Posts by Katharine Moody
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Here's a great example initiative along these lines during the lead up to the last election;
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The Onion take on it;
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Polity: Meet the middle, in reply to tony j ricketts,
Firstly, the NZ Parliament is defined by the Party Vote, and we STILL haven’t confronted the disparity of ‘safe’ Labour seats like Mt Albert or Island Bay where Labour lost the party vote. Up and down the country there are electorates without even a prominent Labour MP or candidate to lead the fight for Party Vote Labour.
A very critical point.
Perhaps left-leaning voters are more amendable to splitting their votes than right-leaning voters (Epsom electorate aside). And those minor parties who had stronger party-vote showings in the last election (notably NZF) did better at Labour's as opposed to National's party vote expense.
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The political landscape if framed by the sustainability debate. Labour I would put at somewhere around the Brundtland approach (fence sitting between status quo and reform) and National in the neoliberal camp (firmly status quo). Neither (at the moment) strike me as transformative in nature..
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My reading of it is that Sanders and Corbyn are both appealing to anti-globalist sentiments - they are rejecting today's dominant ideology of globalization;
http://mams.rmit.edu.au/es4cefpg6ifj1.pdf
I heard Sanders mention his rejection of the military-industrial complex in the US, for example, and he supported that assertion by pointing out his No vote with respect to The Patriot Act. This is his denial of claim six of the globalist political ideology;
Claim one: globalization is about the liberalization and global
integration of markets
Claim two: globalization is inevitable and irreversible
Claim three: nobody is in charge of globalization
Claim four: globalization benefits everyone (...in the long run)
Claim five: globalization furthers the spread of democracy in the world
Claim six: globalization requires a global war on terrorI think this anti-globalist sentiment resonates with youth in part because globalism is all they have known and they can see the falsehoods in those claims (even though they have no knowledge of its specific claims as a political ideology).
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Polity: Saudi sheep: Misappropriating…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Another East Coast Bays by-election?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Coast_Bays_by-election,_1980
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Deputy Public Defender in Christchurch
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Speaker: The CERA transition that no one…, in reply to Alfie,
It’s a master class in paternalism
And lies. For all to see - over and over and over.
Evidently, corporate NZ sees this "paternalism" as "pragmatism";
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11496030
Trading Snakeoil - it's a mad world, eh :-).
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Polity: Saudi sheep: Misappropriating…, in reply to Matthew Hooton,
Link for that MFAT page is;
Thanks, Matthew for the clarification. They really are a bunch of rotten eggs.
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Polity: Saudi sheep: Misappropriating…, in reply to Alfie,
Hey look over there… there’s a flag!
And let's be honest about it - from a pure design perspective, not one of those 40 shortlisted come even close to the design excellence of
