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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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MP Kiri Allan. Open, honest, calm and dignified while under a huge stress:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12229078
Have been so impressed with Kiri, even before she became an MP.
She has handled such a distressing matter exceptionally well. An MP to be very proud of.
Impressive.
That is a sad situation. She was very dignified and honest in her comments.
Nick Smith reminds me of a Guild Navigator.
He looks fucken terrible in that photo – he needs put out to the back paddock imo.
What do you mean in that photo?. He always looks terrible.
Dr custard.
Jeez, go him for his politics, his hypocrisy, his performance in the house…
For his appearance.. give yourselves an uppercut.
Calm down son.
Yea, try to be nice.
I am trying!
Fair call. He looks good but he's a bloody idiot. Okay?
What's a Guild Navigator?
Is your google broken?
Pity my solkta isn't broken.
Fat ugly slug from a sci fi series. Dune.
Could fold space though so not all bad. Not sure Dr. Nick does time travel.
Not so sure Smith could handle the drugs the Guild Navigators got through though.
Good point – a guild navigator is actually useful for something.
My favourite version….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrzy3TIOG94
or, Edric remodeled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVIZX_tIa-w
If you haven't read the books GWS….https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel)
What's not to like about self fertilising corn.
The corn variety Sierra Mixe grows aerial roots that produce a sweet mucus that feeds bacteria. The bacteria, in turn, pull nitrogen out of the air and fertilize the corn. If scientists can breed this trait into conventional corn, it could lead to a revolution in agriculture.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/corn-future-hundreds-years-old-and-makes-its-own-mucus-180969972/
Via the excellent #Massimo
Or ya could just mix crop with a legume. ie grow beans on them.
What's not to like? Looks like it's still an annual. Combine the nitrogen fixing and the strain that makes corn into a perennial and I'll get really excited.
https://sites.psu.edu/futureoffood/2016/02/21/annual-to-perennial-corn/
Does anyone here knows what has to the guys over at transportblog.co.nz?
They became Greater Auckland.
https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/
And only just switched off the automatic redirection from the old site.
Bloody IPad won’t let me reply, anyway to Andre@ 4.14
Thank you for the link.
Cheers, Exk
https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/category/rapid-transit/
That might be easier for you to get through to transport Ex Kiwi.
Here we go again.
Jami-Lee Ross accuses Simon Bridges of failing to declare gifts from donor
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/05/jami-lee-ross-accuses-simon-bridges-of-failing-to-declare-gifts-from-donor.html
The Urban Gardener is 5G proofing his home. It's high on my wishlist for sure.
Crazier than a soup sandwich. Besides, there's still the whole world outside the house to worry about. It'd be a whole lot easier to just wear a faraday suit around all the time.
Oh boy.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt9c2K2Ak4I/
too far down the yellow brick flushing road for help I'm afraid – goneburger.
"So….despite all the rhetoric of compassion, there’s no appetite within this coalition for significant welfare reform and indeed, significant hostility exists to it. Peters is not the only (or most important) factor. Labour’s Third Way politicians dominate its senior ranks. At heart, they have no serious quarrel with neo-liberalism, but would prefer its social outcomes to be nicer. Plus, they’re immensely risk-averse, politically speaking. That’s the main reason why – under Clark and Ardern alike – National’s benefit cuts of the early 1990s have not been addressed. It is why the benefit increases advocated by the Welfare Expert Advisory Group – of between 12% and 47% – have already been ruled out.
For anyone on the left, 2019 has been a wake-up call. This is not a centre-left government. It is a centrist government on a tight leash….."
http://werewolf.co.nz/2019/05/gordon-campbell-on-yesterdays-token-moves-on-climate-change-and-interest-rates/
Gordon Campbell seldom gets it wrong.
It shouldn’t be impossible for Labour to win popularity by building a better welfare safety net. Michael Savage won lasting gratitude for taking the risks involved. There’s now a similar challenge – and opportunity – for Labour and the Greens to build such a compassionate welfare system that a future National government would find it too politically costly to undo.
They've already channeled Savage, they should maybe take the advice of Campbell and go for broke.
But with honesty this time.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12149888
I doubt they could bring themselves to try even if they thought it a net vote winner (which is unlikely)…they fundamentally oppose it despite the rhetoric
We don't yet have a Green-Labour government.
Lol….you mean we dont yet have a Greens government….it is Labour that are fundamentally opposed…and curiously Newsroom seem to be speculating along the same lines….not sure it will fly again however
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/05/09/575130/jacindas-biggest-call-is-coming
Agreed Pat 100% Regarding on 8.
No wonder inn late 2017 Winston came out of final coalition talks saying "a lot of people will be disappointed."
Wanker.
https://twitter.com/ChrisPenknz/status/1126413967755071488
An own goal for the stupid gnat potential leader.
They'd have to be scraping the barrel to get anywhere near him as leader.
Being a Gnat MP is like being part of a secondary school prank team devising ways to wound and mock the other political parties, and present them as people to be doubted or objects of disparaging glee.
At secondary school, there is family money behind these kids, they can pull out the stops to get through their exams and share or cover schoolwork on an everyday basis, and so there is plenty of time for devising stunts and hoaxes against the school, authority, and whoever seems vulnerable that they are aware of and it's tremendously enjoyable.
Murdoch is doing this in Australia to Labour Shorten at present. Not a mischievous prank but a malicious one claiming that Shorten is a confabulist whose words and history can't be trusted – aren't what they appear, that hurts the whole country. But that is the way that the people at the top manipulate situations to their advantage.
It does seem like a hobby sometimes.
100% GWS
Assad's flat out butchering Syrians with the help of the Russians. Nobody cares.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/05/civilians-pay-price-syrian-russian-forces-pound-idlib-190508113554875.html
The documents revealed that the people of the village had used Islamist “justice” to betray their neighbours – in one case to name family cousins as potential spies, in another to accuse a young man of secretly meeting his girlfriend when he was supposed to attend evening prayers. Other neighbours accused each other of theft. A man supposedly collecting money for an electrical generator had pocketed the cash for himself. One potential agent – possibly for the Syrian government – was handed on for “justice” by the “Revolutionary Islamic Police Court”.
And it came as no surprise when, an hour after I had come across these hundreds of documents on the floor of the “court”, a large group of grimly smiling citizens from 27 villages around Deir Hafar arrived in the main highway through the village, dressed in long, grubby brown robes, to seek out the Syrian army’s officers. They brought with them a joint petition signed by their mukhtars and village leaders seeking “reconciliation” with the Syrian government. The soldiers were not interested. They accepted the petition indifferently and briskly told the sorrowful men, heads bowed in submission, to get in touch with the authorities in Aleppo and Damascus if they wished to seek forgiveness.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/syria-civil-war-isis-assad-islamic-state-history-ireland-lebanon-yugoslavia-a8835031.html
Buyers remorse.
How to break up a community; encourage people to spy and report on each other to achieve some supposedly good end, as in Syria.
Recently there was a suggestion that NZs should inform on each other if they came across an example of what they considered 'hate speech'.
Nothing good comes of getting mixed up with the al qaeda boys joey.