The Second Dip of W in a time of class struggle and financial cholera
Fascinating times, the crises of capitalism hits it's next speed wobble as the second dip in the W aligns itself and Phil's taking it to the barricades...
Labour's tax rise
A Labour government was likely to put the top tax rate back up if it is reduced in next month's Budget, Leader Phil Goff indicated yesterday. "If there's going to be tax cuts they should go to the middle and lower income earners, not simply the privileged elite," he said.
...great maybe Phil can help show Sam where a Tax office is...
No tax for Trade Me millionaire
Wellington-based Trade Me founder and philanthropist Sam Morgan says he doesn't pay tax. "I pay basically no tax," said the entrepreneur, who founded Trade Me in 1999 and sold it in 2006 to Australian publisher Fairfax for more than $700 million.
...and the banks have their knives out...
Trend for banks to pull plug on ailing small businesses
The trend by banks in Australia to wind up small businesses that have fallen behind is likely to take off in New Zealand, a business turnaround specialist says.
...the full impact of the 1929 stockmarket crash wasn't felt until 1934 with 20% unemployment in the US. Our crash was 2008.
What better symbolic scalp for the corporate financial elite than the birth place of democracy?
Greece's budget deficit worse than first thought
Greece had a far larger budget deficit than expected last year and the figures may yet get worse, according to the European Union's statistics office.
And the financial corporate pirates who have turned sovereign funds into the new sub prime mortgage market are running out of places to hide...
Goldman Sachs accused of fraud by US regulator SEC
Goldman Sachs' chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein, is being sued by shareholders. He and other company officials have been named in two new lawsuits filed on Thursday. The cases are related to fraud allegations brought last week by the US federal government.
And all the while, the so called regulators were too busy jerking off to regulate. Oh the hilarity.
Finance watchdogs busted for cruising porn sites
Senior staffers at the US Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were being paid to police the financial system, a report shows.
posted by Bomber @ 7:11 am
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TRADE ME could afford to guarantee all of their online sales that don't make it into the post and for all the fraudulent rip offs that occur under its auspices?
human pollution causing climate change is a hoax?
THEY DON'T EVEN RECYCLE AT "THE HOSPITAL"!
I would be careful about directly paralleling the 1929 stock market crash with the recent financial meltdown. States have responded differently and computerization has made markets a react lot quicker.
The Seminar will discuss the increasing transnationalisation of education reforms which, over the last two decades, have purported to make national education systems more relevant to the demands of the global economy. Progress, understood since the establishment of the nation-state as the unlimited accumulation of scientific and technological knowledge and increase of production and consumption capacity, continues, albeit its transformations, to be a guiding idea and thus a source of widespread consent for policy-making across societies and education systems. What we see under globalisation, as I will develop, is that social progress, identified more than ever before with economic competitiveness, is becoming a global policy-making project, managed, coordinated and measured through/by transnational institutions.
THE FACULTY RESEARCH BASED PBRF WAR HAS SEEN EDUCATION REDUCED TO THE SIDELINES AT THE EPSOM CAMPUS.COME ON GIVE ME A BREAK FOR FUCKS SAKE!
CHECK OUT UNI WEBSITE IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME...R OR RESEARCH INACTIVE STAFF INCLUDE TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGE STAFF AND DRAGGED DOWN EDUCATION TO THE BOTTOM 3 OUT OF 41 SUBJECTS.THIS CANNOT CONTINUE WITH THE LIKES OF JOHN HATTIE AND STUART McNAUGHTON RESPONSIBLE FOR ADHD AND RITALIN INDUCED PESSIMISM AMONGST THE ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS NOT CRITICAL EDUCATION STUDENTS.
POST THIS AND BE DAMNED
Thanks
YaY Sam Morgan for telling us what we already know. It's the low and middle class wage earners who carry the tax burden in this country, and that the tax laws are written for the wealthy elites who screw this country for millions.
Dear Forest & Bird member in the Auckland region,
Thank you for your support of Forest & Bird at this crucial time when our highest values conservation areas are being threatened by mining.
This email is a call for you to join us on a march in Auckland this Saturday, and a reminder to have your say in a submission.
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Time & Date: Saturday, 1st May, 11am.
Meeting place: Bottom of Queen Street
More information, plus downloadable posters etc, see here: www.dontunderminenz.org
Over the next week, people across the Auckland region will be designing fruity placards, dreaming up rousing catch cries and sewing together eye-popping outfits in preparation for this Saturday’s March against Mining, which is coordinated by Greenpeace and supported by Forest & Bird and others.
Submissions close on May 4 , so this is our last chance to make send a message to the government, and ensure that our top wilderness areas and the threatened species that call these places home are safeguarded from mining.
So bring along friends & family to show your support! If you wish to hand out leaflets or pre-formatted submission letters for people to sign meet us at the bottom of Queen Street at 10.20am. Hope to see you there!
Kind regards,
Quentin Duthie
CONSERVATION ADVOCATE
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