re Paula, I am beginning to think that she really thinks she has a chance at replacing Bridges. She did have a reasonable run in QT on Wednesday with Davis, but not all onesided.
https://www.parliament.nz/en/watch-parliament/ondemand?itemId=202377
She was also in full flight in opening the General Debate on Weds.
https://www.parliament.nz/en/watch-parliament/ondemand?itemId=202388
This is what passes for thinking in the National Party; repetitive and narrow.
Thanks Hale and Pace for the example.
Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.
No better example than Penny.
We should all admire, feel shame and hope her spirit will live on.
And if not (like me) we should prepare ourselves to fuck off somewhere where the social always trumps the economic. (I’ve got a nice little nestle in mind – and its equipped with fibre connectivity and an endless supply of veges and the purest of water – (going forward) – kind of like an American Wanker’s bolt hole
“-kind of like an American Wanker’s bolt hole”
Gulp! What an image that conjures.
Got to go and scrub my brain…
Boom.
and!
https://abovethelaw.com/2018/09/and-now-marc-kasowitz-shows-up-in-these-hearings-on-to-day-3/
Harris replaced Barbara Boxer. Perhaps Feinstein should take the hint.
Yep – She really has some excellent probing questions:
CSPAN has posted the entire nearly 8-minute exchange between Kamala Harris and Kavanaugh on the Mueller probe. It is worth your time.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1037531080402919424
He has all the needed votes locked.
This is just sad theatre.
No Ad that is where you are wrong. Harris may have something on Kavanaugh whereby he either has to withdraw, or at least recuse himself from from any case involving Mueller.
… he’ll be in without so much as a hair out of place.
Trump may well get three, or even four slots within the one term.
You might like to watch the video of the hearings and questions I linked to above. Kavanaugh is caught like a deer in headlights – he’s sweating on this one. Of course the repugnants will vote him in if he does not withdraw his nomination – but the Harris has something on him, and if he is caught in a lie here – it wont go well for him past the mid terms.
Oh.
I was going to post this question tomorrow along with an Antarctic Treaty one while this mornings Oz paper, I’ll leave the Antarctic one for tomorrow.
I just received my birthday present a book called “Mad on Radium, New Zealand in the Atom Age”.
Page 95, mentions the USA 9 Jul 1962 conducted a bomb test at Johnston Atoll, where the US lanuch a rocket fitted with 1.2 Mt H Bomb which the USA exploded above Johnston Atoll at a height of 320km, which was designed to test the effects of a nuclear explosion on radio- and radar- communication, it also disrupted NZ’s telecommunications systems and created an artificial aurora across the northern hemisphere.
Did anyone here witness the aurora or experience issues with their radios etc and would to share their experience, thoughts or feelings on what they saw that night.
“One-planet living means not only seeking to reduce our own consumption, but also mobilising against the system that promotes the great tide of junk. This means fighting corporate power, changing political outcomes and challenging the growth-based, world-consuming system we call capitalism.
As last month’s Hothouse Earth paper, which warned of the danger of flipping the planet into a new, irreversible climatic state, concluded: “Incremental linear changes … are not enough to stabilise the Earth system. Widespread, rapid and fundamental transformations will likely be required to reduce the risk of crossing the threshold.”
Disposable coffee cups made from new materials are not just a non-solution: they are a perpetuation of the problem. Defending the planet means changing the world.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/06/save-earth-disposable-coffee-cup-green
Could this be the answer? 35years of satellite images show climate change is causing net global reforestation, driven by regrowth in the extratropics.
More trees is a surprise to me. Also surprised to learn there is a region called the extratropics.
Published in that Nature rag though, probably just more dodgy science.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0411-9
More trees, sort that global financial debt shit and go organic. No worries mate.
“However all the tree cover data comes with an important caveat: tree cover is not necessarily forest cover. Industrial timber plantations, mature oil palm estates, and other non-natural “planted forests” quality as tree cover. For example, cutting down a 100-hectare tract of primary forest and replacing it with a 100-hectare palm plantation will show up in the data as no net change in forest cover: the 100-hectare loss is perfectly offset by the 100-hectare gain in tree cover. Yet, that activity would be counted as “deforestation” by FAO. Therefore tree cover loss does not directly translate to “deforestation” in all cases.”
https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/earth-has-more-trees-now-than-35-years-ago/
Charlie Mitchell on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/comingupcharlie
“This is currently the splash on a major New Zealand website. It is dangerous and utterly dishonest.
This guy is one of the most gullible, uncurious people I’ve ever encountered. He’s going but the damage has been done.”
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/leighton-smith-show/opinion/leighton-smith-we-need-to-push-back-on-climate-change-hoax/
Monbiot, huh.
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Monbiot keeping on track for a Knighthood. He’ll be able to do dinner with the likes of John Key, Mick Jagger and all those other British patriots.
Yeah, give us a sign, please?
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