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6:00 pm, December 15th, 2015 - 12 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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That MP line looks like a big tick for MPs. They are up. We are down. Tough luck. What are we going to do about it?
Keep our heads down and kneel to indicate our humble lot in life.
So the National Party logo (with John Key replaced by a fern) won the sweep-stake. I presume their members and supporters are going to get a tax-break for following instructions and voting for Dear Leader’s personal preference. I’m up for a few flag burning ceremonies in the event of an [almost certain] campaign to influence the result of the second referendum by foul means.
Tested and pathogen free so that’s okay….
“We were crying, but we kept peeling shrimp,” he said. “We couldn’t rest. … I think people are guilty if they eat the shrimp that we peeled like slaves.”
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/8f64fb25931242a985bc30e3f5a9a0b2/ap-global-supermarkets-selling-shrimp-peeled-slaves
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jun/10/supermarket-prawns-thailand-produced-slave-labour
Neo-liberal capitalism really has a lot to answer for.
It’s what you always get with a hierarchy where a few control the resources of the community.
There is one increase not shown on that graph that would most likely have a much higher peak then the money received by our MPs and that is the increase in the 1% bank account balances under National.
Good point!
Didn’t the average incomes for the top earners over the previous 6-7 years, exceed 20% to the average ordinary folk’s increase of 2-4%?
aren’t we getting ahead of ourselves?
I had it on good authority that Key was thrilled that not one vote was cast in the recent referendum, for the existing flag? Just shows you how popular Key/fern is.
In the spirit of change for changes sake & to lift the shackles of our colonial past I propose to replace the titles ‘Dame’ & ‘Sir’ with ‘Hoofwanker’ & ‘Bunglecunt’.
Company engages in misleading advertising and they don’t get charged for it despite charging up to twice as much for the same product.