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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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Interesting article on Stuff this morning.
Police slash annual cannabis operation, blind siding frontline staff and officials | Stuff.co.nz
Hopefully this indicates a change in focus to the meth industry which is substantially more harmful.
$700,000 seems a lot considering that the air force already owns the helicopters, so that's just fuel, maintenance, and maybe staffing (but that'd be army pilots and police spotters? So already employed just reassigned). I do know from once living in rural parts near a usually tranquil growing area, those helicopters flying so low are really loud and annoying. Far worse than tourist flights which are at least on the way somewhere rather than circling for days over the same area.
Police realise that alcohol 'meth etc are the dangerous drugs and targeting gangs is where resources should be focused.
Since 501's returning to NZ are making gangs much nastier most gangs are carrying guns most of the time that is a real threat to the safety of police and public.
A fantastic performance from the new No. 1 in test cricket.
India chased down the third highest total to win the test and series in Australia @ The Gabba. They were without their inspirational captain, the bowling attack had 4 tests caps between them at a venue Australia hadn't lost at since 1988.
It all came down to the final session, where the tired, combatitive Australians didn't have an answer for the momentum of the Indians.
Two views:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/19/india-clinch-australia-test-series-with-historic-win-at-gabba
and a closer look at Australian way of playing:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/123990111/mark-reason-australias-cricket-loses-honour-in-shameful-short-bowling-assault-on-india
It was sport and its absolute best.
I enjoyed every minute of that final session.
Well done India
Yes it was great to watch Australia get beaten. I have not forgiven Warner and Smith for sand paper-gate. And Paine the newish captain seems to be no different with the verbal abuse of batsmen. Smith has not learnt anything either with his purposely scuffing out the batsmen's markings. Aussies win at all costs attitude no matter how dirty got beaten this time.
You guys make Australia look like Scotland’s England.
Well 'if the cap fits, wear it' even if it is the green baggy.
Maybe you need flax kilts to dry your eyes with
I think Paine may be in for some more pain from Aussie supporters / media.
He said "cant wait to get you to the GABBA" in his sledging. I would say his captaincy may be on shaky ground.
Yep, an excuse to bring Smith back in as captain
Loiden arp cobbah. Fee sarkathasav mite.
Pass on the parse
lighten up cobber, fair suck of the sav mate
Thanks.
After all that head scratching it turned out to be just a bit of a whine
I was surprised that Smith deliberately rubbing the marks out didn't get more traction.
Abrasive characters that mob.
We need to change our practices.
Spraying this stuff around willy-nilly must stop. I watched the local contractor applying 'spray' to the roadside on a day that could only be described as windy.
Time for Councils to review their contracts and phase out the Glyphosate.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/434807/japan-warns-it-will-block-nz-honey-shipments-if-glyphosate-limits-breached
Have no doubt, this will be the reaction….
Don't know if you are in Wellington, but I've experienced this several times when I've been out walking. Yuk.
This is my favourite Roundup story…
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/regional/298594/contractors-told-to-wear-masks-when-spraying
A full meeting of the Christchurch City Council has been told council contractors are not wearing masks when applying a weed killer classed as a probable carcinogen.
The council's parks manager Andrew Rutledge told today's council meeting that workers applying the weedkiller on parks and pathways had been told not to wear protective masks so as not to alarm the public.
"The contractors response is that they don't want to frighten the public, so essentially they don't want to be seen in public spaces wearing the appropriate equipment because it naturally gives off quite a scary image."
And an update from the CCC.
https://newsline.ccc.govt.nz/news/story/increase-in-glyphosate-use-could-save-millions
Good grief !!
That is a bit of a shocker.
Australian cricket is the distillation of the ugly Aussie at test match level, I loved the way India's youngsters sat the bully on his arse, blinking in surprise.
I watched the last session with a young Indian guy who was so excited, when India won I asked him to be really quiet for a five seconds in case we could here a billion people wooping it up from here. Then he ran off to call all his friends.
I see Audrey is back at the Herald interviewing her typewriter for reckons and in doing so demonstrating to us all the media horse race politics bullshit is alive and well, and they've learnt precisely nothing from the pasting they got the last year in the publics eyes. Suffice it to say – Audrey Youngs view on what the public is thinking is probably about as valid as the one of the Uber driver she got it from.
Mind you, they've got another embarrasingly bad piece from the saggy and plaque ridden ancient mind of Richard Prebble today in the Herald and it seems they've decided to recruit an entire cohort of yesterday's men in the form of defeated National Party MPs (presumably all at a lose end and possibly needing the money after the shellacking they got last year) as somehow relevant opinionistas for 2021. The only problem is they can't write and a thumping majority of voters has already heard what they've had to say and told them to piss off.
it is almost as if being a good writer with a fresh take (by which I don't mean cynical and obtuse contrarianism for the sake of it or rejected opposition politicians trying to relitigate the defeat of their policy agenda) disqualifies you from writing for the Herald as dangerously subversive.
Truly the best sustained insult you'll see this year. Big call, being January and all, but I think it is going to be hard to tops. Especially the rant from the 9:50 mark…
Lol. After listening to Jonathon I get the distinct impression that Donald J. Trump is not a particularly nice person!
I could try to compete with a list of all the names I've called him. Here's just the first 30:
hemorrhoid that destroyed a party of dinosaurs
Leader of the Pee world
America's Prolapsed Rectum
Space Cadet Bonespurs
TRE45ON WE45EL
Tangerine Nazi Rapeclown
stygian homunculus
gibbering baboon flinging its feces at the Oval Office walls
genital-grabbing golem
Jabba the Drumpf
decomposing jack'o'lantern
Spraytan Stalin
Fanta Fascist
Hair Twitler
Grab'em'fuhrer
Tangerine Toddler
Presidolt Sharpie
tangelo turdgoblin
CovidCamacho
dayglo daycare escapee
Needy Amin
Donny Drumpster
waddling spraytan warning label
Drumpfelthinskin
Dotard of Doltistan
Donnie Dingleberry
Agent Drumpfov
Pumpkin Pinochet
Tinyfingers Twittertwat
rotting rage-gargoyle lurking under a roadkill hamster
There's prob'ly at least another hundred …
Recount Dracula
That fits Oozy Ghouliani better.
True
How about Recount of Monte Cristo
TA – more the Recount of a Montebank.
I'm hoping that the Man in the Iron Mask will be a more accurate future description.
Therapeutic absolutely, but much of the damage of the Trump (and indeed Johnson) administrations is permanent.
At least we get to know we lived through the peak of the human world at its most wasteful, most globalised, most organised, most liberal, most democratic, and most creative.
In our 80s we'll be able to tell people what it was like.
Here we go again.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/122695678/woman-behind-cryptocurrency-marketing-network-attracts-attention-of-the-commerce-commission
I am looking forward to the inauguration and some normalcy from the US President. Not the firing or foreign policy first being announced on Twitter until the out going President could no longer use Twitter.
Thank fuck it's less than 20 hours to go. I've been …
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1351668986291875845?s=19
I hope someone had this on a placard as the band went by …
😂😂
One more…
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1326976723741650944/pu/vid/480×270/0J5dF5P2bhmXLIlW.mp4?tag=10
Unfortunately, normalcy is not what the US needs, eg Wall St and corporate donors, the army of lobbyists, indemic racism throughout society, eye watering debt, rampant inequality…
Well if your idea of "Normalcy" is a crying President on repeat over his dead son…you're in luck…though I guess todays rehash was better than the time he introduced his granddaughter as Beau ..that being said ..I wonder how long they really can keep Biden out of the public eye? The Silicon Valley backers of Kamala must be chomping at their bit…
I'd prefer a potus in mourning, to a narcissistic moron.
Just shows how nasty and spiteful some people can be, I mean, fancy attacking someone for getting emotional about their dead child. It says more about Siobhan than it does uncle Joe.
As a parents worst nightmare, I imagine that's something you'd never get over, yet it in no way excludes someone from holding high public office. What it does do, is show a human side to leadership that has sadly been lacking of late.
Of course he won't be a shirtless, bear wrestling dictator that some seem to fawn over, but that's really a good thing, isn't it?
Any one else other than Trump is an improvement.
And still, after four years of that bs, the never Hillary mob have never looked less credible.
The greater of two evils is never the best option.
I confess I've still got a nagging curiosity about what would have happened had the win gone to Cthulhu.
It would had to have gone really hard to trump Trumps 400k dead
Donnie Dorko had a full helping of all the malignant narcissistic evil imaginable. But I'll thank whatever old ones anyone prays to that he had precisely zero competence or willingness to exert himself.
First an idea and then a plan. A plan should never be about playing one person or a group off against another person or a group. Trump was the ultimate player and will continue to do this with a lot less power.
"The Green Party has broken rank from the other parties in Parliament and explicitly said house prices need to fall. "
https://www.interest.co.nz/property/108669/greens-bite-bullet-and-say-average-house-price-either-needs-come-down-or-very-least
It is unlikely Labour will heed the call so the question is then how much support will Labour lose to the Greens as a result?
Not only the Greens but the Minister has also seen the light. – Over the BBQs even those of my friends who own multi properties made comments that this house price escalation is out of hand.
Pity that “It is much more sustainable to have those much smaller increases. I think people expect that you see that in the market,” Ardern said. –
Sepuloni wasn't available for an interview today, but in a statement she blamed rising accommodation costs across the country, saying they’re putting pressure on households.In short, the Government is saying rising housing costs are sucking up Kiwis’ money, leaving them unable to afford food.
The damage that this inaction is causing will be IMO felt over generations and the social costs will be evident but no govt will ever place a cost to it
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/problems-escalated-food-poverty-in-aotearoa-only-getting-worse-say-those-frontline
Your next 'home'…and all this for only $390 pw
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/summer-days/audio/2018780242/rental-market-supercharged-as-university-year-looms
The Oligarchy control of both houses and the presidency will (almost surely) see mortgage costs increase in 2021,if we see a close to 1% increase here the shrills and the shrews will be out with pitchforks.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/mortgages/democrats-mortgage-rates/
Singing from the same song sheet..
https://www.interest.co.nz/business/108667/global-independent-economic-researchers-capital-economics-see-reserve-bank-needing
I however suspect they are somewhat premature in their prediction.
They are suggesting the RB move,10 yr bonds yields(as an indicator) are moving upwards.
https://www.interest.co.nz/charts/interest-rates/government-bond-rates
An ocr movement would hurt our trading position ie exporters.
Indeed, and why the RBNZ will look through any inflation as long as possible
The KiddyCage King's finest and smartest all turned out for the insurrection cosplay.
First there was the dude that wore his GPS-tracking ankle bracelet. He's a real charmer that has openly talked of wanting to kill people, and picked up his ankle bling from a burglary conviction.
https://www.newsweek.com/white-supremacist-bryan-betancur-gps-proud-boys-1562364
Now there's the not-quite-Einstein that texted a selfie inside the Capitol to his girlfriend's brother. Oh yeah, he's a special agent with the Diplomatic Security Service.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/capitol-rioter-new-york-thomas-fee-selfie-rotunda-insurrection-retired-firefighter/65-9c7cd936-35e5-402e-a085-63cb14bf045a
Just how this is going to pan out is anyones guess. 🙄
https://twitter.com/SarahLongwell25/status/1351707376823504896?s=19