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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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An interesting take from John Armstrong on the effect of John Key’s overseas trips.
Key’s priorities are at home
(And an attempt to tidy up links?)
Carson on government’s role in the financial crisis.
Chinese workers link sickness to n-hexane and Apple iPhone screens
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/07/chinese-workers-sickness-hexane-apple-iphone
Check out the cojones on Ms Bennett’s nutty professor…
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/3671883/Pay-per-view-says-professor
You make a living by getting newspapers to pay you to explain yourself when the crazeee shit you sez sparks a controversy?
Anti-spam – operators. No shit.
This thread on the TransOcean DEEPWATER HORIZON disaster has to be one of the definitive reads on the subject. It’s up to 30 pages long and it takes a lot of wading through, but for anyone with a technical bent it’s fascinating.
A fun pair of photos over at Kiwipolitico which might be a fore teller of the election result. Brown and the Lib guy controlling themselves while the Tory has lost it ….. Introducing MMP might make a LibLab government possible if the Torys fail to get the support from other parties and stick to FPP madness. Just a reaction from somebody who knows nothing about politics 🙂