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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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Seems the US are supporting Iraq and Kurdish ground forces against ISIS.
More to come.
Funny how whenever there’s ‘shock resignations’ of National government ministers it’s about rejuvenation and forward thinking, yet when Labour party press secretaries do the same there’s a poisonous culture in Andrew Little’s office.
Yep and the Minister sucking the oxygen out of the announcement of National’s Mt Roskill campaign is not exactly the thing a slick organisation normally does.
I notice the seemingly permanent billboards along Mt Albert Road with Parata and Parmar photoshopped together are hastily being taken down.
Wood’s campaign looks good visually from the start aided by Little’s presence early even though Watkins tried to mock him for it.
The Nats are giving the impression the decision was made a while ago. May not be necessarily so …
The Nats always try to make it look like the decision was made a while ago. After all, if they admitted that the decision was made yesterday, which is usually the case, then they’d look like a bunch of incompetents.
That’s odd. Is a Parata scandal about to break?
Clearly her image is seen to be damaging to Parmar’s Mt Roskill campaign. In a Stalinist move they have set about expunging Parata from the past.
Not sure National has learned much from Northland.
Will Steven Joyce be heading this campaign? Government limos cruising along Hillsborough Road?
Archie Roach – one of this year’s artists at WOMAD in March:
In Aotearoa we now have the “Vulnerable Children’s Act”. What will it mean for the future?
Book slams Uber, Airbnb, sharing economy: Walkom
The problem with the way these things are panning is that it’s still driven by the capitalist idea of profit for a few people from the work of many. The end result will always be exploitation of the workers, higher prices for the consumers and more and more costs shifted onto the taxpayers.
What’s Yours is Mine: reviews and other coverage
I read the What’s Mine is Yours book a few years ago, before the fledglings of Air BnB and Uber took off.
What seemed to have occurred, is what often does.
An idea for improving the way business operates in terms of community, is appropriated and used to do the same-old “take as much money as possible” schtick.
Green washing of companies, is now accompanied by “social enterprise” by those who use it as a marketing and promotion tool – not as a fundamental premise of their companies.
I console myself by knowing there are a lot of people out there who have always contributed via their business practices to social equity, even if they are not the powerhouses that command public recognition. Those examples are the ones to follow.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11732064
Russia’s navy is on the move!!
Something else also odd – is the New York Times website down or is it just me?
You’re right – my browser “can’t find the server” – Never happened before for NYT
I’ve never seen the NYT down either. Innocent network switch gear failure…or Ruskies (or Chinese?) sending a wee little message?
edit its only 5am there so some kind of scheduled outage?
it has started…
Down on my server
They’d have plenty of subscribers in other time zones though so wouldn’t they put up a scheduled outage notice?
http://pix11.com/2016/10/19/ny-times-website-is-down-due-to-technical-problems/
Ok thanks for that weka; I think all of us already figured out that the site was experiencing technical problems…
not me dang it
Maybe this is the reason for the Parata announcement today (something which National themselves claim they’ve been sitting on for months).
Frank Bananarama, the guy who locks up opposition politicians for fun, slithers into the country tonight.
Key to host him at Eden Park. Shane Jones the porn watcher to hold his hand throughout.
It’s all there.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11732066
The daily blog has an interesting theory.
http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2016/10/19/the-real-reason-why-hekia-quit-suddenly/
Once again pushing the conspiracy theories aye?, still waiting for Bradbury to publish the “Panama Papers” explosive story that was going to take down National. A bullsh*t story with plenty of gullible followers.
Worth thinking out of the square sometimes.\
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-23/1967-he-cia-created-phrase-conspiracy-theorists-and-ways-attack-anyone-who-challenge
Bradbury the official narriative?, you must also believe in reptilian shape changers no doubt……..
Bomber Bradbury’s tip line LOL…does it count texting to yourself?
Creepy John is in bed with a solid anti-democrat now. Creepy John must be in love…
This 5th national government, is getting creepier by the day.
How often can you say “creepy” adam? oh 3 x ! guess that must make it true then 🙂
New conspiracy theory from Chucky…..
Is it just my freeview thats lost the parliament channel this week?
GBH. Does death while kidnapped become murder if fear is present? I mean how does a person locked on a balcony, unable to escape, amount to murder unless fear was present in he mind? I get that a person tied up, or in a boot of a car, dies trying to escape is manslaughter… …or is it murder? Surely once u are in the control of another and trying to escape you die, thats murder not manslaughter. A person held on a balcony,how is that not kidnap?