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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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Will no one think of this awful woman's feelings.
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Times columnist Melanie Phillips was laughed down by BBC Question Time’s audience after she pointed to “video pictures” she’d seen on YouTube that showed “food markets in Gaza” were “stocked” in denial of official reports of famine.
Phillips’ remarks came in a heated back and forth with Scottish National Party Westminster leader Stephen Flynn, requiring host Fiona Bruce to intervene in an attempt to challenge some of the writer’s claims.
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.https://www.mediaite.com/uk/why-are-you-laughing-question-time-guest-melanie-phillips-denies-famine-in-gaza-cites-youtube-video-pictures/
Poor Fiona – from the Antiques Roadshow to that antic toadshow.
So a week ago, we started to get serious reports that the IDF and Prison services in Israel – were torturing people to make a link between UNRWA and Hamas.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/03/11/israel-tortured-palestinian-detainees-forced-them-to-make-false-confessions-about-hamas-links-unrwa-report/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/13/after-the-unrwa-report-more-accounts-of-israels-torture-in-gaza
Since these reports and others saying UNRWA is not terrorist organisation. Australia, Sweden and Canada have all unfrozen their funding of UNRWA. We however have a minister more happy to call people nazi – than do his bloody job.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/15/unrwa-funding-australia-reinstates-gaza-aid-october-7-hamas-claims
He's lost the plot:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350205276/nz-politics-live-winston-peters-blames-leftie-shill-reporter-chumbawamba-gate
I asked the band to sue peters over his misuse.
The TPM sports policy stated that the Māori genetic makeup is stronger than others and went on to say that natural ability should be developed by ensuring opportunity to Maori
https://www.maoriparty.org.nz/maori_sports
Winston Peters chose to conflate "natural ability" with a claim of supremacy to justify his attack on co-governance as racist (to broaden the old white support base to those without natural talent for competitive sport of all ages).
Here he is not so much attacking co-governance, but separate funding for Maori in sport, education, health and housing etc
Essentially he is then attacking Te Puna Kokiri and whanau ora – signalling an intent to cleanse the nation of government funding for separate Maori organisations.
Whether his political strategy of moving to the right of ACT, such as removing references to the Treaty in legislation, goes as far as ending funding for Maori broadcasting and kohanga reo is not yet known. But we know extremists just go on further to hype up their base.
I'm disgusted whenever an Archie Bunker turns up and wants the 1950's empire back, all while thinking he's Winston Churchill. Winston Churchill was a student of history. Empires come to an end and the people develop the least worse form of government – democracy, which means women need separate bathrooms in the Commons and an indigenous peoples identity and Treaty rights are respected.
Now a native school lesson about the methodology of science and learning.
Winston Peters, the man.
If a person of superannuant age was privileged enough to go to university, they did so at a time when this was uncommon – that indicated an origin, or future, of privilege.
How people use that privilege is up to them.
One would know that there was little education in Maori history at the time, nor the story of native education well known.
At one point it was thought Maori might die off a as a people. And it had also become uncommon for there to be any discussion of Treaty rights.
And so Maori were coming to assimilate into a settler society, just as migrants were.
It was at this time 1950's-60's that Winston Peters received his cultural upbringing. And this is how we should see the like of him – as someone who chose to join the National Party back in the early 1970's while at university
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/maori-history-avoided-schools-academics
The end of academic education for Maori, lest they remain a people of mana.
https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2022/09/29/the-danger-of-an-untold-story.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_schools
Te Pati Maori
Why is this on google search
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83264-3
where does it say that?
I wrote that above this quote
But I presume you are fixated on this, the Māori genetic makeup is stronger than others, that is reference to the public comment by Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi last year that Peters was misrepresenting
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/03/winston-peters-lloyd-burr-clash-in-fiery-am-interview.html
The current policy document puts it this way.
It doesn’t. Well, not any more. But it did. David Seymour referred to it in Parliament in September 2022 (https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/combined/HansDeb_20220928_20220928_20), and then Jack Tame questioned Rawiri waititi about the comments (I found the video on FB at https://fb.watch/qVjbViqT09/?mibextid=ytq1xL).
A look at the New York State of Mind of our own aging politician.
Not much of a lawyer then, because the Crown was negotiating with the indigenous people, who had claimed sovereignty in 1835, not subjects.
And the partnership that was created was one between the UK Crown and the residents in New Zealand, settler and Maori. One that any Crown government in that realm was expected to honour.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/watch-live-nz-first-leader-winston-peters-to-give-state-of-the-nation-address/BPCKTCK2MBAWRD5CHADECZDG4Y/
The governance rules of English football come under state direction.
Cry for the beautiful game, the government has come to help …
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68602074
The government cannot afford
food in schools
respite services
Cook Strait rail ferries
Bus lanes in Auckland
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350218178/parents-worried-their-children-will-suffer-disability-services-suddenly-cut
GST to 17.5%. Betcha.
Frontline PBS
Boeing then
Now
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/what-has-happened-to-boeing-since-the-737-max-crashes/