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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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Great photo.
I liked it …
Me too + 100%
Yep. Great letter. More harm has probably been done by men in suits than anybody in any other clothing.
Auckland council on GMO – good news!
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/83775538/Court-upholds-councils-rights-over-genetically-modified-organisms
Could anyone imagine a strong well resourced democratic union movement allowing the current gap that exists in our largest city between wages and house prices?
If the Award system for wage fixing was still in existence and it was compulsory to belong to a union if your work was covered by an award, as it was prior to 1991 (the ERA replaced the Award system) and the cost of a house in Auckland reached its current price, unions would have ensured that a teacher, a nurse, a builder or electrician on wages would now be earning $200k+ annually or influenced the Government of the day to stop foreign investment in our housing stock, put restraints on the number of new immigrants or build affordable homes for workers to either buy or rent along with the infrastructure required to live in a community and travel cost efficiently/effectively to your place of employment. Wouldn’t they?
People who felt marginalised drove Brexit vote, study finds
Still comes across as supporting the people at the top and BAU (despite saying that it doesn’t) rather than accepting that the whole system of capitalism has failed and that we need to address that.
You read it here first!
TS, last Thursday:
“And, to be fair, Trump extending the tiny hand of friendship to the black voter might be a turning point. Will he discover he’s always loved hispanic migrants next?”
‘merica, today:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-mulls-trip-to-mexico-to-meet-president-enriquepena-nieto-1472611208
The black demographic will probably sing “Che gelida manina”
“Schmidt is the highest-profile scientist to effectively write-off the 1.5C target, which was adopted at December’s UN summit after heavy lobbying from island nations that risk being inundated by rising seas if temperatures exceed this level. Recent research found that just five more years of carbon dioxide emissions at current levels will virtually wipe out any chance of restraining temperatures to a 1.5C increase and avoid runaway climate change.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/30/nasa-climate-change-warning-earth-temperature-warming
are we ready to host our pacific neighbours in a few years time?
BTW 3 deg C warming is already guaranteed. I’m guessing by around 2040.
one small difference here…“Schmidt is the highest-profile scientist to effectively write-off the 1.5C target”
Many more will be writing off the 2 deg C target in the next 5 or so years.
Lol
42 years gone.
“All Kiwis want is someone to love, somewhere to live, somewhere to work, and something to hope for.”
Home for the weekend and arrived home on Saturday night, mum told me.
A few weeks after my 10th birthday.
Like you, informed by my Mum – who knew Big Norm was a bit of a hero of mine.
A few days later, we all went in to Parliament grounds, Molesworth St, where Kirk had been lying in state and watched the Labour caucus act as pall-bearers, bringing the coffin down the steps of Parliament, while Maori women mourners (whanau pani ?) wearing kawakawa were singing laments (waiata tangi ?).
Or were Labour MPs carrying it up the steps into Parliament to lie in state – memory a little too vague after four decades.
Certainly have a clear memory of seeing a large group of people watching from the top of the Parliamentary Library.
The days when 10 year old lads wore flared jeans, tank tops, Fred Dagg T-Shirts and wouldn’t be seen dead with anything other than shoulder-length hair covering their ears.
They carried it down the steps, Swordfish. If you want to relive your memory go to a minute in on this doco:
https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/inquiry—the-late-mr-norman-kirk
1972 was my first vote and I remember that night very clearly. Didn’t have a TV – just writing down the results for each electorate as the results came over the radio and getting very excited. I was in a safe Labour seat so I had voted Values as I liked their policies and wanted to encourage them to continue. It was a time when I really believed the world was going to change for the better. How wrong could you be!
I was in the USSR when Kirk died and I was told the news by a Russian I was talking to. I can still remember the shock I felt.
Cheers, Karen. 1972 was the first Election I have a direct memory of.
Over the years, of course, I’ve seen all the archival footage of the 69 Election (a still somewhat rotund, short-back-and-sides Kirk breezily skipping up Parliamentary steps to the slightly Hippyish song: “Make things happen cos it’s your turn now, make things happen this year”. But no direct recollection – too young.
My main memory from 72 is the It’s Time theme of Labour’s campaign … and my parents being in very high spirits on Election Night. Even stronger memory, though, of 75 and my father quickly going through a couple of flagons of beer and heading off to bed quietly muttering laments (and one or two expletives) in utter disbelief.
A few weeks before the 75 Election, my mother told me there’s no way a majority would ever vote for someone as vicious as Muldoon.
Great conversation to be reading. Thanks for the link Karen, I put up a post too
http://thestandard.org.nz/democracy-doesnt-belong-to-government/
“I was in a safe Labour seat so I had voted Values as I liked their policies and wanted to encourage them to continue. It was a time when I really believed the world was going to change for the better. How wrong could you be!”
It’s the long game. Thanks to Values Party voters (my mum included) we now have MMP and the Green Party.
The teen me thought he was was pretty damned swish in those flares and cali plaid shirts.