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6:00 pm, July 22nd, 2016 - 9 comments
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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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Ewwww, creepy…
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/07/21/donald_trump_almost_gives_daughter_butt_pat_on_national_tv.html
Red gumboots?
https://twitter.com/BeeFaerie/status/756243207063609344/photo/1
nice one.
the photo is taken in feilding’s square. market in background.
Lagarde in the dock.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/christine-lagarde-trial-imf-head-faces-court-bernard-tapie-affair-a7150546.html
Fifty thousand Turkish educators sacked. //
At risk of breaking a policy to do with linking, I see that lunch with Helen Kelly is being auctioned to raise money for a Loss and Grief charity. Since it isn’t for profit, and since it is Helen, I hope you won’t object:
I’d happily bid 10 times the going reserve if there was any prospect of me being in NZ in time to make use of the opportunity:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/travel-events-activities/other/auction-1126185220.htm?platform=hootsuite
Don’t mind linking – especially for Helen. Linking information is what the web was designed to do. It wouldn’t surprise me if this one gets thrown up on the site as a post to help. Helen even has a author login here so she could do it herself.
We do have a policy against astroturfing links, ie repeatably dropping a meme or links into our site for the purpose of advertising. That becomes a case of “I know it when I see it” rather than a hard or fast rule. That is why we will tolerate Penny self-promoting on Open Mike, provided 1) it doesn’t get too long and 2) isn’t available elsewhere to link to.