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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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Road Cops.
The audience masters* at Tv3 are almost as competent as Stephen Joyce.
*terms and conditions apply.
I’m still hoping that John Campbell is going to go Network on Friday. Or even The Newsroom.
“Tell Mr Jennings he can go fuck himself”.
Heh, I might have to tune in just in case.
Thanks Weka. Stayed on for another three minutes to watch again George Carlin’s suggested video “Nobody cares about you”.
Worth the six minutes of time.
Really, really pleased to see a man in parliament taking domestic and sexual violence very seriously indeed.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/68852308/kelvin-davis-walking-the-talk-highlighting-sexual-and-domestic-violence
Breaking news today..’Sir Bob Jones declines to appear on TV to be interviewed’ What?
He got kicked off an Air NZ plane this afternoon.
No! No!You don’t get it. The breaking news is that he declined to appear on TV.
Odd, he usually loves making everyone hear the sound of his voice.
John Key got thrown off a plane today? What?
Oh nah, it was some other stuck-up sexist wanker who thinks he’s better than everyone else cos he’s made a few bob but still doesn’t own a plane.
The sense of entitlement….
I’m above the law didn’t you know? Laws are only for the peasants who represent 80% of the population. Us nobles can do what we like when we like.
Bob Jones has forgotten he grew up in a state house and his mum and dad were peasants – just like another grossly entitled noble we all know and love…… 😈
Like Mr Key (who mentioned his mum again in his budget speech) Mr Jones uses his parents life experiences to make people think they are their own. They patently are not. My parents worked hard and lived in part off state assistance so I am entitled to fuck the same people over today who are not related to me
A ‘Rigged’ Game Of Monopoly Reveals How Feeling Wealthy Changes Our Behavior [TED VIDEO]
I’d say that Bob Jones is a perfect example of the anti-social tendencies of the rich.
Sir Bob Jones looked fiercely at the attendant and snarled, “Don’t you know who I am?”
“No Sir. But you do seem to be a tired grumpy old man. And you still have to…”
Maybe Bob didn’t say that (I made that up) but his actions do suggest that sort of attitude.
The rest of us just go with the flow when faced with the same scenario.
Jim Butterworth former Northern Secretary of the Engineers Union passed away today.
RIP Jim.
We are no longer paid what we are worth – just look at dog walkers
This is what neo-liberalism has done to our society. We no longer reward hard work and being of value to the community but if you can do sweet fuck all and help out a billionaire you’re sweet.
*sigh*
yiu only have to look at the pay scales of sports people versus
nurses
teachers
Early childhood workers
To see how skewed everything is.
That’s just it though, people aren’t looking so we need to bring attention to the fact that things are skewed.
The Saudi Sheep Farm Question was interesting especially given Dim post’s take on the matter. It seems Mculley might have gone it alone once too often.
“27.05.15 – Question 10: Hon David Parker to the Minister of Foreign Affairs
Who was paid the first $4 million in respect of the multimillion dollar payments to Saudi Arabian interests referred to in the Cabinet paper of 13 February 2013 he tabled yesterday, and how was the value calculated and split between “intellectual property which the Saudi investor brings to the platform, the services and in-market networks he will contribute” and “the settlement of the long-running dispute”? ”
http://www.inthehouse.co.nz/video/37493
Dimpost outlines the growing trickiness:
https://dimpost.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/the-secret-agrihub-in-the-middle-of-the-arabian-desert/#comments
This serious spending of taxpayers money “without legal advice” could blow up further.
http://www.filmsforaction.org/news/recovered_economic_history_everyone_but_an_idiot_knows_that_the_lower_classes_must_be_kept_poor_or_they_will_never_be_industrious/
In which we learn that at the dawn of industrial capitalism, just as today, the capitalists despised freedom and autonomy.
Here’s what they were saying as they schemed to enslave the world. No different in character to the disgusting things they say today.
YUp, like people today who through ignorance or deception leave out the most important part of John STuart Mill’s famous quote about freedom
e.g
“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. ‘
“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
And this one more recently makes me think of one Nicky Hager
“Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Reminds me of some another book I read in which the First Australians were described by settlers as lazy and indolent because they would not work for slave wages to help them set up their ranches and farms.
They ignored the fact that the skills existing in that indigenous culture allowed all the requirements for sustenance and survival to be achieved within a couple of hours, and that the rest of the time could be spent in spiritual, artistic or communal endeavours.
And now you know why National keep on bene bashing. They have the same mindset of those early capitalists. They force people into poverty so that they have to work for the rich.
Working will never make you rich but having lots of people working for you will.
Capitalism = usury.