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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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https://simpleflying.com/new-zealand-high-aviation-emissions-explanation/
Na it's the cows!!
116% increase in emmisions from 1990 to 2020
Timing is everything.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/donations-cases-back-to-haunt-national-nz-first
WaPo freebie.
Follow the alleged path of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago
https://t.co/OmBKQmvvhH
https://twitter.com/spat106/status/1668131490717388800
He's said it before, too.
https://twitter.com/StrayDogNZ/status/1668136905572253700
A land governed of, by and for the middle class (those who own property and who want to afford their international travel and or rental investment equity via lower taxes). Thus co-existence with an underclass reliant on state supplied education and health care (rather than private schools and health insurance) and landlords – managed in the American way (more prisons, boot camps, the unemployed under management to determine they are deserving poor, and 6 month pre employment tests to weed out the hiring of unionists).
high calibre Māori
bottom feeders
He fucking hates us.
It is his view in recent years New Zealand has dropped the ball in ensuring it stay attractive for wealthy upper and middle classes consumers that want to come here.
“New Zealand has dropped down their list of preferred places to visit because we've been off the radar, because we've been so internally focused the last six years, having been very isolated, very insular, very inward looking, very wet, whiny and negative, rather than out in the world hustling and actually making and building relationships.
“So there's an awful lot of work to do in terms of restoring and building those relationships back in place and also tourism to raise its profile with international visitors.”
https://crux.org.nz/crux-news/luxon-qtown-speech-housing-crisis-insane-as-land-is-available/
Context.
Etymology
In British slang, "wet" meant weak, "inept, ineffectual, effete".[3] Within the political context, the term was used by Thatcher's supporters as both as a noun and as an adjective to characterise people or policies which Thatcher would have considered weak or "wet".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wets_and_dries
That makes it even worse.
Today it might have been a gaffe, an "oops I misspoke". But no, he's said it before, deliberately, publicly. And it didn't even get picked up.
If Ardern had ever said anything like that … cue meltdown.
He is right though, isn't he?
Nope, he’s not right and makes up BS statements on the hoof.
https://www.infometrics.co.nz/article/2023-04-tourism-recovery-hit-plateau
No, you're not getting away with that old game.
The old Collins eyebrow trick … "he didn't really mean it but actually he's got a point …" – no, not having that. National and their proxies must pick a lane.
If Luxon backs you on this, then good. If he comes out tomorrow and says "Yes, I meant every word, that's exactly what I think about my country and here's why …" – then fine, let him make his case, fight his corner.
But you know perfectly well what will happen, the same as all the other times. A "spokesperson" will "clarify". Nicola Willis will say "no, look over there, something something bad government something".
Luxon himself will waffle and wriggle and hope it goes away. It's always the double crime with Luxon: say the shitty thing (for one audience), and then pretend he didn't really mean the shitty thing (for the rest of us).
Time he was called to account. Long past time, actually.
Follow the money. If Luxon was genuine, the party would support those having families and that would be demonstrated in their policy. Incomes, taxation policy and affordable and healthy housing.
An OK opinion piece by Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa, a researcher with The Disinformation Project:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/132292878/the-idea-that-new-zealand-is-safe-from-russian-disinformation-is-an-enduring-fiction
I do wonder what he bases his claim on about “exclusively”!? It seems inconsistent with other statements in his opinion piece such as references to channels based in the US and Dr Hattotuwa doesn’t present any clear or convincing evidence to validate this claim.
Exclusively etc " Inconsistent " ??
ID say its a crock of shit in crock of shit land !!
meanwhile Luxon and National also promise farmers they will kick responsibilities for climate change gases 5 years down the road. The likes of groundswell et al will like that. Go back to 2 decades and another National Party leader (dishonest Don Brash) promised to scrap carbon taxes as it "will increase the cost of living, undermine the competitiveness of business and achieve nothing for the environment". Nothing much changed it seems, no action, no commitment to trying to do something, even a modicum, just continual obfuscation and hollow words.
Off to the great bunga bunga party in the sky.
Silvio Berlusconi died at 9:30 today, at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan. The former premier, leader of Forza Italia and founder of Mediaset was 86 years old.
https://www.corriere.it/politica/23_giugno_12/silvio-berlusconi-morto-8ab875a6-08f8-11ee-9252-2eef801783fd.shtml