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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://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/378521/thompson-and-clark-spied-on-earthquake-victims-inquiry-finds
Time for some people to lose their jobs.
Yep always the same ones being targeted – shows the utter racism and incompetence of the individuals and teams hiring this firm.
So wrong.
The Stasi is here to defend neoliberalism.
Yeah, Thomson and Clark are just like the Ministry of State Security that detained an estimated 250,000 East Germans as political prisoners and arrested, interrogated, beat, tortured and drugged countless thousands more deemed obstructive to the regime and it’s masters in Moscow.
Idiot.
How is it that the government unilaterally investigating organisations that they don’t like not oppressive?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/109456590/public-service-bosses-ignored-warnings-about-thompson–clark-for-years
yep Andrea is pretty clear
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/109458104/southern-response-boss-resigns-before-meeting-with-minister
that was quick….even if overdue
Megan Woods impressively quick to get accountability there. He will have heard her tone on RNZ Checkpoint and realised time was up: https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018676170/megan-woods-disappointed-with-southern-response
Still needs to be investigated.
Stepping down should not stop investigations into wrong doing nor charges if wrong doing is found.
Good comment from Dr Russell Norman – did Simon Bridges direct MBIE to spy on people, or was he just incapable of overseeing his ministry (words to that effect – rough day)
https://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018676175
+ 1 Exactly
she looks manic, not very happy, just manic.
Works for me.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DulhjLvV4AAbKvg.jpg
mark mitchell mp – just who is this dude
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Mitchell_(politician)
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/21-02-2018/why-aspiring-national-leader-mark-mitchells-war-for-profit-past-matters/
I am concerned about this member – I don’t like him or his attitudes or the things he has done.
Telling text on Evening Checkpoint tonight after discussion about the Petition to review the driving punishment..
“I signed the petition thinking it was an issue worth speaking up about. But then I found it was a Political plan from the National Party and Mark Mitchell. If I had known that I would never have signed it.” (Paraphased)
And also the girl was not from a privileged background and was driving a mercedes with the owner beside her. The victim had gone through a red light on his bike. A bit scary that Mitchell can whip up such a storm on misinformation.
And now the girl is facing death threats. (Of course it is terribly sad for the boy and his family.)
I am inclined to agree with you Marty – thanks.
He is too ambitious – I don’t like that in my politicians 🙂
pride goes before the fall. And while he has a lean and hungry look, Judith is far more experienced at weathering scandals and replying with her own backstabbing. As soon as he looks like a competitor, she’ll knobble him somehow. Maybe “someone” will invent a juicy war crime story and spread it on a blogsite of the tory faithful – impossible to verify, enough accuracy to make denial difficult…
George Galloway notes.
“Under Gaddafi, Libya’s debt was 3% of GDP, after Gaddafi, it’s over 40%, mostly owed to EU & US. Libya had free health care, free education, free housing and subsidies. All Libyans had Jobs and even imported workers from other parts of Africa. Now over 50% are jobless.”
Now they have slavery.
And extremist Jihadis.
Thanks Clinton and Cameron.
You left out the frogs and old mate from Russia for not sticking up for old Gaddafi in his time of need.
Medvedev an old mate of yours?
Thank you Ed. Pilger talks about the “Uncorking of Africa” and the mass migration flows into Europe once Gaddafi was ousted. Also Mark Curtis speaks in a recent interview about how the perpatrators of Europe’s recent terrorist attacks were all trained in ISIS camps in Libya post-Gaddafi. Truly awful.
Manchester bombers included
Oh bugger!! It’s time to re-establish the MoW folks, so much for the big end of town being cheap and cost effective as the free market advocates use to say in the late 80’s to 90’s.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/109454206/auckland-rail-project-contractor-put-up-for-sale-after-administrators-appointed
We’re seeing shit like this all over the world. Governments contracts out to the private sector in one way or another and then the business goes broke due to mismanagement and the government is left in hock.
Governments should not be subject to market forces brought about by failing private business. It’s simply too friggen important. That’s why we had the MoW, Telecom, and state power and many other that got sold off or indirectly privatised and now we’re paying for it.
Time for some serious re-nationalisation.
+1000 long overdue. Shonky couldn’t tell enough porkys to flog off the generators knowing it’s a good deal for the investors and a bad one for the consumers and the state.