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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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George Galloway provides coverage of the news you just never hear in this country.
Utterly compulsive listening.
Once you’ve heard him, you’ll be hooked.
As an insightful listener says. this is
This on Skripal
And the first 5 minutes of this on the staged chemical attack.
Yea Russia was warning of possible false flag gas attack upon Syria in the weeks leading up.
A false flag false flag or dare I say a false flag false flag false flag …in other news zzzzzzzzzzz
Yes as Galloway mentions – have you listened to him before?
Utterly brilliant.
BBC understands that the daughter has now been discharged from hospital, and has been taken to a safe house. So she won’t be talking to the media any time soon.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/354714/russian-spy-daughter-discharged-from-hospital
Galloway details this and more.
Worth a listen.
Well, it didn’t take long for the Green Party “Deputy Musterer” to use her new found position to apply the whip to the male co-leader, did it.
She wants to return to the role of being allowed to ask patsy questions of the Government in order to reduce the need for them to actually have to answer real questions. I suppose it allows her to talk now.
To be fair Ms Davidson does read out the questions she has been handed by the PMs office in ringing tones. A shame that they don’t have any meat to them.
https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/combined/HansDeb_20180410_20180410_08/tab/video?page=5&mode=form
Is that the sound of your “nightie ripping”?
National are squirming and squealing at having their “decade of deficits” game played back at them. Bloody good I say and long may the oppositions ears ring with the govts refrain.
If not for Carter these disgraces might have been resolved while the Gnats were in power. As they should have been. But Gnat corruption allowed them to deteriorate further. If they’d got back in no action would be taken to remedy them even now.
Chris Trotter joins the ever growing number of people predicting the oncoming economic crash.
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2018/04/10/waiting-for-the-markets-music-to-stop/
anyone else attend Ann Pettifor’s lecture at AUT? or know of a link to it?
Glad to hear of the Zodiac water plant purchase.
Wow! Auckland is taking a battering right now. Fierce winds. Russel brown reports electricity out in Pt Chev. Someone else reports a “brown out” in Papakura.
Also reports of power out in Murawai
https://twitter.com/RPamatatau/status/983621619787620352
Beat me to it. Scary as… I’m wandering around tightly gripping a torch waiting for the lights to go out. House shuddering… 0MG. Massive gust…
Yeah. It’s bloody scary. can’t concentrate on anything right now.
Julie Fairey tweeted:
Russell Brown.
There’s thumbs and clattering around the place.
Power down in Henderson. Vector app is not working so no other info.
House has some storm damage.
The big problem is that I can’t make a coffee.
Damn! Hope yous stay safe.
So far I’ve missed outages, but it’s all around.
Bomber Bradbury reporting an outage in Mt Eden – that must be near me.
And someone reported a flash and probably a substation gone around Newton/Mt Eden
https://twitter.com/NiwaWeather/status/983639685934153730
Auckland really is rubbish isn’t it. Only takes a mild blow for some substation or other to blow up.
Talking of mild blows, what’s Len Brown up to these days ?
Yeah, safe as houses…
Part of the patio roof got blown off. Only clear plastic so not too much of an issue but it was the piece that butts up against the house and helps protect that as well. Got a tarp over it now with proper repairs being scheduled.
Garage door got blown in. Not too much damage there bit the back window in the garage also got blown out.
Power finally got put back on about half an hour ago.
So, all good.
I bet that coffee tasted great though 😉
Stay safe in Jaffaville tonight, don’t do what the misses and I did when old mate Marcus come through couple a wks ago in Darwin when we realise we had bread rolls lunch. Driving in a Cat 2 cyclone isn’t much chop to woollies and back home again wouldn’t want to be in a Cat 5 cyclone. 5 Days on the bloody chainsaw wasn’t much chop either especially when I had do it the old fashion way with the pinch bar, the winch on the landie, block and tackle in the wet season.
We got a wallop down here in the Mount too. Was a bit late in the day for me to be worried about coffee though 😉
I can’t help but wonder why Richard Griffin is going to defy the Select Committee’s demand to hand over the phone voicemail between him and Clare Curran – “RNZ chairman Richard Griffin says he has no intention of handing over a voice message left on his mobile phone by Broadcasting Minister Clare Curran. “No, I have no intention of handing it over, so I’m in breach of the select committee directive,” he told the Herald.”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12029948
Yes, it is very curious.
Either he’s had a sudden but brief fit of integrity, or the message doesn’t match what he led the public to believe.