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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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Some Sunday 'entertainment', courtesy of The Guardian.
Meanwhile, Aotearoa NZ is keeping it real – apart from Jones!
So the Atlas Network have sent us Lomborg – doing what Jordan Peterson does, to evolutionary psychology, with his apologetic for the order created by patriarchy – to the planet earth as a habitat for human life.
The only way an intelligent person would not see the flaws in his approach, is if they did not want to.
At least Grant, sort of, admits it.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/09/false-alarm-by-bjorn-lomborg-apocalypse-never-by-michael-shellenberger-review
Thanks SPC for the link checking – I didn't read past the headline
Borg meets Rimmer – a paucity of reasonable minds indeed.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/03/10/chloe-swarbrick-elected-new-green-party-co-leader/
Congratulations to the new Green Party co-leader, Chloe Swarbrick.
Which is it Nicola? Theatre or ignorance? Looming gloom with the Economy has Liam Dann exploring the year ahead.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/liam-dann-this-tough-economy-should-surprise-no-one-least-of-all-the-government/7D5XVJYQ4FCAJKBI6HN6GVVZV4/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/liam-dann-this-tough-economy-should-surprise-no-one-least-of-all-the-government/7D5XVJYQ4FCAJKBI6HN6GVVZV4/
archivedotli
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/liam-dann-this-tough-economy-should-surprise-no-one-least-of-all-the-government/7D5XVJYQ4FCAJKBI6HN6GVVZV4/
Here we go.
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Nicola Toki
@naturevision
So @jacktame asked @cjsbishop if development projects that have been rejected by the courts can now go through the fast track legislation. The answer is yes. Also note the Minister for the Environment is kept out of the process. #waronnature
https://twitter.com/naturevision/status/1766561661190603083
OceanaGold (TSX: OGC) is hoping its Waihi North project will meet the requirements for accelerated development of major projects under a new permitting regime introduced by New Zealand’s recently elected government.
The Fast Track Approvals bill, which envisions a “one-stop shop” for resource consents and Resource Management Act permits, has just passed its first reading in Parliament.
Waihi North is a proposed underground mining project anchored by the Wharekirauponga development, located just north of OceanaGold’s existing Waihi mine operations. It is supplemented by the Gladstone open pit that lies directly to the west of the Waihi processing plant.
https://www.mining.com/oceanagold-eyeing-fast-tracked-permitting-for-waihi-north-under-new-govt-regime/
https://www.waihinorth.info/wharekirauponga.html
The proposal is for a 6.8 km dual tunnel north from here to ore bearing rock under conservation land and another 4.7 km tunnel to the existing Waihi processing plant.
Post up about Chloe Swarbrick's first speech as new GP co-leader
https://thestandard.org.nz/chloe-swarbricks-first-words-as-new-green-party-co-leader/
so what is the latest news on when National will Privatise New Zealands water supply?
In which we see the right wings "proponents of free speech" , real attitude to Free speech.
Hurricanes Poua lash out at government in revamped haka | RNZ News
Luxon says ousted health boss Rob Campbell should be sacked from EPA too | RNZ News
"When it comes to funding political projects, he said, there was an expectation that over time the commission would demonstrate that it was ‘even handed……….."
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350207531/film-commission-makes-own-decisions-govt-says-after-ardern-doco-green-light
I guess Goldsmith was thinking being even handed meant political future projects would include the current coalition of chaos being compared to the rise and fall of the Third Reich type documentary's………. same nightmare different century….
Luxon’s new numbers come from the public seeing him talk like a c- and walk like a c-. Both on his accommodation and how tough his transport was (no former PMs said I’m better than this, thanks). But here’s a kicker:
This shows the pure ignorance at the heart of the shrugging response of our prime minister – there is not a demand problem, simply a revenue problem for media. What he is saying here shouldn’t be missed – the “leave it to the market” idea was not considered acceptable for Air NZ, the airline he once ran. It has repeatedly been bailed out by the government, because it was considered unacceptable for a country to lack a national carrier. We are staring down the loss of almost 20% of the country’s news media jobs in a little over a week – but this is not considered important enough for any kind of intervention. News – the chief way we find out what is happening in our country – is fine to just vanish.
From Duncan Grieve. https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/08-03-2024/its-a-great-day-to-be-a-bad-guy-reflecting-on-the-end-of-sunday-and-fair-go
It also raises the possibility of political payback as both programmed retained ratings. Previously there was the rumor of National governments threatening the funding of a political news show prior to an election, but to cut a show that has been about the only one asking tough questions of what has been a spectacular load of lies told about cigarettes, gang patches, boot camps, transport, the state of the economy and just about every damn thing.