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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to Jason Kemp,
GDP
Just another acronym politicians use for calming the plebs and self promotion.
As you say its bullshit. -
Hard News: The next four years, in reply to Jason Kemp,
The background forces which have favoured global supply chains
You mean greed! (of the I got mine fuck you buddy variety) Lets stop dressing it up in beige language .
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(and it is strictly relative: the poverty bar used by the World Bank is income of $US1.90 a day).
It would have to be relative, who is living on that a day and where?
The missteps that lead to now are easily recognizable, and litter our recent history like beacons of stupidity and greed. No one needed to have prophetic abilities to see them, but they were willfully ignored along the way. And the blame lies squarely on those at the top of our society pyramid. But a blame culture took over, its so easy to say its someone else's fault if one is higher up the food chain or stop your whinging. When that person/s have little or no means to speak out, and if they do are ignored, marginalized, made fun of. Or all of it.
confound the pundits
That was the easiest thing of all to do, it seems. Maybe they wont be so gullible in the future. Here's hoping.
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the year so many people decided to Choose Hate. Brexit. Trump.
And johnkey decided I'm outta here, chicken shit.
Its all been in the pipeline of human consciousness for a long time IMO.
When business' were able to ship manufacturing offshore, unions were demonised, and self centred philosophies gained a glittering stage on which to peddle selfishness/ its your attitude bullshit( otherwise known as emotional blackmail or guilt tripping) to humanity.
The dumbing down large swathes of the global population got itself in motion.
And meaning what you say, was traded for polishing the language to make oneself look like one had all the answers. It got its own name too, spin. How appropriate.Just to me it looks like an end of empire period. And there's going to be a lot of salvaging of one's own arse and flogging off of the family jewels. Its already started where it all heads is anyone's guess, 'cause those who think they can direct it haven't got a clue no matter what nonsense they spout.
Sorry I'm not trying to say give up, this will just take us where it will and one day sense of a kind may prevail.
But when that will be...? -
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Hard News: Music! That one album, in reply to Farmer Green,
You wouldn’t read about it.
Funny but thats just the kind of thing, me for one, likes to read about.
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Hard News: Music! That one album, in reply to Jason Kemp,
just imagine we had as many people learning to be songwriters as we have playing rugby each weekend.
Oh! that just rolls off the tongue dont it. Is our culture ready for that or do we have to look at that thing called culture change. I hear they take a few years unless you get ya mitts on the levers of power.
Who’s grubby paws are on them now? I dread to think.
that Peaches clip is cool -
good informative measured series thanks. And in a year when most things went tits up metaphorically speaking... mainly the old white males of the species.
All I thought was... about bloody time.
I just hope Trump et al become a laughing stock and do no lasting damage -
post-eh? but then I struggled with post-modern.
But I wish we could be post-fuckwittery.
maybe its because being first past the post
is so important nowadays.
Post-day isnt that night? -
For the people not the situation, sorry. If you watch Curtis' doco make of it what you will.
Godd piccies ta