Posts by Farmer Green
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to John Farrell,
mutton for every meal, and bathe in milk powder.
On Fridays you can have fish , and bathe in the ocean.
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to BenWilson,
NZ can make cars, electronics, and grow bananas, but I get your point.
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to andin,
uh huh?
Apparently in the age of "free trade" this idea is radical if not heretical, and is patently anti-globalisation.
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Emma Hart,
The other question will be - will the ones who voted for Trump be the ones who gain the most, because if they perceive that they have done so , then they will vote for more of the same.
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An argument that a country should produce the things that are consumed by the residents is given an outing by the archdruid.
Godzone needs to be clever here: we live or die by the trade rules in vogue at any particular time. And of course we are canny traders: we canned the trade deal with Russia but kept supplying them with dairy products.
Trump will do what is good for the U.S. : we'll have to get smarter.
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.co.nz/ -
Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Rich Lock,
we have an Oligarchy.
So your "Trump " steps up to the plate and offers to "drain the swamp". This is essentially about the de-selection process . . . . getting rid of the entrenched oligarchy without having to invoke the guillotine solution.
If Trump succeeds in only one policy outcome during his tenure , a limit on politicians' terms- in- office would satisfy many people. -
Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Joe Wylie,
I blame Moses for this .
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Dennis Frank,
With a meritocracy, competence determines the outcome.
Back here , it seemed to be the make-up of the governing body , or the group of those elected to represent or govern the people, that was to be determined on merit ; fitness for purpose, in modern parlance.
The Chinese Civil Service example related to the bureaucracy that was to implement the decisions of the governors, and the role that merit played in selection and advancement. I believe that NZ had a similar system.
The problem of assessing the " fitness for purpose" of those offering to govern us, has lead us , in turn, to consideration of the fitness of "we the people " to elect our governors. -
Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to David Hood,
Pedantry no doubt , but zero was not a natural number , because it was not natural to count nothing. This was implicit in the concept of number as taught back then. You could not count nothing, . . . one would make a mark only for what was being counted.
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Looking back at the NZ education system as it once was, I see meritocracy and measurement of merit deeply embedded in the design. The system had no view on the circumstance leading to the exhibition of the quality of “merit”, so if it was luck in “upbringing and natural intelligence” that resulted in achieving merit, then that was the way that the cookie had crumbled.
The names of the cohorts told the story. It was about standards. Some children never made Standard One.
It was possible to sit the national secondary exam , known as School Certificate, after only two years of Secondary education, instead of the usual three, but in the former case you had to accumulate at least 250 marks over five subjects, instead of 200 marks over four subjects.
Having got this Certificate of Attainment, you became ineligible for internal assessment of University Entrance, and had to undergo external examination for University Entrance along with the “repechage” for those who failed to be accredited under internal assessment.
But entrance to university was yours by right upon reaching the age of 21.
The only public role that was not so subject to formal meritocratic process and selection was that of M.P.