Posts by Steve Barnes
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Whilst on the subject of Movies, Occupying things, Elections, people, power, finance...
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Nothing to make anyone consider her untrustworthy so far as I know.
There was that thing about John Key's poster girl's Mother from McGehan Close, She was supposed to give her a job, lasted almost as long as the jobs created by the cyclepath.
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Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to DCBCauchi,
but I wonder what else they might have done with it.
John Key could have made blocks of cheese to hand out as election bribes.
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Campbell live last night made a great deal about the insurance angle. As far as I know there are quite a few large global industries that do not use insurance companies. Companies like Shell are so large that they can handle even the largest contingency internally, I don't recall there being a big fuss over insurance in the Gulf of Mexico incident. I do, however, have concerns over how Shell will compensate Fonterra and the farmers who had to dump milk, that one is complex.
ETA.
I was wondering whether they knew earlier but decided the fallout during the hospitality industry's biggest earner, the RWC. but decided to take the risk of a massive explosion instead, well, it was only a farm. :-| -
Gobsmacked...
Kiwi in line for big payout on quake-damaged office towerChristchurch's tallest office tower - the PricewaterhouseCoopers building - will be demolished and its landlord Kiwi Income Property Trust will get a big insurance payout to compensate it, pleasing analysts who follow the stock.
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OnPoint: PREFU 2011: "What credit downgrade?", in reply to David Cormack,
The vitriol towards the National Government in this thread is palpable…
From Aotearoa: a wider perspective
I met G. Edward Griffin recently, and had the chance to speak with him about our wealthy banker turned politician John Key, who was one of only four advisers to the Federal Reserve of New York from 1999 until march 2001. I described John Key’s career and told him that based on what I had learned about the Federal reserve I had my worries about his career chance and what it might mean for New Zealand to have a man who is such a wall street insider become the prime minister of our politically so naive country and he smiled and said, “let me put it this way; he is not an innocent, and he is probably prepared to sell NZ to his rich mates and throw in his mother with the deal. You can not go up as high he went in the banking world without becoming an insider.”
I asked him would it be possible that he was groomed by his rich buddies to become the next prime minister of Resource rich New Zealand, and he answered, “It has been done before.”surely we don’t believe that they intentionally want to destroy NZ’s economy?
Key and palls will be just fine.
I do, however, suggest stocking up on Lube and practising grabbing your ankles. -
Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to DCBCauchi,
Most individual cops I’ve met are fine, some good value even, but put them all together to make decisions and something weird happens…
True, sometimes,I have met individual pricks too.
It was good to see two of our top cops out on the street on Sunday night making the comment that “those people over there for instance, we could arrest them but sometimes it’s better to just keep an eye on it and let them enjoy themselves”
A more flexible approach by the Police is having a positive effect and gaining them much needed respect and the increase in use of diversion has had an impact on the crime statistics too.
All the time National is telling us that their “tough on crime” stance is what is making that difference.
Nactionals “three strikes” and leaden fist in an iron glove attitude will only lead to more marginalised people in jail and more people owing “fines” and “Court costs”.
And another thing while I am ranting.
“For a Brighter Future”? WTF? For a bunch of incompetent dullards that would make a Toc H lamp look bright that takes the biscuit.
I would like to see a journalist, if we still have such animals in Aotearoa, ask one of our so called leaders just what that is supposed to mean. I, for one, find that lame slogan not only pathetic but insulting.
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OnPoint: PREFU 2011: "What credit downgrade?", in reply to Geoff Lealand,
But I thought the majority of debt is private debt?
It was, was being the operative word.
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OnPoint: PREFU 2011: "What credit downgrade?", in reply to Bart Janssen,
It does seem to me that National are a little bit caught by surprise that they will get a second term.
Damn, did I miss the election?
Hmmm. Nope. Bart get your head out of the toilet.
Nactional don't have a hope in hell of winning fair and square and hopefully the slimeball tactics will backfire. -
Field Theory: A moment of national significance, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Why does John Key keep referring to us as they?
Personally, I’d like someone to tell the media to stop talking in the majestic plural.He refers to us as "they" because he is not one of us.
Well Craig I can understand why that upsets you. We, is a bit inclusive eh, bit like Socialism.
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