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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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Chris Trotter has good thoughtful piece asking why the world's big powers are not coming down hard on Brazil to force it to change its ways about the destruction through felling, and now fire, of its rain forests.
https://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2019/08/save-ship.html
more than meets the eye on this one. rt did a good piece on it
Bridges dons protective gear before making a call to foreign funder, ensuring no DNA could ever be found on the phone.
two by two, hands of blue.
https://firefly.fandom.com/wiki/Hands_of_Blue
Lol, I'd forgotten that. Must watch Firefly again. Now, if the blue-hands guys in that series had been as useless as the ones in tonight's photo, how much better things would have turned out for River and Simon.
Who's the guy on the right?
It's a crime that there was only one season of Firefly when so much other crap TV gets made.
Who's the guy on the right?
Oh, he's most likely a mate from wayback…
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11633960
(Trigger alert…link contains troubling image….)
good grief. The analogy runs deep.
The one on the right is Simeon Brown, an unctuous flunky best known for being one of National's strongest anti-abortion voices in the recent debates. He makes a fitting sidekick for Bridges.
student group submitting to parl select committee say their survey showed 60% of students are vaping..
when are we gonna call time on this tobacco company grift..?
Time to crack down on drugs, is it? We could call it a "war on drugs," wouldn't that be cool?
it's a modern version of the menthol is good for you..hustle…
Shelly Bay Wellington.
Edit:
Maori have sold land at Shelly Bay and there is controversy about it. It seems that a settlement is less than certain as to best results. (Money is ephemeral but land is solid.)
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/397674/council-votes-against-shelly-bay-development-processes-probe
Previously:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/112476948/sell-or-die-trust-reveals-why-it-had-to-sell-shelly-bay 6/5/2019
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/112177489/peter-jackson-clashes-with-wellington-city-council-and-controversial-shelly-bay-development 21/4/2019
Sea level rise?
http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=121577
Peter Jackson: sea level rise and the threat to Shelly Bay
21/8/2019
The last governor of Hong Kong, former chair of the Conservative party, chancellor of Oxford and member of the House of Lords; Patten is the establishment.
Chris Patten
Failed states used to be largely the preserve of the developing world, where the institutions of democracy do not have deep roots. But given the extent to which the Brexit campaign has undermined Britain's institutions through lies, it is reasonable to worry that the country will soon come to resemble a tinpot dictatorship.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/britain-brexit-failed-state-by-chris-patten-2019-08
shows us what sort of person simon is – the leader of the gnats – their big brain lol
An utter disgrace.
Good on Police Association president.
sorry dick – you are in the wrong and have made a big mistake (I'm being very generous here) – please stop immediately
he's pulled them from FB which hopefully is a good sign.
It’s on folks, old Boris has ask the Ma’am to suspend parliament before Brexit.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-28/boris-johnson-asks-queen-to-suspend-parliament-before-brexit/11458552
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/115363329/uk-government-to-suspend-parliament-to-stop-mps-blocking-a-nodeal-brexit-bbc-reports
I suppose we should be grateful that, among the wretched clowns and wrong uns who comprise the opposition, we don't have anything quite so much like a badly brushed polar bear as Boris. Mind, a bear would probably have more nouse than any of them.
Bill English ?