General Debate 13 March 2015

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stephieboy

Harriet, describe to us the kind of white gated community you live in ?
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March 13, 2015 2:57pm
kowtow

stephie

describe to us the kind of madrassa you went to.
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March 13, 2015 3:05pm
stephieboy

kowtow, I can assure you that unlike your comrade Manolo I am a Paleface !

You ?
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March 13, 2015 3:07pm
kowtow

Poor Tony,can’t say a fucken ting widdout some arshehole taking offensh. is it just me or has the world gone mad looking for offence in everything?

Oi actually tink tis quite funny, begorrah.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/abbott-criticised-for-patronising-patrick-s-day-video-1.2136634

Paddy’s Day , the only day it’s OK to be Green ,hahahahahahahaha.
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March 13, 2015 3:08pm
Ed Snack

Cha, so your best defense of Hilary Clinton is “wa wa they did it too” ? Powell was Sec State ending in 2005 and used a private address as well as a government one. Condoleeza Rice used a “.gov” email…Any other democrat talking points you want to mention while quoting one of their operatives in the MSM ?

Of course there’s zero chance that the current Justice Department would ever prosecute, but Clinton is required to provide electronic copies of all the relevant emails, providing printed copies is not meeting her obligation under the law. She was also required (but of course may have skipped doing so as the law is for little people) to sign a statutory declaration when she left State that she had handed over all relevant documents and electronic communications etc; which obviously she did not; perjury anyone, a bit of a Clinton specialty.

And really, could you honestly trust Hilary Clinton to decide what was official and what wasn’t about her emails when it is known that she was actively soliciting donations from foreign governments while she was Secretary of State. Or is the official line that these governments just decided to donate unasked at the same time ?

At least with the Clintons one can be fairly sure, if it looks like a pile of steaming cr*p, smells like a pile of steaming cr*p, then it almost certainly IS a pile of steaming cr*p !
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March 13, 2015 3:12pm
hj

Nostradamus (2,624 comments) says:
Will you still be posting near-daily comments on Kiwiblog about this report in January 2021?
………..
Has anything changed?
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March 13, 2015 3:15pm
hj

Nostradamus (2,624 comments) says:
Will you still be posting near-daily comments on Kiwiblog about this report in January 2021?
…
I also post Treasury Paper 14 -10

The lack of evidence is not symmetric. New Zealand has had high levels of inward
migration for 20 years now. Arguments for large positive effects invoke the possibility that
there are long lags, or that more positive effects will occur once some higher population
threshold is reached. In this case there is presently no evidence, but a possibility that
positive effects will eventually be reaped. In contrast, stylised facts such as real interest
rates that are high by international standards and a real exchange rate which has not
adjusted to the sustained deterioration in New Zealand’s relative productivity performance
are real and demonstrable, but cannot be definitively linked to migration policy.

http://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/research-policy/wp/2014/14-10

My investigations lead me to concur with Dr Greg Clydesdale

While immigration played a key role in house inflation in the three years after 2001 (Reserve
Bank 2007), it is unknown to what extent on-going immigration continued to drive price rises.
The housing boom has meant good profits for many New Zealand companies supplying
materials and building services, but it implies investors would rather invest in their country’s
homes rather than its businesses (Bollard 2005). The high returns for property has attracted
finance and reduced the capital available for productive investment (Moody, 2006). The
consequence is investment is going in to industries with limited capacity to increase per capita
incomes. For example, real estate and building are domestically bound and do not have the
market potential of export industries. They also have less opportunity to increase productivity
through new processes and products. The irony is, as these sectors grow, they have incurred
skills shortages which in turn has increased demand for skilled immigrants. The Department
of Statistics ‘Long Term Skill Shortage List’ of 28/3/2006 includes carpenter/joiner, plumber,
electricians, fitter and turners, fitter welders; all indicative of a nation building its
construction/property sector.
There is a danger that a sector of the economy is being augmented that is totally reliant on a
small domestic economy. Not only do these industries have limited potential for per-capita
growth but ‘deriving growth via factor inputs such as labour places pressure on infrastructure
such as transport and land supply, and ultimately have a further negative impact on growth
(ARC 2005). Finally, as the sector gets larger, it gains in lobbying/political strength and can
lobby for immigration regardless if it is the best interests of the economy as a whole. This
could be seen in Canada where the development industry has lobbied hard for high sustained
immigration levels (Ley and Tutchener 2001).

http://kauri.aut.ac.nz:8080/dspace/bitstream/123456789/205/1/clydesdale.GrowingPains.pdf

I suggest you read the Savings Working Group Report Nostradamus. What do the Spin doctors at the PR Department think about it?
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March 13, 2015 3:29pm
cha

Ed – the whole thing is a steaming pile of shit and despite not having a dog in the fight I reckon the best show on the planet is made even better by the manufactured outrage, resentment, blunders and various other conniptions.
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March 13, 2015 3:33pm
waikatogirl

ciaron : the law, they can go to CYF and emancipate themselves. So I wouldn’t be too quick to assign all the blame to the parents (in a general sense).

***
Hence my use of “apparent” neglect.
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March 13, 2015 3:54pm
Rachael Membery

Let them emancipate and eat cake ;), this girl was the victim, poor thing I agree that she should not have been out and about, sad but true, but teenage perpetrators get away with heaps of crime and the parents do not appear to have to take responsibility for losses their offspring cause either.
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March 13, 2015 4:43pm
Left Right and Centre

Damn G – tasers are going to pay for themselves – they are the speed cameras of cop call-outs.

Taking out the trash in Napier – well I’ll be – might even teach some of these varmints to fear and respect their betters.

We’re smokin em up real good Texan Styles Zzzzzzt-zzz-zzzt-zzzt-zzzzz mmmm – smell that boy ? I’d say he’s just about well and done – now the real hard work starts – file the report.
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March 13, 2015 4:53pm
nasska

You mean the ‘all in one hunting & cooking utensil’ LR&C? I’m inclined to agree that the NZ cops are getting a bit trigger happy with them nowadays. It’s possible that they are encountering more ferals wired up on meth who don’t notice being tasered half a dozen times & have gotten to like the taste of pepper but there’s room for doubt.

Still, they’re marginally less lethal than the shotties favoured by the Yank police.
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March 13, 2015 5:22pm
Left Right and Centre

Still, they’re marginally less lethal than the shotties favoured by the Yank police

Napier fella unable to opine in agreement or otherwise. I’m sure his position would be to concur wholeheartedly.

Snazzy Nazzy – You Give Me Reason To Live
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March 13, 2015 5:45pm
IGM

Tried to listen to the farming programme today, but alas, lefty McKay ran a Labour Party political broadcast, even supported by the gutless and drunken Soper of demontrating infamy. Why do we have to listen to this crap day in and out?
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March 13, 2015 6:25pm
adze

Poor Steve McCabe, one of the lefty panelists on Jim Mora’s “The Panel” on RNZ afternoons, had a minor meltdown today (while enthusiastically encouraged by his giggling air-headed co-panelist), expressing his frustration at New Zealand voters continually voting in the Key government . “Why??” he spluttered, while in his own words holding back “libellous” words. “Stop voting him in!!” he cried, almost in tears with anger and frustration.

Cry more, McCabe. 🙂
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March 13, 2015 6:38pm
Ross12

The state of journalism in NZ and perhaps the bias ( as adze alluded to above )

https://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/26641623/little-winning-over-small-businesses/

The survey says 11% believe Little could lead economy but 65% !!! still trusted the Govt. Firstly what was it before Little got in for Labour ? (ie is Little really winning them over?) and 11 vs 65 –is that really worth crowing about ??
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March 13, 2015 7:40pm
OneTrack

““Stop voting him in!!” he cried, almost in tears with anger and frustration.”

And who did Master McCabe think we should have voted for? Turei? Cunliffe? DotCom?

The country dodged a cannon shell last September. But only just.
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March 13, 2015 7:49pm
nasska

The miserable religioconservatives who drag their wretched existences through this forum every day may have little to feel happy about but there is hope: 🙂

https://www.dropbox.com/s/i5iy1iqz9edlzwt/Church%202.jpg?dl=0
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March 13, 2015 7:56pm
Griff

Add some pictures of mens bums and they could be happy going fapfapfap for weeks nasska.

What sort of disgusting retard loser downticked my first post.
The motto on terry Pratchett coat of arms
Noli Timere Messorem
(Don’t fear the reaper)
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March 13, 2015 8:02pm
nasska

I don’t think Terry Pratchett was in lockstep with the thinking of few of our correspondents Griff. 🙂
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March 13, 2015 8:09pm
graham

Oh I don’t know nasska. I’m not that miserable, personally … happily married for 21 years, loving wife, beautiful daughter studying at University, step-daughter, great friends, great job, glorious place in the country, and I get on just fine with most people I meet, probably because I don’t feel any need to look down on others and make out I’m better than they are.

How are you going?
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March 13, 2015 8:12pm
nasska

….”How are you going?”…..

Box of fluffy ducks thanks graham.

The confirmation that you are happy & contented completes my day. 🙂
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March 13, 2015 8:17pm
Griff

The bible is sso shit compared to terrys books
A story about a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree is so unbelievable much rather one about a disk on the back of four elephants standing on a cosmic turtle
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March 13, 2015 8:23pm
Griff

“Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.”
– Dan Barker

“What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.”
– Christopher Hitchens

“Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.” – P.J. O’Rourke

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer gods than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” – Stephen Henry Roberts, Historian (1901-71)

“Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.” – Robert A. Heinlein

“The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.” – Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly ‘holy text dictated by god’ and show that they are man made and what you have to show [is] there internal inconsistencies and absurdities. One of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority… it is an indispensable thing people can call it blasphemy if they like, but if they call it that they have to assume there is something to be blasphemed – some divine work, well I don’t accept the premise.” – Christopher Hitchens

“God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.” – Douglas Adams
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March 13, 2015 8:26pm
nasska

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3i2mrupamufqfvm/Religionutters%2025.jpg?dl=0
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March 13, 2015 8:26pm
publicwatchdog

Seems that National’s candidate for Northland, Mark Osborne, is unfamiliar with the section of the Electoral Act that deals with BRIBERY?

Penny Bright
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March 13, 2015 8:35pm
fylde

Jeremy Clarkson is such a conformist trying to protect the established order and being against progress. Speaking outrages is actually dully conformist. Pick on anyone different and not like you and mock them. Try to protect the status quo and undermine meritocracy and the idea people have rights All this is done is a supposed funny way, while a very privileged rich white middle-aged man pretends he is some kind of freedom fighter.
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March 13, 2015 8:36pm
fylde

Clarkson is an the modern equivalent of the aristocrats who fought free trade and progress in the 19th century- using their status to stop progress and underneath others. They undermines the economy by progressives eventually overcame them. Funny how Clarkson uses racism and jokes to disguise his threat to progress.
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March 13, 2015 8:39pm
Sidey

Penny,

No doubt you have evidence to back your accusations of bribery? And you’ll be presenting that evidence to the appropriate authorities so they can take action?

Or are you flinging your verbal poo around DPF’s house as usual?
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March 13, 2015 8:40pm
Reid

All this is done is a supposed funny way, while a very privileged rich white middle-aged man pretends he is some kind of freedom fighter.

You really have no idea do you fylde. Despite your apparent advanced years. Or perhaps this is why.

I may be wrong and who cares if I am.

But seems to me Clarkson is popular simply because he pushes against the suffocating P.C. bullshit that not just the BBC but all TV at least in the Western world seeks to surround us with.

This is why he’s so popular and the said PC bullshit is all around us, on all channels, in radio, TV and newspapers.

He basically says fuck you to the sacred cows of the pursed-lip PC bullshit High Priests. He says fuck you to health and safety, fuck you to global warming, fuck you to pretending men aren’t men and actually, we like fast cars and faster women. And on and on.

And this is why the pursed lip brigade and the metrosexual brigade and the officious brigade and various other wanker have never understood him, and why the rest of us think he’s just a fucking laugh plus some of us admire him for being able to smoke a Zonda around a corner without spinning it out. Fucked if I can do that.
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March 13, 2015 8:48pm
nasska

You’re on to it Reid…..the closest we’ve had in NZ, in a very long time, was John Tamihere.
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March 13, 2015 8:59pm
Reid

Yeah don’t disagree nasska. JT was and is definitely a big loss on that front.
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March 13, 2015 9:02pm
SPC

What Reid loves about Clarkson is that he is popular because he does not live a life the way a Christian would, not in his lifestyle and having no noted charity work for any worthy cause just makes him all the more admirable to the “non PC” in todays world.

But so long as he is no liberal or a leftie, this is fine with Reid. For what’s religion but a justification for hating others not like you.

And throwing a punch at a boss at work is fine for the folk hero. What’s not to like about the guy with cars as play toys he can show off to envious men.
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March 13, 2015 9:04pm
EAD

Nick Cohen, the man that fired Clarkson is a well known member of the tribe in the UK. The article also notes that he is a “champion of ethnic diversity”, much like other tribe members who promote 3rd world immigration into the UK like the Millibands, Jack Straw, David Cameron.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/03/12/bbc-luvvies-accused-of-using-fracas-to-dump-blokeish-arrogant-clarkson/

Easy to see why Clarkson didn’t really match with Cohen’s version of what he wants to turn Britain into.
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March 13, 2015 9:15pm
Reid

What Reid loves about Clarkson is that he is popular because he does not live a life the way a Christian would, not in his lifestyle and having no noted charity work for any worthy cause just makes him all the more admirable to the “non PC” in todays world.

But so long as he is no liberal or a leftie, this is fine with Reid. For what’s religion but a justification for hating others not like you.

Amazing how SPC thinks he knows my most intimate thought processes notwithstanding the fact he’s never even met me.

The thing about P.C. bullshit SPC is it's Orwell's newspeak. It’s the thinking poison that he warned us all about. Anyone in public life therefore who fights against that is fine with me, provided they're not evil. And Clarkson isn't. If you want an example of someone who does appear to fight against it and is evil, take Alex Jones from Prison Planet. And I've never supported him. And I've explained why I don't.

But I do realise SPC such consistencies in my approach quite gloss right over your tiny little air-filled head, and I forgive you, being the child and the fool that everyday, you show yourself to be.
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March 13, 2015 9:15pm
EAD

The BBC hate the likes of Farage and Clarkson beause they represent “old” Britain – stoicism, courage, and not afraid to speak their mind. They may not be right on PC, but they’d be the men I’d want beside me in the trenches or in a fight if your country was being invaded.

Getting rid of Clarkson is just another chapter in the BBC’s drive to make Britain completely under the control of a rootless cosmopolitanism.
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March 13, 2015 9:21pm
SPC

Reid, yeah we know from your posts you are a one white race Christian who knows how to hate others, and one with a penchant for the tough guy routine on message boards by resorting to cheap personal slights when called on your obvious hypocrisy.
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March 13, 2015 9:28pm
EAD

You know SPC,

it’s actually 98% of Politicians and the likes you who sees things in black or white or brown. You’’re interested in putting people in little, convenient boxes so that you can label them, and treat them as a “special interest group” and accord favours on that basis.

You’re happy to promote the conditions that promote division amongst the populace and unwittingly take the focus away from the evil people who rule over us by keeping us divided while they rob us blind and take away our freedoms bit by bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbp6umQT58A
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March 13, 2015 9:34pm
Reid

If I’m a one white race Christian how come I stand up so often for Muslims and Maori SPC. Or haven’t you noticed those bits in your selective listening?

Anyway EAD, it’s going to be interesting isn’t it. As you and I know, the BBC is one of the main propaganda channels, interesting when its challenged from within isn’t it.
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March 13, 2015 9:35pm
Griff

Cyclone pam will hit port villa Vanuatu dead center in about an hour.
cat5 150kn winds 895millabar.
one smegen scary storm.
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/floaters/17P/imagery/rgb-animated.gif
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March 13, 2015 9:37pm
Reid

EAD thanks for that vid, very thought provoking. Tragic isn’t it how so many are just a sliver away from having their whole life changed and yet will never drink from the well or if they start they will allow their present state to overrule the breakthrough.

It’s very very interesting, these times we’re living in. Not in a good way I hasten to add. In a terrifying, horrific sense.
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March 13, 2015 10:04pm
SPC

Swedish prosecutors offer to interview Assange in London.

No back down from them though, they still feel this is not the best place to do it, but they cannot wait any longer as the case has to be made by August or it expires.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31867829
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March 13, 2015 10:37pm
cha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMbLImbrjgQ
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March 13, 2015 10:40pm
SPC

EAD, nonsense as usual, and not even consistent with some of your other posts.

What I know is that what those of the global corporate and trade system want is a global market with as free a movement of labour and capital as possible. And with rules that protect property ownership, including intellectual property – copyright/patent to maximise corporate wealth.

What they do not want is those of the nation state voting in ways that obstruct this. Thus the petty conservative white nation vs PC left/liberal and immigrant struggle over the “culture” is occupying small minds, dividing the people while the democratic nation state is being subordinated.
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March 13, 2015 10:46pm
EAD

Yes Reid,

Some would say the times we are living in are “biblical” in nature:

The question is who is the King of the North and when will the final trumpet sound and what form will it take?
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March 13, 2015 10:48pm
EAD

http://www.cogwriter.com/usa-canada-uk-australia-new-zealand-divided.htm
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March 13, 2015 10:54pm
SPC

Reid, to be honest I had not noted that you posted on the side of Muslims and Maori. Have others?

I tend to do so myself (… I am critical of the way of the sword in Islam and am dismissive of scripture claiming a heavenly source – more in opposing discrimination against Moslems for being Moslems).

I support New Zealand as a bi-cultural nation with a multi-cultural society, thus due respect to both Maori as the indigenous people (founding this country via Treaty with the Crown) and migrants from an increasingly diverse range of cultures.
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March 13, 2015 10:57pm
SPC

EAD, no wonder the nation is divided when white race Christians cling to bible prophecy of a political nature like some Afrikaaners did to the Broederbond. Fear of Jews while believing the bible scripture is akin to fear of blacks while living in Africa. Makes you paranoid.
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March 13, 2015 10:59pm
EAD

@ SPC,

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.” – Frank Zappa

All of us players in the great game are going to be seeing Zappa’s “brick wall” very soon. If you can’t see this by the way the controlled MSM is hyping up every danger imaginable (ISIS, Russia, Ebola, terrorism,) to make us all terrified so that when “incidents” occur, we will be clamouring for the State to save us and the trap will be sprung. It has already being sprung on lower levels (Sugar, trans-fat, carbon, alcohol, free speech, smoking etc.)

Welcome to the nightmare SPC
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March 13, 2015 11:18pm
SPC

EAD, the global threat requiring global security is the other side of the global economic market – the security order for the global corporate to make its profit.

And with the democratic nation state diminished down to a franchise of the global regime, there is less economic security or privacy for the individual, but what the democracy can then become is a big local government body and debate such things as rules for advertising and consuming products supplied in the global market or allow us the freedom to decide for ourselves – the big issues we are still allowed to participate in deciding to maintain the illusion of sovereignty, democracy and freedom.
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March 13, 2015 11:33pm
Reid

Welcome to the nightmare SPC

Yes.

And try not to get all confused about who the real enemy is, won’t you, But I’m sensing it’s already a bit too late in your case mate. You must be one of those “advanced thinkers” the lefties keep talking about as if it’s something to be proud of. I think it means the blue pill’s going well and they’re pleased with your progress SPC.

BTW, that’s a bad thing, not a good thing, my woolly friend,
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March 13, 2015 11:34pm
cha

Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.

– Frank Zappa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NwPJo4ysXI
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March 13, 2015 11:35pm
EAD

Yes Reid,

no matter how many hundreds of millions have died throughout history in attempts trying to create a perfect society, the likes of SPC believe that this time, only if the likes of him are in charge. things will be different.

They never are, and this time the problem is global, not just confined to a particular geographic region.

“May you live in interesting times” – ancient Chinese proverb
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March 13, 2015 11:40pm
SPC

Reid, you are the one who believes in supreme enemies that do not even exist.
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March 13, 2015 11:50pm
SPC

EAD, believing there is something particularly special about the generation in which they live is commonplace amongst those who believe in scripture as prophecy.

As the 19th C saw the rise of democratic nationalism, the 20th C did the nation state with the UN collective security standing and the formation of NWO organisations such as World Bank/IMF, this century sees the development of global market capitalism and the emergence of rules subordinating nation state independence.

The aberrations of communism and Islamist militancy posed as the threat and thus our nation state need for security network solidarity – defence or economic and to meet the required price for them.
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March 14, 2015 12:00am
Manolo

Will he? http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415280/insider-buzz-grows-marco-rubio-eliana-johnson
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March 14, 2015 7:08am
Reid

Reid, you are the one who believes in supreme enemies that do not even exist.

How do you know they don’t exist SPC, when you don’t even know who they are, you wouldn’t recognise their spoor if they dropped it on your front door step, and you’re not the least bit interested in educating yourself as to their identity, their history, their modus operandi or anything else.

And yet, like a braying donkey, you confidently and arrogantly proclaim without any shadow of doubt that these creatures “don’t even exist.”

That is so mental, I’m going to start calling you Private Bananas SPC.
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March 14, 2015 7:56am
Griff

loons
Reid
The enemy is in your head.
lizard men and demons of the apocalypse are eating your brain from the inside.
😆
The funny thing is when two loons start agreeing.
When after reading their output over time it is obvious their looony tunes are discordant.

while it has been known for some time that people who believe in one conspiracy theory are also likely to believe in other conspiracy theories, we would expect contradictory conspiracy theories to be negatively correlated. Yet, this is not what psychologists Micheal Wood, Karen Douglas and Robbie Suton found in a recent study. Instead, the research team, based at the University of Kent in England, found that many participants believed in contradictory conspiracy theories. For example, the conspiracy-belief that Osama Bin Laden is still alive was positively correlated with the conspiracy-belief that he was already dead before the military raid took place. This makes little sense, logically: Bin Laden cannot be both dead and alive at the same time. An important conclusion that the authors draw from their analysis is that people don’t tend to believe in a conspiracy theory because of the specifics, but rather because of higher-order beliefs that support conspiracy-like thinking more generally. A popular example of such higher-order beliefs is a severe “distrust of authority.” The authors go on to suggest that conspiracism is therefore not just about belief in an individual theory, but rather an ideological lens through which we view the world

http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/how_conspiracists_think_partner/
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Justice in Brazil
No Right Turn
"Seymour is only doing openly what M?ori nationalists and their Pakeha allies have been doing, quietly for the past 50 years."
Not PC
A Written New Zealand Constitution?
No Minister
Daily review 22/11/2024
The Standard
Do the KCs believe in democracy
Utopia
More young offenders will get boot camp, bus drivers will get some protection – and there’s relief for southern farmers
Point of Order
Sowell says
Hompaddock
New Zealand government urged to back ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders without equivocation
The Daily Blog
The transgender agenda sunk Kamala
Bob McCoskrie's McBlog
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
No Punches Pulled (Bob Jones)
What does “reciprocity” mean in New Zealand laws?
Croaking Cassandra
A Day of Reckoning
NZCPR
Media Link: “A View from Afar” on the US elections.
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This will not end well
Offsetting Behaviour
Top 14 Predictions for Round 10
Stats Chat
Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet
The Civilian
The Accidental Engagement
Imperator Fish
Legal Beagle: Election '23: The Special Votes
Public Address
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Why I am retiring from political blogging
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