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April 14, 2011 8:00am by David Farrar

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Tauhei Notts

Is anybody else getting this.
Over the past four hours I have received 169 e mails.
Two were genuine.
167 were spam.
It is beginning to drive me crazy!
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April 14, 2011 9:01pm
reid

Sorry reid I just don’t believe that a society as open, free and random as America could have pulled off this giant conspiracy of knocking down the WTC and kept it a secret.

I know this Johnboy and that’s precisely why I said in my 7:58:

Our understanding is built up on successive paradigm layers and accepting 911 is not kosher must break one or more of the strongest due to the emotive resistance one always encounters over this subject and you only get emotion when you’re running up against paradigms cause they are our psychological defence mechanisms.

Understanding 911 requires a breakthrough moment because its so mega. Merely opening your mind to the possibly brings huge ramifications because it’s breaking the social contract.

It’s one of those very powerful emotive paradigms.

I don’t personally happen to believe Bush was involved. The way he acted, he was stunned. Cheney is another story. Interesting story.

Of course they exploited it like the bastards they were with Iraq but Afghanistan was a just conflict, it’s not anymore, but that’s not the troop’s fault in anyway. Fanatical terrorists exist period and many look just like you and I, they’re not wild-eyed at all, unless they’re with their comrades. This country will see bombings, it’s inevitable.

None of these facts says anything more it’s conceivable were one to put the uttermost venal spin on it, that the US stood the AF down by for example ordering fighter jets to intercept at less than half their max speed and stuff like that – yes, that did happen and lots more with the military on that day – and allowed the terrorists to attack. Now, I don’t believe for a second they would do anything like that and you couldn’t possibly keep that a secret I mean c’mon.

There were other strange things as well like the way they cut the security cams on all floors over a weekend a few months before – none of this lends any weight either way.

To me Johnboy this is conjecture not data so I ignore it. Who cares.

The problem with that line of logic (from your perspective) is that is can be equally and fully used to support the “I saw a plane fly into the building and that’s why it collapsed” truth. We saw the plane hit, we saw great damage and what we can’t explain doesn’t invalidate that as the cause of the destruction.

Yes bhudson. This is why I look at data, not conjecture.
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April 14, 2011 9:04pm
Johnboy

“Fossil fuels is no longer the commonsense choice.”

Surely the sensible choice? Just as alternative fuels start to come on stream (with the inevitable glitches) a man who has invested in the last of the certain fuels will be laughing all the way to the bank?
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April 14, 2011 9:04pm
Yvette

Conspiracies do have their helpful features. You always know how you are going to be thinking tomorrow.

Améliorez pour être un mouton, hein Johnboy, que pour penser comme un mouton
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April 14, 2011 9:04pm
Pauleastbay

Porn sites eh Tauhei?
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April 14, 2011 9:05pm
publicwatchdog

Sofia, I believe ‘Whistleblower’ known as Dr Jacob Cohen, has made some very serious allegations that it was ‘murder at Pike River Mine’.

I have helped to forward the information that he specifically sent to me because he had heard that I was also a ‘Whistleblower’ also, in order that others could read these ALLEGATIONS for themselves.

I believe that the families and the public have the right to a full and thorough independent investigation, so that the FACTS can fully emerge without whitewashing or coverup.

What really concerns me, is that it appears that the company Pike River Mine, may not fully participate in the Royal Commission.

Again – I encourage people to take the time to read Dr Jacob Cohen’s report for yourselves – before rubbishing it.
You may find it more helpful to start at Chapter Two – which deals with allegations of negligence by the company.

Myself – I cannot believe that if all the proper health and safety precautionary systems were in place at Pike River Mine- how such a build up of methane could have occurred without warning.

It’s not like this was the first time underground coal mining has ever occurred?

Big Bruv – if you haven’t even read Dr Jacob Cohen’s Whistleblower report – then the head that should be ‘pulled in’ is your own.

(Meant of course in a caring, albeit engineering workshop sort of way 🙂

Penny Bright
http://waterpressure.wordpress.com
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April 14, 2011 9:06pm
Nookin

You’re all talking shit. Chris Faafoi told me that there were no explosions and he should know. He was on one of the planes.
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April 14, 2011 9:07pm
Johnboy

“There were other strange things as well like the way they cut the security cams on all floors over a weekend a few months before – none of this lends any weight either way.”

I take you mean the WTC security cams?

Can you post the proof of what you have just stated reid?
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April 14, 2011 9:08pm
Pete George

This story has more of chance of being right (diddly squat) than the 9-11 explosive theory:

Film claims discovery of nails from Jesus’s cross

Maybe there’s a connection – they used rusty nails when building the WTC buildings?
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April 14, 2011 9:08pm
Nookin

Tauhei Notts
Try Spamfighter – free download. Worked for me.
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April 14, 2011 9:09pm
bhudson

Luc,

“On current trends, the lines will intersect in 10 years, maybe less.”

Only in the fevered imaginations of those watching an enivornmental equivalent of a Shane Jones special.

Where are the mainstream alternative fuels today? Where the infrastructures and processes to maker hem viable as mass fuels? Where is the mainstream and large scale investment in expirential r&d – i.e. on the end product and delivery mechanisms? Where are they in widespread use today? Where is he widespread and mass production of vehicles to use those fuels?

To paraphrase the immortal words of that great sage Darrell Kerrigan – “You’re dreamin'”
One day Luc. Maybe. Not today. And not in 10 years.
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April 14, 2011 9:09pm
Rodders

Good Evening Penny 🙂
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April 14, 2011 9:12pm
Johnboy

On doit ne jamais permettre aux laines d’être tiré au-dessus des yeux Yvette
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April 14, 2011 9:12pm
Pauleastbay

Time for a change:

The world was created in 7 days by GOD.

Israel should be allowed 2 votes at the UN.

The labour party is a truly democratic organization.

Opinions please
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April 14, 2011 9:12pm
Nookin

Lost your meds Paul?
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April 14, 2011 9:14pm
Rodders

It was 6 days, Paul 😉

Johnboy – It is at times like this I really appreciate Google translate 🙂
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April 14, 2011 9:14pm
RightNow

“Sometimes, I like to watch” – Chauncey! You’re back!
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April 14, 2011 9:15pm
Johnboy

“It was 6 days, Paul ;)”

True cause on the seventh day I rested! 🙂
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April 14, 2011 9:17pm
Rodders

🙂
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April 14, 2011 9:18pm
toad

@wat dabney 8:10 pm

Lower petrol prices soon…

“Members of a central Georgia church plan to gather at gas pumps to pray for lower prices.”

You annoy me sometimes wat, and I don’t bother to reply to your climate crank stuff, but I have to give you credit for that one. It would be really funny if it wasn’t for real. Some people are seriously deranged, and most of them are stupidly religious.
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April 14, 2011 9:19pm
Rodders

toad said “Some people are seriously deranged”

I couldn’t possibly comment. I’ve never belonged to the Greens 🙂
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April 14, 2011 9:21pm
bhudson

Pauleastbay,

God took 1 day to create the world. The other 6 days were to create the imperfections on it. (that includes all us males so i am reliably informed)

Israel should have 2 votes only if they are union delegates and duly authorised by the Labour Party (or it’s chief delegate in the UN.)

Which proves that Labour is democratic, so don’t you haters and wreckers try to argue otherwise.
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April 14, 2011 9:21pm
Luc Hansen

bhudson

I guess you haven’t heard of the Chevy Volt.

I’m afraid you are the one who is fevered.

Paul

Israel already has two votes.
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April 14, 2011 9:22pm
Pete George

A preface to the lengthy and painstaking investigation that went into Cohen’s book:

MURDER AT PIKE RIVER MINE?

Although a difficult and complicated subject, (which many may simply find overwhelming), because it involves extremely complex commercial collusion and conspiracy at the highestlevel largely by extremely wealthy, educated men – for the sake of urgency and brevity, while the event is still fresh in people’s minds, this book has been written and published little more than one month after the event and is only 50 odd pages long.

Why bother with a commission?

By page fourteen he rattles off everyone he thinks should be charged with first degree murder. If he’d spent another week before publishing he might have discovered that our justice system doesn’t work in degrees of murder like the US.
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April 14, 2011 9:23pm
bhudson

Luc,

As usual you ignore the majority of the questions. Back to your special movie
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April 14, 2011 9:23pm
Rodders

Luc said “Israel already has two votes.”

But is that nearly enough? 😉
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April 14, 2011 9:23pm
Johnboy

Fuck toad:

Last time I filled my HSV I prayed too.

And I’m not even a fuckin Christian!!!

Never mock the power of prayer.

Just as I went to pay I found a Countdown 20cent voucher in my wallet.

Thank you Lord! 🙂
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April 14, 2011 9:24pm
reid

Can you post the proof of what you have just stated reid?

No I can’t Johnboy, I’ve just spent the last ten or so minutes typing in keywords and it hasn’t turned up.

Can I suggest it’s not important since it’s not data, and I wasn’t suggesting it was. The story if you want to know is that someone involved in the project said that a month or so prior to 911 both buildings went through a network upgrade which required shutting down all the cams on every floor, for some reason. That’s my recall. The article which I read as I said above, over 8 years ago now, named the company and person etc and seemed credible.

As it wasn’t data, I didn’t care, but I thought it was interesting.
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April 14, 2011 9:25pm
Nookin

“As usual you ignore the majority of the questions. Back to your special movie”

Plenty of seats available.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/4888075/No-one-shows-up-for-Biebers-film
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April 14, 2011 9:27pm
Johnboy

Well thanks for that reid. What can I say?

I never trusted that bastard Donald Rumsfeld at all! 🙂

You did your best old man. 🙂
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April 14, 2011 9:30pm
big bruv

Toad

How is the comment “white mofo’s” not racist?
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April 14, 2011 9:35pm
bhudson

Luc’s Chevy Volt – the vehicle that will render fossil fuels obsolete.

– Well not quite – it’s an electric/petrol hybrid
– it’s a plug-in electric – that is handy (if you have an extraordinary long extension cord)
– it’s only available in a small number of states in the US
– at USD $40k starting price it is more a luxury car than mass market car that will remove reliance on fossil fuel (other than that needed to go further than 40km of course)
– they are only producing 10,000 this year – not exactly a growth plan to world domination

And…

– in the 3 months to March 2011, they sold 1200 units [a little behind projections]

BP and PetroBras have not started turning off the pumps and drills
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April 14, 2011 9:37pm
Rodders

BB – toad rarely responds to questions that don’t give him an opportunity to praise the Green MP’s.
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April 14, 2011 9:39pm
reid

I never trusted that bastard Donald Rumsfeld at all!

The Carlyle Group is worth looking into Johnboy, that’s a major nest of vipers.

BB – toad rarely responds to questions that don’t give him an opportunity to praise the Green MP’s.

Don’t you just love the way lefties act all wounded and refuse to facilitate – as they see it – bullying.

Vewy pwecious. ( I suppose that’s bullying too.)
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April 14, 2011 9:42pm
Pete George

Luc’s Chevy Volt – the vehicle that will render fossil fuels obsolete.

50% of fuel is consumed by cars. I don’t think there’s a Caterpillar Volt yet, or a P&O Volt, or a Boeing Volt.
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April 14, 2011 9:43pm
Pauleastbay

Luc

Paul

Israel already has two votes.

….

I am on a roll, I can’t even be facetious without being right today, off to to bed then.
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April 14, 2011 9:43pm
Johnboy

Well it all seems to be getting a bit boring again.

I’d hoped that Yvette was up for a bit tonight! 🙂
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April 14, 2011 9:50pm
reid

Well it all seems to be getting a bit boring again.

OK sorry everyone for diverting into yet-another boring 911 yawn.

How about this?

A video of a real plane over Paris that displays unknown technology.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXsZRc-cdGw&feature=player_embedded

A plausible explanation of that technology.

http://www.darkgovernment.com/tr3b.html
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April 14, 2011 10:00pm
CrazyIvan

Bruv – Nixon headed the senate intelligence oversight committee at the time.

Bullet – no he didn’t. Nixon was only in the Senate between 1950 and 1952 before he was VP to Eisenhower. After being defeated by Kennedy in 1960 he returned to California. He was working in his own law practice and launching a failed bid for the California governorship when the Bay of Pigs happened.

The best conspiracy theories usually have the protagonists on the right side of the country when the conspiracy is alleged to have taken place.

P.S. It was Everitt Howard Hunt, not Edward Hunt.
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April 14, 2011 10:03pm
niggly

WTF – 9/11 conspiracy overload? Can we get back onto politics and attacking Liarbore? 🙂

Like this prick – Labour MP Iain Lees-Galloway. Or is he a prick or is he thick?

The first shots have been fired in the battle to win Palmerston North at this year’s general election, with National candidate Leonie Hapeta accusing Labour MP Iain Lees-Galloway of practising “nasty politics”.

Mr Lees-Galloway and about 15 supporters gathered outside Mrs Hapeta’s Hotel Coachman about 5pm on Monday – protesting against the Government’s plans to sell state-owned assets.

Mrs Hapeta said she felt attacked by the protesters, who held signs and waved at vehicles on both sides of Fitzherbert Ave.

“Having not met Iain since I became the candidate, I went out to introduce myself, and ask him why he was attacking my business, rather than holding the protest outside my campaign office,” she said.

The National campaign office will be based inside the old GQ Clothing building on Broadway Ave, but has not yet opened.

“He was not able to answer this simple question, and seemed quite surprised I was willing to talk civilly to him rather than yell abuse at him.”

But Mr Lees-Galloway, who is Labour’s Defence and Land Information spokesman, said the location was chosen by his Young Labour supporters because of the heavy traffic flow.

“There was no intention to target Leonie’s business and it hadn’t even crossed my mind,” he said.

“Yeah, when I got there I thought: `OK we’re outside the Coachman’ but it was no plan on my part.”

Duh? He just happened to not know where his Young Labour Party supporters were taking him to protest? Maybe he is thick?

Then he talks about Asset Sales (must be Labour’s new lie to the gullible public, I mean strategy). National have talked about part-sales (but the Govt retains majority share) to NZ investors. So maybe Iain is a lying prick?

Hmmm, so is he a prick or thick? Anyone know? 🙂

More at http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/4886860/Nasty-politics-claim-by-rival
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April 14, 2011 10:19pm
magic bullet

Ivan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-y2KQvvYtg
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April 14, 2011 10:24pm
burt

Priorities people;

Stuff: http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/4889167/Pacific-Blue-pilot-charged-after-safety-compromised-CAA

Queenstown is surrounded by mountainous terrain and has no radar or runway lights.

In the gold rush town that sports so many multimillion dollar properties, the ratepayers and the business owners lush up large on developing their town but the poor little sods can’t afford to upgrade their third world airfield. Oh no shortage of shops in the lovely terminal building though. What Muppets.
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April 14, 2011 10:47pm
magic bullet

More for Ivan

Hunt also had information on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He argued that if “Nixon didn’t pay heavy to suppress the documents they had showing he was implicated in the planning and carrying out, by the FBI and the CIA, of the political murder of President Kennedy”

James W. McCord claimed that Dorothy Hunt told him that at a meeting with her husband’s attorney, William O. Buttmann, she revealed that Hunt had information that would “blow the White House out of the water”.

In October, 1972, Dorothy attempted to speak to Charles Colson. He refused to talk to her but later admitted to the New York Times that she was “upset at the interruption of payments from Nixon’s associates to Watergate defendants.”

On 15th November, Colson met with Richard Nixon, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman at Camp David to discuss Howard Hunt’s blackmail threat. John N. Mitchell was also getting worried by Dorothy Hunt’s threats and he asked John Dean to use a secret White House fund to “get the Hunt situation settled down”. Eventually it was arranged for Frederick LaRue to give Hunt about $250,000 to buy his silence.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKhuntH.htm
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April 14, 2011 10:47pm
magic bullet

Reid – see also Brown and Root, General Electric and all the biggest TV networks. All corrupt as hell.
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April 14, 2011 10:56pm
niggly

Here here, burt. That situation is unf*****gbelieveable! I wonder whether Queenstown tourism will take a hit, should an aircraft disaster occur? I hope one doesn’t occur but that doesn’t mean Queenstown airport management (and the local council) should be thinking the same and be lax about safety. Muppets is a good description …
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April 14, 2011 10:57pm
burt

niggly

Look I get that full guidance systems would be problematic given the somewhat imaginative way the pilots work with the terrain. But really, no runway lights ? They don’t need to be on all the time !

I bet the problem is the light pollution bylaws! Stargazers vs public safety.
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April 14, 2011 11:06pm
niggly

Hmm, what’s wrong with some of these Airport (companies)? Like Queenstown without even just runway lights?

Like Wellington, that would rather waste their money on a Wellywood sign, rather than fill in the “drop” onto Cobham Drive and Evans Bay?

One aircraft disaster to occur and heads will be rolling and the problems then rectified.

Meanwhile in China, tourist visitors to NZ drop because of Chinese Govt safety advisories warning their citizens of NZ’s unsafe airports ….
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April 14, 2011 11:16pm
reid

mb, KBR, CBS, NBC, ABS, CNN, Sky – agree, plus many paper empires as well.

GE?

Not so sure.
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April 14, 2011 11:19pm
magic bullet

See this page also:

The White House had (at least ) 28 Advanced Intelligence Warnings Prior to 9/11 .

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/SMI402A.html

Sure makes you wonder.
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April 14, 2011 11:30pm
magic bullet

Also consider that both Rice and Bush went on camera saying that they didn’t know 9/11 was possible. Then at the same time, they had been busy contradicting themselves.

“A few hours after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, the Bush administration concluded without supporting evidence, that “Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda organisation were prime suspects”. CIA Director George Tenet stated that bin Laden has the capacity to plan “multiple attacks with little or no warning.”

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO109C.html

It stinks. You can’t smell the rank odour of corruption floating off it?
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April 14, 2011 11:47pm
mattyroo

reid, I’m as far from a conspiracy theorist as you can get, but GE is one of the most crooked companies you can get.

They thrive on government manipulation. You list NBC, then say you’re not so sure about GE…. GE owned NBC until about 12 months ago….

How many of you know where the majority of Kiwibank’s lending, other than mortgages, comes from? GE Money – very, very subversive company.

Jeff Immelt (GE CEO) is so far up Obama’s ass that the only thing hanging out are his shoe laces.

Some of the stuff I could tell you about GE, would make poor old Mr. Edison turn in hus grave.
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April 15, 2011 12:11am
SPC

“We expect to have a small U.S. income tax liability for 2010.”

“The real villain here isn’t G.E. for gaming the corporate tax system. Rather, the villain is a political system that makes the corporate tax system so easy to game.”

“There are two primary reasons why G.E.’s 2010 tax bill is so low. The first is pretty straightforward: its finance arm, G.E. Capital, lost billions of dollars during the financial crisis. Like any business entity, it is allowed to use those losses to help reduce its tax bill. This is known as a tax-loss carry-forward, and it isn’t remotely controversial.”

“The second tax break, though, called the active financing exception”

This is the explained and a loophole available to corporates is examined.

“It allows companies to avoid paying U.S. taxes on overseas profits — if those profits were derived by “actively financing” some activity or deal.”

“The active financing exception was never supposed to be a permanent part of the tax code. Indeed, it still isn’t. But every year or two — after the usual campaign contributions and arm-twisting — it winds up back in the tax code “temporarily.”

“But G.E. has also taken the next obvious step: It has managed, over time, to shift billions of dollars in profits from its U.S. income statement to its overseas income statements. Wouldn’t you know it? Most of their profits are also financing related.”

“A lower tax rate, he argues, could help spur a manufacturing revival in America. And, maybe, just maybe, if American multinationals actually paid 35 percent of their profits in taxes, he might have a case. But it’s not just G.E. — none of them do. Mr. Willens told me that the typical multinational pays about half the stated tax rate. As for G.E., it says that its worldwide tax burden for 2010 was far lower than that: 7.4 percent.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/opinion/05nocera.html?ref=generalelectriccompany

“We expect to have a small U.S. income tax liability for 2010.”
“The real villain here isn’t G.E. for gaming the corporate tax system. Rather, the villain is a political system that makes the corporate tax system so easy to game.”
“There are two primary reasons why G.E.’s 2010 tax bill is so low. The first is pretty straightforward: its finance arm, G.E. Capital, lost billions of dollars during the financial crisis. Like any business entity, it is allowed to use those losses to help reduce its tax bill. This is known as a tax-loss carry-forward, and it isn’t remotely controversial.”
“The second tax break, though, called the active financing exception”
This is the explained and a loophole available to corporates is examined.
“It allows companies to avoid paying U.S. taxes on overseas profits — if those profits were derived by “actively financing” some activity or deal.”
“The active financing exception was never supposed to be a permanent part of the tax code. Indeed, it still isn’t. But every year or two — after the usual campaign contributions and arm-twisting — it winds up back in the tax code “temporarily.”
“But G.E. has also taken the next obvious step: It has managed, over time, to shift billions of dollars in profits from its U.S. income statement to its overseas income statements. Wouldn’t you know it? Most of their profits are also financing related.”
“A lower tax rate, he argues, could help spur a manufacturing revival in America. And, maybe, just maybe, if American multinationals actually paid 35 percent of their profits in taxes, he might have a case. But it’s not just G.E. — none of them do. Mr. Willens told me that the typical multinational pays about half the stated tax rate. As for G.E., it says that its worldwide tax burden for 2010 was far lower than that: 7.4 percent.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/opinion/05nocera.html?ref=generalelectriccompany

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/opinion/05nocera.html?ref=generalelectriccompany
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April 15, 2011 1:09am
Viking2

Why the Parole Board Should be disbanded and Prisoners fulfill their full sentences.

A man involved in the slaying of an Upper Hutt sportsman is to be freed on the anniversary of his victim’s death.
Andre Watene, who was on parole at the time and had a history of violent offences, was convicted of murder. Three other men – Robert Waa, Daniel Jeffery and Aaron Taka – were each sentenced to four years for aggravated robbery.

Mr Stone’s grandfather Mike Jacobs said his family was devastated to learn early this week that Taka would be freed next Tuesday – the fourth anniversary of his grandson’s death.

Four years for murder by a recidivist violent offender and if you sign up for some program the Parole Board lets you out. FFS
No rational sensible ordinary citizen would let this arsehole out of jail how come these highly paid socialist parole baord members can.
The best example ever of why Three Strikes should have been made retrospective.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/4890357/Inmate-to-be-freed-on-anniversary-of-victims-death
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April 15, 2011 6:46am
Pete George

Four years for murder by a recidivist violent offender

That didn’t make sense and it’s incorrect – the article is poorly worded and confusing.

Watene was convicted of murder, he is not being released.
Taka, who was sentenced to four years for aggravated robbery, is being released. It sounds like he has served his whole prison term.
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April 15, 2011 7:01am
Viking2

Yep you are correct. Still no reason to let scum like that out.
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April 15, 2011 7:05am
Manolo

The Wall Street Journal nails Obama:

The Presidential Divider
Obama’s toxic speech and even worse plan for deficits and debt.

Did someone move the 2012 election to June 1? We ask because President Obama’s extraordinary response to Paul Ryan’s budget yesterday—with its blistering partisanship and multiple distortions—was the kind Presidents usually outsource to some junior lieutenant. Mr. Obama’s fundamentally political document would have been unusual even for a Vice President in the fervour of a campaign.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730104576260911986870054.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
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April 15, 2011 7:16am
magic bullet

Gordon brown has slammed Key for his creeping authoritarian. No wonder he admired Muldoon.

http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2011/04/13/gordon-campbell-on-legal-aid-and-the-hobbit-saga/
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April 15, 2011 8:07am
magic bullet

BTW Ivan –

Nixon was involved in the initial proposal to undertake the bay of pigs. In fact, he was a driving force behind it.

http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/baypigs/pigs3.htm
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April 15, 2011 10:20am
CrazyIvan

Magic Bullet – but Nixon was not on the Senate intelligence committee at the time of the Bay of Pigs (which you haven’t admitted was wrong) that you claimed.
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April 15, 2011 10:53am
magic bullet

That was my bad Ivan, and you were right to pull me up on it. Sometimes particulars get muddled when i haven’t read the source material for a while. I knew Nixon was involved in the initial planning stages at least. It is embarrassing to get the name of his official office wrong though. For that i have no one to blame but myself.
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April 15, 2011 11:36am
magic bullet

Another interesting point in all of this is, when you see people denounce ALL “conspiracy theorists” as delusional – you gotta think they’re being a little knee-jerk. How do they know that not even one proposed case of political-criminal conspiracy has been carried out and covered up over the last 50 years? What a blind belief in mainstream received wisdom these people have. But how can you say which argument is right about JFK or 9/11 when you haven’t bothered to check out the arguments for yourselves? Not saying that all who uphold the mainstream received wisdom are wrong, just that so many of you seem uninformed.
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April 15, 2011 11:59am
big bruv

School finished early today Bullet?
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April 15, 2011 12:08pm
magic bullet

Nah – still schooling people here.
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