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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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Interesting …
Some dickhead is sending right wing Auckland Councillors a feather for not going for a 2% rates rise. Spinoff thought it was the Ratepayers alliance and said so. They were threatened with defamation and immediately retracted.
But someone sent the feathers. Who was it?
https://thespinoff.co.nz/auckland/29-05-2017/threats-legal-threats-and-cowardice-auckland-councils-budget-battle-gets-nasty/
White feathers? Meaning cowardice? So shouldn’t the senders of the feathers show bravery and front up?
Yep good point. Wont be the first time that a right winger does not comprehend the hypocrisy of what they are doing.
IMO, right-wingers are almost invariably cowards.
I’m calling it as a false flag operation. By some lefties.
Vanessa Beeley on the White Helmets and Syria.
Worth watching as an antidote to the propaganda we hear 24/7 on corporate news.
Have to say that Beeley over-calls it a fair bit and I definitely go flipside on some of her politics. But her stuff on The White Helmets? Yeah – like many of her observation from Syria – very much worth while.
For those who prefer to read –
http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/white-helmets-assisting-public-executions-rebel-held-syria
Just to add.
That’s a very long vid, that’s not helped by a shaky and unedited start. Go to 4min 30sec when the flaff is over and the echo is sorted. It’s an hour that just keeps turning up gold nuggets.
Thankyou for linking Ed.
No problem.
Worth the time watching it.
yup
Apart from the Greens and NZF voting with the government, the most depressing thing I read today is the removal of the insulation grant.
On top of this last year…
http://www.labour.org.nz/government_freezes_elderly_out_of_insulation_subsidy
…Cone Head has now cut the subsidy altogether. While slack landlords who have not insulated their properties yet will now have to complete the work (with presumably much higher costs – supply and demand, innit) in 12 months in order to get the subsidy (instead of two years), the real cost his with those home owners who struggle with heating costs but further struggle with $3000 insulation costs.
We, a young family in Auckland, just had our home done and haven’t turned the heating on since. The benefits of this program are widely accepted; Healthier children in low income households. Lower heating costs in normally inefficient homes. And a lower use of energy infrastructure and of non-renewable energy resources.
Yet what does Cone Head do? Firestorms the lot in order to save a few pennies in the short term with an eye to winning another term in government.
This, like the removal of the Kiwisaver incentive is typical thinking from this government.
It’s not rocket science. The scheme was justifiable on so many fronts. Yet the bastards still cut it …
Yes but with all of that you also get lower profits for the newly privatised power companies and the new shareholders are National’s ‘base’.
i am really starting to worry about how nz first look like sticking with the dark side,and i say that because there seems no light or glimmer from the wrinkled one and i am just as if not equal with the wrinkle haha
but i will not vote nat or act ever in my life! i would not handle this type of dictatorship well.
i also found PB is 82 on the periodic table? lead ie: good for weight ie;slowing things down also poisonous with to much exposure fancy that.
“We want to pull our weight as an international contributor in parts of the world that generate instability for us and our citizens,…. ”
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/331859/govt-considers-sending-extra-nzdf-staff-to-afghanistan
Guess Bill is a little wary after “Hit and Run” ….
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/vibrant-aurora-visible
Yup. looks like clouds, I reckon.
https://twitter.com/JPMajor/status/868169389446660096
Anyone else read the story “Kiwi drink SOS needs more sugar, says Government” in the NZ Herald?
Talk about stupid that they must add a lot more sugar in NZ to be able to claim it is a hydration drink when it is much better at the job than all the high sugar ones on the market.
http://beta.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11865673