Posts by Russell Brown
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Tut tut, engaging. This will not end well...
Yes, you are right.
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dude.... so asking for it.
Free drinks etc, I take it you'll be there?
I might well be invited, but going to Christchurch is a bit of a stretch.
And yes, I do get the insult. Hilarious.
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personally I just don't want to be arrested for being naked ....
Actually Paul, if someone who looked like your avatar turned up I would really freak out ...
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Oh hang on, maybe that's the horror that the wingnuts forsee. Making America behave like other states!
Pretty much, actually.
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Bringing the troops home, or making people pay the same for gas as Europeans, for instance.
Both of which have political implications. The screaming last week about the fact that Obama had increased the defence budget, but not by the 15% annually that it had been allowed to grow was bizarre.
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As I noted, these kinds of beliefs have been around a long time.
The John Birch Society has been incoherently anti-Communist since 1958. Its founder, Robert Welch, described Pres. Eisenhower as a "conscious, dedicated agent of the Communist Conspiracy" -- causing a split at the conservative end of the Republican Party -- and the One World Government template is theirs.
Some members formed paramilitary groups to resist the Communist takeover -- which, to judge by the rhetoric, has now begun.
There are other strands: when people in The Obama Deception talk about international banking cabals controlling the President, they're silently saying "Jews".
The difference now is really the airtime and the affirmation these people are getting.
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And I've just noticed that The Quadrant is, in fact, the old Intercontinental. Who'd a thunk it?
Isn't the Intercontinental now the Hyatt? The Quadrant is next door.
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Hi James!
Obama's "stimulus" package is a load of crap, but even if you gave him a pass for that, how can you justify the kind of spending he plans on undertaking in the subsequent years?
Had the US economy been rationally managed for the past eight years, the Federal Reserve might have had somewhere to go on interest rates, but there are no levers left.
And then there's last month's US Bureau of Labour statistics:
for workers in manufacturing, the rate rose from 5 percent last March to 12.2 percent today; in professional and business services, the rate jumped from 6.2 percent to 11.4 percent; in wholesale and retail trades, it rose from 4.9 percent to 9 percent; and in the transportation and utilities sectors, it rose from 4.3 percent to 9 percent
Ironically, this wouldn't be such a problem in "socialist" Europe, where the social safety net helps moderate economic shocks. That's why France and Germany are resisting debt-fuelled stimulus to the extent that they can. In America, that's a lot of people without health insurance (which they lost with their jobs) or money to live on. It's much more urgent.
I've read you before here reciting the talking point about how things aren't really so bad with the US economy -- but they are.
America doesn't have much choice. It's looking into the abyss. And if all the government can do is be the buyer of last resort, then it has to do that.
And in the end, all the wheezy American exceptionalism that animates the New World Order conspiracy crap we've been hearing is, as you note yourself, deeply ironic. These people don't seem to grasp that China already owns them.
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APRA Silver Scroll Awards will be presented in Christchurch this year, a first. So robbery will be able to go.
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