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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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My heart goes out to Nathan Mathis and his family..
http://www.dothaneagle.com/news/letters_to_editor/letter-soul-baring-thoughts-on-gay-bashing/article_a1a6b423-82df-5bff-92fd-46e1e1a12ece.html
Yep very sad. And that Moore guy does not know what a pervert is.
This was interesting my computa starting running aps by its self we no that is not possible now and everytime I got home it started slowing down throttling by my neo liberal neighbours Yes neighbours there are many in this neighbourhood somethings going down hopefully he is getting his ass kicked. Wish full thinking.
I posted a job on May Chen hire a lawyer website and got one reply to me it was a con job by the cops as they asked for my short story. After that all of a sudden my files on the IPCA are deleted low down________ and have had no contact from this person at all????? Kai Kaha
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That is not nice BM. Lots of people have unusual ideas that aren’t completely logical. For instance a lot of economists think we can have infinite growth on a finite planet. Batshit crazy eh?
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[Not necessary and not helpful. I don’t want to see a repeat] – Bill
do you think that just maybe having a place to vent harmlessly might help our mate eco?
BM So your idea of helping is to say batshit crazy. Just butt out why don’t you. We don’t need your facile opinion on everything.
I agree.
Spending hours pumping for the National Party is somewhat unbalanced.
BM, I think you under-appreciate Eco.
Myself, I enjoy going through Eco’s contributions (when time allows, they can be long) to see if I can work out what’s going on.
At the moment I lean towards an ‘Ern Malley’ hypothesis, see Ern Malley.
Slow down friend. I’m a bit confused by all this. It sounds like you are really stressed out and need a bit of support. There is some difficult stuff out there particularly if you don’t have permanent work and a decent income. I hear your’e upset. Just not sure what’s going on. Is there any whanau you can talk to. Take care
The tag team gummon Ana to kai
Popular NZ swim spots out of action for summer
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/346026/popular-nz-swim-spots-out-of-action-for-summer
Are they still wadable?
Only if you are wearing those “Dr Nick’s” brand double thickness neoprene body waders. These are the ones with the now famous “inaction gusset” that allows bullshit to pass out through a semi-permeable membrane but not get in. However the wearer does get very hot (it being neoprene) goes floridly red in the face and as dehydration sets in rambles incoherently, suffers delusions of grandeur and loses touch with reality.
AB
Much enjoyed.
Some Petrol stations are short of the very product that defines them. Wellington and Auckland seem to be affected (these are comments from the grape vine). Anyone out there who can confirm this or knows something along these lines please?
Looks like the good Judge forgot the 1/2 your age plus 7 rule.
Wrongful conviction motivated by prejudice.
Wingnuts should feel ashamed of themselves and stfu.
Regardless of that rule, 14-17 are all underage or does that law not apply to you?
At the time, in that state?
I mean, it should be illegal, but the gap between should and the law is often a chasm.
Ombudsman finds Jacinda was correct about the negotiation documents and that they were not official Govt documents and are there fore entitled to do what ever they want with them, including changing the font.
TV1 news has three political stories tonight, one on John Key, another between Coleman and Julie Anne Genter and this other one titled “English baits PM over whether regional jobs opportunities are in line with what the public were led to believe”.
It’s about time the board at NZ on Air was replaced, I don’t think there would be too many to object to that.
We need a democratic media, not one owned by big corporations and financial interests.
Yes I’m Bored with the Board at RNZ (RadioNZ) who probably pay too much attention to Michelle Boag and top National political; professionals and drivers.
I thought FJK was supposed to be a financial guru with a nose for a deal, yet:
In July 2010 when Key was preparing to sell NZ energy assets for less than they were worth to his wealthy mates at the expense of all NZ shareholders, bitcoin was worth $0.08 each. In 2017 one bitcoin is worth $24,000. That represent an increase in value of over 300,000 times but Key says he never invested.
I’d say the fake Key is a much wiser trader than the real one!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11958276
How could he though? All his money was in blind trusts for 9 years while it developed…
Gone.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/china-scandal-embattled-labor-senator-sam-dastyari-resigns-from-parliament-20171211-h02ddn.html
‘Embattled Labor senator Sam Dastyari has quit Parliament after a series of revelations about his links to Chinese Communist Party-aligned interests in Australia.’
I think several leading National Party MPs and exMPs should be investigated on this charge.
I was watching Question Time today, with the subtitles switched on. Someone types what is said live. So they sometimes type the wrong thing and need to correct.
Initially the following supplementary question from Jonathan Coleman:
Then it was corrected:
Maybe the typist just couldn’t imagine Ardern was using Marxist ideas?
Automatic voice recognition and NZ pronunciation?
Still, it could always be worse 🙂
Make our Planet Great Again.
Macron has style. A sense of humour and a sense of duty.
Sadly Macron is a follower of neoliberal economics, so hardly likely to make the necessary radical changes that will stop capitalism’s destruction of our planet.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/08/emmanuel-macron-france-economics-neoliberalism
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/emmanuel-macron-france-approval-ratings-drop-never-save-the-centre-a7859041.html
http://theweek.com/articles/711600/emmanuel-macrons-nasty-neoliberalism
https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/french-foreign-policy/climate/financing-the-fight-against/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-climatechange/france-vows-to-go-beyond-paris-climate-commitments-idUSKBN18Y1J8
The article I linked to above shows that Maron is following through on this promise.
France along with other EU nations are reducing their GHG emissions.
https://unfccc.int/files/ghg_emissions_data/application/pdf/fra_ghg_profile.pdf
Now I’m no fan of neo-liberal economics anymore than you – but one must give credit where credit is due, and Macron is keeping to his word wrt tackling Climate Change.
Naomi Klein on Need for New Economic Model to Address Ecological Crisis
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8W3scqbuJVQ
‘Surveillance firms spied on campaign groups for big companies, leak shows
Targets included grieving family of Rachel Corrie, environmental activists and local campaigners protesting about phone masts
British Airways, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Porsche are among five large companies that have been identified as having paid corporate intelligence firms to monitor political groups that challenged their businesses, leaked documents reveal.
The surveillance included the use of infiltrators to spy on campaigners.’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/12/surveillance-firms-spied-on-campaign-groups-for-big-companies-leak-shows