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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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http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2015/10/07/securing-buy-in-for-the-tpp-the-deep-state-takes-over/
I suspect there’s an element of truth in what he says.
There’s already signs of it with the Nats preparing to endorse Phil Goff. Mind you I think it comes from Hooten so you have to take it with a grain of salt.
or somebody in NACT is playing games to try to drive a rift between Phil & voters
Yep pretty good analysis imo and you are so true about dirtypolitticsismymiddlename Mat – if he said it don’t trust it – look for the angle he is trying to push and follow it back straight to his political agenda and it ain’t got nothing good for the left in there.
Just as I suspected:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/72855597/labours-annette-king-denies-internal-rift-over-tppa-deal
According to King, Hooten is talking “absolute crap”.
Round two of dirty politics has started.
I was reading a Washington post article linked on open mike that contained this gem
“So if a Vietnamese company with U.S. operations wanted to challenge an increase in the U.S. minimum wage, it could use ISDS”
so we can now only put up the minimum wage for local companies?
If this is in the fine print then we had better stop buying anything locally off multi nationals so they clear out
This story that Russia have accidently hit Iran with missiles is also on stuff, (although Al Jazeera does a much better job at doing balanced reporting). You have to wonder if it’s a ploy from America to deflect attention away from them blowing up a hospital last weekend. If the States keep prodding the Russian bear with a stick I wonder if one day it’s going to get mightily pissed off and react.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/10/russia-denies-syria-missiles-iran-151009003851098.html
Yes, one would think that Iran would have objected by now if there were any truth in it. More spin, as if we do not get enough of it already.
Not necessarily. Part of the Great Game and all that.
But while it’s not unheard of for missiles to go off course or fail (no weapons system is 100% reliable) usually there’s footage from the ground, maybe even parts with serial numbers (ISTR Robert Fisk got tailfin numbers from a missile fired by Israel during the recent war with Hezbollah, and the serial number actually came back to a shipment that had been allocated to the US Marine Corps but went missing).
Having read the first 5 comments I imagine there has been a run on tinfoil at the supermarkets around NZ
No need for me to rush to the supermarket – I have plenty in stock in the second drawer down. One has to be prepared.
Better send the stuff you buy to that major newspaper “the washington post” . According to your comment all they do is publish conspiracy stuff. And it’s not exactly unknown for a bit of trouble making to come as insinuations from some quarters
Nobel Peace Prize to the Tunisian national dialogue quartet – the Tunisian General Labour Union, the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts, the Tunisian Human Rights League and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/09/tunisian-national-dialogue-quartet-wins-2015-nobel-peace-prize
Just hope Tunisia can continue to build consensus and resist the destabilising pressures on the country.