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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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Here's a reminder of what can be achieved by people working together against crooks, bullies, manipulators and parasites.
"This is for you, Dad"
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/this-is-for-you-dad-interview-with
Yes I think very few wealthy people realize how desperate are large part of the population had become and now accelerated by Covid…it feels like the pitch forks are on the horizon.
"Pitchforks Coming – Billionaire Nick Hanauer Unpacked – Bridging Economic, Political and Moral Gaps – Affordable Housing and Manufactured Homes"
but please keep the dress code in parliament. Call me conservative, just mho
Anket Women can wear what they want to why can't men
So long as they don't show their ankles.
Yup, definitely no ankles on display in NZ Parliament.
There's a post about that topic: https://thestandard.org.nz/parliaments-tie-issue/
Sorry everyone meant to post it on the Tie post not open mike.
Call me old fashion but I support a dress code for parliament. I can justify this by saying that pushing to change the dress code is wasting valuable time when they should be focussing on us! Realise that is not the strongest arguement, but the dress code is a distraction from what they are there to do. I think there is some sort of code for women in parliament.
Many people have to wear a uniform in the workplace. Some of us chose to dress in a way that reflects the role.
Ruffs and codpieces I say. Anything less is a shocking debasement.
Let's have a uniform for them all then. Problem solved.
… it’s about getting on and representing us on what matters to kiwis.
Exactly. So why are you fixating on what they wear?
Finally the Wuhan report is out
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300225983/coronavirus-who-team-in-wuhan-dismisses-covid19-lab-leak-theory-in-report
It'll be a disappointment for the China haters
As will be the Atlantic's report on Chinese debt traps
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/02/china-debt-trap-diplomacy/617953/
So after arriving a year too late to do any meaningful investigation – the team concludes they have no idea where the virus came from, except that it cannot possibly have come from the one lab that was working on coronavirus GoF research.
Well done.
Surely the preliminary report of the WHO investigators is good news – certainly puts the hypothesis that Covid-19 leaked from a research lab in the bin. Isn't that a relief? After all, why on earth would anyone hope that hypothesis was true?
Looks like working Americans are about to get screwed just as bad from the other side now, turns out you do get what you vote for….
Biden Caves On $15 Minimum Wage, BREAKING Key Promise
The only thing breaking is how the $15 minimum wage element has been included in the Biden stimulus bill… As he says he wanted in the first 15 seconds of your video. lol
The Senate is an undemocratic handbrake on legislation Biden like Obama have to do deals with the repugnants to get legislation passed a 2/3rd majority is required in many cases.Gerrymandering voter suppression on top of that makes the US one of the least democratic countries in the developed world.
When a small rural state has more voting power than urbanised states,poverty will continue to rise..
Well it's great to see Cuba finally opening up its economy a wee tad more, now that their tourist enclaves are dead.
At some point they'll have to open up to having some actual human rights as well.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/09/americas/cuba-private-work-analysis-oppmann-intl/index.html
Yes and great to see Socialist Cuba's medical research and production sectors showing the rest of the world what can and should be done when profit motive is taken out of an essential service…and especially in a crisis…
Cuba’s COVID-19 Vaccines Serve the People, Not Profits
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/02/08/cubas-covid-19-vaccines-serve-the-people-not-profits/
It's a rare perfectly competitive moment to have multiple entities all releasing drugs to combat the same disease within weeks of each other.
And not a single word about the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine!? Probably because it didn’t suit his narrative.
Que?
Whose narrative ?
I believe it was Ad who brought Cuba under the spotlight.
I wasn't replying to Ad
"his narrative" ??
Whitney's a woman
No, he’s not “a woman” and it is utterly irrelevant anyway
At some point they’ll have to open up to having some actual human rights as well.
Then hopefully the United States and other rogue regimes like Australia and the U.K. might follow suit.
Although, on the grim evidence in this Reuters report, there’s little chance of that happening….
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-justice-assange/biden-administration-plans-to-continue-to-seek-extradition-of-wikileaks-assange-official-idUSKBN2A92T4
He's gone burger.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/300226344/sean-plunket-has-left-magic-talk
However, those who make the decision to 'outflank' Newstalk ZB remain on their salaries.
The advertisers that continue to pay for air time on Magic, don't cop any criticism. They only develop a conscious when a host is a little bit too racist.
Don't get me wrong, I am no Plunkett fan, nor talkhate radio, but as per usual a token sacrifice is offered to appease the twittisphere.
Commercial interests can cancel RW voices – they do so fairly rarely and it triggers a firestorm of hyperbole about 'freedom of speech'. Commercial interests have almost always stopped genuine LW voices from even making it onto the air – not so much cancellation as suppression – with very little ensuing discussion of 'freedom of speech'.
This doesn't mean that the profit motive is agnostic in matters of political/economic ideology. It isn't – but it will throw the more unruly members of its own cabal under the bus if it really has to.
oh noes, but what if left wing commentary becomes a commercial liability for talkback radio? "Can't-sell culture" might see the end of talkback hosts like… um… er… ???
What is that person doing in the background to Jacinda's response???
https://ondemand.parliament.nz/parliament-tv-on-demand/
Which video?
Marja Lübeck, in a fleeting moment of clarity, addressed Trevor Mallard, as "Mr Squeaker" !!!
Unforgettable – if you caught it 🙂
https://ondemand.parliament.nz/parliament-tv-on-demand/
Same Q again.
Question 2
Not a good look from Menendez taking a spot in MIQ (and expecting special treatment to queue jump) when people cant get spots to see sick and dying relatives.
Green MP tried to jump the queue as Kiwis stuck in the UK desperately seek MIQ spots (msn.com)
Some are more equal than others.
Horrendous look. Newshub reporting he always travels to Mexico for 6 weeks this time of year.
Link please
He was seeing sick and/or dying relatives.
JuCo echos your comment,
But RMM is a New Zealander who was spending time with his family. Why should he be any different?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/436160/green-party-gave-list-mp-ricardo-menendez-march-permission-to-travel-overseas
Family First strike back:
"Family First New Zealand
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A legal opinion has just been released on the proposed law to ban ‘conversion therapy’ which shows that the proposed ban will be yet another attack on parents’ rights and is fundamentally flawed and dangerous.
The legal opinion says that a ban would criminalise parents who wish to protect their child from the physical, emotional, and psychological harm caused by gender dysphoria. Parents would be criminalised and liable to six months imprisonment simply for affirming that their sons are boys and their daughters are girls. These bans will lock children into transgenderism. The government wants to legislate against the discussion and practice of alternatives to hormones, surgery and confusion."
Just had a read through of the FB page for Family First. First came the overwhelming confusion as I took in the twist on reality they seem to have.