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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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http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/parenting/pregnancy/conception/72472004/the-rise-of-the-virgin-birth-single-women-having-children-thanks-to-ivf-treatment
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3250413/Advent-virgin-births-Women-never-relationship-paying-5-000-pregnant.html
NZ media have run with the Daily Mail’s ‘virgin birth’ story, a particularly shoddy piece of health reporting.
Clearly most of the women (and it’s not large numbers) will have a medical condition like vaginismus that prevents them from having sex, which is complex with myriad causes. But that’s dismissed as ‘fear of sex’ by an ignorant medical person, and the angle the paper wants to push is the young women who supposedly can’t be bothered with a relationship, or haven’t met someone they like.
And every judgmental idiot jumps on the bandwagon; the creepy psychotherapist claiming that if you can’t have sexual intercourse, you can’t love a child; the religious/family values brigade; the horrid people in the Stuff comment section.
ShonKey appears to have been caught unaware on TV3 News coverage tonight re detention of former crims, born NZers, after they’ve finished their sentence, but now re-detained awaiting deportation.
His dead eyes were shifting around, looking all over the place, not straight on, he didn’t know what to say except that the Foreign Minister had texted the Australian Foreign Minister. TEXTED ! How’s that for a response. More than a bit limp-wristed, I’d say.
He seemed to me to be very nervous. He hadn’t had his rehearsal briefing from Crosby Textor on this subject. Maybe they didn’t think it necessary. After all crims who’ve done their time are not a natural Nat subject of concern. (unless they’re white-collar
fraudsters).
When is Judith making her move .. while he is out of town ?
Don’t call it a scandal: Volkswagen corruption is a syndrome
Rather than asking, plaintively, why life isn’t fair, the onus is upon us to propose solutions.
For example, corporate fines are inadequate insofar as they provide a retroactive license to offend. There must be more elegant penalties.
State of the planet, from “The Automatic Earth”
http://www.theautomaticearth.com/2015/09/greater-fools-and-bigger-liars/
Open letter signed by Pilger et. al.,
http://off-guardian.org/2015/09/28/stop-bombing-syria-a-letter-from-mark-rylan