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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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Like the words of the song line. 'Here we go again '
The five eyes spy ring squeal and cry in vain again. Are they then, acknowledging that China and Russia are far way superior in cyber technology, leaving the West useless and unable to defend themselves.
Or are they continuing with their info cold war against these perceived enemies to deflect their own cyber attacks and leaks from the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
It's just as valid to accuse Israel as being behind international hacking rather than Chiina or Russia.
I don't buy into 5 eyes at any level.
the wowser nanny state party puts out it's law and order policy today.
so what can we expect from ACT?
Nannystatist wowserism, no spending your benefit on booze or tobacco, backed up by a costly bureaucracy to police it
and some complex bureaucratic 'injunction's police can take out against a gang member which they will simply ignore but which will suck up valuable police time and resources that should be spent on the front line taking guns and assets off the gangs.
more nanny state, more costly bureaucracy
On Nanny State.
What is more natural than a Nanny,
Where would the world be without them,
Most cultures revere their Nannies,
Always there, comforting.
So, What!
You dont like your grannie,
Your mammies mammie,
The one that loved you so,
And rubbed your sore wee tummie.
So why, does it scare some folk,
About a Nanny state,
Or have they been misinformed by others',
Who make profit from your poor fate.
We should have our own nanny state,
To care for us through life,
To succour our expressive minds,
And to ward off future strife.
The Nanny State gets taken for granted, but just compare it to the present which is more like the USA flim flam about standing tall and being independent. They started their country off with slaves, how independent is that. And when they changed from slavery they persecuted black people. How noble is that.
We have done a trifle better, and one of the things that we did do is to set up a welfare state. It was all right, needed some more inter-community give back but not cheapened to the stage where people have murdered the so called welfare clerks who are encouraged to achieve the opposite.
And people now are set on a downward spiral, not assisted and encouraged to be keen to make their own place in their own house and upwardly mobile in society.
With NZ military personnel being shunted towards vaccination, please take a read of this from a US Navy officer. He makes some very good points that we should hope the NZ armed forces have considered.
Earlier in the article we find 26 US military personnel out of over 200K who contracted covid have died.
His ignorance is frighteningly profound. Millions have died and millions are falling sick with Covid on a daily basis. And if you you think a right-wing US
banditsoldier knows more about vaccines than the scientists then you've got big problems.Do you think that the best scientists from around the world are going to dump a vaccine on the masses – and themselves – without having conducted multiple trials to ensure their safety and efficacy and then and only then make them available for mass inoculation in a bid to overcome the worst pandemic in modern history?
Because if you do then you are ignorant too.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR35ZFiRZJ8tyBCwazX2N-k7yJjZOLDQiZSA_MsJAfdK74s8f2a_Dgx4iVk
https://www.jpost.com/health-science/idf-coronavirus-vaccinations-makes-us-the-first-army-with-herd-immunity-661697
They must be lying, right?
From the article above:
….and they are still in the army. They have compulsory service so maybe that factored into the decision not to make vaccination with Pfizer mRNA compulsory.
Agreed Anne, frankly unbelievable ignorance on matters medical. Hope the US navy officer in question has a better grasp of military matters. The author of the article that KSaysHi linked to provided this brief autobiography:
Not sure if Donovan has any medical training/expertise.
If you run your cursor over the words please take a read of this in ksayshi then there is a link.
Found it – thanks.
What is 'citizen journalism'? it seems to be a practice where amateurs get involved in news creation and dissemination. Now what could that lead to?
Seemingly, Kari Donovan knows nothing about the ethics and practice of both medicine and journalism.
Indeed, what is 'cultural marxism' which our citizen journalism-loving Kari Donovan writes about?
I didn't know and had to google it. It's a right wing anti-semitic conspiracy theory. Any alarm bells ringing yet?
There is history with the US Military forcing vaccines on to it's troops. And despite efforts to ensure otherwise, the unfortunate experiment that was the Anthrax vaccine ended up in court…
When there is opposition to a particular program, especially one which we are told is vitally necessary for the survival of the human race, it makes sense to go and try and find out from whence this opposition originated. Simply assuming that those reluctant to participate are "ignorant" is simply lazy.
There are a few more aspects of the vaccine roll out in the US we might want to consider.
With the ridiculously high number of deaths from Covid in the US and the many folks debilitated with Long Covid you'd think that, just like in NZ, they'd be clambering over each other to get to the front of the Vaccine Queue.
Yet despite the body count and the permanently foobarred and the incentives on offer… in the US, just like other jurisdictions quick off the mark to get those Warp Speed shots into peoples arms, getting that 'fully vaccinated' tally over 60% is proving a tad of a challenge. We need to be asking ourselves why this is.
And some are quite rightfully concerned about the very disturbing push to vaccinate young children with what are essentially experimental products.
https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/13/covid-19-vaccines-for-children-hypothetical-benefits-to-adults-do-not-outweigh-risks-to-children/
[reformated and link posted in clear for clarity. The comment got caught in spam due to too many links. The first cut and paste is too long. We prefer shorter cut and pastes and people to explain in their own words, and this will lessen the links. Sometimes a longer cut and paste is needed, but not often – weka]
mod note Rosemary.
Thanks for that. The hour 'twas late…
That's all I need to read. Living in denial. He will be taken of 'active duty' for sure.
Hope he catches the laughably insignificant threat posed by Covid.
please don't wish harm on people like this, it takes online communities to bad places.
Well, he thinks its a "laughably insignificant threat" and in doing so, he's happy to wish harm on other people . What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
[it may be, just not on this site. I’m not asking, I’m saying you can’t wish harm on specific people like this. It leads to nasty shit and ultimately death threats. – weka]
mod note.
Exhibit A. Of course many people, including progressives belief that JKR deserves to get death threats, but this simply means that everyone is open to such. And in those high tensions, high publicity situations, at some point it becomes real not just a thread.
https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1417031300498829315