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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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And again this evening on the 6pm news it was gleefully articulated that the One News Poll has caused a "stir around parliament" and given Labour a "rev up"…….." meanwhile Christopher Luxon says he has years of it…….
https://ondemand.parliament.nz/parliament-tv-on-demand/?itemId=234289
The expression 'flip-flop' is often heard in regards to politicians and parties. Does that apply to this?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/election-2023-act-founder-sir-roger-douglas-not-voting-for-act-for-welfare-wealth-tax-concerns/NFSQJSV4UVBVPGWPDA6QIENOZI/
Wow, next he might realise that water is wet!
"National leader Christopher Luxon said he would be happy to welcome Douglas as a National Party supporter………….."
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/election-2023-act-founder-sir-roger-douglas-not-voting-for-act-for-welfare-wealth-tax-concerns/NFSQJSV4UVBVPGWPDA6QIENOZI/
Who else would Mr Luxon welcome…….anyone to get into power it seems…..
Well…he did rule out them Maoris…and Bishop Brian. Or did he?
And re ol' sir Rog Douglas. WTAF. I have to say i was pretty much gobsmacked to read it. All the generations of NZ people he and his cronies damaged. To say nothing of their selling off/dismantling all our hard built NZ .
Maybe had an epiphany? Guilt? like ol' sir Jim Bolger. Or something.
Thought the same.An old age epiphany…Malcom Fraser in Oz was the most surprising.
Hi. Be so much better if those creeps had the epiphanies…way earlier. Like before they fucked things up so much.
Ah well.
Plenty of Maori in the National caucus. Dr Reti is the most famous, but Tama Potaka is the one to watch coming up the ranks.
Difficult to know where he would swing to (having ruled out ACT because of their tax policies)
He seems to have ruled out the GP and Labour (both of whom, will, I'm sure, be highly relieved), and is unenthusiastic about National (if ACT isn't radical enough for him – it seems unlikely National would be)
What does that leave? TPM (surely not – if Labour is too left wing); NZF (Winston? Seems unlikely); TOP perhaps?
Perhaps he'll join the increasing numbers of 'did not vote'….
Published last year by a former Bok so nope, not satire. Looks a bit blasphemy to me, though.
During the presidency of President Donald Trump, it became evident to me that the prophecies about the Son of Man, as predicted by Jesus in the Bible were, to a significant extent, fulfilled at the hands of Mr Trump. The Bible speaks about two different Christs-or Messiahs. Jesus, the Son of God is the one Christ, whereas the Son of Man is the other. Jesus always referred to the Son of Man……
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1977249248/
Jesus wept.
Hoo boy, the reviews….
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1977249248/#customerReviews
There has been a lack of a leader of the white race brotherhood internationale (and the exodus from the beloved country) since Pieta Botha.
But best wait for the book written by Trump himself, when he is in prison. One suspects it will involve people buying a ticket on a spaceship, a huuge spaceship that will allow people to look over where he should have reigned for ever and ever.
Ransoming the food that the hungry and desperate in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East are dependent on.
Classy.
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LONDON (AP) — Russia on Monday halted a breakthrough wartime deal that allowed grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia where hunger is a growing threat and high food prices have pushed more people into poverty.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Black Sea Grain Initiative would be suspended until demands to get Russian food and fertilizer to the world are met
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-grain-food-security-ba7f9146b745337a1948a964cb30331c
Interesting to see how much Ukrainian grain ended up in poor countries
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1333847/ukrainian-agricultural-exports-via-the-black-sea-by-country/#:~:text=China%20was%20the%20leading%20export,Spain%2C%20while%20Turkey%20ranked%20third.
Amusing to see the Russian government seize the assets of Danone and Carlsberg.
This, after both EU and US set down massive sanctions against doing business with Russia over a year ago.
Hope Russia also seizes the local assets of Coke, Unilever, Mondelez and the rest of the value-free corporates deciding to hang in there and keep Russia's shelves stocked.
Business decisions my ass.
From Countdown, the brand destroyed by the price of everything going up, to Woolworths.
In it for ewe.
AEthel comes from the Norwegian word for noble.
Æthelstan or Athelstan (/ˈæθəlstæn/; Old English: Æðelstān [ˈæðelstɑːn]; Old Norse: Aðalsteinn; lit. ’noble stone’; was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and King of the English from 927 to his death in 939.] He was the son of King Edward the Elder and his first wife, Ecgwynn. Modern historians regard him as the first King of England and one of the “greatest Anglo-Saxon kings”, he was succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelstan