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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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There were a couple of interesting articles by Christopher Adams and Liam Dann in the Weekend Herald about NZ manufacturing jobs going overseas, but the R&D staying in NZ. Interestingly there was no mention that the current Govt policy doesn’t seem to support R&D in NZ, or how are we as a country going to grow the talent that great R&D projects require. NACT policy seems to be promoting the reverse of this.
This is tragic. Just horrible.
Many New Zealanders will share the great sorrow of the Polish people at the news of the plane crash that has killed the Polish President Lech Kaczynski and other government officials in Russia.
This is a particularly stunning blow because they were there to attend a memorial service at Katyn for the deaths in 1940 of thousands of Polish men who were prisoners of war under Russian control. 70 years on this site adds to its tragic past. (Many Poles fled their country and Google says that Chicago has the biggest group of Polish descent outside Poland in the world – a Polish diaspora).
Excerpt from Wikipedia’s entry for the Katyn massacre about how near 22,000 Polish males, 8,000 of whom were army officers) were killed by the Russians. They did not admit it till 1990. They still do not classify the killings under any legal classification that will allow the perps to be tried.
“The “Katyn massacre” refers specifically to the massacre at Katyn Forest, near the villages of Katyn and Gnezdovo (ca. 19 kilometres (12 mi) west of Smolensk, Russia), of Polish military officers in the Kozelsk prisoner-of-war camp.”
“Since Poland’s conscription system required every unexempted university graduate to become a reserve officer,[6] the Soviets were able to round up much of the Polish intelligentsia, and the Jewish, Ukrainian, Georgian[7] and Belarusian intelligentsia of Polish citizenship.[8]”
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Bloody Mcarthyite sysops! Help I’m being oppressed. 🙂
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Watching an afternoon tv thing on clamping of cars in Britain. Interesting the English have let it go practically unregulated and there are cowboys going round, self-employed contractors getting &45.00 a clamp, holding motorists to ransom.
One guy had only been in Britain four days and didn’t have the money to pay the large fee and tried to drive off with the clamp still attached, a mother was wanting to get her children to school and looked fairly hard up. If she wanted the car she had to find the money from her limited budget.
It is a very harsh imposition to discourage all by charging such high fees, may be equality but it’s not a level playing field out there.
It’s an example of the poverty of policy that has been allowed to grow while British Labour have been using the “middle way” that Helen Clark followed.
NB In Scotland it is illegal to clamp cars – they consider it is tantamount to extortion!
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