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Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL Jenna Lynch (Stuff): Government intervention in Wellington more likely than not - source Krystal Gibbons and Mary Argue (RNZ): Wellington council intervention: Mayor to meet with minister Peter Dunne (Post): Wellington council jolted into action, now the Govt has to follow
1News released their Verian Poll over Monday and Tuesday this week, and it echoes what I have been saying for quite sometime.
Sometimes the speaker connives for his adversaries to be censored. It is like when a business gets the government to shut down competing businesses. It is a form of protectionism or what economists call ‘rent-seeking.’
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards LOCAL GOVERNMENT RNZ: Can the govt step in to take control over Wellington City Council?: What you need to know Andrea Vance (Post): Attention Wellington City Council ‒ this is not a drill (paywalled) Georgina Campbell (Herald): Tory Whanau’s Wellington City Council: Why there’
The move is on. Will Ayesha Verrall make the cut to become the next Labour leader?
Basically because they are bent, biased and no longer relevant. But the academics think it’s because right wingers hate the news.
State coercion never resolves the problems it sets out to address but only gives rise to new and worse problems.
Politicians turn to the bureaucrats, who face no public accountability and often spend decades in their cushy jobs, who spoon feed them their agenda.
The unfortunate lesson for the charity sector therefore seems to be that it’s not what you do, it’s who you know.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT Richard Shaw (The Conversation): Election anniversary: a year into 3-party coalition government, can the centre hold? Simon Wilson (Herald): Mood of the Boardroom: The surprising things business leaders say and don’t say (paywalled) Chris Trotter (Interest): No enemies to the Left
There’s no doubt that certain kinds of online conduct are reprehensible. But that doesn’t mean we should disregard the First Amendment.
Although the research focused on four high-impact journals and US-based physicians, the findings suggest that financial ties between peer reviewers and industry could be a common issue in medical publishing worldwide.
Clearly, it’s time for reform in this area. But it won’t happen without public pressure on the politicians.
