The prof also mentions a non-market solution: We need a more fundamental overhaul, of the kind envisioned by a group of communication scholars and practitioners in their manifesto to create a Public Service internet. Released last June and signed by more ...
The prof explains how social media corporatisation has perverted the original intent of the internet: [overlong quote deleted] So that establishes the basis for a leftist critique of corporatised social media, and any consequent collective project to re-...
The idea that govts be allowed to govern seems questionable to some folk: statements about the Crown’s obligations to Māori under the Treaty are about to be challenged in court in a case brought by the Water Users Group and led by prominent QCs Gary Judd ...
Professor of Media Studies examines the current state of the media/politics interface: A healthy media ecosystem must include national public-funded media independent of the government of the day. These are found in most liberal democracies, but they have ...
Establishment political analysts, posturing as anti-establishment, become the victims of their innate perceptual inadequacies. Poor old Chomsky, seemingly incapable of figuring out what's going on... Chomsky’s approach has the effect of relativizing the ...
Mallard should never have walked into such an obvious trap. He should look where he's going. Open season on mallards the day after tomorrow! Says so here: https://fishandgame.org.nz/game-bird-hunting-in-new-zealand/game-season/game-bird-season-and-bag-...
my views align most with hers Mine too. However it's a multidimensional situation, with plenty of nuances. I think Jack is onto something (even though he's using dualism) with his separating out of the sovereignty dimension & the partnership dimension. I ...
Professor Jack Vowles has appraised our demos: The authority of the ‘Crown’ is now derived from the people of New Zealand, both Māori and Pākehā as well as members of other ethnic groups who live here, because in a democracy the people are the ultimate ...
Ah, I get it. The arcane priesthood ploy. Yep, that's an authentic tradition. If law clerks operate as a privileged caste, entitled to decide whether petitions present compelling reasons for deciding if important questions of law need to be addressed, I ...
Mallard said that the actual decision to trespass Peters and King was not made by him, but by Parliamentary Security, who he had delegated responsibility to... “I have been working with Police and Parliamentary Security to constantly assess threats to ...
So sheeple have a balanced view of parliament: "27% trusted Parliament, compared to 29% who expressed distrust", and presumably the other 44% felt that the question made their head hurt so much they couldn't decide. Over the course of the weeks of the ...
you wont let it go as you have these sort of fixations Yeah, sometimes. On this situation I'm willing to defer to any specialist knowledge of court systems in general & the operation of the US Supreme Court in particular. Your view that law clerks are able...
Oh yeah. Thanks for shifting it.
Winston's play to re-enter parliament as the spearhead of the Rebel Alliance: Former deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters says he will seek a judicial review of the decision to trespass him from Parliament. "This is not about whether former Members of ...
You're right to suggest that a person with one leg is disabled, and that noting the fact is merely common sense. Not high-brow in itself. It's the holistic usage of the example via postmodernism that seems cerebral.
The relation between history and truth is forever fraught..
Possible the Herald reporter got it wrong, I suppose. We await confirmation that the decision to disestablish the Executive has actually been made...
Realistic inasmuch as the schism between the authentic Greens & the leftists that killed Values back then is still causing problems. The first bunch want to build consensus and the second bunch just wannabe partisans.
You mean intersectional theory? Wasn't around back then. Does seem somewhat intellectual though. I suspect an academic dreamt it up. Or did you mean "a one-legged, Maori, lesbian ditch-digger"? Somewhat hypothetical, perhaps, but employing multi-...
Any duck-shooter would go for him real fast.
Deciding to decline the review is a decision against Trump's false claim. What part of that don't you understand??
he made it happen Only true if you disallow the free-will of the judges. Remember those judges decided against Trump's attempt to relitigate the Biden victory. Disobedient!
Need to see the new constitution. It would be helpful. If they intend to prove the operation is democratic, they will put it on the public part of their website. Don't hold your breathe. I'm just being sceptical though. Wouldn't surprise me if they're ...
Plenty of stuff from early '70s Craccum in my archives, all rather high-brow! But could be that Muldoon's accession in '75 killed that culture & reduced the students to mumbling incoherence...
Mallard's a conservative. He's defending the citadel of democracy against the barbarian rabble. Gets him conservative street cred big-time!
Looking like Trump may have predicted the future: In 2016, Trump said his victory in the election would mean that overturning Roe “will happen, automatically,” because he’d appoint justices who would get the job done. “I am pro-life, and I will be ...
So looks like the Greens have done something interesting for a change: Other changes to the constitution included adopting a te ao Māori organisational framework, and establishing a new kaunihera (council) and member assemblies to provide democratic input ...
Progress = tech + economy. That's a formula proven by history. However, the key driver is only evident in the tacit psychological sub-text - incentive structures. Inventors produce new tech when they get incentivised to do so. For example, the genesis of ...
John Herlihy was re-elected for a third term as president of the Republic of Whangamōmona (population 126) in 2021. The BBC article features Whangamōmona’s Republic day, which takes place every other January after a ‘revolt’ in November 1989 over ...
There's a dark cloud hanging over the government, according to the AM newsreader. Gosh, I wonder who put it there! Luxon's explaining his poll boost as due to cost of living increases. Govt spending on "middle management & bureaucrats & consultants". ...
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