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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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Cue shouting down from the righties but I’m blaming National for this…
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4925261/Police-mayhem-three-crashes-a-day
Not only has Collins overseen this increase but ultimately what is reckless driving about? Lack of care, lack of respect. It’s a direct result of the government we’re living under, a government that doesn’t care about anyone but itself (and it’s mates), one that doesn’t respect diversity, one that is actively encouraging inequality.
This is the society you’ve created Mr Key. Congratulations. As for the rest of you who voted for these people – it’s your fault. Now wake up.
Well, Crusher Collins did promise that lots of high powered cars driven by adrenaline fuelled young people would be taken off the roads. I assumed she meant boy racers, but obviously not.
People who waste money on oil still have the buying power to do so, this is a shrinking set of people. And it\’s set to worse since as there is too much money chasing too few assets globally, and too much debt much of which is being taken on by by global governments. The perfect storm is already on its way, America printing of money will be inflationary for all the world, and even if oil prices were to drop the ability of people to afford but it will increase. So the only real reason for boy racers is stupidity and criminality. The need to shake people to sell up and move, gangs targeting suburbs that they see as potential, or drug dealers who need to be noticed and justify the cost of driving around to their clients. But the problem is this is not like any depression before, there is a population problem, people need to eat, so government will have to forcible get food to the people, and gangs will go legal or become threats to the nation state. Parasitical organism in nature only survive if the host species survives. So the wealthy will do everything they can to get food and freedom to their people, those that fail will go to the wall like so many Arab regimes are. So just dob in the noisy cars so our security services can build up a map of the gangs associates when the collapse in oil prices, that fewer and fewer will be able to afford. Oh, and wave at the people in the noisy cars to thank them for showing themselves. A fool is born every minute I\’m told.
I read that and I’m still not sure if you had a point. Try using paragraphs to separate and structure your topics.
Check statistics.Total convictions for dangerous/reckless driving:
2000 1329
2008 2993
What sort of society was created when?
Not only has Collins overseen this increase but ultimately what is reckless driving about? Lack of care, lack of respect. It’s a direct result of the government we’re living under
Has she overseen this? Better-behaved drivers keep road toll down
Uh, you figured that Collins’ is responsible for one better than normal weekend?
OK, I’ll bite, what exactly did she do at the start of last week which made this happen then.
No, I didn’t figure that. It may not have been clear, I have been having problems with the anti-spam being accepted and after multiple attempts missed putting quotes on the first paragraph.
I was having a wee dig at Tigger’s first post of the day blaming National, Collins and Key for three crashes in a day. If they are to blame for one-off bad news then they must deserve credit for the better news.
Pete the liar.
The article Tigger linked to does not, as you claim, refer to a particular day with three crashes.
It says:
That obviously refers to an average number of crashes per day. But you inserted the “a” into your sentence to make it look like your example and Tigger’s link were referring to the same type of one-off event.
How very dishonest of you, Pete.
Yet another example of Pete being caught out making a stupid statement and then trying to lie his way out of it.
Noam Chomsky on ‘Who Owns the World’ and ‘Too Big to Fail’
and
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175382/tomgram%3A_noam_chomsky%2C_who_owns_the_world/
Which, of course, means that the US and Europe are punishing Iran for being a threat to their (or, more likely, the US’s) hegemony.
Its curious when you think that the biggest threat to US hegemony in the coming decade is the US.
My giddy aunt! Thanks, M for that…
Vicky
So Key is quick to rule in working with a Brash-led Act Party:
And yet he was quick to rule NZ First/Peters out? And Key hasn’t said anything about Brash being a National Party member & not an Act member? So should we read this as a National Party attempted take-over of Act (in spite of Key protesting National is a centrist party unlike Act), rather than just a leadership challenge within Act?
This isn’t National taking over ACT. It’s just the opposite. ACT has being poisoning National for years. Key is an ACT MP in National drag. So was Brash. Brash is just coming finally out of the closet.
Key, like Brash, is a sock puppet for the money interests who are stealing from us. Brash was sacked and replaced by the more charismatic and sensible sounding Key. Make no mistake though, the agenda remains the same.
http://kjt-kt.blogspot.com/2011/02/neo-liberal-promise.html
It’s about the Money, not the philosophy
Specifically, transferring our money to the rich.
Well, that’s what they say. Of course, what they say isn’t actually related to reality. National are a hard right authoritarian party and that was in 2008 when they promised to keep a lot of Labours centre-right policies.
Of course he was. NZ1st is actually more to the left than Labour (although more authoritarian) and if they aren’t going to work with Labour they sure as hell won’t work with NZ1st.
It is not “a leadership challenge within Act”, it’s a leadership challenge with or without Act. More like a takeover bid by the Big Money Rules Party.
Brash and Peters are quite different – Peters has proven to be dishonest, Brash may be a nong but he’s being an upfront and honest (and arrogant) nong.
Brash and Peters are quite different – Peters has proven to be dishonest, Brash may be a nong but he’s being an upfront and honest (and arrogant) nong.
As Bomber posted this morning, Brash is a known liar and distorter of his, and his backers’, real agenda.
Brash honest? Just ask his two ex-wives about that.
Wha…? I guess we now know how low PeteG’s standards for “honesty” actually are.
I see PeteG you have still not read “the Hollow Men”. Go on, educate yourself.
Pete. Always interested in the repetition that Peters is dishonest. (Part of your role of course.) But Key has been known to lie. Ask Key about the National donations from their Trust and he/they deny all knowledge. Yeah right!
Just what are the lies that Peters has been accused of?
Peters is honest compared to most politicians. Including thieves like Douglas, Brash and Key. Don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story though.
After this morning’s interview with the Party Chairman by Kathryn Ryan, who would want to be aligning with ACT right now.
Or shoulder tapped by National since, like any College, a member of the first XV must be kosher. Always clever and honest and moral. (Cough cough.)
Understand they could be interested in a former “Coast to Coast” champion. Perhaps they think he will capture the votes from Greymouth to Waimakariri.
captcha: rapid (s)
Wow, the Queen really is concerned about us…I know this because Key tells me so. He knows because he’s in tight with her, they’re even gonna have lunch.
“This will be an opportunity to update her on Christchurch. I know that she is very concerned…and she will be interested in how the rebuilding phase is going and the heart and health of the people in Canterbury.
“I know she will always want to have an update about the Pike River mine families. She is very concerned about those 29 families”
So much concern. Let’s not become a republic after all!
From 2006, the management myth.
He offered to double the workers’ wages in exchange for their participation in an experiment. The Hungarians, eager to impress their apparent benefactor, put on a spirited show. Huffing up and down the rail car ramps, they loaded sixteen and a half tons in something under fourteen minutes. Taylor did the math: over a ten-hour day, it worked out to seventy-five tons per day per man. Naturally, he had to allow time for bathroom breaks, lunch, and rest periods, so he adjusted the figure approximately 40 percent downward. Henceforth, each laborer in the yard was assigned to load forty-seven and a half pig tons per day, with bonus pay for reaching the target and penalties for failing.
When the Hungarians realized that they were being asked to quadruple their previous daily workload, they howled and refused to work. So Taylor found a “high-priced man,” a lean Pennsylvania Dutchman whose intelligence he compared to that of an ox. Lured by the promise of a 60 percent increase in wages, from $1.15 to a whopping $1.85 a day, Taylor’s high-priced man loaded forty-five and three-quarters tons over the course of a grueling day—close enough, in Taylor’s mind, to count as the first victory for the methods of modern management.
Hah, that was good and well worth reading (being one of the people who actually has some of this “management training”) 😀
On Nine-to-Noon, Hooton has identified Tamaki as the elctorate that Brash is likely to stand in.
Treasury Forecasts.
Why are these “opinions” held up as some form of authority on which to base policy.
Apparently in 2005 “Treasury” advised government that the RWC would see a tax payer input of $75 million. Today the forecast is $266. (Don’t you just love the precise 266 when the forecast itself was out by nearly 200).
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10721530
So the next time we hear English or Key or Goff et al use “Treasury forecasts”, think of Ken Ring and his forecasts.
captcha: believing
Half a billion dollar world cup deficit
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10721530
Apparently we can’t help the elderly clean their houses, or afford to give those on the minimum wage a decent increase, but we can blowout a $500M deficit on the RWC, with much of the remaining income going to a few select groups of people e.g. international sponsors.
What a crock.
That’s something we can agree on HS.
Just as well we do not have a new stadium in Auckland to also include. Perhaps those who benefit from this event can contribute a little more out of their goodwill. e.g. Those increasing there room rates from $35/day to$350/day, or those in the hospitality field that will also benefit?
I hope the IRD are onto it regarding those renting our their homes for the event. Still we do get a plastic fantasic boat out of it for $2m, whilst elsewhere we part paid for another boat for $34m.
This event has already stuffed up the school year. For what? 3 games to be played over 2 weekends, and these are to take place in our evening.
With both nat and lab involved just listen to the void as both are culpable.
editor The anti -spam word is being rejected thre attemps somfar
Perhaps it doesn’t like your spelling…
Or punctuation. Or random use of capitals.
Sorry PP, but your post was literally a sitting duck…
Sorry about this it was a computer blimp plus forgetting to editor the post. This is something that happens when you are over 80yrs as I am.
You may be lucky and find out one day .
Margaret of K Road died last night:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4927850/Well-known-street-woman-dies
RIP Margaret. K Road will not be the same without you.
I just heard about that on the news, Olwyn… Very sad!
Well it’s the left; it’s this culture of death. The far-left is livid about killing babies. They want to kill do this, they want to destroy. You go back, and I don’t want to play all this psychological stuff but nevertheless, if a woman is a lesbian, what advantage does she have over a married woman? Or what deficiency does she have?
Little Blues Found Dead on East Coast
http://thejackalman.blogspot.com/2011/04/little-blues-found-dead-on-east-coast.html
At least thirteen dead Little Blue Penguins have been found on the East Coast within 200 metres of each other. They washed up yesterday in Waihau Bay, which is located adjacent to Petrobras’ seismic testing zone. Coincidence? I don’t think so. With no storms that could account for the deaths, DOC is reported to be uninterested and will apparently not investigate.
Good news from Avaaz.org”
I just heard an item on 3 News, and so I turned to look. A street vagrant called Margaret, who used to hang out on K Rd and ask passers-by for money and cigarettes, died last night. I saw I recognised her, and had encoutered her. The reporter mentioned that she used to abuse people who refused her, and I have to say that although I am sure that’s true, she never abused me! (Mind, I wouldn’t always refuse her..) She had a very sad life! R.I.P., Margaret.
She has not been 100% well since she took a fall last year and spent some time in hospital with a broken arm. I have been told that her funeral will be at the Baptist tabernacle off K Road at 10am next Tuesday, and I have also been told that there will be a memorial service for her. Neither from official sources. So I will let you know, Vicky, when I can confirm. Margaret just was who she was, and I will miss seeing her and having a little chat as I go about my business.
Thank you, Olwyn! That’s interesting news…
Vick
Lynn can we go back to the old comment system please? There was nothing wrong with it that I could tell, whereas this one seems to be developing new problems daily.
Yeah, good idea. I’ll turn it off. It’s off.
I’ll do some work to get it so that it can be turned on if people want it.
Oh joy, I can use the TAB key again! Thanks Lynn!
Can’t comment on IB’s latest post. Won’t accept anti-spam. Keeps telling me I’ve got it wrong and I aint got it wrong!
Maybe refresh when you go to enter your comment again (to get the current anti-spam word), instead of just pushing “Back”
Just seen your reponse CV. Worked that one out long ago. Nah… think it was playing silly buggers. Blame lPrent 😉
I can’t believe Australia got a holiday today and we didn’t. Catching up? Yeah, right.