Written By:
notices and features - Date published:
6:00 pm, November 24th, 2015 - 34 comments
Categories: Daily review -
Tags:
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. ...
The server will be getting hardware changes this evening starting at 10pm NZDT.
The site will be off line for some hours.
Before anyone asks the photo is of a younger Che Guevara waiting to talk to the UN …
are you sure it’s not the SGM of the ABP branch of the Labour party 😈
I’ll get me hat…
That’s the funniest thing you’ve ever written.
Yep! Comedy gold! Nice one weka.
Let’s be clear. CV may be annoying and flakey at times, but on nearly every core issue of left wing politics my sympathies lie with him rather than you. The way you’ve stalked him on this and previous occasions is, in my opinion nothing short of pathologically nasty behaviour. Enough to make me pleased and proud not to have voted Labour since 1984.
Always nice to hear from people stuck in the eighties, Grant. I was listening to a lot of Husker Du back then. You? Bet it was all Elton John and the Mac round your place, right? Right on, maaan.
Thanks for publicly confirming my assessment of your character TRiPe.
Cheers, grunter, you’ve been average.
And as usual you’ve been well below average.
And yet you still need the reassurance that I have noticed you and responded. Keep reaching for the stars, G man. One day, all this reflected glory will be yours.*
*Nah, probably not.
Posting this here as well. I posted this earlier in the day on the Open mike but think it needs a repost to get as much notice as possible
————————————————————————————-
Anyone seen the latest YouTube spotlight video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgOV1dYdYVk
It is titled (#OursToLose: Climate Change Affects the Things We Love)
A number of YouTubers from various countries are featured in it including Kiwi Jamie Currie of Jamie’s World.
From the info below the video
Published on Nov 23, 2015
** Sign the petition: https://goo.gl/j3xOYg **
Climate change affects the things we love. But this December we have a huge opportunity. Sign the global petition and ask world leaders to agree to a deal at the COP21 climate conference in Paris.
Learn how climate change might affect …
New York: http://goo.gl/bzcKmj
Sports and fitness: http://goo.gl/WmwPuf
Fall leaves: http://goo.gl/OXQtPW
Chocolate: http://goo.gl/SwQXEg
Skiing: http://goo.gl/3fOca4
The ocean: https://goo.gl/uJNSgp
New Zealand: http://goo.gl/xxquDf
Coral reefs: http://goo.gl/kKceCa
Many thanks to the creators who are participating in this campaign. In order of appearance:
It’s Okay to be Smart: https://youtube.com/user/itsokaytobes…
Casey Neistat: https://youtube.com/user/caseyneistat
Flavia Calina: https://youtube.com/user/Fla1982
Blogilates: https://youtube.com/user/blogilates
Finn Harries (JacksGap): https://youtube.com/user/JacksGap
FunForLouis: https://youtube.com/user/FunForLouis
Marques Brownlee: https://youtube.com/user/marquesbrownlee
SORTEDfood: https://youtube.com/user/sortedfood
Golden Moustache: http://youtube.com/GoldenMoustacheVideo
DeevaJessica: https://youtube.com/user/deevajessica
Jamie’s World: https://youtube.com/user/theJamiesWorld
[Obviously I’m in a good mood. I’m letting this though even though it’s a pile of pap not worth the double hit. Do not do this again. Anyone want to teach the world to sing? What about if it was in perfect harmony?] – Bill
Can anyone on here give any credence or otherwise to this?
https://twitter.com/jo_thelin/status/668717896554536960/photo/1
See “boots theory flag referendum ” post
In my considered opinion as someone who has practised law for the past 31 years I suggest people neither repost the claim nor send it to print as the value of the paper is more than the credibility of the post.
Apologies to any lefties who think otherwise …
Cods-wallop.
Total rubbish.
http://all-embracing.episto.org/2015/09/07/with-due-deference-the-due-authority-flag-conspiracy-theory-is-rubbish/
Tunes for the end of a trying day….
So today Key was questioning his officials as to why 30 to 40 people under 24 hour surveillance for being Isis supporters weren’t arrested.
1. Last time I looked Key had done a bunk and palmed off the intelligence responsibilities onto some other minister. So has he forgotten or does he still keep his finger on them but likes the distance to create plausible deniability?
2. 24 hr surveillance takes a team of 5 to 8 people to do (or so L’Carrie says). Does NZ really have 150 to 320 field staff in its intelligence units?
3. So far every msm has taken it as read that they are guilty, and not questioned whether the reason the 30 to 40 people have not been arrested may be because there is not sufficient evidence to make a charge stick.
4. Key is leaving the country after lower poll results, Little is going to get headlines from Australia and not much will happen in the Paris Climate conference. I know, lets toss some speculative rubbish to msm to get headline space.
5. Have you noticed that after the Australian Police went nuts arresting lots of Isis supporters that conviction rates have been rather short of expectations.
You mean they’re actually trying them? In court and everything?
150 to 320???….maybe if you count the office staff, tea lady and the PMs office….better add in Slater et al.
200 employees according to wikipedia.
Busy job to make the tea and take a surveillance shift. 🙂
But they’d also get the cops to take up some of the donkey work, if they thought there was a serious threat,
never underestimate the tea ladies ability to multitask
this is a good speech, maybe one day someone will say it here in NZ.
https://www.facebook.com/theSNP/videos/vb.77249349077/10153762659009078/?type=2&theater
Just when you thought Colin couldn’t get any crazier!
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/74343529/colin-craig-claims-15000-from-whale-oil-blogger-cameron-slater-for-publication-of-two-of-me-poem
You really really can’t make this shit up!
Words escape me …
Ladies and Gentlemen, i think we might have just missed the start of the most excellent war adventure numero 3.
fuckwits, the world is run by fuckwits.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/turkey-shoots-down-russian-jet-near-syrian-border-and-video-shows-plane-coming-down-a6746206.html
quote: Turkey has shot down a military jet which it says violated its airspace near the Syrian border.
Turkish TV reports described the plane as Russian, and video posted by the Haberturk TV station appeared to show the jet coming down in flames.
A military official, quoted by Turkey’s Dogan news agency, said the plane was shot down by Turkish F16s, and that the pilot was given prior warning. He did not say which nation the plane was from.
Various reports described the plane as coming down in hostile Syrian territory, and the fate of the two pilots on board was unkown.
Russias got too much to lose in getting involved in a war with europe/us, they’ve got the oil and gas that europes economys need and now they’re capitalising on the wests fuck ups in the middle east.
Holy f***.
This is bad bad bad.
Hopefully it will be shown that the Turkish pilot got nervous and fired on the Russian plane without authorisation.
Reading the Russian sites RT and Sputnik they are taking a position that the plane was not over Turkish territory, that it was probably shot down from the ground and that the plane an Su-24 was at 6000 metres. Also the pilots bailed out in time.
Basically everything which would minimise an international incident.
A bunch of stuff there doesn’t make sense of course…at 6,000m altitude an advanced ground to air missile system must have been used, not a so called shoulder launched ‘MANPAD’ system. Surely Turkey has such systems but ISIS would not.
Stinger
So, yes it could have been a MANPAD. And I wouldn’t be surprised if Daesh has such weapons – the US and others seem to have left a lot of them lying about here and there.
CNN Türk ENG
@CNNTURK_ENG
#BREAKING CNN Turk reporter says 2 helicopters in the air to rescue pilots but there are clashes on the ground
https://twitter.com/CNNTURK_ENG/status/669067165081972736
Twitter unconfirmed – one pilot dead and the other captured by rebels.
edit:
Oussema Abbes
@OussemaAbbes
Russians striking Turkmen militias for days, Turkey downs Russian Jet.
#Escalation #Syria #Turkey #Russianplane
https://twitter.com/OussemaAbbes/status/669107514496131073
CNN Türk ENG
@CNNTURK_ENG
#BREAKING Flight radar track on downed warplane issued by Turkish military
https://twitter.com/CNNTURK_ENG/status/669098577524822016
Leave Grant alone. Stop calling him “Grunter”. It’s bullying.