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thedavincimode

… flap flap … squawk squawk … “… breach of faith …” squawk/flap etc etc

Utterly shameless.
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September 15, 2009 7:07am
expat

LadyBoy Beauty Pageant.

http://feeds.gothamistllc.com/click.phdo?i=1c6695155ce7f66e17af7913a9405c2d

Come forth fundy nutcases.

(not that I’m suggest Philly is a ladyboy)
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September 15, 2009 7:26am
Brian Smaller

expat – Actually, they generally look better than the usual line of refugees from Auschwitz one normally sees on a cat walk.
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September 15, 2009 7:37am
Grant Michael McKenna

I think that Nick Smith underestimated the antipathy of Labour to the Māori Party. I’d have preferred a Labour National agreement, but tying the Māori Party to National is worth it.
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September 15, 2009 8:08am
stephen

New public charter school in NY to pay their teachers $125,000 a year with performance bonuses:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/education/05charter.html
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September 15, 2009 8:36am
CraigM

I just wanted to share this. After the Morality Poll post, I was feeling rather distressed about the state of our Nation.

All is right with the world, well Auckland anyway 🙂

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sideswipe/news/article.cfm?c_id=702&objectid=10597282
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September 15, 2009 8:50am
KiwiGreg

A prince among men:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/2865575/Woman-left-by-mate-at-crash-robbed
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September 15, 2009 8:51am
CraigM

“Cabinet about-face lets Super City keep coastal playground”

I have to applaud a government that can do something dumb, take a hit for it and change their decision. Good on them.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10597332

First the Auckland trees and now this. Common Sense rules. Kind of refreshing really.
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September 15, 2009 8:56am
CraigM

KiwiGreg – A graduate from the Teddy Kennedy school of ethics no doubt.

Just as I posted a feel good story, along comes this filth to balance it out and prove than human beings have a propensity for evil unrivalled by anything else on the planet.

I hope the book that is thrown at him takes out an eye. However I fear all it will be is a wet paperback.
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September 15, 2009 9:00am
racer1

So, the 9/12 protests, was it 60,000 or 2 million?
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September 15, 2009 9:04am
david

Re KiwiGreg at 8:51
No mention of name supression so why the hell isn’t this arsehole being named in bold?

Can’t you just imagine it tho’ “Well yr’honour, I just like thought she was like having like a bit of a snooze like and that it would be like better like if I didn’t like wake her up like, ‘cos she is like a right bitch early in the morning””
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September 15, 2009 9:25am
tom hunter

Not that I really want to re-start yesterday’s flame war between evolutionists and ID’s (I didn’t see any creationists) but……..

….. given it was kicked off by the usual US-overwhelmed-with-Christian-fanatics artiste I thought that Darwin: The Revengination” might be amusing, plus a couple of quotes:

Alternately, and leaving aside any discussion of the actual quality of the film, it may be that a quiet story about the difficult relationship between an increasingly agnostic 19th Century British scientist and his increasingly devout wife, thrown into sharp relief by the death of their beloved 10-year-old daughter, performed by mid-list stars, is not exactly the sort of film that’s going to draw in a huge winter holiday crowd, regardless of whether that scientist happens to be Darwin or not, and that these facts are rather more pertinent, from a potential distributor’s point of view…….

……The major US studios are no longer really tuned to distribute films like this in any event. Maybe if Charles Darwin were played by Will Smith, was a gun-toting robot sent back from the future to learn how to love, and to kill the crap out of the alien baby eaters cleverly disguised as Galapagos tortoises, and then some way were contrived for Jennifer Connelly to expose her breasts to RoboDarwin two-thirds of the way through the film, and there were explosions and lasers and stunt men flying 150 feet into the air, then we might be talking wide-release from a modern major studio.
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September 15, 2009 9:33am
Cerium

Along similar lines, defence of the Christians…

To be fair, we probably can’t entirely blame Christians. While the Christian media outrage machine is pretty formidable, it’s doubtful the U.S. movie industry has been cowed by some ranting on Christian comment boards, or the prospect of a boycott (that’s why Hollywood still produces slightly more movies with sex and violence, rather than Jesus, as their major themes).
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/media/142619/christian_groups_block_showing_of_darwin_movie_in_u.s./
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September 15, 2009 9:59am
labrator

Market Oracle on impending derivatives crash? This is what Phil U tells us he’s been single handedly predicting for, well, ever.
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September 15, 2009 10:20am
racer1

“Cerium
To be fair, we probably can’t entirely blame Christians. While the Christian media outrage machine is pretty formidable, it’s doubtful the U.S. movie industry has been cowed by some ranting on Christian comment boards, or the prospect of a boycott (that’s why Hollywood still produces slightly more movies with sex and violence, rather than Jesus, as their major themes). ”

With the way in which the christian far right control the movie censorship board over there, there is a tendency to be rather relaxed towards violence, but to freak out about sex.
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September 15, 2009 10:27am
philu

chrs for that link..lab..(i’ve whoar-ed it..)

and no..not ‘singlehandedly predicting’..

but linking to/featuring the early-warners/those who ‘know’….

nothing more..nothing less..

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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September 15, 2009 10:46am
Cerium

“there is a tendency to be rather relaxed towards violence, but to freak out about sex.”

I guess that isn’t surprising, they are into the whipping and torture and death, but tend to play down the girlfriend.
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September 15, 2009 11:17am
Hurf Durf

Gotta love the Huruld’s pro-Omoron anti-Western headlines today.

The Marxists there are hoping for change!
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September 15, 2009 11:32am
philu

this is kinda interesting..

http://whoar.co.nz/2009/madness-of-the-right-and-left-part-one/

“..Blatantly, the right-wing culture war army has three important components:

1) The string-pullers are made up of conniving plutocrats, led by Rupert Murdoch. The only overall winners from the Bush era.

2) The priesthood of the movement — the Rationalizers — make up the so-called “libertarian” wing of Republicanism.

This segment has dwindled in the face of monumental GOP betrayal of everything that Adam Smith ever stood for —

– no-bid crony contracting, arterial deficit spending, meddlesome-jingoistic imperialism, fiscal and financial blundering, stark power-grabs ..

.. and violations of civil liberties ..

.. have all left this segment quivering.

Those who can count have noticed that EVERY Supply Side prediction failed .. and every metric of national health collapsed under GOP rule.

Those who can be swayed by facts are already moving on. Leaving two subsets behind…

.. those who are in utter denial, covering their ears and screaming “nah!!”…

.. and those who are whores .. in the pay of the New Lords.

No, there’s little to be gained by trying any longer to reason with this layer.

3) Meanwhile the biggest clade — those we see screeching at Town Meetings and Tea parties — are largely white, male, non-urban know-nothings.

And they matter — a lot.

They are as important to the New Lords as poor southern whites were, to plantation aristocrats, during the US Civil War —

– ground troops who have to be stoked into a rage .. in order to serve the lords’ higher interests.

Why else would Fox News push relentlessly the thinly buried message — to hate half your fellow citizens?

Especially anyone with a post-graduate degree?

Do these ground troops ever actually GET anything, from their masters? ..”

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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September 15, 2009 11:38am
Hurf Durf

Final numbers were around 1.2 million, racehurr, according to aerial views and police estimates.

Coincidentally, only 29% of Americans think the media generally gets its facts straight.
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September 15, 2009 11:50am
racer1

“Hurf Durf
Gotta love the Huruld’s pro-Omoron anti-Western headlines today.

The Marxists there are hoping for change!”

How dare a private company report the news!!
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September 15, 2009 11:56am
philu

hurf..

reality check..!

the police/fire estimated 60-75,000..

and..more rightie lies..

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/14/912-tea-party-photo-false_n_286082.html

this time..faked photos allegedly showing the march numbers..

(a photo that couldn’t even have been taken in 2009..heh..!..idjits..!..)

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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September 15, 2009 12:02pm
racer1

“Hurf Durf
Final numbers were around 1.2 million, racehurr, according to aerial views and police estimates.

Coincidentally, only 29% of Americans think the media generally gets its facts straight.”

Reliable source for those numbers?

pfft what the hell does 29% matter, you could get 100% of America voting that they don’t believe in gravity and it wouldn’t magically turn off.
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September 15, 2009 12:03pm
Hurf Durf

Hey, racehurr, hear that?

That’s the sound of the world’s smallest violin.

Deal with it.

Oh mah gawwwwwwwwwd, phool, using the HuffPo as a source? D-, see me after class. It’ll stop you having another brain-rotting toke, at least.
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September 15, 2009 12:07pm
racer1

Playing yourself the violin? good job, probably one better than playing with yourself, which seems your usual course of action.

How about that, proved wrong again. Pity I don’t have more spare time, set up durf watch, test the theory that every single thing you have ever said and will say is proven wrong.
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September 15, 2009 12:11pm
Hurf Durf

I give you numbers and you whine because the New York Slimes sez different. Only thing been proven here is your bedwetting, racehurr.
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September 15, 2009 12:14pm
racer1

Again, you are having issues with reality, the huffington post points out the photos used by some of the civil war baiters are not of the 9\12 rally, simple as that, they are missing buildings.

lol, you just got tea-bagged.
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September 15, 2009 12:14pm
nickb

You really are a joke racer. Maybe try playing with your mates at the Standard?
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September 15, 2009 12:15pm
racer1

” Hurf Durf
I give you numbers and you whine because the New York Slimes sez different. Only thing been proven here is your bedwetting, racehurr.”

You didnt give me numbers, you gave me one site that featured a number that someone at pajamas media had pulled out their arse, and another saying there may have been 1 million if you were lucky.

ALso remember the civil war baiters have much more motivation to fake the numbers than any one on the left.

“nickb
You really are a joke racer. Maybe try playing with your mates at the Standard?”

You really are stupid. Have you put any consideration towards my suggestion that it is you that is not up to scratch, not your universities economics dept?

anyway Hurf, see you later fuck face, I’m off to get a bite to eat.
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September 15, 2009 12:18pm
Inventory2

Waetherston gets 18 years minimum non-parole – is it enough?
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September 15, 2009 12:23pm
Hurf Durf

So every photo ever taken is a fake, right? Fantastic logic. There, there, racehurr, I’m sure everything will be better once you find a cock to suck (sorry, “bite to eat”).
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September 15, 2009 12:23pm
nickb

IV2, seems about average for the murder cases I’ve studied, however I don’t think it seems sufficient (in the sense of being comnparable with other similar murders) when you take into account its aggravated nature, brutality shown, complete lack of remorse etc. I would of thought over 20 may have been more likely.

I wouldnt call myself religious at all, but I am a big believer in karma, so perhaps Clayton Weatherston will get what is coming to him in prison, and for that I would not shed a tear
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September 15, 2009 12:27pm
side show bob

Hurf Durf, when it comes to fake photos the left are in a league of their own, never did get to meet the Dear One’s good looking twin sister.
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September 15, 2009 12:32pm
Inventory2

nickb – like you, I wouldn’t be unhappy for Weatherston to be on the receiving end of some bush justice, but he’s likely to be housed with the paedophiles, policemen and Witness Protection inmates where he will have no contact with the general prison population – his company for the next 18 years will be people like this:

http://www.safe-nz.org.nz/Data/vanderplaatronald.htm
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September 15, 2009 12:37pm
CraigM

I2 – no, I don’t think anything other than the rest of his natural life, is justice.

What’s the thinking, they are going to rehabilitate him for the next 18 years? Maybe they will let him out just in time for him to celebrate what would have been Sophie’s 40th birthday?

If 18 years is the starting point of the value our society places on the life of a young, intelligent 22 year old citizen with a whole life time in front of her, then our society needs to amend it’s values.
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September 15, 2009 12:47pm
labrator

Hurf durf and racer1, grow up. Name calling on the internet? Are you guys for real? If you can’t debate on merit, just don’t write anything at all.
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September 15, 2009 12:59pm
nickb

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/2865524/Learn-from-Lehman-Brothers-collapse-Obama

And then…. http://www.redplanetcartoons.com/index.php/2008/09/19/big-government-strikes-again/

Huh. Does anyone else think something is fishy here? Who is more at fault here? Greedy investment bankers? Or Democrats and left wingers fucking around regulating private enterprise? Im not quite sure,
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September 15, 2009 1:06pm
philu

“..So every photo ever taken is a fake,..”

no hurf..just the claims made for it..

(have you always had this problem with basic facts..?..)

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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September 15, 2009 1:07pm
philu

and bloody-hands-bob comes up with the ‘they do it too!’ defence..

(citing clarkes’ photo-shopped campaign photo..as his ‘evidence’..)

is that really the best you can do in the ‘faked-leftie-photo-stakes..?..there..bloody-hands..?

hardly ‘rates’..?..does it..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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September 15, 2009 1:10pm
nickb

And along comes the man who claimed Winston would make 5%…
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September 15, 2009 1:11pm
Hurf Durf

National will never make government, you know that, Nick? Good job there’s phool with the cutting political analysis we know and love.
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September 15, 2009 1:17pm
nickb

Haha. Was that another of his predictions? What an incisive commentator he is.

http://mises.org/story/3694

Have a read of this phil, and then explain to me again how greedy bankers, big dairy, and rich pricks caused the global recession.
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September 15, 2009 1:27pm
side show bob

“hardly ‘rates…?..does it…?”. Must have rated with someone, used the the same photo for a decade, then the left have never been to quick…….have they?
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September 15, 2009 1:27pm
Ryan Sproull

Patrick Swayze’s dead.
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September 15, 2009 1:39pm
Johnboy

Good stuff from Peter Davies here:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/opinion/2865386/A-necessary-health-correction

Close to heresy I would think. Bad enough Goof apologising for her great works. Wonder if Helen knows he is being critical of her grand design for healthcare. She will not be amused!
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September 15, 2009 1:52pm
big bruv

Earlier today I posed the question “what back room deals has Key done with the Mowree party”

Well now it seems we know, according to the co leader of the apartheid party they are talking to Key about raising benefit levels.

Yes folks, in a time of national recession the apartheid party (and more than likely Neville Key) want to increase the amount of money we give to the bludgers.
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September 15, 2009 3:06pm
Komata

Apropos the Dom’s article about the need for a single National Health Board: In 1987, when the break-up of the old Health Department was being vigorously pursued, a medical-specialist friend of mine commented that we should ‘wait about 20 years or so – it will all come back-together and they will be calling for a Centralised Health Authority (aka a ‘Health Department’) again’.

It seems he wasn’t too far out. . .

One thing though – given that the socialists are always pushing the ‘consolidation’ ‘government control over everything’ -line, (in the name of increased efficiency, and value for money – naturally), why did Dear Leader and her sycophants NEVER dis-establish the DHB’s and reconstitute the Health Department?

That fact has always been a puzzlement – perhaps one of her supporters here can enlighten me?

Thanks.
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September 15, 2009 3:23pm
racer1

“big bruv
Earlier today I posed the question “what back room deals has Key done with the Mowree party”

Well now it seems we know, according to the co leader of the apartheid party they are talking to Key about raising benefit levels.”

I think it balances out quite nicely, you know, mostly in charge is the white supremacy apartheid party, plus a wee bit of the brown supremacy apartheid party, perfect!
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September 15, 2009 3:30pm
getstaffed

Obama advising Wall St today: “We will not allow return to the days of reckless excess…” … and in the backgound I’m sure I could hear the governments federal reserve printing presses stamping out millions and millions of bricks of cash.

Where was the reckless excess again?
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September 15, 2009 6:36pm
nickb

Haha exactly staffed.
Becoming increasingly apparent that Obama is destined for one-term ignominy
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September 15, 2009 6:39pm
nickb

Staffed dunno if you can explain to me, but I’m not sure how things really work around the actual mechanis of financing such a massive national deficit and debt? Bit of a noob on this issue.

When people talk about printing money, are they meaning selling more US Treasury bonds etc etc, or the government just taking on debt from foreign sources?
Or does it literally mean just printing money? I find it kind of hard to believe there wouldnt be laws against this. Hence Ron Paul’s calls to audit the Fed perhaps?
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September 15, 2009 6:43pm
racer1

Lol, its not looking good for the Republicans either. Or you 2 are full of shit and just posturing.
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September 15, 2009 6:45pm
racer1

Ron Paul wants the fed audited because it is a private organization that holds massive sway over the US and world economy.
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September 15, 2009 6:48pm
nickb

In any case, the US dollar is headed for a nasty crash down the line. Especially if China dumps its treasury bonds, or defaults on its derivatives its SOE’s hold, like labrator’s post explained.
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September 15, 2009 6:49pm
Hurf Durf

Don’t forget that it wasn’t until 1932 that the Great Depression reached its lowest point.
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September 15, 2009 6:57pm
getstaffed

nickb – hmmm good question. i’m not a beanie/economist so not really sure that the distribution instrument is. perhaps someone else more qualified can help nickb & me with this?
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September 15, 2009 8:19pm
Viking2

State houses available to buy from today

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0909/S00206.htm

State houses available to buy from today
Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 1:30 pm
Press Release: New Zealand Government

Hon Phil Heatley
Minister of Housing

15 September 2009
Media Statement

State houses available to buy from today

From today those state house tenants in a position to buy the house they live in can do so, says Housing Minister Phil Heatley.

“Many families in state houses aspire to achieve home ownership. This policy provides a pathway from state housing to home ownership, as a tenant’s circumstances improve,” Mr Heatley said.

More at:
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September 15, 2009 8:40pm
nickb

Apart from the national debt thats mounting, and the dollar printing going on staffed, all the liabilities in Medicare and Social Security look quite frightening as well.
And the cost of servicing the US government debt is 16% of the govertment’s total revenue, and will only go up under Obama, quite scary
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September 15, 2009 8:48pm
Rakaia George

Bugger. Keith Floyd’s died too.
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September 15, 2009 9:02pm
XChequer

Patrick Swayze dies.

Stuff mounts a tribute.

Some smartarse leaves a comment: “fan101 #17 04:36 pm Sep 15 2009
Swayze, Can you please make Ghost 2 now?”

Priceless!
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/2866722/Tributes-flow-for-Patrick-Swayze
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September 15, 2009 11:24pm
reid

Good stuff from Peter Davies here:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/opinion/2865386/A-necessary-health-correction

Close to heresy I would think. Bad enough Goof apologising for her great works. Wonder if Helen knows he is being critical of her grand design for healthcare. She will not be amused!

As I’ve said in the past, healthcare like the SuperCity, cries out for process rationalisation, which includes not just IT but common-sense best practice shared across the board.

Duh.

Does it happen? No.

Would the public and Treasury like it if it did?

…

WTF is wrong with these people in decision-making positions? Too hard? Try employing some of the appropriate professionals in the field. Start with the guy who implemented Lean Six Sigma into some health board in Hawke’s Bay and reduced their queue times by 30% with no increase in overheads.
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September 15, 2009 11:38pm
sparkyspitz

nickb,

To learn the mechanisms of money creation and history and future of banking,

read G Edward Griffin’s “the Creature From Jekyll Island”

I found a copy in my local library.

It could be considered conspiracy theory except you can see what he
writes about all around us every moment.

Use your powers of discernment and decide for yourself

You will also discover where all that carbon trading money is headed
and why.

Also, last time I checked Ken Ring’s website had some interesting stuff on
Climate Change and the origins of the carbon markets. Check the archives.

We can thank the same people that brought the world Enron. Remember Enron?

Google G Edward Griffin if you want an instant fix.

Sparky
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September 15, 2009 11:47pm
kaya

nickb – the US national debt sitting a 11.8 trillion should be scary enough on its own, however if you want to spook yourself go and Google fractional reserve banking. Spend a few hours researching it for yourself with an open mind. That shout make you crap your pants. Also their is an extremely strong rumour that the Federal Reserve is not a US government institution, that it is about as “federal” as federal express. Even the Fed’s own website obfuscates but ultimately says:

“The twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks, which were established by Congress as the operating arms of the nation’s central banking system, are organized much like private corporations–possibly leading to some confusion about “ownership.” For example, the Reserve Banks issue shares of stock to member banks.” If it looks like a pig and grunts…..

From Wikipedia:

“The Federal Reserve is regarded as a private banking system. According to the Federal Reserve, there are presently five different parts of the Federal Reserve System:[7]

1. The presidentially appointed Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, a private agency in Washington, D.C.
2. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which oversees Open Market Operations, the principal tool of national monetary policy.
3. Twelve regional privately-owned Federal Reserve Banks located in major cities throughout the nation, which divide the nation into 12 districts, acting as fiscal agents for the U.S. Treasury, each with its own nine-member board of directors.
4. Numerous other private U.S. member banks, which subscribe to required amounts of non-transferable stock in their regional Federal Reserve Banks.”

After you screw your head up reading all that get your hands on a copy of a DVD called “”The Money Masters” and another one called “Money as Debt” (1 and 2). They can be found to download for free on the net if you look for them. After that you might be ready for “Zeitgeist Addendum” which does a nice job of explaining why the market is in freefall. Those who say the recession is over are dreamers, the only thing keeping the thing afloat temporarily is the trillions of dollars that have been thrown at it. It won’t keep happening and they haven’t fixed the fundamentals. Wall Street is still packaging shit and selling it on and still paying the big bonuses to people who are still failing.

As far as the recession being over? Someone said it well, “We are at the end of the beginning”.
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September 15, 2009 11:49pm
nickb

Cheers kaya.
Have seen Zeitgeist:Addendum. Didnt know how muuch weight to give to it, because I had heard the original one got bad reviews for using dodgy references etc. Thanks though, will check out Wikipedia. Your comments re the Fed are interesting, seems crazy the total lack of regulation
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September 16, 2009 12:08am
kaya

Nickb –

I know what you mean about the first one, I take it with a pinch of salt but who knows what the truth is.

I was initially very sceptical about Addendum but I have been trying to take it apart for 6 months, researching, asking questions. The more I read the stronger their claims about the financial systems get. I have yet to get a straight answer from some of the so called experts who dismiss it as bullshit and I have asked a few. Try asking where the money comes from when we borrow it, I thought the whole world was in debt? I asked our Reserve Bank and they sent me a link to the usual economic obfuscation. I wrote back and asked simply, who do we get it from? No answer. Somebody is fucking loaded!

For some reason the “conspiracy theorists” seem to do a much better job of putting their case over than those who claim to be telling the truth. Surely a few nut jobs can’t be that hard to discredit?!
Maybe the people who ridicule it should put their own little piece together in a similar format to show people how stupid we’ve all been! The nutters seem to make all the good movies!
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