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6:00 pm, August 12th, 2015 - 9 comments
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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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Learning some Maori words :
[1] Ata marie = Good morning
Hear the pronunciation below:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player/2537187
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[2] Mōrena =Good morning
http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player/2537186
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Is NZ becoming an economic hostage of China?
Listen to Former British Labour MP Bryan Gould here:
http://www.radiolive.co.nz/AUDIO-Is-NZ-becoming-an-economic-hostage-of-China/tabid/506/articleID/93958/Default.aspx
He has also written an article in the NZ Herald yesterday:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11495479
Tacky National tactics revealed
http://t.co/5JoOzdViFN
A good read, thanks.
Here’s another that shows how professional ethical lines have blurred:
American Psychological Association Bars Psychologists From Colluding In Torture
Watch the Centruy of Self and you’ll find that we’ve been badly manipulated for near on a century now.
It’s not something new but it is something that we’re really only just starting to wake up from.
Obesity is an incurable disease. So why is the government intent on punishing sufferers?
Well, that should put the cat amongst the pigeons especially considering that the profit drive is probably responsible for a lot of that obesity, through advertising, in the first place.
I wouldn’t be surprised if actually gut bacteria have a massively outsized effect on our physiologies and we haven’t really realized it yet. Theoretically they could go as far as to influence brain and hormone chemistry.
There’s increasing evidence that people who have “high metabolisms” usually have a very different gut flora from those with “slow metabolisms”, and that transplanting the gut flora from slim people into fat people will see them automatically lose weight – because the bacteria in their gut aren’t as ‘effective’ at making nutrients available to the body. Similarly it seems that gut bacteria can also influence feelings of hunger.
Yeah, that wouldn’t surprise me either.