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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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Yep… popping back until the morning
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I see Aucklanders have been invited to submit our entries for a new Auckland supercity logo to the Auckland Transition Agency and be in to win a $10,000 prize.
But just like everything else about the supershitty, the decision on the logo has already been made by Rodney Hide.
I’ve managed to get a copy.
“I think she was the most dangerous kind of leader. She was a socialist, she was honest, she was smart.”
Brash backer, American billionaire Julian Robertson, on Helen Clark. (DomPost 13 March D2)
Obama is supporting a policy similar to the one our own Nats put forward. OBAMA BACKS ANOTHER INVASION OF PRIVACY It looks like another attack on civil liberties from the man who just recently extended the patriot act again and it looks more like corporate-progressives such as Obama and conservatives such as National are more similar than some might like to think.
So, the first thing I noticed about this email is that it may be a scam, then I noticed that it was from Lockwood Smith (except that it isn’t – it’s from Nationals’ PR department) and that the reply also wasn’t to Lockwood Smith but the National Party in general (which I’d assume that their PR department clears).
More disturbing news from the US: ID Card for Workers Is at Center of Immigration Plan
I wonder if Obama will support it.
who is the UMR? Where are all these stupid surveys coming from. This one is up there with the rubbish statement that 80% of smokers want to quit.
Huljich, Brash, credibility? All three words reek of incompatability. What a sad record our Dr Donny has in the real world.