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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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Something to help soothe the emotional "Trump Child" in your household this Christmas 🙂
Govt pissing around on protection for endangered NZ dolphins after fishing industry lobbying: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/12/23/958876/no-christmas-present-for-mui-dolphins
With Shane Jones at the table I would not take that as a positive sign..
Martyn Bradbury is exercised about the role Spinoff journalists – and others – played in claiming Jacinda Ardern was lying about her knowledge of the sexual assault charges against a parliamentary Labour staffer. I think he makes a good case albeit in his slightly bombastic style:
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2019/12/22/media-watch-can-a-spinoff-conspiracy-destroy-jacinda-ardern-in-2020-and-andrea-vances-apology-has-to-be-read-to-be-believed/
Note: it is not about the assault charges themselves so no need to re-litigate that aspect again.
Thanks Anne. And Bomber for speaking out against an injustice. Spinoff has done a bad job.
time to do something about TV1, their so called news and whoever is in charge. Letting the madman who goes round turning books around in bookshops have exposure is trivial and infantile. That show has become divorced and bereft of any social importance and dallow must go soon.
The presenters do not choose or write the stories. The faceless editors and producers behind them deserve our ire.
Correct. I recall a time in another era when I worked for AKTV2 (if you remember them you are a Boomer), the news reader of the day strolling into the control room registering strong criticism/embarrassment over some news item they were forced to present.
We get the news we ask for.
When a bloke rotating a few magazines gets more clicks than 400 people losing their homes, we get the periodical turner.
Ya what now…
Fake news 🙂
And then some.
Next you want to say the russians did it.
Naah, absolutely no one would believe the Russians had anything to do with it 😉
What your not a liberal??!?
In any country, the words 'Hi, I'm from the government and I'm here to help you' are received with suspicion.
In Russia, I'd be much more alarmed than here. Here, I'd be complaining 'So who is going to pay me while I do this self audit on your behalf?' In Russia I'd be whinging about a Police Captain that slid a kg of icing sugar into my lawn-mower catcher and wants to see my bank balance in his.
I'm keen to stick with the indigenous whinge.
Soooo…whats been happening lately?
The Judith Collins fan club disbanded.
I got a feeling its just getting started…
I think technically you'd need more than just you and Judith though.
All it takes is the right two people…
https://www.hearthymn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Jesus-Christ-asks-peter-do-yo-love-me.jpg
or two right people. A third and we got a party goin on.
As expected, she's crushed.
boom
Most of your rw mates are banned for some innocuous stuff . Tread carefully.
Good thing I'm not RW then, heck I'm even a voluntary union member 🙂
A union man a!!
Tell me given the choice of a month on the picket line on no pay or breaking ranks and sneaking in to work to keep the wages coming in what would you do ??
Last time it came up I voted to reject the governments pay offer but I was out voted…stupid democracy
I would have voted to go on strike is what I’m saying
Welcome back.
Good to be back, just a shame I'm having internet issues at home
I reckon it’s better to have internet issues than personal issues. The latter can sometimes be resolved by resetting the modem.
Or…
https://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/117535102/it-v-office-workers-is-it-really-as-easy-as-turning-it-off-and-on-again
One thing the UK does better than anyone else and thats comedy, panel shows and situation comedies especially
Is that really true?
They were banned for repeated trolling and a personal attack on a moderator.
I was banned for saying "whatever" to a moderator so I know innocuous.
It is all relative. The more innocuous the offence the shorter the ban; yours was for three days at the end of August. Anyway, one was banned for attacking an Author under his own Post and making false allegations about the Author, the other for making callous comments to another commenter about domestic violence and suicide.
Welcome back, BTW.
I actually missed you – could have done with your professional opinion in a discussion about whether someone was being horribly tortured and/or receiving the same treatment as anyone else in high levels of security. One of those discussions that periodically resurrects itself with everyone saying exactly the same thing for a decade, though 🙂
Sounds like it would have been an interesting thread
It'll resurface in february lol. You'll know it when you see it 🙂
Didn't happen to be about a Australian prisoner (sorry I mean Paihere) by any chance?
yup. still at death's door, apparently.
Yeah I'm not touching that subject at all
wiser than me lol
More like remembering the unofficial corrections motto:
CARE (Cover Arse Retain Employment)
yeah fair call
Don't know if anyone else found this funny but also food for thought:
Jonathan Pie is a lovely creation.
He makes me feel awkwardly uncomfortable, that's not such a bad thing. It's when I'm feeling like that I change my mind, I come around, I shift. I like to grow.
"Boris Johnson, the most sinister opportunist this country has seen since Howard Shipman.."
Brilliant.
There are some warnings in this missive. Especially for the 'left's' factions.
Edit; oops meant as a response to PR’s posting of some Jonathon Pie.
I wondered about that and I was just about to put up my usual request 😉
Not a bad line 🙂
* he murdered a 14 year old by stabbing him multiple times in the neck and posed with his corpse
https://twitter.com/davidgura/status/1208776159925809153
Everything is cartoon for him outside/inside his world. Not a real feeling outside for himself .
The tiles look middle eastern – even the rampant lion – symbol of courage, bravery, royalty and chivalry. Interesting the way the human trophy hunter and his lady are posed, grim faced and puzzled, before these cultural borrowings – at Mar a Lago – garrulous Donald in borrowed time against a concrete wall – Melania an audience of one – with us the virtual mob. Wonder who waters the pot plant ?
Paula Bennett stars on Celebrity Bake Off NZ on TV2 tonight (just in case anyone gives a fuck).
She's a busy little bee. TV celebrity, magazine cover girl, professional muck-raker and deputy loser of the opposition.
Sometimes it's hard to know if Paula's a politician or a middle-aged model. Obviously she can do both if she wants to. Only an ignorant asshole would pass judgement.
https://www.twitter.com/GeorgeRopr/status/1200654905821691904
She'll find out soon enough theres only Queen Bee in NZ politics…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Collins#/media/File:Judith_Collins_MP.jpg
I know this is your shtick, but Judith Collins has no chance of ever becoming the leader of National.
Currently, to be considered a leader of National you have to believe in the Great Sky Pixie because Team Jeebus have the numbers and are calling the shots.
Collins does not believe in the Great Sky Pixie, therefore, she is not even in the running and never will be,
I’d recommend voting ACT
I'm hoping thats not completely true
Why do you think they picked Bridges? and if he doesn’t; win next year his replacement will be Luxon.
A chap who’s even more religious than Bridges.
Unfortunately National have a bit of a Gloriavale whiff to them now, personally I can’t vote for National in its current iteration.
Hmm yeah
As usual, there’s a fly in your ointment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Key#Religious_views
Ha ha, isn't that just so John Key?
Key's focus on appearance over substance aside, I'm not sure it is a fly in the ointment. The Key years saw god-botherers trying to set up their own political party, with the usual result (comically hypocritical leadership leading to collapse in support). Since Key quit, god-botherers have held the leadership and they're now lining Luxon up for a future slot. I think BM has a point here.
Hmmm,
SaintSir John stepped down in Dec 2016 so what, or better, who changed the eligibility criteria for Leader of the National Party? Anonymous donors?Is Mr Goodfellow churchy?
Foul fake Christianity in Aus, under the aegis of Rupert Murdoch. The toss of their media I rely on, pray, believe Ozzies will refute , as ever, violently if it goes anywhere near their toes. They fought the freemarket better than us in the 80s.
You again, When did you get out? Got probation? I bet they'll have their eyes on you my laddie. The mere mention of a pooftah, darkie or cracker will see you facing the unknown hanging judge: Incognito Weka.
Judith will be like an old snail squashed under Christopher Luxon's patent leather boot.
I envy that snail…
On ya Sonny!
https://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/sonny-bill-williams-speaks-out-on-chinese-oppression/news-story/6fcf409367d3f42ebe8a3d32b95b0df1
Rugby league and rugby union icon Sonny Bill Williams has tweeted his support of the minority Uighur ethnic group, mirroring the stance of soccer star Mesut Ozil which drew an angry response from China.
Cross-code star Williams may further provoke Chinese officialdom with his social media post, which denounces the treatment of Uighurs — a Muslim minority group native to Xinjiang, the supposedly autonomous region in China’s northwest.
Grand man. Why we should decrease our trade with China. To avoid that dilemma. Everyone around China hate them. If they kept to Deng's avoidance of foreign affairs. The nut there at the moment, self-deified himself, unites China's neighbours. I think it's a blip in that great country's course. Much goodwill, despite their treatment of Tibetans and Uighurs.
Eco maori – Merry Christmas to you and the people in your heart. I enjoy your Yesterday Today contributions. Most of us write with a censor onboard, I like your freestyling, peace and goodwill to you and yours.
These 2 Rabbis walk into a garden bar and started playing Pink Floyd…
Fascinating! Must be ‘going around’ on YT because I happened to watch the same clip last night (or was it the night before?)!
https://youtu.be/qQfetkoGrpU
Kia Ora Newshub.
Yes Christmas is all about kindness.
That's the way recycling everything is what is need to do to save our mokopuna environment.
looks like a happy Christmas in Britain.
That's is cool donations to a Church Marae and 95 % of the building deconstruction being recycled.
Ka kite Ano.
Kia Ora Te Ao Maori News.
That's sad 100.000 Australian Tangata Whenua pepi being torn from their whanau.
Yes it best to be respect full a educate all Australians about the wrongs that have been served up you .
99 years of proving Kai to the people in Taramaki Makaru Awsome.
Ka kite Ano
Moko tube looks like a awesome ap to teach tamariki Te reo Maori
Teno pai to Maori TVs Waiata
Kia Ora Newshub.
The Orca study Wahine is doing great mahi hope you can free the Orca from the rope around its tail.
Raindeer being indangered by climate change one degree is the difference between life and death.
That's the way stop cars from driving on the beach to protect the local Kaikoura beach wildlife. and Environment.
Ka kite Ano.
Kia Ora Te Ao Maori News.
The American tangata whenua have been treated badly by the American settlor. Ka kaha to you all. Looks like a awesome horse ride teaching your tamariki there history at the same time.
Rahui are good they are to protect the environment and the people.
Yes aroha is the Maori way and koha.
The more Marae the better it is for the people.
Ka kite Ano
We only have one environment the good phenomenon is no one can denie the true fact of climate change global warming to all the Tangata. We must keep up the pressure against the deniers.
Climate change could turn this glacier from ski destination to puddle in one lifetime
One experiment successfully stopped the melting, now another is struggling to make the world pay attention.
Peru's Pastoruri Glacier has been rapidly receding thanks to increasing global temperatures
Massive glaciers around the world have been slowly melting and retreating for millennia, sculpting our planet's most iconic mountains, valleys and even the Great Lakes in the process. But here, in the Peruvian Andes, it's been happening more rapidly in recent years
An area where Peruvian families once skied just a few decades ago is now an empty drainage of rocks and sand left behind by the retreat of the ice cap in what's now Huascaran National Park. In fact, the shrunken ice cap has separated into two small glaciers bisected by a large rock outcropping.
It's a prediction that doesn't sound that outlandish. Already, the site's sidewalk needs to be extended to reach the ever-withdrawing edge of the ice field.
So while the maps and signs may no longer all be legible, the ramifications of climate change here are easy enough to read and interpret. They're written all over the landscape.
Ka kite Ano link below.
https://www.cnet.com/news/climate-change-could-turn-this-peruvian-glacier-from-ski-destination-to-puddle-in-a-lifetime/
Kia Ora Newshub.
That was awesome the Orca study group managed to free the Orca from the rope around its tail.
I think the 2 legged sharks are worse than the ones in Tangaroa.
Another Typhoon creating carnage in the Pacific.
The tiki from one of the Beatles being brought by Te Papa is cool. Te Tiki is a important part of Maori culture.
Ka kite Ano
Kia Ora Te Ao Maori News.
The Kuia tennis player story sounds good Apaina Ngta presenting her with a prize cool.
Some people don't know how to show respect for Te Urupar.
Ka kite Ano
Kia Ora Newshub.
Global warming is giving Hurricanes more Mana.
That's sad a 3rd of Koala Bears in New South Wales have died because of bushfires.
That's a awesome new invention a coloured x-ray scanner invented by a father and son Canterbury doctors.
Ka kite Ano.
Kia Ora Te Ao Maori News.
Tennis is a great sport to get tangata whenua Rangatahi into.
The Kohanga reo Kura started just I time to lift Te reo Maori.
I have seen they have quite a few followers The Maori Heavy Metal Ropu Ka pai. It's awesome that there is a huge interest in Maori Culture around the world.
Ka kite Ano
It's great to see Te Australia Tangata Whenua Nations Kana kana and seeing their culture getting Mana Ka pai.
https://youtu.be/qQfetkoGrpU
What up with the YouTube up loads on the site it keeps saying that it already has loaded I loaded 1 with a different email and name and it in morderation. A