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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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Did somebody say unions? I wonder if Matt McCarten is relaxed about Unite Support Services unpaid and overdue taxes? That’s assessed taxes by the way, not “potential” taxes legally avoided.
[Stop trolling. First and last warning. Stick to the subject matter of the post – MS]
[lprent: Moved to OpenMike as being off topic. ]
Good grief. I would have thought the situation with Unite was at least partly relevant, although in their case it probably wasn’t avoidance.
[lprent: Because the post was about
1. ‘Taxpayers union’
2. Overseas corporations
3. Taxes
If you want to make your own rules then create your own blog and your own audience. If you try it here… Well read the self-martyrdom offences in the policy. Do you have any rational questions – possibly ones related to rule making procedures on privately held blogs?
Please note that I have less interest in litigating the meaning of what we put in our policy than I do in the creative process of writing pithy and highly offensive notes as I ban someone. ]
YouGov poll backs up the recent ICM Guardian poll and says that squabbling over Europe is hurting the government.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/new-poll-puts-labour-ahead-of-tories-for-first-time-since-jeremy-corbyn-became-leader-a6937926.html
Don’t normally bother to link to herald but this caught my eye
Cancer drug giant’s tax bill less than PM’s
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11608228
Why does the government sign a deal so that Big Pharma need more corporate welfare and tax discounts, and longer patents so that big Pharma receive more profits, under TPPA?
More robbing the poor to pay more to the rich!
Bet that’s not mentioned on the tax payer funder Roadshow.
Its great eh the way rich think about tax .
They are controlling the game merely by their presence and able to lie about paying tax to the govt because the govt is in the same game of lying to the country
Then we really have a democratic economics problem
They are both crooks
Key is the epitome of this ,he was made by this system first highlighted by Bruce Jesson in “Behind the Mirrored Glass”way back in the 80s ,nothing has been done because all these crooks have and will continue to run the system
Roger Douglas Bob Jones Ron Brierly and the weasel of Telecom and the Mother of all economic fuck ups, Bolger, Shipley the list goes on , the founding fathers and mothers of this corrupt system in NZ.
Now we have this system of the multinationals and they about to snuff out our sovereignty in the TPPA and NZ will become like Britain with huge pressure caused by a govt whose only way of staying ahead of the rort is to up immigration of those whose bank accounts can swell the tax take that will continue to be bled out of us to the overseas corporate blood suckers supported by this govt
The solution NZ First because they are the only ones who have had the balls to call it out
It a “Highway to Hell” to quote ACDC
A refreshing read as well, what’s happened to Granny??
Dawit Arshak enjoys the freedom and safety of his life in New Zealand.
“I love that people have the right to talk, to express themselves. I can be against John Key, and he won’t be after me.”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11608054
+++(Unless you are Nicky Hager, Bradley Ambrose and Dotcom and more…)+++
+ 100%
Key dancing on immigration numbers on the Nation.
Key says he has no problem with current immigration numbers and then goes on to highlight the problems?
http://www.newshub.co.nz/tvshows/thenation/interview-john-key-2016031910#axzz438VM4zZx
Keyed in Matthew Hooton and this is what I got,
Tricledrown: Comment:Message from Andrew Little about TPPA
Date published: 4:19 pm, January 29th, 2016
Hooton that’s not ratified in … as a result. Bang on Mathew your full of shit.
So he has not been seen on TS since Jan 29th or am I missing something? don’t get me wrong I am not missing his biased and provocative comments just curious.
Using in search for comments (in advanced)
@author “Hooton”
gives this
http://thestandard.org.nz/?s=%40author+%22Hooton%22&isopen=block&search_comments=true&search_sortby=date
Thanks for that tip Iprent.
Great cartoon on how the Government/IRD chase the little cheats and turn a blind eye to the Big ones. A picture is worth a…
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11608119
Takes serious resources to pursue the big boys, clip those back and that’s about all they can chase.
Do this across com com, sfo, electoral commission and a host of other bodies that are intended to level the playing field and umpire proceedings that’s what you get left with, anything but a level field.
For a chilling insider story on how corporate power in USA is upheld by corruption, depravity and worse …key into utube ‘Kay Griggs’ interviews.
Kay Griggs is a whistleblower of the stature of Julian Assange and Edward Snowden…and even Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The insane ramblings of a diseased mind, chilling to you. Just funny and sad to most normal people..
your descriptors of “insane ramblings” +”diseased mind” +”funny” + “sad” = a reflection on yourself and misogyny and chauvinism imo ( which is how she was treated)
…Kay Griggs gives huge amount of credible factual detail and names
…let people make up their own minds and view it themselves
Free-market proves that it’s incapable of holding power to account:
Good for business apparently. Not so good for anything else.
On Donald Trump and the media
https://www.rt.com/shows/keiser-report/335928-episode-max-keiser-889/
“In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy ask what’s the matter with Kansas? And Virginia? North Carolina? Florida? Alabama? Michigan and Massachusetts? Are voters flocking to Donald Trump because they’re racist? Or, is it the economy and so-called ‘free trade’ deals driving them nuts?
In the second half, Max continues his interview with Satyajit Das, author of Extreme Money and A Banquet of Consequences about the coming market collapse.”
Quoting the Mentioned Guardian article:
This is true in NZ as well. Both major parties and most, if not all, minor parties see trade as the be all, end all of politics. And yet, when we look at trade we see declining jobs and increasing poverty. Trains bought from China instead of being made here despite the fact that making them here would have done more for the economy and society in general.
It’s interesting the so-called anti-establishment Trump has been given so much free air time from establishment networks.
https://youtu.be/I3_7fVwyoOE
maybe they are looking their short term profits?…and he is bringing them in viewers and hence advertising revenue?
…if you can’t beat him join him?
….and then hope to get a hold over him
who owns the media in the USA
http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6
http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/10/23/owns-media-6-monolithic-corporations-control-almost-everything-watch-hear-read/
http://www.rense.com/general44/sevenjewishamericans.htm
http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart
America huh
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Greg Pinelo
@gregpinelo
This is outrageous and the Sanders campiagn should repudiate it.
https://twitter.com/gregpinelo/status/710485230747041792
Greg Pinelo
@gregpinelo
Sanders backers saying “the Confederacy shouldn’t get to choose our President:” In Dem primaries, you’re talking about black people. Stop it
https://twitter.com/gregpinelo/status/710509323999432704
Strange place.
The southern states will basically decide the Democrats candidate, but will have no effect on the national result in November.
PJ Harvey Once again rocks the world with a message of hope.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11607817
God hope they’re not gonna lift the arse to presidential level.
Sometimes I have this consciousness of witnessing a terrible history happening.
Government and Big Business have been one big con in this country for the past 40 years, Business Round Table yeah right, nah?
Fantastic to hear that Europe’s Most Wanted Man and Terrorist … has finally been caught.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/18/four-month-hunt-shootout-capture-paris-terror-suspect-salah-abdeslam-brussels
Who agrees that it is significant ‘conflict of interest’ for Auckland Council to be a member of the NZ Property Council?
‘Democracy for developers’?
On 31 March 2016 the Auckland Council Governing Body will be voting on whether Auckland Council should withdraw its membership of the NZ Property Council.
In my view, it is a serious ‘conflict of interest’ for Auckland Council to be a member of the NZ Property Council.
(Who actually represents Auckland Council at meetings of the NZ Property Council?
To whom do they report back?
Where are the ‘minutes’?
Where are the ‘boundaries’ – between ‘public’ and property developers?)
(There is an interesting story on this matter in the current print version of the NBR).
As an Auckland Mayoral candidate I am absolutely opposed to Auckland Council and Auckland Council Controlled Organisations (CCOs) being members of private sector lobby groups such as the NZ Property Council AND the Committee for Auckland.
Penny Bright
+100 Penny
Most councils are chummy with developers, its all about the money and the neverending growth model society has adopted. Long term effects on the environment and community are usually just ignored. This applies to pretty much all the subdivisions we’ve been building for the last 50 years.
Yes Yes Yes Penny !
I don’t wish to engage in ???? about the minutiae. In principle and in proper, decent practice, it is amply clear. They cannot be so engaged. Runs the risk of people liking some other people too much and not doing their honest duty.
Yes Yes Yes Penny !
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11606016
Look at the picture. What’s going on here ? What’s someone trying to suggest what’s going on here ?
Sorry for my frequent comments……haven’t had a chance until now to have a good look at what’s going on.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11608086
I reckon we’re gonna get something fine here…..
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11608086
Retired High Court judge Rodney Hansen QC is an excellent, excellent jurist.
Get ready for excellence of report.
Rodney *Hansen*.
An explainer of what’s going on in Brazil
you remember Brazil…one of those BRICS that was going to drive world economic growth…..hows things in Russia, China and South Africa of late?
Thanks, that was very interesting.
Two phrases for NZ,
This ends in pizza (a Brazilian saying about scandals that fizz out).
“I steal, but I get results” (a Brazilian man running for office where corruption is the norm. Key could use “I like, but I get results”).
“I lie but I get results”.
Meet DRU – The newest team member to join the Domino’s family! He’s the world’s first autonomous delivery vehicle!
https://youtu.be/rb0nxQyv7RU
Posties and couriers will be next…
It’s only a matter of time.
New Zealand could become the first country in the world to use a driverless pizza delivery unit from Domino’s, the Government has announced.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/78022236/new-zealand-could-become-first-country-to-use-pizza-delivery-robot